Although Xiao Ran piloted the Chaos Gundam away, Eshe's group of four, Second Archangel, Cruze, Luo, and Andrew did not leave with him. Instead, they escaped one after another only after ensuring the Side Mission completion rate had reached 80 percent. Second Archangel even fired two positron cannons at another fragment, completely shattering it into countless smaller pieces before slowly departing.
"Ding! Side Mission completed. Destruction of Junius 7 fragments has reached 80 percent. You may choose to continue the mission or complete it."
"Complete the mission."
"Ding! You have received the mission reward: 50,000 Merit Points. Favorability with all factions in this world has increased. You have received one random reward. Due to your Luck skill, the quality of the item you received has been upgraded: you have obtained a Technical Blueprint for derivative development of Librarian-series mecha."
"Only one, and it's just a blueprint?" Xiao Ran froze for a moment. He had expected to receive perhaps two or three random rewards, but he had not expected there to be only one. Cruze, Luo, and Second Archangel's completion contribution should have counted toward his reward as well, yet he had only received this one item. It left Xiao Ran rather puzzled.
But after thinking it over, Xiao Ran seemed to understand why there was only one reward. It was probably because of his current identity. His faction was different from Mwu and Cruze's, and according to the identity arranged by Prometheus, he was currently Neo rather than Xiao Ran. To put it exaggeratedly, he should not even possess Mwu and the others' memories. Even if Mwu and Cruze's contribution to this mission had been credited to him, Prometheus had likely combined three rewards into one better reward so that he would not notice anything from the mission rewards. Then,