The Elite Who Were Hung Up on Formalities

Sangheili.

The reason they were called elites was because they truly were elite.

A newly matured young elite's close-combat skills and physical abilities were enough to take on five or more Helljumpers and UBCS soldiers, who represented the pinnacle of ordinary human capability.

Of course, the above situation of one against five or more assumed that none of them were equipped with armor, weapons, or Mechanical Skeletons, and that they were fighting barehanded.

Judging solely by their physical abilities, every elite was a Super Soldier to humanity. With the elites joining them, humanity's military strength had been further enhanced.

On top of that, with assistance from the super-giant corporation Umbrella, humanity had, in just two months, digested, absorbed, and mastered thirty percent of the Covenant's technology.

Under these circumstances, with the equipment of every human military branch undergoing a complete upgrade and large numbers of elites providing assistance, humanity theoretically had nothing to fear from large-scale anomalies.

It could be said that the strength of the Human-Elite Alliance fully qualified it as the hegemon of the Milky Way Galaxy.

However, according to estimates by Serena and the other Artificial Intelligences, occupying the entire Milky Way Galaxy and eliminating the remnants of the Covenant would take at least eighty to a hundred years.

There was also a strong possibility that some radical Brutes, Grunts, and Gnolls would become space pirates or Interstellar Terrorists, endangering security throughout the galaxy.

But when that time came, they would be nothing more than clowns jumping around, completely incapable of shaking the political entity formed by humanity and the elites.

For now, however, there was still one thorny problem William had to resolve.

That was the "political entity" mentioned earlier.

Before the elites, Gnolls, and Grunts had joined them, the human world's government in name was