Chapter 3: Malen meets the Queen of Omega.

Time: 4 minutes after the vorcha had ran for their lives

Location: Afterlife

Aria was completely speechless.
She had just witnessed a single man which she guessed was about 6 foot 2 inches tall wearing no armor so effortless take down 2 krogan battle masters and reduce a third one into a crime scene outline on the floor ,(literally), just by speaking four strange words.
For 1 of the few times in her long life, she was actually afraid and the man that was causing her feelings of fear was in Afterlife, her throne room, and was walking straight towards the balcony that over looked it, her throne.

Malen had reached the steps the lead up to the balcony overlooking Afterlife when the turian guard stationed at the base of the steps motioned for Malen to go up the steps with his assault rifle. When Malen reach the top of the balcony he had 8 guards of varying races point their weapons at him with hesitant shakes of their hands indicating that they are only pointing their guns at him because they are scared, Malen chuckled softly at the sight of them, they reminded him of the faces of bandits he had killed at Treva's watch tower. Malen then noticed the very attractive blue skinned female sitting on the couch in front of him that he recently learned were the body features of the Asari race. He quickly concluded that the woman in front of him (6 feet away) was Aria.

Malen:" Greetings and salutations, I take it by all the armed guards around you and the calculating, and strong features of your facial expressions and that your sitting on that couch like it's a throne, I take it your Aria T'loak. With that said, you carry yourself in a way that expresses that you demand and deserve the respect of a queen that rules with an iron fist, so I take it one of the many titles I'm sure you have is "Queen of Omega", though I have no doubt that you earned such a position and reputation with your cunning and other strengths of combat that I have yet to see for myself, and judging from how you have kept your position for what I could only guess to be a long time in a place that could only be described as a cesspool of crime and debauchery that Omega has one and only one rule: " Don't fuck with Aria!". Before you get too big of a head from my manners and the compliments I gave you, for it is proper for a man to compliment such a beautiful and strong woman such as yourself, do not think for even a moment that I am in the least bit intimidated by you, your guards, your weapons, intentions, or attitude. I only say this so that you know where we stand. I'm a guest of Omega who will comply with its one rule so long as he is neither threatened nor insulted, and I'm not one of your guards you can order around or one of your dancers you can show off to your subjects. Now with that out of the way, I suppose I should introduce myself."

With this Malen took a small bow of his head tilting to the left.

"My name is Malen Katarn and it's a pleasure to meet you Aria T'loak, Ruler of Omega."

While Malen was speaking to Aria, a batarian guard was scanning Malen with his Omni tool for any signs of element zero or any indications if Malen was a hologram. When the batarian was done scanning him he motioned with his head to Aria that he was clean other than the holy shit amounts of "energy" that their initial scans of him outside of Omega indicated.

During the dialog, Aria's emotions were changing at an incredible rate of change. It started with feelings of surprise and awe that made her think:

"Damn, he's not only strong and fast, but also highly intelligent to figure all that out just by looking at me, I especially like how he deduced Omega's one and only rule "don't fuck with Aria"."

It then shift to feelings of intense anger when Malen stated that he was not in the least bit intimidated by her, and she knew he had the power to back up that claim, which damaged her pride even more, which brought about said feelings of anger, but she would not let the true depths of her anger show since she didn't want to have the man standing in front of her as her enemy ( Aria might be a prideful person, but she isn't stupid enough to let her pride get her into a confrontation that she knows she would lose, but that also means that she does not have to like acting humble either). When Malen had introduced himself, Aria had feelings of being honored and respected, but not "ass kissing" as she called it, she actually saw a bit of herself in the way Malen presented himself, intelligent, skilled, powerful, carries a sense of authority that commands respect, and a presence that clearly states " don't fuck with me for your own good.". While she still felt uncomfortable with him right in front of her, she could manage with that because of the manners he used towards one such as her, and the way he presented himself with respectfulness and demanding respect.

Aria:" it is nice to meet you as well Malen Katarn, though next time I would like the pleasure of introducing myself next time."

Aria then motioned with her head for Malen to sit on the couch to her right.

Aria: "So what can I do for you Malen?"

Malen:" Well, I'm a stranger to these parts in case that was not obvious, I could use a temporary place to live and something entertaining to do. Also I would like to ask you if you could create me a bank account that has the amount of credits I have in value of gold coins."

Aria:" well, Omega certainly is entertaining all around, as for living arrangements, there are many apartment complexes here on Omega. Yes I can have a bank account created for you with the amount of credits that your gold coins are worth. How many gold coins do you have by the way?"

Malen's only response to Aria's question was to come off the couch and start walking towards the center of Afterlife.

Aria:" Hey I asked you a question damnit!"

Malen with a chuckle:" I need more room in order to show you how much wealth I have, speaking of which, you should probably tell your dancers to clear the area."

