Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!-Chapter 584: Answers

Alex continued to follow Brontes' lead for the next few hours, quickly becoming more and more interested to see where the mischievous little beast was taking him.

However, as they gradually made their way further and further into the deep wilderness, something changed.

The air shifted.

It was subtle at first – barely a tickle on the back of Alex's neck. But then Brontes stopped dead in his tracks, with the hair like bristles along the edge of his spine raising as a low, rumbling growl escaped his throat.

His usually playful eyes narrowed, turning sharp and instinctive, like a predator sensing the presence of another in the area.

Alex slowed to a halt, tensing his body as he heightened his senses to the maximum.

The environment around them began to change.

The terrain was still the vast, surreal wilderness of the Primordial Expanse, but there was something off.

The air grew heavier, the colours were less vivid, and strangely all sound seemed to have been filtered out. A strange electric feeling filled the air, like static charging from the invisible, raging particles.

"Brontes?" Alex asked warily.

The whole time, his hand lay tight over the handle of Virtue's Edge.

His spatial perception couldn't detect the presence of any life forms in the Primordial Expanse, so he had to rely on Brontes' naturally more adept sense of sight and smell.

The beast didn't give an answer – not a verbal one at least – but his body remained stiffened, and he crouched lower and lower, like he was stalking something off in the distance.

Alex followed Brontes' eyes to the horizon, where the sky had darkened slightly – not with clouds, but with a dense shimmer, as if the very fabric of space was bending and warping in a wide arc.

'Okay, that's definitely not right…' Alex thought to himself.

He'd never seen space be so distorted in the Primordial Expanse before.

Not even his own spatial teleportation talent created distortions like this one whenever he activated it to teleport from one place to another.

In fact, Alex doubted anything but the System could create such a distortion in the very fabric of the Primordial Expanse itself.

He had a gut feeling that not even those mysterious, powerful figures behind Mikhail's silencing and disappearance could cause such a disturbance in space in the Primordial Expanse.

Alex was 100% sure that what he was seeing could only be caused by the System.

'But why?'

However, it just then clicked in his mind.

Brontes' eyes were trained in that location, and he was acting very vigilant while doing so.

And they'd spent the last few days walking in this direction, all with the goal of finding a way to reach another races' territory in the Primordial Expanse.

'Maybe… Maybe this is the entrance!' Alex came to the realisation quickly.

'I don't know why I didn't think of this possibility before! The Federation has never found any territory belonging to any alien races, nor found any evidence of any alien race activity at all despite all of their endeavours to do so. It all makes sense now! The reason we've never been able to find these other territories is because they were never in the same realm in the first place!'

'The answer has been right before us this while time… If Floodgates can exist in the Primordial Expanse, connecting this realm to the outside universe, then why can't something similar exist to connect one territory of the Primordial Expanse to another? It seems so obvious now that I've seen the answer for myself…'

However, while that was one big question Alex had at the back of his mind answered, there was still one thing he had yet to cover.

If those spatial distortions in the distance were the entrance to a completely separate realm of the Primordial Expanse, then why was Brontes acting so vigilant right now?

'People… Or more likely another race.' The answer came to Alex easily.

'It fits the bill. The Federation and so many other independent parties have been trying so long and hard to find territories, or anything really related to alien races. The likelihood that other races have been trying to do the same thing is high.'

In fact, the more Alex considered it, the more it made sense.

The human race, or more specifically, the Federation was still practically babies in terms of the grand scale of things on a universal scale.

Other races have probably been exploring the Primordial Expanse for many, many times longer than humans had probably even started existing on Earth.

To them, finding, encountering and documenting new connections to outside realms of the Primordial Expanse might just be standard procedure.

And Alex was betting that he just needed to have the misfortune to encounter one such scenario.

'The one good thing to take out of this is that there probably isn't that many entrances to other realms of the Primordial Expanse in the Federation's territory… yet.'

This deduction had simply been made from the fact that there had been no reports of other spatial distortions like the one Brontes had led him to yet, and as someone who would be privy to such information if it did exist, Alex would have known if there was.

Following along the lines of his thoughts, the spatial distortion in the distance pulsed – causing a moment of eerie stillness that made even the leaves nearby pause their rustling.

"What was that?" Alex muttered.

Brontes growled again, deeper this time.

And then, something appeared from the other side.

A lone figure stepped out of the spatial distortion on the horizon.

Just as Alex had expected.

They wore no Federation armour. Bore no known insignias, but most importantly…

They weren't human.

Alex instinctively tensed, with his hand clenching tighter and tighter around Virtue's Edge.

Brontes let out a low snarl beside him, acting in a protective and threatening tone – but not aggressive just yet.

The figure stepped further from the distortion, revealing more of itself.

It was tall – not abnormally so – and slender, clothed in a sleek, form-fitting bodysuit made from some metallic, iridescent fabric that shimmered with faint energy pulses. Its skin was pale and faintly opalescent, like glass under moonlight, and its eyes were larger than a human's, glowing softly with a tranquil blue hue. freewebnøvel.coɱ

No armour, though.

And no weapon.