Austin's sudden departure startled everyone in the legion.
“Your Highness…”
"Your Highness, where are you going?"
"General Garnier, what should we do now? The legion commander said he wants to kill the Insect King alone. How can he do that? He already knows the location of the Insect King. Has he determined who is the Insect King?"
"Can the Legion Commander deal with the Insect King alone?"
"What should we do now?"
There was a moment of chaos in the Legion's communication channel. Faced with Austin's departure, no one knew what to do.
"Didn't the commander of the legion leave behind a military order before he left? Everyone listen up. Now follow the commander's command and perform your respective tasks immediately!" Garnier was unable to stop Austin, so he took a deep breath and took over the task of commanding the entire army as adjutant after Austin left.
After hearing his voice, the still somewhat panicked voices in the legion finally calmed down.
Looking at Austin and Shining Morning Star going away, they were unable to stop them even if they tried. Apart from trusting Austin and obeying his orders, they all had no choice...
They didn't know if they could return to the fortress alive, nor did they know if Austin could kill the Zerg King. The sober people could only fight the Zerg with their tiny strength and follow Austin's instructions to control the many mecha warriors who were affected by the Zerg's spirit and began to attack their own people crazily...
The golden fuselage of the Shining Morning Star stretched out on the unrestrained Zerg planet, gushing out huge flames from its mouth, and its huge body gave the Zerg infinite pressure.
Austin used his powerful mental strength to support his huge mecha, blocking and resisting the attacks of the huge Zerg warriors composed of countless Zergs, as well as the attacks from the bewitched soldiers behind him.
At first, Austin once thought that this huge mecha warrior composed of countless Zerg was the Zerg King, but later, he found out that it was not...
They are not the Insect King, they are just puppets controlled by the Insect King.
These golden guards of the Insect King are very capable. After going crazy, they even have the power to attack the human spirit. The mental pain suffered by being attacked by them is endless.
"puff--"
Austin vomited a mouthful of blood in the cockpit of the mecha, and felt that he was about to collapse. He could only keep his mental concentration high by injecting soothing drugs one after another.
A large number of insects rushed towards Austin, almost drowning him.
"Bang-bang-bang-bang-"
But even though he was in extreme pain, Austin still managed to hit his target with every bullet and killed countless Zergs.
His sight quickly swept across countless Zergs, and he used his powerful mental power to perceive and identify many tiny traces among them, from which he detected the whereabouts of the Insect King.
This is not...
The Insect King is not here.
As time went by, cracks finally appeared in the indestructible shell of the Glorious Morning Star mecha. The mecha was connected to his mental power. Looking at the endless Zerg behind him, Austin was reluctant to break the mental connection between the mecha and himself. His mental power was once again backfired.
Auston had a splitting headache, and even his vision began to blur...
But even at this point, he still forcefully connected his mental power to the mecha, trying to find the trace of the Insect King as if he would never give up until he achieved his goal...
Finally, among a group of inconspicuous Zergs, he found an ordinary one that looked very much like the lowest level Zerg, but was slightly different from the lower level Zerg.
His 3S level mental strength told him——
It is the Insect King.
"It's you." Even though his mind and body were in tremendous pain, Austin looked at the ordinary Zerg that was almost impossible to find when thrown into the Zerg pile, and he still laughed out loud.
Then, he drove his huge mecha towards the area where the Zerg were...
The Zerg King keenly sensed something was wrong and immediately rushed into the Zerg group closest to it, hiding his body among thousands of Zerg.
It is impossible to trace him and find him.
But how could Austin give it a chance to escape?
Austin pushed his mental power and the mecha's compatibility index to the limit, and activated the highest-level attack system inside the mecha towards that area. The raging flames spewed out of the machine's mouth and instantly burned countless arthropod-like Zerg into black smoke. At the same time, countless light energy bombs were fired from the mecha's body.
The light from the explosion almost illuminated the entire night.
The Insect King dodged left and right, and the surrounding guard insects were constantly killed and regenerated rapidly.
Finally, when Auston didn't know which light energy bullet hit the target...
Those swarms of Zerg suddenly scattered in all directions as if they had no leader.
"The Insect King, the Insect King is dead..." Someone in the legion cheered first, and the body of the Zerg monster composed of countless insects immediately scattered. The soldiers who were bewitched by the Zerg also regained consciousness one after another and cheered for the news of the Zerg's defeat.
At this moment, when Auston killed the Insect King, he lost the connection with the mecha's mental network due to exhaustion and felt that he was almost dying.
But just before he closed his eyes, a thought kept repeating in his mind -
That is, his OMEGA is still waiting for him to come home.
