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."
"G-CHAN... bring me with you." Chomei cried.
"Grandpa, me too." Thea came running towards him and grabbed his leg. Soon, all tailed beasts hugged him.
"Sweetie, I am not going anywhere, I will be back before you will even know it. I promise. After all, I have to save Tyson." Alexander assured her.
"Promise?" She asked, her eyes tearing up.
Alexander made a pinky promise to her. "See, I promise."
Olivia picked Thea in her arms and stepped back.
"My little potatoes, be good. I will be back soon and we will have a huge feast for a full month." He cheered them up.
Alexander then looked at god, "Take care, until I am back."
Alexander walked straight to Zulrak's body, still on the ground. He was not dead yet but he could speak.
"Hahaha... that Ravenflame deserves death. How dare he betray me after all I gave him." Zulrak cursed.
*BAM*
Alexander slapped his face, "Shut up now, you have lost. Accept it like a grown man. Nearly everyone you trusted in your life betrayed you, because they understood what kind of monster they were serving. The truth is, Zulrak. You lost the moment you decided to choose this path."
"DO NOT TEST ME ALEX... *BAM*" He received another slap.
"I'm not testing you. I will be killing you soon." Alexander replied.
"Hah... what? Are you going to eat me or something? DO IT... IT WILL POISON YOU..." Zulrak shouted back.
Alexander shook his head, "Look at you, such a pathetic state, and yes, I will be absorbing you but not via eating."
Zulrak was taken aback. Right now he was helpless as he couldn't move his body at all. All he could do was speak. ~Damn my mouth.~
"After this, every trace of you from space and time will disappear. I would have liked to see you rot in hell but we can't risk that." Alexander said.
He walked up to Zulrak and put one hand on his back. He activated his God's eyes and started absorbing Zulrak.
Alexander felt as if every single cell of his body was being overloaded and some were even bursting. His reasoning was simple, if he himself was 90% as strong as God, then Zulrak was also somewhere there. So, if he were to take Zulrak's powers, he felt he'd get stronger than God.
Zulrak noticed his skin chipping away and turning into ashes. "NOOOO... STOP THIS MADNESS..."
Alexander did not stop. He kept on taking away his powers. Soon, even he started feeling as if his skin was burning away, turning into ash.
It took him 3 hours to completely take away Zulrak's energy. His whole physical body had disappeared and all that remained was the powerless soul fragment.
"As I promised, I will erase you," Alexander muttered.
Alexander himself had also lost his physical body. In his current form, he looked like a mass of humanoid borderless chaotic energy. It was as if his body was composed of space. It was a bit scary for the people watching him.
Alexander soon started feeling that he was dissipating and getting one with everything around him. From the biggest to the smallest.
"Oli, I will be back soon. To become the true ruler of the Omniverse, I need to become one with the existence, so that existence will be me and I will be its source. Everyone, keep yourself warm. Love you all. I will be back soon." Alexander waved his hand at everyone.
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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