"My old friend war between the Dukedom of Albini and demon ruled kingdom of Malldi is festering. Can I count on your aid?" The old king asks the queen of the elves.

"Our armies will march together against this common foe. If you lose, they will be upon our boarders within weeks. It serves us no purpose to sit this one out. Why fight an stronger opponent one on one when it can be two on one?" The blond elf queen asks.

" Though I fear even this alliance may not be enough for the onslaught that we face." The old king says. His weary face seeming to lose more vigor by the minute.

"You know what we must do right?" The old queen asks looking at the king concern.

"I have done everything that I can do. What else would you have me do?" The old king asks with a tone of confused concern.

"You must bring him in on our side. You have left him alone far too long and it is time that you brought that abomination to heel. I dare say it is past time that you should have." The queen says with a look of disgust on her face thinking about him.

"Subject 0?" The king asks confused.

"Who else would I be talking about?" She asks annoyed with the old kings ignorance.

"You know it is not that simple. You saw what he did to the group of D10 adventurers five years ago when we tried. Furthermore, after what I read in the reports of what they had done to him I would not be surprised if he already join King Maliki's ranks." The old king said with sorrow in his voice.

" I never read the reports what did your people do to him, also how did a monstrosity like that come to be?" The queen asks.

"From the reports that I could find and the interrogations he was created when my son ordered the kidnap of lowborn and destitute women along with a rogue to steal the seed of the High dragon Ishmill. The rogue was able to complete this task. They tried many times to impregnate a woman with his seed and only one succeeded. Though the birth killed her. My son ordered all the other test subjects to be executed. As barbaric as it was the death of those one hundred women kept this secret and prevented a revolt by the peasants. He was supposed to be raised to be a weapon. He learned how to talk before a year old. Though little by little they ran test. They would tie him down, at first with rope then chains as he got stronger. They cut him all over testing his regenerative abilities. Then from there it got darker. His protectors became his torturers. They would chain him down and have their way with him. Let him make friends with the staff that brought his food and water, then make him watch as they killed them. One woman was when he broke. She was his friend the longest. That day one guard who took particular pleasure in the abuse grabbed her by the hair as she was feeding him since that day, they cut off his fingers too see how long it would take him to regrow them. He forced subject zero to watch as he started to rape her. He made sure the woman looked at subject zero as she screamed and pleaded for help. When we relieved himself of his seed, he lifted her head up by the hair and beheaded her and threw her head at Subject Zero." The King explained feeling disgusted with how vile those men were.

"What happened after the wench was slain? Furthermore, how did he escape?" The queen asks hearing it directly from the king and not one of her spies.

"He went comatose. He no longer screamed and begged for them to stop. He let them do whatever they pleased, or so they thought. He was bidding his time till they made an error. On his 15th birthday after 12 years of violent abuse and one year after the slaying of that woman a guard got too close when undoing his bindings. He ripped the guards throat out with a bite after the guard got one chain undone. He quickly got the other cuff that held him snapped off of his wrist and went on a rampage. The guards quickly found themselves no longer the predators, but the prey. He mercilessly killed them all. He took extra care of the guard that killed that woman. When we found his corpse he was now genderless with his testicales put into his eye sockets and his penis was stuffed into his own mouth. We didn't find a single intact corps. I knew about the experiment to create him as a way to fight the dragons, but this price is too high." The king finished and stared directly at the queen.

"I take it that you and your son will not play god again." The queen says with a smirk.

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"You take it correctly. Though you are right I will try and bring him into the fold. After what he did to my guards however we will need some adventurers. I don't want to risk my elites. It's been five years there is no telling how much his power has grown." The king said as he got up.

" I will send a group of mixed B1 adventurers that specialize in either tracking or fighting." The queen says as she too got up ending the Magicall.

A week later a group of six adventurers made it to the Dukedom of Albini and were sent out by the king to track and bring in subject zero by any means necessary except dead.

" I don't see why they don't just send some C5 adventurers or below. This is beneath us!" Itula yelled in frustration as they followed the Ranger tracking subject zero.

