Of course, with enough luck-finding a decent Devil Fruit, for example-they could absolutely earn all the contribution points they needed in one go.
For instance, when the Dragon Ball and Pokémon series of Devil Fruits had appeared, the person who handed over the Master Roshi Devil Fruit had received a whopping 150 million merit points.
If Lind remembered correctly, that fellow seemed to belong to the Kunpeng Squad, and he was also stuck at the bottleneck between Admiral Candidate and Admiral.
Lind quite liked people blessed with such fortune. He also thought that this man had a strong chance of obtaining a portion of Dao Enlightenment Tea from him this time and successfully breaking through to Admiral level.
The Oran Empire elites fighting at Marineford had no idea what their boss was thinking. Otherwise, they certainly would not have been fighting so halfheartedly.
They would have fought as though pumped full of stimulants, determined to bring down their opponents. Even if they could not capture them, defeating them would still earn them 500,000 merit points.
Although that would do little against their enormous debts, it would at least ease their financial pressure.
The constant warfare had long since left both sides somewhat sick of it. Aside from the occasional serious fight when they were in a good mood and felt fired up, everyone habitually slacked off.
Even though the Five Elders had delivered a highly impassioned speech before the battle and spent so long preparing for it, they still could not rouse the enthusiasm of these Celestial Dragon elites.
The same went for the Oran Empire's people. Apart from a few who wanted to use the pressure of battle to break through, everyone just wanted to finish early and clock out.
Then they could return to Jaya Island (Mary Geoise)