Major General Alpha (2): His strength should be no weaker than Zhou Qinghao, and even exceeds S-level!

Gu Juntian possessed the original owner’s memories and knew the general situation of this battle. Now, his subordinates had also sent him a detailed battle report.

He quickly made a decision and issued one order after another at great speed.

Commanding a battle was actually quite interesting.

Gu Juntian discovered that he had a natural talent for warfare.

The original owner was an Alpha with S-level mental power and had a strong ability to learn. Back in military school, his theoretical knowledge was fairly solid, and in past battles, he could draw up decent, by-the-book operational plans.

But when it came to the battlefield, a commander had to be adaptable—and that was exactly what the original owner lacked.

Fortunately, the original owner had Zhou Qinghao by his side.

Zhou Qinghao understood him very well. He knew exactly what kind of battle plan the original owner would make when faced with different wars.

Before each battle, he would revise the original owner’s plans. During combat, he would contact the original owner to get him to issue new orders. He would even go to the front lines himself to make up for the original owner’s shortcomings in command.

It was thanks to Zhou Qinghao’s selfless help that the original owner secured his position as the most outstanding commander of the younger generation, and even became the youngest lieutenant general in the Human Empire.

The soldiers of the First Legion didn’t know that the original owner was actually a fraud.

Those who worked closely with both the original owner and Zhou Qinghao could see that in some areas the original owner was inferior to Zhou Qinghao. But since the original owner was a prince and the marshal in charge of the First Legion was his grandfather, it seemed perfectly normal to them that his rank was higher than Zhou Qinghao’s.

As for the public—ever since the original owner became a major general, the people had liked him. Not long ago, he was promoted to lieutenant general, and the number of people who supported and adored him grew even larger.

Now, the Empire’s citizens believed that compared to the second prince, the crown prince was more outstanding and more suited to be emperor. They even thought he had the bearing of the founding emperor who had established the Human Empire.

The original owner’s plan was going very smoothly.

And that was exactly why the second prince took the risk of luring the crown prince’s beloved Omega into leading him into a swarm of star-bugs in an attempt to kill him.

The original owner was no good person, and neither was the second prince.

When the original owner was young, he encountered several dangerous incidents. Most likely, the one behind them was the current empress.

After the original owner joined the army, he was once the target of an assassination attempt—probably the work of the second prince.

In the original plot, the second prince even made deals with high-level star-bugs to get rid of the crown prince.

The garbage planet where the original owner eventually died was under the second prince’s control, and its criminal forces had done many unspeakable things for him.

In order to maintain a good image, the original owner had always acted approachable and never touched anything improper. The second prince, however, was completely different.

Gu Juntian had no interest in being emperor, but he also didn’t want the second prince to become one.

He thought that in the interstellar era, there was no need for the monarchy to even exist.

Now, the royal family was essentially the biggest capitalist group in the Human Empire. Although their political power wasn’t great, they still had some authority, and their wealth had only grown over the years.

From the original owner’s memories, many members of the royal family were far from clean, yet they could escape legal punishment.

The original owner’s mother had died under suspicious circumstances, most likely related to the emperor.

If not for the bigger picture, the original owner’s grandfather would have already clashed with the emperor.

Gu Juntian felt that if he were the original owner, his goal wouldn’t be to overthrow the monarchy—it would be to destroy it.

He thought about this as his fleet arrived at the battlefield where Zhou Qinghao was fighting the star-bugs.

The star-bugs were massive.

A Zerg queen, leading a group of high-level star-bugs, could strip an entire planet bare.

The Zerg queen itself was as large as some small planets, and high-level star-bugs were as big as warships.

Able to survive in space, they were immune to most thermal weapons and could even bite through warships.

Only S-level warriors could withstand them.

An S-level warrior could use mental power to cut through a star-bug’s skin and kill it, but usually, one S-level warrior could only hold off a single high-level star-bug.

This time, Zhou Qinghao’s team had encountered three high-level star-bugs at once.

“Where did so many high-level star-bugs come from?”

“Call for reinforcements!”

“We can’t retreat—if we do, Komier Star behind us will be finished!”

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The human warriors around Zhou Qinghao shouted, but Zhou himself, wearing mecha, went forward alone to hold off two of the star-bugs.

Before the battle, he had received an email containing some drunken confessions from Gu Juntian.

He had always known that Gu Juntian didn’t truly like him.

But he hadn’t expected Gu Juntian to despise him so much.

He had felt awful at the time, but now, faced with danger, he didn’t think about that at all—he only thought about keeping the star-bugs from harming his fleet.

But he could only block two. The third was already heading toward his fleet.

They wouldn’t last long—if the high-level star-bug tore open a warship, the warriors inside would die in space.

Zhou Qinghao had been in the military for fifteen years since graduating from the academy. In that time, he had seen countless deaths, but he still didn’t want to watch his subordinates die before his eyes.

He didn’t know when reinforcements would arrive.

If Gu Juntian hesitated and came late, he would suffer heavy losses.

The thought flashed by, and Zhou Qinghao refocused on the fight—at that moment, he saw a fleet heading his way.

Reinforcements had arrived!

Relieved, Zhou Qinghao stopped worrying about commanding and focused entirely on fighting the star-bugs.

Gu Juntian’s command style was by-the-book, but in this situation, it was enough.

High-level star-bugs were the elite of their kind. Whenever they appeared, they were accompanied by massive numbers of mid-level and endless low-level star-bugs.

Their enemies weren’t just the high-level ones.

In fact, there was a fourth high-level star-bug in this battle—it took advantage of the chaos to sneak-attack Zhou Qinghao’s base.

In the original plot, over a hundred thousand imperial soldiers died in this battle. Afterwards, the uninformed public blamed Zhou Qinghao for overestimating himself and acting without orders.

And this was partly the original owner’s doing.

He shifted all the blame for the defeat onto Zhou Qinghao.

When Zhou died saving the crown prince, he was even suspended from duty—otherwise, he wouldn’t have gone to rescue him alone.

Gu Juntian ordered one of his S-level warriors to lead a team to protect Zhou Qinghao’s base.

“Lieutenant General, there are three high-level star-bugs on the front lines—why send me to guard the base?” the S-level warrior asked, puzzled.

“Colonel Weir, follow orders!” Gu Juntian didn’t explain further.

Colonel Weir was displeased but obeyed, taking his team to guard the base. Gu Juntian, meanwhile, led the rest to the battlefield.

In the Human Empire, S-level warriors were originally rare, but years of war with the Zerg had improved their strength, and a few more S-level Alphas were being born each year.

Even so, only a handful were born annually, and not all of them served in the military.

The year the original owner attended military school was the year it admitted the most S-level Alphas.

Considering there were six legions in total, each legion didn’t have many S-level warriors.

After sending Weir away, Gu Juntian had no more S-level warriors with him.

Now, Zhou Qinghao was holding off two high-level star-bugs, leaving the last one for him to deal with.

Gu Juntian maneuvered his warship toward it, disrupting it with his mental power while ordering the fleet to attack according to his commands.

When he unleashed his mental power, he suddenly realized it was far stronger than the original owner’s.

The original owner barely qualified as S-level, but he was different—his strength was no less than Zhou Qinghao’s, perhaps even above S-level.

He didn’t know if this was his own power or some golden finger.

Either way, with this powerful mental power, winning the battle wouldn’t be too hard.

Gu Juntian fixed his gaze on the star-bug and launched a mental attack.

At the same time, his subordinates began their assault according to his orders.