BXBX NOVEL Chapter 310: So close
He ignored Colonel Margit\'s first few questions and immediately addressed the last one.
Seeing Alex respond so casually, disregarding his very serious counterquestion, Colonel Margit internally sighed in relief.
His original assumption upon seeing Alex\'s ship attached to four other foreign ships via tractor beam was that he had been captured or something like that.
"These guys turned out to be pirates, coming to this system to leech off of any weakened victims. Unfortunately for them, they chose me as their final victim."
Since Colonel Margit didn\'t respond right away, Alex decided to follow up with some more information to ease the tension a little bit.
After all, he was faced with thousands of Human ships a few hundred kilometres ahead of him…
If any one of those didn\'t get the memo that this wasn\'t an enemy attack, then Alex would be subjected to a barrage of fire that he didn\'t believe his ship could take.
Sure, it could defend against 1 King class A- rank attack, which was far, far above what any of those ships could produce.
But when thousands of ships all shot at once?
That was probably just as deadly.
"Well, you\'re indeed the King class prodigy. You captured a crew of space pirates who had intended to do the same to you."
Colonel Margit spoke, a little envy underlying his tone.
But he continued shortly after.
"But those four ships aren\'t like yours. You remember the first time you came to this system right? Well, just like you were when you first came here, those are unregistered. Not to mention the fact that they are alien ships. If you want to bring them back without causing a ruckus like this, then you need to contact us first, or it would be mistaken as an invasion just like this very moment!"
Rather than his usual disobedient tone against the military officials like Colonel Margit, Alex decided to stay silent this time around.
He realised this was completely his fault, with no one else to blame.
Well, he did blame the fact that he had gone through over 21 hours of battle with no rest though, as his mind was a little sheepish.
But he wasn\'t going to go around throwing excuses.
He was lucky that Colonel Margit had sent a communication request to him before the entire fleet straight up fired upon him.
"Alright, I\'ll take note next time… I won\'t make such a mistake again."
Colonel Margit nodded and smiled. "In that case, allow us to send some people over to inspect the four ships. For security reasons, we can\'t let them dock with the main station yet, so you can just leave them here for us to deal with."
Alex nodded, relieved that they would do him this favour. "Sure, go ahead."
If Margit didn\'t ask for this first, Alex would have brought it up himself.
Colonel Margit cut the communication shortly after thanking Alex. "Send people over to take the four ships."
The officers listening in on his communication with Alex complied. But they were also shocked.
Alex had taken out an entire small fleet of pirates alone?
They almost wouldn\'t believe it if it weren\'t for the fact that they, along with thousands of others, had witnessed him bringing them back first hand.
He knew what level of power prodigies had, as he was once proud to be one of them in his youth.
But this was a kind of strength beyond even that.
\'No wonder he\'s the only King class prodigy… The others simply can\'t compare to him at all!\'
The officer quickly passed on Colonel Margit\'s orders, and the other soldiers were shocked when they heard about the situation.
They came here thinking that some dumb aliens were trying to invade, but it turned out a single student who was barely an adult had taken out all of the aliens himself, and was simply returning to base with his spoils?
But despite being shocked, they were well trained and followed the orders to a tee.
Multiple ships left the thousand strong fleet and made their way over to the four ships behind Alex.
Although Alex told Margit that he had every remaining pirate on his ship with him, the soldiers had a job to do, and went in to search for potential threats regardless.
Obviously, they found nothing.
Meanwhile, Alex transferred the pirates from his ship to a military ship.
Alex didn\'t have to worry about what to do with the ships anymore, so he could finally get the rest he felt he deserved.
And with as little time he had left before he would have to go back out again, he didn\'t waste any effort in getting back to the main base as fast as he could safely do, before entering his personal cabin and completely passing out onto his bed.
***
4 hours later.
Alex woke up feeling refreshed.
In the end, he decided to sleep in on this day.
His original 2.5 hours of sleep had turned into 4, which left him nearly 2 hours behind schedule.
But he had already considered this.
With his progress towards completing the second, and final requirement to reach C tier nearing completion, he realised that he wouldn\'t need the full day to achieve this.
With the deaths of the four pirate captains, Alex\'s total was ticked up to 949.
And after Alex had killed off over 60 of the pirate crew members, he was surprised to see it go up another 21 points.
It turned out 21 of those ordinary pirate crew members were C tiers themselves.
Leaving him at 970/1000.
With only 30 numbers left to fill, Alex was confident that he could complete this in 10 hours, rather than the 20 he had allotted.
Hence, he decided to extend his sleep until he was fully energised.
It was better to make sure that he was fully prepared for battle, rather than going in on not enough sleep and getting sloppy because of it.