Chapter 405 - Sarahs birthday (5) (1/2)

Aiden would never disclose that he is using alias 'Omega', but he sees that Sarah trusts them. For some reason which he could not describe, Aiden decided to trust this diverse group of strangers as well.

Everyone in the room froze when they heard him say: 'Omega'.

Even Sarah was surprised. She looked at him, and her expression was questioning his decision.

Aiden smiled and gave her a small nod, assuring her that it's OK.

Sarah relaxed a bit. She didn't understand why he disclosed his alias, but she knows that he did that with some purpose. She will ask him later for details.

”You can't use that.” Lucija shook her head in disapproval.

”Why? Is it taken?” Aiden looked at the faces through the room.

Nick started laughing uncontrollably. It took him some time to catch his breath. ”You want to be the captain, and you don't know that much? 'Omega' is a world-famous hacker. He is not in our group, but still... you can't work under his name. That would be equivalent of committing a sacrilege.”

Aiden was amused. ”Really? Can you tell me more about him?”

Nick glared at Aiden. ”Why did you say 'him'? No one knows gender of the person behind that alias. And Omega is so awesome that only our Boss can be a match for godly skills that Omega has.”

Sarah giggled and looked at Aiden. ”You are enjoying this.”

Aiden nodded with a devious smile.

Sarah saw that Aiden's head is swelling from Nick's words of praise and decided to stop it. ”Let's not drag this... if both of you want to show your skills, there is no better time than now.” Sarah stood up. ”Nick, I look forward to see how much you improved. Aiden, I look forward to see some... godly skills.” Sarah smiled. Part of her wanted Aiden to lose so that his ego deflates, but she knows that there is close to zero chance for something like that to happen. There is a reason why he is so confident. He has skills to back it up.

They went to the back room, which is another cave, more spacious than the previous one. That room is filled with several large desks lined up with various monitors and custom-made computers.

”You get to pick first!” Nick cockily gestured to the computers.

”Is it OK if I use mine?” Aiden smiled faintly.

Nick shrugged. ”Sure, it will be your loss.” Nick was confident that computers which Emir assembled are the most powerful. If Aiden wants to use some stinky laptop, it will be his disadvantage. So, Nick can impress Sarah even more.

Aiden looked at two laptops in his backpack and decided to use the one with black case and a silver 'Ω' sign on it.

”Ah, I see why you wanted Omega moniker!” Nick smugly grinned. ”You are a fan!”

Aiden nodded. ”You can say that.”

Sarah was helping Aiden to connect his laptop to the network.

By now, Tereza already set up cameras pointing at Aiden's and Nick's screens and projector was showing both screens side-by-side on the wall, for everyone to see.

During that time Mishi was explaining to Aiden that there will be three challenges, once you are done with one, you can move on to the next one. Two out of three wins the match. That was the typical format how they battled each other. Everything was recorded, and after it was done, they would discuss the strategies displayed. It was like work-and-learn session where they exchanged knowledge.

As they were getting ready to start, Sarah moved behind Aiden and spoke softly in his ear. ”Can you leave him some dignity?”

Aiden tilted his head to face her. ”I can try.” He kissed tip of her nose.