The first and only one (part 4)

Salazar's words reverberated through the planet, making all the disciples to stop doing what they were doing, to process what they just heard.

Deaths weren't uncommon for outer disciples and assistants, if they wanted to climb up the ladder to become inner disciples, they had to save up a large amount of contribution points, which was only possible if they took in "extermination" type missions for the sect, also the resources the sect gave them weren't enough to advance in a short period of time.

There was a risk of dying, but due to that, the rewards were also quite eye catching, depending on the difficulty of course.

So, it was normal for them to die often, the balance was kept due to that, as only a small percentage managed to save up enough to become inner disciples, in other words if they wanted to advance it wasn't impossible, but they needed to work hard