ABO Cadets (c33+) (軍校生/在学生) by: 蝶之灵 (Chinese BL Translation)

Chapter 044: Old Affairs

Chapter 044: Old Affairs

The Imperial law expressly stipulates that all Omegas must be registered in the association at the time of birth and must strictly obey the arrangements of the association. The Military Department also has a ban forbidding Omegas to join the army. After finding out that he was an Omega, Lin Yuan felt very disheartened. He had thought that he could no longer attend school. The Military Department would expel him from the military and he would even be arrested and imprisoned......

Why would His Majesty give him a favor that went outside the law?

Coming into contact with Lin Yuan's doubtful gaze, Trent couldn't help but feel a smile raise on his lips.

The youth in front of him has a pair of clear black eyes, these jet-black eyes were extremely clever. Fair skin and hair as if it were dipped in ink were the physical traits also inherited from his biological father, but his optimistic and lively personality, however, does not resemble that indifferent father of his in the slightest.

Looking at this youth, there will always be a very strange sense of familiarity settling at the bottom of his heart.

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Many years ago, when Trent was still a Prince, together with Ling Yu and Rosen he had attended the St. Romia Military Institute of Military Affairs in the Command Department. Rosen and Ling Yu were Trent's most adored junior brothers.

(TN: As in they were his younger fellow students.)

At the time when Ling Yu had his accident, Trent had been the Empire's Imperial Monarch for less than five years. The political power in his hand was not stable. In addition, there were too many people in the Military who were unable to stand Ling Yu and with Trent's own power, there was simply nothing he could do to save him

Even though Trent was His Majesty of the Empire, in the end, the Empire was not his alone to have the final say.

Over the past six hundred years since the founding of the Lacey Empire, the power has been divided into the hands of several influential families. The founding Emperor of those days was a valiant Generalissimo, he also paid special attention to the so-called camaraderie shared between comrades-in-arms. Following the establishment of the Empire, he accompanied the founding Emperor to lay down this regime. The generalissimos had all been promoted as the heads of the major legions, it could even be said that they were overflowing with heavenly power.

It was a pity that this esteemed ancestor died far too early. The one who had taken up the Imperial Throne was a mild-mannered Prince. At that time, the war had erupted between the Lacey Empire and the Strand Federation. The newly-appointed His Majesty completely lacked prestige in the military and those generalissimos refused to obey or comply with his orders and furthermore divided up the commander-in-chief's military power. Later, the Military Department even independently left the Government's Legislative Assembly, becoming its own separate institution.

(TN: I'm assuming that this is the title referring to the Kings or Emperors seeing as they're supposed to be the ones commanding over the entire military.)

Over time, the power of the Imperial family began to gradually decline.

The Emperor who no had any military power in his hands just became a figurehead and puppet for the Military Department.

This kind of scene lasted for nearly five hundred years. When Trent took on Imperial throne from his Father's hands, the internal trouble and outside aggression even made him unable to move a single step. Just precisely balancing the power of each influential family together was a difficult problem, not to mention still having to face the Federation's hostile forces constantly harassing their border.