Master of Death

Chapter 45

After spending years with elders Hadrian achieved knowledge and full grasp over his keeper and space element powers. While going through ancient scrolls of universe, he figured mark of Atlantis and Loyalty will not work on outer space species. However he was able to modify mark of Soul in a way that it can work on any one. For mark of Possession he figured it's impossible to find that out on whom it will work or not except doing sex and see result.

Hadrian also gained knowledge of most powerful stones of universe and how he can feel energy when stone is near to him. There is no map or any person in whole world that knows where all stones are. Elders have warned him Galactus is too powerful and he won't be able to destroy him. Even somehow he finds a way to destroy Galactus, he shouldn't do it. When Galactus eats planet, it destroys planet with life on it. But at same time from Galactus' essence creates new planet with new life to thrive. Galactus maintains balance of life in universe and balance of planets. As Hadrian completed his task he thanked Elders and asked them for location of Silver surfer. They transported him to location. He cast mark of Soul and few spells on him so silver surfer will never able to see or locate Earth. He thought one more big event of Galactus threat is now null and void. 

Hadrian was thinking whether to visit some planets or go earth directly, when he suddenly felt raw energy similar to death coming from near by Planet. Just out of curiosity he went in direction, the deja vu and creepy feeling kept increasing. For any normal person this feeling makes them to run away but for Hadrian it worked as how magnet works for iron. Hadrian reached at planet. It had graveyard type lands, garbage and no sign of life. He figured planet name was Vormir from gadget given to him by elders which has data about each species and planet. He changed his appearance just to be safe. He started walking in direction of mountain from where the feeling was coming. While walking he see one very shiny golden tomb from which he felt some pull, pull was mild not like one coming from mountain. He decided to take it with him and study him once he reach earth in spare time so he shrunk it, put it in his pocket and started walking again. 

Up on reaching on top he saw Red skull type man, looked like death in Red.
Red Skull in no nonsense tone: "To receive soul stone you have to sacrifice someone you loves"
Hadrian: "Hello, no I am not here for that. Are you death of this planet?"
Red Skull looked at man with boring look: "More like this planet is death for me"
Hadrian: "How so?"
Red Skull: "Well I am cursed to stay in this dead planet until someone comes and gain stones. And saddest part of being protector of Stone I can't even use it's powers."
Hadrian thought so stone is safe and there is no need for new protector. He needs to leave right away other wise he will get stuck. With quick nod Hadrian thought about some lively planet and disappear in thin Air using his powers to appear in near by planet. Red skull kept staring in thin air not understanding what just happened.

Hadrian appeared in planet Xander, he found the planet quite amazing. Planet was thriving with life, happiness and modern technologies. From gadget he found out that this planet is home world of Nova Corps, an intergalactic police task force and it gave two Heralds to Galactus in past. He realized casting spells on Silver surfer wont be enough to keep Galactus away, as there are chances of that some other herald find out about earth. He changed his appearance to see and gain more information regarding Xander. He started gathering information of technologies, laws and customs of this peaceful planet.  He also marked few people which he thought would be working on different tech, laws and policies. He looked how different species are there on planet, he noted he has to come back to this planet to study more or meet Supreme or Counselor of this planet. He was walking around when he saw fighting going on between a man who was awfully looked like someone from earth and green girl. Green girl has her eye on something that man had. Hadrian looked closely towards orb they were fighting over and gasped when he felt strong pull of power stone. Without thinking much he also jumped in middle of fight. Hadrian didn't use his magical powers as he didn't want anyone to notice him. It was hand and weapon combat. Then suddenly rat faced alien joined fight as well. all four got arrested by Xander Police for creating ruckus. The police took them to some awful prison in their flying vessel. During this time Hadrian figured the man named Star Lord or Peter is thief and orphan who wanted to sell orb. Raccoon Creature is named Rocket is after him to get bounty set on Peter by some one named Youndu, who raised Peter. Rocket sounds genius at building weapons. Hadrian silently marked Rocket and StarLord. Hadrian didn't say a word from the moment he got captured to let them believe he is some mute newbie. Green lady was famous on Prison for her alliance with Thanos. The name ring bell in Hadrian's mind. Hadrian wanted to get rid of the girl but stopped  when he heard furious growl from muscular blue man named Drax. Drax shout with rage 'you are daughter of man responsible killing my family, I will kill you'. Gamora didn't stop him but said 'if killing me solve anything than do it, I am here to stop Thanos. Just like everyone here I also hate him'.
This made Drax stop to think a bit, Peter was running towards him to stop him. Hadrian stopped Peter and sent spell to Drax to increase his rage ten fold. As a result Drax killed Gamora by snapping her head. Everybody froze in their place seeing such barbaric murder. Peter stopped struggling so Hadrian left him and went back to his cell. Hadrian thought he shouldn't have done it but he can't trust the girl. In third life when he died in confrontation with Thanos, this girl was neither with Thanos nor with them, so he can't be sure of her alliance. Moreover Gamora knew about power stone which means red alert and he can't risk it. He is grateful that his appearance is not of his real self otherwise he would be in trouble. As things calmed bit he captured a guard. He cast imperious curse on this guard and used Severus's poison to change this guard's look like his current persona. Then he order him to fight with other guards until he get killed and create chaos. He took invisibility position and looked at event from hidden position. His dummy actually reached up to last point of prison break with help of Rocket, but then got killed. Rocket used bomb to destroy final gate, that leads other prisoner start running to get free. As now everyone's attention was towards chaos, Hadrian went in direction of room where all his stuff was. He took his coat and checked his stuff. Thankfully everything was safe. Then he took Orb from Peter's things and vanished from location thinking to appear on planet which is out of reach from Nova Corps.

He sighed as he looked around new Planet. With help of his gadget he found out this planet is called Hala. It is home to species called Kree or Ruul. There are two colored species: 98% are pink and 2% are blue but Blue Kree rule over Pink Ruul. Not much is known as no one is allowed to visit their planet. This is planet is known for scientifically and technologically advanced militaristic alien race and slave trade. He thought of changing his appearance from previous Xanderian appearance to Kree, but somehow he can't change. He checked his magic but nothing was working. So he took invisibility potion again, thankfully it worked. He marked few pink and Blue Kree thinking it's better to know things from this race if they ever decided to turn attention to earth. While walking around he tried to figure out why his magic is not working and how to escape this planet. After roaming around for few hours he figured the planet is currently under conflict as there is coup going on against supreme that's why there is force field across planet to stop any energy flow or foreign interference. He heard someone talking about confidential Project X. This perked his interest and he followed person. He found out they are experimenting on some person to know his powers and develop new weapon. What shocked him most that this person is also Kree citizen. When he saw this person's condition he got so angry that how can they do such thing to anyone. Also he felt same mild pull from this person as he felt from tomb from Vormir. He made plan to save this guy. After some days of constantly collecting knowledge and information from Scientists of Project X to he came up with plan. One day he entered lab after drinking invisibility potion and stand in far corner waiting for a chance when no one in near the unconscious guy. At one point when everyone left to take lunch, Hadrian went near to guy. As Hadrian touched him, somehow Hadrian felt his magic. Hadrian cast some spells to check it started working. He cast healing spells, but it didn't help much. The bleeding stopped but all the wounds were open and it looked like boy's  skin is breaking apart. There was white light coming out of it which Hadrian thought might be his life force. Without wasting further time, Hadrian shrunk boy and put his body inside locket as he doesn't want to cause him further damage. Finally he blasted lab (destroying all proves of Intrusion or escape, data collected from experiment, Project X files, Scientist and DNA samples) and disappeared from Hala thinking of his kingdom.