And so Aria did just so and all the asari dancers that were on the platform overhanging a hole made in the floor that lead to the lower floor of Afterlife. After all the dancers were gone, Malen pulled out what must have been the biggest sack (sack of money, don't have your mind in the gutter) that anyone on Omega has ever seen. The mouth of the sack was touching the ceiling of Afterlife, and the bottom of the sack was touching the floor of the lower level of Afterlife, anyone who wasn't behind the counter of a bar or on the balcony overlooking Afterlife was being pushed up against the walls by the sheer size of the sack of gold.

Aria in an astonished voice: "So aaaaaa, how many gold coins is that exactly?"

Malen:" 30 trillion." Said in a monotone voice

Aria:" HOLY SHIIIIIIIT! You are one fucking rich bastard you know that?!"

Malen with a chuckle:" so how many credits is that exactly?"

Aria regaining her usually uninterested domineer:" well, considering the value of each of your gold pieces is worth 10 credits a pieces based on material value, I would say you have 300 trillion credits, making you the richest man in the galaxy."

Malen:" so can you give me an account with that many credits in it, without any connection to you so you won't be tempted to foolishly rob from me?"

Aria after telling her techs to make an extranet account with 300 trillion credits in it:" all right all I need you to do is type in a name and password for your account."

Aria sends the information and connection to Malen's newly created account while also cutting the connection that the account has to Omega so that no one could steal from Malen. Malen decides to make the name "Dovahkiin" and the password as "Savior of Nirn 102938".

Aria:" all right now that's all done I'll have my ENTIRE work force carry that huge as sack of gold off to be processed. Is there anything else I can do for you?"

Malen:" no there is not, but thank you for the offer Aria."

Malen stands up off the couch

Malen: "thank you for your time, company, and services, fare well."

Aria:" good bye to you then Malen, though I would like to ask you a small favor of you."

Malen:" and that is?"

Aria:" please try to clean up after yourself, most of my workers were puking and shiting themselves after looking at the last "mess" you made."

Malen:" I will consider it."

Aria:" that's all I ask, now you may go bought your own way now."

Malen:" thank you."

And so Malen left the balcony and afterlife while looking at his Omni tool at the vast sums of credits he now had, he decided to go back to the batarian merchant and buy some more tech of this galaxy that he was currently in. when Malen got to the merchant and paying the batarian 100,000 credits to get the best shielding equipment and biotic implant that he could get on Omega, Malen's own telekinetic abilities far outstrips most biotic abilities, but the Reave, warp ammo, stasis bubble, singularity, flare, and dark pulse ( the biotic ability that Javik has that creates a dark aura around a target and slowly kills them) interested him to the point that he thought it worth the time and effort to make the powers that a biotic amp gives to a person permanent to himself so that he wouldn't have to actually implant the amp at the base of his skull and so he would not have to deal with the normal cool down time all biotic abilities had after each use, but also decided to replace the power source of the amp with a enchantment so that he could make the effects of the amp permanent and never have to worry about power loss, he also wanted to augment the color of his "biotics" to a deep crimson red for aesthetics, uniqueness, and intimidation. The reason why Malen wanted a shielding system was that he didn't want to always have to focus on actively preventing his reflect attack damage aspect from taking effect when he didn't want it to, though he would also replace the power source of the shielding system with an enchantment for the same reasons he will with the biotic amp.

All Malen needed to do now was find a place where there were no security camera's or people that could see what he was going to do, though Malen would also need a workbench and heat source in order to make the modifications he wanted to make to the biotic amp and shield system. It took him about 4 days on the station to find a place that was deserted, lacked security camera, and another 2 days to find a makeshift workbench and heat source, all the tools he needed were in his Omni tool. When Malen was done making the modifications to the amp and shield system (the shields were not like the shields made for armor in this galaxy in terms of look when something hit them, it is invisible so Malen could maintain the impression that it's his body that is stopping the attacks, which it can, and in strength, the shields are impregnable to all attack) it had been 2 weeks after he bought the amp and shield system, though during this time Malen had also purchased apps and improvements to his Omni tool at the cost of 400,000 credits in total. Malen had purchased ,over the extranet, an improved hacking and slicing mod, a app that turned the color of his Omni tool crimson red, and a combat/hacking drone from a tech merchant on Omega, (Malen wanted a very combat capable drone since he will be getting into a lot of combat situations and did not want it to break when he wanted it to hack something) and one that could hack and slice without leaving a trail that could be traced since Malen was not that confident in his hacking/slicing abilities since they were relatively new concepts to him and didn't have any real experience doing it.

-Side note: Malen has currently changed from his arch-mage robes and white boots with the diadem of the savant to a complete set of legendary ( though Malen improved these FAR beyond what most legendary made armors were) dragon bone armor, minus the head ( since the helm didn't really match the rest of the dragon bone armor in terms of looks and feel, also usually armor helms and argonian heads don't mix that well, especially if they had spikes on their heads, which Malen had), Malen had also made himself some dragon bone armor for his tail, which really made him look like a mini, humanoid, dragon but no less intimidating than the real thing, especially with Malen's glowing white eyes with slit shaped pupils.