"Be quiet and stop yelling or he can just evade us. Do you want that bounty or not?" Mark reprimanded Itula.

"Let's take a break we have been walking for a while and my mana is running out." Lunu said.

"Very well I am getting hungry also." Itula replied.

"You three be lazy if you want, we will get the bounty for him." A warrior says and laughs as he and four others walk away.

"He is going to regret that." Lunu mumbled.

"Why?" Mark asks.

"There has been huge mana spikes in the area." Lunu replies.

"Come to think of it have you noticed how the area is unnaturally quiet?" Mark asks.

"Yea it's kind of unnerving." Itula says.

"Shit! Fuck this is bad! Like really really bad!" Lunu screams in panic as she shoots up.

"What is the problem?" Itulu asks

"The group that went ahead of us they, they, they vanished. The mana around them dissipated which means only one thing." Lunu says on the verge of tears from terror.

"They are dead." Mark says as it dawns on him.

"There is no...." Itulu says before all the hairs on his neck stand up and an overwhelming feeling of dread overtakes him.

The group starts to hear footsteps coming towards them. Now they realized why the queen herself sent them. As the footsteps get closer Mark sees a humanoid creature. It was close to being a human, but as it got closer he could make out its features better. It was a man around 6ft6 maybe an inch taller or shorter, Long wavy black hair, white skin with obsidian black, and golden scales, its eyes where the most astonishing feature. Both gold with dragon-like pupils. Its face was that of a normal human, minus the scales. Before them stood subject zero.

The closer he got the more suffocating and heavy the air became. He stopped in front of the group to look them over. He sees a black skinned woman who has emptied her bladder and it's running down her legs she is short to him. A bald man with brown maybe tan skin subject zero can't remember all of his colors too well. The last person he sees is a blond, white man with animal skins on. He too has emptied his bladder, and it is more pungent.

Lunu notices a buildup of mana around Subject zero before Subject zero lets out a roar directly in Itulu's face that shook the forest around them. Itula passes out and falls limply to the ground and so does Mark. Subject zero walks directly over to her picks her up by the chin and stares directly into her eyes. Unable to avert her gaze she sees what he is trying to show her. She knows not what magic he is using, but he is showing her the memory of what he just did to the other 6.

He tried to ignore them the same way a human ignores a bee till the bee tries to sting it. The group tried to attack him on sight with the cocky warrior leading the charge. He grabbed the warrior by the face and crushed his face was a gentle squeeze then thrown his body into a tree, a limb running him all the way through. A mage tried to cast fire ball but subject zero was not impressed. To him it felt like a match while he is used to infernos. He saw a berserker trying to charge him axe slowly being raised up. He stepped towards the berserker punching him in the chest and snatching his heart out. He then grabbed the axe throwing it at the mage that was in the process of casting a fireball cleaving him in half right down the middle. A rogue did get a strike on him that broke the rogues mithril daggers. His eyes got comically wide as he realized that we were about to die. Subject zero did a spinning kick that folded the rogue like a chair sending him hurdling towards a firm oak tree. He became a shitcabob as he was impaled ass first on a tree limb. The two tracking mages trying to his were not as sneaky as they believed themselves to be. The first one was hiding behind a rock he picked her up and then smashed her head against the rock. The second one was hiding in a tree. She fell and snapped her neck when he suddenly appeared right next to her and tapped her sholder. Lunu could feel Subjects zero's amusement with the last death as all the others was just a cold empty void.

"Why show me this? Why did you not kill me?" Lunu asks.

Subject zero shows her his memories of the woman that was his shining light in that dark place. Lunu recognized that woman. It was her mom who went missing six years ago. She went to work and then never came home one day.

"My name is Zirel." He told her.

She nodded.

" I saw your mother when I looked into your memories. She was a light in a dark spot in my life. I won't kill or the other two this time for her sake, but do not test my patients again. I will not return I just want to be left alone." Zirel hissed.

Again Lunu nodded. Zirel dropped Lunu and started to walk away, but not before telling Lunu the others would wake up soon.