Chapter 429 The Price of a Miracle
That was the logic.
Even if the serum proved useless, no one would know who had wasted a fortune on it.
But what if?
What if it actually worked?
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Driven by that hope, people who had already purchased and failed with countless miracle drugs lifted the new serum and swallowed it in one gulp.
“M-my strength increased. I’m moving faster too! This is incredible. I’m going to beat Jack into the floor at tomorrow’s match!”
A Beta’s face turned bright red with excitement. His future suddenly seemed limitless.
Elsewhere, an Alpha who had always hated his low rank and his place at the bottom of Alpha society rolled across his bed, drenched in sweat after drinking the serum.
The moment endless pain erupted inside him, regret overwhelmed him.
I shouldn’t have drunk it…
I never should have…
Just as he became certain he was dying, his psychic sea began to boil and expand. After years trapped at C-rank, he crossed into B-rank in the next instant.
“This is amazing… I-I didn’t die. I advanced…”
The Alpha gasped for breath.
He understood neither the price attached to the gift nor how close the abyss had come.
“Drink it. If this can truly turn you into an Alpha, then you’ll finally be a son worth having.”
An Alpha father tossed a vial to his Beta son. What filled the man’s eyes was not expectation so much as judgment.
Like father, like son.
The boy was just as ruthless and had spent his life longing to join the ranks of Alphas.
“Sweetheart, don’t. Please don’t…”
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you. I can’t…”
Her son gave her one glance.
Then he swallowed the serum without a second of hesitation.
The glass vial shattered against the floor. The young military cadet collapsed to his knees and writhed like a centipede, his body pressed low while swollen veins raced across his forehead.
He could no longer hear his mother’s sobs or screams.
One thought repeated endlessly inside him.
I want to become an Alpha.
I was never meant to be a Beta.
I am an Alpha…
What the heart refused to release would eventually answer.
Whether that answer became a hymn to courage…
Or fate’s final elegy.
Every gene in the cadet’s body surged and transformed. His genetic lock opened with a click, and a jackal spirit form slowly appeared beside him.
His mother stared through streaming tears.
Weak but proud, the boy looked at her and smiled.
“Mom, I became an Alpha…”
My wish finally came true.
With one successful case after another appearing in public, demand for the black-market serum exploded. Invitations to the private auctions became almost impossible to obtain at any price.
Powerful organizations and great families immediately restricted the spread of information
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while securing private supplies of their own.
They were not fools.
Before giving the serum to members of their families, they located previous users and subjected them to detailed, comprehensive examinations.
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While the elites hesitated and debated, a shocking report swept through the highest social circles.
That night, inside the Blackwell ancestral estate, a terrifying pressure burst from Marcus Blackwell, who had suffered in seclusion for days.
Miyuki and Yuzuki received the news at once.
“Darling…”
Miyuki raised slender fingers to her lips.
The instant her husband’s spirit form appeared, she took an involuntary step backward.
Marcus’s night owl had once possessed a thick, powerful body, enormous eyes, and deep- purple plumage.
Now the purple color evaporated before her.
The remaining feathers were pale as dead bone. Each stood rigid and hard, its edges lined with razor-sharp serrations.
The owl’s once-distinctive eyes had become empty sockets without pupils. Two ghostly flames burned in the hollows, and every movement produced faint, unnatural clicks of bone.
Its claws resembled exposed skeleton. Its body was gaunt and angular, while its long, narrow wings made it look less like an owl than a featherless skeletal raven.
The power radiating from it was horrifying.
“Hoo…”
As the skeletal owl released its low call, Marcus’s psychic sea completed its transformation.
He slowly opened his eyes.
“Congratulations, Mr. Blackwell.”
Yuzuki smiled beneath her nun’s veil.
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Her gaze held no happiness for her older brother. It contained only an artist’s appreciation for a successful creation.
Outside the estate, Rowan’s pupils contracted.
He remained frozen for a long time.
After Atlas Ashford, Harper Sloane, General Marston, Orion Ashford, and Caleb Hayes, the Empire had produced another 3S-class Alpha.
Marcus Blackwell, head of the Blackwell family.
“Marcus Blackwell? Him? That breeding-obsessed creep was half hollowed out already, and he still reached 3S?”
Caleb gave a cold laugh. The military continued to conceal his advancement, so the public still believed he was only 2S-class.
To Caleb, the report sounded like a fairy tale.
“It is suspicious.”
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