12: Care

"Father, I have a problem."

Byron received a call from Harold, he asked what was going on... And to summarise, there was a gang fight that Harold participated, he acted like a normal human and even used guns! But several of his men died and now he was captured by the other gang members, he could have killed them all with his demonic form... But that's the problem, he can't change! "Don't worry, I'm coming," saying it, Byron teleported to Harold's location, the watch not only as a communicator but also a locator, Byron can know wherever his children are! When the blue portal closed, Byron was already near Harold... He was getting beaten up by several gangsters together with iron rods. Byron felt huge anger... But strangely enough, he was calmer than ever.

Walking forward, his feet tapping on the concrete ground and echoing of what seems to be an abandoned warehouse, he neared the gangsters who were beating Harold. Byron then noticed, there's something wrong here! His demonic form is getting suppressed by some kind of force, and the only thing that came to his mind was mutant, a mutant with a power that could suppress his children... Anger exploded inside him, and his {Emperor Might} exploded together! Now it's time to explain this trait, {Emperor Might} is a trait that boosts you and your allies around you, increasing their strength depending on your might, the stronger the might the stronger your allies will be. And now, Harold completely transformed into his demon form and destroyed all the gangsters with his hands. "It seems that there's a mutant here... They can block your transformation. It's not mental or spiritual, or you would be able to resist."

Byron was commenting with Harold as he looked at the dead gangsters in the ground... He smiled. Harold looked at his father smiling and had a bad feeling... He started what he will do with that poor Mutant. "F-" before Harold could say anything, Byron already vanished into thin air, Harold's bad feeling intensified by a thousandfold! He literally started to pray for the poor mutant. Byron appeared in a building, he walked inside while with his eyes closed. He could hear a lot of noises, people getting killed, tortured, raped, and other things. But he ignored those noises and focused on the feeling of the mutant he felt before teleporting. He walked upstairs until he was stopped by someone when he opened his eyes he saw another gangster that was going to say something, but Byron is not here to talk.

With a snap of his fingers, the gangsters that stopped him died instantly, their heads dropped on the ground with a clean-cut head. Byron walked forward when his forehead hit the door it was like the door never existed, the door just turned into dust. Byron walked toward a room, when he opened it he saw a fat guy fucking a girl, not a woman, a girl. A kid... Byron looked at him and poof, he turned to dust too. The girl had lifeless eyes, Byron touched her and she disappeared, Byron just sent a message with her to Alexandra saying: "Take care of her and turn her into an assassin. Love- Father." Byron continued to walk inside that apartment, he saw several other people getting raped and ignored them, they didn't have any talent like that little girl. Byron arrived at a room where he felt that the power came from when he entered it, he was received with a wave of concealment that tried to pressure him, his {Emperor Might} one more time activated and the pressure went away.

"Impressive." said a guy with light silver hair sitting in a gorgeous chair, he had a mask over his face too. Byron smiled, the temperature of the room decreased so much that the water in a cup beside the silver-haired man started to turn into ice! "So it was you who messed with my children? Good." Byron ignored the bodyguards he had and stepped forward when he heard a shot, Byron didn't even stop, he just walked forward. The bullet hit his skin and simply disappeared, also the ones who shot him disappeared, turning into dust just like when Thanos snapped his finger. Byron just touched the silver-haired guy and he fainted, he was so scared of Byron that he fainted! Byron grabbed his body and teleported away, now that silver-haired guy will be turned into a subject of his tests with drugs and poisons! He will be in pain forever, Byron will not let him die, not let him rest, and not let him have hope... He will break him.

Sadist Byron was born like that.

***

"Excuse me, Miss Alexandra."

"Come in."

"Miss Alexandra, there's news from your father. He exploded several gang bases, he captured a group of women and teleported them here, each one has a paper attached to their bodies that says their talent and utility. He also added he wants each one of them to have spy and assassin training."

Alexandra was in a building in the Philippines, like the company big shot that she is, she is sitting in a leather chair with a smile on her face. Looking at the window and the climate outside, she smiled and said: "Train them and also train them thinking about their talent." Her servant, the same that attacked Byron before, the name's Catryna. "Yes, miss." saying this she left the room where Alexandra was and after she left the room Alexandra sighed. "It's not easy to be the CEO of a rich company..." she is a CEO at day and sells information at night. She doesn't really need to sleep so... "I guess I should go now." Alexandra left her office and went to the meeting, she was going to be information! Everyone in the underworld knows about an organization named Gate, which is part of Tartarus, one of the most famous organizations!

