ZENITH

Twenty years have gone by since the expansion of Spencer's tribe commenced. At the bottom of a mountain range, a massive kingdom covered a large portion of the land surrounding it, a castle at its center encircled by houses made of wood and many other materials, farms made with irrigation systems were spread out at the edge of the kingdom, many of the inhabitants walked the structured streets leading to many sections of the kingdom, guards located at every corner kept the kingdoms order maintained, and people could be observed exchanging resources for a variety of commodities in the small tents on the edge of the kingdom's streets.

The once small tribe had grown to be massive in its size, subjugating all neighboring tribes in the area long ago, and growing rapidly into what it is now, the kingdom was cut off from the outer world by the walls that were built around every edge of its borders, but it was continuing to grow under the guidance of Spencer.

The children of the kingdom are required to go through extensive training under the watchful eyes of Cassius once they have reached puberty, trained in combat to strengthen the kingdom's power as a whole. The kingdom's numbers were abundant from the number of children conceived in the years prior, making the population quite large.

All was well in the current times, the people were protected and the area had become more manageable even without the guidance of Spencer keeping a constant eye on them, he had done many despicable things in the past few years, ****, torture, mass murder you name it, he has done things that would make your spine tingle from hearing about it, but over time he grew bored, all of his most evil d.e.s.i.r.es have been let out unto the world, all of his selfish d.e.s.i.r.es were shriveling up with time, it was to the point that he was no longer plagued by his urges.

Spencer was now stuck in his castle with nothing to do, the people could now maintain themselves in peace, even if they couldn't maintain the peace for long, Quintus, Hagen, Cassius, and Dinah who was constantly around Spencer was now capable of keeping the kingdom in order by following his example.

Over these twenty years, Quintus still looks as strong and intimidating as ever despite being older, but Hagen, Cassius, and Dinah's condition has been getting weaker, looking at them, they look to be around there forties, Dinah appears to be sick in some way, she is constantly bedridden and is taken care of by Cassius who also seems to be suffering from some kind of illness, Hagen, on the other hand, would still take part in the hunts as often as he could, but his body was breaking down slowly from constant overexertion.

Quintus was the proud father of three strong children going by the names, Hopi, Yurok, and

Castor, two of Quintus's children were males and Castor was the only female. Hopi was the eldest of the bunch, he would focus his time and effort in helping his father with his role in the kingdom, he would often learn from Quintus to make his life as easy as possible over the years, Yurok was the second eldest of the children, he would mainly focus on training himself to be stronger, he would often be around Cassius and learn from him as much as he could. The youngest of the children, Castor was a special case when compared to the others, she was rather smart in comparison to her brothers and she would focus her time in learning about the kingdom and its structure, she would often go around the tribe and explore every corner she could.

The bunch were aware of Spencer's existence, each of them holding their own opinion of his character, but they lived most of their lives oblivious to what Spencer was capable of, not knowing how this entire empire was made by his hands, Hopi would constantly think in his mind that his father Quintus should be the leader instead, he held no respect for Spencer and only looked up to his father.

Yarok did not pay any mind to Spencer as he believed that he was no one special, in his mind Spencer was only the weakling leader of the tribe who had to be constantly protected by his guards, a weakling who couldn't even protect himself from danger if his guards weren't there to protect him.

Castor, the youngest thought differently than her brothers, in her eyes Spencer was a mysterious figure, he would rarely ever leave his home and his house was constantly surrounded by guards, but she had a feeling that they were too at ease, they would rarely check on him, they only stood outside of the structure, it was as if their main role wasn't to protect Spencer but to keep people from entering his home, Castor was confused by this concept.

Spencer never gave the three children a clear representation of what he was and what he could do as he was always within the confines of his castle.

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Within the castle, Spencer could be seen sitting on his bed with his eyes closed. For a week straight he has not moved an inch from this position as he was in the process of reaching another point in his evolution, the entirety of the room from the pedestal to the walls was scorched from the heat he was releasing constantly, anyone who tried to enter this room was immediately blinded by a bright golden hue being emanated from his body, Spencer was currently located at a separate room from his bedroom, he made this room personally to meditate in when his bed kept catching on fire from the heat he emanated.

Opening his eyes, Spencer was visibly annoyed by something, whenever he went into meditation it would last for a week at most, each time he came out of his meditation he would have better control over his abilities than the last, but he could never get to that point where he could enhance them to a truly supernatural degree without the need for him to die, even though he could already cause massive damage, that was only his physical strength, he wanted some form of supernatural ability to make himself stronger.

For months he has been doing this and nothing came from it, no matter what he did, his abilities did not change any further, they occasionally grew stronger, but not in the way that he wanted them to, he finally decided that he was tired of just sitting in his castle meditating.

Spencer exited the scorched room and made his way to his bedroom, reaching there he put on a robe made from the skin of a mammoth that he killed himself and began making his way outside of his castle. When Spencer stepped out of his castle, the guards were shocked by his sudden decision to leave, they have not seen him leave his home in months and now he suddenly walked past them without any warning, they were confused, but they said nothing.

Making his way to the kingdoms training grounds, Spencer strolled through the streets casually as he made his way. Reaching the grounds he soon came to see the field cleared with only two silhouettes visible, at its center was Cassius training a young individual vigorously.

Cassius seemed to be giving his all against the individual, not holding back in the slightest when training the person, the two fought at a near superhuman level against each other, quickly running around the field and attacking each other in a variety of patterns.

Spencer who was observing from the sidelines only watched as they fought each other. Cassius rushed at the individual thrusting his spear forward twisting as he extended his arm, the individual quickly dodged the spear and jumped back and separated from Cassius. Taking a closer look, the individual seen fighting Cassius was no other than Yarok, the training maniac of the three brothers and the second eldest son of Quintus.

