Hunting a Human King Realm alien only yielded one military merit point, but killing an Earth Emperor Realm alien started at a full thousand merit points. With a ratio of one to a thousand, Bai Yang felt it was entirely reasonable.
Although the two shared only a single realm of difference, their strength and what they represented were worlds apart. After all, in the starry skies beyond the territories, the Human King realm was merely cannon fodder; barring Sages and Heavenly Emperors, an Earth Emperor could truly claim hegemony over a region.
This time, killing the nine Earth Emperor Realm experts of the Barbarian Race had collected over twenty thousand merit and fortune points for Bai Yang via the Conscription Order. Extrapolating from this, a single merit point for a Human King realm kill was indeed the baseline; depending on the individual strength of the Human King, the earned merits would fluctuate up and down, though the upper limit likely would not exceed a thousand.
These thoughts flashed through his mind, giving Bai Yang a deeper understanding of how military merits were acquired when hunting alien powerhouses beyond the territories.
Yet, now was not the time for deep contemplation, as there were far more important things to do.
Although collecting the corpses of the slain barbarians and taking them back would also yield military merits, none of the nine barbarian powerhouses were left in one piece, making it pointless to retrieve them. Furthermore, a tail of followers was still trailing behind, so Bai Yang decided it was best to secure the mission item first.
Killing nine barbarian powerhouses had netted over thirty thousand merits, making the mission reward of three thousand seem almost insignificant. Still, one had to remember that those thirty-and-odd thousand merits did not belong to Bai Yang