After leaving Luo with Old Luo, Xiao Ran departed. The main things that needed to be sold were the Dawn and the Genesis Fortress Cannon. He had no worries about leaving those two things to Old Luo to handle. They had dealt with each other for so long that they were already very familiar with one another.
Old Luo estimated one week for the maintenance and repairs of mechas such as the Destiny Gundam, Justice Gundam, and Lightning Aegis. That happened to match the period Luo would spend studying with Old Luo. Aside from allowing Luo to become more familiar with his team's mechas under Old Luo's guidance, how much else he could learn would depend on whether Luo had enough aptitude and worked hard enough.
Perhaps knowing that Xiao Ran was in urgent need of Merit Points, Old Luo gave him an answer within three days regarding the Dawn and the Genesis Fortress Cannon. Looking at the few Merit Points he had left, Xiao Ran also gave up on taking Cruze to strengthen his Gene Serum first. Everything would wait until the Merit Points were in hand.
Calculating the Merit Points gained in the SEED World, there really were not that many. Completing the mission had rewarded twenty thousand points, but there had been no mission evaluation, so naturally there was no evaluation reward. Xiao Ran himself had destroyed so many Mook Units that even he could not remember the number. That should have amounted to tens of thousands of Merit Points, but most of them, along with the Merit Points he had accumulated before, had all been invested in the Scrap Dealer. Thus, he only had a little over forty thousand Merit Points on hand now, nowhere near enough for anything.
Graham had brought in over twenty thousand