5 Awakening with new powers (2)
Lord Ibex looked at his son with concern.
"Was it the temporal distortion? Are you sick?" He asked.
Calvis was touched by his father's concern and began to explain what happened to him. He told his father about finding an unidentified large creature which he scanned.
His father asked for the results from his Illavalu candle something that showed extremely accurate results and was unaffected by aberrant things like radiation and temporal distortions.
When Lord Ibex saw the readings from the Illavalu candle and saw the unidentified creature with no genetic markers linking it to any race present in their galactic cluster capable of surviving the vacuum of space he was filled at the fear of the unknown.
"Calvis we need to check you for irregularities now," said Lord Ibex and Calvis agreed with him. Calvis didn't tell his father everything. He did not tell him about how he covered himself in a cocoon and slept, according to his internal clock, weeks of interstellar time.
If an earthling had heard about what he considered an interstellar week, they would be frightened because one week of interstellar time would be the equivalent of one earth year.
As they teleported to the medical sector of the large palace created by his father when they scaffolded the planet Xnion 706, Calvis had a tremendous headache. As they began walking toward the scientist on duty, the pain intensified while his concerned father caught him before he fainted on the ground.
As Calvis lost consciousness, he had a powerful dream that made him shutter. He dreamt he was a worm his mandibles stretching and contracting as he felt a deep-seated hunger consume him. He was surrounded by darkness and felt the loneliness that did not belong to him. It was loneliness belonging to those that are the last of their race. He was a minuscule creature and swimming in an empty void. He was the last of the carbon-based life forms.
As the worm was swimming in the abyss, it suddenly felt power coursing through it. It was filled with a powerful mysterious energy that gave the worm a refreshing chill. The worm began to change and he felt so powerful. A power that made the worm sure it could crush anything power that changed the worm making it frenzied. The worm was hungry for more power and it went in the direction of the energy's source.
The energy became numbing but the worm was still determined to get to the source. As the worm got to the source the worm inexplicably swallowed it.
Calvis woke up in a start and he found himself bursting from energy. It wasn't just his normal strength but an additional source of energy fed him. Normally he felt as if he could lift a building with his pure physical strength. Now he felt as if he could lift the enormous palace his father had built millennia ago
Lord Ibex came into the room and looked at his son happy that he had woken up, " Finally awake?"
Lord Ibex looked at his son with a strange reverence even though he knew he was the same person. Lord Ibex out of concern for his son had done a complete check up on the makeup of his body and the results were miraculous.
Lord Ibex and the Ibex family were minor nobility and as such, they had little say and power in the Parthian senate. Travel from the first universe to the second universe billions of ago had degraded his families' blood. As a result, their standing within the Parthian nobility was diminished and they owned only a single star cluster in the Angola arm of their galaxy which was far from the capital center.
When Lord Ibex ran the readings on his son he included tests for bloodline and genetic stability. When the test results came back it was found that his son had royal grade blood. Something that should be impossible considering his family's bloodline.
Nonetheless, his son could be considered royalty. Only royalty was capable of creating galaxy wide scaffolds. This ability was admired by all Parthians.
