John spent the next couple of days searching for Sarah and Sam to say his goodbyes, even though they probably wouldn't even remember him.

He couldn't find a trace of them anywhere which was a major achievement given Zeel's satellite could probably find the top ten criminals on the FBI wanted list.

In the end, John attributed to Zeel's hiding method, but little did he know that Zeel was also at a loss.

'Where is Sam? Where is Sarah? Hey, I tried,' were the thoughts going through Zeel's head at the time.

Vishnu revisited India to see how his old followers were doing and gave those struggling sufficient funds to live the rest of their lives relatively wealthy. Despite trying to be like Zeel, Vishnu was someone who hid how much he cared about everyone, unlike Zeel who simply did not care.

Vishnu often sat down for long chats with Zeel, asking him about his life? Past experiences? Moral lessons and more.

Zeel found the time rather enjoyable since it has been a while since anyone was genuinely interested in getting to know him. Safe to say after Elizabeth, Vishnu was the one Zeel cared about the most – but Zeel caring about you was not a good thing.

A lesson the group would soon learn.

Cindy went alongside John searching for his old friends as they were now a couple. Truly, her intentions were less noble, she wanted to meet his first love effectively scoping out the possible competition.

Though she would never admit it, she was quite happy with the arrangement Zeel made with regards to Sarah and Sam.

Marina stayed with Ella to comfort her through her grieving for Stanley who actually died in the battle. Ella was blaming Zeel since he did not clone anyone other than herself – at least not that he revealed.

Little did she know that Lorien only had the necessary energy to resurrect her and not Stanley.

Marina spent the rest of her time learning to cook some earth dishes from India since she and Vishnu had gone steady after some procrastination.

They were the cutest couple in the entire group since their love was truly filled with teenage innocence and naivety. Vishnu and Marina were those amongst the group who suffered less in comparison to all the others here.

Elizabeth had been slightly distancing herself from Zeel, but she remained alongside Alice, perhaps they had even grown closer.

Alice and Zeel were on their own frequency, as they had both integrated with the nanites they could tell what the other was thinking even before it became a thought.

Their feelings had grown deep without compare, they rarely talked because it was not required for them to communicate. Sex between them had become akin to a drug so they had to refrain from sex until they figured out what had caused the phenomenon.

The feeling of losing yourself inside someone else was both terrifying and gratifying for both of them. Elizabeth grew jealous of the feeling they were experiencing but was unable to reach that point herself – she probably would have died since Zeel already took her to the peak of pleasure daily.

Any more pleasure would have caused her to ascend to heaven permanently.

Then the morning of departure came.

"Everyone set?" Alice inquired to which everyone nodded. She didn't want to leave a stone unturned that's why she convinced Zeel to give the group time off to tend to their own departures.

"Well, let's go," Zeel said as he dropped spec bombs on the ground that causing a mirror to form, dragging them into the Mirror Dimension before spitting them out on a spaceship in orbit.

"So that's what the spec bombs have come to? Transportation?" Alice asked since it was supposed to be a trump card of Zeel's.

Zeel nodded "I've made something better so this is the primary use right now,"

Puking noises could be heard before John asked "How do you do that anyway?"

"Physics basically, mirrorverse is tricky to navigate so I lace the bombs with a unique energy signature and lace all reflective surfaces I make with an opposite energy signature, so I can navigate pretty easy.

The hard part comes from entering the Mirror Dimension second layer and exiting at another location without experiencing any dissonance phenomenon," Zeel explained.

"In English, basically the more you use it, the more fucked up your brain becomes, so avoid reading stuff backward for the rest of your life, you have to calculate a lot so you enter and exit really quick," Alice explained since Zeel's explanations are always somewhat hard to understand and gave the others a feeling of being looked down upon.

"It'll be six months; you guys can choose to enter stasis or ride it out. Henri and the others are already awake getting their legacies under control before they interact with us since they were regular Loriens before," Zeel explained to which everyone agreed to wait out the journey and deepen their relationships with each other.

"Oh, keep in mind that this spaceship was built with the pinnacle technology of this Universe. That means that it comes with little to nothing in terms of functionality.

It can only make one trip to Lorien and back before breaking down. It only has redundant relay systems and anti-radiation properties," Zeel explained as he exited the room, "Basically, this is a huge metal coffin that can do some tricks,"

Twenty minutes later the ship orbiting the earth began its departure, creating wormholes to travel short distances every couple of hours. This was the method Zeel came up with that would allow them to beat Setrakus Ra to Lorien.

The main reason Zeel could only enter wormholes for brief periods of time was because of the possible time dilation effect, accompanied by temporal storms. Zeel could manipulate space through equations but time was much more delicate.

Both Alice and himself still had the lifespan of a mortal being which after being enhanced by the Z-virus became roughly 500 years. In a temporal storm, he could become twice that in an instant, so he opted for stability instead of speed.

"So after we're finished with this, where to next?" Alice asked looking forward to their next adventure.

"I am not sure; I am missing a few components for the dimensional storage ring which can be added to our Mbeamers. Right now, our Mbeamers can integrate technology and replicate it completely given enough spare nanites in our bodies.

We should be able to add a storage dimension when we reach Lorien as enough Loralite crystal essence can bond the Mirror dimension space to the ring, so we don't have to use already existing dimensions for anything other than the more dangerous experiments.

Then we'll need a form of navigator which we could more or less figure out; if the Felians did it, we can do it," Zeel replied confidently.

"That's not what I am asking, I read up on Project Quasar – so where are we going next?" Alice asked restating her question.

"We are heading to an expendable Universe, and before you ask I won't change my mind," Zeel said bluntly causing Alice to think for a while before nodding her head.

"Then after you have all of those things?" Alice asked raising an eyebrow not liking the feelings she was getting from Zeel.

Zeel smirked as he started drawing circles in the air "Then we evolve,"

The air trembling beneath his finger as it forms crystal models of Alice, Elizabeth, and himself, but with vague and indistinguishable characteristics.