A/N - A low gore warning. I tried my best to depi absolutely inhuman, evil vilin with plete disregard for all life aside from his own, with little to no sequences for his as, yet.

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  Kamar Taj [July 2015]

  –Alveus (HIVE)–

  “I hope we have an accarding things, especially with your master, Kaecilius?” he asked the sorcerer who was giving him wary looks, especially since he had chosen to show up this time with some of the stro Inhumans he could find. He didn’t know the names of them and did not care as well but he kheir powers.

  Powerful aile, especially with the training he had givehese 5 would be the people whose bodies he would possess, should the need ever arise, and they k as well, but he had perfected his brainwashing over all of them with much time spent in close quarters for the past couple of months, allowing him to maintain a stranglehold over all 5 of them.

  These five were going to be his generals going forward. The st one was a plete surprise, ohat almost caught him had it not been for his impeccable senses when it came to Inhumans. Someone who maintain intangibility, even when multiple energy sources are flowing through the body was someone who was very valuable to him, especially since she could easily disable any of his enemies by scrambling their brains. All she needed was the right time and the right pce.

  “Yes, My Master has approved this pn. All we need is for your forces to create rge enough distras so that they ’t focus on us taking what we need. In exge, as you asked, we will give you the resources to learn sorcery and also aire Sanctum’s worth of relics.”

  He that, it was a rade. He wasn’t sure if he was being given the short end of the stick but for him to know more, he had to start somewhere, and being provided the basics along with a rather sizable library from one of their lesser tres of importance was enough, for now. Once he figured out how to teach it to every single one of his anders, he would be nigh untouchable.

  Even the Kree of the Old would be vulnerable against Ghost and the ability to just open a portal to either drop her ierritory or to extract her from the same. Ghost was harder to trol for him, because he hadn’t spent much time w on her brain and also because her powers sometimes interfered with his tentacle's ability to slowly take over her brain.

  It was an ongoing process and while she was scious of the fact that her mind was being taken over, she surprisingly didn’t mind all that much when he relieved her of the pain she was under. A botched Terrigenesis process, something that should be pletely fatal to everyone involved but miraculously, she survived.

  Another round of exposure to the terrigen mists had resolved all her issues, creating a perfect Assassin for him, capable of phasing through bodies and crushis and brains with ease. As he said, Perfect Assassin.

  He had a hunch that this Kaecilius had some way of measuring the threat levels of people because he was not as wary as he was the st time they met, or did the man think that more people equals more threat? That was a foolishly naive way of thinking, especially for a man who was about to betray and attack a thousand year old anisation with an Old Mo the top capable of destroying cities on a whim.

  “Very well.” He nodded and snapped his fingers, watg with i as Kaecilius’ eyes wide the portal that opened up behind him, a little bit of theatrics to show that their side was not pletely vulnerable to logistical attacks.

  Ohey left, the portal withered into dust. It was not an actual portal, te hy did not have that good of a pht now, especially a power that could transport them to any pce without any limitations. That tier power and even then, it would have some limitations.

  That was why he was so keen oing those sling rings for himself, so he could finally start arming himself. Hell, half of the Avengers would find themselves dead ht if he could figure out a way to kill them and not have the heat on him because the entire world would suddenly panid he did not want that just yet because panicked people, especially the old ones in power, might do something undesirable to the phat he was going to rule.

  Already, he had picked out a duo, with a power that would have had him sughtered due to how useless it was, had it not been for the endless pollution that now littered his phe power capable of turning vast swathes of pstito just oxygen was the perfect for what he o do.

  If he had beeient sort and was tent with not using violeo get things done much faster, he might have used the man to quickly gain popur support from the so-called green hippie crowd that cmored for the pollution in the os.

  They had tested it and the man was capable of turning an area of 100 sq.mt full of pstics of all sorts into direct pure oxygen instantly. It did not tire him out much so that meant they could cover quite a bit of area in a single day. He would use that obviously but only ohe world was under his thumb.

  Back to the somewhat dangerous meeting, once he was sure that Kaecilius and his ilk had left, he called forth their real transport a back to their base. The attack was scheduled to happen in a month, with Kaecilius giving them diretry into their bases.

  Ghost’s powers would be most optimal for the sario, especially since all they had to do was maim or otherwise injure a lot of people, so as to draw attention away from the library.

  Acc to Kaecilius, the A One would be instantly alerted about the life ah of her Masters, even from far away. If they quickly killed a rge number of Masters, she would quickly e back from wherever she was going to be busy that day. That would not be a good thing for either of them so they had a pn.

