After nearly a day in the healing pod, Audrose's spiritual domain finally stabilized.

After breaking three testing devices, the researchers finally collected the mental power fluctuation data of this Marshal. The results shocked everyone--

This data showed that Audrose's mental power frequency was much higher than the known upper limit of human mental power frequency, and he achieved equally unimaginable excellent results in the penetration test!

What this represented was almost self-evident.

After the researchers repeatedly tested more than a dozen times, they finally reached a definite conclusion:

-- Audrose's mental power... can basically be determined to have evolved!

After being trapped in the cosmic rift by the alien beasts, Audrose not only successfully escaped, but also turned misfortune into a blessing and evolved in his mental power.

Before the evolution, Audrose was already one of the people with the highest mental power in the empire, and now he has far surpassed others.

As long as he wakes up, he will become the only person with super S-level mental power in this star domain.

The entire army, as well as the emperor far away in the capital star, waited anxiously for three whole days before Audrose slowly opened his eyes while lying in the healing pod.

Avid was originally analyzing Audrose's mental power pattern in the research lab. Upon receiving the news, his hand trembled and touched the power button on the instrument, causing the half-completed data and analysis to be scrapped in an instant.

But these were unimportant--

Hastily instructing his assistant to tidy up the instruments, Avid quickly walked out of the research lab, forgetting to take off his professional experimental protective clothing, and ran straight to the adjacent treatment room.

The man with light golden hair had his back to him, already changed into his military uniform. With broad shoulders and long legs, he was slightly lowering his head, tidying up something. His back looked tall and full of strength.

Because he had stayed in the healing pod for too long, his body's metabolism had accelerated, so the man's hair was a little longer than before, reaching his shoulders. When tied behind his head, the ends of the hair hung down slightly, no longer in the previous little tuft shape.

"...Brother." Looking at his elder brother's calm back, Avid felt a trace of coolness in his heart for some reason. His originally ecstatic heart cooled down a little, and he hesitated for a moment before calling out softly.

Audrose turned around to look at him, his face still as indifferent as ever, but his ice-blue eyes seemed colder than before. "Avid."

When his elder brother's voice with a hint of low tone entered his ears, Avid's sense of unease in his heart intensified.

Even though his elder brother's expression was very calm, when his gaze fell on his elder brother, he couldn't help but feel an urge to retreat, wanting to stay away from his elder brother in front of him.

This feeling was fear-- Avid quickly realized this.

It was the fear of the weak towards the strong, engraved in biological instincts. Even if they had a naturally close blood relationship, when the difference in strength between the two was too great, it could not completely offset the effect of instinct.

-- Especially for the dragon race, who had always respected strength.

Thinking of his brother's evolved mental power, Avid couldn't clearly say what he felt in his heart.

Before Avid could react, his spiritual body had already emerged from the higher-dimensional space. As if wanting to confirm something, it lowered its head and tried to rub Audrose's leg with its huge head.

Audrose looked down and stared at his younger brother's silly-looking spiritual body for a few seconds, but in the end, he didn't kick away this heavy head.

After anxiously confirming that he still had at least a little status in his brother's heart, Avid breathed a sigh of relief. He took a few steps forward and asked, "The doctor should have already told you, right? Your mental power should have evolved."

Audrose nodded, "I can feel it."

Avid casually took out a mental power recorder from the protective clothing he hadn't had time to take off, and tentatively asked, "Now we need to record your condition... Can you release your spiritual body for a moment?"

Audrose said, "Okay." He paused for a moment, then said, "Can we change to another place?"

Avid vaguely guessed something, but didn't ask. He just said okay, then took his elder brother to the base's underground training ground with an area of several thousand square meters.

The moment the training ground was completely closed, a black dragon, even larger than before, appeared in the treatment room.

Avid's pupils contracted, and the recorder in his hand was squeezed with too much force, emitting a sharp warning sound, but he didn't notice, only looking at the black dragon in front of him.

Audrose's spiritual body had expanded by at least three times in volume. From head to tail, its body length was estimated to be at least nearly a thousand meters, and the bone spikes and thick tail ridge on its body stood up sharply, looking even more intimidating than before.

The moment this dragon appeared, the air instantly condensed, as if even breathing was filled with the taste of gloomy blades, cold and cruel.

-- Just like those emotionless ice-blue eyes.

Avid's spiritual body originally followed closely behind his elder brother. When this black dragon appeared, with a plop, the green-eyed dragon seemed to be extremely frightened, and slipped and fell to the ground. Its pupils, due to the cold pressure it felt, had already turned into circles, almost filling its eyes, looking tense and comical.

Calming his mind, Avid professionally recorded the changes in his elder brother's spiritual body, then checked various physical indicators, confirming that this evolution was very perfect, and no side effects had been detected so far.

Until the end, Avid didn't ask about the slave. He had wanted to open his mouth several times, but without exception, he stopped in stunned silence when his gaze met Audrose's indifferent eyes.

-- He gradually realized that the matter between those two people was not something he could interfere with. Even if they were family, there was always some space in a person's heart that was only open to another person.

After confirming that Audrose's condition was completely good, what followed was a battle that was so swift that it seemed unbelievable.

The alien beast group's carefully designed plan ultimately ended in failure. Not only did they fail to successfully kill the commander of the imperial army, they also consumed the already scarce population while delaying the defense line guards, and were at their weakest period since launching the invasion war.

The exotic beasts began to retreat in large numbers and in an orderly manner, even willingly abandoning some of the frontier planets they had long defended, as if they were hurriedly protecting something.

But Audrose would not let them off so easily.

In just four days, he led the sharpest army through the low-level exotic beast defense line and found the highly intelligent mutated high-level exotic beast.

-- This beast had even developed spiritual power, and as high as S-level, to be able to command the entire vast army of exotic beasts!

The usually scattered exotic beast groups had already taken on the posture of being led by it.

Just in the early stages of evolution, this beast already possessed such high spiritual power. It's not hard to imagine what a huge threat it would pose to the defense line once it grew up!

But unfortunately, this king who had not yet had time to grow up ultimately died under Audrose's mecha.

This was undoubtedly an inspiring piece of news!

The situation was completely reversed. After experiencing the near-disaster of losing the Marshal, the army achieved an almost milestone victory. The exotic beasts suffered heavy casualties, already reduced to less than half of their original scale. Unless they wanted to be completely wiped out, they would probably not have the strength to wage war again for nearly fifty years.

And in these fifty years, the allied forces on the defense line would certainly not sit idly by and watch the exotic beasts recuperate. As long as the plan was meticulous, they could completely take the opportunity to drive the exotic beasts out of the star domain.

This anti-aggression war that had lasted for hundreds of years finally showed a glimmer of victory.

When the news reached the capital star of the Delaire Empire, the citizens who had long been oppressed by the clouds of war were overjoyed. Audrose's approval rating on the star network statistics kept rising, quickly surpassing the current emperor. Almost everyone regarded Audrose as the hero who saved the entire star domain.

And his spiritual power, rumored to have evolved to super S-level, also brought a tinge of admiration for the strong to this worship.

As for the black-haired slave who allegedly stole the mecha and mysteriously disappeared in the story, he seemed to have completely vanished. There was not a single word about him in the war reports.

Audrose single-handedly suppressed this matter. Those secrets were sealed as top-secret files in an encrypted area that only he could access.

Even the emperor in the capital star was temporarily unaware of this matter.