Chapter 80: Leaving This Damned Spot of Space to The Unknown

The voice of the scepter seemed angry at the passivity of James, however James was like a newborn in this world, and he knew absolutely nothing at all.

"May you explain some simple facts of my strength?" James asked.

"Unfortunately you don't have that time," the scepter voice came at once to crush all the hopes James had.

"No, that's not fair! I can't accept that!" James angrily yelled back as he wasn't accepting the passive replies of that scepter. How could he even survive without even knowing the simplest facts of his own strength?

"We don't have time to teach you even the basics," the scepter replied back.

"At least explain the nature of my power!" James decisively said before threatening, "I swear if you said any more excuses I wouldn't leave here ever even if it leads to my own death!"

His determination was so obvious and that made that arrogant scepter hesitate in replying. The pause didn't last for over ten seconds before the scepter finally said:

"Fine, I will explain things briefly to you but to know more you have to seek the answers later by yourself. There are two types of strengths in this world, the light and darkness energies. They both usually are together inside everyone, but it's always one force overwhelming the other.

However for you the case is different, you have both energies balanced in a way that wasn't seen before. That makes you able to use both energies, which would put you in a totally different category of your own."

"what category?" James asked with much interest.

"The absolute creation category," the scepter said before adding after a momentarily pause, "don't ask further as this needs a lot of time and effort to be explained. However you must know your energy is a mix of both types, so you need to seek for two masters to teach you, one of each type of energy."

His words were priceless for James who began to feel more regret. He should have pressed further over this scepter, and not to wait until the last minute to ask.

However looking back again at all the events, he had no time to do such a thing. He sighed before he said:

"Can I use my strength without your help?"

"No, you aren't that good to control your strength yet. You need me to help you channel and control your energy to best use it. you once used the energy subconsciously and that nearly ended up your life, so please refrain from using your energy except it was a life and death situation," the scepter replied with a warning before adding, "now let's start destroying the net here and let your cruiser escape. There is not much time to waste."

James felt somehow sad when he pictured the absence of the scepter, which sensed James' sadness so it said:

"Don't worry, it's just temporarily goodbye."

James nodded his head as he whispered:

"Yes, I promise you it will be only temporary and after a short period of time we will meet again."

"Nice kid, now let's start."

James suddenly felt himself being kicked outside of that place. He opened his eyes to find the place around him feeling awkward. He couldn't tell what was wrong here, but the tension here was high, much higher than usual.

"You finally exited your meditation," Dora suddenly said to attract his attention.

"Ah, so sorry to be late. Are you ready to move?" he asked.

"Sure, your man is responsible for choosing the place we will jump to," she said as she pointed out towards the distance where Rigo was sitting there busy typing on a large keyboard.

"Are you finished?" James yelled at him without caring about the others here. he then moved heading straight towards the navigation unit while Rigo replied:

"Just a second and I will be ready."

"Good," James said as he suddenly raised his arm to the air and a long scepter appeared out of nowhere in his hand. The appearance of this scepter caused a stir of whispers, as everyone was looking at James with doubt and surprise.

Dora wasn't an exception. She recognized the scepter as it was somehow similar to the two scepters she saw before, but there were some differences between the three.

She was there when James miraculously absorbed the two scepters inside his body, and the presence of this third meant only one thing to her, James had merged the two somehow.

She knew more about the light and darkness forces than James, however there was no time to ask him about anything.

As once the scepter appeared, a change in the atmosphere here in the commanding deck began to happen. the air began to be heavier, like lead pressing over everyone.

That slight change made those old and resourceful ones realize how special that scepter was. However no one could even open his mouth here, as everyone seemed to freeze in his place, all except James who was walking smoothly like he was taking a stroll in a park.

James didn't feel any change at all, for him he was walking like usual, but with time he began to notice the changes over the people here.

They were looking at him with surprise at first, but now they were looking with fear. He even felt they were afraid of him, and that made him realize his scepter might be the reason behind all this.

However there was no more time to waste, as once he reached Rigo he said:

"Have you finished?"

Rigo just looked towards him as he couldn't also move freely right now. all he could was to nod with great difficulty showing his readiness.

"Good," James said as he moved the scepter slowly over the navigation unit. The navigation unit of this large cruiser was formed of more than dozen small navigation units like those present at the small cruisers.

Once the scepter became above one of those units, it shook vigorously before it freed itself from James' grib and then it inserted itself half way down into that navigation unit.

Before anyone could say anything, the whole cruiser trembled. That was strange, as this large cruiser had never experienced something like that.

The Bombardment cruiser was so heavily armed with defensive shields and thick body that even focused attacks from any number of cannons wouldn't be able to take it down easily.

This trembling was only the beginning as there were sudden explosive sounds coming from the rear of the cruiser. It seemed the cruiser's engines were working over their normal capacity.

Everyone looked with some fear towards James and his scepter which glowed with strange light that began to envelop the whole navigation unit.

'I'm ready, grab me now,' the sound of the scepter sounded in James' mind. It was the signal for his escape from this place, and also it was the signal of the disappearance of the scepter.

James sighed as he didn't take a moment before he grabbed the scepter with both of his hands. Suddenly the scepter began to glow more and more like a pulsing heart.

Before anyone realized it, the scepter's glow overwhelmed everyone here and then it covered the whole area. They couldn't see what was happening outside here, however James could.

The glow began from the commanding deck, but it began to move rapidly to cover the whole cruiser, which turned to be like a small star in this place.

Everyone trapped here looked with astonishment towards that shiny little star that suddenly appeared here. At the same time, the remaining terases forces were shocked by the appearance of such a star as they thought it was an attack designated towards them.

They weren't out of options here, as they had some large cruisers supported with intermediate and small cruisers plus many fighters. They all got the order at the same time:

"Shoot to destroy this disturbing star."

The attacks came so sudden from everywhere. The cruiser was suddenly more lit from the endless explosions that began to happen one after another without any break.

For those outside the cruiser, they sensed the imminent destruction of it. they weren't feeling anything towards this cruiser, as they thought it was just bad luck for its crew to attract all that hatred.

However for those inside the cruiser, nothing actually happened to them. In fact, all these explosions were absorbed by the scepter in an attempt to amass a huge amount of energy to enable it to break through the net.

The situation from outside was like the cruiser was on the verge of collapse, however James knew this was only the show from outside and not the truth. What was actually happening was the channel of all these energy via the scepter which he began to generate a mighty force behind the engines in preparation of pushing the cruiser to cross all the limits.

James felt some doubt, would the body of this cruiser take the full throttle of this pushing force, however he had no control on what was going to happen right now. He was just watching, and throughout the process he was watching and learning as well.

The attacks from all over the cruisers and fighters of all kinds didn't stop to rain over the body of the large cruiser not even for a fraction of a second. After the passage of a few long minutes like this, the scepter suddenly said to James:

'Think of a shape of a sharp thing to tear off this net.'

The words of the scepter were urgent and vaguely understandable to James who was trying to learn anything by observing what was going on.

He began to picture one thing in his mind, the shape of an arrow, an arrow which just left the bow and was heading ruthlessly towards its target.