Null was talking to the rest of the party to arrive when all of sudden he felt like he was being teleported. Null was standing in the middle of a room of darkroom.
"Interesting, it seems you have already linked with the Alterran technology. It looks like you're a Nullifier that would explain the difficulties" said a disembodied voice that appeared to be talking to itself.
"Welcome Null, son of Lyn Anderson and Sariel the Angel. Users of Alterran true magic system." Null was a little perturbed at the wording that made it sound like Zero was his biological father.
"That is, adopted son of Sariel, and who are you?" surprising to Null he found that words left his mouth not his mind like usual.
"Ah touchy, Well you can call me Primordial"
"A Paragon?, I don't believe it" Null still couldn't get used to the sensation of talking with his mouth and was wondering what was going on.
"Believe, don't believe it is up to you but know this. The answers you give here will decide if you are leaving here alive or not"
Null tried to cast a magic missile to see if he damage the room.
"That won't work, you aren't physically here, this isn't the physical realm. It is a spiritual realm under my control. I have relocated your mind and soul to this location." The Primordial was the paragon of the spiritual faction so it was not surprising he could control the spirits of others.
"Let me show you something" The Primordial then showed the Null what appeared to be a river of lines that flowed around the room. At random intervals along the lines would be different size spots of colour. The first half of the river was in red and the second half was in white.
"This is our galaxy's timeline, the red is the past and the white is the future. Those spots you see are major events in our galaxy. This one here is when I was born" The Primordial had highlighted a medium size spot near the beginning of the timeline. He continued to explain the demonstration.
"Time travel is impossible even with all our advanced technology and power, time marches forward is a fundamental truth of the universe. The future is always changing those white lines represent possible timelines that we can observe using the time field" The Paragon gave him a chance to look at the line and observe his reactions.
"Primitive, timeline demonstration" The system had decided to give his option. It appeared that Primordial had heard it speak as well.
"Who said that?!" It was not often that something took him by surprise.
"Me, I said it. I am Infy the avatar of the Aterran True Magic System. Your display shows how primitive your galaxy is. You can't even display future events."
"So is that large spot at the present the fight we just had? Why is it so large?" asked Null, he wanted the system to stop antagonising the paragon and tried to change the topic.
"Well spotted young one, yes that is from your battle today. It is so large because it will have a large ripple effect. You saved many souls from being consumed and they will enter the cycle of rebirth which means in the future different people will be born making different decisions. This battle has shifted the possible timelines. If that is a positive or negative outcome only time will tell"
"What is that spot in the future there, it is bigger than all the others?" Null pointed at a spot that looked like it was a fair distance in the future.
"That spot is why you are here. It only showed up after your birth and all the timeline converge on to it. You were never meant to be, your birth wasn't in any of the previous timelines. You are an anomaly. We can not tell what those spots represent until after the fact all we can infer is that your birth leads to a chain of events that has a major effect on our galaxy. So do you see our problem?" asked the Primordial.
Infy the system avatar answered for him.
"It is a fixed point in time. Null birth was the trigger so any decisions made now won't stop the event from happening. Your methods are so inferior you can't even tell if it will be a positive event or a negative event"
"Not a bad analysis, it is only fixed at the moment, any time in the future there may open a path where we can avoid it. The fact that you can use true magic indicates your participation in the events will affect the outcome." The primordial had one question for them
"Now knowing this, I will ask you one question. What did you learn today?"
Null refused to answer, he didn't give any response. He didn't want to disrespect the paragon but he honestly didn't want to give the paragon any information about himself.
He abruptly collapsed from intense pain. It felt like his whole body was on fire. "No, you won't get an answer" it had only hardened his resolve not to let this arrogant alien get any more information.
Primordial was hesitant to continue the torture, he was hoping that Null would show some remorse for the loss of life of the other explorers. It had been their decision that lead to the battle. Had he sought help from the council a better solution could have been found.
"Why didn't you seek assistance once you discovered the spell? You could easily leave with your party"
"Help from who? The council who locked us up? They took my father away and have exposed the human homeworld to extreme danger and for what? Because I have powers that scare them? The council can go get-- "
He didn't get to finish his sentence as his pain increased even more than before. There was nothing he could do to stop it as this was imaginary pain. It seemed while he was in the primordial's realm he was at his mercy.
"No, I will not let you do this" Null started to stand up. "you can not hurt me" and as rapidly as it came about the pain was gone.
Primordial didn't know what was going on, he was the master of his own domain, he was the top authority on the spiritual realm in the galaxy this shouldn't have been possible.
"You won't be able to affect my user anymore, he had gained the power of soul's voice" Infy sounded very sure of himself. Soul voice was a skill Null gained after the fusion. It allowed him to talk to other souls and to control his soul perfectly.
Null had realised he had some form of control in this realm now. Whatever he said would become reality. He had questions he wanted to ask the paragon but it was more prudent to leave before the paragon could create a countermeasure.
"I will return to my body now", and he returned to his body back on the planet.