Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

But that was only a what if scenario.

Alex still had a plan in mind, and if he executed it perfectly, then he might actually have a chance of becoming a higher life form before the war really took it up a notch.

He estimated there to be at least 1 or 2 years before the higher life forms started dominating every battlefield, so he set himself a maximum of 1 year to go from D rank to at least B- rank.

Normally, this would be impossible without visiting the Primordial Expanse.

But now that he knew he could obtain soul orbs from the Red Demons, it was a real possibility.

Something interesting, and very beneficial not only to Alex, but to every other human as well, was the fact that there was a higher probability of soul orbs dropping from them because they were sentient races.

This wasn't something Alex was speculating, those were the System's words.

But that was just solely beneficial to him.

The best thing of all in general, was the fact that there was a 90% chance of being able to harvest a foreign/alien race's soul core after their death.

This percentage dropped to 70% for higher life forms, but that was still an astonishing figure compared to the abysmal chance of getting beast cores.

The percentage chance was strangely opposite to how it was with beast cores though.

The chance of beast cores dropping was higher, the higher the rank of the beast.

But the chance of soul cores dropping decreased the higher the ranks went.

The System refused to elaborate on this, but it wasn't of absolute concern anyway.

What was of concern to Alex though, was how things were going to work the following day.

The Principal had already confirmed that the entire student populace was going to be sent to the battlefields, but where they were placed was based on two factors.

The strength of the student, and luck.

Alex was hoping that he would be stationed on the same planet as Mira, but since luck was also a factor, he wasn't hopeful.

There were probably thousands of D tier battlefields at the minimum, all spread out across the frontlines.

The only way they could realistically be stationed together was if they pulled some strings with the Principal to make that happen.

Alex was very willing to do that, but Mira had declined.

She didn't want to strain their relationship with the Principal by constantly asking for favours, and besides, she preferred fighting alone anyway.

Alex also preferred going solo, but he was just worried that something might happen to Mira and he wouldn't be there to help her.

'Might as well enjoy the time I have left with her before we are sent to the front lines for god knows how long…'

Hence, he decided to make the best of the remaining few hours of his peaceful life by spending it with Mira.

***

The remainder of the day and night passed by like a blur.

Neither Alex nor Mira had gotten any sleep.

It wasn't out of nervousness or anxiety or anything like that.

They just felt like it would be a waste spending 8 hours of their remaining 15 hours or so unconscious.

They were awakened anyway, so they could go for weeks without rest.

One night made little to no difference.

Right then, there was a knock on his door.

Alex was slightly surprised that they were even going door to door, then hopped out of bed and opened it to see who it was.

Standing at the door was Mira.

Alex relaxed himself a little.

He had nearly forgotten that she had gone to her dorm not too long ago to get her essentials packed before it was time to depart.

"How is it? Are you all prepared?"

After he saw her, Alex smiled.

But his smile quickly faded into a look of seriousness when he saw a university staff member approaching from down the street.

'It seems they really are going door to door…'

He had originally thought he was mistaken when he saw Mira at the door.

But it seemed the university was taking this situation very seriously.

In order to prevent any mishaps involving attempted runaways, each student was going to get personally escorted from their dorms to the ships.

And with millions of students to consider… It was going to be quite a logistical nightmare.

But thankfully for everyone involved, and considering that time was tight, there was an equal number of staff members for each student.

"Oh good, you both being here saves me some time. Follow me, I'll take you to your designated ships."

The staff member, an ordinary looking man, spoke.

'Wait, we won't even find out where we're headed beforehand!?'

Alex was a little disgruntled by this fact, as it meant he was probably going to be leaving Mira earlier than he had expected.

"This is the first stop, Mira Mistborn, you will be taking this ship to the Telorn system. Good luck."

And just as he had expected, Mira was separated from him already.

But he was at least happy that he knew where she was headed.

'Oh shit, wait! Don't I have a ship of my own!?'

Alex palmed his face as he had almost completely forgotten about the reward he had gotten from Principal Farnes and the others.

"Errr… you can just tell me where I'm stationed at. I have my own mode of transport to get there…"

He wanted to ask the staff member to turn back around so he could collect Mira, but it was too late.

She had already entered her ship, and it had already left the planet.

It seemed Mira was the last person that needed to board that ship before it could depart.

'So unlucky…'

But the staff member gave Alex a strange look.

'What nonsense is this guy speaking? What first year student has their own method of transport? Puha, what a joke.'

Although Alex was rather famous, the staff member still found it ridiculous that he had a better mode of transport than the top of the line people carriers the university had prepared all across the city.

"I have my own ship. It's already registered with the federation, so I can't run away even if I wanted to."

Alex tried convincing the guy, but he just scoffed and carried on leading Alex to wherever he was originally supposed to go.

Alex frowned when he saw this.

"How about contacting your superiors before dismissing my request."

His tone made it quite clear that he wasn't happy at all.