War brought in money. Or more accurately, other people’s wars brought in money. In any case, there were many cases where people made great profits by selling weapons during war, so there was merit to this statement. The same was true for Liber. Of course, since the value of money had fallen sharply, having money didn’t mean much, but still, war could be seen as a mechanism providing heroes the opportunity to grow using their life as a collateral. Therefore, war could be seen as a type of currency. The more difficult the war, the more merits heroes could earn and invest in their growth.

In that sense, the survivors of the war against the Abyss hit the jackpot. Of course, compared to the previous great war, the rewards they got weren’t as great. However, considering that the Abyss was one of the four factions controlling Liber, the majority ended up raising their tier by one level at least and had some merits left over. Among them, Seven Stars hit a home run.

Most normal heroes saw the Platinum tier as their highest goal among the tiers of the growth system. Frankly, reaching Platinum tier was no easy task either. Statistically, only 1.5% of all people reached Platinum tier or higher; in other words, one had to be in the top 15 in a school with 1,000 students. Since that was the case for Platinum tier, there was no need to even mention how difficult it was to reach Master tier. However, among...