Federation Year 1087.
After Lin Fan had thoroughly cleared out the Kewei Realm and returned to the Kunsa Realm,
the leaders of all Federation member states gathered once more.
With the experience from last time, there was not much to discuss. The rewards were directly allocated according to military merit.
Of course, even though the Federation had deliberately supported the Divine Radiance Civilization and helped them claim considerable merit, it was still impossible for them to earn enough to monopolize an entire Black Hole Cavity Realm.
After all, only seven Black Hole Cavity Realms had been conquered in total, and the Federation itself firmly held seventy percent of the military merit. All the remaining civilizations combined only accounted for thirty percent.
Moreover, among that thirty percent, the White Empire alone claimed a full ten percent.
Thus, the Divine Radiance Civilization was still far short in military merit.
However, that did not matter, since the Federation held seventy percent, did it not?
That made things simple. According to the calculations, the Divine Radiance Civilization had earned roughly seven percent of the merit. The Federation could simply make up the missing eighteen percent.
Of course, no matter how close their relationship was, the Federation could not simply give that eighteen percent to the Divine Radiance Civilization for free.
Thus, lending during the Black Hole Cavity Era came into being.
Eighteen percent of the military merit was "loaned" to the Divine Radiance Civilization, to be gradually repaid to the Federation through the merit earned in each future Alliance campaign.
After the Federation and Divine Radiance pulled off their little behind-the-scenes arrangement, the leaders of the other civilizations' eyes all lit up.
So this could be done too?
They immediately began entertaining ideas of their own and privately approached Lin Zhen to discuss them.