"It's true, you're right. You have to live for yourself, it's not up to others to dictate how you should live."
As Kavasta finished speaking, soone tapped on the door.
"Yes, you can co in."
Kavasta had finished speaking with Maxi, so the mont was right.
The door opened and a man wearing black armor edged in gold entered. In his left hand, he held a strange black orb.
Kavasta smiled at the newcor, while Maxi watched quietly, still seated in his armchair.
"Adrian, do you need anything?"
It was the captain of the first human regint, Adrian Valmont.
On hearing this first na, Maxi also understood his identity. He knew the first nas of all the regint captains after spending several days in this fortress, and talking to various people.
Only, he hadn't yet linked all the first nas to faces.
"As expected, to be the captain of the first regint, his strength must be terrifying. So much so that he could probably kill Oscar easily," Maxi thought.
He didn't know why he thought that, he just felt that way. When he'd first co to the eting room, he hadn't been able to feel the individual strengths of each of the captains.
But after all he'd been through, he felt his perception had improved markedly.
Adrian also glanced at Maxi.
Surprisingly, he walked over to Maxi and extended his hand.
"Pleased to et you, Adrian Valmont, captain of the first human regint on this dinsional battlefield."
Out of respect, Maxi stood up and shook his hand.
"Pleased to et you, Maxi Valdreuve. A lone rcenary."
"Valdreuve?" Adrian searched his mory, but no matter how hard he looked, that surna ant nothing to him.
"Don't you have a family behind you?" asked Adrian directly, intrigued.
"A family? Of course I do. I've got my mother and my brother." replied Maxi innocently, a little confused.
Adrian smiled a little embarrassed.
"No, I ant a rich or noble family.
But he quickly recovered himself.
"But your answer was enough for to understand your situation. It's amazing how strong you've beco only in high school and without support."
Adrian was genuinely admiring.
"It won't be long before you overtake . If you ever beco a commander, don't hesitate to take on as one of your captains."
Hearing this, Maxi was confused.
Noticing his confusion, Kavasta intervened with a smile.
"Commanders choose their own captains. After all, the position of captain, which is more accessible than that of a commander, grants many advantages that are not negligible."
"For example, Adrian was an acquaintance of mine at university, while Orvari and Emmanuelle who accompanied you, I knew in the army. All of them gained my trust in one way or another, so I chose them to accompany here."
After explaining this, Kavasta looked at Adrian.
"I don't suppose you've co to court Maxi..."
At the sa ti, Kavasta glanced at the strange black orb Adrian held in his left hand.
"The Commander is as perceptive as ever," Adrian scoffed lightly, before holding out the orb to Kavasta.
Kavasta ignored Adrian's teasing and took the orb from Adrian's hand.
"Thank you."
Maxi also looked curiously at the black orb.
Kavasta obviously noticed Maxi's curiosity.
After thinking for less than a second, Kavasta had a good idea.
"Here, take it; you can consider it a gift from all the humans you've helped on this battlefield, Maxi."
Without waiting, Kavasta stuffed the crystal ball into Maxi's right hand.
Maxi had no ti to react.
He felt that the material of the crystal seed both extrely solid and very fragile.
If he dropped it on the floor, it would shatter into a thousand pieces.
"But what's this?" he finally asked.
"You're really giving it command? Even for you it's a very precious item," Adrian interjected with surprise.
Kavasta ignored Adrian, and said sothing very surprising to Maxi.
"Break the crystal.
Without hesitation, Maxi listened to Kavasta and clutched the crystal tightly in his hands.
At first, the crystal was resistant, but after using 80% of its strength, it finally exploded into a thousand pieces.
At the sa ti, a notification resounded in the minds of all the soldiers and rcenaries on the battlefield. Enjoy new chapters from My Virtual Library Empire
[The Dravak Origin on dinsional battlefield N°32, danger level yellow, has been destroyed by human Maxi Valdreuve].
[You may now leave the dinsional battlefield].
"Origin? What's this? This crystal ball?"
He didn't understand what he'd just done.
Then Adrian began to explain.
"This crystal ball was the most important object in the Dravak fortress. It is this object that appears first on each race's side at the start of each battlefield."
"The objective of each race is to protect their Origin and destroy that of their enemies. Hence the birth of fortresses on each race's side, to protect their Origin."
