NOVEL NEXT Chapter 408: Unfair outcome
Atlan, right at this very second, saw blobs of light flowing out of every single human in his vicinity.
These blobs of light signalled life itself in the form of Soul Time. And each second, everyone's Soul Time ticked down a second, meaning that they were losing life for every second that they were alive.
And somehow, Atlan could now absorb those lost Soul Time from the air and implement it into his own life, increasing his Soul Time in absurd numbers.
If Soul Time did become the current currency of the world, then Atlan could be considered to be the richest man alive possible. Even if he wasn't the one with the most Soul Time for now, he would certainly become one in the future.
After all, while everybody was losing their lives, Atlan was actually gaining them at an even faster rate than most people died.
Meanwhile, Ninth and her team couldn't help but worry about their own situation.
Usually, after a mission, the God would give them back their lost Soul Time during the mission and give them extra for their efforts.
Even when the mission was a failure, they were at least given a few years extra of Soul Time as consolation.
However, now, they experienced no such thing after the mission in the church. They didn't expect it as well, after how horrific things turned out to be.
And as the Elder Heads continued to explain about the current situation of Genesis City, Ninth and the others couldn't help but feel as if they were extremely unlucky.
After today, all missions of Saviors were now getting paid through Time Stims only, meaning that the God wouldn't give them back lost Soul Time, and just pay them for their efforts as long as the mission was successful.
To balance things out, the reward for a successful mission had more than doubled, making this job very lucrative.
But for those that failed the mission, they would get nothing, not even a consolation prize.
This type of system incentivized Saviors to keep on accepting more and more missions. After all, missions were the only way they were going to get more Soul Time. And if they wanted to live forever, then they would have to gather a lot of Soul Time before they retired.
Ninth and her team were no slackers. They were one of the strongest teams in Genesis City, even within Specialist Saviors.
However, they knew the pitfalls this system would introduce to newbie Saviors. Experience more content on My Virtual Library Empire
After all, if beginner Saviors failed their mission, they would have nothing to fall back to.
Once they encounter a mission too hard for them, they would end up getting injured a lot and losing a lot of SoulTime in the process.
And because they didn't finish the mission, they wouldn't receive any Time Stim compensation for their troubles.
This would only end up becoming an ever growing problem for the rookie Savior. Because they don't have enough SoulTime, they would be less inclined to risk their life on a mission. And because they weren't taking on missions, they weren't going to earn any Soul Time.
It would end up with the newbie Savior getting desperate and forcing himself to do missions that are way above his strength just for the chance to get more Soul Time.
More often than not, they would end up dead.
Ninth felt sorry for the beginner Saviors. They wouldn't have the proper environment for them to fully develop as Saviors because they would always become too worried about their SoulTime.
If Ninth experienced this situation back when she was a newbie, then she doubted she could have become the Specialist Savior she was right now.
"Atlan, I think we're going to go our separate ways now," Ninth said to Atlan.
"Yes. We have a lot of things to prepare."
"Our SoulTime is getting dangerously low. We must prepare for another mission so that we could have enough to live."
The general consensus between Ninth and the team was that they were going to continue performing missions after this.
After all, they needed the Time Stim. Not only that, there was also a lingering guilt in their hearts that they could not get rid of until they saved the City from another Canzer. They wanted to prove to themselves that they could still fight Canzers and protect the City.
Atlan watched as Ninth and the team slowly backed away from HeadQuarters to head back to their houses.
He narrowed his eyes as he looked at Ninth and her team.
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Using his innate powers in death, he was able to see the SoulTime of Ninth and the others even though they hadn't shown him their wrists.
He found it unfair for them that they had to suffer for this unfortunate situation. They did their best during the mission and gave it everything they've got.
However, their opponent this time was truly something that they couldn't have defeated on their own no matter how much they tried.
It wasn't their fault that the Church exploded. It was the Elder Heads' fault for not preparing more Saviors to fight in the mission.
After all, they had to fight multiple Specialist-level Canzers before they even reached the Church.
So, Ninth and the others shouldn't have to live with worry that they would soon die because of their injuries from the church mission.
Atlan raised his hand and gathered a small portion of the light blobs that he had been absorbing each second.
Then, he directed these blobs of light towards Ninth and her team, enveloping them with a warm sensation that made them feel as if they were near a fireplace.
Immediately, they all looked at their wrists and saw that their SoulTime had increased by a thousand years!
It was unbelievable.
Too unbelievable, in fact, that they all looked back at Atlan and knew that he was the one who gifted them this new lease on life.