Kol Mikaelson – Journey To The Multiverse - Chapter 15

=PART-1

When you are truly angry, you are controlled by that anger. That intense d.e.s.i.r.e to vent it, and find relief.

But when you are pushed so much that your impulse has gone beyond the limits of your anger, then at that moment, you are filled with an intense d.e.s.i.r.e to kill. You are driven by that d.e.s.i.r.e. At that moment, all you have to do is take a step forward, and the primal instincts will take over. If you resist, then you will feel like you will explode by an overwhelming force gradually building up inside you.

Morality, common sense and social values are etched inside every person, so deeply that even at the moment when you are controlled by your primal instincts, there is still a hint of fear etched inside your very soul, so deeply embedded that from the deepest recesses of your very subconscious, you resist crossing over that final line.

Because you know. Deep inside, that community and civilization are the ones that are at the top of the food chain. Not you. So, that fear rules you. That fear of consequences and an unpredictable future.

What if that was to go away? What if you were The Only Being at the top of the food chain? What would a person do then, if he knew that he was the only person who was strong enough to be the only king of this world? And what would he do if he was provoked? Currently, Kol was provoked. And he was angry.

————Scene -Primal Fear.

From the moment since Kol opened the front door of his house to the moment he noticed Astrid and Qetsiyah being tied up, only a couple of seconds had passed, but the travelers were already focusing their spell on the door, in order to trap Kol when he came out.

Unfortunately, they underestimated Kol.

His eyes glowed with a red light as he roared in anger.

At this moment, time seemed to have slowed down for Kol, his heart was beating rapidly to quicken the flow of blood all over his body. In order to support it for the impending act of destruction.

What he had just seen had brought back old memories for Kol. Long forgotten memories from his past life that he would prefer to rather forget.

It was unclear what exactly those memories were, and why would it still affect him even when it was all in his past life, but it was clear that something that had long been buried in his mind had risen to surface and it brought along a different aspect of Kol’s nature. A part of him that he kept buried.

The travelers had taken his loved ones hostage and it shook him from his very soul. He instinctively felt powerless, and that kind of feeling brought along fear of losing someone he cared about.

Perhaps in his past life, something similar had happened, but he was powerless to stop it. However, this time it was different. He was a god. So, all that fear turned into anger. And these travelers would now face all the anger bottled up inside of him for his two lives.

Qetsiyah was already dead, to begin with. The best they could do was cause her pain. As for Astrid, she was a supernatural creature. That meant that even if she was to die, at best it would only teach her a lesson. Her soul would just go to the other side and Kol could just bring her back.

That told, if she was to actually die, then Kol would certainly feel guilty, as he would regret it later when he calmed down. But currently, he was too overwhelmed by his anger to worry about any guilt that he might feel in the future.

As he jumped into the crowd of travelers, he felt an invisible barrier trying to stop him in the air.

At this moment, Kol was acting on pure instincts, so instead of trying to figure out the magic, he threw a punch in the air in front of him and a distinct sound, like glass shattering, could be heard even among the chanting voices of travelers. It was apparent that whatever spell that was preventing Kol, had been shattered by pure strength.

As the spell shattered, Kol did not fall down, instead, he used the ability to fly, and continued his original trajectory in the air.

He landed in front of an unsuspecting traveler whose head was already down in pain caused by the spell backfire.

The sound of the sonic boom sounded loudly in the air as Kol punched the traveler in the front.

Unfortunately, his punch just passed right through her.

Even if her head was down, that traveler had managed to capture the image of Kol’s shoes as he jumped in front of her.

As his punch failed, Kol covered both his hands in the omega effect, similar to how he released erosion blasts and followed by another punch, right to the head of the traveler.

The travelers turned her body illusionary once again, but this time as the punch just got inside her body, Kol released a tiny bit of energy from his hands.

As a result, the spirit of that traveler girl burst into many tiny light particles in the air, like a water balloon smashing on the pavement.

Then in less than a second, those light particles gradually disappeared in the air. Her spirit was truly and utterly annihilated from this world. She did not go to heaven or hell, or any other dimension of the afterlife, but simply ceased to exist.

What followed after that was a massacre. The travelers who could usually sacrifice themselves for their cause without any hesitation, were now consumed by the fear that came from their very soul. The primal fear.

There were only screams around the area as they tried to escape, but Kol instinctively went after those who tried to escape.

Usually, they could use that to their advantage by running in opposite directions, but at this moment, they were controlled by their primal fear and only knew to escape. They had become the sheep who could only push one another and Kol was like an angry tiger in the herd of sheep.

Only after more than half of the travelers had been annihilated did Kol calm down a little, and looked in the direction where Astrid and Qetsiyah were held.

At this point, the space around the area had become very unstable. Space cracks could be seen everywhere.

