The Veilwalker

The catkin observed the fight between the void creature and the denizens of this universe, impressed with their fighting style and teamwork.

Naturally, she held on and observed. She did not participate in the fight not because she was too exhausted, but because she needed to ensure that the creature didn't attempt an escape. With a destroyed galaxy behind her, it was easier for the creature to escape there if it felt it couldn't win, and she knew those people wouldn't be able to enter.

Stopping an enemy from escaping was always harder than fighting them. 'Hopefully, they can finish it off before I lose myself.' Her thoughts were sluggish even as she stood her ground in the void, occasionally moving along as they changed locations. Before she appeared here, she had been fighting nonstop for years. She could hardly remember how many.

...….

Evelyn closed the distance and joined Zol in pressing their advantage. The exchange quickly took a different turn as now Zol had more breathing room. But even then, the creature was still going strong.

The exchange continued like that for a whole day. Mason and Charlotte would chip in from time to time, either to protect their comrades or attack when they saw an opening. At some point, more ships appeared in the far distance, quietly creating a circular perimeter and observing the ongoing fight.

Things began to look good when the void creature began slowing down and received more damage than before. The accumulated damage over the long fighting was finally getting it on its last fumes. Its screeches of what the hunters assumed to be feelings of pain constantly echoed in the void.

Zol and Evelyn pressed on with more vigour, inflicting more damage than the creature could block or evade.

'Finally, we're getting somewhere.' Zol thought in relief. While they had no problems fighting for many more days, if it continued for too long, they might start getting tired. After all, they had been going all out since the beginning.

However, his thoughts came too quickly. The creature had finally decided to unleash its own ability. Its body began talking a deep red hue, all going over to its mouth. It appeared to be charging for a breath attack.

Zol and Evelyn noticed this immediately and made moves to distance themselves, each going a different route. Zol applied his telekinetic force on the large pieces of debris and moved them to form a long blockade to fill in the distance he made from the void creature. Evelyn employed her ice abilities to create multiple ice walls in the same configuration.

"Mason!" Zol exclaimed loudly. The defence he put forth was not enough. He needed Mason to reinforce it with his barrier magic. Mason did not fail and did exactly that for both comrades, placing large, reinforced shields with large thicknesses.

While the trio were busy setting up their defence for what was to come, Charlotte bombarded the creature with a nonstop barrage of projectiles to slow down its charging.

'Is this really the power of a Class S void creature?' Her mind raced with the implications of what that thing could do if it were at full strength,

'We would even be able to fight it then?'

The thought motivated her to increase her attacks while her companions finished with their set-up defences. Since she and Mason kept a distance from the close-range battle, they were out of sight and could attack whenever the creature least expected it.

But the creature seemed to ignore this and put everything in its attack. It was almost spent, and this was its last-ditch effort to kill the annoying pests and make a run for it.

The catkin noticed this and understood what the creature was thinking. She prepared herself to finally kill it. While she rested for a day, it was still not enough. But she had enough juice to kill the creature. And while she could use her remaining strength to try and protect the fighters, doing that would doom them in the long run.

'Luckily for them, the creature is already spent.' She didn't mean this in a small way either. If she had to make an estimate, she would say the creature's prowess was not even up to 0.00002% of its real power. One could only imagine what transpired in the region this visitor of theirs travelled from. The debris they came with was evidence enough.

Zol and his companions had assumed what they were fighting was a weakened Class S void creature. If only they knew… If only.

She more than anyone knew how powerful and devasting that attack could be. If it was at full strength, that attack could decimate a third of a galaxy with no problem! Now, this obviously may seem impossible given the size of the attacker and a galaxy.

But one had to understand that void creatures were beings of destruction and came in all shapes and sizes. The extremely powerful ones could change their size whenever they wished. But they were intelligent enough to reduce their size and frame when they fought.

With enough distance away from a galaxy, their attack could cut straight through a galaxy, travelling at speeds defying all known laws.

The attack could travel thousands of light years in a few seconds, destroying anything and everything in its path, leaving almost nothing behind. Powerful was an understatement.

The void creature opened its mouth wide at an unbelievable angle and the accumulated energy from the charge glowed a menacing red, just like its eyes and fired a barrel-size laser-like attack in Zol's and Evelyn's direction, moving its head from Zol's location to Evelyn's.

On that day, the hunters and everyone observing the fight witnessed firsthand what a creature above a Class A void creature could do, even if it was a weakened one. But some of them won't be around long enough to know this, their curiosity turned into the reason for losing their lives.

The beam travelled way faster than they had anticipated. Zol's and Evelyn's defence did not hold for long before falling under the power of the beam.

'Shit!'

Zol, Evelyn, Mason and Charlotte all cussed almost as if synced. They had severely underestimated the power behind the attack. But even if they didn't, there was nothing they could have done.