'Energy is all I need…' Zol replaced the words in his head, closely watching the changes the Catwoman was undergoing.
As the aura gushed out of the catkin, Cassandra closed her eyes as she focused on the concept that opened her mind to what she was missing.
'I can't believe it was all about energy.' She berated herself for not seeing it before. 'How could I have missed something so simple yet so significant?
'We have eyes, yet we cannot see… we speak bits of universal truths daily, yet we have no idea…'
With her newfound realization, she focused on the surrounding laws, understanding their basics of using energy as the building blocks, putting them in their right order and configuration.
Inside her inner realm, her black hole condensed all the energy she'd absorbed, morphing and churning as the singularity slowly became something else.
A sliver of her awareness focused on the changes, making sure not to miss anything. 'The black hole is condensing all that energy/mass into something else. And the way the energy revolves around the singularity isn't random.'
The black hole drew in more energy, carefully configuring them in a definite pattern--in a definite order.
Slowly, the singularity became bigger, glimmering in a kaleidoscope of colours. One moment, it was blue, another moment, it was white and so on.
This core continued to increase in size as it took in more energy. And the more she watched, the more she understood.
'It's like having a front roll seat to the birth of something great… something universal…'
The aura around her grew intense, forcing Zol to back off again. Yet, his eyes didn't look away.
The energy swirling around the Catwoman was insane, yet there was something to it. His eyes could see different patterns in the chaos, and they weren't random.
'At a glance, it looks like a mass of chaotic energies. But there is some order to it. Especially…'
Zol's eyes focused on a particular energy flow. And unlike the others in the mix, that energy flowed with a purpose. Almost like it moved to guide the other energies forward.
'Your telekinetic ability is more than just granting you the power to move things.' Alex's voice echoed once again, seemingly observing everything. 'It allows you to express your will. That is your way forward, Lord Zol.
'That is your path.'
Zol's eyes glowed brightly as something within him seemed to have been exposed to a certain truth. But that truth was still fleeting. It was right there, yet far away.
He knew what Alex gave him were just that--clues. What he needed to do was figure things out himself.
"Energy is all I need…" He muttered once again. "But having it doesn't mean I know how to use it. I need to understand what it stands for… what it means."
Though his connection with Alex granted him other abilities, his own telekinetic powers were what defined him as himself.
Take away Alex's connection and you'd be left with only Zol. And the universe made him attuned with a portion of what 'will' stands for.
Zol sat in the void as he too closed his eyes to ponder on the things he saw, heard and experienced.
'I have been using my powers since I awoken them. I desire to move something and my mana responds to that desire.' Zol pondered. 'It responds to my will…'
Within his body, his mana vortexes spun rapidly, absorbing the surrounding magical energy a similar force to Cassandra's.
Hours passed and quickly turned to days as the two hunters remained in their state of enlightenment.
Cassandra's black hole eventually changed into a similar construct to Alex's, mimicking what Alex believed to be the core of a universe.
The catwoman finally opened her eyes on the fourth day, her aura solidifying and then disappearing like it never existed.
But Cassandra had never felt better. She had never felt so powerful. Suddenly, she knew the how and the why Alex appeared so mysterious and very powerful.
'Still… there are a few things I still have to grasp.' Like Alex, she arrived at the precipice of time. 'It's very complex and I feel it is somehow connected to energy… I just have to find the connection.'
Her gaze shifted to Zol in the distance, lost in his enlightenment and a smile graced her features. 'Can't believe a simple remark brought me here…'
"How long have we been here?" Cassandra asked no one in particular. But she felt Alex's presence. As a matter of fact, he had been present the entire time. 'My senses have grown exponentially, but I still don't know how he does this.'
"A little over four days." The reply came. "Hunter Zol should be coming out of his contemplative state very soon."
"I see…" Cassandra nodded, waving her left hand around, conjuring a planet from scratch. "It's amazing just how everything about us is simply energy given shape. Grasping the laws seemed fundamentally so basic. Will anyone else have such an easy time grasping laws?"
"Not exactly." Alex responded. "We were all built with a portion of the universe's laws. It's why we all wield different abilities, well, except for us." Alex said. "Take Hunter Zol for example.
"The universe granted him the power to move things with his will--a portion of its laws. But for him to grow stronger, far stronger than he is now, he needs to grasp that portion awarded to him.
"Unfortunately for him and everyone else, they don't have their limiters removed. So even if we tell them everything…"
"It wouldn't help at all. It will only make things harder for them." Cassandra ended the statement, looking in Zol's direction.
"Exactly…" Alex affirmed. "Even now, what he has grasped could only amount to a measly 0.0023% of the total. And that is just a portion of the laws that make the universe.
"Yet, his strength has increased fivefold from this small percentage, making him the strongest being aside the two of us."
"So the path forward for all beings is to understand themselves, their shards of law manifesting as their abilities." Cassandra concluded. "It's like reversing to their natural state of being--a oneness with the universe."
"Bingo." Alex affirmed her words.
"I'm surprised how you know all this without anyone teaching you." The catwoman sighed. "Even now, I still don't know how you do some of the things you do."
"Time, Cassandra. Time will tell…"