Rise of the Omnimage

"Father, I have succeeded in reducing her chances of passing the examination. She was easily goaded into it."

Aeon Pallas said to the projected image of his father. The 2nd Duke of the 3rd region of the Sepent Empire Duke Belloraphon Pallas 22nd of his name looked at his son thinking over everything.

They were deadlocked in the eternal arms race with those disgusting Gorgons. He had already put one of his son's in position by marrying him off to that family. The next part is to ensure the spoiled witch didn't recieve her true commission and have the ability to command forces of her own any time in the next decade as it was all they needed.

"The academy always likes to think their exams are secret, but they really are not. Without their third member it will be next to impossible for her to pass." He said.

"I plan to take further steps to make sure she does not succeed. Leaving things to chance is too risky of a move. What is the exam father?" Aeon asked.

There was a pause as the duke considered the angles, risks, pros, and cons.

"Yes I agree. Let's leave nothing to chance. The exam will come in three stages. First Is the defense mission, followed by the leadership test, followed by the offensive operation. Failure in any one of these is a failure overall."

"Understood father. I will make sure she cannot succeed and interfere with our future plans." Aeon said.

The image cut out and Aeon left his conference room. He went into his office where the three people stood shaking with nervousness.

"Is it done?" Aeon asked sharply.

"Ye....yes my lord. We followed your instructions to the letter. We mended things that can easily be mended, but left the harder things. That conscript cannot participate in the exam let alone properly move for weeks." The oldest of the healers said.

"Good. Do i have to remind you what happens should you say a word of this to anyone?"

"No my lord." The healers all said.

"Good. Get out." Aeon said pulling his aether tablet from his desk and began looking at different data.

He needed to do more. As it stood there was a slight chance that they could still succeed. The human bothered him. Sure the dahmpire was skilled, but he didn't see anything in his record nor did that meat sake agron say anything about him. However.....the human always gave him pause.

Euryale took a big chance on the conscript since he was a huge unknown. His world could have been a bunch of pacifists with little sense of aether and technology. Or on the inverse, he could be from a world with get knowledge of one or the other or both.

Thinking back to their final confrontation made his blood boil. "That piece of trash actually put a hand on me and got in my way." He thought. Oh....he would bleed for that. Sooner or later that conscript would bleed, but in the way he stood up and didn't even flinch suggested he was well versed in conflict.

He looked down at the report.

- BEGIN REPORT -

Sorin Ekart believed to be in his 30s of his local solar cycles is a confirmed military. He adapts quickly. According to Lieutenant Laxric of infusion, the human tested the waters yet adapted extremely fast.

He is driven by desire to return to his own world for a family. When in proximity to females of decent stock, he did not appear tempted by the flesh. Manipulation of this person through carnal desires may not be effective.

He possesses a path based in fire. It is definitely not an ordinary path as the skills he has received are not ordinarily seen in a path of fire. He possesses an extremely powerful regeneration skill that made training rather difficult in the final month.

His skill advancement is impressive. He is assuredly an elite within this batch of conscripts. His skill potency has led to an erroneous death of another conscript due to what we believe is an underestimation of skill strength and trusting in defense of another. Upon the creation of his base offense and defense aether skills we have been noticing something off about the human. We believe that he is hiding either abilites or knowledge from those around him and us.

Update: Survival trial results

We recieved inquiries from the beast manager and reserve manager. One of their beast champions had been slain by a group of our conscripts. The beasts in the fire area had been systematically killed and their cores removed. The champion beast was a Cinderpaw. [ view images]

We have provided images of the corpse of the beast in question. The damage to this champion is extensive and should have been beyond the ability of early to mid tier 2 conscripts.

Further, there was extensive damage done to an area within the reserve [see images] the lake had been evaporated and the area turned into a massive crator.

Another team was a witness to the event unquestion and claimed it was a skill by a single person. They had been tracking team 5 (team of Sorin Ekart after a violent altercation earlier) It was at night and they couldn't identify the individual on the team. The report claimed an orb became a beam that turned the night into what they described as mid day. They were almost killed by the blast even though they were removed by their estimation 50-60 meters.

Our suspicion is that the human Sorin Ekart is potentially a Savant. If this is indeed the case great care must be taken to preserve his life and report any further evidences to the academy as is the royal edict concerning savants.

- END REPORT SERGEANT AGRON, AMADEUS LEAD INSTRUCTOR - CONSCRIPT BATCH 7 -

- COPY OF REPORT SENT TO HEADMASTER -

Aeon opened the first image and was suprised. His usual guard contingent would have been challenged by the beast and he didn't know if his current team could take that down. He wasn't sure if further actions needed to be taken until he opened the second imagine.

Aeon paled. The damage was catastrophic. The entire lake area looked as if it was struck by the tier 7 meteor summoning skill he had seen from the recordings of the front lines of the hellscape battle lines. There was too much of a risk. There was no way to tell which of the conscripts on that team was it.

He reached into his pocket and pulled 3 coins made of what appeared to be bone.

"No I am not leaving this up to chance."