***

Where is Byron now? Working on his island. Yeah! He has an island. And how he got an island? He made it himself, now, you know where is this island located? Exactly. In the Bermuda Triangle! Byron was curious about it in his last life, and now that he can fly he can go around this area and search for interesting things. And what he found made him completely dumbfounded. A giant head! When Byron saw this head, he detected that it had a huge amount of some kind of energy... It felt strange but also comfortable for Byron ri touching it. Byron decided to research on this head, he will collect samples of the head's bones and do some tests. Weeks later Byron stabilized a whole island around the head. After some research, Byron noticed that the energy coming out of the head could disable electronics.

Byron suddenly thought about his past life... Maybe? No, that's too ridiculous. Byron, however, found a solution to the electronic problem! He could control the energy that came out of the head, it felt like the same energy that he uses to draw runes! Byron controlled the energy, he felt that the energy was powerful like a black hole... He named it Cosmic Energy because it seems to come from the cosmos. "Now, let's try it." Byron clapped his hands, suddenly a blue portal appeared, the portal was connected to his greenhouse in the United States, he is going to teleport the whole greenhouse to the island so e can do experiments without having to worry about destroying half of New York in an explosion... And it worked! Byron entered the greenhouse and started to search for Cosmic Energy, to see if the cosmic energy would affect the plants and mutate them further, but the energy couldn't enter the greenhouse.

"Is it because I put a barrier around the greenhouse?" asked Byron to himself while looking at the glasses of the greenhouse. He smiled and brought a Warming Apple outside the greenhouse and saw the effect of the Cosmic Energy on the apple, it basically started to wither and turn into black charcoal. "What does this energy do to humans...?" with an evil grin Byron teleported the silver-haired guy to the island and observed as he screamed with pain, he saw the energy entering his body, destroying the cells and killing him. "That was very interesting... Maybe It can only affect weaker bodies? I need to test it." Byron teleported Harold to his side, the poor guy looked at his surroundings with doubt, what the fuck happened? "Hum... It seems that I was right, it only affects humans." Harold looked to his back and saw his father looking at him smiling, behind his father a giant skull... "Father, where are we?" asked a surprised Harold.

"Well, it's a surprise so I will explain later. Bye." Byron teleported Harold back to where he was before and continued to experiment with Cosmic Energy, the corpse of the silver-haired guy now had been turned into ash... It was like the energy was eating him. Byron made a lot of tests with plants and Cosmic Energy! First, when a plant mutates from Cosmic Energy it turns very aggressive. Giant Carnivore Plants, Spiky Vines, Poisonous Flowers... Second, the energy that Byron uses to draw runes that comes from inside him, let's call it Rune Energy and Cosmic Energy are unique energies. They can't coexist with each other because they negate each other, that's why the Warming Apple turned into charcoal, and the energy couldn't enter the greenhouse! Third, because Byron and all his children are demons/half-demons they can unconsciously resist the attack that the energy does to their bodies, that's the advantage of being a demon.

Byron continued to research on Rune Energy, Cosmic Energy, Drugs, Magic items, and others. And just like that, 1945 arrived. Three years! Byron's company would release new items every year, this year's item was the first Nokia, the unbreakable phone. It was Markus's birthday today, so Byron brought him to the Tartarus Archipelago to have a party! War ended with the United States winning, Germany surrendered, and what day is now? 6 August 1945. Byron brought his children to the sky near Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he said they were going to see human's true nature... And they saw an explosive show of humanity's ugly side. The radiation was strong, so Byron had to use [Radiation Rune], [Barrier Rune], and [Reflect Rune] to protect his four children from getting corrupted by the radiation.

"See kid? This is humanity." Byron saw each one's expression. Alexandra was stunned, Harold was expressionless but his hands were bleeding, Markus was shocked by this scene and Evy was crying. Byron smiled sweetly to them and said: "[This is for the greater good]... That's what the Americans are thinking. [This is a disaster!] That's what Japan is thinking. Two sides of the same coin, humanity is hypocrisy and disaster... But there's still hope at least. Not for me, however, you four are my children and I love you, so I have to show you the truth, no matter what. I'm sorry for them, but I at the same time don't care. The United States, Japan, Germany... I don't care about any of those! I only care about family and family alone." Byron hugged each one of them and teleported back to Tartarus Archipelago.