Kol jumped towards Astrid and Qetsiyah to annihilate the spirits of those travelers who were holding his wives captive.

Astrid was freed first as she was closer. After freeing her, he did not stop to comfort her, instead, he told her to follow him as he jumped towards the travelers who were holding Qetsiyah captive.

It took Kol only around ten seconds to free Qetsiyah.

After freeing her, he held her with one arm and opened his other arm in the direction where Astrid was. He now wanted to hug and comfort both his wives before the three of them could continue to annihilate the travelers together.

He was expecting Astrid to follow him when he was freeing Qetsiyah. As he did not feel anything on his arm, he felt something unusual and looked in the other direction.

Astrid was standing in front of a space crack with three other travelers who were chanting a spell. She was not even resisting.

At this point, Qetsiyah seemed to have reacted as she suddenly spoke in panic, “Oh no! Kol! That’s not Astrid. She had been possessed. This is bad.”.

As she spoke, Kol came to a realization. In the beginning, Astrid and Qetsiyah were held together in the middle of the group of travelers, but during his rampage, they were shifted to the side. It was almost as if the travelers were trying to protect them from getting killed in the crossfire.

Or to be specific, they were trying to protect their own. Since Qetsiyah could not be possessed, or killed, then they were obviously trying to protect the traveler inside Astrid.

As he annihilated the spirit of first the two travelers who had jumped in front of his path, he could see a faint light leaving Astrid’s body. It was heading in the direction of the space crack.

It was Markos’s spirit. He had realized that his plan had failed because he underestimated Kol. Fortunately for him, space here had become unstable and that was his chance to escape.

Kol aligned his right hand in the direction of Markos’s spirit that was heading for the space crack at a speed that was unusually quick for even a spirit.

He aimed his erosion blast and fired at the exact moment when it was just about to enter the space crack. Unfortunately, Markos’s spirit was already too close to the space crack and it managed to jump inside.

The erosion blast only managed to just barely scratch it, but its chances of survival were not much. Even if Markos did manage to survive, he would still suffer permanent, incurable damage to his soul.

Kol took a few breaths to calm himself down. There was no use crying over spilled milk. He knew that even if Markos did manage to survive, he would still meet him one day.

After calming down Kol comforted his wives and put the barrier that prevented the traveler’s spirits from leaving the area. Then, the three of them continued the massacre together.

————Scene END———–

After the end, Kol scolded both Astrid and Qetsiyah.

One the other hand, Qetsiyah took everything too casually. She thought everything was under her control and she could do anything just because she was strong. Granted that she did indeed have something backing that up, she still needed to realize that she was now dead and things have changed.

=PART-2

The Travelers were a mysterious, several millennia old, once powerful, cursed sub-culture of witches who had been transmitting the knowledge of their spells from one generation to another.

Sub-culture just meant a big coven. Every coven had their own culture and their own way of using magic. Before the curse had been placed upon them, the travelers used what they called, pure magic. They just borrowed ambient mana from earth to cast their spells.

After Qetsiyah created the spell for immortality, it caused a schism among the witches. Some were conservatives who wanted to maintain the balance of nature by not using magic to create abnormalities such as the Immortals.

On the other hand, a group of witches that would become the Travelers known today believed that they could use their pure magic to perform greater things much like a member of theirs, Qetsiyah had created immortality.

The witches, fearing the power the Travelers possessed and the things they could do to the world, placed a curse on their entire sub-culture to prevent them from using their pure magic, or the spirit magic that most other witches used. This curse also prevented them from gathering in groups and settling as a tribe. Whenever they tried to gather, some natural disaster would strike them. As a result, Travelers adopted a nomadic lifestyle. Constantly on the move.

What those conservative witches did to the Travelers around a millennium ago was extremely cruel, but the Travelers were now a group of extremists that were willing to do anything and go to great lengths in order to get their revenge against the witches. All for something that had happened more than a millennium ago. It was almost crazy.

If it was usual, then Kol might have been willing to help the travelers to lift their curse in return for their loyalty, but now it had become apparent that the Travelers would be his enemies in the future. So, this curse was good for Kol. It did not affect anyone else but travelers. It only served to weaken them.

Passenger spells were primarily used by the Travelers as a way to possess other bodies without facing the consequences of their Travelers’ curse while practicing magic as a group in their own bodies. They used magic through the person they possessed, and since these were not their own bodies, they could now gather as a group.

Markos was a witch and the leader of the Travelers. He was born five hundred years after the curse had been placed, in the fifth century BC. He had made great plans in order to lift the curse and get their revenge. He had created and cast the “prophecy” spell for the doppelgängers.

Since Markos needed the blood of both the doppelgängers to break the curse, his “prophecy” spell would make the doppelgängers believe, that they were soulmates, and this promise of true love would make the doppelgängers of Silas and Amara come together in every lifetime.