Settling Akemi's family was merely a trifling matter for Wang Chen.
The main reason he had stopped keeping a low profile and passed the A-Class Combatant assessment ahead of schedule was to raise his standing and, in turn, gain greater authority within the Imperial system.
Authority was extraordinarily important to every Imperial citizen.
Greater authority meant broader avenues for advancement, higher-tier resource allocations, access to more powerful information...
It also meant that when Wang Chen faced great clans and nobles, he would have no need to bow and scrape!
In fact, so long as he wished it, obtaining S-Class Combatant certification would not be difficult either.
But that would have been too high-profile.
Wang Chen had planned to obtain his S-Class certification upon graduation. That way, when he entered the Imperial Army for service, he would have the best possible starting point instead of being some dispensable minor figure.
However, Wang Chen also knew very well that his peaceful life of study could end at any moment.
Throughout this period, he had been using the Star Sea Network to gather and grasp information from every angle, and he had keenly sniffed out the increasingly heavy scent of war.
The shadow of war, hundreds or even thousands of light-years away, was also gradually drawing closer to the First Imperial Higher Military Academy.
Undercurrents were clearly surging within the academy.
What Wang Chen had not expected was that the war's impact on him would arrive far sooner than he had imagined.
Half a month later, while Wang Chen was training at the combat training base, he suddenly received an urgent notice.
He hurried to an office in the base at once.
A middle-aged serviceman with reddish-brown hair, a high nose, and deep-set eyes received Wang Chen. "Student Wang Chen, hello. I am