P.O.V. Aadi (second council meeting)
When I awake the third day of us being in the capital Lucien is gone and Nilan is sitting on the sofa with his hands folded together like a person praying, although no one in our house is overly religious it doesn't mean Lucien and Nilan are not believers of the gods.
We do not follow any of the 14 gods but we pray for blessings from all when a big event like me heading to the human capital, or before we set off for the Lycaonia.
We eat breakfast at 6 O'clock and play with cards until 11 O'clock comes around we stop due to the sound of knocking and a soldier of the council is here to take us else where, I look to Nilan but he nods his head in acceptance so we open the door and follow the man after getting our things as he told us we will not be returning.
We get into a car filled with protection enchantments along both the inside and outside, I subconsciously clutch my plant to my chest as we move to an unknown location.
We arrive at a large courthouse like building with pillars all over the place along with purple and yellow details and designs all over the place while the main building itself is a pure white, entering we are taken to a iron door that after walking through leads to a large iron door filled with enchantments I have never seen before.
The guard with us puts his hand on the handle while also inserting a key the nearby hole I can feel some of his mental energy being pushed into the door at the handle part, I hear a soft buzz sound when the door swings open.
Me and Nilan both walk in and we are told to wait as our mate and father will be here soon, we are told that no communication crystals work here and that if there is any needs to simply pull on the black rope to the left of the door. They then close and lock the door behind them and a small hum can be heard when the door closes, like that we are left in a large but completely enclosed room with no windows or means of knowing what is happening outside.
We wait only a few minutes before Lucien returns and explains why we are here and it makes me nervous that they now know of the otherworld's, but if it is because of someone from another world intervening then the worry is not unfounded as my existence itself proves people of other world's can survive coming here.
When two hours pass five people enter the room, one is like Lucien wearing a toga with pure white wings on his back, although he is clearly older he has light blue hair and eyes similar to snow crystals it is easy to see the relation as Lucien shares nearly all his features as well as coloring.
A middle aged elf woman with platinum blonde hair and clear colored eyes is also there, I have never seen an elf with an age older the their mid 20's so to see one that looks in her 30's is a surprise.
A wolf beastman with auburn hair and tourmaline colored eyes make his relation to the one we met on our first day in the country easy to spot.
There is a older thin man with dark green hair and a gaunt look to him, although his face gives off hints of kindness despite the scales and paleness of him you can tell from the eyes he is a innately gentle person.
Finally a beautiful black haired cat lady with panther based spots on her fur is the last to enter and she is the youngest one of the group looking barely of age.
They all came in followed by a medical bed rolled in for the body to be place on to study, I feel uncomfortable letting them study the body like this with little respect given to the man who was simply unlucky and had no intention on harming anyone.
But we needed them to decide how to go about this with all the information available and this is the only way to guarantee they will believe the story even with Lucien having sworn on his energy it as the truth, because if he was made to believe it true through an imprint then it is possible for the oath to be voided while telling a false hood as he believes it the truth.
After all of them are in Nilan take out the body and places it on the medical table for them to check, the otherworld energy is still present due to having been in the space all these years it looks like he only dies a few days ago.
The others begin to speak and most come to agreement they couldn't survive such integration, but the middle aged elf woman stops their talking and says, "Use your own energy when cultivating can ignore this problem, but such paths are horrific and banned as forbidden arts." I feel myself tense at that statement as that is the exact cultivation I used and as she had said I survived entering this world.
I hear them talk among themselves and many speak of looking into and interrogating those who use such cultivation, Lucien steps forward to tell them that I am one such person due to being in the black market and it is possible that they won't be able to use this method as most those who use this method are like me.
Silence and it is clear everyone understands that this method will mean punishing the victims for something they had no control over, it could bring internal problems if it got out about it.
Over the next hour 20 people come and go each one a different species then the next, though I notice none appear to be of the void people, all of them are told of the older elf woman's conclusion but also of the problem that comes with interrogating those who actually use such cultivation as most those who do are victims.
Afterwards a guard comes and takes Lucien out of the room to continue the meeting with the council as he is the one with the longest time to process and understand such knowledge while the body is place in a preservation tube and removed to do full body and energy scans.
