"How many days have passed since then?" White asked, rising to his feet.
"Three days. That makes a total of one week and two days since you began the fusion process."
Commander Zoltan replied.
"That’s quite the ti..."
White mused.
He had said quite because compared to the ti he had spent with his soul trying to fuse with the Orb, this wasn’t much.
"Why the haste? Got sowhere you need to be in?"
The man asked as White reached the railings.
From the height of the building, he could see the majority of the surrounding area’s buildings.
"If I rember correctly, you were the one who told ti never waits, follow, or be left behind."
He said, and the man chuckled.
"Hasten to important things, but move steadily on your path after that. That’s another quote I live by."
"You fusing with a body was an important decision. And now that it’s done, you can slow down on the path."
"Think deeper before deciding on your next path."
He said to him, and White humd, resuming his gaze on the world before him.
It was a huge world, skyscrapers going into the distance as far as his eyes could see.
"It’s almost like a city of its own."
He mused beneath his breath, feeling Commander Zoltan rise to his feet and step to the railings too.
"That’s because it is. This is Ray City, ho to the Humanity Ascension Powerhouse."
He explained.
"Why Ray, for a na?"
White asked, turning to him.
"It used to be a fairly popular city back on the old Earth. An important place that was taken from us by the Supernaturals."
"We called it Ray because it’s the first city we managed to reclaim from the Supernaturals."
He explained.
"A ray of hope, of being able to take back Earth from the Supernaturals."
White mused, and the Commander’s eyes quietly glead.
"Your observation has grown sharper."
He observed, and White nodded.
"It has. It’s easier to pick up on the details... faster too."
He added, and it was the truth.
The speed of processing White felt his brain was operating at right now wasn’t sothing he could put into words as he looked at the skyscrapers, easily noticing the details on them, even those of the people walking in and around them.
"I can only wonder what it’d feel like. The power you have now."
Commander Zoltan comnted with a smile, and White turned to him, his face gaining a halo of seriousness before uttering,
"It’s nothing compared to your true power."
To his words, the man paused before grinning.
"You’re very humble."
"No, really. It’s nothing compared to yours."
White repeated seriously.
"And what makes you so sure? You haven’t exactly tested what you’re capable of, even if you feel aware of your capability."
"I know it..."
White said.
"Because on you is a total of seven Sealing Runes that completely seal away the majority of your true power."
He recounted, and the Commander’s eyes widened.
"You... you can see even that?"
"Three around your heart, one in your forehead, another two in both your wrists, and the last one directly below your navel."
White said, leaving Commander Zoltan stupefied.
"If you completely unseal yourself, I wouldn’t be able to stand close to you, nor would this building be able to remain standing, so no, this power of mine is still nothing compared to yours."
"That’s not necessarily humility, is it?"
White asked, and the Commander shook his head.
"No. That’s an astute observation. The one that keeps a growing man alive."
"Too many humans with potential have died simply because they thought themselves farther than what they truly were."
Commander Zoltan recounted, turning to look into the distance.
Silence stretched on for about a minute before it was broken.
"My dream..."
The Commander suddenly said, drawing White’s attention.
"Is to see all of our world taken away from the hands of those undeserving of it. Earth belonging solely in the control of humans, like it has always been...and ant to be."
He said.
"You wish to survive until that day?"
White asked trickily, but the Commander picked up on it, shaking his head.
"No. I don’t dream of surviving to see that day."
"If I can put a blade through my neck right now and the Supernaturals will instantly disappear from the surface of Earth for all eternity, then I would without a second doubt."
Commander Zoltan.
White looked at him, and his heart faintly stirred.
The man appeared dead serious, as if he truly wouldn’t mind dying to get rid of all the Supernaturals.
’At least a part of us align...’
"What about you? What is your dream?"
He asked White, who replied fluidly.
"To get rid of soone."
His straightforward reply made Commander Zoltan chuckle.
"So, revenge, huh?"
"That’s not completely wrong."
White admitted.
"Just soone, or..."
"No. Just one person."
"Let guess, a Supernatural?"
He asked.
"Actually, they are human... at least right now."
Commander Zoltan didn’t understand that fully, and so he asked.
"Tell more about him without telling about him."
He said trickily, but White understood.
"There will co a ti..."
He said, and Commander Zoltan’s ears perked.
"A ti when so humans will side with Supernaturals, and they will look absolutely no different from fellow humans, while possessing overwhelming Supernatural power."
"Like the Otherworlders?"
Commander Zoltan asked.
"No. The Otherworlders are easy to notice by their eyes’ color turning dark."
"You wouldn’t know these humans are Supernaturals even if they were soone you loved most in the world."
He said, and Commander Zoltan fell silent before eventually asking,
"And this one person you wanted to kill is like that... or will be like that soon?"
"Yes, they will be soon. Though I won’t wait for them to beco that before killing them."
"Killing a man because he possesses the capacity for danger is an evil."
Commander Zoltan called out quietly.
"I’d call it a necessary evil."
Commander Zoltan turned to White and found no trace of anger in his eyes or tone.
Only an unflinching conviction, and the peace of one who had already accepted its consequences.
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