However, it seems many other soldiers performed better than him in the 30 day battle, and many of those high performers managed to survive the barrage of the demigods.
When he told Wrath, she said, "It is to be expected. If they are exceptional in the army, then their chances of survival will be higher. If not for the sudden mass death, I doubt you would even have the ranking that you have currently. You would have been a lot of places lower."
He shrugged and said, "At least I have a lot of merit points, which means I will have a lot of game points to use."
He made the calculation briefly. According to the formula of the army, the exchange rate of merit points to game points at any point in time is dependent on the strength of the soldier and their performance during the invasion.
It is (Soldier's Merit Points ÷ Merit Sources × Soldier's Performance). His merit point is 91,392,500.
His merit sources are the total number of people he killed and the total number of things or activities he did to earn his merit points.
In summary, it is how many notifications he received for merit points. Currently, it is 69,546.
Lastly, his performance is 2 stars. Which makes the total amount of game points he can earn equal to 91,392,500 ÷ 69,546 × 2.
He murmured after he made the calculation, "2,628 game points for 6 months of work. That merit source metric really screwed me."
He earned an average of 438 game points every month he was here. This average is higher than any amount he ever earned in a single game and would certainly be higher than the game points he would have earned if he had stayed at home to fight in the games.
But he is still not satisfied with it. It is because of the merit source metric used in the calculation of the exchange rate.
He thinks it is unfair, but Yggdrasil civilization uses it to encourage soldiers to do fewer activities that earn higher merit points than to do many activities that earn fewer merit points.
The Yggdrasil civilization is using it to even the playing field and make things fair. They use it because they don't want powerful X-rank soldiers killing weaklings on the battlefield.
Such an action will not be dangerous to the X-rank soldiers, and they will be able to use it to earn merit points easily since it will be easy to kill thousands of weaklings compared to another X-rank enemy.
If the Yggdrasil civilization doesn't use the merit sources metric in the formula, weaker soldiers won't be able to earn merit points as long as a stronger soldier is around.
But by using the merit sources metric, killing a single X-rank enemy will be worth more game points than killing ten SSS-rank enemies, even though both actions will earn the same amount of merit points.
He knew this, but he couldn't avoid raking up the kills when he used Life Siphon to kill every enemy in front of him.
His indiscriminate killing of the enemy gave him a lot of kill counts and merit points. But those kills have come to bite him now that he is considering exchanging his merit points for game points.
Wrath said to him, "You have only yourself to blame. But if you ask me, you don't have anything to be blamed for. Your performance has been top-notch."
"You increased in power from D-rank to B-rank in six months. You're even close to reaching the A-rank."
"Finally, you have earned so many merit points and rank so high in an army of 10 million soldiers. Not to mention that you were competing with the drones and combat bots."
"Best of all, you didn't die. You're still alive when millions of others have died. So if you ask me, you did well."
He nodded in agreement and said, "Thanks."
The two of them talked about some things. One of which was the message he received from the mental mark he put on his subordinates.
The mental messages had been slow as if they were drawling when they sent them. It took him almost an hour to receive and hear a message completely.
Wrath explained, "It is because of the time difference between Lignum and Earth. Lignum is moving faster than Earth, so time moves faster here than on Earth. The difference in the flow of time is slowing down the message as it reaches you here on earth."
As he was talking with her, a soldier approached him. It was an S-rank soldier from the third division of the army.
Kelvin recognized him because the two of them had briefly fought together in the same squad during the recent battle.
The soldier was a human female. She had a black complexion and short black hair that had been cut close to her scalp.
She was wearing an armor that had tears and cuts on it. Some of the cuts were big. Anything that could create them should have also cut into her. But strangely, she didn't appear injured.
Her skin was devoid of any injuries. She was completely healthy, which is a strange look compared to those of others who looked like they barely escaped with their lives.
She clapped as she approached him. This drew attention to her. When she had received enough attention, she spoke. "Look at the red-armored cockroach. How am I not surprised that you are still alive? The elves must be on to something to call you that."
What she said elicited some laughs and chuckles. But he didn't say anything.
He knew she was here to cause trouble, and he even suspected what she was here to cause trouble about because of the glare of resentment she had given him when they were on the battlefield.
She was annoyed that he didn't say anything. So she asked, "What? You don't have anything to say, or are you mute?"
He didn't reply. He just continued to watch her intently as if he was watching an interesting show.
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