Lucien returns two hours later and what he says makes me freeze, "They have decided to see if they can't back track the persons world using spacial energy tracking methods."
I understand it means they wish to see if they can find ways to permanently link to another world before thinking of potential invasion as that is the only reason they would invade, is if they had a means by which to link their worlds with this one.
"If they can link the world they intend to ask those like you to go through along with death row criminals to see if their is any chance of survival for those with this world's energy in their body when they transfer to another world, most of our forces use our world energy so the same is assumed true for most places so they need to see what the potential survival rate could be." He continues and I know I will definitely be requested to join as a healer/buffer.
I think for a while after that on whether I will agree to this and I ultimately decide that if they offer I will go, I want to see if it is possible, although it will not be possible with me as both my body and energy have nothing to do with my original world anymore it doesn't mean I can't potentially find others from my world like me.
If so a way back to my original world may just become possible, although at this point I consider here my world more then the one I was born in and my loyalty lies in this world as well.
Because of the restriction of not allowed yet to leave until the full investigation is over me and Lucien spend most of the time sparing and training in the large training room filled with all the things provided including a practice course.
When a week has passed Lucien is taken to speak with someone that we are not allowed to know of as they are a higher level of secrecy.
Lucien returns and he does not look pleased but the guard with him speaks, "We request that Aadi Null agree to speak in front of the council and council guest of his first hand experience with the otherworlder, although you have right to refuse your claim of nothing to do with him will be put in question and you may be questioned as a suspect rather then witness."
I agree as it is for the best if they view me as cooperative and willing rather then potentially uncooperative.
I follow him out the room while Lucien and Nilan stay behind we walk to a large iron wood door carved with dragons and phoenix's on it in gold and red with swirls of black all over it, the guard knocks and the door open to a court hall filled with mahogany wood and a large amounts of enchantments carved into the wall shining a blackish purple color.
Their is about 25 people in here 20 of which came to witness the body while the other five all had pitch black hair and eyes as well as the familiar pull of energy around them similar to the energy I felt around Wyatt.
They are all void people although their is masks covering all but their eyes making me unable to identify their features.
When one of them speaks I hear a familiar voice that I haven't heard since the twentieth floor, "You are Aadi Null correct?" I look at the pitch black mask with a purple swirl design on the forehead, they were the one to speak and I know exactly who now wears that mask.
Wyatt is among those on the jury, and he has seen my face before the transformation that took place when I left.
I tighten my hand then release it and with a blank face I reply, "That is right sir, My name Aadi Null I was adopted by Lucien Null a month before my 12th birthday and I turned 22 three months ago. Is their any other information I must say or shall I speak of the events that took place on the fourth floor 5 years ago."
The 20 council members look to the 5 void people and when the one wearing a black mask with pure gold swirl on the forehead nods they turn back to me and say, "You may begin to tell you personal experience."
And speak of it I did while keeping my face as blank as possible through the whole process, it is clear that hey had hoped I could give more details but it has been five years and all that stood out to me at the time I had told Lucien when I got back from the tower meaning I had no extra information to provide them.
I am taken to another room off to the side, I am told it is for those in the mask to ask further questions individually, as some have differing personal information that should not be spoken in front of the council and that I will take and oath not to speak of any details of my talk.
The first two to enter back to back are the two with a white swirl on the forehead, both just ask for look of him and what I could feel from him before he began integration, nothing much is said here.
When the man in the red swirl on forehead mask enters it is for the same thing but he also asks of what I felt when I met someone like him for the first time along with how I feel of what has happened, it is clear he is checking if I am sympathizing with the otherworlder. I admit to being horrified following this event as well as slightly traumatized but I got over it quickly and directly told Lucien what had occurred as I left the tower.
The man leaves with a scoff following those words, finally Wyatt in his purple swirled mask enters the room and silence reins in here for a good minute before I see him reach up and remove the mask.
The familiar handsome face looks at me and studies me carefully, "I had heard you used an illegal cultivation style due to your past but didn't expect it to be a transformation based one, though this is probably one of the reasons you chose to so adamantly leave the group before you began this drastic reformation."
He says with little inflection in his voice as he clearly realizes I hid far more from him then he had known at that time.
He continues, "I wish to hear you tell me of your cultivation as well as allow me to absorb some of your energy to guarantee their is no lasting negative affects, although I am sure your father has done so their are some things not told to lower ranking people that if not noticed early on could be trouble for you."
I refuse, "You have no right to demand either of me as the law protects the victims right from such invasion and unless you have a medical license it can not count a being done under medical checking."
He chuckles and says, "I do have a medical degree and it is one of the major reasons I was brought instead of others as I am one of the only few of my kind that bothered with what most my kind view as unnecessary, so I am here on behalf of my people to do a medical scan on you and to check for suspicious hints the otherworlder had left on you when alive."
I look him in the eye before I say, "I invoke the right to have all medical information pertaining to anything before the fourth floor took place protected under the not involved clause in exchange I will swear on all energy in my body it is uninvolved in this case and will only explain to you the cause by which the difference is their but you must also swear on your energy or under the private rights act you have no right to medically look at me who as a had a recent medical scan."
I can see his face tighten as it is clear he understands their is a bigger secret then what he knew behind me then just the illegal cultivation.
"You realize if we criminally charge you we have right to do so anyway?" He asks.
"Yes I am aware and I also know that without me pointing out the difference and explaining it you will never know what it is as your machines lack the ability to identify it." I respond in kind.
He looks me in the eyes as we stare each other down trying to get the other to cave first until finally Wyatt gives, "I will make the oath you wish for but you will answer all questions involving you truthfully and as impartially as possible."
And so we both make the oaths and finally Wyatt removes the gloves he is wear and places his hand on my chest around my collar bone but he then squints his eyes as the energy he gets is filled with emotion, the mental energy in my body is not the energy in the mental energy veins but directly from my mind meaning they are coated in parts of me.
He pulls back in shock before going back in again with a hard expression on his face having realized there is a massive difference to others already.
"What in the world is occurring with your energy, it is on the right path but is is your mental realm energy not the mental energy usually seen in ones energy veins. Though I guess this is why you refused me before, it is not a normal thing to have that types of information in all parts of the body rather then just your brain." He responds the interest in his voice is clear as day.
"You notice no difference other than that correct, then you can see as I said you will not know the difference unless I point it out. Their is a second energy system in my body if you put your hand to my pelvic region you will probably sense it slightly." I tell him, his body tightens and does as I say and astonishment shows as I leash in my mental energy and release me spirit energy for him to feel.
"How in the, wait another world." murmurs under his breath as he looks at me in clear recognition of how a new energy system all together can exist. "I thought Lucien raised you since you where twelve their is no way you came through the tower so how did you come here."
The command in his tone as he says this is clear as day, I begin to explain my story first with the difference in his worlds dungeon to my world tunnels, I do not mention how long I was in there but he can probably guess, I talk of meeting Lucien when the dungeon appeared here and the difference in energy used by both sides.
By the end I can see the serious look on his face as he realizes that their is now two ways for people to get into this world and one doesn't require someone from their world to bring the person here but rather they just need to walk out.
"I should report this but you know I can't with the oath I have taken, I will make another offer then I will act as your benefactor and will have Lucien and his people pardoned for hiding this information along with guaranteeing their is no chance you will be used beyond asking questions and basic physical check ups. No experiments or removal of your rights will be done and you will be granted full citizenship by my people if you agree to allow me to speak of this in your place." Wyatt says.
"Can you make that promise?" I respond.
He nods his head and I look down before taking in a deep breath, I know if even one thing goes wrong it is not just me who will pay for this but I must tell them of this or even worse things may occur. "I agree if you can truly guarantee our freedom outside of performing highly illegal acts." I agree.
Wyatt gives a small approving smile, let us see if my trust has not been misplaced.
I do not meet the masked man with the golden swirl most likely due to him being to high of a rank to be allowed alone with anybody, after that the meeting is adjourned for the day and I return back to the room with Lucien and Nilan in it.
Only an hour later a knock is heard and a guard walks in along with Wyatt wearing his mask, Wyatt tells the guard to leave and removes the mask once the doors have closed.
"My name is Wyatt Ashish I am the current heir of the continental lord and offer both amnesty and protection to your child in exchange for the right to tell the jury the truth of you child as well as to have him speak of the drastic difference in the world's linked by the tower. I swear he will be taken care of by me and I wish to have him made a member of my squad so as to further that protection to not just my people but to me specifically."
I see the look Lucien is giving me clearly not happy I spilled the beans to an outsider but also a look of resignation that this was most likely bound to happen sooner or later.
"I want a sworn oath on your life given that my family and my comrades will not be charged or held accountable for hiding this fact as we did not wish to spread panic where there may not be any." Lucien looks Wyatt in the eyes as he says this, making the fact if this isn't included the deal is not going to occur.
Wyatt replies with, "This is already been agreed to with your child and I will have all of you brought under my watch."
The agreement is fully reached and I am sure tomorrow will be a long and uncomfortable day as it will change from looking at me as one of their own to a potential outsider and even as a new species rather then a human.
I am unable to sleep that night and neither can the other two so me and Lucien spend the whole night sparing while Nilan reads a book on the sofa.
Tomorrow a masked man with a white swirl enters and request me to follow them as they lead me in the opposite direction of last time, we arrive in front of a iron door room with no types of design anywhere to be seen it is a blank area with gray halls. Entering the room behind the door it is a room with medical machines all over here and all the council people from yesterday as well as the masked people are the only ones present, I can feel them looking at me as more of a specimen then a person.
Sitting in the provided metal chair in the center of the room I wait till the questions come, and the first is from the female older elf.
"I can understand why you remained quiet of your origins and the fact you cam forward at all over this is something we must be thankful for as you could have chosen to remain silent and we would have no way to know as even a void being couldn't sense the difference. I would like to ask of the other world you com from and how things worked in your world? I understand that this may be uncomfortable for you as the chance of ever returning there is essentially non existence but we need to know how different these worlds can truly be." She says.
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I keep my head bow of I speak of the apocalyptic events that have ravaged my world, the tunnels that have ruined and shaped my life, the difference in cultivation as well as the fact I do not use the same cultivation as those from my world. I also speak of the difference with impurities and that those that lack access to their mental energy are unable to remove impurities from their bodies like those in my world.
By the end a few tears of come out but I have kept my voice steady and even through the whole process and I keep my head down to not have to look at them and feel the fear of how they react, a throat being cleared is heard easily in the silence.
"Child look up please so we may speak with you properly." The voice is gentle and soft even if slightly dragged out due to the accent of the speaker, I look at who had spoken and see the older lizard man from yesterday giving me a gentle and kind look with no looks of pity or looks as though he wishes to dissect me.
I remain looking at him as another voice speaks off to my right, "You and those who knew of you will be pardoned in thanks for your act of coming forward during this period of uncertainty and we thank you for your willingness to undergo a physical examination for this purpose."
I finally turn to my right to see the one who had spoken and the one with a hand raised is the masked man with a golden swirl on the mask.
Wyatt steps forward and speaks, "I will be the one leading this examination as I am the one to have sensed your energy in the past, we ask that you keep the energy in the same way you usually have it to remain unknown we also request to allow us to witness you using the other energy in a practice fight along with your mental energy so as to catalog the differences."
I nod my head and Wyatt signals for me to follow and we enter a side room with just me and him a familiar tube made for scanning is in there, "I need you to remove your clothes so as to get the best and most accurate read on the scanner after you enter."
I undress with him having turned around and I enter the machine hearing the door seal shut behind me, I stand still and my energy is left in the usual resting state.
An hour later I can feel the scanning is far more in depth then the usual and am feeling a little nauseous after the energy pouring over and in me for so long, finally the door opens and I can leave getting my clothes on I hear the door open before I have my shirt on. Wyatt freezes for a second and then nods his head, I rush my shirt on not minding the small wrinkles.
I exit the room and sit back on the metal chair in the center of the room where now only I and Wyatt currently where, the councils and other void people only returned after over two hours of us just sitting in awkward silence.
The wolfman with auburn hair is the first to speak this time, "We have found a slight difference in the way your mental energy links with your body, it should be a hint of such difference in evolution caused by originating on different planets. We also could trace the link of your mental energy to another part of your body specifically the pelvic region which you said is where your kind gather energy another clear difference that if we do right can be detected."
I untense as this means they could now find outsiders and prevent any type of external interferences, the panther lady is giving me a look similar to one would a specimen.
Wyatt steps between me and her and speaks, "You will now show us the difference your original world energy system has so we know what to potentially be wary of as well as allow us to spar with you using it to get some practice against such thing."
I am taken to another area with workout stuff, obstacle courses, and items to test ones energy levels and control.
They make me begin with the treadmill like one would for school, they tell me to run for as fast as I can for and hour and I begin to circulate the spirit energy I haven't used in years increasing it as the machine gets faster I hit 231.5 miles per hour and hold at that speed for the hour of running and I can still go for longer but running any faster and I would have trouble controlling my body.
I can see the looks on the council faces as they realize just what they could be facing, an entire planet of being with such drastic enhancements, but I tell them "You don't need to worry as most like me can't do this as they need high body control and that means access to mental energy." Even if he doesn't use any his body control is beyond what can be done without the access to the energy.
I see some look slightly better but it is till a worry as if they face a planet with both energy then the chances of winning are none.
Next is bench press and I get 50,000 pounds using my energy before I am unable to lift anymore and I can feel the stares on my back, a monster is probably what they are thinking as they stare at me as the only species that could match that on this planet is daemons and they need to be B-level to match it.
Next is obstacle course and we don't even bother with basics this time, I am directly thrown into the situational alternating course where it can go from freezing to burning and heavy gravity to no gravity at all.
I finish the course that takes most even professionally trained soldiers a hours in 10.23 minutes, leaving a score only those at SS-grade can match.
Finally it is the energy test and this is where the energy takes a curve ball as I can't get higher then a E-grade on the machine without using mental energy, the purity test comes back as a SSS-grade but the amount is only E-grade and the senses using purely the spirit energy is like a normal if trained person, suddenly they relax as they realize that this is not a perfect energy and that although they are tough they are not immune to sneak attacks or good at sensing their surroundings.
Essentially their is a balance to this type of energy and although it is physically powerful it is not all covering, and with most that have only one energy don't have the other energy type it is safe to say most people are overly specialized.
Murmurs ring in the room as they also seem to realize the worth of someone able to use both and I have turned from a specimen to study into a monster to be used as my worth in military has gone up. The last test also was something that had me explaining that I use a different cultivation style to my people and that because of it my energy manipulation is better and more precise and the multiple elements I can manipulate is something unique to me as well as such high energy purity.
I look at Wyatt and can see a curve of his eyes through his mask but can't quiet tell the emotion he is giving off, he isn't looking at me in a bad way so it should be fine.
The test is finished and they take me back to my room with Lucien and Nilan and we are told that we will be transferred to a military base soon, two weeks after entering the new country and the true extent of what is too come is finally upon us.
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P.O.V. Wyatt (first arrival)
I leave the tower on the 50th floor and the team is given a break from the ragged consistent work they have been made to do by a notice given by my father that I am to come for a continental meeting involving a sudden discovery of a potential mass threat and that because I am the only void person certified as a medic that is in a high enough position I am being called upon.
Arriving in my father Luan Ashish's office I am greeted with him looking at a report with a harsh and cold look as though he is looking at an enemy rather then a piece of paper, my father is over two thousand years old with over fifty wives through his life and has only produced three children and I am the youngest despite already being 30 years old.
I stand at attention and wait for the orders when my two elder brother enter the room both have black hair and eyes distinctive of the void bloodline, one has pointed ears inherited from his elven mother he is the oldest of us despite being the youngest looking barely looking 20 years old.
The other has black horns and wings although he can retract them he chooses to keep them out to show off, his mother a dragonborn beastman is known to have been overly conceitful and it is clear he has taken after her as despite being 298 years old he acts like a teen going through his king of world faze.(This worlds version of the 8th grade syndrome.)
My eldest brother is to gentle to take over for father and he is often more busy in his study and greenhouse to bother doing anything else, he is a direct opposite of his name Griffin Ashish.
My second brother is to incompetent when it comes to anything not fighting as he often thinks with his fist first and has a terrible temper reminisce of his mother dragonborn blood making him unstable and non viable for fathers position despite him attempting to make claim to heirship, his name is Marco Ashish.
We stand in waiting stance for commands and after ten minutes my second brother finally snaps and demands, "Why have you taken us from our squads for us to stare at you reading?"
I see the dislike for my brother in my fathers eyes as he finally sits the report in his hand down and begins to explain the situation, "I have called you here because the humans have recently showed mass agreement for discrimination like they did 5,000 years ago during the great war and a report was sent for potential war."
My second brother scoffs, "You don't need us for that our job is to keep the other continents from interfering or attempting to take over not regulate the land or it's people civil wars are none of our business."
My father response has us all tense up, "It is if it is being sparked by an outsider."
My eldest brother finally speaks, "Is there evidence of other continents people here and if so who has made the report and how trustworthy is their word."
My father gives him a look that shows both approval and disdain at him being highly competent and yet he has chosen to refuse heirship leaving him with someone to young in his eyes and a arrogant idiot.
My father speaks a sentence that freezes us where we stand, "The outsiders I speak of are from other planets and their is a body as physical proof."
This is no longer just a our continent problem as if true then it could mean literal war with another planet and a mass fight over new viable territory the likes that haven't been seen since the chaos era over a million years ago.
It is a potential bloodbath.
Silence reins in the room as we wait for further orders and my brother remains silent as well as even he understands the gravity of the situation, after about 5 minutes my father speaks again.
"The one to discover it did so within the tower when a spacial tear occurred in the tower and the tower confirmed the person as not a threat and made offering to have the person integrate with our world but apparently integration was far more terrifying then either new as the person died during the integration process. The body still holds energy of another world within it allowing it to be confirmed, the one to bring this forward is none other than Lucien Null."
Meaning it is a confirmed truth with no way it to be falsified and the one to talk of it is a trustworthy person.
"However the worry comes that they didn't immediately report it when the event happened as it occurred 5 years ago and only now do they come forward of it, and it is not Lucien who discovered it but his adopted son Aadi Null who met the otherworlder on the fourth floor."
I tense as I know the person of that report and think back to our meeting as well as all viable information on the boy, he is a rescue of Lucien from a black market experiment for different cultivation meaning he is using a illegal cultivation as he is unable to swap out of it, he is highly capable and intelligent with healing and buffing abilities no one can match.
Although not close with the boy when we were in the same team he did show great trust and respect for me meaning if I speak with him he may tell us whatever it is they wished to cover up by not reporting it when discovered.
"We have attempted to look into any information viable but none shows up before Lucien took the boy in, not even from the less then legal side have any knowledge of the boy with dark nearly black hair and eyes but none is found. Not only that but the boys talent is beyond anything we have ever seen whether he uses an illegal cultivation style or not, he is an anomaly and I want Wyatt there to study his energy and body, the two of you will come as backups to watch the process."
That is not normal as by all means if something happened on this continent it should be known to our intelligence agency, not knowing either that our agency is missing something or their is something wrong with Aadi.
I am given the purple mask to identify me as the medic examiner of the group, my brother wear the white mask to signify them as assistance and aides of my father.
My fathers righthand man puts on the red mask and we leave for the teleporter, although it is a high energy item we are never short of energy and no one else can use it due to energy registration required to use it. No other kingdom uses it due to the risk from it but us council do making it a emergency use only enchantment.
We arrive in a completely closed and covered in enchantment room with a set of dragon bone engraved doors and wall to act as a protector and blockade for the guest who come through here as either only the truly powerful or assassins would use it.
We leave the room and head for the designated rooms for our entourage we sit in the respective positions our mask dictate my father in the center then the righthand man on his right, me on his left, and my brother on both side with the second child being beside me. We sit for only a minute when the council appears and pays respect with bows to us, before bringing in the body and we need not even scan it to feel the difference as although others may simply feel the energy as different or repulsive we find it highly Crave to take.
It is clear our bodies are interested in a completely new thing it has never been near before, my second brother's breathe has turn heavy and his hand is twitching nothing has ever drawn us in like this before not even within the tower.
I get up and look over the body but make sure not to touch it with the gloves on to prevent me from absorbing him, it is definitely something else as although he has mental energy it is inside the wrong part because the energy veins his mental energy takes is nothing ever seen before and no such pathway exist in us a completely new biological organ for energy no wonder we want him so bad so as to evolve this function for ourselves.
I back up and report this information to all present and it is clear that it is a new species of human never seen before.
I sit down once more and listen to them talk of what to do next when my father says, "We request the one who found the body be brought to us so as to ask question in person to him not through word of mouth."
The next morning Aadi is brought before the court after speaking with Lucien on the events to come due to him being the boys father.
The boy enters and it is a surprise as although I could see a relation his body and face have changed completely to become a beautiful androgynous face that one would assume him a woman with but his voice bow shows him as male. His hair has become lighter making the dark brown hair into a plain gray color and his eyes have changed from dark brown to yellow brown color, he has completely transformed and it is seen the information provided is inaccurate meaning it is our information department that is lacking.
"You are Aadi Null correct?" I ask in slight shock at the drastic change from the slightly pretty but still clearly male to this near perfect beauty of both genders.
I see him freeze up at the sound of my voice clearly having recognized it from that sentence alone, "That is right sir, My name Aadi Null I was adopted by Lucien Null a month before my 12th birthday and I turned 22 three months ago. Is their any other information I must say or shall I speak of the events that took place on the fourth floor 5 years ago." He responds.
My father then says the reason we are here, "You may begin to tell you personal experience."
And like that he speaks of what had occurred to him on the fourth floor, we had hoped for new details or ones not told previously but it is clear he has told Lucien all he is willing to tell us and no new information is found.
After the story is finished we wait for Aadi to be brought to the one on one meeting room so as to speak with him ourselves, my brothers go first with my eldest brother then my second brother.
I go after the my father's right hand man to do a physical and I wait for the door to fully close and the guard to be away before I remove my mask.
"I had heard you used an illegal cultivation style due to your past but didn't expect it to be a transformation based one, though this is probably one of the reasons you chose to so adamantly leave the group before you began this drastic reformation." Indeed he probably left to prevent suspicion and future problems though now that I know I hope to wait for him to rejoin us even if it meant waiting, besides most the rest of the team aren't up to the grade requirement to go past the 50th floor and it is a mostly individual floor with little team play having a backup is still for the best.
"I wish to hear you tell me of your cultivation as well as allow me to absorb some of your energy to guarantee their is no lasting negative affects, although I am sure your father has done so their are some things not told to lower ranking people that if not noticed early on could be trouble for you." The true reason I am the last to speak alone with him, and my excuse to look into his cultivation.
He has a cold face on when he says, You have no right to demand either of me as the law protects the victims right from such invasion and unless you have a medical license it can not count a being done under medical checking."
I feel somewhat amused by this but I knock his answer down easily, "I do have a medical degree and it is one of the major reasons I was brought instead of others as I am one of the only few of my kind that bothered with what most my kind view as unnecessary, so I am here on behalf of my people to do a medical scan on you and to check for suspicious hints the otherworlder had left on you when alive."
"I invoke the right to have all medical information pertaining to anything before the fourth floor took place protected under the not involved clause in exchange I will swear on all energy in my body it is uninvolved in this case and will only explain to you the cause by which the difference is their but you must also swear on your energy or under the private rights act you have no right to medically look at me who as a had a recent medical scan." Well isn't that interesting as it means there is more to hide before the fourth floor event is involved.
"You realize if we criminally charge you we have right to do so anyway?" I say in response.
"Yes I am aware and I also know that without me pointing out the difference and explaining it you will never know what it is as your machines lack the ability to identify it." He says with a serious face looking me in the eyes as we see who will give first.
"I will make the oath you wish for but you will answer all questions involving you truthfully and as impartially as possible." I am the first to give as he is in his rights to hide personal information like this.
We both take an oath and I remove my glove to do an energy scan and come up with his energy having hints emotion in it despite the energy being in the energy veins, I pull back in surprise looking at him.
"What in the world is occurring with your energy, it is on the right path but is is your mental realm energy not the mental energy usually seen in ones energy veins. Though I guess this is why you refused me before, it is not a normal thing to have that types of information in all parts of the body rather then just your brain." I can't hide the interest in my voice as this is a very different from anything I have heard of.
"You notice no difference other than that correct, then you can see as I said you will not know the difference unless I point it out. Their is a second energy system in my body if you put your hand to my pelvic region you will probably sense it slightly." I sit up straighter and raise up his shirt reviling his thin but highly compact abdominal muscle with a four pack.
I feel it now that his mental energy is withdrawn he has no metal energy veins but rather a entirely different energy system.
"How in the, wait another world." That's right the otherworlder also had something similar although his mental realm was connected to the other energy vein playing the same roll it does in ours but his is completely unattached. "I thought Lucien raised you since you where twelve their is no way you came through the tower so how did you come here." So how had he come here, I need to know and the command comes out almost instinctually at such complication.
"I need to tell you of my world for you to know the full details, only 27 years ago energy like your worlds began to truly affect the species of our planet. Until then it as most likely been in a static state nothing was altered by it or absorbed it meaning cultivation is still new where I am from along with what you call dungeons and my original people call tunnels." Already a drastic difference as their world is most likely fighting with the animals transformed by energy so they have one war still ongoing and no way to find our world with them being so new to energy.
"Tunnels are different to dungeons in that we can enter it but the thing in it can also come out, meaning if you don't kill the monster who's energy is keeping the tunnel attached it will spew all the monsters in it out." I see his people isn't fighting a war on one front but two fronts and with being new to energy they are probably low on population due to sudden attacks by being they had no idea how to fight.
"The tunnels unlike here don't spew out those inside it when it closes meaning if you are in it when it closes you are trapped their until it reattaches itself to another world." He was trapped in a dungeon some time before the age of twelve for who knew how long the aspect he is sane is good enough all things considered.
"When the slime count in the dungeon I was in hit critical mass it reappeared and that is how I came here, I went to people thinking I was now in my world but no I was surprised by being I had never seen before as on my planet only humans exist as an intelligent species." I can imagine the shock at a new being completely unknown to you and the fear at this new unknown as he realized he was no longer able to return to his world.
"They found out quickly of me being from elsewhere as the plants I grew there for food sold me out to Maylen the half-elf, I will speak no more of them to prevent more trouble just know they have taken care of me and treated me as one of their own and I view myself more as a member of this planet then my own. It is even on my status screen in the tower." I see well nice to know we can gain information advantage in such way against other worlds.
"I think what you most want to hear is the difference in our energy, my birth worlds energy is more about physically enhancing you but the control given is horrific so although we have a strength greater then that of daemons when using it we waste a lot of energy and are not precise with the strength." An energy that make one more like a animal with one physicality but sacrifices control, everything has a upside and down side and everything has a balance.
"We also can't cure impurities and most people in my world die of it then anything else." I stop for a second and think, why do they not deal with impurities it just comes clean on it's own doesn't it?
"We do not have access to mental energy in my world and I only gained access to it in the dungeon, and mental energy is what gets rid of impurities meaning without it the impurities build up until it blocks the veins and those like this self implode. We have medicine for it but only those with high potential can get it while those of lower grades can only resign themselves to such horrific death." Meaning their already slim numbers is lowered even more drastically, truly nothing they can do will be a threat as they are a limited number people fighting a two way war with the enemy able to appear in the middle of their defense.
"I use a cultivation that give me access to both so all that I can do is a mix of your and ours so not the best example, we also can use elements but only S-grade and higher can use it and our energy grades are ten times worse then yours." Essentially less energy, and less flexibility with said energy truly a one trick pony that only worth is as a front line kamikaze fighting.
This is a serious matter because although his world is no threat it doesn't mean world's that are can't do so as well and they don't even need to use the tower just piggyback on a dungeon and sneak out when it connects no way to know their origin just like with Aadi.
"I should report this but you know I can't with the oath I have taken, I will make another offer then I will act as your benefactor and will have Lucien and his people pardoned for hiding this information along with guaranteeing their is no chance you will be used beyond asking questions and basic physical check ups. No experiments or removal of your rights will be done and you will be granted full citizenship by my people if you agree to allow me to speak of this in your place." I offer as we need to prepare for such danger if it exists and regulate the dungeons even more for the purpose to look for such thing.
"Can you make that promise?" Aadi ask, understandable but I nod as the heir of the continent protector my word is law second only to fathers and he will definitely make use of such a good asset in war.
"I agree if you can truly guarantee our freedom outside of performing highly illegal acts." He is believing in my trustworthiness and ability to protect him, I smile slightly at the trust he is showing.
My perfect little healer is back and I intend to make sure he stays.