7 Uproar (II)
In the far north system, Croa Planet, the main House of Croan.
In a bustling office, alphas and betas moved like buzzing bees with papers in their hands. Their eyes will inevitably stray to the stern young man sitting on the head table. Their eyes were covered with red veins and under their eyes were black with weariness and bloodthirstiness.
The young man, Alpha Richard Croan, was the current acting head of the Croan Household. The young Richard was a handsome man possessing blue hair and ocean-blue eyes but no one in the room had the mood to appreciate the young man's beauty.
All because their thoughts revolve around: 'Should I murder him and go rest?' 'This fucking devil.' 'I miss Head Richi, he's more lenient, more vacation, less work, big bonus...'
Richard felt the strong resentment of the men and women working under his orders and his lips lifted in a small arc.
If he was going to suffer the burden of his father's workload on his shoulders, his vassals and the subordinates would suffer his fate with him.
While satisfied with the situation of his temporary helpers, Richard's navy blue netwatch vibrated. In the quiet environment, apart from the slight rustling of papers, his netwatch vibrations were heard by the people in the room.
The subordinates' ears twitched as they stood on attention, hoping that the netwatch's vibration was a signal for hope, the signal for them to stop overworking. The gods didn't let down their little wish as when Richard opened the hologram, bright and red bolded words appeared accompanied by celebratory sounds.
Half of the Alphas in the room were familiar with this situation because they once received such a message too. It was a message from the mating hall, a message of one alpha finding a mate.
The married Alphas stared at Richard's face, finding the shocked expression they once had on his usually unmoved face. When an Alpha finds his/her match, they must go to the capital to bind with his/her mate. That means...
Everyone almost teared up in joy. 'Freedom! We'll be finally released from this hell!'
As expected, the young acting head of the Croan's Household rushed off the office with the speed of lightning, vanishing from the sights of the suffering subordinates who almost wept with jubilance.
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Fjurn Household, in the Living room.
"Drake Fjurn." A male omega stared at his son, his intense black eyes almost bore a hole into the fidgeting man sitting on the couch.
"Pa, I already told you, he's just a fling." Drake shrugged his shoulder and felt the intensifying anger from his dad.
"Plus, I already broke up with him." Drake immediately added. Despite being an alpha adult, Drake was inherently afraid of his dad, much more so when he was angry like this.
"Sigh. Drake, you should stop your flirtatiousness. Your father isn't like this, so when did you get this coquetry from? What if you suddenly got a mate while you're in a relationship with a beta or omega? Your mate will reject you." Dane nagged his stupid son. His son is a renowned songwriter but is also a renowned playboy.
"A mate? Pa, I'm 35 this year and I still don't have a mat--"
"Congratulations. You have found your mate! Freya Holsworth with a 100% match. Please come to the capital to proceed with your bonding. Hope you two mates bonded soon~"
Drake's netwatch which will automatically display such an important message, interrupted their conversation.
Dane's lips curled up in a smirk, "Son, what were you saying again?"
Drake dazedly looked up at the message and uttered a single word, "Fuck."
"Drake Fjurn, are you cursing your dad?" Domineering alpha pheromones invaded the living room and suppressed Drake's own. The poor songwriter can only plead while being beaten up by his father.
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Xin Planet, A tourist spot by the sea.
"Alin! How long are you gonna take just to paint one sea landscape?" Lowee, Alin's manager massaged her head as the handsome man possessing an angelique beauty stared blankly at the canvas.
"Soon." The man answered shortly.
Lowee, who was answered like this 30 minutes ago felt like throwing the man into the sea. No matter how handsome the man was, her patience was running thin. Not only does this man interrupt her date with a good-looking alpha with a call, but he also makes her drive to the sea for the reason that he's gonna paint, Look! The man was just blankly staring at the canvas without even moving his pen!
Lowee was about to throw her hands when she heard the ringing of a netwatch, she found out that the unmoving Alin was flustered by the message he received.
"Lowee."
"What?"
"Drive me to the capital."
"Fine...Wait a minute! That's like a 3-day journey! What are you saying Drive!" Lowee officially lost her calm.
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Mechanical Planet.
