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As I stepped out of the Martians space elevator I couldn't help but greedily inhale Mars's fresh air that finished its terraforming ahead of schedule.

Making Mars no different from Earth and even better as its fresh atmosphere wasn't yet polluted like Earths.

UNOE had already started making preparations to start terraforming proximal century b which was a barren planet in alpha centaury into a Gaia world the only reason why they didn't was because UNOE didn't have the resources for it.

I dropped my duffle bag, stuffed a cigarette between my lips, and sent a message to Ares through my AI chip after connecting to the net that the netizens nicknamed the space net.

(I just existed the elevator, I'm waiting as we agreed)

After a few mins, Ares finally replied.

(K)

Just as I breathed in my cigarettes last smoke a Raven class dropship that looked like a sci-fi version of MV-22B on steroids started descending.

Its two main ion thrusters fixed to its two front wings that were carrying honeycombs with multi-purpose cold fusion missiles in them that were like mini-nukes and two secondary at the back switched from a vertical position to a horizontal one as they steadily decreased their output.

Allowing the Raven to make a touchdown on a helipad made for both military and civilian aircraft, as It did its back ramp opened up revealing a whole fully geared up in power armor that seemed at least a few levels more advanced than marine's standard issue terminator armor special forces evident from their emblems platoon facing each other.

They were sitting in their crash seats which were attached to the wall of the dropship leaving enough space for an MBT or an IFV.

"Admiral first lieutenant Jaeger, from now on me and my nutcases are responsible for you're security, Marshals orders sir!"

Jaeger said after saluting me as he pointed with his thumb toward his soldiers who were giving off an aura that was definitely a cut above special forces.

Black ops level, basically watchdogs ...

I thought with furrowed brows in my mind as I entered the dropship with Jaeger and sat down on a free crash seat whose safety locks automatically lowered down and locked themselves.

Seeing this the dropship master chief hit the ramp's closing button with his fist causing the ramp to close itself while he notified the pilot through their channel.

As he did I felt the dropship lift off with a tug of g's.

"What's the ETA?"

I asked Jaeger who was sitting next to me.

"10 mike sir"

Hearing Jeagers answer I decided to get some shut eye.

...

"Eater have you completely lost your mind?! For f*cks sake not only you endangered our existence but our whole galaxies! If the existence itself deemed that your actions crossed its bottom line then our whole galaxy would have been snuffed out like we never existed in the first place!"

The livid desire roared as he destroyed the table repeatedly with his fist only for it to reassemble itself each time until he finally ran out of steam.

"Yeah, yeah but guess what desire were still here aren't we, and my apostle is doing quite well isn't he? And he would be doing even better if a certain b*tch didn't "stuck her nose where she shouldn't!"

Eater started saying as she picked her ear only to focus her gaze on the composer who acted like it was her first time hearing about this.

"First I'm not a b*tch you warmongering whore and second I have no idea what you're talking about eater"

The composer said with a neutral tone as she continued to leisurely sip her tea.

Causing the Eater to snap from how pissed off she became after getting called a warmongering whore.

"B*tch should I send my civilization to pay a visit to yours? Your sluts will make fine breeding holes for my men, I hear their quite fertile when it comes to getting pregnant"

Eater said word by word which was filled with murderous intent making the composer lose her cool.

"If even one of those filthy savages of yours sets foot inside my space Ill f*cking rip that apostle of yours to pieces!"

Just as the two women were about to start a battle royal the whisperer finally intervened.

"Both of you cool the f*ck off!"

The whisperer barked making the composer let out a snort as she materialized into particles, seeing this desire too dematerialized but not before giving eater another hateful glare.

Seeing that only he and Eater were left the whisperer finally spoke his three thoughts.

"Eater if he gets access to Elysium's central data bank how confident are you that he can save the galaxy from the first crisis?"

Because Eater never expected the whisperer to ask this kind of question after hearing it she froze for a second.

"99 percent but that's as long as he has what to fight for otherwise he won't lift a finger as those bugs consume every lifeform in the galaxy"

Eater answered not forgetting to mention the critical part after all as past experiences had shown unless Dracula has someone to fight for he won't do shit because he doesn't give a flying f*ck about galaxies fate.

"Alright I'll support you in any way I can"

The whisperer said after a moment of contemplation.

...

As Ares wearing a cooking apron and slippers opened his villa's doors we locked our eyes and just stared at each other for a few moments that felt like an eternity for me, and I would be lying If I said I felt no guilt towards Ares.

After all, then the man tried his best to help me get back on my feet I broke his heart by telling him to f*ck off.

And I regretted it, I regretted it deeply now but surprise surprise the past can't be changed so I can only swallow my guilt and move on with hopes that Ares will find it inside his heart to forgive me.

"Come in"

Ares said with little emotion in his voice as he stepped sideways allowing me to walk in while Jaeger and his men were busy joining the marine company responsible for Ares's security.

"There are a spare pair of slippers"

Ares said while pointing at the black slippers as he did I sat down on the raised wooden floor and took off my paramilitary boots.

"Follow me"

Ares said after I put on the slippers.

As we walked through the Japanese themed mention we didn't speak a word until we finally reached the kitchen where Hana who was of Japanese descent was breastfeeding Ares son.

"Admiral"

Hana who wasn't all that happy about me being here greeted me with a small bow as she tucked her kimono over her breast.

"General"

I did the same while bowing slightly, as I did Hana stood up and left the kitchen causing awkward silence to ensure once again.

"Have you eaten?"

Ares asked as he did I was about to say that I'm not hungry only to close my mouth after seeing Ares place a plate of scrambled eggs and bacon with a fork and knife on the kitchen's dining table, as he did I sat down and dug in.

"Since we currently can't retrofit the home defense fleet with subspace drives we will be responsible for capturing Procyon system while Ragnarok jumps straight into Endirlang system"

Ares said as he watched me stuff my mouth full, as for the reason why the home defense fleet couldn't be retrofitted with subspace drives? It's very simple even a cruiser is not big enough to house a subspace drive that only an Einherjar can carry.

"What the intel on endirlang?"

I asked after I swallowed another gulp of food.

"Apart from a pulsar star that disables all forms of energy barriers, Aix has star fortress armed to the teeth that just like Einherjar mark 2's have layers upon layers of armor, plus two fully combat ready royal guards flleets"

"And Aix ground forces?"

"Unknown number anti orbital ship killer canons, hundreds of thousands anti orbital defensive weapons, full planet-wide AA network and 10 army mechanized infantry groups who have the home advantage"

"And how many boots do we have?"

"70 marine divisions that reorganized to include a mech battalion each plus Ragnaroks and Home Defense Fleets onboard marines and mechs"

Hearing this I could already see the long as shit KIA list in my mind.

"Drac after we win the war I... I want you to resign from the navy, settle down with Lilith and focus on raising youre daughter"

Ares said something that my brain short circuit for a second because I couldn't even begin to imagine living a civilian life, but the more I thought about it the more logical it appeared.

"Arlight Ill do it"

I said making Ares who had no hopes of convincing me on the first time to look at me as if I was an imposter.