"We will be landing on Felinia Seven in the next few minutes," Spector announced through her intercom.
"Good, now is it possible to stop any clips of me using the planetary annihilation beam from being posted on Xer-verse and elsewhere on the Universal Subspace Network?" Adam asked.
"Affirmative."
"Good, we're going to get enough attention from the beam-canceler that was shown on the Sportscast feed. I don't want to add to that right now," Adam replied before changing the subject and saying, "I need you to manufacture a few things for me," Adam said before giving Spector a list of several items.
A few minutes later, Adam returned to the medical bay, where he saw that Tephe was still unconscious and Maya was still sleeping at the bottom of Tephe's medical bed.
As Adam approached, Maya opened one eye and looked at him, causing him to smile before saying.
"We have just landed and now I'm going to take Tephe back to the hotel we are staying at with our friends. Do you want to come along?"
Maya nodded before flying up into the air.
Adam leaned down and picked up Tephe in a princess carry before heading out of the medical bay and towards Spector's exit with Maya flying behind.
Once they left Spector, Adam activated his anti-gravity armour, causing the wings to appear as he took to the air and flew out of the docking bay and back towards the city and their hotel.
Maya naturally followed behind while looking curiously at the wings that had appeared on the humanoid's back, which seemed very similar to Tephe's own wings, just that they were a different shade of colour.
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"How's Tephe?" Lorelie asked with concern as soon as Adam entered the suit while carrying Tephe, with Maya flying right behind him.
"She's fine, she just tired herself out," Adam replied.
"That's good," Lorelie said with a sigh of relief before turning to look at the Space Whale and asking with a smile, "And who's this?"
"This is Maya, she's Tephe's new friend," Adam said as he introduced Maya, who suddenly hid behind him before peeking around him to stare at the three unknown humanoids.
"Aww, well, aren't you cute? Hello Maya, my name is Lorelie," Lorelie said as she smiled and waved at Maya before Stacey and Rowena followed suit and introduced themselves.
"Let me go tuck Tephe into bed," Adam said before walking towards the room that Tephe had been using, while Maya followed behind.
"I will come with you and change her into her pyjamas," Stacey said before following Adam.
Adam entered the room and gently placed Tephe on the bed before being shooed out of the room by Stacey.
"I'm going, I'm going," Adam said with a chuckle before exiting the room.
Maya swung her head between the unconscious Tephe and Adam, who was leaving her alone with an unknown humanoid that Tephe hadn't vouched for.
She didn't particularly want to stay in the same room with the unknown humanoid, but she also didn't want to leave the unconscious Tephe, who was in a vulnerable state alone.
In the end, her friendship with Tephe won out as she remained in the room and kept a close watch on what the unknown humanoid was doing to her new friend.
"No one came back with you?" Adam asked in mild surprise as he came out of the bedroom and the door closed behind him.
"Hehe, Stacey wouldn't let them," Rowena said with a giggle, making Lorelie roll her eyes before she explained.
"Princess Terrana returned to her own hotel along with Becky.
Eri saw us back to the hotel, then went home.
Aphrodite wanted to come join us for drinks, but Stacey refused to allow it, saying that she didn't want her watching us later." Lorelie finished with a slight blush.
"That girl," Adam said with a smile before sitting down on the sofa next to Lorelie while putting his arm around her shoulder.
Lorelie accepted the gesture by snuggling closer to him.
"Even though you managed to kill Drot, that won't stop the Bounty Hunter Guild, you know this, right?" Rowena asked with concern.
"Yeah, I figured," Adam replied with a sigh before continuing, "It might have been a mistake to use the beam-canceler during the charity match."
"Not really, only by never using the beam-canceller would you have avoided any attention, and that was never going to happen," Rowena replied before continuing, "However, it is not only the Bounty Hunter Guild that will be paying attention to you from now on.
