Lost in his thoughts and with his eyes closed, Zel seemed to not care at all about all his injuries. he was just standing there, in the middle of that giant cave.

" .... "

After what seemed like an eternity.

" ....everything is a bit more complicated than I would think they would be .....anyway, I can't change anything now, and it's too late to have remorse....let's go with option 2 and stabilize that crack and finalize the gate ... let's see what the future is made of. "

Zel muttered to himself, with his eyes closed, lifted his arms towards the direction of the spatial crack, and then.. he abruptly opened his eyes. now fully deep black. with no more white visible on them.

The same phenomenon that happened with Alex not long ago, started happening to him. Dark energy started to shut and burst out of his injured body, that energy was so dense and unstable at a point it seemed as if it was affecting space and time itself, modeling and warping it to its will.

But this time that dark energy didn't run wild and out of control as of what happened with Alex.

It was kept in control gently circulating around Zel like it was a tamed pet.

He then started to redirect that furious aura toward his chest, before then splitting it equally and slowly redirecting it toward both his two arms, after that he slowly started to redirect it toward his hands, once all that amount of aura was condensed in one area the warps that it was creating was so violent, it gave the impression that the space around Zels hands would split at any moment now, thus creating two other little space rifts.

Fortunately, the warping started to slowly but surely stabilize fading little by little until that phenomenon completely stopped. signaling that Zel was able to keep in control.

" s.. t ..a ..b ..i ..l.. i ..s ..e "

• • • • •

 

He then, with an unimaginable difficulty said that one and only word,

before spitting a mouth full of blood.

The two-bolt of pure black aura left his hand at the same time. slowly heading toward the black ink space rift.

Swoozzzz. Swoozzzz swoozzzz wooooozz

surfing threw the waves of space with no apparent difficulties.

It took approximately 30 seconds for both of the black energy bubbles to gently make contact with the space rift, before rapidly spreading into it, like water splattered into the ground.

"..."

Swooozzz

" friz" with his last remaining ounce of energy he spets a world almost in an inedible way.

Time once again seemed to stop, Zel fully focused, with only one of his arms still up, his eyes that were menacing to shut at any moment

back to their normal color contrary, to his face that now was as pale as a sheet, looking more like a dead man than anything else, he clearly was staying alive only by the sheer power of his will.

Meanwhile, the space crack was reshaping and modeling itself seemingly not affected at all by zels domain, if one looked at it it would seem like it interior was boiling.

Slowly but surely, the once ink-black color of the space crack was fading little by little, letting it place to a softer translucent version of it. It didn't take long until the ink-black was nowhere to be seen. indicating that whatever Zel did, was a success.

After what seemed days of silent suffering Zel who was on the verge of crumbling didn't have even the possibilities to enjoy

Swooooozzzzz

The time violently started back again, causing the body of the half-unconscious, Zel entirely Chivers from pain, Zel not having even the energy to scream just encased the shock in silence before slowly falling and collapsing.

"....ZeL..." The unknown person in a soothing voice meanwhile catching zel and stopping his fall.

" heh..h~mdl R...." Zel used all the energy left in him to mumble inaudible and incomprehensible words with his voice cracked and tired. Suddenly Lost consciousness.

Just some mere second later, a group of 11 people all all wearing the same white spacesuit. Surrounded Zel and that unknown person who was holding him.

With 10 of them circling them and facing their surroundings, for any eventual danger, the last one was standing behind the unconscious Zel.

" We will take care of his highness from here onward,....so can you please step aside from him, " the person standing behind Zel said respectfully and at the same time in an authoritative threatening voice.

"...."

"..."

After a long and tense moment of silence.

As if it was a staring competition between two Apex predators.

 

"Hmpf...whatever .! after you are done here, come back with the research team... but before that .... half of you will stay, I want that place fully secured in a minimum radius of 10 to 20 km . " the unknown person ordered walking away and letting Zel continue his falling.

" Sorry but we only receive ord..." the seeming leader of the team said looking at Zel who was still falling before catching him. " tss .....just do us he said ."

" Good ." The unknown person said before disappearing, letting only some sparkles of black energy behind him.

" Oh! may~ Are we gonna now, take orders from him ?! " a woman asked in a teasing manner with her sweet to-hear voice, yet the bloody red sharp aura she was emitting was betraying what her true feelings at that moment were, indicating that this woman right now was really annoyed and pissed off and that one at that moment should not dare to miss with her.

She then started to approach in a sexy demeanor, each one of her steps showing her confidence.

" No !.. you are taking orders from me... And Jess! if you have time to discuss my orders, just use it to help his highness...Take him and Alex back to earth, no one is allowed to see him in that state of his, clear ?! " the man who was now clearly the leader of that group of people coldly ordered.

" Hen~?!..You are not coming back with us ?...your little fiancee will be sad ~ "

hearing that he unleashing a powerful wave of silver aura.

" Ara ~ and What about her? " Jess voiced her thought again pointing at Anna not startled from the pressure stroke she just received.

" Hmm who ? ! ..oh...right well just bring her along... I guess?!, enough wasting time now dismiss !:" the man said looking at an unconscious Anna.

SWoosh ~

Then half of the people present vanished. Including Zel, Alex, and Anna.

Sigh~ " well your highness,...what a mess you are putting as in ....." he gently whispered,

" let's go ! " he ordered after turning Back to look at what was now more like a gate than a space rift.

All the people present nodded at his order before they all begin to vanish one by one.

until he was left alone in that vast cave, having decided to stay because for an instant, he was intrigued by the purple particles floating around him. he then tried to catch some of them, but it was in vain his hand just passed through them, indicating that they were clearly some kind of Energy.

' They seemed to react to my aura '.....

He thought

Hmpf

" Whatever...." He then said, before moving slowly towards the exit.

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Author thoughts: Act 1 is finally over if you enjoyed it please do consider supporting it by adding it to your library giving it a review or a simple comment, it would

truly boost my motivation thank you for reading! - AgLd