The memorial ceremony concluded smoothly.
Over the following week, the Hunter Corps' human resources and finance departments began carefully tallying the contributions and achievements hunters of every rank had made throughout the war.
Based on those records, they awarded participants postwar rewards of varying levels day by day.
The Hunter Corps' culture differed from that of the Church.
Moreover, many hunters had undergone ample tempering and stimulation in this epoch-defining war, successfully breaking through into entirely new Nightmare Realms. Thus, many hunters not only earned enough wealth after the war to live without worry for the rest of their lives, but also rose through the hunter ranks in one breath—from novice to veteran, veteran to elite, or elite to master.
Unlike the Church's internal culture, the Hunter Corps did not hold any grand ceremony specifically for the process of rewarding merit based on military achievements. It simply sent official notices directly to the recipients along with their rewards.
This straightforward, efficient approach was both a tradition the Hunter Corps had upheld since ancient times and what hunters had always loved most.
All in all, this several-day-and-night reckoning of merits not only gave every hunter a tangible return and a sense of the Corps' sincerity, but also importantly renewed and replenished the Hunter Corps' combat strength after its grievous casualties, significantly strengthening everyone's confidence in the overall situation ahead.
Of course, for the veteran members of the Hunter Corps who had already been Master Hunters, these monetary rewards were not particularly enticing.
After all, their assets had long since grown too vast to spend, and besides, few of the hunters who had participated in this war were ordinary mortals who still cared about money in their hearts.
The same was true for Ye Chen.
Although the Dawn Squad he led had