98 The World Briefing, The Looming Danger (1/2)
The scene within the conference room was a solemn one indeed, as every individual of the major powers looked at Elumar in silence with various thoughts in their heads. Elumar knew that quite a few of them must have suspected him as the culprit for his father's untimely end, but he didn't care, he merely smiled and spoke to get the meeting in order, ”Shall we proceed?”
The beauty from the Cold Moon Empire gave Elumar a deep look when one of her attendants whispered in her hears, she the spoke, ”Since Prince Elumar has spoken, then I believe the meeting is in order. Does anyone have any objections?”
The leaders of the other powers looked around silently before they nodded their heads and spoke, ”No, let us commence.”
Following their words, a section on their parts of tables lit up as a holographic projection appeared before them, it was a view of the observable universe, showing objects and planets from many light-years in their surrounding galaxies.
The projection then zoomed into the many different galaxies finally zoning onto the Andromeda galaxy, Milky Way Galaxy, moving towards the extremely distant cracked cluster of even more stars that formed separate star systems.
This sector was defined as the Nilihoid Space, a dead galaxy which was too far to tell anything too clearly, the nearest galaxy to the zone termed as the Alpine Star System; a sector comprised mostly of dead planets and stars.
As everyone looked at the information shown, a woman dressed in formal wear stood up and began to speak, ”Greetings, my name is Professor Jeans and I am the head research for the Crisis Project. Now then, before you is the core regions that we've notice affected by what we've now termed as the Planet Devouring Star. After using the best of our technological satellites and scopes, we have managed to calculate that this strange object had originated from beyond the Nilihoid Space. It then entered the domain of the Alpine Star System, where we have received confirmation footages of its devouring planets much like that of the previous Mavious 0B1. This star had then traversed an irregular path through space entering into even Andromeda where it removed ten different stars before it headed towards our Milky Way Galaxy.”
As Professor Jeans spoke, the projection continued to show footage of the strange white light moving about; it even showed the planets that were devoured one by one. Now, the projection had zoomed in on the Milky Way Galaxy, showing the light was now passing by the most popular red planet at alarming speeds.
Professor Jeans seeing this didn't stop but continue to speak, ”We had thought it to be acting at random, but slowly we began to notice a strange property of this star. We found that after it entered our galaxy none of the planets be it, Saturn or Jupiter was devoured by it., as you can see right now, even as it is making it's way nearby Mars there isn't even a sign of it trying to consume the world. Tallying this all together, we've finally concluded that this strange star is consciously choosing what to consume.”
After hearing the woman's words, one individual slammed the table and spoke out, ”This is nonsense! Are you trying to imply at a mere cosmic object as sentience?”
The person who spoke was the royal man from the Russian Empire, his face livid as if he heard the most outrageous thing.
”Sir Alexandrov, I would like to assure you that the things we are showing and have concluded were done by the very best in the field. We are highly certain of our claims and have more than enough data to prove this fact,” Professor Jeans replied calmly.
”Hmph! Alexandrov, you've got to learn to calm yourself, if you can't keep a certain level of baring, then how can you be fit to reign as a royal in that empire of yours?” The callous-looking woman said from the Asian Empire.
”As if I need for a hag to tell me of the ways of rulership, Chi Lei, you'd go back to your domain and leave matters of state to the hands of men,” Alexandrov said as he stared at her.
Chi Lei's eyes grew cold, the martial artist, ninja, and man with the samurai blade also stared at Alexandrov with dark looks in their eyes. However, those around Alexandrov himself also showed dangerous intent.
The scene seemed as if it would turn into a war anytime soon, but suddenly, Elumar's voice sounded from the other side of the table, ”People, we are on live, and in the face of the public, please do best to keep your interpersonal conflicts away from the table. Empress Chi, Sir Alexandrov, might as you both to control your men.”
The two hearing this snorted as their company calmed down, causing the atmosphere of the room to return to normal. Behind Elumar, the red-haired man looked at this scene in silence, as one of the cloaked individuals by his side chuckled softly.
Elumar then looked at Empress Chi and Alexandrov before shaking his head and speaking, ”That's better, you guys could do a bit better to learn from Sir Oji and Sir Barakat. Always calm and conscious of his surroundings and circumstances...”
When Elumar said this, his eyes shifted to the black man dressed in royal wears, who looked at him in silence before speaking in an accent, ”I tank di prince elumaaa for di praise, yur baring is no infiryaaa to yur late king.”
”....” Barakat only looked at him in silence by giving a slight nod.