**V2 Chapter 9 - Trace of the Crystals**
"Hey, Timmy, are you going to be like this for the rest of your life?" Timmy's uncle, Richard Diggory, called out to Timmy, who was on the lawn in front of the villa. Timmy pretended not to hear his uncle's words and was poking at the ant's nest on the grass with a small stick in his hand. The little black ants were running away from the invading giant human.
Timmy's appearance was not the same as Madana remembered. He hadn't slept for ten nights, and his eyes were droopy. He looked like a like a frog about to commit suicide in some internet meme.
"The outside world is scary, full of mutants."
Timmy turned his head to look at his uncle. His face was not sweet, and tears and snot were mixed together. He no longer looked like a famous model actor.
"My nephew, don't go to parties like before, just join the girls and bring someone home. Uncle won't say anything."
Uncle Richard said angrily. Before, as a scumbag son of a rich man, he didn't like how Timmy was acting, but he didn't want him to have a bad mood. Even though he was spoiled, he was no longer special. Timmy turned away from him and continued to torture the ants.
"I won't go. I'll be hunted down by the big uncles who want me."
In fact, these days, he hadn't gone anywhere and had been hiding indoors for a long time. The main reason was the disaster that happened more than a month ago. He was among the victims of the Mad Doctor's Faraday medicine, which made mutant people more powerful.
That day he was playing sports. As a model, even if he didn't have big muscles, he needed to be fit and strong. After training for a while, he took a break and drank a sports drink to relieve fatigue.
After that, his Diggory family power exploded, and he began to attract the older brothers from the gym. Imagine a scrawny boy being chased by a bunch of buff, muscular big brothers. Really not comforting. If there is some gym girls who are doing sports there, it's yes, yes for Timmy. But because Uncle Richard didn't trust him, he sent him to a male-only gym room.
He ran fast and was lucky to escape from those older brothers.
Since then, Timmy also suffered a major trauma and developed a phobia of fearing muscles. He couldn't play like before. Uncle Richard was already worried that if Timmy continued like this, the Diggory family might lose a generation.
"Boy, if that's the case, go find a girl of your choice. Uncle agrees. No matter what kind of girl, if you're back to being the way you were, I'll help you as much as I can." Because of Uncle Richard's words, Timmy looked at him with pale eyes, but they immediately faded away, only looking for the anthill to continue. It seemed that even the girls couldn't save his broken heart.
In fact, Timmy was a real playboy. He had fallen in love with many girls, and many of them had been successful. But there had been some very bad incidents, like the drunken night with Min Lwin, and the nightclub incident. At a funeral ceremony, he asked for permission to love a widow who was crying because her husband had died. At a wedding, he asked the bride who was waiting for the groom to marry him. He even went to the nuns in the church and asked for permission to love. Uncle Richard was too tired to clear up all the scandals he stirred up. If a girl called for help, should he just go to the police station or whether he should call the hospital first.
Now he couldn't even think of them. Uncle Richard also sighed.
After a while, an expensive Bentley car entered their compound. In other words, the value of such a car was not within the reach of even the Diggorys.
A modest black body, the royal design was the hallmark of Bentley. And this car was a Flying Spur S model, worth about five hundred thousand dollars. It was the favorite car of Europeans.
What made Uncle Richard's eyes widen even more was a house seal with a golden dragon on the car door with a red shield background. Uncle Richard realized that this car belonged to a real European nobility.
"What is a European aristocrat doing in these villas?" This was his thought.
Then the car door opened, and a big driver uncle wearing sunglasses got out of the car and opened the back door.
"So what you're saying is that a weirdo living here might know about crystals." A cute little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes got out of the car. This little girl was also wearing a new goth dress with the house's logo, and she looked like a real lady.
"Well... She's the one who gave me a crystal like the one you mentioned." Another girl with silver hair and silver eyes also got out of the car. Even though she was wearing ordinary clothes, she was very beautiful, and she was wearing a short skirt, so her snow-white skin and long thighs were visible.
As soon as Timmy saw that girl, the stick fell out of his hand at once. Of course, he knew this girl. Once upon a time, a little girl came to their neighboring gem merchant family. She was so beautiful that he fell in love with her at first sight. Now, when he saw this girl again, all the trauma in him disappeared.
"Uncle, which girl did you tell me to help you follow? Now I want to be allowed to love that girl. Uncle, help me."
"....." Uncle Richard didn't know what to say anymore. How did it become good immediately?
"Boy, don't go so far. Do you have the ring that your father gave to your mother when he proposed? Go get it, and I'll give it to you with a rose. They're coming because of the affair, so it'll be a while. They seem to be had background, so we'll have to make sure they're ready."
"Uh...Uh..." Timmy immediately ran into the house to find the ring. Uncle Richard called the flower shop. Madana, who was on the other side of the road, still didn't know that a close friend was planning to propose to her. It was still good to discuss with Fralita.
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Madana arrived at Sophia's house. Luckily, Sophia was ready at home. The three of them were still doing house works as usual. Elohim and Fralita sat across from Sophia. Madana, as the third party, was sitting in a low chair in the living room next to the two of them.
