He saw the board and came to knew that the city before him is named Sun City.
He decided to enter the city. He saw there was some people in line entering the city.
There were guards standing on the city gate. They seem to be collecting fees for entering the city.
He didn't think anything about them and decided to wait in line to enter the city. He wants to feel like how these people standing in the line feel.
When he was waiting in the line he saw the guards question a person and the person seem terrified. Even though he was quite far away from them he was able to hear them clearly.
The person seem to be an old man.
He came to know that the guards are charging 10 silver coins for entering the city.
Going by that old man's words 10 silver coins are quite an expensive sum.
The old man only has 8 silver coins and is begging the guards to let him go in.
He told them his son is working in the city and after he goes in he will give them the remaining money.
The guards doesn't seem to hear him and whip the man with a long whip made out of some material.
After getting whipped the old man screamed and he has a long gash on his chest and back.
The guards throw the man to the side and continue to let other people with money in.
Alphen has seen many of these situations in his life. He came to understand that these people must be under some corrupt official.
He did not want to do anything right now. First he want to understand what is the situation of the city and then he will decide what to do.
Though he is the strongest he didn't want to be a person who stick his nose for every single people out there.
As he was thinking that a memory from his past came to him that he has seem to forgotten.
He remember himself having cuts and injuries all over his bodies fighting bullies who was throwing stones at a stray cat.
He remember that happening at his home planet.
He seem to remember that after he chased out those bullies he raised that cat. He was quite happy at that time.
So he decided to help the old man to see if he will feel like that again.
So he came to the old man who seem to be unconscious and made a cut on his finger.
The blood from his finger drop on that old man's wound and that old man wound close and healed faster than the eye could blink.
If anyone was watching they would have seen his blood his golden in color.
After the wound got closed the old man's eyes start trembling and he seem to have regaining consciousness.
After few seconds he opened his eyes and saw Alphen's face. He then check his wounds and saw that the wounds have been closed and there are not even scars left.
He said to Alphen while bowing, "Thank you Great warrior for healing my wounds."
Alphen didn't said anything and he used his ability to create some silver coins from nothing. He is a creator god. He has created many universes and multiverses. A silver coin or two is nothing to him.
He created them so quickly such that the old man was not able to see anything.
As the old man was thrown quite far away from the gates by the guards they also don't know what is happening.
Alphen handed the old man 10 silver coins and said to him, "Take this and you can enter the city."
The old man was startled on seeing him handing him the silver coins. He tried to refuse but Alphen forced him to take those coins.
After doing this Alphen again went to stand in line.
The old man also stand in line before Alphen.
When it was almost his turn he let the old man go first.
When the old man turn came to enter the city the guards recognized him and said, "Old thing you came again. If you don't have money then scram, we do not welcome poor people like you."
The old man said while still trembling by remembering those whips lashes, "Here is the money. Can I go now?"
The guards were surprised to see the money.
"Where do you get this money?", one guard said.
"Maybe he had stolen from someone" , another guard said.
"No I didn't stole from anyone", the old man said while trembling.
"Then how do you get the money which you didn't seem to have before", the guard said.
"Everyone check and see if anyone is missing some silver coins" , one guard said to the crowd in the line.
People check but no one has seem to lost any money but there are still some people who thought that they can get some free money and started shouting.
"That's my money."
"What are you saying? That's my money. See my 5 coins are missing."
"My 6 coins are missing."
"My 8 coins are missing"
"F*ck my whole coin pouch has gone missing."
Seeing this the guards have an amused smile on their faces. They know that these people are lying yet they didn't say anything.
Harassing people was normal for them.
"You old thing is quite a bold thief you have stolen from this many people. You deserve to be whipped 100 times."
Seeing and hearing this the old man eyes filled with tears. He know the guards were making things difficult for him just because he called them corrupt earlier by a slip of tongue.
He said to guards, "I didn't steal. Someone give them to me."
"Oh! Who gave you this many coins", the guard said.
"I gave him those coins"
At that Alphen decided to step up for the old man.
Alphen was wearing a black hoodie and he was covering his head with the cap of the hoodie. That's why no one notice him before.
But when he lower his cap everyone whether they were men or women were stunned.
They haven't seen a man this handsome before.
He has charm which makes everyone thinks of themselves being beneath him.
When the guards saw him they were awe by his appearance but then they feel jealous of his handsomeness and decided to put the bastard in his place.
"So you gave him those coins? May I ask which noble family you came from", they thought looking at his appearance he maybe some noble who came secretly and decided not to offend him for now.
"I did not came from any noble family. I am just a nobody. Why are you asking. Is there a problem?', Alphen said with an indifferent reaction.
"If you are nobody how come give this many silver coins to anyone. That means you have either stolen them or you are this old thing's accomplish"
Alphen understood that these guards are doing this to make things difficult for him and the old man.
"No matter what I will say you people will only make excuses and try to pin the crime on us."
"What are you saying? We will never do such things or are you trying to accuse the mayor of this town for allowing these things. Guards arrest him", the guard which have been making thing difficult for them said.
But to his surprise no one came.
"What are you doing? Arrest h.."
As he was telling the guards he saw that everyone around him seem to have stopped. It seems like time has stopped. But he was moving.
But then he saw in front of him and saw everyone aside from him and Alphen and stopped.
"Wha...What are you?"
He was terrified. He understand that this was Alphen's doing.
A being who can stop time cannot be a person.
Alphen came before and said, "I am just on a journey to find happiness and yet you stopped me."
"Sorry Sorry", the guard kept apologizing with tears and snort. He even pissed his pants.
"I decided to help the old man to see if I could feel the happiness I felt back then but yet you stop me from experiencing happiness.
Well doesn't matter It's also been a long time since I have seen someone like you acting like this before me.
It's been a long time since I felt this kind of feeling. It's different kind of feeling from the feeling them I am finding.
It's a feeling of a worm wriggling beneath me. Now how to crush this worm."
As he said this he snapped his fingers and the guard mind came to some another dimension. There he was feeling the pain of death and torturing over and over again for a long period of time and yet here no time has passed. Heck the time is even paused.
The guard scream keep ringing around but only Alphen was there to hear those screams.
He summoned a throne and sat there.
Hearing those screams he said to the screaming guard while having one hand on his knees and other under his chin, "Know your place, fool."