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Having your life spared was already the best outcome, but the cost was far too great: a power decrease of three tiers, a weakness period lasting a year, and the random loss of three to four cards.
Not to mention other factors, just the decrease in strength alone was hard to accept, especially for those who had already reached the second tier. Advancing one level usually required upwards of 100,000 Source Energy Points, and thus three levels would be at least 400,000 points or more.
Such a terrifying amount of Source Energy, even during a welfare period, would take at least half a year to accumulate, not to mention after the welfare period ended.
