I Pick Up Talents on the Interstellar Battlefield

Chapter 971: Chapter 631: Lucky Dog? Cooperation

"Military Lord~"

Liang He and Konis stepped cautiously into the study, their footsteps feather-light. After entering, they straightened their backs and stood at attention before Qin Tian, their posture upright.

The man before them was the highest authority of Ice Extreme Pass, a Royal Major General of the Empire, his illustrious reputation known far and wide. With such a great figure so close at hand, the two of them even consciously lightened their breathing. Alongside their nervousness, they could barely suppress their excitement.

Qin Tian raised his hand and shut off his personal terminal. On the screen was still the detailed dossier Robert had just sent about the two of them.

He lifted his gaze to the pair, his tone gentle: "I watched the whole thing that happened on the street just now. Captain Konis, your courage and decisiveness are worthy of the honor of a Royal Soldier."

Konis’s chest heated up. He immediately raised his hand in a standard, powerful salute, his voice carrying undisguised excitement: "Reporting to Military Lord, as a soldier, protecting the people and fulfilling my duty is simply what I ought to do!"

Qin Tian inclined his head slightly, the corners of his lips hooking into a faint smile: "Guarding the people is indeed a soldier’s duty. But when facing a powerful enemy far stronger than yourself, especially when it involves the Beastman Royal Family, the vast majority would instinctively shrink back. For you to step forward without hesitation—this kind of fearlessness is not something everyone possesses."

Such recognition made the excitement in Konis’s chest completely surge up. His cheeks flushed slightly, his heart full of the exhilaration and thrill of being acknowledged by the Military Lord.

Right after, Qin Tian’s gaze shifted to Liang He at the side.

The instant their eyes met, Liang He’s entire body suddenly tensed, his back straight as a rod. His heart leapt straight to his throat, and he didn’t even dare to breathe too loudly.

"Liang He, of non-bloodline origin, yet now already a Tier Five Spiritualist."

There was clear appreciation in Qin Tian’s eyes: "Without the blessing of bloodline, to climb step by step to Tier Five—this path must have been extremely arduous for you. You must have put in ten times, even a hundred times the effort of others to achieve what you have today."

Such a simple sentence went straight to the softest and most sore spot in Liang He’s heart.

He fell silent, his lips pressing together slightly as the difficult years of the past flooded back into his mind.

During Cultivation, the scorn and mockery from bloodline Spiritualists;

Pouring in ten times the sweat, yet still unable to bridge the gap of an inborn bloodline;

In the academy, teachers who always favored bloodline scions, while turning a blind eye to those like him without bloodline;

After graduation, knocking about everywhere, rejected and discarded by the major powers, even repeatedly driven as cannon fodder.

The bitterness and hardship of this entire journey, he had never confided in anyone, nor had anyone truly understood how difficult it had been for him.

Yet at this moment, this lofty Military Lord before him had pierced through all his hardship with a single sentence.

Liang He’s heart was a swirl of mixed flavors. The tip of his nose tingled faintly, and his eyes unconsciously grew slightly red.

Seeing Liang He’s complicated expression and his silence, Konis hurriedly stepped forward and spoke: "Military Lord, Ah He and I were classmates at Dawn Spiritual Martial Academy, and even roommates in the same dorm! Though Ah He has no bloodline to support him, his comprehension surpasses ordinary people. Any Martial Arts or combat technique—he can memorize it after seeing it once and picks it up extremely fast. While others are still fumbling with the basics, he’s already mastered it thoroughly. And his temperament is incredibly tenacious, indomitable—no hardship has ever managed to break him. What’s even rarer, his luck is astonishingly good, he’s simply our little lucky star. As long as he’s around, we always end up running into good things!"

"Oh?"

A look of genuine interest appeared in Qin Tian’s eyes. He chuckled lightly and asked, "Good luck? What kind of things have you all been through?"

He suddenly thought of his old friend Allen, whom he had met years ago in the Azure Wood Star Realm—that kid was practically the illegitimate child of the goddess of luck.

At seven, he slipped and fell into an abandoned mine pit, only to discover a rare ore vein; at twelve, he rescued a gravely wounded old man and actually received a Spiritualist inheritance, even curing his congenital deficiencies.

After that, everything went smoothly for him. He became a Star Sea Adventurer and even found several companions with remarkable Talent, traveling together as a team.

Back then, Qin Tian had even sponsored him with a large amount of resources to help him forge his way along the Path of Dawn. In a blink, several years had passed, and Qin Tian had no idea how that lucky kid was doing now.

Back to the point.

People with Talent are everywhere and not exactly rare, but those with fortune upon them often bring unexpected surprises.

"There are just too many!"

Seeing that Qin Tian was interested, Konis immediately began chattering away: "Back then, Ah He ranked second among the comprehensive special admissions, and he originally had no chance of entering our academy. But the one ahead of him had an accident and couldn’t attend the re-exam, so Ah He directly filled the vacancy and got in."

"After enrollment, our dorm took on a wanted mission. The criminal was extremely cunning—the Judgement Court couldn’t catch him. We’d been staking out for so long that we were about to give up, and wouldn’t you know it, Ah He went out to buy a souvenir and ran right into him head-on."

"And there was another time when we went to hunt three-eared macaques. Ah He accidentally discovered the monkey wine they had hidden and brewed. After we obtained it, our Cultivation rose several levels in a row. Later, we gifted some to an old professor at the academy who loved his drink, and in return we secured a lot of exclusive resources and privileges. Things like this have happened many times. As long as we’re with Ah He, we always manage to turn misfortune into blessing and stumble upon opportunities. We all call him our little lucky star!"

As Konis spoke more and more enthusiastically, Liang He lowered his head somewhat sheepishly, his cheeks heating up slightly.

He only felt that he just had the occasional bit of luck, nowhere near as exaggerated as Konis made it sound.

If he truly were so blessed by fortune, with luck clinging to him, how could his journey have been so rough? How could he still have failed to awaken even a shred of bloodline and remained this ordinary?

Thinking of this, a trace of self-mockery rose in Liang He’s heart.

"Military Lord, that’s all I know."

Konis suddenly realized he’d said too much and hurriedly cut himself off, standing there a bit awkwardly.