Chapter One - Me

My name is Dorian Artherius Tornelis, and I was born at the day zero, or so called The Dawn. It meant that my age was more than five billion years. I was told that I am the only male heir of the Space-Time Lord and the Lord of Light and there are two sisters of mine somewhere in the universe. Even though I looked like a human, I wasn't. I had pointy ears, like my mother did, while having almost ice-like colored eye pupils, which shone with dim bluish light. My hairstyle was dark black-colored spiky hair, like some kind of young rascal. Whereabouts of my sisters are yet unknown to me, but I intended to do something about it. But for now…

As you can imagine, I am pretty much one of the most powerful beings in the entire universe in all the technology, magic and overall combat power. I was given plethora of different items ranging from pistols and daggers through twin blades and rifles to rocket launchers and an armor. All made from an unnamed metal, which was supposedly one of the four strongest metals out here, or so I was told.. I didn't know at that time how wrong I was.

I was used now to the calendar created for me, which one year has 455 Ris, while having eleven months. One month had forty-one Ris, while a few of those month had forty-two. One Ris lasted approximately 36 Heris. And a Heri lasted for 75 Mis. Right now, it was the Age of Ascension, which was the year of 2055 by the local calendar. Right now, I am observing a small terrestrial planet, with some decent numbers of human beings spread around on a few numbers of continents as they develop their first stellar engine.

I am parked at this time at that planter's only stellar satellite, which was supposedly called The Moon by the local civilization aboard my trusty Annihilator-class ship with the name of Alyss cloaked within a very advanced stealth field. This ship had fully evolved AI, over-the-top tiered weapons, drones and such. The ship itself was approximately 1600 Kems long, 900 Kems wide and high, with a huge multi-layered engine on its rear.

It had on its bottom, or belly, you could say, huge door, and inside of it was the biggest weapon you can think of. That weapon was supposedly a gift from my father, which I did not see from the time he set me off with this ship as a parting gift. It was a two-phase beam weapon, which in the first phase, it launched concentrated stream of superheated particles upon target and second phase, which fired a space-time disruptive projectile, resulting into complete erasure of the targeted subject from the space-time continuum. While this weapon had that immense power, it had enormous energy requirements to fire.

To fire such a weapon in its second phase, Alyss would have needed to consume a star to power it up to fire it at a maximum of five times. It was also dependent on the size of a star consumed. After a successful firing sequence, she would enter a special stasis mode to recharge. In that time, she relied on me as her sole crew member to defend her from both intruders on-board and in the space, too.

As I watched those humans on their world as they develop, I was thinking why they don't yet have any kind of a base on this moon of theirs when they were developing a stellar engine right now. It was kind of strange, I thought. But unlike my Ancient family, I was not forced to not interfere with other lesser beings. So if I wanted, I can go down there and see them on my own.

After a few Mis, I've decided to go down there and see their world, because there was not much else to do. There were no pursuers of the so called the Voids, which supposedly descended from the Lord of Darkness, as they wanted to obliterate all and everything. There also was nothing in the galaxy-wide scans, so I was quite bored, for an ageless being.

I've teleported myself using carefully concealed teleportation gate created by my powers to travel on that planet. As I landed into an unfamiliar forest-like place, I've felt a strange feeling I wasn't able to describe. It felt like there is someone with hidden powers on this world. And yes, before you ask how am I able to do it, it's because of my bloodline that I can feel pretty much any minor change in magical powers or any powers overall.

I was thinking that I may go to investigate, but the humans on this planet might think I am some kind of a scout of a bigger attack force. It was still to my advantage that these humans were not so advanced in their scanning technology as some other ones in the inner space of this galaxy, called here by the name of Milky Way.

So then I had to use my powers again to conceal my almighty weapons and armor and changed into some more civil clothes. Now I was looking like some young business man who was lost in a forest on his way from his work. After the magic was done, I left for the big city in the distance around 50 Kems from my location, or so I saw that on my multi-tool on my left hand, with its holographic interface.

After a realization that I should not use my powers to go faster than a normal human to not to break my "cover", I walked very slowly for my usual pace, around five Heris until I successfully reached the outer city buildings. They were made from very resilient form of steel combined with diamonds to probably enhance their durability in harsh weather or planetary catastrophes. The buildings had reinforced glass panes as windows and there were humans inside pretty much every and any room I saw.

I unfortunately, or maybe fortunately did not see any other races I knew from other parts of the universe. I also did not sense that strange feeling I had a few Heris back so I was not able to find it's source at all. But I was sure it was coming from this city.

As I walked around, few of the humans watched me and whispered something in between them in a language, which at first I did not understand, but after using my skills, I've heard them saying something about a rich guy walking around like he owned the place and such nonsense, so I promptly ignored it and walked around a bit more.

I really wondered what currency this civilization used, if not Credits, as the usual all-space currency. It must've been something different, as I did not see the usual "C" with its double-cross over it. If I wanted to buy something from here, I would probably need to cheat and generate money. But I was never such a person, so all my money I had on me was hard-earned by doing some very well-paid bounty hunting. Although it was almost entirely made of Credits.

As I walked past some building, which looked like a shopping mall, as they called it here in their speech, I was thinking I can probably check it out, just of sheer curiosity, so I decided to enter. It felt to me as a kind of a paradox, being clothed as a rich man, who technically did not have any local money at all.

After I strolled through the shopping mall, someone, who was not watching the road they walked on, almost bumped it into me. But as like in less than a .. pretty much instantly, or so it looked like to the public, I neatly evaded the person who walked by, watching their screen, which was probably a mobile communication device, with its holographic screen, there was some kind of a movie running on it. That person was a black haired human woman by the age of 24(Yes, I can sense age of a living being, too). She looked like some kind of angel, though she was just a mere human(Yes, I've met up with angels in the years past by). Her black hair up to her waist was tied up in a big long ponytail with golden-wired hairpin while wearing clothes, which looked like some kind of rich luxurious dress without sleeves and skirt long up to her knees with dark blue color which probably meant she was some kind of a rich girl. Her eyes had an unusual color for a human being, as they were clearly gold-colored. This fact had hit me like a stone, as that girl must have, or her parents or grandparents must have descended from the angels themselves. I sensed that her appearance is modified, so I thought that she must hide her true look. She also must've been the one, who was unknowingly emitting her powers.

As that though ran through my head, that girl turned up to me: "I am very sorry. I did not see you. I was so concentrated on this thing I totally forgot to keep my eyes on the road."

"It's nothing", I said as a reply to her. But she was already too fast with speaking asking me: " And how did you do that thing? Like evading me on that exact time I literally felt I've bumped into you?" And with that sentence, she's got a curious look on her face.

I was thinking about quite a lot right now. First thing was "How in the cursed underworld did she saw all that evasive move"? I said to myself in my head. As per request, or something, Alyss responded with: "I am unsure, but this young "human" woman appears to be the one radiating that strange power. I recommend leading her out of your current location, putting her asleep and bringing her aboard of myself."

I've though it through as no time passed at all, but a normal living being of any race would've been thinking this around one Heri to actually reach the decision I did, some even more than that.

I excused myself with: "You may have seen something in that device of yours. As an apology, I would like to invite you for a drink. What do you say?"

With her eyebrows narrowed into a kind-of questioning look, then her face soon changed into a kind and cute smile, she replied with happiness in her voice: "Of course, I'll be glad to go for a drink."

I did not yet know that she was clearly pretending that she didn't know who I was. She hid that really well.