Kol Mikaelson – Journey To The Multiverse - Chapter 17

=PART-1

On one fine morning, Kol was sleeping n.a.k.e.d in his bed with his arms spread out. Astrid was clutching onto him from the right and Qetsiyah from the left side. He hugged them tightly in his arms as they were both n.a.k.e.d. It could be imagined what might have happened last night.

A couple of years had passed since the last time and life was quiet once again. Over the years Kol had managed to make many loyal subordinates.

Sage had proven herself in the role of a general. Initially, she was not as good when it came to gathering intelligence, and strategies, but she was a natural talent when it came to combat. She led her soldiers by example.

In the beginning, people were loyal to him only because of some magic potion, rings, or the fact that they had no choice under his unmatched strength, but as the time passed, and the generations after generations came and went, they became loyal to him on their own free will. Even the immortal creatures like the vampires eventually gave in to the changes and prosperity brought under his rule.

As his influence in the world grew, countless men and women selflessly committed acts of loyalty that only existed in the fairy-tales and he now had no shortage of people wanting to sacrifice themselves for him.

Of course, the prosperity also brought out the greed and arrogance from many others, but they were soon suppressed by those of more wit and those with more loyalty.

In the end, his rule was becoming more and more stable and his position in the world was solidifying.

However, Kol knew that it was nothing but an illusion, because in the end, even if his rule was stable and his potion was solidified, it takes a king to rule a country and an emperor to rule the kings. To rule the whole world, be it in the light or the shadows, he needed to rule all the emperors.

To rule the emperors, first, he needed the emperors. The men who were not only loyal to him but believed in the same cause as he did. Men who were bound to him by more than just honor. The men who were worthy of being emperors. The men with indomitable will, strong enough that the time would have no effect on their objective. The men of great ambition, yet strong enough forbearance that all the riches in the world would not be able to sway them.

Such people could only be described in the legends, and that was exactly what Kol needed. He needed the legends that could be loyal to him, and only him. Kol was well aware of the fact that even if the people like that really did exist, then only a very few things in this world would earn their loyalty. The family was one of them.

Of course, Kol had considered his own family, but he could not call them just yet. Not because of some stupid reason like not wanting to change the timeline, but because his family was very predictable. Even if he were to take the time to solve all the conflict between them, they would most likely prefer to indulge themselves in debauchery, rather than managing some territory, not to mention that they had many other drawbacks. His siblings still needed to experience more, and m.a.t.u.r.e over time.

And so, over time, whenever he was not occupied with other matters, Kol began to ponder over such issues.

=PART-2

The years kept passing and eventually it came to the year, 1273 AD.

More than half a century ago, Kol had asked all the witch covens in his kingdom to look for the Siphons, in order to enlist them in a special squad in the army, but only those close to him knew that Kol’s intentions were never so simple.

While it was true that he wanted a special squad made of Siphons, but what he cared more about, was figuring out how their abilities worked. He just wanted to experiment with them. Considering the position that the Siphons had in their community, nobody would miss them.

Through the various experiments, in just a couple of years after the beginning of the experiments, Kol discovered that the Siphons had a different gene than the rest of the witches. This gene was more compact, but yet more complex.

And so, after more than half a century, on one fateful day, as Kol was enjoying his afternoon tea, he finally received the good news from Qetsiyah as she happily ran out of the laboratory from its garden exit.

On that day, Qetsiyah brought the news that their universal siphon gene transfer agent was finally a success.

As the name implied, the Universal Siphon Gene Transfer Agent was a magical particle that was meant to transfer the siphon gene of the Siphon witches to the people of theoretically any other humanoid race.

The word “Universal”, here implied, that as long as the person going through the experiment was humanoid, then the gene transfer agent could successfully complete the transfer of the Siphon gene.

It would work even if the person going through the experiment was another witch. In such a case, they would simply possess their original witch powers in addition to the newly added Siphon gene.

Since his encounter with the travelers last time, Kol knew that he needed not only more military strength, but what he needed the most was a way to protect his loved ones, and the best way was to just give them enough strength to protect themselves.

After that discovery, Kol not only injected Astrid and Qetsiyah with the universal siphon gene transfer agent, but he even gave himself an injection, and as expected, it worked on even him.

After the injection, Kol felt more close to cosmic energy. It almost felt like it was a part of his own body. It became a lot easier to manipulate it.

=PART-3

Kol kept the discovery of the universal siphon gene transfer agent a closely guarded secret. He gave an injection of it to all his loyal generals, including Sage, and of course, his wives.

Most were unfamiliar with mana, including Astrid, so he tasked a few trustworthy witches to teach them magic. Astrid herself learned from Qetsiyah and they became less involved in running the kingdom and paid more attention to their personal life, a blessing in disguise for Kol who sought more of their company.

In the year 1296 AD, when the Polaris kingdom was rapidly thriving, Kol received news about Malivore. His spies had spotted it in Italy.

Malivore, also known as The Eater of the Dark, was a golem created from black magic. It was capable of consuming supernaturals and humans. The original three species that were instrumental in its creation, however, could not be harmed by it. The golem consumed its targets into a dark, purgatorial-like, “hell” dimension designed to cleanse the earth of “monsters”.

