"They barged into Earth like they owned the place, searching for me." The progenitor grinned.
"I destroyed them of course. I've had a thousand years to experiment and refine. I was much more powerful than I'd been when I left."
"However, I am now a much more mature man. I knew that those below me should not have to pay for my sins. So, I knew what I had to do."
"I would take the fight to my enemies and settle things once and for all." The progenitor stood, walking to the window taking up one wall. A window that had not been there before.
He crossed his arms behind his back, gazing at the view of a vast desert with a red sun shining over it.
"While I was gone, I needed someone to guard the door to the Abyss. And I chose Shadrach."
"I planned to make him as strong as possible, creating a grimoire filled with relics to make him protector of Earth." He sighed. "But those idiots murdered him. My grand plan, gone. Along with the completed parts of the grimoire. Just like that."
