"Are you sure we are heading towards the right direction because I told Kenneth over there, we should carried the navigator along with us but he insist we shouldn't so we don't get tracked"
Stella said while they walked on the snowy lands of Nepal, they moved easily since there was no snow storms to slow them down.
"It's not like am wrong, Ryan said he has it under control, so there's no need to worry"
Kenneth said looking at Ryan who was walking in a grid-like pattern and using his powers to scan the area. Got it.
He looked around. His vision turned red, showing faded trails of movement. His Era eyes activated, it didn't take long before he spotted another material, a special stone. .
"there"
seeing this and the manner at which it was positioned it means they were close and they had to continue moving in a certain direction.
'just a little more, we will soon arrive, he will be waiting' Ryan thought.
Ryan hadn't told them about the discussion he had with Sir Kenneth, those stones which he left was to help them navigate their direction, Ryan stayed focus while he kept his eyes on the snow.
He knew they will still need to walk some distance before he sees the next stone but no one would know mistake would come.
Their covered feet stood firm on the snow, unaffected by the cold. They wore dark, insulated boots made from a sleek cosmic-fiber material, designed to resist extreme temperatures.
Under their huge wool sweater They wore skin-tight battle suits with tough leather-like texture woven with cosmic energy, differ by color with Cole that of red and black, Stella green and black and Kenneth Blue.
Stella went forward towards Ryan who was focused, she needed to know things were going has planned.
"So the void, will he walk the same path here. He would be coming but when?"
"Before my mission in Spain, they was an attack in Germany. People were killed but the assailant was uncaptured, the case was close by the sector unit which made things easier for whom committed to Crime."
"so the Void was behind all that, we didn't pick up any evidence from the scene...."
"then they ruled it as peacemaker related"
Cole cut in before Stella could continue, she was beginning to understand where Ryan was heading for that reason she already began to make up things she would say to Terry in her head.
"The void in smart Stella, smarted than you think, he's just three years old but it learns very fast, remember the void came out of a seal so we had no idea of it true age." Cole added.
"He's absorbing cosmic energy, just like your brother Henderson, it was to stay balance with whatever alternating energy he acquired but the void, he is taking the same path."
"secret organization seeks cosmic energy Stella. I see no resemblance with my brother.
The void had already made Sofia his target long ago.
He visited every single place she had been and he always erase his trace, the purposely made sure the vessel at that time was weak so its cosmic energy won't be detected but it couldn't hide from my Era eyes, when I saw this I alerted Sir David."
Stella smiled before looking at Ryan, Ryan does this for a reason but she always wonders where Ryan got all his adventure style abilities from and how he could track someone a reason he was so reliable.
"So that's how you came up with the plan in capturing the void in its venerable state"
"If its power is limitless as describe by Lord Tim, then he is absorbing cosmic energy to open some kind of locked gate." Cole assumed.
"So its powers is sealed, is that it? He's a cosmic entity then. If it was sealed, who sealed it?
"Wait"
Cole said stretching out his left arm indicating for them to halt, he had come across another material but this one was different, he bent down to have a closer look.
'Glass?'
It was of no doubt, each of the stone that Sir David was meant to place were to be similar, a smooth grey colored stone with an arrow telling the next direction but this one was a glass with not markings on it, it had an irregular shape and was highly reflective, it's see thought but mimicked mirror abilities.
He held the glass and slipped into a trance while dropping to his knees, eye widened open and unblinked.
His eyes went blank as a rush of unfamiliar images flashed through his mind, quick, chaotic, like memories that weren't his.
Stella held Ryan in panic, shaking him gently at first, then harder as he remained unresponsive.
"Ryan, Ryan are you okay?"
Stella held Ryan in panic seeing the position he took and he was unresponsive, Kenneth who was far behind rushed in seeing what had happened but didn't know what to do.
"is he having a seizure?"
"I don't know, do something!" Stella cried, her voice rising in panic. Her furrowed brows and trembling hands showed she had no idea what to do,
"No"
An eerie voice broke in. Ryan suddenly grabbed Kenneth's arm, using it for support as he sprang to his feet in one swift motion.
It so sudden both Kenneth and Stella tried to process but they were too slow to read the message.
"we have to go, NOW"
He shouted with the top of his voice, holding but Stella and Kenneth with his two hands, it was for them for run but what were they running from?
Ryan's face tightened with urgency. He released a bit of his cosmic energy, lifting all three of them into the air.
They flew over the land at high speed and landed smoothly after covering a long distance.
"Ryan, what's... going on." Stella asked in confusion and her voice shaky while she was still recovering from the unexpected jump.
"Something's change, we have to...."
What he saw alone blurred his memories, leaving him speechless. His face went pale, eyes wide and frozen, mouth slightly open in shock. His body wouldn't move.
The air around them grew heavy and thick, pressing on their skin like they'd stepped into a boss fortress. Silent, cold, and full of danger.
Both Stella and Kenneth felt the unseen suppression and turned to look at what Ryan was staring at.
A bald man in a black and grey tattered robe stood not too far from them, his bald head had cracks with a purple glow coming out it.
If they had known not to blink, they wouldn't have. She hadn't even seen it move, it was just suddenly there, his hand right in front of her In the blink of an eye.
His hand rose slowly, fingers spread, then suddenly slammed forward. Her heart skipped a beat as everything went dark. She flew backward, crashing into the snow and sinking into the cold ground.
"ken, it's the void."