Outcast Omega Pampered by the Alpha General novel Chapter 404

Chapter 404 The Empty Shell

It was not their core

Not their business.

Within the legions, however, a different version of the story circulated.

The core had been purchased.

The Rockefeller family and Crown Prince Harold had offered Nicole enormous benefits, along with priority consideration when the next supply of cores became available.

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Nicole believed she lacked experience. Her current rank was also relatively low, and she judged her own chance of success accordingly.

So she accepted the benefits and stepped aside.

The Rockefellers had earned their reputation as the Empire’s treasury. They could buy an insectoid core and somehow leave everyone involved satisfied.

The advancement process lasted two full days.

Ari was the first to enter S-rank.

After accompanying Harper through the boundary between life and death, Ari found the advancement astonishingly easy.

The instant he succeeded, baby Dragonlord came waddling toward him from outside. Its steps were unsteady, its round little belly swayed with every step, and it looked impossibly adorable.

Lily completed her advancement next.

Even the tallest tower had to rise from solid ground. Lily had spent years building an exceptionally strong foundation, so advancement itself presented no great difficul

What happened next surprised everyone.

Hannah failed.

Elias–whom nearly everyone had considered the least experienced, lowest-ranked, and most likely to fail–succeeded.

As Sultan circled through the air around Elias, Oren received the good news and smiled with a satisfied nod.

Helen might have lost his title as the Empire’s foremost Omega, but the Rockefeller family now possessed two Omega Excellencies.

No other family in the Empire could claim the same.

They still stood behind the Ashfords.

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But not unbearably far behind.

Orion did not care about the distance between the two families.

The outcome he feared most had arrived.

Julian’s psychic landscape was complete. His vital signs had stabilized. Every crack in his psychic sea had vanished.

Yet Julian had not advanced.

He had not awakened either.

It was as though his consciousness had been pulled from his body leaving nothing behind but an empty shell.

Tears slipped silently de

This time, there wa

No stiff, awkward

No solemn p

Orion lo whispe

robot beside him.

on, don’t cry.”

will find a way.”

issed Julian between the brows. As though afraid of disturbing his sleep, he a way.”

k to the Spirit Abyss System first? That may be best. Leave the front to us for

son, clearly wanting to say more.

placed a hand on Orion’s shoulder and silently wished both young men luck.

ned away when the normally quiet Orion pointed toward his wrist terminal and spoke in

remember to read what I sent you. It may be the last thing I can leave humanity.”

rew a deep breath.

rs filled his eyes, but he wiped them away before they could fall.

The warning he wanted to give–Don’t do anything foolish–never left his mouth.

Instead, he said from the

Few people noticed

He did not

of you

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Alone, he piloted Greedy Wolf and carried Julian back to Cloudglow Prime.

The mountains and water resembled an ink painting.

Orion lifted his lover from the mecha and laid him in the same place where Julian had once drawn an array with insectoid-core energy and performed a power infusion to heal him.

excellent memory.

aid that an ordinary person could not learn mecha repair after watching only once, though

ot been empty praise.

as much the same.

aght not understand the fun essed whenever he conside

ow a profound array was p ne Julian had drawn.

Like any first-year stude extraction stylus and

Extracting energy

Drawing arti

Understa

ciples as Julian did, but he remembered everything he

ground from his wrist terminal–Orion’s own copy of the

anufacturing Department, Orion picked up an energy-

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ked.

Orion realized the energy-extraction stylus could not possibly contain the ay.

n consciousness the writing instrument.

m became nearly impossible.

led unbearable effort.

As fluid, like water. Forging it into a stylus required more than gathering it together.

mpered.

gain.

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