Chapter 553 Greed
The area around Father Tree's body-- Four days after Robin left for the headquarters
One of the soldiers put two fingers in his mouth and whistled loudly, "Hey, I've been waiting for hours, come and count my points for me already I need to take a bath!!"
"Shut up, it's not your turn yet, I have been waiting a full 10 minutes before you!" the soldier with the corpse pile nearest to him shouted back
"Fuck you, you started gathering much earlier than me while I used less time to finish my pile. Isn't it normal for my points to be checked before a stingy scoundrel like you who doesn't want to leave any piece of green meat without collecting it? If it wasn't that I'm afraid to lose points to a bastard like you, I would have shattered your upper teeth row with one punch!"
"Come and try, It seems like I wouldn't be collecting only green meat today!!"
Individual discords like this were happening everywhere, for kilometers in every direction. How could it not be, when this is the day they have been waiting for for years!!
Now each of the soldiers who participated in the siege had collected a small hill of bud corpses and a number of bud captives behind him, all of them waiting to calculate the total points they had gathered in the battle over the last few days.
Of course, this is not all. There is an entire branch in the army whose sole purpose is to calculate points. The points collected by the army from the beginning of the war till now were simply enormous, and today, they will add the cherry on top of the cake, as the bud prisoners have points much higher than their corpses!
Of course, only those younger, energetic soldiers still had the ability to shout at each other and try to take the next turn. As for most of the army, which consisted of around three million soldiers, each one of them gathered as many bud prisoners as he could and sat next to them with his eyes closed until the turn to allocate the points came, and some of them did not even bother to collect more points and went directly to find a tree trunk and sleep on it
But in general, there was something common among all the soldiers, even those who were shouting at each other they all shared: a peaceful smile and rosy dreams.
Part of the soldiers of the Empire's army were random members of the ruling families of the four continents, living in peace and without a state of war, even if they were strong, this would not give them anything except a better prestige in society or perhaps a better table if they entered a restaurant. As for most of the soldiers, their situation was worse, as they were just commoners and sons of servant families on the four continents just a few years ago...
His Excellency's appearance gave them power, and this war gave them experience. Each one of them is well aware deep down that he has become a destructive tool of war and will most likely live like this for the rest of his life, but most importantly...
They know they got rich!!
Yes, they all are now rich. Although the points system is somehow cruel, it is a paradise for those who decide to risk their lives. The 6-year war claimed the lives of more than 500,000 imperial soldiers, but those who survived the siege earned a huge number of points!
Of course, most of the soldiers still have not accumulated enough points to buy large lands on Planet Jura, but they undoubtedly have enough to own a house and a good yard there, while other things such as obtaining priority in receiving the full-body golden armor or buying dozens of acres on the planet Greenland and starting a new life here, will not Not a problem at all!
The soldiers were very worried when they felt that the crazy amount of points might cause inflation in prices and that perhaps the armor that they could have obtained with 30 points would now cost 300, but Supreme General Alexander announced that this would affect the honor of the True Beginning Empire and that the soldiers would undoubtedly be compensated for their points. He announced that the treasures that would be found in Tree Father's body or in his lands would be added to the list of what could be purchased with points, which made the soldiers immensely satisfied, even though they didn't know what treasures the Tree Father might have, whatever a 500 thousand years old monster consider a treasure in definitely something worth obtaining.
For the soldiers of the True Beginning Empire, this war from beginning to end was purely for experience and profit, so when it was announced that the points system was still in effect, it was enough to make everyone happy.
But there are types of happiness... like the happiness of the local human forces, for example.
After the last bud was captured, the soldiers of the Empire shouted excitedly and some of them sighed that it was finally time to rest, but unlike them, the army of the three human tribes was overcome by a fit of tears.
This was a day like no other, a day that even if their ancestors had predicted, they still would not have believed them.
When Robin announced that Tree Father Hoffenheim was dead, most of them doubted it exactly as the buds doubted. Who could kill a Tree Father? Especially in this silent way?! But they continued the fight anyway, so what else did they have to do? But seeing the war ending in only 4 days, they finally understood what had happened... the tyrant had truly fallen!
The monster that had terrorized them and their ancestors for two hundred thousand years had been killed, the remaining Tree Fathers had become only six!
The joy of the local soldiers cannot be described in words. Even they themselves could not express it, so they silently fell into tears and hugs.
But the thing is... happiness is always temporary, while greed is a human instinct.
After the approximately 4~5 million soldiers of what is left of the local human army absorbed the shock their hearts calmed down and they became certain that Hoffenheim was indeed dead and that they were on the verge of a new era, they did not hug each other anymore and leave to deliver the good news to their families, or at least get back to their camps as ordered but rather remained in their places and watched the imperial soldiers as they gathered corpses and prisoners and counting points...
They had fought side by side for years, how could they not know the points system? They know very well that the soldiers of the Empire are competing for points with which they can buy the Father Tree's vast lands!
Those lands were no joke, the Tree Father had control over nearly 13% of the entire planet while the 15 local tripes together live in scattered pieces of land that don't even add up to 5% of the whole planet
That means that the three tribes participating in this war don't even live on 1% of what the planet has to offer, yet these foreign soldiers are about to distribute 13% among themselves, that's 13 times the land mass of their three tribes combined!
And it is not just 13 times their land. Rather, these are lands that have not been polluted by humans or beasts for two hundred thousand years, It is a virgin land full of rare minerals and ancient herbs. It is tens of times more precious than their own!
The biggest problem is that they can not participate in the points system.
The condition for participation in the points system is actually very simple. You must be a member of the True Beginning Empire and swear allegiance to the Emperor. As for the three tribes, it can be said that they are united for a common enemy at best. So far, none of them have declared loyalty to the Empire, and therefore they have not participated in the point system.
They all understand that, but... Doesn't this simply mean that all of Hoffenheim's assets are now at the mercy of the alien Empire? Their leader, Robin, said that shares would be distributed to them according to their contribution, but he did not specify what percentage. What if he took all the good things and gave them the bones? What if he doesn't give them anything at all?!
But no one dared to say anything out loud, not for fear of the Empire's army, but of their Emperor.
The fact that the Emperor of the True Beginning Empire destroyed 6 Warlords in the blink of an eye and killed the Tree Father with ease had become an inevitable fact. If the distribution was based on contributions, then Emperor Robin alone would take 90% of it, but then again... What about them?!
And what really put oil on the fire in the hearts was when they saw the terrifying generals of the Empire: Alexander, Jabba, Elizabeth, and the rest of their level climbing the body of the Tree Father and began searching every inch of it, while their tribal leaders continued to look from afar without having the courage to approach a step closer.
The initial joy was gone and was replaced by gossip and roundabout words with two meanings... While the soldiers of the Empire went to sleep or to accumulate points, the soldiers of the local tribes began to gather again.