"Thank you, Dr. Felicity." Zol thanked the good doctor as he and the others got to their feet. After several minutes of talking, Zol was ready to return.
"It was my pleasure, lord Zol." Felicity replied with a smile as she watched the three men leave her office.
Her gaze remained on Alex longer than usual, causing him to turn to the doctor. "Is there something you want to say?" His question prompted the others to turn as well as they waited on the doctor.
"Ah, no." Felicity shook her head with a slight blush. "I was just thinking about how you awakened lord Zol, is all." She squirmed slightly.
"Don't think too much about it," Alex nodded but didn't think too much about it.
[She's into you.] Xex commented casually. [I've caught her staring at you several times during your talks.]
Of course, Alex knew this but pretended to not have noticed. He already had a woman and had no intention of taking another.
"I know," Alex muttered under his breath as he turned around and walked out with the Knight men. Once they disappeared behind the door, Felicity fell back into her chair with a sigh.
'What am I even thinking?' She chided herself. 'I'm twice his age.' Unfortunately, she couldn't help but be attracted to a strong male. It wasn't her fault when Alex appeared like a prime candidate when he just sat there.
Meanwhile, Alex and the others arrived on the ship they came with. "So what now?" Alex asked the others.
"We head back home." Lucas shrugged. "There isn't anything to do at the moment and I'm sure everyone would like to speak with Uncle Zol."
Alex in particular would like to head to the center of the Milky Way himself. 'I should probably return home first and let everyone know what's going on.'
[You've received a message from the three leaders.] Xex interrupted his train of thought. [Would you want to read it yourself or should I just tell you.]
"Tell me," He instructed as they made their way to the observation deck.
[The message details a stranger who appeared in our universe a few years back.] Xex began, however, Alex paused when he heard that.
"Image?"
[Of course,]
Xex brought out the image of the cat woman before and after being frozen in ice.
[Lord Zol should know more about the issue as he was part of the team that brought her in.]
"Everything alright?" Lord Zol called out when he noticed Alex falling behind. He noticed how his gaze appeared to be distant.
"Yeah…." Alex replied and quickly lifted his head. "It's about the visitor who came here a few years ago."
"Oh her…" Zol nodded and gestured for Alex to follow. He didn't need any more to know the leaders were putting Alex in to solve the issue.
'With him, it's possible.' He thought silently as they arrived at the observation deck where they found seats around a table to discuss the issue.
Lucas was not lost on the details as he too was aware of the visitor as all council members knew about the visitor.
"This happened years ago when you were about to start your academy competition." Zol began once they were all comfortable.
The ship hummed slightly as the sequence for a hyperjump was started, and soon, the ship blasted into hyperspace, disappearing into the void.
"At the time, there was an unusual anomaly from a veil tear Mason and I went to investigate."
Zol brought out the recordings of that time as he spoke while running through the events that took place.
What caught his attention was the void creature and while he couldn't sense any aura from the image, Alex could tell the creature was incredibly powerful.
The Catwoman also stood out as she and the void creature plunged into cosmic storms, exchanging blows of galactic proportions.
'She's like me.'
That was all he needed to know she was from another universe, that and the different abilities she revealed.
He was also shocked to see Zol and Evelyn get incredibly injured from the creature's attack and had it not run out of juice, it could have been worse.
"At the time, we thought the void creature was a Class S." Zol continued. "But from what we know now, that one was very weak."
"I agree," Alex said in a solemn tone. "That woman appeared very drained, almost running on fumes. If my guess is right, she and that creature had been fighting for a very long time."
"How can you tell?" Lucas asked with raised brows as he turned back to the video.
"Because she is like me and her abilities appeared weaker than they should," Alex explained, causing the two to look back at the video.
"Your guess was also right," Alex looked at Zol. "She's from a different universe, and that veil tear was probably the gateway that led them here." Zol realized Alex was referring to the vision he had and didn't need to say more.
A veil tear had swallowed Alex himself, but that only sent him to a veiled space, so he wasn't sure if all veil tears had similar properties.
'I have to investigate.' Alex thought. 'From the looks of things, I can enter veil tears just like entering veiled spaces. But I'll need to be much stronger than right now.'
If people like him could travel between universes through the veil tears, then that meant more of them could appear and who knows what their characters were like.
'Also, void creatures come from the veil tears, so the veil tears could also lead to the origin space. That is where the new breed of void creatures come from.' Suddenly, he had a lot on his plate.
Finally, the video showed the woman encasing herself into a block of ice made of void energy. Her words were also gibberish, another sign she wasn't from the empire.
"Let me guess," Alex spoke. "She hasn't woken up since and there is nothing you can do with our current technology."
"Exactly." Zol nodded. "We've tried everything and the final plan was to plunge her inside a cosmic storm to see how it would affect the ice."
"I can see how you would think that." Alex agreed as his current understanding of void energy made him realize mana wouldn't make a dent in that ice.
"But why would you want to awaken her?" He couldn't understand their reasoning.
"Because we were getting desperate after the appearance of the S Class void creatures. As you can tell, we aren't powerful enough to handle them. However, before I could implement that plan…"
Zol left the words hanging, but Alex got the picture.