Ruan Tang loved him so much. If he died, she would be very sad. She might even commit suicide to be buried with him. Suicide is so painful...so he must not die.
He doesn't want to die either.
"Your Highness..." As Austin's most trusted lieutenant, Garnier was the first to notice something was wrong. He immediately drove his own mecha and led countless rescue mechas, rushing to the bottom of Austin's rapidly falling mecha in panic, doing his best to rescue Austin.
…
When Austin woke up again, he was lying in the medical cabin, his body soaked in therapeutic fluid. He lost consciousness in the most alert state and woke up in the most alert state.
It wasn't until he opened his eyes and saw the first person in front of him that he suddenly relaxed.
The reason was simple. When the medical hatch was opened, the first person he saw was Ruan Tang.
"I...what's wrong with me?" Auston was seriously injured in every aspect, even his voice was a little hoarse.
Ruan Tang glared at him angrily, almost wanting to hit him: "What's wrong with you? How dare you leave the legion and kill the Insect King alone? Do you think you have nine lives, or do you think you are a god?"
He really couldn't understand why ALPHA loved doing dangerous things so much?
When Austin was sent back for emergency treatment, Ruan Tang was almost scared to death.
"I'm fine, right? Besides, I chose to do this because I was confident enough." Austin explained immediately.
Ruan Tang immediately glared at him: "Are you sure enough? Are you sure you can come back lying down like you are now? Have you ever thought about what I should do if something happens to you, being so audacious?"
"Don't worry, I'll be fine... because I know you're waiting for me." Auston had become accustomed to listening to him, and he completely gave up on defending himself: "So, no matter what, I will definitely come back safely. I promised you."
Ruan Tang glanced at him, not wanting to pay any attention to him at all, and directly summoned a nurse robot to come and give Auston an injection, the healing potion that Auston should be injected with after waking up.
The syringe injected the medicine into Auston's body. Auston did not resist, but cried out pitifully to Ruan Tang: "Hiss~ It hurts..."
Ruan Tang turned her eyes away and ignored him.
"By the way, where are the Zerg King and the Zerg?" Seeing that he was angry again, although he didn't know why he was angry, he still opened his mouth and tried to talk to Ruan Tang again.
Ruan Tang immediately said angrily: "Of course he is dead. You killed him and wiped him out... Otherwise, how can I justify you for coming back lying down after losing your life?"
"I'm sorry, I was wrong, I promise it won't happen again..." Although Ruan Tang felt that she was doing the right thing and had no right to be angry, her strong desire to survive prompted Austin to apologize immediately. He gently stretched out his hand from the medical cabin and held Ruan Tang's hand that was on the hatch.
Although Ruan Tang didn't want to pay attention to him, she let him hold her hand.
Holding Ruan Tang's hand, Auston suddenly felt the long-lost peace of mind and relaxation. As soon as he woke up, he felt sleepy again because of excessive physical exhaustion. He murmured to Ruan Tang in a daze: "I'm so tired, so uncomfortable..."
"It's good that you know it hurts. I wonder if you dare to do it again." Ruan Tang held his hand with one hand and supported his head with the other, adjusting a position for him to rest better in the medical cabin.
Auston didn't say anything, but before he fell asleep, he gently kissed the back of Ruan Tang's hand and whispered, "I'm sorry, I love you..."
When Ruan Tang saw him like this, even if she was very angry, it disappeared immediately.
…
In less than a day, Austin drove a mecha and led the army to exterminate the Zerg. He killed the Zerg King, who was only sealed but not destroyed by the two pillars of the empire, Xue Xin and Kalande. The news spread throughout the empire.
In order to publicize and maintain the royal honor, the military released a video clip of Austin driving a mecha single-handedly into the heart of the Zerg and strangling the Zerg King with his bare hands, which was directly pushed to the top of the hot searches by the public.
Because of this great achievement, Austin's reputation among the people was reversed almost overnight.
"It's really cool, fighting against the Insect King single-handedly. This is something that even the two pillars of the empire couldn't do back then."
"I used to think that Duke Austin was just a loser, and his high mental strength was just a product of the royal family. I repent and apologize. He is simply too awesome... If he wasn't disabled in both legs and had a flawed appearance, how much more could he have achieved."
"I remember that he was the first crown prince, but he was deposed because of an accident... At that time, they praised him as a child of destiny and a genius, but I thought it was all fake. Now I really believe it."
"By the way, he was slandered too much in the past few years. People always said that he was cruel and merciless, and killed people without a trace. But apart from torture and forcing confessions from prisoners, there is no evidence to prove what he did. He is just a little darker because of his physical disability. I thought so before. Why call him a pervert?"
"Besides, there is no real evidence at all..."