The energetic mercenary slashed a man's head, a bright smile decorated his slightly tanned face. As he slashes down, his smile widens broadly. Sometimes, as he cut off an enemy, a chuckle will let out from his lips.
A mercenary beta leaned on her partner to whisper, "Did he finally lose it?"
The alpha also whispered to her partner, "He lost his sanity ages ago."
A brave mercenary pushed out by others bravely asked, "Captain Rin, what joyous news did you receive for you to be this happy?"
The trembling mercenary who asked wasn't cut down as everybody expected, instead, he got a reply from the crazed captain.
"I'm getting married~"
"Huh."
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In one of the famous practice fields on the wide sport-dominated planet in the capital, A professional mecha player was practicing his sword stance, his every move was fluid and neat.
The watching spectators can't help but admire the mecha's robotic figure.
"As expected of Xenon Cruis." A fan nodded at this statement.
"Nothing can falter that kind of concentration." As another fan bragged, the coach of the Viper team that Xenon was in, shouted at the practicing mecha on the field, as the spectators were quite apart from the field, they didn't hear the coach's words,
But they did see the 'unfaltering' and 'admirable' mecha of Xenon tripping on the ground, landing a sorry figure on the field.
Bragging Fan: "..." I didn't know that I was such a jinx.
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After leaving the mating hall, Frey and Freya run away to their mansion in the Capital's center.
'This is bad,' Freya fretted as she sat down on the couch in her room. Ten names floated in her mind and she can foresee the resentment of the fans of the Alpha Gods tearing her to pieces.
'Ahhhhhhhh!' Freya cupped her face in frustration when a loud bang resounded. Glancing at the door, she found her father's figure panting with rage.
"My daughter! I shall destroy the Mating hall even if the punishment is death!" Freya was stunned by the raging roar of her father. Frey who appeared beside him slapped the back of his head.
"Christ, you're gonna scare Freya! Shut up." With Frey's glare, the raging Christ became calm.
"Why is father so angry?" Even if the result was sent to her father, at most, he would shout out loud in anger and that's that. If her father was raging like this and planning to destroy the mating hall, it only meant he received more angering news.
"Freya..." Frey hesitated to say the words. Seeing their hesitation, Freya calmly smiled and coaxed them.
"You can say it, Mom. I won't be shocked."
"The thing is...the mating hall sent another message to us. It advised for you and the 10 alphas to bond."
"..."
"What?"
"What?!!!"
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Freya was slowly guided to the highest floor of the building with dead eyes. After the shocking news that she needed to bond with 10 Alphas, Freya's dream officially waved goodbye to her.
Now, she's walking through the main office corridor of the Mating Hall with slow steps. Her pace was slow as a snail. It's been three days since she was tested and the results came out. She'd been hiding in the Holsworth mansion for two days when the Emperor's decree came, entailing that she needed to come to the Main office of the Mating hall.
If it was anyone else, Freya would have burned the decree to ashes but it was from the Emperor of this empire, someone who has the loyalty pledge in his hand.
Freya has no choice but to dress up and slowly trudge to her social death. Even after slowing down for half the day, she still arrived at the mating hall main office and slowly entered the door of social death.
"Miss Freya, we've arrived. Please enter the door." The guide smiled at Freya and hastily left the floor, seemingly afraid of what would happen next.
Freya can only conclude that what made the guide scared is the overbearing pheromones of the alphas inside the door that she can't smell. Freya's hand trembled when she reached the knob and slowly twisted it open.
Indeed, she was shocked at what she saw.
'They're so damn handsome...'
Ten men with different statures, auras, and looks but they're all similar in one thing, their faces are handsome, super-handsome.
Freya who was fond of beautiful faces was immediately captured by the scene. 'They are worthy of the title 'Alpha Gods'. Oh my gosh, look at their faces, 10/10.'
Freya snapped out of her reverie when she noticed that each of them was glaring at each other.
She tiptoed into one inconspicuous seat and sat down.
Freya felt her sweat slide down her back. Inside the room, even if she can't feel the strong pheromones, she can feel the intimidating aura. 10 pairs of eyes glared at each other and Freya gulped.
'This is so awkward. Someone, please help me.'
Freya prayed sincerely to get out of this situation. And her wish was granted when a man entered the room with a big grin.
