NOVEL NEXT Chapter 268: Departure
It was at this moment that the staff member started to feel like he had made a mistake.
Of course he knew who Alex was, he wasn't living under a rock for the past year.
But he just thought it basically impossible for a first year student to amass such a huge amount of wealth to be able to buy a ship better than what the University themselves had to offer.
He would need to somehow gain the privilege to buy military ships for that, which almost nobody had.
He wanted to apologise right on the spot, but it was too late.
Alex was already pissed at him for wasting his time, and if he suddenly decided to pull a full 180 on his previous tone, that would only make Alex even more dissatisfied.
The only thing he could do now was wait for his superior to arrive, and hope that he doesn't lose his job.
And it didn't take long for his boss to arrive either.
Only 30 seconds later, a lecturer came over to see what all the fuss was about.
It turned out the man's boss was a lecturer at the university.
Alex explained the situation to him, and immediately he was on Alex's side.
In fact, Alex found his response to the staff member quite funny.
"Are you mad!? You dare not give the King Class prodigy the respect he deserves!?"
The whole thing was resolved within the minute, and Alex left the rude staff member's punishment down to his boss's discretion.
'I haven't even left the planet yet and I've already run into trouble…'
The lecturer from earlier had already informed him of the location Alex was stationed at, after hearing about the situation.
It was a star system called the 'Shen wu star system', and it happened to be located on the exact opposite side of the frontlines to the Telorn system, where Mira was stationed.
He didn't know if it was just because of bad luck, or if someone had actively gone out of their way to make it happen.
Alex couldn't help but heave a sigh as he neared an empty spot in the spaceport.
He needed somewhere empty to take his ship out of the storage ring Principal Farnes had given him.
Luckily, many of the transporter ships, like Mira's, had already departed so there were many empty spaces for him to use.
'This is the first time I'm going to test it out!'
Alex was rather excited with the idea of trying out his ship for the first time.
It had just been sitting in storage for months, since he had no need for it, considering he hadn't left the planet at all during that time.
'Let's see if it lives up to all the hype Admiral Olgierd spouted about it.'
He boarded the ship with the same enthusiasm he had for it when he first received it.
It was his first time physically being in it after all.
'Let's see what this bad boy's got then!'
Alex had already received approval from the federation to use this thing to travel to his station, so he didn't waste any time in firing it up.
Whoosh!
Almost immediately, he could tell the difference between this thing and the other ships he had taken to depart from Mars.
All of the other rides he had taken, whether when he went out on his mission, or when he first arrived there upon his admission, the ride was generally smooth and rather relaxed.
Whereas, almost immediately, he could feel how violent his exit from the atmosphere of Mars was only seconds after take off.
It was like the normal ships he had taken before were gently plucked from the planet, but his new, personal ship violently and forcefully ripped itself away.
If he wasn't an awakened, the G forces would have turned him to mush.
The speeds were just that incredible, with the acceleration from complete stop, to already on his way out of the solar system was astonishing.
'Admiral Olgierd wasn't boasting when he talked about this thing, he was stating facts!'
Alex had to hand it to the military.
It sure had to take some self restraint to not use these ships to their full potential like he was, it was really just that thrilling.
If he was a military pilot, he would be out of the job before the day was over if they let him in the seat of one of these bad boys.
Thankfully though, he had his own personal ship, so he didn't have to worry about anything like that.
***
"Hey, did you see that ship's take off!? It was so fast I almost thought it teleported!"
The staff down below on Mars were also fervently talking about Alex's exit.
But one particular staff member wasn't as enthusiastic as the others.
Because he realised that ship belonged to the very student he had been blatantly rude to.
'He wasn't kidding about having a better ship…'
He wasn't fired, but he did have his month's pay docked.
It was safe to say he wouldn't be rude or underestimate any student ever again…
***
"Are all the preparations underway?"
Admiral Olgierd stood at the helm of a gargantuan ship the size of the moon.
This was the capital ship.
It was a one of one, and cost roughly 10% of the entire federal military's budget to build when it was first commissioned.
Bearing in mind, this was the budget of a military that spanned an entire galaxy…
It also took almost an entire star system's worth of mined minerals to gather all the materials needed to construct it.
It was the pride and joy of the federation, and had only recently finished construction, after a long 15 year wait for it to be completed.
"Yes, sir. The last few universities have just finished sending off their batches of conscripted students."
"We will be able to stop the Red Demon fleet's advance as soon as they arrive at the frontlines."
The war had already commenced between the federation and the Red Demon fleet.
There were far less innocent civilians and planets being attacked, with the military already arriving at almost all the strategic points, slowing the Red Demon fleet's advance to a snail's pace.
But they were still outnumbered, and needed additional back up.
Thankfully, Admiral Olgierd's special announcement to the federation just a day prior had already guaranteed reinforcements.
The addition of the students was already all they needed to stop the Red Demon's advance completely, but the additional support from the mercenaries, lone awakened etc was enough to actually push back!