Malivore was a dimension in itself. A dimension with its own consciousness. Once contained within Malivore, the existence of the creatures would be wiped out from the collective conscience of every being on the planet, and mainly be remembered only as myths and folklore.

Golems were a rare, supernatural species that began with the creation of Malivore by a witch, a werewolf, and a vampire. Malivore could create his own beings, imperfect and powerless golems, that resembled humans but could not continue his legacy as a dimension.

Kol, who already knew a probable future, saw Malivore as a threat, and he was prepared to wipe it out for good. When he received the news that it had been found in Italy, he prepared to depart to deal with it, but he was stopped by Qetsiyah, who wished to take on the task in his stead.

Qetsiyah was originally from the Greek empire and she was familiar with that part of the world, but mainly she just wished to revisit the old memories. After all, not all her life was a tragedy. The bad stuff only happened towards the end of her life. Not to mention, even after the matter was over, Qetsiyah still felt guilty for what happened on the other side.

With Qetsiyah’s strength, now that she was in a living body and had injected the universal siphon gene transfer agent, dealing with the Malivore was but a simple task for her. Not to mention that ever since their relationship had become official in the Other Side, Kol had been teaching her magic from the marvel and DC world. Currently, she was definitely the second strongest being on the planet, and Malivore being the third.

She soon departed with one of the generals who mostly had the vampire and werewolf soldiers.

Kol and Astrid saw her off from the harbor. The kingdom was surrounded by the ocean on three sides and had many harbors. They had even created magic sh.i.p.s that sailed much faster than the normal ones, or the sh.i.p.s that had more space inside than outside.

All these sh.i.p.s were custom made and rare, but anything was possible with magic and there were a variety of such sh.i.p.s in the kingdom. Qetsiyah departed on one such ship with around a hundred soldiers and the general.

Both Qetsiyah and Kol could use magic portals but prior to her departure, they agreed to not see each other more than twice a month. She was worried that if she met Kol often, then she would not be able to focus on her task and just come home. After she had a certain goal, Qetsiyah became very focused on achieving the results, almost to the point of obsession. Such was her character. And in such a situation, Kol would be a distraction.

If they truly wanted to, then they could have just opened a magic portal in Italy and spend time finding the golem. Putting an end to Malivore would be a matter of months, but Kol respected Qetsiyah’s decision and let her blow off some steam. It was not like Malivore was a threat to him just yet. It was still dealing with the dragons at this point in time.

In fact, even if Malivore did come after him, Kol did not take it seriously. He was a ‘god’ and even if Malivore did manage to devour him, he could just open a boom tube and come out of the dimension. The same could be said for his family as he could just go in and get them out.

Kol had the cosmic consciousness, so his memories could not be affected by any form of magic. Even changing reality itself, or turning back time had no effect on Kol’s memories. So, no matter whom Malivore devoured, if Kol knew them before, then he would remember them even after they were devoured. Malivore posed no threat to him directly, but could only cause some minor troubles for his kingdom.

=PART-4

According to Qetsiyah’s message, she had discovered the traces of Malivore in an open cave not far from the location sent by their spies, so she took the soldiers and surrounded the area, and then charged in with the general and twenty other soldiers.

Unfortunately, when she entered the cave, all that remained was a spell formation and a hundred dead witches. There were fully armed normal human beings ready to battle, but they were soon put down by the efforts of soldiers.

After interrogating the captured few and sensing a large amount of ambient mana in the environment close to the spell formation, Qetsiyah decided to take a closed look and discovered that it was a time travel spell formation that had been used not long ago.

She felt an eerie feeling from such a situation and so, she decided to do one of the magic spell taught to her by Kol. It was called the time re-tracking spell. The spell showed the caster exactly what had happened in the past inside the area covered in it. It was a time magic spell, but since it only involved illusionary images and not any material objects, it could even be done by regular mana, by any mage.

Through the spell, Qetsiyah discovered the traces of the Triad group. Of course, its name was not yet the Triad group, but for the sake of convenience, let it be called such.

The Malivore had not yet tried to create new lifeforms, so the witch, the vampire and the werewolf that created it had not yet tried to seal it. As such, the Triad group was still an organization in their hands and was not yet taken over by the human beings. The organization existed to discover new “monsters” and help aid Malivore in devouring them.

Qetsiyah discovered that the organization had many witches in its midst that specialized in divination and predicting the future. It was much more powerful than what it would be in the future.

Qetsiyah did not know the inside story, but apparently, they had prophesied that Malivore would be destroyed in Kol’s hands, so they sent it back in time before Kol was even born, so that it could finish the task of ridding this world of all mystical creatures except for the vampires, the werewolves and the witches.

They had sacrificed the lives of a hundred witches in order to cast this spell, and that was mostly all the witches in their organization. More information about this organization would be revealed after reading the minds of those captured.

Of course, even if Malivore did change something major in the timeline, Kol could just change it back. He had the advantage of cosmic consciousness and the new god physique, so he would not be affected by any change in the timeline.