Chapter 1------------------------------------------------------------
Long ago, Dr. Lantis, a prominent figure in biotechnology, conceived an idea to bring the Frontier Planets in line with Nede, the uncontested leader of the Universe Alliance. This society was a conglomeration of all planets rated at a Class-7 intelligence level or above. Around this time, Earth was little more than a molten rock; a primordial soup looked over by scoutships from Nede more than one billion years before the first primitive humans made rock hammers. The Frontier Planets were a band of rebel planets located near the center of the Universe, an area choked with many galaxies that hosted some type of lifeform. Due to their proximity, they wanted to break away from the Universe Alliance and govern themselves. They called themselves the Core Confederation. But Nede wanted dominion over every planet in the known Universe.
So, like many governments wanting to quell resistance, Nede turned to its military. A point group of Heraldic Sorcerers was sent to the rebel faction. But Nede had been using Heraldic weapons for millennia, and the Frontier Planets knew what was coming. They shrugged off the attack easily. Nede found that it needed a new weapon, something the insurgents would be unprepared for. They chose Dr. Lantis' idea for ten bioweapons that possessed Heraldic powers like nothing ever seen before.
Dr. Lantis built the ten weapons, dubbing them the Ten Wise Men. Human in shape, cybernetic in material, they were faster, smarter, and more powerful than a thousand normal men were. While undergoing final tests, a tragedy befell Dr. Lantis' daughter, Filia. She was killed in a rebel attack on a coastal city on Nede, but this occurrence was quickly covered up by military brass. The loss of his only daughter would hinder Dr. Lantis in his research, they said.
But Lantis knew how the military worked, and had an information network outside of his facility. He discovered what happened and also about the cover-up. The grief, the fabrications, and the stress of making weapons designed to kill thousands of people was too much-Lantis snapped.
Locking himself in his lab, he began feverishly working on several things. First he reprogrammed the Ten Wise Men. Lantis changed their directive from 'Bring the Frontier Planets in line' to 'Destroy the Universe'. Then he began working on a new piece of technology. This device would reach into the theorized "Other Plane" of existence, the place where souls reside. The invention would bring a soul under the power of its wielder, granting the power of the Other Side to the user. Equipping Indalacio with the prototype machine, he started work on his final project.
Lantis knew he would not survive to see the Universe destroyed. He was one of the few who had learned of the Crest of Annihilation. The Crest of Annihilation was the ultimate Crest, one in which would destroy every living thing in the Universe upon its completion. But the Crest would take a great deal of time to complete. No man would be able to invoke it in his lifetime. Not only would the Wise Man Indalacio be able to invoke it in a fraction of the time, he was powerful enough to protect it during its creation.
The only way to stop the Crest of Annihilation was to combine it with the Crest of Enchantment, which would redirect the massive energy to another, smaller area. Due to this weakness and the slim possibility of defeat, Lantis built another Body that combined all of the traits of the Wise Men into one entity. This he named Gabriel. No one knew of this ultimate weapon; it was a contingency plan that would probably go unused. Dr. Lantis hid it into the one place that no one would be able to search-the Eternity Space.
Lantis made a small change in the Crest of Annihilation. The Crest possessed enough power to destroy the Universe three times over, so he diverted a third of the power to something else. If the Crest was combined with the Crest of Enchantment, a third of the power would go into the Eternity Space, plucking Gabriel from his resting-place and delivering him into the Universe.
Having completed his appointed tasks, Lantis did his final deed. Before killing himself, he transferred his entire intelligence into the cyborg brain of Indalacio. Dr. Lantis became Indalacio so that he would live to see the destruction of the Universe and would be able to use his daughter Filia's power to help carry out his mission.