"With the surrender of all the Dravaks and the disappearance of their commander, it was an easy thing to take their Origin and bring it here."
Maxi stared at the fragnts of the broken crystal in his hand. He felt he had accomplished sothing significant, but without fully realizing its magnitude.
The notifications still echoed in his mind. Every soldier and rcenary on the battlefield had received the sa ssage: he had destroyed the Dravak Origin.
He looked up at Kavasta, searching for a deeper explanation.
"So... it's over?" he asked.
Kavasta nodded.
"Yes, it is. The battle is officially over. With the destruction of their Origin, the Dravaks can no longer dispute their presence on this dinsional battlefield. Space will soon close and everyone can go ho."
Maxi blinked, realizing what this implied.
"Wait... so why give this crystal? You could have broken it yourself."
Adrian smirked slightly and crossed his arms.
"Technically, it was you who made this victory possible. So it was up to you to deliver the final blow. And above all..."
Kavasta spoke again.
"...your na had to be associated with the destruction of Origin."
Maxi frowned.
"Why?"
"Because it grants you a rare privilege. Every person who destroys an enemy race's Origin for the first ti receives a special dinsional battlefield reward."
"It's not necessarily the strongest gift, but it's certainly one of the most valuable things you can get on dinsional battlefields, because it's tailor-made for the individual."
"It's an ancient chanism, linked to the laws of this world," Kavasta explained, taking on a little air of mystery despite himself.
But Maxi no longer cared about all these mysteries; he simply felt a hint of excitent rise in him when he heard that there would be a reward.
"A special reward...?"
Suddenly, a new notification sounded in his mind.
[The dinsional battlefield has granted you a unique reward].
[Analysis in progress...]
Maxi felt a strange warmth run through his body. His mind beca slightly foggy, as if an unknown force were scanning his being. He tensed slightly, but felt no malevolence from this unknown force.
Kavasta and Adrian watched in silence.
Then, after a few seconds of waiting, a final notification appeared before his eyes.
[Congratulations, you have obtained the 'Symbiosis' breathing thod!]
...
Sirap, capital of the Western Federation.
In a very ordinary office, an old man seed particularly annoyed by all the paperwork in front of him.
"When am I going to be done with all this?"
At the sa ti, soone suddenly entered the office in a hurry.
"What do you want now, Anna? If you're going to give more work, don't bother. You can give them to those damned leaders of noble families, each more lazy than the last."
The young lady, dressed in business attire with high heels, shook her head with a big smile.
"No it's not that president!"
Seeing Anna, who was his representative in the Western Federation, flashing such a smile, the old man's mood improved slightly.
"So what's this?" he asked casually.
"Dinsional battlefield n°32, the yellow-level one..."
The old man raised an eyebrow.
"The one Kavasta commands?" he interrupted.
"Exactly, President! It turns out that Commander Kavasta has won a brilliant victory against the Dravaks, and the battlefield will be closing shortly!"
The old man seed suddenly invigorated as he rose from his chair while making a victorious posture, just as a youngster would.
"Yessss! Well done Kavasta!"
If people on the outside saw him doing this kind of thing, they wouldn't believe their eyes.
"HAHAHA, the sa battlefield all those old farts said it was best to give up!"
"Thank you, Kavasta! You really are a genius!"
The secretary let the president vent before adding:
"It would seem that this is due solely to Kavasta's strategies. It seems that part of the credit goes to a rcenary by the na of Maxi Valdreuve."
"Oh, why do you say that?"
"It's only a guess, as no soldiers or rcenaries from this battlefield have returned yet, but it was this man who broke the Dravaks' Origin."
The old man was surprised, yet becoming very intrigued.
"And I suppose you searched our databases? And who's he? A genius from the family of these old fogies? Or a hidden genius from one of our top universities?"
Anna smiled mysteriously.
"None of the above, President."
She paused for a mont, which was her pleasure.
"According to our databases, he's a high-school student," she finally said.
The president was speechless.
Never in his wildest thoughts could he have imagined this.
"Send for him as soon as possible. I want to see and speak with this young man as soon as possible."
As he said this, the old man was very serious.
Anna also took on a serious expression.
"I'll take care of that."
...
Back on the dinsional battlefield n°32, all the humans but also Dravak received a common notification.
[Detected that the dinsional battlefield ends in victory for the humans].
[Calculating contributions...]
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