Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

Chapter 178: Called out of the blue

Alex was disoriented when he woke up.

The exhaustion was gone, but he quickly realised he was still wearing his sticky and dirty clothes as he wasn't really in any position to change them the previous night considering he passed out before he could do anything.

He looked out of his window, and noticed that it was already early in the morning.

'Did I sleep that long?'

Alex wondered as he stripped off his clothes and took a quick shower to clean himself off.

His body was still damp when he left the shower. He changed into some casual clothes after drying and put his dirty clothes aside for the time being, before someone came to collect it to clean it thoroughly.

The menial chores like washing clothes, washing dishes etc had become much more convenient in this era, as one just had to request a robot assistant to come to their house to do their chores for them.

This was especially useful for people like Awakened who needed to use their time efficiently, and couldn't afford to waste a couple hours a day doing menial and boring tasks.

'Since even one hand was too much for me to handle, I guess I should try only 1 finger this time.'

Alex knew that it would be hard to even progress to the first stage of the technique, but he didn't expect to meet such hardship straight away.

He had expected it to come quickly to him, just like the Phoenix fury technique did back when he first obtained that, but it seemed that wasn't the case with this one.

B tier techniques were in an entirely different league of their own.

Ring!

However, just as he was about to start his practice session once again, his communicator started ringing, bringing Alex out of his meditative state.

'Who is it this time?'

Alex was annoyed at first — constantly being disturbed at moments where he didn't want to be had started to become a common occurrence for him for some reason.

However, he quickly dropped his annoyed mood the instant he read the name on the caller ID.

'Professor Will? What would he want with me? Classes don't start for like another 5 or 6 days right?'

With no clue why he would be receiving a call from Professor Will at this moment, Alex picked up the call.

"Good morning sir!"

He answered the call semi-enthusiastically, as this man would be his personal tutor for at least the next year.

"Alex, it's good to see you're up so early in the morning. I wasn't disturbing you, was I?"

Professor Will hadn't seen Alex since the Strategic assessment, and even then he had only watched on from the side lines.

"No sir, I was just freshening up. Might I ask what the purpose of the call is? Classes shouldn't be starting yet, right?"

Alex answered cordially, and got straight to the point.

Both of them were straightforward people, so Alex just skipped the usual chit chat.

"It's good that you ask, since I know you and Mira are so 'close' now, I'd like you to go fetch her and have the both of you meet me in the Capital Building."

Alex felt a little embarrassed, as word of his relationship with Mira had reached even the higher ups of the university by now, and Professor Will was clearly teasing him about this.

"Yes sir, I'll go tell her now and we'll leave right away." Alex replied, before Professor Will nodded and hung up the call.

Alex obliged, as Professor Will sounded quite serious when he asked to meet.

Especially considering the location he wanted to meet at.

The Capital building was essentially the headquarters of Capital Prime university, situated right at the centre of the city, as well as being the tallest skyscraper on the entire planet!

This was the place where all the important decisions concerning the university, and even the federation were made.

It was also where the Principal's office was located, and where he spent most of his time.

Contrary to popular thought, the Principal actually spent less time in the Primordial Expanse than the average D rank awakened.

He had already reached the peak of power, there was little that could entice him into taking a trip to the Primordial Expanse anymore, and his time was better spent managing the university's affairs, and raising the next generation of elite awakened.

One of the biggest motivators for such large amounts of resources to be spent on the young awakened was the lack of manpower in the higher ranks of humanity.

Yes that's right, lack of manpower.

When facing off against beasts of a higher class than yourself, it would be almost impossible to take it down without having a team of equal power to yourself.

This wasn't that big of a deal for the lower ranked awakened, as there were uncountable numbers of them across the whole federation, but for A tier and S tier awakened, this was a very big problem.

There were less than 1 million A tier awakened across the whole federation.

Although this may at first seem like a big number, there were many things to consider.

First, the scale of the federation. It spanned the whole milky way galaxy, with hundreds of billions of star systems inhabiting the space.

Even more worrying for the higher ups was that out of these 1 million A tier awakened or so, only about 10% of them had upgraded from Ordinary class to Mutant class.

And out of this 10%, only around 1% had upgraded to Variant class.

This puts the issues faced by humanity into perspective.

The problem was even worse for the S tiers.

There wasn't a single Ordinary class S tier, with all of them upgrading to at least Mutant class in A tier before they reached S tier.

However, out of these 100 or so S tiers, only the top 10 of them were Variant class or higher.

With the Principal being the only confirmed King class.

The mysterious person in number one being the only anomaly, as little was known about him, other than he was a man, and he was stronger than the Principal.

With this information in mind, it is clear to see that it is impossible for the Principal to progress any further, as there was simply nobody powerful enough to help him take down an Ancient class beast.

There were rumours he had requested help from the mysterious strongest man in the federation, but he was turned down for some unknown reason.