"1st floor above, although his habit of using disabled people as servants in the past is indeed strange and creepy, think about it from another perspective. He didn't make those people disabled. He actually created job opportunities for the disabled. If you think of it in a bad way, it's creepy. If you think of it in a good way, he may have compassion for people with the same disabilities because he himself has a disability... It's just that his temper is too stubborn, which leads to misunderstandings..."
"I really think I need to get to know this duke again. He has a disabled body but never gave up on himself. He can drive a mecha to such an extent..."
"I'm a fan of him. His mecha micromanagement and combat skills, plus his fearlessness in fighting against the Zerg... I declare that he is my favorite member of the royal family from now on."
People's reputation is often like this. When a majority of people say you are bad, no matter what you are like, out of the herd mentality, countless people will point fingers at you and believe that you are an unforgivable bad person, and they will not want to discern the truth at all.
But when you become successful and famous and everyone can't help but pay attention to you and worship you, those people will turn around and praise you and say good things about you.
Although Ruan Tangren was not on the Imperial Star, through remote communication with the Ruan family and the Queen's forces, he reversed and manipulated Austin's reputation and guided it remotely very well.
However, as the emperor watched Austin become famous in one battle and his reputation soared and he was loved by the people, he became anxious.
"These bunch of lowly people are really ignorant. They just wiped out the Zerg. He has hundreds of thousands of glorious troops behind him. He didn't go alone. What is there to worship and praise? Have they all forgotten his previous notoriety?" The emperor was so angry that he smashed things in his study to the floor.
Looking at the praise for Austin by people on the Internet and his rising public support rate, I was so angry that I almost had a heart attack.
Although Auston is his son, and he also hopes that the Zerg, his greatest threat, can be annihilated, but he does not want to see Auston return safely and gain such a great reputation.
Seeing the emperor like this, everyone in the study became anxious and tried to persuade him, "Your Majesty, please calm down."
"Calm down? I'm so angry that my eyebrows are about to be burned. What do you want me to do to calm down?" The emperor paced back and forth, unable to calm down. He never expected that Austin could really kill the Zerg King. He was hoping that Austin would die there and severely damage or seal the Zerg again, thereby whitewashing the already notorious royal family and restoring its reputation.
But he never expected that his son, whom he looked down upon and who was always crazy, would have such a talent——
In the past, Austin was a dog in his hands. His high position and power were all given by himself. The emperor used this son who hated his mother to check and balance the queen to achieve a balance of power among the three parties, which was very convenient for him. But now Austin has made great military achievements, his partner has such a strong background and power behind him, plus his own high position and power, everything is different.
As a person in a higher position, the emperor does not believe that there is any Alpha who does not love power and does not want the throne under his butt, even if she is a madman.
In the past, when Austin had nothing, the emperor could still control him, check and balance him, and use him as his own foreign dog. But now, Austin has everything, and the emperor is afraid that he will devour his master.
After all, Austin is a madman... Now that he has so much power and a legion in his hands, what if he has the crazy idea of breaking into the Imperial Star and seizing his throne?
Ever since the news came back that Austin had safely wiped out the Insect King, the emperor had been having nightmares for several days in a row. He dreamed that this crazy son broke into the Imperial Star, cut off his head and seized the throne.
The servants were silent and knelt before the emperor.
The emperor waved his hand and directed his anger at them: "Mechanical butler, drag all these people away and punish them according to the palace rules."
"No, Your Majesty, we were wrong, Your Majesty..." The servants immediately cried out in fear.
The emperor was becoming increasingly annoyed as he watched them and was about to increase the punishment.
At this moment, a young OMEGA walked into the emperor's study with a smile: "...Why are you so angry, brother?"
"It's Aesop. Why did you come to me instead of staying at home to take care of your pregnancy?" When the emperor saw Chang Diqing, his face, which had been full of anger, began to cover up and relax.
Aesop immediately smiled and said, "I think that my brother must be worried these days, so I came here to share his worries."
The Emperor's Minister Iso is a special person in the entire Imperial Star. Although he and the emperor are not born of the same mother, he used his scheming and strategy to show his skills in front of the emperor. In exchange for doing a lot of dirty things for the emperor, he transformed himself from an orphan into the most honorable Emperor's Minister in the empire.
He is a very important figure in the emperor's staff and also the emperor's confidant.
"I wonder if my royal brother is worried about Austin's matter?" Aesop asked softly.
When the emperor saw him coming, he immediately dismissed his attendants: "I am not troubled by his affairs, so what else can I be troubled about... This rebellious son is born to be in conflict with me. You don't know that I have even dreamed of him leading his army to attack the imperial star and seize my throne..."
