All day long, everyone in Atlas City compound was running at full overload…
This time, they'd practically gathered and consolidated crystal cores from compounds all across the Atlas Federation, forcing a massive transformation that drove the federation's overall strength sharply upward.
The most popular exchanges were for Tier 6 and Tier 7 crystal cores. Those took fewer low-Tier cores to trade up, and the processing speed was faster.
On top of that, once an ordinary Enhanced hit Tier 6, they gained a skill—and they could also start automatically absorbing mysterious energy to keep raising their Tier.
So for most of the people who came to exchange, the priority was obvious: get everyone in their compound up to Tier 6 first.
Of course, there were selfish types too—people who burned through huge amounts of cores to exchange for Tier 9s, rushing their own personal strength upward and not giving a damn about anyone else in their compound.
