The UN headquarters was a beehive of activity, the moment they arrived they were escorted into a boardroom, where they met 17 other individuals. Two of which were Cole's aunt and his brother. For a moment when his eyes landed on both of them, particularly his aunt, a blast of energy wafted of his body, it was powerful enough that glass cups placed on the table for water all shattered and the lights in the building flickered.
Tehila placed a hand on his shoulder and shook her head at him. This was neither the time nor the place for something like this to happen. He shrugged and went to the head of the table, where a man was sitting on it. He was huge, taller and more bulkier than Cole. Of course all of that was quite limited in the fact that his legs and left arm were actually prosthetics.
"You know you can actually heal those to the way they were before. Remove the prosthetics and cut into the healed area, your limbs should grow right back. Even here, so why the fuck are you walking around playing a cripple?" Cole asked as the man got up from the seat in order for him to seat on it.
"Jeez its good to see you too boss, I take it you made it to the sixth floor without an incident?" the man asked as he gave Cole a pointed look then pulled another seat out for Tehila to take besides Cole, before sitting on another on Cole's right hand side.
"it's me we're talking about Eze, of course there was an incident. However I left the moment I showed up on the sixth floor, I haven't moved around that much yet. But considering the amount of time we have on our hands to clear it, I believe there's no hurry. We will see what it holds for us, but surprisingly enough I never received the prompt for being the first person on the sixth floor." Cole said as Eze chuckled.
"Sorry Buddy, but I beat you to it this time." Eze replied as he leaned back, taking notice of the rest of the aspirants. All of them had gotten silent, just watching Cole's and Eze's interaction. Even much more so was how much deference Eze was giving to Cole.
At the moment the stream were still going on, not to mention that Cole had been at the forefront of the media. For some reason he along with the first batch of aspirants, had everything they were doing or experiencing take center stage. Everyone in the world saw everything, and while it made for great entertainment, it was still a way to showcase just how powerful the number 1 and number two ranked human aspirants were.
For a lot of politicians, it was scary, that the number 2 ranked aspirant, served the number 1 ranked aspirant. Cole had a following all over the universe. You might say he had fans…..or fanatics. But many people were of the idea that Cole was the savior of humanity, and this new 26th Paragon title seemed to be the final nail in the coffin as even those who were not aspirants on earth and had no contact with the system in anyway had heard it.
"I see your head is healed Nephew." his aunt said, cutting their conversation off as she drew Cole's attention to her. Cole just looked at her, not saying anything. He just stared, turning the entire atmosphere awkward and making things really embarrassing for his aunt. She was about to say more when there was a buzz from a speaker and they all received an invite into a private digital conference room through their neural domes.
Cole shrugged as he turned to Tehila and Eze. They all quickly accepted the invite as the world seemed to fall away from them all. This was augmented reality at the highest order. They were still in the conference room, but somehow they found themselves in a massive auditorium. With quite a lot of people, they were not in the millions, but there were thousands of people here.
In front of them were multiple pews of seats that had all of the leaders of earth. All 195 of them. None of the off world leaders were here though, and that was because most colonies and settlements off world were still tied in one form another to the governments that launched them in the first place. Very few were actually a private venture.
"Aspirants of earth we welcome and thank you for accepting to meet with us. In this time of great trials and tribulations, we will need all of us to come together and try our best to stand against the forces of darkness that are threatening our way of life. Even now the great city of London and the seat of power for Great Britain is under siege from elves....our weapons and soldiers are doing nothing, and a Nuclear response has been tried, but all has failed. They have taken half the city and are still taking more with many civilians and innocents, caught behind enemy lines. We need to give a response now before it is too late, this is why we have called you here.
There will be reparations of course, for taking part in this battle, as each and everyone of you would be given a lump sum of a million dollars to remove this foul creatures. And this would be a standard payment per battle. London is not the only city in the world facing these assaults.
There will be bonuses and awards given to those who distinguish themselves on the field of battle. Now we can take three questions each from the top ten on the aspirant ranking leader boards. I believe there are only six of them here, so please ask and then help us save the earth!"
As soon as he finished talking a spot light shone on Cole and Eze, with a few other spots including where his aunt and brother were standing receiving spotlights of their own. It was crazy that three of then top 10 aspirants came from the same household, this would make the Night family legendary. But Cole was not here to make ask questions…..he was here to make a deal…..and a threat.
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