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Chapter 2 - The Wanderer

While Basilius was dozing off, a meeting on a different continent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ensued.

All the leaders of the world were sitting around a large white marble table. There were exactly twenty of them, although all except two were in holographic form.

Some of the leaders were representing multiple countries like the European Union, or in South America the SA federation, other leaders were either other powerful countries' dignitaries or extraordinarily wealthy families, like the Rockefeller's.

The topic of discussion, the future of humanity.

Marcel Jameson was appointed to be the mediator between the forces and was supposed to be completely neutral.

Marcel spoke in a solemn manner "So is everyone prepared for the Awakening"

Everyone around the table nodded except for the representative of the China federation as he looked anxious.

Marcel noticed and asked " is there a problem Mr. Shennong Li"

Mr. Li responded immediately changing his expression to a stern one "Are we sure that once the operation commences, everything will proceed according to plan, statistically speaking surival rates would be high even with our preparations".

Marcel hearing the question let out a small smirk and stated " Don't worry I have had a chance to speak to the wanderer and tried to raise this question, he assured me that what follows the initial impact is far worse"

Mr. Li along with the other representatives were immediately relieved, some even let out small sighs.

Marcel then interrupted their small moment of happiness stating " Anyway even if we wanted to put the operation on hold for further preparations to commence it wouldn't be possible, it seems the wanderer is getting impatient".

The other leaders were surprised and the EU leader asked "Why?".

Marcel couldn't answer them and simply stated " The wanderer did not explain"

Another leader then suddenly interrupted saying "The wanderer is acting very suspiciously, are we even sure that what he is saying is true?"

Another leader then quickly responded reprimanding the man, " Does it matter, even if we don't know his intentions or if what he stated is true, what can we do about it! We should just listen to what he says hoping he is honest otherwise it would lead to your own foolish demise".

There came an awkward silence. All the leaders remained quiet, seemingly agreeing to the other leader's point.

Marcel broke the awkward atmosphere " So I believe everyone is now ready commence with the operation".

This time everyone nodded and there were no more objections.

Marcel smiled "Then I believe everyone has agreed and I will ask the wanderer to begin"

Just when everyone thought the meeting was over and were about to leave Marcel said " This will be a new leap in humanity's future and I wish you all luck and prosperity".

The other leaders looked and nodded at Marcel and then disconnected their holographic forms, until only Marcel and the Leader of Middle Africa were at the table.

They nodded to each other and went their separate ways, the leader of middle Africa went to his bunker 1 kilometer underground, while other world leaders holed themselves up in similar setups, while Marcel went to find the wanderer to inform him of the news.

Thirty minutes after exiting the conference room Marcel arrived at an extremely luxurious African style villa. Arriving at the door Marcel pressed the doorbell before a butler opened it.

Marcel was then led to a veranda where he saw a twenty year old man in white clothes with sunglasses lying on a beach bed.

The youth had long black hair with along flawlessly white skin, so much so that it seemed unnatural.

The butler respectfully went up to the man and stated that he had a visitor.

The youth then lazily motioned with his hand for Marcel to approach , Marcel in an extremely respectful manner, came up to the youth and slightly bowed, in fact Marcel with his status would never act so respectful or subservient to another human, however this persone called the wanderer was different, in fact he was not even a human.

The first day the wanderer came to earth the world leaders desperate at the prospect of finding a lead to another hospitable planet made the mistake of trying to attack and subdue him.

And what a mistake it was as it quickly became apparent that he was far stronger than their entire military combined as he only moved his hand easily wiping out an entire battalions along with a city with 50 million people as collateral, while on the same day kidnapping and executing 5 world leaders, the only reason this wasn't known to the public was because they quickly quarantined the area's and censored all the information.

No one knew why the man calling himself the Wanderer later began forming amicable relations with them and told them about how the people of the planet could still have a prosperous future even with their exhausted resources.

The Wanderer took off his sunglasses revealing his eyes, which was the only way to tell he wasn't human as his pupils were a pure red square ruby with a small circle of sparkling light blue surrounding it.

The Wanderer then said to Marcel "It seems you all are ready now"

Marcel knew what he was talking about and immediately stated while bowing even lower, " Yes".

The Wanderer who smiled stood up patted Marcel on the shoulders which made him flinch and said "you have 4 hours to find a safe place", Marcel immediately became anxious, while the butler had no idea what he was talking about.

The Wanderer then walked a few steps past Marcel and disappeared, making the Butler gasp in shock.