"I know about you, isn't it Viscount Fralita? The person behind the Archmega, Europe's most powerful mutant, and a leader of the Royal Order."
Sophia now had a German body. Madana was happy to see her favorite body still intact. These days, Mad Doctor's activities were almost non-existent in North America. Was he quiet because the heroes were desperately searching for him? Or maybe he was planning something big, but Sophia had stopped doing missions lately.
"You know everything about us inside and out. You can't say that you are the messenger of the Divine Voice Group." Fralita said as she took a sip of the tea that was served to her as a guest.
The Divine Voice Team was an anti-hero organization, neither hero nor villain, just like the Royal Order of Fralita. And their strength was at the top among Anti-heroes. Sophia nodded and...
"I think you've come to ask me about the crystals. I think Lady Pendragon came with many crystals. And this is your idea, Madana?" The German looked sharply at Madana. Madana bowed her head like a thief. Fralita also revealed the crystals she had brought with her. At least 7 crystals.
"The only question I want to ask you is, where did the crystals come from?"
The ultimate goal of the royal order was to find the origin of the crystals. Sophia looked at Mark, Larry, and Moe because of Fralita's question. Madana started listening to their conversation. Mark, Larry, and Moe took one look at their surroundings and revealed their true selves.
A pair of tentacles came out of their heads, and they also had wings that looked like cockroaches. Their skin turned yellow. Of course, they were not human.
"Mark, Larry, and Moe are from the Loonorcs, which rules the stars far away from this world. In your human language, that means Empire."
"You are aliens." Fralita's eyes widened, and she asked again. In fact, knowledge-type mutants like Madana and Fralita already knew that they were not the only ones in this world. They just couldn't find other organizations.
"Well, I'm from Alloy Bond myself. In your language, the Federation Alliance."
After that, Sophia continued to explain. In the history of this universe that spans millions of years, the Loonorcs that came from Mark and Moe conquered seventy percent of the universe and became the greatest empire. But the three of them were fugitives from the Empire. A hundred years ago, the empire's greatest queen was accidentily killed by them in a war, and they were fleeing. At the moment, the Empire was looking for them, so they were hiding with Sophia, a Federation officer.
The Federation Alliance, a group of ten independent nations from the remaining thirty percent of the universe, had opposed the Empire for thousands of years. For now, the empire had not chosen a new queen, so there was a pause in the wars.
"I am a Federation ambassador tasked with communicating with the human race, a new intelligent group in the universe. I must try to understand the dangers of the Empire and make you the 11th nation of the Federation."
"But humans are fighting each others withour unity and Organizations such as UN and Global Heroes Association are useless right?"
"Well, even if you were not conquered by the Empire, you would still be extinct in the next hundred years due to the wars and environmental destruction that are killing each other."
Fralita also spoke. Her thoughts were simple.
"Both of you are organizations that are close to the highest point of the second Kardashev scale. We don't even reach a Kardashev level. Would it matter if we joined your federation?"
Sophia's answer was surprising. "Well, usually. But the living things on your planet are not that weak. If you compare each planet individually, you are probably the strongest even in the Federation. Especially the mutants among you. I have seen two people who have reached the alpha level. There are also more than a dozen beta levels."
"Wait... Wait... We don't understand the way you divide the levels..." Fralita said.
"Beta is like the level S you say. Alpha is higher than S, and you don't have an official designation. Retired Japanese hero Akaigami and Yami from my team."
"Hmm...are there any levels of power above S rank?" Madana also spoke. In her eyes, the S levels were really weak.
Sophia continued to explain in a cold tone. "Well, I'm an alpha. There aren't many alphas even in the entire universe. Even when our federation was founded, there were only ten alphas. Your mutant power is the most powerful in the entire universe. Our federation is stronger in terms of technology. It's stronger because it has ships that can travel the entire universe and powerful weapons. To defend the Omega-level queen of Loonorc, we need your planet."
When Sophia finished speaking, Madana raised her hand. There was still something she really didn't understand. Sophia turned to Madana and asked.
"Madana, what do you have a question for?"
Madana also sighed and asked. "It's good to know about the secrets of the universe. But what about the source of the crystals? Isn't that what you said? Where did they come from?"
Because of Madana's question, Sophia also hesitated. Larry looked at Moe and said.
"You explain to them." The three sly stewards also looked at each other. After a while, Mark spoke on behalf of all of them.
"Actually, the source of those crystals isn't from outside. I think it's the planet itself. This planet suddenly formed in space. Even our empire can't explain how a solar system suddenly formed." After a few words, Mark cleared his throat and continued.
"It takes thousand billions of years for a solar system to form. But this world's solar system suddenly appeared as if it were created by God. In the previous millennium, both the Federation and the Empire sent research teams to this planet. But they always disappeared before they got close. It was as if some powerful being protected it. We all assumed that there might be an Omega existence there and stop it. We haven't explored this place in a long time before us."
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