"Your original idea was a bad one. I shouldn't have let him lead the army to exterminate the Zerg and put the military power in his hands." The emperor said in a deep voice: "Now, he has made great military achievements. I can't even find a reason to confiscate his military power... When he comes back, the balance of power in my imperial star will be broken in an instant."
Austin was a hero to the entire empire for wiping out the Zerg. Now that Austin is back, as long as he doesn't commit any outrageous crimes...if the emperor wants to touch him, he will surely provoke resistance, and no one will stand on the emperor's side.
"Brother, I have predicted this a long time ago. So, I have a plan to help you test His Highness Austin's loyalty to your father..." Aesop smiled softly and said, "If he is disloyal, you can kill him and it will be fair and just."
The emperor's eyes lit up immediately when he heard this: "Oh?"
Aesop immediately leaned over and whispered in his ear.
The emperor's frown relaxed immediately after hearing this: "Good idea, good idea, Aesop, you are really my good brother..."
"But, if I do this, what if it alarms the Queen and causes her to be in a life-and-death situation with me?" But the emperor suddenly thought of something and frowned again.
His power was not as great as that of the queen, so even though he hated the queen, he did not dare to compete with her easily.
"Royal brother, don't worry about the Queen. If she really wants to take action, then just do it. Haven't you always wanted to completely wipe out the Queen's forces and enthrone Madam Tina as the Queen? If she really takes action, now is the best time." Aesop said calmly.
The emperor frowned slightly: "But..."
He felt that he had not yet accumulated enough power, and fighting with the queen would only result in mutual destruction.
"...Carlos is my husband, and I am pregnant with his child." Aesop gently stroked her belly. "Although the queen is his sister, she has bullied and suppressed him since he was a child. He has promised to stand on my side and on the side of our royal family..."
He gave the emperor endless promises without words: "And he has already convinced the head of the Yashaman family and three of the seven dukes. They all promised to stand on your side and support the royal family... If your majesty doesn't believe it, just summon them and ask them."
"Ah——" The emperor was stunned. He did not expect that this OMEGA brother who climbed up from the orphanage could do such a thing for him.
After a long while, he was overjoyed: "Aesop, Aesop, you are really my good brother..."
"I am sorry for your engagement with Ruan Yang. Andrew is my biological brother. When our mother was alive, I loved him the most. He is a loser, and his fertility was damaged in order to save me. He can only have Ryan, and I have spoiled him a lot. Ryan is young, ignorant, and willful. He wants everything he wants... I didn't expect that he would snatch Ruan Yang from you, and he actually persuaded Ruan Yang to take him away..." The emperor suddenly thought of something, and immediately apologized to Aesop sincerely: "I am sorry for you..."
He never mentioned that Duke Andrew had nearly died to save him, but he was worried that his brother's descendants would seize his throne, so he took this opportunity to sterilize Duke Andrew, and then he spoiled Ryan out of guilt.
The emperor could see that Aesop still had feelings for Ruan Yang, but at the time, he agreed to the marriage because he felt guilty about being closer to Andrew than to his two younger brothers.
And now...
"Nothing. How can I, as an uncle, bother with my nephew and brother?" Aesop mentioned this matter with a gentle smile: "Besides, Carlos is very good to me. Even if I really married Ruan Yang, I might not be as comfortable as I am now... I am very satisfied."
The emperor immediately patted him on the shoulder and laughed: "That's right, OMEGA, it's better to find an Alpha that likes you than to find an Alpha that you like."
Aesop looked at his belly and smiled tenderly, seeming to be very satisfied with his current marriage.
"Aesop, when we're done, you can tell me what you want. I'll reward you and Carlos handsomely." The emperor always made empty promises.
Aesop said immediately: "I don't want anything. I know that I was nothing. I was just a humble orphan. It was because you, my brother, recognized me that I became a member of the royal family and have everything I have now... I am sincerely grateful to you, my brother."
"How can that be possible? You are my only OMEGA brother and you have made such great contributions to me. How can I not reward you and Carlos?" the emperor said loudly.
Aesop then said, "If you really want to reward me in the future, please reward the child in my belly. Carlos and I are willing to help you consolidate your power, because I know that as long as your power is stable, I will always be the eldest emperor of Osphia."
"When you give birth to a child in the future, I will make OMEGA an imperial minister, and ALPHA a prince." The emperor promised loudly.
As for whether conspiring with his scheming brother would be like courting disaster, and whether Aesop, who was ambitious, had other plans in mind, the emperor did not consider it at all.
In his eyes at the moment, his biggest concern is the Queen's power. If the Queen's power can be eradicated, even if Aesop has ambitions, he will have plenty of time and ways to suppress it. Can an OMEGA still do anything to him?
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