After they got back from Atlas City, Ethan got to work on crystal core decomposition immediately.
Among the Infernals, Tier 16 made up the biggest chunk, so Tier 16 cores were what he had the most of—nearly two hundred thousand.
He had around a hundred thousand Tier 17 cores, and a bit over ten thousand Tier 18 cores.
Tier 15, on the other hand, was scarce. He only had a few thousand from the early days—back when they were killing Flamebirds. After that, basically nothing.
The numbers sounded insane on paper, but once you split them across twenty thousand Fallen Star Guard members, it stopped looking so generous.
If you relied purely on crystal cores, going from early stage to peak within a single Tier took a full ten cores.
For twenty thousand people to climb one full Tier, that was two hundred thousand cores.
