Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

"This just in, the top officials of the Federation have a special announcement to make!"

The same news anchor, who had been the first to report about the attack on the federation to the wider public, spoke.

She had become quite famous due to the fact that as the first to report it, basically the entire federation had flocked to her channel alone to see the news.

She had even received a promotion from her broadcaster.

But her face was only shown on screen for a few moments, as she wasn't going to be the one making the announcement.

Admiral Olgierd appeared on the screen soon after.

To the general, unawakened public, his face may seem unfamiliar.

But the awakened knew his face just as well as Principal Farnes's.

He was the third strongest awakened in the entire federation after all.

"This is a message for the entire federation to hear. But if you are an awakened, then you especially should listen closely to what I am about to say."

Admiral Olgierd started his speech, with the entire broadcasting room filled with silence.

"I have just received a piece of information that could potentially overturn this whole war with the Red Demon race on its back, giving us a chance to actually win against this seemingly unbeatable opponent."

Over 50% of the entire federation were watching Admiral Olgierd's speech, whether at work, home, or in the shower.

And every single one of them held their breaths with hope as they heard the encouraging words he was speaking.

"With credible information and first hand accounts confirmed by the System itself, I can relay this to you all, right here, right now."

"We can harvest foreign 'sentient' race's soul cores and absorb them, just as we do with the beast cores obtained from the Primordial Expanse."

"For nearly a hundred years now, it has been a mystery but also a blessing that we weren't able to harvest other human's soul cores, and while we still may not know the reason for this, we do know that it is not the case for foreign races."

As with Admiral Olgierd's odd way of doing things, his speech cut off there.

Not even a goodbye or some words of reassurance.

He just did his job of informing the public, and left all the other political stuff to the actual politicians.

But this only made the information he had shared even more effective.

***

In bars across many different civilised, and some uncivilised planets, mercenaries, pirates and all sorts of other renegade awakened all essentially had money bags for eyes at this moment.

The broadcast by Admiral Olgierd had just ended, but the effect it had on the people was still lasting, and would probably stick for a long time afterwards as well.

"Did you hear that boys! It seems we have some hunting to do!"

Pirates and mercenaries were all celebrating with joy.

They no longer saw the Red Demons as an existential threat to their very civilisation.

They saw them as money bags.

And considering there were over a hundred million warships, each with probably thousands of awakened Red Demons inside, that was a lot of soul cores that could be harvested, if the human race won of course.

But that was till ALOT more than they could have made in their entire lifetimes in the Primordial Expanse, or having to share a lot of just a thousand or so beasts, that weren't even guaranteed to drop their beast cores.

It was the opportunity of a lifetime for these types of people.

As for the solo awakened, or the average awakened who still had some ambitions for their future, this was an opportunity to further increase their strength.

They didn't know if using soul cores would be any different than beast cores, but just the fact that they contributed to their own soul core's progress when absorbed was good enough reason for them to participate in this war.

Admiral Olgierd and Alex were wise to suggest sharing this information with the public as soon as possible.

Just that one simple and short broadcast had probably increased the number of human awakened participating in the war and defending the federation by two, or perhaps even three times the normal amount.

The prospect of something to gain from this war other than 'Not dying a miserable death' if they lost the war was a major motivational factor.

***

"We might actually have a shot at winning now…"

Alex was still sceptical about this whole thing though.

The Red Demon race had over a thousand years of development, while the human race only had just over a hundred.

Not to mention that the average Red Demon awakened was probably stronger and more experienced than the average Human awakened.

Oh, and the fact that the Red Demons had much more S tiers than the human race as well.

Sure, the students, mercenaries and other normal awakened all were probably only concerned with the minor, low ranked battles that they were going to participate in.

But what about those battles involving higher life forms from both sides?

So what if the human race was able to win against the Red Demons in the lower ranked battles?

If the Red Demons overwhelmed the humans in war between higher lifeforms, then that victory over the lower life forms would mean jack shit, because the higher ranked Red Demons could just steamroll over the rest of humanity once they were done dealing with humanity's higher life forms.

In the short term, the lower ranked Awakened would be humanity's saviour as there were much, much more of them that could be spread out and stop the destruction that Karlax's hundred million strong fleet were causing.

But in the long term, humanity would have to solely rely on the S, A and B tiers to save them from the real threat.

This was what Alex was mainly worried about.

As a D tier himself, he was practically a nobody in this war, even if he could defeat droves of C tiers by himself.

He wasn't a higher life form yet, and likely wouldn't be one by the time the real powerhouses joined the war.