Galaxy's Only Triple-S: Five Lords Can't Hold Her novel Chapter 124

Chapter 124 A Gamble

Baar had consumed that nutrient solution. That was a hard fact.

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Logically, his spiritual realm should be a wreck. Even if Margaret could somehow calm the frenzy, there was no way she could purge a toxin already woven into his blood and bone.

Kiran yanked out a metal chair and sat. His left wrist trembled. He forced it steady and activated his Holo- bracelet, his fingers flying across the virtual keyboard.

As a major general, he’d buried backdoors into the system far deeper than an idiot like Gary could ever find.

Three complex command strings. A bypass around the main firewall. The screen flickered violently, then locked in-direct feed from the isolation chamber in Core Zone Al.

The camera faced the blast-proof glass. Under the cold white light, Baar lay flat on the medical bed. Lifeless.

Kiran’s eyes narrowed sharply.

On the metal floor beside the bed, a massive black shape lay coiled. That was Baar’s spirit beast. The high resolution let them clearly see the serpent’s abdomen rising and falling with each breath-steady, far too steady.

A cold, nameless dread crawled up Kiran’s spine.

This is bait. Gary left this opening on purpose. The smart move is to shut the bracelet, shower, sleep, pretend tonight never happened.

His mind screamed warnings, but he couldn’t pull back.

He stared at the timestamp in the corner of the screen.

Less than forty-eight hours. After that, the insectoid vanguard would cross the jump point and reach the coordinates near the base.

The communication had been heavily encrypted. The voice on the other end, distorted through layers of scrambling, had made an offer that was hard to refuse,

“Give us the defense layout for Line Three. We’ll clear the obstacles in your way.”

Kiran knew making deals with insectoids was poison dressed as a cure. But he was starving for this war. A nobody S-class officer with zero backing trying to claw his way to commander? He’d die of old age before that happened through normal channels.

War was the fastest ladder up.

He wasn’t stupid enough to hand over the real core coordinates. He’d given them a location slightly off- target. But close enough. A large-scale insectoid strike would still throw the whole defense line into chaos.

And he’d already drawn up a counter-plan-bait them in, trap them, trade a third of the front-line troops for a glorious, crushing victory.

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The general who wins a great battle stands atop a mountain of corpses. It’s the oldest rule in the book. What’s a few, tens of thousands of dead soldiers? They’d be making their noble sacrifice for the Federation. To the galaxy. To my

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But now, watching that serpent breathe steady and slow, Kiran wasn’t sure anymore.

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What if the toxin doesn’t work on SSS-class? What if it only suppressed him temporarily?

The moment those insectoid forces hit, if Baar so much as opened his eyes, he’d take command as naturally as breathing. Everything Kiran had planned, every risk he’d taken-the court-martial waiting if anyone found out-would become nothing more than a footnote on Baar’s next medal.

Worse, the poisoning wouldn’t hold up under scrutiny. If Baar woke up and followed the trail, it would lead straight back to him. Total ruin. A dead man walking.

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