Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!-Chapter 625: Two days of slaughter

For the Lux, victory had basically already been achieved in the New Dawn system, and so all of those who remained and survived the incredible supernova of the system’s sun were in a state of celebration while their engineers repaired their ships to varying degrees.

However, unbeknownst to them, their time was limited. With their ships so badly damaged, their communications were next to nothing and so they couldn’t even contact each other throughout the system, save the few people who had talents that allowed for such a thing.

So, when a single human rampaged every Lux ship he came across, word didn’t even spread to the others. They were completely ignorant of their coming, inevitable demise.

For the next two days, the space that once was the New Dawn system became a Lux graveyard.

Not in the dramatic, instantaneous way the supernova had erased everything – but through the slow, methodical purge carried out by a single person who refused to let even a single one slip through the cracks.

Alex did not rest.

He didn’t sleep.

He didn’t return to his ship once.

Time lost its meaning as he moved through the shattered remains of the New Dawn system.

Jump.

Scan.

Jump again.

Every few minutes, sometimes seconds, space twisted around him as he reappeared tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of kilometres away.

Truth be told, compared to the first time he had unlocked his spatial teleportation talent, it was infinitely more powerful now.

It was thanks to this talent that he could sweep across such a vast swathe of space with his spatial perception, as well as what enabled him to jump across tens or hundreds of thousands of kilometres of space at a time.

Each time he paused, his awareness swept outward in a perfect sphere, searching the faintest hints of life.

Arrogance.

Hatred.

Anger.

All of it bled into one as he spanned the New Dawn system.

He learned quickly.

The Lux who believed themselves victorious were the easiest to find.

Those ships drifted openl, running minimal or often times, no cloaking. Some of the more damaged ships only ran their most essential systems as the crews moved freely in their most intact hulls.

They laughed, drank, mourned their dead brethren and most importantly their general in ritualistic ways, convinced that his sacrifice had guaranteed their triumph against the human Federation.

After all, they had set up the New Dawn system to be their base camp and entry point into the Andromeda galaxy. Now that it was gone, how else was their vanguard fleet supposed to receive any reinforcements that might come?

Now that it had been thoroughly obliterated, all they had to do was wait until their systems were repaired before reporting back to their main command.

With that, they could easily send a fleet over to ambush any ignorant reinforcement fleets that would arrive, not knowing that they’d be falling into a trap.

Unfortunately for them, that day would never come.

Alex ended them swiftly.

He never even had to face them directly to kill them. For every ship he found, he simply destroyed what remained of their ships, and the resulting energy behind his attack would do the rest of the work for him.

Space warped for a fraction of a second, and then he was there. The Lux never even saw him coming. His Phoenix Flames blooming silently through the void of space until it devoured every Lux ship he saw.

Against those Celestial rank flames, every foe he encountered was helpless.

Alex’s gains in the pocket dimension were immeasurable. Not only was he unshackled from the system, but so were all of his talents.

Their upgraded strength was obvious. In his current state, not even Brontes was a match for him anymore.

However, the cautious Lux took longer to find and kill.

Those ships ran fully dark, drifting amidst debris fields and intense radiation storms left behind by the supernova. Their crews rationed their power and air while their engineers frantically worked to bring their communications back online.

The radiation was a double edged sword for them. On the one hand, if they stuck around for too long, they would die of radiation poisoning sooner or later. On the other hand, it partially blocked Alex’s spatial perception from obtaining their exact positions.

Alex was only able to find their rough locations, only knowing that they were within the range of his spatial perception, but nothing more. Not their direction, or distance.

Added to the fact that sometimes there were numerous destroyed ship debris fields that perfectly camouflaged the surviving Lux ships, these took the longest to hunt.

By the end of it all, the New Dawn system was truly dead.

No life signatures remained, no matter how many more jumps Alex made. He could go hours on end over hundreds of millions of kilometres of distance, but still find nothing.

This told him that either he had killed all that survived, or that the lucky ones were able to repair their systems in time to activate warp and leave the system.

Either way, he had done everything he could over the past two days.

Only now, there were obvious changes to his status.

[Details]

Name: [Alex]

Talents: [Soulforge (Universal God+)], [Phoenix Flames (Celestial)], [Spatial teleportation (Ascendant)]

Soul Core: [B 87%]

Soul Classification: [King]

Soul Classification Progress: [Ordinary - 100%, Mutant - 100%, Variant - 100%, King - 100%]

He had gained 87% progress towards the next rank of his soul core, and after spending two days straight hunting Lux, actually felt quite underwhelming.

But Alex was left unbothered by this. He knew that it would take a while for him to rank up if he just hunted small fry like this. Not to mention that as he was a King class, the progress he’d receive towards the next rank was much, much lower than someone who was an Ordinary B rank might receive. Most of the Lux he hunted were C tier or lower, with only a few dozen or so B tier Lux to contribute the most towards his progress.

There were no A tier Lux to boost his progress even further.

So, considering all that, the fact that he’d gained 87% towards B+ rank was actually great news, and in two days at that.

As for possibly gaining any progress towards Ancient class? Alex didn’t hold any expectations for that whatsoever.

He knew that if he wished to gain any progress in that area, he’d have to either kill the strongest people the Lux had to offer, or head over towards the centre of the universe where all the real powerhouses gathered.

Both of those were things he had planned for anyway, just that the destruction of the Lux had to come first, before he ventured for wider horizons at the centre of the universe.