Alexander was watching the whole thing. When the man said Ravenflame, Alexander was a bit taken aback. He had felt that the face of the 16-year-old boy was looking familiar but he couldn't pinpoint it. Now, he knows.
He truly felt sad and bad for this kid. He had lost everything he cared for. Alexander kept on watching the memory. He didn't see everything. After the origins, he was already at the point when Tyson met Zulrak.
This was way after everything at the MCU. Tyson had left the universe after some events and was drifting in space. To his bad luck, he stumbled upon Zulrak's territory.
There, he travelled to lots of worlds and saw the conditions they were in. Whole universes were turned into military bases and the original population was made slaves, meant to be exploited and r*ped.
He was very strong by now, thanks to MCU. He saw the same conditions in all areas and some were being subjugated when he saw them. It shocked him to the core.
"This was when I decided what I needed to do." Alexander heard a voice. It was Tyson, now without a mask. This was what he currently looked like. His face still looked very depressed, his eyes seemed lifeless and sad.
"Why did you decide that?" Alexander asked.
"Because after I saw what all these people were going through, I felt that my own problems were so... incomparable to them. Look at them, they are treated as even lesser than an animal.
"I have committed too many sins in my path to revenge, Alexander. I had realised that revenge is the devil's path. I wanted to redeem myself. So, I joined Zulrak. I was very strong so it did not take me a lot of time to enter his inner circle. He foolishly thought I was under his mind control when I had broken through it a long time ago.
"He helped me get stronger with time. I tried to act like his fanatical follower and at the same time helped people. How do you think you survived the poison that I injected into you at that time?
"Your death was imminent if I had not injected the antidote into your granddaughter's body. I knew you would take her poison into yourself so you indirectly took the antidote." Tyson revealed.
Alexander looked at Tyson's face while blinking his eyes. "Woah, and here I was thinking I had good immunity. Son, forgive me for misunderstanding you. You even had me fooled with all your drama."
"Glad it all worked out in the end. *Cough* I can't hold on for much longer. Meet you outside." Tyson disappeared.
Alexander's also returned to his own mind and looked at Tyson's body. He went ahead and took the mask off.
"I should be able to heal you," Alexander said.
Hard breathing, Tyson lay on the ground. His eyes had lost all the glow a living man should have. His face showed despair and pain that went deeper than just physical pain.
"No, half of my soul is lost now. It can not be just healed. Alexander... I... Am I going to die? *Cough* I-I don't wanna die... not yet" He weakly breathed out some words. This was the first time he showed himself this vulnerable.
"Easy now, you stay put. You have sacrificed so much for so long. Don't die on me now... I-I'm thinking of a way." Alexander held his hand and assured him.
"*Cough* I've committed too many sins. I've killed a lot of people. My whole life, I believed that my path was the right one... I-I gave it my all... but then... I found the flaw. I might not even get to hell in this condition. *Cough* I just wanted to see mom and Anna once. I wanted to be with them... At least... after all this... for once..." Tyson breathed, his voice was dying down slowly.
Alexander looked around to find some way, for some inspiration. Tyson was missing half of his soul. These beings were not simple mortals who could be healed with a snap of fingers.
"Can't you fix him?" He asked god.
God shook his head, "No, even for me that is too much. Why else do you think Lucifer still acts like an emo girl wanting to be bad? A god-level being's soul is very precious and tough, losing it would mean an end for a god?"
Alexander had some idea now. He jokingly replied, "It seems you're getting old and space and time isn't your b*tch anymore."
"The way to heal Tyson is to get stronger than you? Okay then. Let's do it." Alexander decided.
All of a sudden, Leonidas and Olivia had a bad premonition. Both of them came close to him. Olivia spoke, "Alex... Don't tell me something will happen to you."
"Is this what you were talking about?" Leonidas inquired.
Alexander looked at his big family, "I'm not dying, Oli. I will be back soon, though I don't know how much it will take me but I promise I will return as soon as I can."
Slowly, his dark seamless form started disappearing.
"Old man, I will be back stronger than you. I will prove to you what I said not long ago." Alexander said.
God laughed, "Hahaha... I will be waiting. Go and win it, son."
After that, Alexander disappeared, what followed him was a small blob-like black ball. It was Zulrak's soul, which was going to be dealt with soon.
Alexander started taking away all of the energy of Zulrak. He calmly drifted into space, trying to maintain his form. The problem he was facing right now was that he was expanding. Just as they say that there is god in everyone, he was touching everything in the Omniverse. This way, in the end, all will be connected to him.
He finally knew how god truly felt and why he was so easily omniscient. Because God existed everywhere. Alexander had no idea how much time it would take him to create a physical body for himself again. But he was not going to keep his family waiting.
After all, space and time was now his b*tch.
...
In Phixheim, as Alexander disappeared, all became sad. Thea nearly cried out but was supported by Olivia in a tight high. Chomei also went away to sit alone.
God quickly told them what was happening, "Don't worry, my children, Alexander will return soon, stronger and better than ever."
Dobby nodded, "Most of us know, but it still feels a bit depressing. He had to give up his physical body didn't he?."
"I had to do that once too. This way, we are not bound by any earthly matters. We can turn into whatever we want and look like whatever the mortals want to see us as." God explained.
Olivia sighed, "I hope you are right, father. But, the good side of all this is that you are still alive."
"Yeah, that is shocking to me... bwahaha... he is unpredictable for me too." God laughed.
...
Alexander, while still expanding in the Omniverse, got to see Zulrak's memories, after all, he had absorbed him. He finally saw what turned him into this evil villain.
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[700 CHAPTERS BOIIIII]
[A/N: There are just 2 chapters remaining. Then 2 chapters of the epilogue.]
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