Merit shop

Let's make the world a better place! And make some money along the way, nyAa!

Is the title of the merit exchange system along with an image of a girl with cat ears. The pink-haired girl with a cute expression is posing cutely in the banner.

"Wha... is this?"

"Due to the rising crime rate, we decide to make this merit system. That girl is an influencer Nyanyacutecat2299. We hire them to promote the merit system. This method proves to work among the general population. After the promotion program launch, we saw a 3000% increase in our merit system used across the globe."

"What the actual...."

"You might think that this is weird, but the people like Nyanyacutecat can easily sway the general population. Because of being number 3, most followed account in the entire world, their influence cannot be taken lightly"

They filled the front page with Nyanyacutecat theme items. A fan, Car, perfume, outfit all have Nyanyacutecat slapped on them with the most expensive price being a handshake from Nyanya. A time limit at the top, that hit 0 a long time ago, creates and fear of missing out on the item. They even have a daily merit login where you can pay a fixed amount of merit and get increasing rewards the more time you pay.

Looking deeper into what Nyanyacutecat offers, Velo can see a bit of why people would do this. Because the world is so convenient that they have nothing better to do. Their life is not in danger. They didn't have to fight monsters every day to maintain it.

Velo thinks that his life would be better if he were born sooner. He slaps himself out of it.

"If I was born sooner I'd be dead by now"

He reaffirms himself and scrolls through to see the other reward. They also did the promotion program with another influencer too, but it never boom like Nyanya. Velo, look at the official reward that Global united is willing to give out for merit.

There are surprisingly more things than he expected from food to guns or even an augment suit. The price varies from 10 to 10000 merit points. With some requests giving out only 5-10 points. it'd take some time before you can get the big prize.

Velo is here for the officer rank that it offers. At 5000 points you can get the officer rank with a gun holding license. The rank has to be approved again by Dumo personnel or the A.I. which Velo doesn't have to worry about.

The only problem is the point requirements. Most of the jobs in the old world don't exist anymore and half of the viable jobs only pay about 5-10 points per quest. It would take him more than a month to do all the quests to get 5000 points.

"Please do not worry about the point requirement. We can give you a personal request that gives the max about of points offered by the system."

"Wow, then can you give me an easy task and let me buy all these?"

"Unfortunately no. The system has a maximum point it can give for a certain type of request like subjugation to have an upward cap of 10000. While a Clean up the city task has only 500. This system has been put in so that someone couldn't abuse a broken A.I. to gain infinite points."

"Damn future sometime sucks."

"Due to our city's condition and Global Network offline. Your only option right now is the survey quest and subjugation quest. Which one would you like to take?"

"Can I know the detail?"

"Sure. the subjugation quest will include the subjugation of Wasteland dog for 100 points per dog and ruin tracker for 500 points. The Survey's quest will be to survey around this area or find another civilization. The more detailed they are, the better the reward "

"Can I just take both?"

"The duration of each request is 1 week."

"oh....."

"But we can automatically give you the authority if you can defend this place from the flood of ruin tracker."

Velo thinks a bit take the survey quest. He plans to get back to back to the city and come back with a gun or something. In order to do that he needs money and he can think of a way to make some money...

"You can record the place you visit using the wristband terminal, have a nice trip."

Velo, check his stuff his ragged shirt and a plastic bag A.I. give to store his stuff. There isn't much in this facility he could bring out so he leaves Dumo tower with a pipe. For some reason, the Dumo facility doesn't have any weapons at all. It has been called up to the ringworld.

The ringworld according to the A.I. is a Megastructure built-in space to solve overpopulation. It orbits the planet and gives the population somewhere to live. It takes 1000 years of the United globe effort to finish the structure.

The day-night cycle of the ringworld is almost the same as the earth thanks to some complex calculations they did. The Dumo tower is one of 27 ports to the ringworld. The A.I. says that normally you could see the ringworld from earth but due to their main power source being offline the ringworld is suspended in one place and orbits through natural earth gravity.

Velo ventured out of the tower he looks around carefully to avoid being eaten like last time. He makes his way through the ruined city avoiding ruin tracker at all cost. On his way to the edge of the city, he picks up some cheap relics and put them in a plastic bag to hide something in them.

The car drives by near the ruin. Velo waves at them. The car drives toward him with the people in it pointing their guns. Velo drops the plastic bag that he's carrying and put his hand up.

The guys in the cars question him. Velo's story is that he got abandoned by the slum escort when a monster attacked them. He was able to survive by hiding in a building. The story makes sense and he seems to be harmless so the hunters let him up.

The journey to O'ruma city takes around 4 hours with the vehicle going around 80km/hr the city should be around 320 km from the Dumo tower.