Plan B

"So what do we do now? We leave the ship here and go home?" Asfrid inquisitively asked with a grimace. "I have a nasty feeling that the return trip is going to cost us even more."

"Asfrid is right. We've had a close call this time." Hade agreed with her sentiment.

"So what? You want to give up?" Jake scowled. "Focus on the positive for once. Didn't you get that notification?"

Asfrid and Hade stopped complaining at once.

"We got it."

The Oracle System notification Jake was talking about was this one:

[Side Mission n°4: Save the people of Laudarkvik from the Purge]

[Mission accomplished: Beyond perfect Rating. Save even more people to improve the rating further]

They still had no way of knowing if the reward would be worth their sacrifices, but at least they knew they hadn't taken all those risks for nothing. Seeing that this wasn't enough to lift Hade and Asfrid's spirits, Jake reminded them,