“Why don’t we tally up energy cores instead?” Wen Jifei randomly suggested.

Listening to all those stories about masters had the opposite effect of leaving a person gloomy and small—especially when that person was a Dice.

He Tangtang started, “Mine are easy to count. Just the two I got last time. I’ve already absorbed two-thirds of one. Haven’t touched the other.”

“I’ve got the one Little Qing gave me a while back, and it isn’t used up yet.” Wen Jifei hadn’t taken a share of the last haul, so he was still living off the one Han Qingyu had handed him early in their training period.

Liu Shiheng had one as well, about half used.

The common pool held six.

It had originally been seven after divvying up the spoils, but Shen Yixiu had needed to swap out her energy core, so Han Qingyu let her take one from the common reserve. Nobody objected, as she had fought without a combat allocation and had been...