Multiverse Adventures: Starting in Borderlands

"So let me get this straight. You want me to invest my money into funding a mining branch organisation, that would then mine all across Pandora to extract a mineral called "Eridium". You will get 30% of the harvested Eridium while I keep 70% of it. I can sell the Eridium in the distant future when it becomes a highly sought-after mineral by many big corporations. The thing is, you haven't explained what the Hell "Eridium" is?" Marcus asked as he sat at the table opposite me.

The conversation had only started and I gave Marcus a brief layout of my plan by explaining how valuable Eridium will be. 

I had to start with that because it was the only way to entice Marcus. 

And I will tell him one of the greatest secrets anyone in this Universe would want to know. 

What happened to the Eridians and what the Vaults are? 

Naturally many players who had acquired all of Nyriad's Eridian Writings will know these secrets, but Marcus didn't. 

I had made sure ten times over that Angel was watching me through her PhaseShift or her Siren Telepathy. 

I DID NOT want Jack to know any of this, and Angel would be forced to tell him since she has that Siren Collar on her, though with my 'recent' power up in the Honkai Impact verse for 20 years spent there. I can very easily rescue her at any moment although that would greatly alter the course of the future.

'For now Angel, bear with it for just a few months more, I'll rescue you after Elpis' Vault is dealt with.' I mentally said to myself to ease my sense of guilt.

"How much do you know about Sirens, the Vaults and the Eridian race, Marcus Kincaid?" 

He looked puzzled at my question but answered nonetheless. 

"From stories and rumours I heard and of that my father told me. The Eridians mysteriously vanished from the Galaxy, leaving behind only their technology and the Vaults as traces of their existence. The Sirens are woman who wields powerful mystical and magical abilities, while also bearing blue tattoos which makes them stand out like a sore thumb. It is well known, to those that actually learn this, that only females can be Sirens. The Vaults contain unimaginable power, wealth and secrets left behind by the Eridians but are also full of dangers to even being able to open a Vault. Typhon DeLeon is the first Vault Hunter and helped Atlas uncover the first discovered known Vault on Promethea. He vanished at one point when he went in search of the Eridian Homeworld, and hasn't been heard of since." 

I nodded at his explanation before I began to inform him of the truth.

 "That is practically correct. But some of it is wrong. The Eridians didn't" mysteriously vanish". There was an Interdimensional being named by the Eridians as "The Destroyer". The Destroyer consumed stars, planets and entire civilisations. With each civilisation it devoured, it gained the consumed organic lifeforms wisdom, intellect, knowledge and essence. Thus, The Destroyer is not a mindless creature but is exceedingly intelligent, so much so that the Eridians were not able to lure us into a trap to deal with it permanently. Well...not unless they could provide The Destroyer with the ultimate bait. The Eridians devised a grand plan with all six Sirens at that time to help in imprisoning The Destroyer. As they were creating the Great Vault, which is Pandora itself, many who worshipped The Destroyer as a deity tried to stop the Eridians. But the Eridians created a protector, called The Warrior that would defend the Great Vault from any who tried to open it. The Eridinas carried out their plan by having a Siren called Nyriad kill their entire race with her power which succeeded in luring The Destroyer to The Great Vault. The six Sirens activated a device the Eridians created on their Homeworld and trapped The Destroyer within The Great Vault. Before the Eridians sacrificed themselves, they created the Vaults and the Vault Guardians. The Vault Guardians defend the Vaults from being opened and they resemble the true appearance of the Eridians in some capacity. The Vaults do hold some of their technology and treasure, but they are mainly used to contain "Prisoners". Beings that the Eridians captured and imprisoned to protect the Universe from the danger they possess. I know one of them called The Rampager. These Prisoners of the Vaults are called the Vault Monsters. Eridium is what is keeping The Destroyer imprisoned, and can be made if Nyriad and her power kill a being with it, which can create Eridium. The Eridium of Pandora was made in the same way I had just said since Nyriad had killed them, thus the Eridium of Pandora is actually the crystallised essence of the Eridian's bodies. Now then anything else?" 

