Mental Breakdown

"Medici… Sauron… Einhorn… I have come to bargain."

While saying so, Max pulled out the decapitated head of a person. Rafter Pound was a man his early forties with light blue eyes and brown hair, but the sides of his hair had turned white. He had puffy eyes and clear wrinkles on his face, and yet all colour had long-since drained from his face.

Max had made Ademisaul locate the man, who had once again forwarded this mission to his students.

'Ademisaul is gradually becoming lazier and lazier. If this continues… I will have to do more work. I should get him to do some work as well,' Max mused as he recalled how he had to rush over to this person, kidnap him, extract some of his blood for safe-keeping, and then kill him before bringing his head here, all while ensuring he did not arrive too late.

Thankfully, it had all worked out, with him arriving about 20 minutes before Klein, and then disguising as a servants to follow the duo of Klein and his bodyguard. Thankfully, using his a little Unity Energy to duel his ability to [Fool] allowed him not just to hide from her Spirit Vision, which was what she used to see everything around her, but also get the final push to finish digesting his potion.

Now, he was in his peak state at Sequence 8 of the Singularity Pathway; Fool's End.

The head twitched for a few seconds before coming 'alive' and opening its eyes.

"You have- come to die," the voice had changed mid-sentence.

Max sighed. At least this poor fellow did not change one bit. Max felt sorry for this abomination… more importantly, he felt sorry for Medici. He quite liked this character… and wanted to see if he could safe him from his predicament. Well, if it didn't work, he would either force him to work for him… or erase him and take away any loot he could get off him.

"Medici… I give you three options."

"…"

"Kill yourself."

"…" Medici, the expert provoker felt at a loss for words.

"Let me kill you."

"…" Again, Medici felt speechless. What was this kid going to do?

"Or work for me… forever. You see, I'm really lazy and I want others to work for me. Also, I'm not very scheming so having someone like you… well the three of you would help out a lot. You guys can handle all scheming matters, and I can just go around and beat-up whoever you want me to beat up."

"But that will all take quite some time. For now, I suppose I should show you some of my power."

And with that, Max placed a finger on the head's forehead, and pushed slightly. His own pitch-black Unity energy pushed out the disgusting black energy of the evil spirit instantly. He then grasped at the air with the Unity energy surrounding his palm.

Without much effort, he successfully grasped the Evil spirit… or at least the portion of it that had entered the head, and gradually pumped it with large quantities of Unity energy, completely reducing it to nothingness.

Silence returned to the area, but Max just retreated a few steps back and said.

"Why are you running? Look, now I'm so far away. Being a weak Beyonder, I will not be able to reach the head before you can pull your energy back to your main body right? Come on, we have lots to talk about~ Don't hide from me~ come out, come out, wherever you are little hotpot of souls!"

"What do you want?"

"Are you deaf? Or just stupid? Or right, you must have gone insane from the years of confinement with two others madmen. Anyway, what I want from you is to work for me. If you don't, I will either kill you or you will kill yourself."

"Keke, you are the madman. You aren't even a Beyon- Idiot! If he is not a Beyonder than I am the Ancient Sun God! What was the ridiculous energy he just used huh?" Medici was brutally interrupted by another voice. Max was not sure if it was Einhorn or Sauron, but a strange thought came to his mind.

'Medici was a male… but Einhorn and Sauron were females. Does that mean that… Medici has been in a Demi-god level threesome for countless years…?'

Putting the random thoughts aside, Max began speaking eloquently, "I am a Beyonder, but it is not something you can sense. I will tell you this… my pathway… has no other Beyonder. And I have full control over an adjacent pathway as well. You should know what this means right?"

"…What's your sequence?"

"8"

"Pfft~"

"…" This time, Max was speechless at how Medici was trying to get back at him in such an odd way. He had just threatened to end his life, and he could actually do it, but he was still trying to find fault with him over the smallest thing… well, being Sequence 8 and threatening to kill what is effectively a Sequence 2 or borderline Sequence 1 would be odd to anyone…

"Alright. I won't beat around the bush. I will help you become a Red Priest if you follow me. I can also… once I reach Sequence 3, split you back up into your original selves. Perhaps if I get the correct Beyonder Characteristics, maybe even before that. Though I doubt you would want that, considering how close the three of you have got over the years."

"NO! I will split up!" Medici roared, but the other two remained silent, causing him to falter in his steps. They could not take any decision unless it was unanimous, and this subject clearly was not.

"Well, it is your choice after all. You can sort it out later. More importantly, I can help you get some revenge."

Medici, who was once again at a loss suddenly perked up at the words of revenge and a horrible smile formed on the dead head.

"Yes, I am talking about the annoying Author. He has irritated me enough when I had just gained my Beyonder abilities. It was really annoying having him try to invade my mind every few days. I swear once I get to Sequence 1 I will personally spank him until he loses all his Beyonder Characteristics and returns to being the Ancient Sun God, then spank him some more until he returns to his original state of being a normal human." Max raised his fist into the air, before pointing at Medici.

"So, Mr. Ex-King-of-angels, are you and your Ex's in?"

A long moment of silence ensued, where Max grinned and continued, "Of course, for this agreement to hold any power of you, you will have to swear an oath to a certain being. A being much stronger than you and capable of erasing you completely. Do you want to guess who it might be? Hmm… I think it would be better if we select two such beings. Yes, that feels better."

"I will now tell you the honorific names of the two beings who will bear witness to each of you swearing fealty to me, and also the combined Red-Angel Spirit also swearing fealty to me."

"Mother Goddess of Depravity"

"Origin of Evil"

"The Indestructible"

The red moon above the Underground structure glowed for a bit before returning to normal, but this was unseen by all four beings inside.

"The Unity of the Creation"

"The Almighty Singularity"

"The Endless Spectrum"

"Universal Amalgamation of All"

Max had changed his honorific name since he had now effectively gained ownership over Spectrum, and he intended on changing his name gradually closer to the Honorific name of the real Unity as he gained ownership of the other pathways.

The Red-Angel Spirit was silenced completely upon hearing the Sequence 8 child call out one of the most terrifying beings in existence and be completely unaffected, and also call out another existence whose honorific name sounded even more powerful somehow, and still be completely fine.

'What happened to this world while we were sealed? Since when did such existences support a Sequence 8… and since when did they start working together!' the three-in-one spirit began having a mental breakdown.