Cannon fodder in the Interstellar

This room wasn’t designed with any barriers, and everyone present were highly skilled martial artists. If she spoke even slightly louder, others would probably hear her.

Ruo Manni leaned closer to Dean Atchison and asked him in an almost whisper, who the blonde youth in the center of the arena was.

“He is Hebrew-Adam! Someone with his level of cultivation doesn’t need to participate in the recruitment exams like we do,” Dean Atchison replied softly.

“Oh!” Ruo Manni responded without much feeling.

Indeed, a fifteen-year-old fifth-level martial artist with such cultivation would not only be sought after by military academies but would certainly be a top candidate for the first military academy in Xuan Gu.

Hebrew-Adam… Ruo Manni thought for a moment, and this name felt completely unfamiliar, indicating that it had never been mentioned in the novel.

This meant that this talented youth, unless he was just an expendable character who got eliminated before the story truly began, represented a variable—very likely a significantly powerful one.

Ruo Manni naturally hoped that the blonde youth was the latter.

Dean Atchison glanced at Ruo Manni. Though her features were somewhat blurred, he felt a degree of familiarity from their previous collaboration. He could tell she was either very good at acting or simply an innocent girl.

If she was innocent, her calm expression suggested she didn’t know Hebrew-Adam’s true identity, explaining her confusion and serenity.

“Hebrew-Adam is the second prince of the Gus Empire,” Dean Atchison tentatively added.

“What? The second prince?” Ruo Manni was extremely surprised.

The second prince? In the novel, he was a spoiled rich kid…

After recalling, Ruo Manni remembered that the novel’s second prince was an incompetent playboy with a mere 2B martial artist potential.

In the early parts of the novel, he made no contributions to the Gus Empire’s resistance and constantly schemed against the first prince, acting as a villain under the queen’s influence, causing much harm.

However, this villain seemed to fit the saying, “good people don’t live long, while evildoers last a thousand years.” The novel mentioned that after the interstellar war, the second prince still showed up a few times, ultimately subdued by the male lead, at that time he was only a third-level martial artist.

But the second prince Ruo Manni saw now, at just fifteen, was already a fifth-level martial artist. Thus, his real situation sharply contrasted with the novel’s portrayal.

This second prince was undoubtedly a powerful variable, and Ruo Manni was curious about why such a significant change had occurred.

However, upon further reflection, Ruo Manni realized that the second prince was a royal of the Gus Empire, an elevated status far beyond her reach as a small orphan. She couldn’t pry into such matters.

Regardless of how this variable emerged, it was ultimately a good thing for humanity; she could observe from a distance.

Thus, Ruo Manni was only briefly surprised before regaining her composure, refraining from asking any more about Hebrew-Adam and instead inquiring about the regulations and training at the first military academy of Xuan Gu.

Even sitting across from the male lead, she acted as if she didn’t know him, firmly adhering to her stance of avoiding and not offending noble families.

Yet, no one knew that the little demon wings in Ruo Manni’s heart were fluttering joyfully.

The emergence of this powerful variable, the second prince, would undoubtedly overshadow the male lead, Hua Deli, and likely trigger a series of other changes.

After reading the novel, Ruo Manni believed that Hua Deli, who ultimately defeated the alien leader Yunkai, gained the greatest glory not from his contributions but due to his invincible male lead aura.

The interstellar wars were nothing like the tribal or national conflicts of old Earth.

In these wars, hundreds of billions of lives were lost, and many of the true human heroes perished, allowing Hua Deli to emerge as the biggest winner.

Ruo Manni thought that the real hero making the greatest contributions was the first prince, who spent years sacrificing countless subordinates to gather information and meticulously analyze it to finally uncover the aliens’ weaknesses.

In the end, the first prince personally entered the battlefield, sacrificing himself to turn the tide of humanity’s complete defeat and providing the chance to ultimately overcome the alien leader of Yunkai.

According to the novel, the second prince could not possibly be a greater genius than Hua Deli. With the second prince’s background and power, Hua Deli would never be able to suppress him as the ultimate victor.

The first prince in the novel wasn’t one to seek power for its own sake; he was relatively kind to his half-brother and didn’t harm the second prince, despite his antics.

In fact, at the beginning of the war, he trapped the second prince to force him to train; otherwise, how could the second prince have survived to the end?

However, this situation was strange. The second prince was clearly stronger than Hua Deli, so why did previous information label him as a spoiled rich kid with poor cultivation potential? Who would dare slander him given his status?

Ruo Manni couldn’t help but wonder if the second prince had indeed been a weakling before, perhaps gaining some fortune in recent years or even being a reborn individual who transformed into a top genius.

With her own experience alongside Aoi Dan as a reborn person, Ruo Manni had no doubt about the possibility of other reborn individuals.

Honestly, knowing how difficult humanity’s future would be, Ruo Manni hoped that those exceptional heroes could be reborn before the interstellar war.

If these individuals were reborn, they would possess great abilities to change fate, especially the first prince. It was easy to imagine how different the interstellar war would be if he were reborn before it began.

Dean Atchison noticed that Ruo Manni was briefly shocked upon learning Hebrew-Adam’s true identity, but she quickly regained her composure, displaying a detached expression that suggested he was irrelevant to her.

This reaction was quite irrational. A second prince with such a high status, who was handsome, cool, and highly skilled, was exactly the kind of ideal romantic interest for many young girls.

Ruo Manni’s brief surprise at the second prince’s identity, followed by her calm, in outsider’s perspective, didn’t resemble that of a typical fifteen-year-old girl.

In fact, it wasn’t just the second prince; Dean Atchison and Hua Deli were also sought after by many girls.

However, Dean Atchison never sensed any feelings from Ruo Manni towards him beyond that of a teammate.

He speculated that if Ruo Manni didn’t already have someone she liked, it was possible she simply didn’t understand those matters, but at least she didn’t have an attitude of clinging to power.

Dean Atchison noticed that a new challenge match had begun, and Ruo Manni was watching intently, though her gaze still carried an indescribable indifference.