The Crawford's Multiverse of Madness

Prologue 3 - Research and Experimentation

Looking at the dead bodies of the mother and child pair, Zeel felt as if he had done something wrong but was unaware of exactly what it was.

Zeel proceeded with his extermination plan anyway, meeting more children and shooting without the same hesitation as before – with practice eased and perfection like the 15-year-old assassin he was trained to be.

"Seems I experienced a muscle cramp before," Zeel muttered to himself, not believing for a second that he actually hesitated to shoot the previous mother and child pair.

After a couple of rounds in the Mansion ensuring there was no one left, Zeel relaxed slightly.

He knew that it would take several more hours for any back up to come, The Mansion was obviously a black site of sorts for The Asheborn Family. The Asheborn's were known for their technology-canceling abilities.

They were somewhat anti-Homo-Superiors in a sense. Thankfully, Zeel had learned how to kill efficiently without the use of technology. It was almost as if The Asheborns had trained Zeel to kill them.

Walking around, Zeel managed to find the vault of the mansion. Everything was so antiquated and distasteful. Zeel was surprised to find anyone stupid enough to keep their valuables in a steel safe.

Ironically, it took Zeel thirty minutes to figure out how such a basic tool worked. It was just too basic that he overthought the patterns.

'Looks like the Asheborns knew what they were doing after all,' Zeel thought.

It took him another thirty minutes to destroy the footage. The recording system used some primitive form of magnets and storage drives.

Zeel's stoic face twitched constantly as he disabled the system in the vault. Zeel would have eaten the components had his nanites not been dispelled from his body.

Entering the vault, Zeel found a huge chunk of the God Syphon meteorite. It gave off a strange red glow that matched his ruby-red eyes. The stone was extremely heavy, but also very malleable. Zeel decided to study the rock in detail after his return home.

Zeel escaped into the nearby forest. The moment he entered the forest, Zeel connected to every information network in The Universe. Everything was at the tips of his fingers, everything flooded his mind all at once.

He was finally back to feeling like a Homo-Superior after so many years. A portal appeared in front of Zeel and he stepped through. The forest would block long-distance travel, but the best place to hide someone was the first place everyone else would look.

Zeel could surmise that he was not that far from The Crawford Estates.

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"Today on news! Zeel the 'Perfect Homo-Superior', who alongside his mother Clara Crawford was kidnapped five years ago, has now returned home!"

"It has been reported that one month ago, he was seen exiting the Mystery Forests of Candoro on an Unknown Planet in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Our sources are told that his mother was killed five years ago upon his kidnapping. Zeel's body is riddled with scars. I fear to imagine what it was that the Nation's prodigy experienced at the hands of his captors,"

Zeel was the only topic that aired on the news for days. Zeel was the scion of The Crawford Household, and the pinnacle of Homo-Superiors everywhere.

On a floating Island in New Genesis Sector

After exiting the shower, Zeel proceeded to shut off the projection. A couple of minutes later, the alarm of his island was opened as Zeel's father and sister breached the perimeter. Both people were instantly teleported to Zeel's location at the center of the island.