Previously, people were only curious about you because you're dating Lorelie; now, however, the rich, powerful and influential will start paying attention to you, or more specifically, your tech, because you have got yourself something that every race spent years and countless credits on trying to replicate, especially since you also used a planetary annihilation beam, and while that was only on your stream, I'm sure someone clipped it and will post it on Xer-verse.
Many of them will try to approach you with offers and business deals about purchasing the beam-canceler and your other tech, while others will straight up try to steal it, as we saw with the Noir Family."
"I have already asked Spector to take care of any clips that show the planetary annihilation beam. But does your warning include the Brood race?" Adam asked.
"Have you now?" Rowena replied as she was once again surprised at what the AI on Adam's ship could do.
"Naturally, it will include my Brood race. I am already anticipating a call from either my family head or the progenitor themself, though, since I am travelling with you, I doubt they will attempt to steal it," Rowena replied.
"The same can be said for King Osharus and Queen Marilla, I'm sure they will contact me within the coming hours about this," Lorelie stated before adding, "Also, I expect Tessa will contact us tomorrow and ask for a meeting about this since they clearly are trying to win your favour and you're both now business partners."
"Almost business partners, they have agreed to sell Royal Entertainment to me, but I have yet to take ownership of it," Adam replied.
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"Did you watch the opening ceremony, mother?" Tessa asked Victoria who was on a large holographic screen before her.
"I did, daughter, who would have thought that Adam would possess beam-canceler technology? I wonder if it came with the ship he found or picked it up elsewhere," Victoria replied thoughtfully.
"Lord Malacoss believes that Adam's mech is the original Black Knight from the Siege of Fenix Nest and that the ship he found is the Black Knight's mothership," Tessa replied.
"Really, tell me more," Victoria replied as her interest piqued before Tessa went on to explain what Lord Malacoss had said in Adam's chat.
"Fascinating, it would seem that aside from being smart and brave, Adam is indeed a very lucky man. I approve even more of him being your future husband, my daughter," Victoria said with a teasing smile.
"Mother," Tessa replied with a slight blush.
"Regardless, we need to negotiate with Adam and see if he is willing to provide us with the means to produce the beam-cancelling tech if at all possible. You should arrange another meeting with him as soon as possible, tomorrow if at all possible, since every race will be eyeing him after this news gets out."
"It's already all over Xer-verse; there are even clips of him using the beam-canceler against Excess Surplus, the Scorpo and Drot's ship, not to mention the planetary annihilation beam," Becky stated.
"Planetary annihilation beam?" Victoria asked with widened eyes.
"Oh, right, that wasn't shown on the Sportscast feed since their camera was unable to follow Adam and Tephe into subspace," Becky said in realisation before explaining what exactly had taken place after Adam, Tephe, and the young Levithen arrived at the jumpgate.
"You're telling me his mech is not only capable of using a beam-canceler, but also firing a planetary annihilation beam?" Victoria asked in shock before adding in realisation, "That basically all but confirms that his mech really is the Black Knight."
"Yes, though strangely I can't find any clips of Adam using the planetary annihilation beam on Xer-verse, I would have thought it would have been all over it and the most viewed clips," Becky replied with confusion as she used her uniband to access Xer-verse.
"That's actually beneficial for us since it means the leaders of the other races do not know about this yet," Victoria replied in excitement before asking, "Now, which influential people from other races are part of Adam's chat?"
"Errr," Becky replied as she and Tessa thought for a moment before saying," Lord Malacoss, of course, Empress Revi, Raphilia, Lady Erkath, Rowena, of course, also Tephe, oh, and Diva Aphrodite was watching the stream with us, although it seems she is not yet able to view it herself."
"Diva Aphrodite?" Victoria replied with mild surprise before continuing, "So other than we Terrans, it's the Phoenix race, the Deverinian race, the Nonpareilus race, the Brood Race, the Dragon race and the Succuba race."
"That's quite the collection of powerful races," Tessa stated.