ZENITH

Delving within the isolated borders of Spencer's training grounds, sounds of collisions rippled through the surroundings as two silhouettes flickered across the field at high speeds, one covered in a coat of electricity and the other looking relatively normal, but both doing their utmost best to overtake the other while kicking up dust as they moved at velocities invisible to the human eye, the floor littered with scratches and holes made from the repetitive collisions of the two.

Viewing from the sidelines, Three distinct silhouettes could be observed sitting on wooden benches enjoying the performance of the two, the three undoubtedly being Rose, Quintus, and Spencer. the three have been watching the fight for an extended period, analyzing the movements and mishaps of their fight and reviewing them for potential future improvements.

"Hopi, Yarok, that's enough for now"-Spencer

The two silhouettes being revealed to be Hopi and Yarok, who immediately stopped their fighting and dropped to the floor covered in beads of sweat from their high-speed sparring. Out of the entire family, these two brothers held the highest level of combat adeptness compared to everyone else, second to only their sister Caster who had a much more lethal output with her abilities, she was currently resting in a specially made living area due to overexerting herself in an earlier session.

It has been five months since the ultimate choice that changed the fate of the entire Quintus family was made, Spencer offered them the chance to be something greater, though they hesitated in the beginning, they inevitably accepted the offer. They were soon exposed to the meteor and their bodies bathed in its rays of radiation, changing them forever. Rose, Quintus, Yarok, and Hopi all developed abilities, pushing them into the realm far beyond normal mortals and bringing them to the world of the supernatural.

Quintus, the head of the household gained an unusual form of superhuman conditioning, though his bodies strength wasn't enhanced to a crazy degree, his strength, speed, durability, and regeneration was only multiplied to ten times that of a normal person, his hearing, smell, and sight were also enhanced to an incredible degree and he could feel the world around him through a form of echolocation. Rose, on the other hand, developed an unorthodox rapid healing ability, she could quickly heal anyone of their injuries as long as the person she is healing isn't dead, but she has to sacrifice her life force to do so, but the life force lost seems to regenerate after some rest.

Branching off to the three siblings, the powers take a massive jump in scaling. Hopi the eldest sibling developed something akin to bio-electricity, his body would generate extremely high charges of electricity that would allow him to augment his physical capabilities greatly, mainly focused on his speed of movement and his cognitive output, his movement speed is not that much less than that of a bolt of lightning, in some cases, he can release the electricity from his body in the form of sparks of energy, Hopi could also rapidly speed up his regenerative capabilities in an instant, recovering from potentially fatal wounds at the cost of his stamina. Though he needs to intake a large amount of energy-dense foods to maintain his energy output.

Yarok's abilities were vastly different from his brother, they were quite difficult to understand and would often change in potency based on the intensity of his emotions, from what was gathered, his ability appeared to allow him to passively enhance his biology down to a cellular level, maybe even further, he could dramatically increase bodies power output to am outstanding degree in an instant, forming dermal armor, growing blade-like spikes from his arms, Yarok could drastically change his body without any warning or any indication of him doing such, he could also enhance his strength, speed, and durability output to a degree comparable to Spencer before he went on his first killing spree back in the ancient world. But, his increase in strength wasn't without cost, the larger the increase in his capabilities the more of a burden his body has to endure until the changes are too great and it causes the breakdown his very DNA, which would force him to undo all of his self imposed mutations.

Caster already had powers beforehand, but she has earned her place as the strongest of her siblings, even though they could easily beat her in a physical aspect, but when it comes down to the knowledge and usage of one's powers, Caster was the MVP when it comes to controlling her gift, she would often outsmart her brothers in combat and normally win by insanely small margins.

Returning to the scene of the two brothers being Sprawled on the floor from exhaustion, Spencer could be seen walking up to them and standing over their bodies, he squatted down and placed his hand above them, in a few moments, gentle purple energy in the form of mist exited from his hand and engulfed Hopi and Yarok, the mist seeped into their bodies and rejuvenated them within an instant, the two brothers jumped up and looked at Spencer with excitement.

"Did we improve?"

The two spoke jointly towards Spencer waiting for him to reply, they have been training hard the last four months after getting used to their powers and they wanted to do their best to get stronger.

Spencer looked at the two and nodded his head before speaking.

"You have both gotten much stronger, Hopi, you have gotten much faster and your reaction time has increased greatly when compared to before, and Yarok, the amount of control over your changes have gotten vastly more stable than before, I'm looking forward to what you two can become"-Spencer

The two seemed happy with his response and grinned, Spencer only looked at them for a few more moments before telling them to go clean themselves off and get some rest. Waiting till they went inside, Spencer scratched his head in annoyance and began walking over to Quintus and rose who was still sitting on the benches talking.

Spencer had decided, for a while now he has been thinking about leaving this place, and now that the kingdom has the three siblings and Quintus to protect it, Spencer could finally move on with his journey, reaching them, the two looked up at him.

"What's wrong?"-Quintus asked

"We need to talk"-spencer responded

Spencer sat down on the bench next to the two and looked them both in the eyes, he wasn't sure how he would tell this to the siblings, but he wanted to at least tell Quintus and rose first, taking in a deep breath he spoke.

"Lately I've noticed the increasing stability of the kingdom and the development of its people, its people are safe and taken care of, and are under the protection of you two and the three siblings, the kingdom no longer needs me and I plan to move on"-Spencer

The two listening to Spencer's words felt sadness welling up, but they held it in and Rose spoke,

"How will you tell this to the kids"-Rose

Spencer looked down and shook his head.

