Claire headed out at the first rays of dawn where visibility was basically nil. He searched every building he could, sending every student he found back to the gathering spot where Aaron was.
He had just reached an alleyway and was about to enter the next building through a window when he heard the low rumble of a starting warship. Claire quickly sought cover and looked up, keeping a close eye on the warship approaching from a distance.
The ship’s flight altitude was quite low, casting a huge shadow hundreds of meters long on the ground.
Claire carefully concealed himself from sight. Those damned pirates caught on to their lack of high firepower weapons and were arrogantly cruising at a low enough altitude to clearly see the situation on the surface.
Claire’s expression was dark. His hands curled into tight, vein-bulging fists behind his back.
That was the Mother Bear. A warship specifically named to protect the students was now the biggest threat to their lives.
The warship was getting closer and closer. The huge shadow was already looming overhead. Then something was dropped to the ground with a dull thud.
Claire was very familiar with the Mother Bear. It was thanks to this that he could tell at a glance this was not part of its equipment. This belonged to the galactic pirates.
He stared intently at the object that had been dropped to the surface a few hundred meters away. It wasn’t until the dust cleared that Claire identified it as a cargo container.
The surface of the container bulged in some places. It seemed to have been opened before being tossed down. Almost the moment of impact, countless pure black, armour-clad insects savagely poured out. Their pincers caught the scent of food in the air. Swarms of sharp, terrifying forelimbs quickly crawled through every building.
The warship had already flown away. Containers were still being dropped off regularly.
Claire’s anger could barely be contained at this point. These damned pirates dared to use insects?! Once established, the insects would grow at an uncontrollable pace. A lot of effort needed to be expended to completely eradicate them from a planet, which had a high chance of being abandoned afterwards. In addition, the insects have the ability to migrate between planets. Multiple planets would be written off with each established colony.
……
The well was more than ten meters deep. Ye Muo landed almost instantly. Then the overjoyed insect swarm buried him.
Ye Yun lunged to the railing and watched incredulously as Ye Muo was submerged. Then he quickly grabbed Ye Muo’s dagger that had clattered to the floor and started going down the stairs.
“Damn it–”
Trails of moisture had appeared on his face at some point. Drops of sweat and tears fell into the darkness as he moved. Tightly clutching the dagger in one hand, Ye Yun vaulted over the stair railing with an expression of barely concealed rage. Flames threatened to spew from his eyes.
“Damned insects!”
The First Military Academy required students to have Level B or above psychic power. A fall of a dozen meters wouldn’t be fatal to them, but it would result in severe injury that took them out of the fight.
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The violent impact knocked all the strength out of Ye Muo. As his limbs splayed out powerlessly, the surrounding insects quickly surged over, covering him and the king insect.
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Time seemed to slow to a crawl. Ye Muo could clearly sense everything happening around him.
Perhaps certain that he was no longer a threat, or because the king insect wanted to enjoy the freshest of flesh, the approaching insects simply bit him with their mouthpieces to hold him in place.
Only the king insect was slowly winding and moving around his body. The mucus it secreted might be somewhat poisonous. The skin there burned a little before going numb..
Ye Muo felt the king insect firmly wrap around him. It finally seemed satisfied and stopped moving. The short, barbed limbs hidden under its fleshy folds also pierced deeply into Ye Muo’s body. Then it opened its mouthpiece, revealing a ring of sharp, tiny teeth. Its head tilted.
Ye Muo realized that it was trying to bite off his neck from behind.
It was almost over.
All the tension drained out of Ye Muo. He stopped resisting and bared his neck.
Until he heard Ye Yun’s voice.
The enraged boy shouted Ye Muo’s name from somewhere nearby. Close enough for the bugs around Ye Muo to stir once more.
A single finger twitched, followed by an entire arm. Ye Muo struggled to break free of the insects latched onto him to no avail. More mouthpieces stabbed into his arm, pulling him back.
It was at this moment that his vast psychic power broke free of his control and exploded violently. The king insect paused. Even the surrounding insects rolled back like tides. However, the uncontrolled psychic power had no effect on them. Soon, they surged once more, piercing Ye Muo even deeper with their mouthpieces.
The majestic psychic power had no care for their owner’s limits. They siphoned energy unscrupulously, rushing into the far distance with joy. All the systems onboard the fleet surrounding the small planet were scrambled for a few seconds. The psychic power skimmed past them with no hesitation, crossing cold space to even further beyond.
……
In the conference hall of a certain small, remote planet.
Every person sitting at the table was a significant figure in the Grantz Empire. There was bound to be some major event whenever even one of them appeared.
Yet now they had all rushed to this small, even somewhat remote, planet. Here they gathered with a thick file in front of each person, waiting with solemn expression for their turn to report.
