With these features, she immediately garnered a lot of attention from the highest levels of society, even from the royal family themselves. A child born with SSS-level mental strength and a rare top-tier Alpha differentiation was almost unheard of, and such a person would naturally attract countless eyes filled with expectation, envy, or ambition. After many rounds of closed-door discussions, debates, and calculations among the upper echelons, a decision was finally made: she would not be hidden away nor raised quietly. Instead, she would be allowed to join the Interstellar Federation Army, placed directly into the 51st regime, one of the most dangerous yet prestigious military units in the federation.
It was a cruel place for a girl so young, but Mu Bai never complained. She started from the bottom, just like everyone else, training day and night under the watchful eyes of instructors who had long ago shed their compassion. Mistakes were not corrected with gentle words but with punishments that left scars on both the body and the mind. The 51st regime had no room for weakness. Those who could not keep up were eliminated quickly, either through failure or through the harsh environment that demanded everything from its recruits.
Mu Bai adapted. She survived. She fought through exhaustion, through bruises and cuts, through the endless drills that seemed designed to break people rather than train them. Slowly, she proved herself. Her talent shone through, not as loud arrogance, but as quiet, unshakable strength. She became faster, sharper, more precise with every battle simulation, every field mission. The soldiers who once looked down on her for her youth began to look at her differently, some with respect, others with wariness.
When her first real war came, she was barely prepared, but at the same time, she was eager. Nervousness gripped her heart, yet there was also a strange thrill in her veins, a hunger to test the strength she had built. The battlefield was nothing like the training grounds. There, she saw the true face of war. The cruelty of humanity revealed itself in every corner. Giant mechas clashed like gods of metal, artillery fire shook the earth until mountains collapsed, and in the blink of an eye, entire cities—entire planets—were reduced to rubble. The sky turned black with smoke, and the ground burned with unending fire.
She remembered the screams, the smell of scorched air, and the silence of places where millions had lived just the day before. It was in those moments that Mu Bai understood the fragility of life and the cost of survival. She realized that living was not just about breathing; it was about enduring, about pushing forward no matter how broken the world became. At a very young age, she understood what many spent a lifetime avoiding—the meaning of life was not found in comfort, but in the struggle to rise above destruction.
Her strength and potential soon made her stand out. Each mission she completed flawlessly added to her reputation. Each victory carved her name deeper into the records of the military. But such brilliance came with a price. Assassination attempts began to follow her like shadows. At first, it was sabotage—an engine tampered with, a weapon that malfunctioned at a critical moment. Later, the attempts became bolder: poisoned food, ambushes in the middle of missions, and snipers hidden in the darkness. It was clear that enemy planets feared her rise, afraid that she would one day become another unstoppable warlord within the Federation. To them, she was a threat that needed to be erased before it grew too strong.
Yet, even greater danger came not from the enemy, but from within. When the royal empress, the one whose presence had always kept the nobles in check, grew weak and frail, chaos began to stir within the Federation's court. The nobles, driven by greed and blinded by ambition, looked at Mu Bai not as a soldier but as a resource to exploit. Foolishly, they believed that her unmatched mental strength could be stolen if they extracted her scent glands and experimented on her body like a human test subject. They wanted to turn her into nothing more than raw material for their grotesque experiments, a vessel from which they could carve out power for themselves.
It was during one such mission, when she had been hunted down and cornered, that she nearly fell into their hands. Surrounded, outnumbered, and betrayed by those who should have been allies, she had been moments away from becoming a captive, a tool to be unilaterally experimented upon, a guinea pig in the nobles' twisted schemes.
But fate did not abandon her. It was at that very moment that she first met the people who would change her life forever—her adoptive mothers. They were a pair, an Alpha and an Omega, both high-ranking military officers who stood close to the royal empress herself. Their arrival was swift and overwhelming, their presence like a storm that tore apart the trap that had been set for her. With unshakable strength, they rescued her, pulling her out of the darkness of betrayal and into the light of safety.
They did not stop at saving her life. They chose to take her in, to adopt her, to give her something she had never truly known since the day she was born—family. For the first time, Mu Bai was no longer just a soldier or a weapon in the eyes of others. To them, she was a daughter. They gave her the kind of warmth she had only ever imagined but never believed she could have. They treated her not as a tool to be sharpened or a weapon to be pointed, but as a person with feelings, fears, and dreams.
It was strange and new to her, but also healing. The Alpha mother protected her fiercely, teaching her discipline not out of cruelty but out of love. The Omega mother offered her gentleness, teaching her that it was okay to lean on someone, that strength did not mean carrying the world alone. Together, they gave her what she had always been missing—the chance to be human, not just a cold and sharp machine forged for war.
As she sat in her office now, memories of those early days came pouring back, filling her mind with warmth even as the world outside was bathed in the fiery glow of the setting sun. She thought of their faces, of the way they had smiled at her, of the way they had made her feel safe in a world where safety was rare.
Unconsciously, a smile spread across her lips. It was small and fleeting, but it was genuine. For a moment, she allowed herself to be lost in those memories, her heart softening as she thought of the two people who had given her the love she never knew she needed.
It was quite some time later that Mu Bai finally pulled herself out of the sea of memories that had consumed her. For a long moment, she had allowed herself to drift in the warmth of her past, remembering the love of her adoptive mothers and the strength she had forged through countless battles.
Even though she wanted to continue reminiscing, to sink further into those warm memories that gave her a rare sense of peace, she knew there were other things she had to focus on at the moment.
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