Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

The appearance of the three plasma cannons on Alex's ship caused the atmosphere to shift from one of arrogance and bravado to sheer terror among the remaining three pirates.

They had severely underestimated Alex from the start, continuing their stupid arrogance even after finding out that he had killed one of them right under their noses without them even realising it.

Any normal person with a brain would be able to realise that he wasn't to be underestimated from that, but no, these three seemed to just be that stupid.

'It truly wonders me how they made it so far in life… especially as pirates!'

Even Alex himself was astounded by their lack of brains!

He admittedly wasn't that smart when it came to his first time coming into contact with the world of the awakened, but he had adapted and grown accustomed to the way of the world.

"Retreat! We need to get out of here–" one of the aliens shouted, panic evident in his voice as he became aware of how much danger he was in.

But it was too late.

Alex's AI had already locked onto them, and the plasma cannons were already charged.

Boooom!

The first shot was fired with mesmerising speed, and it hit its target almost immediately.

The distance between them and Alex's ship was only a few dozen or so metres, so the time it took between the cannons firing and them hitting was practically instantaneous.

"Fuc-"

The first to be hit was the one covered from head to toe in scales, much like the Red Demons, only he was much uglier.

But his ugliness was no more the moment the cannon hit him, because he himself was simply no more!

He was completely disintegrated, not even his soul core being spared from the massacre.

If Alex were any normal awakened, he would be devastated at the loss of something as valuable as a Variant class C+ rank soul core, but he was indifferent.

Though he was a little sad that he wouldn't be getting any soul orbs from it though.

It was the same type of situation with the time he blew up the Red Demon Planet Buster base and killed over ten thousand Red Demons indirectly as a result.

It wasn't his power that killed them, so he didn't get the rewards.

The explosion from the first plasma cannon shit reverberated through the vacuum, shaking even the fabric of space a tiny bit!

The other two pirates barely had time to register the loss of yet another comrade, with this one being reduced to nothing more than a faint memory.

Because the second shot was fired right after.

Boom!

The second shot struck the pirate who had first called for retreat.

He was subjected to the same treatment as the first to be hit, being disintegrated instantly.

Only one pirate remained now, and it was the human like pirate who had acted as the de facto leader of the 'Violet Pirates' from the beginning.

By this point, he had already realised that he wouldn't be able to outrun the plasma cannons, with hundreds of kilometres of distance between him and his ship.

So he resorted to turning around and begging for mercy, hoping that Alex might take pity on him.

"Please! P-please, I have a family, kids. Don't kill m-"

But his plea was cut off, by another shot from the plasma cannon.

Alex wasn't about to let someone like him live just because he realised he had made a mistake.

Would he have let Alex live if the roles were reversed?

Ha, absolutely not!

So there was a fat chance that Alex would do him that favour.

Just like the first two, the plasma cannon hit its target instantaneously.

And like a fart in the wind, he was gone instantaneously.

'What a joke for a pirate crew.'

Alex thought to himself, amused at those four idiot's pitiful attempts at robbing and killing him.

If anything, Alex was doing the universe a favour by ridding it of those guys.

The average IQ of all sentient lifeforms had probably gone up with the removal of those four from the statistic.

'Now what do I do with these…'

Now that the minor problem had been dealt with, Alex was faced with yet another issue.

It wasn't quite a problem like those pirates were, more like an inconvenience to him, because he really just wanted to get some sleep before he was back on the battlefield in another 4 hours!

Naturally, the problem was the pirate's ships.

They were still holding his own ship still with their tractor beams, but that wasn't much of a problem anymore.

Alex sat down in the captain's seat on the main deck, once again ordering his AI to recharge the cannons.

He had no idea whether there were more pirates hiding inside of them, or if they would be empty ghost ships now that their masters were wiped out.

But there was only one way to find out!

By brute forcing his way in.

Since it only took one shot to kill them, rather than the six he had prepared, Alex still had plenty of energy left to deal with the four ship's shields.

Boom!

The first shot was fired, and the effect on the ship's shields was much more drastic than any of the pirate's attacks on Alex's own shield.

Just from seeing the shock waves and ripples sent across the shield, the AI in Alex's ship estimated that a single shot had taken out 50% of the shield's durability already!

"Send another one their way."

Alex ordered his AI, then made his way to the outer airlock on his ship.

He exited it at the same time the cannon was fired, and got to watch with his own eyes how the shield was completely destroyed when it hit.

Next, using his Phoenix flames as a sort of propulsion method, Alex made his way across the hundreds of kilometres of distance between him and the ship he had targeted.

The one whose shield had been destroyed was the biggest of them all, the 500 metre long ship.

It took him nearly 30 minutes to arrive, thanks to his slow speed and shoddy transportation method, which left him a little annoyed.

That would leave him with even less rest time for this night.

He was hoping that whatever he was going to find on board their ships would make up for the lost time.