"I don't know, I was hoping you could pass the message"

the two looked at Spencer and only nodded, but their reluctance was plastered on their face.

while the three were discussing Spencer's plans of leaving, the three failed to notice a figure listening from behind the wall leading to the living area, by the time spencer realized someone was listening in, it was too late. the figure being revealed as Caster, she immediately ran out and started to speak.

"Are you leaving us?"-Caster asked on the brink of tears

Rose could see that Caster was about to start crying and went to comfort her, only to be pushed away. Spencer looked at Caster and walked up to her, kneeling, he spoke.

"Yes Caster, I won't be here much longer"-Spencer

Spencer tried to reach out and pat her head, but Caster slapped his hand away and stormed off into the living area where her brothers were recovering. Spencer watched as she ran away, he couldn't help but feel a wave of sadness wash over him for a brief moment, he got up and went to sit on a bench, c.a.r.e.s.sing his forehead.

When the two brothers saw Caster running past them crying, they rushed after her with faces of worry. Catching up to her, she was a mess, her face covered in tears and snot, they began asking her what made her like this, but she wouldn't respond, she only kept crying while reciting Spencer's name in a low tone, the brothers couldn't understand what was wrong with her, but they could only think one thing.

"Spencer did this!"

the two brothers franticly rushed outside looking for Spencer, pushing everything out of the way until they reached the training grounds, they scanned around until they saw him sitting on one of the benches. Upon seeing Spencer the two brothers immediately rushed at him, with not so good intentions.

Yarok mutated his body and bulked up, thrusting his hands into the floor and pulling up a chunk of stone, he quickly threw it at Spencer with all he had, Hopi soon after followed by focusing the energy within his body and firing a sharp bolt of electricity towards Spencer.

Both attacks collided with Spencer without hindrance, causing a dust cloud to form, Rose and Quintus were utterly shocked by the fact that the two would just blatantly attack Spencer like that without warning or apparent reason.

"What did you do to Caster!!!"-The two screamed at Spencer

As the dust cloud faded, Spencer was observed to be motionless on the still intact bench, his clothing was scorched and torn, but he held not even a scratch on his body. He did not so much as react to their assault.

The two brothers grew even more frustrated once they saw that Spencer was not responding to them, Yarok planted his feet and jumped into the air, c.o.c.king back his fist and plummeting furiously, Hopi channeled his speed and flickered towards Spencer.

As they reached closer, Spencer looked up for a brief moment and lifted one of his fingers to receive their attacks, focusing a fraction of his energy to the extended finger, Spencer froze the two in mid-air and embedded them into the ground, the two brothers were knocked unconscious in an instant. Quintus and Rose quickly ran over to see if they were ok, while Spencer casually got up as if nothing happened and walked into the living area in pursuit of Caster.

Spencer searched the entire living area, but he couldn't find her no matter where he looked, in the end, he resorted to using his ability to scan for the life forces in the area. After a moment of searching, Spencer could sense her life force which was still the most unique out of her siblings, her signal lead him to the meditation room that he built for himself on the training site, it was normally of limits, but he would on rare occasions allow Caster to join him in his meditation.

Entering through the door that he set up, Spencer walked in to see Caster embracing her knees with her head placed between them, sobbing, He approached Caster slowly and crouched down in front of her to spoke.

"Caster"- Spencer called out to her

Caster Flinched after hearing Spencer's voice, she ended her sobbing, but she refused to look up at him. He could only look down at her pitiful state with regret.

"Caster, we do not have much more time before I have to leave, do you want to spend our last moments like this"-Spencer

Caster hesitated and slowly raised her head to look at Spencer, seeing her face, he could recognize the sadness in her eyes, he quickly embraced her, unmoving as she continued her sobbing in his arms without holding anything in.

This continued until she soon drifted to sleep in the comfort of his arms, he then carried her out of the meditation room and brought her to the living area, placing her on one of the many handmade beds, Spencer looked at her face for a few moments, it was now his turn to feel sadness.

Leaning over and kissing her forehead, Spencer engraved the memories of her into his mind, the memories of her as one of the first that he thought of as a daughter. Spencer placed his hand on her stomach and focused his mind, he gently infused a portion of his power into her being, this would be his greatest and final gift to her to remember him by.

Spencer walked out of the facility unto the training field to see Quintus and rose still tending to the unconscious duo, even though more than an hour had passed, they were still trying to get the two to wake up. Thinking that he had treated them too harshly, Spencer waved his hand and healed the two, they both woke up in an instant and held their heads, perplexed as to what happened to them.

Smiling, Spencer began to levitate off the ground, gradually rising higher and higher into the air.

"Wait, will we ever see you again?"-Quintus yelled out

Spencer looked down at Quintus and responded

"Don't count on it old friend, take care of them while I'm gone"-Spencer

Upon saying those words, Spencer flickered and vanished without a trace, moving at speeds imperceptible by even them. He was already miles away and getting further every moment, he was on his way to his next journey, but he couldn't help but feel a hole in his c.h.e.s.t form, he simply ignored it and continued flying.

Tears drifted down the side of his face unbeknownst to him, the memories of the time he spent with them kept flashing in his mind without remorse, but he stilled himself and left only one thought on his mind.

"I'll miss you all"

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