Alex was disoriented when he woke up.
The exhaustion was gone, but he quickly realised he was still wearing his sticky and dirty clothes as he wasn't really in any position to change them the previous night considering he passed out before he could do anything.
He looked out of his window, and noticed that it was already early in the morning.
'Did I sleep that long?'
Alex wondered as he stripped off his clothes and took a quick shower to clean himself off.
His body was still damp when he left the shower. He changed into some casual clothes after drying and put his dirty clothes aside for the time being, before someone came to collect it to clean it thoroughly.
The menial chores like washing clothes, washing dishes etc had become much more convenient in this era, as one just had to request a robot assistant to come to their house to do their chores for them.
This was especially useful for people like Awakened who needed to use their time efficiently, and couldn't afford to waste a couple hours a day doing menial and boring tasks.
'Since even one hand was too much for me to handle, I guess I should try only 1 finger this time.'
Alex knew that it would be hard to even progress to the first stage of the technique, but he didn't expect to meet such hardship straight away.
He had expected it to come quickly to him, just like the Phoenix fury technique did back when he first obtained that, but it seemed that wasn't the case with this one.
B tier techniques were in an entirely different league of their own.
Ring!
However, just as he was about to start his practice session once again, his communicator started ringing, bringing Alex out of his meditative state.
'Who is it this time?'
Alex was annoyed at first — constantly being disturbed at moments where he didn't want to be had started to become a common occurrence for him for some reason.
However, he quickly dropped his annoyed mood the instant he read the name on the caller ID.
He had already reached the peak of power, there was little that could entice him into taking a trip to the Primordial Expanse anymore, and his time was better spent managing the university's affairs, and raising the next generation of elite awakened.
One of the biggest motivators for such large amounts of resources to be spent on the young awakened was the lack of manpower in the higher ranks of humanity.
Yes that's right, lack of manpower.
When facing off against beasts of a higher class than yourself, it would be almost impossible to take it down without having a team of equal power to yourself.
This wasn't that big of a deal for the lower ranked awakened, as there were uncountable numbers of them across the whole federation, but for A tier and S tier awakened, this was a very big problem.
There were less than 1 million A tier awakened across the whole federation.
Although this may at first seem like a big number, there were many things to consider.
First, the scale of the federation. It spanned the whole milky way galaxy, with hundreds of billions of star systems inhabiting the space.
Even more worrying for the higher ups was that out of these 1 million A tier awakened or so, only about 10% of them had upgraded from Ordinary class to Mutant class.
And out of this 10%, only around 1% had upgraded to Variant class.
This puts the issues faced by humanity into perspective.
The problem was even worse for the S tiers.
There wasn't a single Ordinary class S tier, with all of them upgrading to at least Mutant class in A tier before they reached S tier.
However, out of these 100 or so S tiers, only the top 10 of them were Variant class or higher.
With the Principal being the only confirmed King class.
The mysterious person in number one being the only anomaly, as little was known about him, other than he was a man, and he was stronger than the Principal.
With this information in mind, it is clear to see that it is impossible for the Principal to progress any further, as there was simply nobody powerful enough to help him take down an Ancient class beast.
There were rumours he had requested help from the mysterious strongest man in the federation, but he was turned down for some unknown reason.