By the eighteenth day of the game, the prison invasion had already reached 30% completion.
And the pace was only accelerating.
The amount of soul fire Rita could mobilize had grown so vast that she could barely spend it all.
Most of it was being used to envelop the already unlocked cube prisons, an attempt to lower the vigilance of the Overseer's Eye.
The rest went toward increasing the players' skill slots and soul fire limits.
All of this soul fire had originally been accumulated within the exile zone itself.
It came from countless dead Prisoners.
Once every prison had been conquered, she would theoretically gain access to the entire epoch's accumulated reserves.
During one of their casual conversations, she openly brought this up to Ash Inspector.
Ash Inspector: [Was it really that obvious?]
[Maybe I calculated it.]
[Or maybe I overheard it.]
The statement was vague.
But Rita knew exactly what it meant.
Earlier, when Ash Inspector had said:
