Steller’s explanation and 2 siblings unite

A few hours later...

"Ahhhh, I'm too tired. I can't train anymore," groaned Ramon as he wiped his face.

Jack, breathing heavily after his run, sat on the ground. "I need some food."

Kasib replied, "This isn't that bad."

The group looked at Kasib, sweating and eyeing him, thinking, "Look who's talking."

"Good work, you guys did well. You can go and have a lunch break after we go through this," Menes said, crossing his arms.

"Go through what?" asked Kamil, curious.

"Ah, right," Henu replied. "While everyone was fighting and training, we took some mental notes that we think will help you in your upcoming fights at the strength competition."

"Firstly, Jack, your power is strong, we know that. However, that's Steller's power, not yours. Your original power, as we observed, which is Chronoarachnid, is pretty weak right now. We have to train you on that. I'll let Yune assist you and tell you how to grow your power, as he is a master of his own Chronotex. Your stance is uneven; you need to always keep your feet on the ground and knees slightly bent. Your breathing is too fast; make it slower. Keep your shield close to your body. It should protect your vital areas without restricting your movement," Henu explained.

"Thank you, Commander Henu Safir. I'll take this and improve upon myself."

As Henu spoke to the rest of the group, Jack's mind drifted. "I have to win the strength competition," he thought to himself.

In Jack's room at night.

The sky had turned dark blue, and the moon shone high, casting its greyish light through Jack's window. He lay in his bed reading a book titled "How to Make an Egyptian Tomb."

He threw the book onto his table and sighed. "This is getting boring," he muttered to himself.

"When I first came here, I was so unsure and lost. I was fortunate enough to meet Old Man Marcus and Aymaan. Am I lost? Should I find a way to get back home, or should I stay here? Is there even a goal in my life, or am I just a nomad?"

Jack looked outside for a moment and then back at his hands. Suddenly, a figure materialized in front of him.

Startled by the sudden appearance, Jack fell off his bed with a huge thud, knocking the book off the table and onto his head as he swatted it away.

It was Steller, gazing at the stars through Jack's window. Steller appeared as a silhouette of a medium-sized human, with skin filled with the brilliant colors of stars and galaxies, like something out of a child's imagination.

"Hey Steller, since when can you enter the real world?" Jack asked, surprised.

"Haa, since the start. However, before, I could only do it for a few seconds because you had no power energy within you. I could only do it at night when you were asleep because that's when you have the most power, as your body is at rest," Steller replied.

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"Wait, let me call everyone!" Jack said excitedly.

As Jack was about to go outside, Steller responded, "NO."

"Why?" Jack questioned, sitting down in his wooden chair, waiting for an answer.

"Before, you didn't have any Chronotex power or energy in general, so I couldn't enter the real world. However, after your rage and near-death trial with Khafra, you tapped into your real power for a while longer than I expected. That's when I could enter the real world," Steller explained.

Jack questioned, "Then why did you start fighting in the war with my body and not your own?"

Steller replied, "To use my power to its fullest, I need to be within your body because your Chronotex is in your heart."

Jack's face looked shocked; he finally got the answer to a long-awaited question.

"Now, for the first time, you have used your power without me. I can use that same energy to come into the real world. However, only you can see me; no one else can because your power isn't strong enough yet. You are special; you not only manifest your own Chronoarachnid powers but mine as well. However, we can only use those powers together when I manifest inside you."

Jack took all this in and thought, adding up the information, "So, my Chronotex is in my heart, and I can use my own power. But when you take over, I can tap into your powers as well. Before, you couldn't come into the real world because I didn't have enough energy to use my Chronotex power. Now that I can use it, I've increased the levels of energy I have, allowing you to at least manifest in the real world, but only to me for now, as my power is still weak, right?"

Steller looked shocked and replied, "Ahh, yeah."

"Steller, what do you mean by energy?" Jack questioned.

Steller sighed, knowing it was about to be a long night. "Well, let me simplify this for you even more. As humans, we have life energy. There are many factors to it: the way you breathe, your aura, and how your body is trained to store that energy and not waste it. To use the Chronotex, you tap into that energy. Thus, those with larger amounts of life energy can use the Chronotex at higher levels."

"Ahh, right," Jack replied. "So, for me to use my Chronotex at a higher level and get stronger, I need to increase this life energy and not waste it."

"Yes, you're right," Steller confirmed. "There are many ways, but first, you should focus on breathing. Your body stores little amounts of life energy to use in dangerous moments, like an adrenaline rush. When I took over your body, the 20-plus years of stored life energy were used up in that moment, and some left for the second time when I came to protect you. Now you barely have enough to even heal wounds using my power."

Jack, shocked, screamed, "My whole life savings of energy wasted on that!"

"Why did you have to confirm if Ramon and everyone else were our allies or not?" Jack questioned again.

Steller sighed, unable to dodge the question any longer. "Well, the thing is, I have some unfinished business in this world," he said, looking up at the moon. "I have to do something, and for that, I need to use you, and I need people to be by my side."

In the Underground Prison of the Palace of Thebes

The doors clicked open as the sound of footsteps grew louder. Kamil walked to the prison cell with a dreadful face. He sat down on the floor next to the cell where his sister, Amara Kadesh, sat behind metal bars sprinkled with a crystal-like substance resembling a Chronotex.

"Kamil," she cried as she said his name.

Kamil looked down at the floor and asked, "Why don't you escape?"

Amara replied, "They took my Chronotex away. I can't use my power, and I don't have strong enough dark energy to break these Chronotex bars."

"I'm sorry I was fooled by hatred and the Blackwood of the Merchants Guild," Amara spoke.

Kamil replied, "You don't need to defend yourself. You did what you did because you thought it was right. However, I still cannot come to forgive you for the lives you took," remembering the family crushed by the stone balls and the soldiers of the royal army.

"I still hope that you find it in yourself to forgive me so that I can repent for what I did," Amara replied.

Kamil, after drinking some water from his leather water pouch, said, "If this was any other kingdom, I would have been exiled for being related to you. However, due to General Setka, Commander Menes, and Henu Safir's kindness, I still remain with my roles intact."

Amara cried loudly and told Kamil, "Then live this life. Don't let it pass. Become what I could not. Do it, Kamil, protect everyone. Don't lose them like I did. I know how brave you are, but I also know you could never kill anyone with hatred, even if it meant killing yourself. You're too kind, Kamil. Become a commander, become strong, gain respect, and bring kindness like you always do."

Kamil, breaking down, let out tears as he went closer to the bars. Amara hugged him as a gesture of comfort.

"I was worried sick about you. I... I didn't know where you were. I..." Kamil cried but couldn't express his emotions fully.