The next morning, Aurelian went back to Polaris Naval Academy to report for duty and submit the details of everything that had happened since his first deployment.
The process itself was clean and surprisingly quick, probably because too many people had already read the reports before he even arrived, and no one in the academy administration wanted to waste time having him repeat what was already in the system.
After the final verification was done, the academy transferred the mission rewards directly to him.
Thirty thousand credits.
Three thousand blue source fragments.
And one academy treasury exchange chance for blue-tier equipment.
That last one mattered the most.
The academy treasury was not the kind of place students often got to touch, and even among the items available for exchange, there were plenty that could change the feel of a fleet if used well.
Aurelian went through the list carefully instead of grabbing the first expensive-looking thing.
