Chapter 554: Redeeming Battle Merit! Eva's Discovery!

"The First and Second Legions are responsible for constantly monitoring the movements of the fierce beasts."

"The Third and Fourth Legions are responsible for clearing the battlefield and recovering the fierce beasts' corpses."

"Each Legion is to immediately tally its casualties and report the summary to... before 7 PM."

In the sky, Su Qingli and Liao Junning descended, while Tian Hui, as the commander-in-chief, continued to direct.

The fierce beasts had retreated, but there was still plenty of cleanup work to be done.

Under Tian Hui's command, the major legions all began to move.

And Xu Jingming also withdrew from his Thunder Pole state, folded his wings, and landed on the city wall.

"Phew, it's finally over. Jingming, how much battle merit have you accumulated now?"

Zhou Yan, the captain of the Fourth Vanguard Squad, likewise returned to the city wall.

As a peak seventh-rank ability user, he didn't look to be in much better shape than Xu Jingming.

In fact, he looked even worse—his whole body was covered in blood, and there were even claw-mark wounds left by fierce beasts.

Still, among the other Vanguard Squad captains missing arms and legs, he was in pretty good shape.

"Let me check." Xu Jingming smiled and opened his communication watch.

'Name: Xu Jingming

Squad: Fourth Vanguard Squad

Current Battle Merit:

Accumulated Battle Merit:'

"Holy—! 620,000 total battle merit!"

Shake, with her wheat-colored healthy skin, had just leapt back onto the city wall when she was nearly blinded by the numbers on Xu Jingming's holographic display.

She had joined the Fourth Vanguard Squad half a year ago, and counting this one, she had already been through three large-scale wars.

Yet her accumulated battle merit was only 300,000—not even half of Xu Jingming's.

"I really envy you elemental-type ability users. You kill fierce beasts in swathes.

Unlike us enhancement-types, where our hands go sore from chopping before we manage to kill a few hundred beasts."

Shake grumbled, rubbing her wrist.

Fierce beasts had thick hides and tough flesh. Although with their alloy weapons, they could pierce the beasts' skin and kill them,

they would also receive a powerful counterforce—especially since some beasts' skin was itself as hard as alloy.

Even as a seventh-rank Grandmaster, it still took considerable effort to hack through.

Over long periods, the rebound force would inevitably damage the body.

But elemental-type ability users were different.

Take Xu Jingming, for example—once Dou Tian Shen Lei activated, the fierce beasts were all annihilated.

Counterforce? Where would any counterforce come from?

That was also why elemental-type ability users were more welcome on the front lines than enhancement-types.

"620,000 battle merit—that's enough for you, Jingming, to pick plenty of good stuff from the military supply depot.

Let's go, my treat. We'll eat first, and after that we'll head over to the depot."

Zhou Yan laughed heartily and led Xu Jingming and the others away.

Their Fourth Vanguard Squad, although some were seriously wounded, had no fatalities.

Everyone had survived to the end, so as captain, he was naturally in high spirits.

With the war over, Zhen'an City, suppressed for days, once again returned to its former bustle.

Although Zhen'an City was mainly for legions and guilds to be stationed, it had no shortage of restaurants and hotels.

After Captain Zhou Yan treated them to a meal at the most luxurious restaurant in Zhen'an City,

Xu Jingming and the others finally arrived at the Military Supply Building in the center of Zhen'an City.

The building was about thirty-plus meters tall, occupied a vast area, and its outer walls gleamed with a metallic black luster.

Like a giant beast, it crouched there.

Around the building, armed soldiers and ability-user squads patrolled back and forth.

Outside the building, long lines had already formed—these were the disbanded ability-user soldiers.

After receiving their battle merit, some wanted to exchange it for weapons, others for cultivation resources.

Xu Jingming even spotted quite a few people from the Black Dragon Legion.

"It's the Fourth Vanguard Squad!"

"So that's Xu Jingming? He's actually quite handsome."

"Looks are one thing, but Xu Jingming's build and bearing are also impeccable."

"..."

The ability users in the line curiously sized up Xu Jingming, who stood in the middle of Zhou Yan's group.

Xu Jingming's performance on the battlefield these past few days could only be described as terrifying!

Especially that dashing moment when his spear slew the mid-seventh-rank Green Void Thunderbird—it was deeply etched in their hearts.

Some had even recorded it through their communication watches.

Had the City Lord not given the order, they would have uploaded it to the network long ago.

But after all, it was shot from a distance, and Xu Jingming was constantly soaring in the sky.

The ability users hadn't actually seen it clearly.

Now, observing him up close, they realized Xu Jingming seemed even more imposing than they had imagined.

Especially some of the younger women in their twenties in the line, whose gazes grew even more fervent.

Just like that, under the gaze of countless eyes, Xu Jingming and his group strode into the Military Supplies Building.

Ordinary ability users had to queue to exchange battle merits, but as top-tier combatants, they naturally enjoyed the privilege of exchanging directly.

After entering the Military Supplies Building and stating their purpose,

Xu Jingming and his group were led into a lounge on the second floor.

The lounge was roughly forty square meters, its layout somewhat similar to an ordinary resident's living room.

Sofas, a tea table—everything was provided.

Only on the wall at the very front, there was no television, just a virtual blue orb projected by a hologram.

This was the military's intelligent brain; exchanging battle merits for resources required its use.

"Welcome, members of the Fourth Vanguard Team. How may I assist you?"

The moment Xu Jingming and his group sat down, the mechanical electronic voice of the intelligent brain rang out.

"Pull up the military supplies vault inventory list. My brother here wants to exchange battle merits."

Zhou Yan spoke with practiced ease, propping his feet up on the tea table.

He casually opened a cold drink sitting on a nearby table, looking extremely relaxed—clearly, he had been here more than once.

"Understood."

The intelligent brain's voice sounded, and a list was projected:

'One SSS-grade cultivation resource (1,300,000 battle merits required)

One set of SSS-grade battle armor (1,300,000 battle merits required)

One SSS-grade custom alloy weapon (1,300,000 battle merits required)

......'

There were many and varied items on the list.

It covered not only battle armor and weapons, but also various cultivation resources, exotic flowers and rare herbs, and more.

The battle merits required for exchange varied—some were very cheap, while others were extremely expensive.

Take those SSS-grade equipment and cultivation resources at the very top of the list, for example—absurdly expensive!

Xu Jingming estimated that even an eighth-rank Master Zongshi, relying solely on battle merits, couldn't possibly scrape together that amount without two or three years and several wars.

Just as he was about to ask the intelligent brain to filter out items under 700,000 battle merits,

Eva's excited voice suddenly rang out in his mind:

"S-grade! I found something good!"