Chapter 274 - Captain Omega's Exploits!

The Atlantian soldiers were having an awful time.

The last test of the Doppelganger and Invisibility Sea King will was so weird and unheard of that it caught all the Atlantian soldiers, including the knowledgeable Lieutenant Colonel Arachnid off-guard.

If they were asked to swim a thousand laps, they could do it, if they were asked to survive alone in the darkest regions of Oceania, they could do it, but for this test, they could not do it.

This was a test that completely fit the personality of this notorious Sea King.

As soon as all the Atlantian soldiers entered the domain for the last test with optimism radiating vibrantly, they faced the nightmares of their lives when they discovered that they were no longer Atlantians.

Dogs, cats, rats, eagles, fowls, snakes, and even worms, were just a minority of the myriad transformations that the Atlantians experienced.

The set-up was so messed-up that they themselves were messed up.

Throughout their whole lives in service under the Atlantian army, they were trained to always fight as Atlantians and nothing else.

None of their commanders ever presented a scenario where they had to fight in the form of a beast, this was because it was too unrealistic and was almost impossible for them to find themselves in such circumstances.

Right now, though, they could only marvel at how naïve their commanders had been. They actually faced a situation where they had to battle as beasts!

Though the Atlantian soldiers disdained the notion, they had no choice but to try their possible best to improvise and give their best, this was because this mission was not just tied to their dignity and destiny.

They put in their best because this was a mission that was vital to their race.

This served as the perfect motivation that they needed to give their all to try acclimatizing to their new state and to learn how to move and fight with it.

Of course, they still had their basic skill sets except for the fact that they could no longer wield weapons which restricted their strength a lot.

Their only saving grace was the prevalence of the origin magic.

Despite this single advantage though, acclimatizing to living as beasts proved to be a herculean task that the majority of them were unable to fulfill.

Putting this aside, they were simply too disadvantaged in other areas.

In terms of intelligence, apart from storybooks that they've read about their progenitor world, they had never seen or read anything that could accurately describe earth and its culture which limited their intelligence by a lot.

This was why over 50% of them were eliminated on the first day as they were discovered by the soldiers of the military outposts that were on patrol.

The rest continued striving amidst their unfavorable circumstances, all they wished for was to fulfill this mission and to bring glory to their race.

Despite all their efforts, as time went on, more of them were eliminated.

This was a similar scenario that was reflected of the mutated beasts that managed to make it to the extent where they could access the last test.

About 80% of the mutated beasts were unable to get to this point, but the few that were able to make it all had horrible records.

The blood of all these eliminated candidates flowed like a river that washed the inheritance ground, dying it red while the souls of the dead enhanced its other ethereal effects.

All these showed how troublesomely hard this last test was.

None of the candidates managed to get close to the U.S President, except 2 candidates who were Sebastian and Captain Omega.

Captain Omega transformed into a dog on entering the inheritance ground, a huge aggressive magic bulldog that fit this man's personality.

Like a bulldog, though he also suffered a lot of restrictions, Captain Omega lost his weakness as his strength was amplified to the maximum.

Every one of them was transformed into beasts which succeeded in degrading their intelligence by a lot. Captain Omega never paid much attention to this originally, which made him the greatest benefactor of this setup.

With no need of paying attention to this defect again, he simply forgot everything and settled for a straightforward approach for strength.

Bulldozing through every obstacle with brainless strength was the approach that he settled for, and it worked wonders for him.

The major challenge in his plan was still acclimatizing to the feeling of living like a dog. This posed a significant problem to him, but he had some motivating factors that gave him a lot of help.

After suffering the defeat of being unable to capture the young Megalodon, and stacking this with the effects of his previous defeats, Captain Omega finally felt that he was getting old and turning useless.

It may feel petty, but these defeats decreased his self-confidence a lot.

His saving grace was that he was never a man to settle for defeats. To regain his pride and self-confidence was why he volunteered to be the first one to enter this unknown domain to scout the dangers.

On getting here and seeing the challenges, it was this same motivation to recover his pride that pushed him to put more effort than all the others.

Lieutenant Colonel Arachnid was transformed into a worm which made his acclimatization tasks one of the hardest. With this powerful Atlantian relegated to the side, Captain Omega became the Atlantian main man.

This man that sought to protect his pride repeatedly broke his limits.

"If some spoiled brat Megalodon thinks he can trample over my pride, then I'll have to take the responsibility that his parents failed to discipline him!"

With this mindset, Captain Omega achieved wonders!

On the 4th day, he grew accustomed to all the basics of living and moving as a dog. On the 5th day, he mastered moving with his new body. Then on the 6th day, he attacked without any meticulous planning.

Of course, as soon as he moved in, the U.S soldiers were alerted as they all rallied to kill this assassin before he could deal any real damage.

Captain Omega proved a point though, he was not so easily killable.

"Killer Move: Brainless Blood Asura!"

In this domain, he was one of the few whose killer moves were still activatable. With this killer move, Captain Omega turned into an unstoppable train.

He crashed through a lot of soldiers, starting a massacre that carried him to inside the heart of the President's vacation mansion.

This was where he was surrounded from all sides.

Captain Omega put up a heroic fight against all odds against the enemies that overwhelmed him in numbers and almost every other parameter.

When the 4 Captains arrived with their Positron rifles, his situation finally turned for the worse. These deadly weapons severely injured him, leaving him in a vulnerable state for the other soldiers to exploit.

Despite his pathetic state, Captain Omega never backed down as he bit back at the U.S soldiers like a rabid dog who was pushed to the wall.

Captain Omega took down hundreds of soldiers before he became spent.

At the last moment, before he could sustain the death injury though, the test followed the proper pattern and ended.

Captain Omega fulfilled one of the basic requirements of this test to survive. He didn't just survive; he received a special reward for his performance.

Captain Omega received a familiar pair of Boxing chains that he fell in love with at first sight. 

He failed his ultimate mission, but he was the only Atlantian soldier who achieved a basic result.

He succeeded in regaining his pride and self-confidence!

He felt like Captain Omega again!