Chapter 5

Alex trained with Freya from time to time as she was really driven by her last encounter with the Mogadorians. Also, Hilde is a master martial artist who has a defensive style of martial art, one that uses an attacker's own momentum, focusing strikes on nerve centers that will temporarily incapacitate the enemy. She taught Alex her style of fighting style which was pretty impressive while Alex used the Medical bed to reverse Hilde's age seeing she was back to her prime Hilde was a very tough opponent. Hilde looked at the mirror seeing her younger self she muttered"Can't believe a 14-year-old created a tech which is more advanced than anything Lorien or Mogadorian."

Alex knew he could change her younger self with biokenesis but felt using tech was better as Hilde said"I have only seen one of the Elder's reverses his age, not other people."Freya who heard this questioned, "One of the Elder's is an immortal."

Hilde shook her and head and answered"Two of them are pseudo immortal in a sense. They can still die from fatal wounds."

Freya heard and about it and asked"So both if they just have a longer lifespan."

Hilde nodded explained"The Lorien elders all have a huge lifespan, but our leader the most powerful Elder is Pittacus Lore and second is Loridas both of them possess the power Aternus which is the ability to change your age. Which made them able to stay in prime condition during their 10,000 years as Lorien elders."

Alex was thoughtful and questioned, "When I was rescuing you guys,I was able to read the thoughts of a few Mogadorian."Hilde and Freya were not surprised as they knew about Alex had a wide range of abilities as he continued"They all had one thing in common that is when they were able to hurt you, Freya, All of them were thinking about how it didn't kill or hurt them. So it seems they know about the so-called Loric charm."

Hilde was shocked hearing this as she whispered"Could they have captured any Garde or Cepan?"Alex heard this and said, "No, if anyone of the Garde were captured Eve would have alerted me about it."

Hilde remembered Eve as she nodded and said"Yeah chances are they come across a Garde and may have seen the charm at work."Alex just nodded but thought"Or one of the Garde double-crossed you guys."Alex was wary about Number five who would be a traitor as their is no changing it as Alex was not able to find Number five or his Cepan Rey.

While Alex called Eve to present few pictures of Jumper and Paladins as he said"Mogs and US govt are not the only ones you should worry about."Freya and Hilde became serious after hearing this as Freya asked"There are other enemies out their?"

Alex grimaced and said, "Well there are two groups of people one is Jumper and the Other is paladins."Hilde was cautious of this new enemy as she muttered"Jumpers and Paladins."

Alex continued"Jumpers are teleporters have existed for many centuries, dating as far back as the middle ages. Most who have the ability begin to show signs of this at the age of five, and most Jumpers don't make it to adulthood as the Paladins, a secret organization, kept hunting them down and killing them believing that "only God should have these powers".So there is only a handful of them around now, while the Paladins are a group whose existence can be traced back to the medieval era where they were learned about Jumpers' existence and angered with that. They knew that Jumpers are dangerous and would misuse their powers. Predecessors of these paladins are said to be those who involves in witch-hunts and inquisition where these people later formed the larger organization."

Hilde understanding the situation said, "So you are saying there Paladins may come after us."Alex nodded and replied, "More or less but what was interesting is both Paladins and Jumpers are descended from Loric."This surprised both Hilde and Freya as Hilde said, "You said both Jumpers and most of the Paladins have Loric blood flowing through them, but I remember none of the Loric who had children with humans developed Legacies."

Alex nodded and explained"Maybe but whatever caused Jumpers to get powers is related to their Loric heritage."Hide nodded as she was not sure how Jumpers or Alex got their Legacy to teleport as Alex continued"While the Paladins say they are killing the Jumpers because 'Jumpers are abominations and only God should have such ability', but in reality, This occurred in the middle ages so the information was hard to find, but from what I could find both Paladins and Jumpers came from the same family it seems the family had two sons, everything was going okay until the youngest son was able to get the ability to teleport or Jump. So basically the eldest brother hated his younger brother and was jealous of his ability, he practically saw his younger brother as an abomination, but this only got worse as the youngest brother had family and his children exhibited the ability to teleport which caused the Eldest to want to kill his brother and his family since he viewed him and his children as a stain in their family, but the eldest brother also knew for a fact his brother was more powerful, so he went and gathered people to kill his younger brother. But the younger brother escaped with his family after killing many of the attackers and seeing his powers many considered it powers from satan and other bullshit and with help of the wealth from the eldest brother then created the Paladins as they hunted the younger brother and his family It appeared that they were less successful in medieval times, until electricity was found by the time younger brother was already dead and his grandchildren or great-grandchildren had already escaped to different regions. The Paladins had discovered that around that time, enough voltage (at least 1,000 V) on a Jumper would prevent them from teleporting. Thanks to this, they became more effective as they even hunted down suspected Jumpers right before they were experienced enough to fight against them namely when they were still children."

Hilde scoff and replied "These Paladins have many things common with Mogadorians both are genocidal."