Alex turned to the first veil tear, his sharp gaze focused on it. Then the second and third also blew up.
And for several moments, nothing seemed to come out, making Alex frown in confusion. His senses were locked on them, trying to find anything he missed when three objects the size of normal cars abruptly shot out.
The objects were circular in nature, looking like gigantic cores that pulsed with void and magical energy.
Before Alexander could even deduce what they were, the three objects simultaneously sent powerful pulses that short outward.
Fortunately, Alex acted fast. The moment he sensed the pulse building up in the cores, he reinforced the surrounding space, rearranging a few things and eliminating others.
It cut off the path of the three pulses, trapping them within the space. And while he succeeded in blocking the three pulses, all of them were able to wash over him.
Nothing came out of it, but Alex knew what those things were. 'Scanning devices for collecting information, and powerful ones too.'
They were unlike anything his people made and powered by void energy, there was little it couldn't do. Alex narrowed his eyes as he tried to delve into the structure and build of the device but noticed something.
'The fuckers know what they're doing.' Alex realized. 'There's a lot of nonsensical principles imbued in them, knotting the entire thing to make it difficult for anyone to see through them.
'Trying to see through it would take time if one didn't know where to start. Furthermore, my presence has been noticed already.'
The three devices were now facing him as they continued to send pulses, this time only at him. But just as they were complex to avoid being seen through, he was the same.
'I know they're from a different universe.' Alex frowned. 'The question is why now? And only after Cassandra told me about that messed up coalition.'
Something wasn't adding up. All this seemed to be following a weird script. 'As if they waited for me to know about them before they showed up. And why at the same time with those void creatures?'
As Alex pondered these things, the three devices turned around, seemingly about to return to the true void.
"Not on my watch." Alex sneered as he stretched his left hand. "You aren't sending that data anywhere."
Another thing he noticed was the devices attempting to send the data back. But as the master of this place, he blocked all routes.
Soon the devices froze as they struggled to leave his grasp. Their attempts surprised Alex quite a bit. He didn't expect a piece of technology to be that powerful and almost sentient.
He wasn't sure and he was going to find out. With a gesture, the three devices were pulled from their position as they manifested right before Alex, still pulsing with energy waves.
Alex focused on the protective laws and within seconds, manoeuvred through the nonsense to reach the structural device.
But the devices weren't done. As soon as Alex reached the structure, they unleashed another pulse Alex saw through instantly.
The attack was vicious as it was powered by void energy. It aimed to disrupt the binding principles of his soul, dissolving it into chaotic energies.
An instant death sentence had Alex not blocked that pulse.
'These things are dangerous.' With a thought, he dismantled the three devices after learning all he could about them. 'Whoever these people are, they aren't respecting anyone's boundaries.'
In the place of the destroyed devices were three cube-like cores pulsing with iridescent colours. They still tried to send back their collected data but to no avail. Alex wouldn't let it.
'There's no point keeping something around.' Alex clenched his fist as he obliviated the cube cores. 'Just from this much, whoever these beings are, they are highly advanced.'
Alex turned his attention back to the veil tears, staring deeply into them. But there was nothing else there.
'I need to know the why and how they came at this point. Something is wrong here.' he put that thought aside and flew towards the veil tear Cassandra was engaging the void creatures.
Somewhere in the true void.
Three humanoid beings with hooded cloaks stood in the void. Even with their cloaks, they appeared huge and bulky, standing around three meters.
One of them had a small rotating cube, similar to what Alex had just destroyed. The iridescent colours it gave off flashed brightly for a moment before dimming.
"The surveillance artefacts are destroyed?" The man said, his tone raspy and supremely male.
"Already?" Another replied, this time sounding more feminine. "Did they gather any information at all?"
"Negative." The man replied. "It appears the walker was close by and for them to destroy the three artefacts…"
"They're not simple." The final one, also male and carrying a raspy voice completed. "They already have an understanding of laws and to a high level, no less."
"Doesn't matter." The main man put the core away. "Our mission was to confirm the state of that universe and their walker. But this should be enough"
They hadn't gathered anything since Alex destroyed the devices too fast and blocked all transmission. But with his actions, they had everything they needed.
"But this is a lower universe," The female said. "He may be strong, but I doubt he can take all three of us."
The confidence in her tone was unmatched. They were simply vassals, but as beings from a higher universe, they were capable of taking lower universe Veilwalkers with ease, even if they understood laws.
"We have our orders," The main man said. "Collect data and return."
The female begrudgingly groaned but still nodded.
"Mm," The other male affirmed. "Also, fighting and killing isn't our primary objective. You should know that."
"Ugh… You guys are no fun." Clearly, the female was the loose cannon among the three. "We could have played with the Walker just a bit, you know?"
"There will be time for that." The main man said. "For now, we should get the core refiners here."
A last glance at Alex's universe and they disappeared like they were never there.