**Somewhere in the country of Pandene**
Max grabbed Zern by the hair and dragged him up the corridor to a room on the other side of the mansion. He left behind a bloody trail as he bled from all the different wounds that he had been put through.
"Please," Zern cried out. "Just kill me. Please!"
"Kill you?" Max asked. "So you can come back alive in some different place? I don't think so."
"Who are you?" the man shouted, not understanding his current situation. "What did I ever do to you?"
He had just gotten the news of what had happened back in Starhall, how all 5 of the Novas that had gone to destroy them had ended up dying. He had been planning on what next he could do when this young man had teleported in and kicked him around.
Max casually carried a spear on his shoulders while dragging Zern through the mansion.