Chapter 1
Translator: FenrirTL
Editor: Matt, Greedy
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< Chapter 1 >
My fate was decided in the Empire’s selection. Praise His Imperial Majesty.
It was the day I completed the second selection test. The orphanage director chuckled and patted my shoulder, his bloated, greasy fingers betraying how well he’d stuffed himself over the years.
“You’re going to be the masterpiece of our orphanage, Luka.”
Despite being a greedy pig, the director had an eye for talent. Three years later, when I turned fifteen and became a cadet of the Imperial Guard, his words proved true.
The day I left the slums of the lower sector, I underwent a baptism of steel. Imperial scientists severed my limbs, replacing them with cybernetic prosthetics—a luxury of artificial arms and legs that most lower-class citizens would never even lay eyes on.
I could shatter boulders or bend steel with my bare hands, and leap over two-story buildings with a single bound.
“The Irregular of Orphanage 72.”
People called me that. It was rare for anyone from the double-digit orphanages to reach the level of the Imperial Guard.