At the head of the table sat the undisputed ruler of the Empire– Norton Grantz.
He sat in the seat of power, carelessly supporting his head with one hand. His eyes were half closed as if he was resting. Very incongruent with the other solemn, cautious participants.
Secretary-General Lin Huixuan stood at Norton Grantz’s side, recording the meeting and occasionally questioning the others on behalf of His Majesty.
Norton Grantz suddenly opened his eyes.
The meeting was temporarily put on hold. Everyone stopped without complaint.
Behind him, Secretary-General Lin stepped forward.
“Your Majesty?”
Norton Grantz ignored the conscientious secretary-general. He swiftly unleashed his majestic psychic power without pretense, crushing all in his way.
The entire conference room went silent. The atmosphere could be described as deadly.
Lin Huixuan silently prayed that His Majesty wasn’t aiming for somewhere outside of Grantz territory. Otherwise there would be a bunch of diplomatic incidents again.
After a dozen seconds, Norton Grantz retrieved his psychic power.
“Go take care of Z472.”
Behind him, Secretary-General Lin closed the file in his hand and bowed slightly in acknowledgement. He left the conference room with quick steps.
Norton Grantz closed his eyes once more and ordered.
“Continue.”
……
Ye Muo’s psychic power expanded outward recklessly with their owner at the epicentre, but it was suddenly forced to stop halfway. Potent psychic power with the ability to disable the systems of an entire fleet just passing by was ensconced by a far more powerful force. They swiftly retreated back to their owner.
In front of this psychic power, Ye Muo’s out-of-control psychic power was like a lion cub that had been snagged by the scruff of its neck.
The king insect attached to Ye Muo was the first to sense the danger. It even let go of Ye Muo’s neck and prepared to flee, but it was already too late. Before it had time to withdraw, the all-consuming psychic power churned its brain to mush, then that of the other insects deep in the well. They didn’t even realize what had happened before they all went still, becoming empty husks.
After accomplishing all this, the psychic power that was this incredibly powerful after crossing such a large distance withdrew, leaving only Ye Muo lying at the bottom of the well.
Ye Muo lay there with his eyes open. His eyelashes flickered. Dead insects of various sizes were still attached to his body.
Ye Yun was near the bottom of the stairs at the point. He jumped straight down once there were only a few metres left.
He ran to Ye Muo’s side and got all the things off him. He peeled him out of the pile of insects.
Ye Yun was practically ripping them off at first, but he stopped when he realized their mouthpieces were still stuck in Ye Muo’s body.
He slammed a fist on the floor before forcing himself to slow down. Ye Yun moved quickly, efficiently and viciously. Ye Muo sensed that he hardly felt any pain.
The dead king insect was easily torn off this time. Then Ye Yun desperately wiped at the mucus and other residue on Ye Muo’s face.
“It’s okay now, Ye Muo. It’s okay.”
……
No alarms whatsoever blared when Norton Grantz’s psychic power slipped past the fleet surrounding Planet Z427 with a much weaker one in tow, as if he was just gently setting a block back in its place.
This showed that Norton Grantz could very well have done this without anyone being the wiser, but he made no secret of it and passed by with great fanfare. Everyone aboard the fleet surrounding Planet Z427 sensed this psychic power.
Some of the captains had been on the battlefield with Norton Grantz before. They recognized His Majesty’s signature and exchanged messages on internal channels.
[What happened?]
[Could there be something wrong on the planet?]
The commander-in-chief recovered and quickly ordered through the comms.
“Contact the Mother Bear!”
The communications officer operated the instruments immediately, trying again and again to contact the Mother Bear. His face paled.
“Captain, we’ve lost contact with the Mother Bear!”
At this time, a message also appeared in the internal channel.
The message bearing the unique insignia of the Grantz was immediately pinned to the very top of the channel. This insignia was designed according to the characteristic psychic power frequency of the Grantz family and would automatically be displayed when said family’s members accessed the channel.
Strictly speaking, it was not a message, but an order. A direct order from the supreme ruler of the Empire.
[All personnel, attack.]
Thank you for the update ❤️💯
Thanks for the chapter! That was powerful!
the image of a lion scruffing a lion cub delights me (๑˃ᴗ˂) (i am still very tense for everyone omg)
+1 cute cub and tolerant daddy ≧∇≦
Papa has found his cub, hahahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
Grantz family is now my new pride. So powerful and cool ah!
Ooh did dad sense the power? I can’t wait for more!
Thanks for the chapter <3
Cool!
I do love that the author is showing that “Grantz” is truly different compared to others.
“daddy?”
“do i look like-”
pffft hahahahaha!! but seriously, “YOU ARE THE FATHER”
its so cute how their powers interacted QAQ