  Most of the Masters who remained in Kamar Taj that day were not going to be that strong, aside from two. They had their descriptions and Kaeciulius had told them that killing any one of them would be fine, as long as they did it quickly without giving them the opportunity to warn anyone else.

  That was fine by him. Kaecilius had some pn to lure away most of the Masters present in Kamar Taj that day to some trap that would keep them detained and unscious, but not dead, which should give them more than enough time for Kaeciulius to do what he wao.

  In the meantime, Kaeciulius would be taking another one of his minions, to demolish one of the so called Sanctums with the help of Kaecilius’ minion. They also had a team of the inferior primates on hand to help them recover everything of value before they destroyed the building. The primates that called him back did have an impressive work of tacts that they could use to make sure that the local gover did not intervene or even look in the dire of the building for some time.

  By the time the relevant authorities, and by extension, the Avengers could figure out anything, they would be long gone and hidden. Ofcourse, it would not be easy to hide from the attack dogs that were the Avengers but Kaecilius had informed him that the Hong Kong Sanctum held an artifact that would help them evade their pursuers, which would be very helpful for him.

  It was not lost on him that the situatiooo many ces to not reek of a scheme but he could not afford doing anything else and from the memories he got from the apprentice, he khat Kaeciulius was a respect Master of Kamar Taj and his atta it would destroy his reputation as well.

  All that was left to figure out was the identity of the master of Kaecilius because a man like him would not risk angering an old monster like the A Ohout at least having some assurances iurn. So, either the Master of Kaecilius could somehow injure or kill or otherwise stall the A One or he could promise to hide Kaecilius.

  Either way, someone who could do that was out of his purview, especially since he had not yet recovered to even a third of the way to his peak prowess. Even now, he struggled to trol the darkness all around him, something that came to him with ease as it was one of the powers that he was given by the Kree.

  He ecial, even in all of the Inhumans created by the Kree. All the first geion Inhumans were all absurdly strong, pared to the ones he oversaw. That was obvious sihe blood in the first Gen Inhumans ure and strong.

  He was not the stro but what he did have was the power to trol the stro, with startling ease. It solidified his trol over the army that the Kree wanted but they apparently did not like that, hehe banishment.

  He was awake when the Kree put him in a chamber with a bck stone branded onto his chest, with the pain keeping him awake as the sto burning hot to touch. He could feel the stone burrowing its way into his body. He felt the stone burn through his skin, break through his ribcage, and jostle his internal ans around as it shoved itself right into his heart, puncturing his life giving an and repg itself, all the while the terrigen mists were being pumped into his body.

  As far as he knew, he was the only one who had to experiehat. That gave him a supreme affinity over darkness, along with his primary power of Inhuman trol.

  “Prepare for the assault,” he ordered them befoing to his . He had yet another Freudian book to read. These primates did e up with iing theories on a while.

  …..

  ….

  [August 2015]

  It happened, exactly as he p to. He was in Kamar Taj, the hallowed hall of Magic that held strong for over a thousand years when he saw, with his own eyes, Ghost disabling the stro batant these guys had, by crushing his heart.

  Then, as per his orders, she plundered everything the man had, including his sling ring along with an iing staff that had actually cut through his tentacles, burning them in the process. The pain was excruciating but that was not his first bout with pain as he quickly retreated a Ghost do her job.

  Taking advantage of the apparent shock, the rest of the people present were subjected to multiple knockout attempts, including a sleeping gas that had already been spread throughout the plex.

  His operatives made sure to grab anything of value that they could, and when he received the signal from Kaecilius, that the Masters were incapacitated, they retreated, as per the pn.

  He was ba his base, transported by one of Kaecilius’ minions, happy with the hat they now had the dead body of a Master, along with aire Sanctum’s worth of magical relics.

  He didn’t take the body of this Mordo man because he could sense his body being suffused with the same energy that tore through his tentacles. He chose not to have to suffer through that sensation once again if he could help it anyway.

  Now, he sat in the base, with the loots of the mission, and with a general excited buzz all around him, with the educated primates ready to sort through everything with their maes while he sat in his office, with all of his anders, ready for war.

  After all, he knew what came .

  Betrayal.

  Dev the brain of the Master gave him enough insights but even then, his body seemed incapable of making this dimensional energy flow through it in a certain pattern. Acc to the lessons from the A One, everyone had the potential for Sorcery, but their upper limits were different.

  He hoped to have the Sling Ring ready, just in case but now they would have to do all of this the hard way.

  Direct frontation with people who could manipute the very reality around them.

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