When the military learned the news.
Their first reaction was that the doctor was lying to them.
Yet no matter how they threatened and tested him, his tone remained cold and numb.
Gradually, they began to believe the doctor.
Genetic collapse.
Countless ordinary people had been thrown into laboratories in an attempt to turn them into superhumans, but most had ultimately died from genetic collapse.
Artificial creation was fundamentally different from natural awakening.
There had been very few successful cases, while failures were countless.
They had thought that Aerte, who had successfully advanced to the "King" rank, was one of those countless lucky few.
They had never expected that he, too, would be unable to escape genetic collapse.
"Wait! If Aerte's genes have collapsed, then what about him now? Does he still have the ability to fight?"
Obviously not.
Those people immediately panicked.
They had only dared to attack the invaders so arrogantly because they had Aerte, a "King"-rank superhuman, backing them up.
Now that Aerte was gone, and the three invaders were so powerful...
Could they really gather the strength of the entire nation to resist?
They could not do such a thing.
The moment they brought it up, someone would stab them in the back or even sell out their allies.
But was it still too late to surrender?
If those three invaders had truly been sent by another country, they would not let the Sachax Kingdom off without stripping it to the bone.
It might even become a colony after defeat.
But getting those people to unite and resist—especially the superhumans and the upper echelons of the major factions—was likely impossible.
Because they did not want to die.
Superhumans considered themselves extraordinary and held themselves above others. Asking them to risk their lives for a group of