"Oh?"

Spencer looking at this scene was surprised, Cassius was seeming to have a hard time fighting this child who hasn't even lived half as long as he did. Sitting down on a wooden log, Spencer continued to watch the two fight with everything they had.

After some time passing, the two were sprawled out on the floor from their exhaustion, breathing heavily and covered in beads of sweat from head to toe. Seeing that they had finished their little sparing session, Spencer got up and began walking over to them, Cassius happened to look in his direction when he got up and noticed that Spencer was walking towards them.

Cassius quickly got up from the floor and looked at Spencer with nothing but respect in his eyes, kneeling in his direction as he approached, Yarok who was next to Cassius did not kneel and only watched as Spencer arrived with contempt in his eyes.

"Pathetic"-Yarok thought

Spencer reached in front of the two to see Cassius kneeling, he raised his hand and spoke.

"You don't need to do that Cassius"- Spencer

Hearing Spencer's words, Cassius got up from the floor and looked at him.

"Sorry its a habit of mine"-Cassius said scratching the back of his head with a smile

Spencer returned the smile and looked down at Yarok, he could immediately see the contempt that he held in his eyes, smiling at the child, Spencer looked back at Cassius.

"I was watching your spar with the boy, it was surprising to see him be your match"-Spencer

Cassius only looked at Spencer with an awkward smile plastered on his face without saying anything in response, Yarok who was next to Cassius wanted to talk down to Spencer since the moment he arrived, but he held himself back for now.

Spencer could tell that Yarok held something against him even though he doesn't remember doing anything to warrant any contempt from this child, he wanted to know why this child held such contempt against him, Spencer began to speak.

"Is there something you want to say young Yarok?"- Spencer said looking at the boy

"No"-Yarok said in a hostile tone

Hearing Yaroks tone, Cassius slapped him across the back of the head and tried to reprimand him for how he is Speaking.

"It's ok Cassius, are you sure you have nothing to say Yarok?"-Spencer

Yarok was still scratching his head from Cassius's slap, he looked up glaring at Spencer and decided that he would speak his thoughts on Spencer's worthiness of being the leader of the kingdom.

"I don't believe that you deserve to be the leader of our people, you are too weak and you constantly hide behind your guards, I don't think this tribe should be lead by such a weakling"-Yarok said glaring at Spencer

Upon hearing Yaroks words and seeing his expression, Spencer was shocked, but he also felt insulted by this child's words.

"Is that so, then who do you believe should be the leader then?"-Spencer said with a forced smile showing his annoyance

Yarok continued.

"Cassius is more fit for being the leader than you are"-Yarok

"Oh, why do you say that"-Spencer

"Cassius is stronger than you are, he is the reason our people can continue to take over the other tribes"-Yarok

Hearing that last part made Spencer extremely annoyed, his annoyance was plastered on his face which Cassius could notice, Cassius attempted to shut Yaroks mouth by placing his hand over his.

Seeing Cassius trying to stop Yarok from talking, Spencer was already upset at this child for talking to him as if he was some weakling that needed to be protected by these ants that surround him, he wasn't going to let this happen without any form of punishment.

"Yarok, you misunderstand something, my guard's arent to keep me from harm, its to keep other members from disturbing me. I will show you why I am the leader"-Spencer said in an angered tone

Yarok was not fazed by Spencer's words and continued to look down on him.

Spencer took off his robe and threw it to the side, leaving him in animal skin pants and revealing his body that was far beyond the peak of physical power, his muscles radiating durability and strength to those who witness it. Yarok was utterly surprised when Spencer removed his robe, he was not expecting the "weak" leader to have such a massive and intimidating body.

"Let's have a spar BOY"-Spencer spat in a cold tone

Cassius seeing that Spencer was angered from the words Yarok spoke was trying to deescalate the situation by telling Yarok to apologize, but he refused and took up his spear in anticipation of defeating the leader in a fight, as he was very confident in his combat skills.

Spencer watched as the boy got into a battle stance and prepared to attack.

"We can begin whenever you see fit"-Spencer

Taking the invitation, Yarok rocketed himself towards Spencer thrusting his spear forward, Spencer leisurely dodged the spear and remained in the same spot, Yarok immediately followed up by Spinning his spear and sending a barrage of thrusts towards Spencer.

It has only been a few seconds in and Yarok was sending a barrage of attacks towards Spencer in an attempt to impale him with his spear, but what Yarok failed to notice was that Spencer remained in the same spot since the very beginning of the match. He continued to redirect Yaroks attacks causing him to miss all of his advances.

Yarok was visibly annoyed by all of his attacks being cast aside casually by Spencer, he jumped back to recollect himself due to being out of breath.

"Are you done?"-Spencer said in a provoking tone

Yarok was angered by his taunts and lunged at him to continue his attack, Spencer only glared at the boy and extended his arm, holding back his middle finger with his thumb. When Yarok reached in front of him, Spencer released his middle finger and flicked Yarok out of the air, sending him flying back and bouncing on the soil violently.

His body finally coming to a stop, Yarok was knocked unconscious, his body covered in bruises and cuts from his body slamming into the ground repeatedly, Spencer looked at the boy and turned around to pick up his robe, placing it back over his body, he walked over to the boys body and placed him over his shoulder.

"I'll bring him to Quintus myself, you can go home"- Spencer

Saying this he began making his way to Quintus's house where he dropped off Yarok and explained what happened, he told them how he only taught him a lesson before bringing him home.

After chatting with Quintus for a bit, Spencer returned home and laid in his bed to pass the time, looking up at his roof, Spencer couldn't help but think.

"Its almost time"

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