Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

"Where is he!? Give me some good news, please!"

It would be an understatement to say that Mira was worried about Alex's sudden disappearance.

She had rushed over as soon as she had heard what happened.

Her mission had already been complete as well, and it was only after she had returned to a city that news of Alex's fight with the beast had aired.

In fact, footage of his fight was playing all over the place, on the huge holographic videos on the sides of skyscrapers, on the floating billboards in the sky etc.

Everywhere she looked, she would see Alex's fight.

And she was constantly reminded of what happened to him.

She hadn't given up hope yet, as there was no body discovered at all.

And the footage of the final moments of Alex's fight with the beast had been analysed countless times, and some interesting things had been found.

The most interesting was the fact that Alex could be seen clearly piercing the head of the beast with his body.

But while the camera clearly showed his entry point, it never showed him exit the top of the beast's head, even though there was an exit wound there.

Another interesting thing that was found was that there was some small amounts of distortion in the camera right as Alex launched his final attack.

In this day and age, such distortion should be impossible with how far recording technology had advanced over the last hundreds of years.

But there was one exception that caused such distortion.

Spatial disturbances.

Mira had watched these analyses closely, and after finding out the last fact, she used her pull with the Principal of Capital Prime to help in the search, as he was an expert in the field of space.

It wasn't like the Principal was doing this entirely as a favour to Mira — he was very interested and curious in finding out what had happened to Alex as well.

The way he saw it, Alex was one of the most promising and prospective talents of this generation and should be nurtured into a proper powerhouse.

And his fight with this beast had only further strengthened his opinion of Alex's potential.

"It looks like the netizens on the galactic net were correct. Alex was transported somewhere, but to where exactly, I do not know."

The Principal spoke his findings for Mira to hear after he had finished examining the location where the battle had taken place.

The body had already been taken away, which had already been checked for a beast core.

Unfortunately for Alex, there was none.

Nobody would have even tried to snatch it anyway even if there was one.

There were just too many watchful eyes on Ceres-9 at the moment.

"But how could that have happened..? I don't get it…"

Mira was relieved that Alex could still be alive, but the mystery of his disappearance didn't help to alleviate her worries.

"I suspect the beast had been hiding a spatial talent, or had awakened one right at the end, who knows. But the likelihood is that it launched some final attack or countermeasure on Alex, teleporting him away. But it was too late to save itself in the end."

Mira was only made even more worried after hearing that this could have been some sort of attack.

'If he was teleported to somewhere like the vacuum of space…'

She could only assume the worst.

***

"Hmmm, she's a hot one indeed. NO! What are you doing you stupid man, you should have picked Tracy not Lara!"

In a space station on the periphery of the Milky Way, near where the border met the no man's land, Marco, a bored guard sat in his office watching some kind of dating reality show.

In short, he was skirting his duties.

The border security on the edge of the federal territory was supposed to have been ramped up in recent times after the Red Demon race had discovered them.

But Marco was bored out of his mind sitting in his cramped office all day, every day.

The pay was very good, but his mental health couldn't take the boredom.

The area he was assigned to was a quiet one.

In fact, there had never been any disturbances or transport ships coming through this area.

So Marco usually spent his time watching these brainrotting reality shows when his superior officer wasn't around.

Beep!

Screee!

But today wasn't like any other day.

Alarms started going off throughout the space station, jolting Marco up out of his chair as he was almost scared out of his wits by the noise.

"What is going on? Dammit, I missed it!"

Marco wasn't too worried.

The military usually pulled drills like these once a week to keep the soldiers and workers on this station up to par.

"Ship detected near the border! I repeat, Ship detected near the border!"

'Yesss I know, you say this every time, you brainless Ai.'

Marco quickly turned off the reality show and hid the communicator he was watching it on, and stood to attention, manning his station.

The officer should enter his room to ask what was happening in a few seconds.

"This is not a drill! Alert! This is not a drill!"

But Marco was startled by another message from the intercom, one that he had never heard before.

'Not a drill… OH SHIT!'

It took Marco a second, but he snapped out of his annoyed mood and instantly got to work.

He may be bored with his job, but that doesn't mean he was incompetent.

'Is it finally starting… Are we really going to war?'

Marco couldn't help but feel his nerves tighten as he thought about the prospect that he might be at the forefront of one of the most important points in human history.

"Ship approaching! Design unrecognised, material unrecognised! Ship is confirmed to be Non-human! I repeat-"

The intercom blared off again, this time alerting everyone that the incoming ship was approaching the station, as well as confirming their worst fears.

"Ready the cannons!"

The soldiers in charge of the weapons division of the space station urgently charged up the plasma cannons attached to the station and aimed them at the incoming ship.

"Prepare to fire! In 3… 2… 1… Fire-"

"WAIT!"

The soldiers were literally milliseconds away from pressing the button that would start an all out galactic war, but a cry came from the communications.

"DON'T FIRE! I'M HUMAN!"

It came from the enemy ship.