He had paid Old Luo 150,000 Merit Points in advance, covering Luo's daily learning fee of 10,000 points as well as the maintenance and repair work for the various units. Luo's learning fees alone accounted for half of that, and Xiao Ran still had no idea whether the remaining 80,000 points would be enough for the repairs and servicing of the machines.
Justice Gundam's quantization in the Revolutionary Machine World had actually counted as an overload. Although the damage to the machine was not visible on the surface, it had been affected to some extent. In addition, after Basak's Kyokai had gone through multiple battles and repairs by Luo, quite a few parts needed replacing. The warship's inspection and maintenance were also all visible expenditures of Merit Points.
The Merit Points earned during this mission had not actually been much. When the mission in the Revolutionary Machine World began, Xiao Ran had only had 650,000 Merit Points in hand. After two years and a war, even after deducting the Scrap Dealer's expenses, he had earned only a total of 200,000 Merit Points.
After returning to Prometheus, Graham and Cruze returned their respective 100,000 Merit Points and additionally offered up 80,000 more, bringing Xiao Ran's total to just over 930,000. As for Basak and Luo, each had held 100,000 Merit Points when the mission began. Yet killing all the Death Legion throughout the mission had yielded no Merit Point rewards at all. Destroying Mobile Fighter Tournament machines did bring some rewards, but with Luo's repeated use of the Scrap Dealer, the Merit Points earned over the entire mission had not merely failed to break even—they had actually decreased somewhat.
After deducting the 150,000 Merit Points paid in advance, the team's current Merit Points stood at just over 950,000.
With only this