Marcus looked completely lost, I had just dumped a shit ton of secret info to him and he was baffled by everything told him. 

Now I know what you may be thinking. 

What the Fuck are you doing telling him all this?! 

Simple. 

He won't betray me, well...unless Moxxi got in bed with him as she does with everyone. 

She will definitely try to get me to lust over her as soon as she knows I am the greatest source of profit for her. 

But I am a Reincarnator, I know everything! 

Marcus won't tell Moxxi cause I will kill him and Moxxi if he does, and he knows it since I made it clear.

Right now he is my equal and my partner, but not for long, at least for the following years until I amass my stores of non-artificial Eridium which would enhance my powers to new heights unlike the synthetic artificial Eridium I know how to create and have been using all this time.

... 

After going over some things with clarifying the things had just revealed to him, we continued with the conversation. 

"I'll definitely be careful when mining the Eridium from what you told me would happen if I touched the stuff. But what then? I would be making a loss in my profits since I would have to maintain the mining facilities all while being unable to sell the Eridium now at present. I may cause my whole business to go under if I kept all these mining locations you marked out. The Caustic Caverns you mentioned are infested with Varkids and Spiderants. This will be a problem since trying to deal with a Nest is harder than maintaining the location, that's the whole reason Dahl abandoned that place, how am I going to be able to do something that a Mega Corporation like Dahl couldn't even do?" 

"With this..." 

I took out a strange lantern that glowed a turquoise colour, and a pendant that also emanated the same glowing hue to it. 

"This lantern will allow you to release the creature inside. Not only that but a small army of what is known as Insecticons that number to about one thousand. They can be used to serve your needs for manual labour, construction but also to decimate and destroy any target. The pendent is for you to wear, it can allow you to control them and they'll obey your orders. And if you're wondering, the lantern is like a SDU device so don't ask, that's the simplified version of it."

I informed him, while the others know I'm a Siren I'd not go around telling everyone as of yet, it would be annoying having to deal with talking to everyone about the same topic.

"This...will certainly work out if what you say is true." Marcus accepted the lantern and pendent like they were the key to dominating the universe.

"It will. All you need to do is monopolise the places of Eridium we can mine from before Hyperion comes, as i told you about before. Then in a few years i will take control of the remains of Atlas since an Assassin called Athena will butcher every member of Atlas. Allowing for me to take control of it effortlessly along with all its technology. I would also gain the right to claim Promethea for myself and the Vault there. So what do you say, Marcus Kincaid? Do you accept my proposal?" 

I slid over a contract I had written on. 

I already told Marcus what this was and was tensed up when he saw it. Why? 

Cause this is a Soul Contract I purchased from the System Shop.

Marcus stayed there for a while before he finally made up his mind. 

Marcus: "I accept, Partner!" 

He signed the Soul Contract and it magically duplicated it into three, one for each of us, while the original was burned, signalling that our souls were bound to the contract. 

I stood up to leave until I remembered something. 

I cancelled my [Silence Area] custom spell, which does as it said. It makes the area soundproof from being spied upon by unwanted individuals, such as right now! 

Oh yeah, neat little thing. I played some Gacha with the system and I got a lucky win!

[Dragon Priest Ahzidal template]

While I would have loved the actual template of Ahzidal, however reality isn't as kind.

No instead the scaling of Ahzidal's template was to match the same level of power of the verse I am in at present.

Ahzidal is a master Enchanter and devious individual. When his wife and daughter was killed by the Snow Elves during an event called the 'Night of Tears', Ahzidal dedicated his life to destroying them and eradicating their race in revenge.

Ahzidal wasn't originally named Ahzidal, it was a name given to him by the Dragons when he pledged his service to the dragon cult so he can learn their power just like he had done for virtually every other race and potential form of magic he could learn at that time.

And I now have what is called Magic Nerves, a method that allows me to wield and use any form of magic so long as I have a power source that is needed to create and use what magic I wished to perform.

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If you don't know who Ahzidal is, he is from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim