You know, in most fantasy stories, the hero's
family is basically just background dressing.
Yeah, totally. Just the idyllic starting point.
Right. The boring, simple folks that the protagonist
leaves behind to go find, like, the actual adventure.
But man, Act 2 of The Whistling Swordsman just
revealed that the most boring, strictly pacifist
family in Sakaar hasn't been living a simple
life at all. Not even close? No. They have actually
been waging like a 20 year covert cold war. So
today we are tearing up absolutely everything
we thought we knew about this story. It's all
going out the window. Exactly. Welcome to episode
six of our deep dive into the neogentrics multiverse.
I am I'm looking at my notes for this session
right now. And honestly, my entire perspective
on this world has been flipped completely upside
down. Oh, I feel the exact same way. We are tackling
act two, part two of the Whistling Swordsman
beginnings. And you guys, this is officially
our paradigm shift. up to deep dive. It really
is. It genuinely forces a complete reevaluation
of the text. I mean, neogentrics has essentially
taken the entire foundation we built during our
act one analysis and just he dismantled it. Totally
ripped it apart. Because up until now, we assumed
we were reading, you know, a localized coming
of age martial arts story. A kid finds a mentor,
swings a sword around, learns to fight. But the
scope just expanded exponentially into this massive,
multiversal, geopolitical thriller. And we are
going to walk through exactly how that happens
because the tonal whiplash in these chapters
is just staggering. Yeah, it gives you whiplash
for sure. We go from the absolute lowest, most
brutal emotional tragedy right into a bizarrely
wholesome, almost slapstick surprise birthday
party. Which was so weird. So weird. And then
straight into a magical forest with a ticking
clock deathmatch. So let's trace the breadcrumbs
here. I want to start with the buildup of dread
because the pacing Neo uses here is just masterful.
We know Zeonix is heading home. He just had that
massive victory on the battlefield of the old
serviced war. And the broken blade he found reacted
to his aura. The wind surged and the sword basically
repaired itself. Right, which is huge for him.
Exactly. For the first time, he isn't swinging
Kenshin's heavy meat cleaver or like a bamboo
rod. He has a real weapon. he's riding this massive
high of confidence. Which is exactly what makes
the ensuing drop so much more devastating. Yeah.
I mean, Neo understands that to truly break a
character, you have to let them taste hope first.
So, Xionix is returning to Sakaar, and he's taking
that shortcut through the neighboring town of
Kalien. Because his bike was totaled. Right,
the bike is wrecked. And instead of a bustling
neighboring community, he walks into absolute
dead silence. It's a total ghost town, and not
an abandoned for years kind of ghost town either.
It's a freshly evacuated, freshly destroyed silence.
Yeah, the imagery is chilling. Buildings are
scorched. The architecture is just riddled with
impact craters. No people, no livestock, no noise,
just the wind. You can practically feel the temperature
of the narrative plummeting right there. Oh,
for sure. And Xeonyx draws his newly repaired
sword, recognizing that this wasn't just a minor
bandit raid. The structural damage indicates
an organized military force. And the tactical
implications here are just terrifying. Because
Kalien is a buffer town. Right. So if a force
that size moves... through Kaelin unopposed,
it means the local constabulary is either completely
wiped out or utterly compromised. Yeah, there's
no backup coming. Exactly. And for Zeonix, the
realization sets in. Whoever did this, they didn't
stop here. They were moving toward Oakland country,
toward the outskirts of Sakaar. To his home.
And he just starts sprinting. And as he crests
the minor hills, he sees the smoke rising from
Sakaar. The city is a chaotic inferno. Total
destruction. He grabs a local constable amidst
the panic and gets the horrible confirmation
right. Crater Steve is behind this, and his forces
were last seen heading directly toward the hillside
where Zeonix's family lives. The panic in that
scene is so real. The sheer adrenaline is palpable.
Zeonix vaults the fence into his family's property,
and we get this paralyzing, horrific tableau
right in the family garden. And I think the garden
is such a crucial detail here. Oh, absolutely.
Because for all of Act 1, that garden was established
as a sanctuary. It was where his mother and younger
brothers spent their time tending to the soil.
It was this symbol of their peaceful agrarian
life away from the lingering scars of the war.
Yeah, it was their safe space. Right. So to have
Crater Steve standing right in the middle of
it, just crushing the crops under his boots,
it's a profound violation of everything safe
in Zeonix's world. And it gets so much worse.
Because right there in the dirt is Zeonix's father.
Yeah. Dead. That hit hard. This strict, stern
metalsmith who spent 20 years preaching against
violence, the guy who grounded Zeonix for even
looking at a fight, murdered in cold blood, and
creator Steve's henchmen are holding Zeonix's
mother captive. And Steve isn't even rushing.
No, he's lingering, taunting them. He literally
laughs at Zeonix, calling him a tiny man and
telling him if he wants his mother back, he has
to. to fight for her. Notice Creator Steve's
methodology there, though. This isn't just a
physical execution. It's psychological warfare.
Total mind games. Yeah, he could have killed
the mother before Zeonix arrived. He could have
shot Zeonix the second he jumped the fence. But
Steve wants an audience. He wants to establish
dominance and break the spirit of his target
before finishing the job. And Zeonix reacts exactly
how... Kenshin trained him to, you know, he fights
and he actually holds his own against the henchmen.
He does. All that brutal, seemingly impossible
training with the heavy meat cleaver really pays
off. He is matching these seasoned mercenaries
blow for blow. But then Creator Steve just gets
bored with the spectacle. He raises his gun.
But he doesn't aim at Zeonix. He aims the barrel
directly at the captive mother. It's the ultimate
manifestation of helplessness. It is entirely
gut -wrenching. Zeonix sees the trajectory. He
screams for her to move. He physically throws
himself in the path of the shot to intercept
it. But he's too slow. He just can't make it.
The blast completely bypasses him, and there
is just this massive, concussive explosion of
fire and smoke throwing his mother's body across
the ruined garden. Steve didn't just want to
kill her, he wanted to force Zeonix to watch
himself fail to save her. And this brings us
to the moment that fundamentally rewrites the
entire narrative structure of the series. Yes.
Xeonyx crawls over to her. He's holding her as
she dies. And, you know, as readers, we are totally
primed for the standard tragic fantasy farewell.
Right. The classic, I love you, be brave, protect
your brother. Exactly. But Neogentrix pulls the
rug completely out from under us. Her dying words
are a massive lore bomb. She looks at him and
says, do not worry, son. We knew about your training.
I gasped. That single sentence shatters the entire
reality of Act One. We knew about your training.
Finish your training and avenge us. Head north.
There you shall learn the secret of your grandfather.
This was the work of Eon Pax. You must defeat
him to save your grandfather. But most of all...
Live on, my son. Incredible. And then she's gone.
I mean, I had to put the book down. I was pacing
my room. It completely reframes everything. Oh,
completely. I've been thinking about this in
terms of naval warfare, actually. It's like discovering
that this quiet, boring family wasn't a helpless
fishing boat at all. They were a nuclear submarine
running completely silent. Oh, I love that analogy.
Right. They knew Eon Pax was sweeping the ocean
with sonar, looking for any trace of the whistling
swordsman's bloodline. So they ran dark. No martial
arts, no grand stories of the grandfather, absolute
strict adherence to pacifism. Any ping would
have given away their position. That is exactly
the mechanism at play. And it brings up the immense
psychological toll of maintaining that kind of
deep cover. 20 years of it. Right. For 20 years,
these parents suppressed their own legacy. They
watched their son chafe under their strict rules,
watched him resent them for being overbearing
and cowardly, and they had to just swallow that
resentment to keep him breathing. Which means
we need to stop the narrative right here. We
need to talk about our own massive failure as
analysts. Oh, here we go. Because we are officially
at debate crisis number one. I was looking over
our transcripts from episode three and I realized
we completely and utterly misread the entire
situation. We spent almost an hour critiquing
the parents' parenting style. I was brutal on
them. I called them foolishly naive. I remember
arguing that their strict household rule, you
know, fighting without a valid cause isn't allowed,
was borderline abusive in a post -war society.
You really went after them. I did. I said they
were sheltering him to the point of incompetence,
pretending the violence of Pekadesh didn't exist.
We completely missed the subtext. They weren't
oblivious to the danger. They were the most hyper
-aware people on the entire continent. Their
pacifism wasn't cowardice at all. It was the
ultimate camouflage. And if we look back, neogentrics
layered the clues perfectly. Their house was
on the absolute furthest edge of the outskirts
of Sakaar. The father deliberately worked a low
-profile job repairing basic tools instead of
forging weapons, which we now know he probably
had the skill to do. Oh, definitely. They homeschooled
the kids. Every single lifestyle choice was a
calculated move to remain invisible to an empire.
But here's where I want your take, because this
is the part that still gnaws at me. Okay, what
is it? If they were essentially sleeper agents
protecting this incredible multiversal lineage
and they secretly knew Xeonyx was sneaking out
to train with Kenshin, why not just drop the
act behind closed doors? Like, why didn't the
dad pull him into the basement and say, look,
here is the secret of your grandfather. Here
is how you hold a sword. Just don't tell anyone.
Why rely on a crazy old man at a local dojo to
teach him? It comes down to the grim reality
of plausible deniability in a totalitarian regime.
Meaning what exactly? Meaning. Eon Pax doesn't
just execute people. His forces interrogate them.
They break them. If ZNX knew his true identity,
or if he was receiving secret martial arts training
from his father, he would eventually give off
a micro -expression, a slip of the tongue, or
a defensive reflex that would expose them. Oh,
so he would fail the interrogation before it
even started. Precisely. His genuine ignorance
was his absolute best armor. By forcing him to
sneak around, by maintaining the illusion of
a strict, disapproving household, the parents
ensured that if Zeonix was ever snatched off
the street by Ian Pax's spies, his reactions
would be authentically those of a sheltered,
frustrated kid. The parents took the entire Bowdoin
of the secret onto themselves so their son could
walk around with the weight of a target on his
back. It makes their sacrifice so profoundly
tragic. I mean, they died so he could have 20
years of relative peace. And the mother's final
instruction to head north completely acts as
the catalyst for the rest of the series. She
essentially passes the baton, telling him the
submarine has been hit, the cover is blown, and
it's time to surface and fight. And his transition
from that sheltered life into a lethal combatant
happens in a matter of seconds. Yes. Let's get
into the immediate aftermath in the garden. Because
the mechanics of this next sequence are just
wild. The power scaling shifts dramatically here.
It really does. Zeonix is kneeling in his mother's
blood. Creator Steve is literally laughing at
the corpse, mocking her for not dodging the blast.
And something inside Zeonix just snaps. The grief
and the rage hit a boiling point. Yeah, he grips
his new sword and the atmosphere physically changes.
Neo describes the wind turning razor sharp around
him. This is a crucial element of the world's
combat system. Up until now, we've seen Xeonyx
perform physical feats. But here, we see the
actual atmospheric manipulation of the whistling
wind style. It's actual magic. Right. The emotion
is the ignition source for the elemental power.
So Xeonyx charges at Steve. Steve arrogantly
raises his gun again. But Xeonyx leaps into the
air, and he does something completely counterintuitive.
He draws the sword behind his back, but with
the blade facing outward, away from his body.
A very unorthodox stance. He spins violently
in midair. He shouts, The reverse rearward strike.
The physics of this maneuver are fascinating.
Explain that, because it sounded insane. Well,
by using a reverse grip and spinning behind the
back, he alters the aerodynamics of the swing.
The motion creates a localized vacuum. pulling
the surrounding air currents tightly around the
steel, effectively extending the cutting edge
with a slipstream of highly pressurized wind.
And it creates that signature terrifying whistling
sound. Exactly. And the sheer kinetic force is
devastating. He swings down and the wind blade
slices Crater Steve completely in half. Just
brutal. Straight through the heavy mercenary
armor, straight through bone. It is an instant,
flawless execution. The remaining henchmen are
so horrified by what they just witnessed. that
they drop their weapons and scatter. It is a
decisive, brutal end to the immediate threat.
But Neogentrix doesn't let Zeonix celebrate.
No, not at all. The aftermath is incredibly somber.
We get these quiet, heavy paragraphs where Zeonix
physically buries his own parents. He spends
days sleeping in the charred ruins of his childhood
home, utterly paralyzed by grief. It's an incredibly
grounded depiction of trauma. He doesn't just
march off to the north the next day. He is broken.
Yeah, he's totally shattered. And this is where
the narrative leaps forward. We get a one -year
time skip. Kenshin and his wife take this orphaned,
traumatized kid in, and they provide him with
a home. Which is very sweet. It is. But then,
fast forward to Zeonix's 20th birthday, and we
hit a sequence that is a masterclass in tonal
whiplash. Oh, the birthday shock chapter. It
is so wild. Zeonix wakes up on the morning of
his 20th birthday. The house is completely empty.
Eerily empty. Right. So he wanders down to the
local marketplace to find Kenshin. or his wife.
The vendors are acting cagey, telling him to
go check the dojo. So he walks into the dojo,
the one place he has learned to consider a safe
haven over the past year. He opens the door and
instantly a masked assailant launches a violent
ambush. Which is an incredibly dangerous trigger
for someone with complex PTSD. Exactly. Xeonyx's
mind instantly flashes back to the burning garden.
He assumes Eon Pax has found him again. He assumes
this assassin has already murdered Kenshin and
his wife. His worst nightmare repeating itself.
Yes. He screams, how dare you dishonor this dojo?
If you so much as lay a hand on my master and
his family, I will kill you. He completely overpowers
the attacker, pins him down, and he doesn't hesitate
for a microsecond. He goes straight for the kill.
He draws his sword, the wind starts howling,
and he prepares to execute the Gyaku Shiro Suteraiku.
The exact same high -pressure wind strike that
split Crater Steve into two pieces. He is a fraction
of a second away from lethal force. And right
as the blade is coming down, the masked attacker
screams in absolute terror, I give up, you win,
and rips off the mask. It's Kenshin. Unbelievable.
His master just ambushed a highly lethal, severely
traumatized swordsman as a final exam prank.
The recklessness of it is astounding. I was reading
this thinking of the worst possible teaching
methods. It's like a swimming instructor deciding
to teach a kid how to handle deep water by shoving
them off a boat in the middle of the night. Right,
a trial by fire. Except the instructor completely
forgot the kid is holding a live flare gun and
might accidentally set the entire boat on fire
in a panic. Yeah, the variables were not controlled.
But before I could even process the absurdity,
the scene pivots to pure comedy. Kenshin's wife
bursts out from the back room, marches right
- She really laid him out. She is furious. She
yells, Are you an idiot? Are you trying to get
yourself killed today? We agreed to only test
him, remember? She acts as the essential grounding
force for the entire scene. Without her, Kenshin
just looks like a maniac. With her, it becomes
a chaotic family dynamic. And then the doors
open and the entire rebuilt town of Sakaar jumps
out. They have food, banners, and gifts. They
throw this massive town -wide surprise party
for Xeonyx's 20th birthday to thank him for saving
them from Crater Steve a year ago. It's so heartwarming.
It is genuinely wholesome. But I have to ask
you, what was Kenshin actually trying to achieve
here? Was this just a martial arts reflex test,
or was he probing to see if Zeonix was psychologically
stable enough to finally leave the village and
go north? It is absolutely a psychological evaluation,
albeit a deeply flawed one. Flawed is an understatement.
Well, Neogentrix is exploring how trauma alters
a fighter's fundamental instincts. When Zeonix
first saw Sakaar burning, he had a moment of
freezing, of pure panic. Kenshin needed to know
what Zeonix's default response would be now,
a year later, if his safe space was violently
compromised. Would he freeze again, or would
he engage? He'd definitely engage. He bypassed
defense and went straight for a lethal finishing
move. And that is where Kenshin's plan almost
backfired fatally. Kenshin underestimated the
sheer lethality his own student had developed.
He didn't account for the fact that Zeonix wouldn't
just defend himself. He would instantly attempt
to eliminate the threat to protect his new surrogate
family. It proves Zeonix is ready to survive
the hostile world outside Sakaar, but it also
highlights Kenshin's own blind spots as a mentor.
Which perfectly sets up debate crisis number
two. I am serving myself a massive slice of humble
pie right now. I was wondering when we'd get
to this. I have to formally apologize to neogentrics,
to Kenshin, and to you, the listeners, because
if we look back at episode four, I was spinning
wild conspiracies about this man. You were entirely
convinced Kenshin was an opportunistic villain.
I was. Look at the evidence we had from act one.
Kenshin bumps into a random, emotionally vulnerable
teenager in a market and immediately offers to
teach him a deadly martial art. Suspicious, sure.
On day one, he throws him into a pit with lethal
malfunctioning security robots. He gives a novice
a live steel blade. He makes him swing a massive
unbalanced meat cleaver to build strength to
pierce skin. I argued forcefully that Kenshin
was a sociopath grooming a meat shield so he
could use Xeonyx to take revenge on Aeon Pax.
You viewed every training exercise as an act
of malicious manipulation. But the grand confession
I have to make today is that I was completely
wrong. Kenshin is an incredibly loving, deeply
protective surrogate father. He and his wife
took in a shattered orphan and provided him with
a stable home for an entire year. The man organized
a town -wide birthday party. It forces us to
reinterpret his brutal training method. Exactly.
He wasn't grooming a weapon. He was desperately
trying to forge armor onto a kid he knew was
being hunted by an empire. He knew the world
wanted Zeonix dead, so he subjected him to harsh
conditions in a controlled environment. so he
wouldn't die in the real one. What neogentrics
does here is a brilliant subversion of the crazy
old master trope. Oh, absolutely. In many martial
arts narratives, the eccentric master hides a
dark secret or an ulterior motive. Neo leans
into that suspicion. He makes Kenshin's methods
look so unhinged, the robots, the meat cleaver,
the birthday ambush, that we as analytical readers
naturally assume foul play. Right, we thought
we were so smart. But the reveal subverts our
cynicism. The truth is simply that Kenshin is
a good man who lives in an incredibly dangerous
world, and his wife is the practical anchor that
keeps his eccentricity from getting them all
killed. It's such a satisfying realization. It
shows that even under the tyrannical shadow of
Eon Pax, genuine mentorship and found family
still exist. So the party winds down, Kenshin
pulls Xeonyx aside, gives him a grave warning
about the reach of Eon Pax's forces, and the
next morning, the journey north officially begins.
We move into the next major phase of the story.
The multiverse expands. This is where the geographic
and supernatural scope of Pekadesh blows wide
open. Xionix leaves the borders of his hometown
for the very first time. His initial destination
is a neighboring territory about 35 miles away,
a place called Shine Solstice. And the world
-building lore Neo drops for this city is fantastic.
It was founded by a simple potato farmer named
Richard Ernesto. It's a great piece of localized
mythology. Right. Like a beacon. Yeah. stones.
It became this beacon of wonder, a major tourist
hub, and naturally a massive target for thieves
and syndicates. Which demonstrates that Pikadej
isn't just a uniform, grim wasteland of post
-war ruins. There are pockets of profound, unexplained
magic and booming economies built around them.
But to get to the glowing city of Shine Solstice,
Xeonyx has to navigate through some incredibly
hostile geography, specifically the Xalen Timber
Forest. It's a very dangerous place. And the
atmosphere Neocrafts here is so distinct, as
Xeonyx... crosses the tree line, the canopy above
grows so dense it completely blocks the sun.
But it isn't pitch black. There's this ambient
dark orange luminescence bleeding through the
ancient trunks. It's very surreal. And if you
look up through the branches, the sky itself
is described as a purplish blue twilight that
feels simultaneously dark and illuminated. The
forest is heavily saturated with raw elemental
magic. It's protected by a natural barrier known
as the infinity crest. It feels ancient and deeply...
unsettling so zionic sets up a small camp by
a dry riverbed catches a few fish and tries to
get some sleep but he is violently awakened by
a massive concussive blast that literally shakes
the earth someone is fighting nearby yeah he
creeps through the dense brush toward the sound
and he discovers a massive crater freshly blown
into the forest floor Ancient trees are splintered
and burning, and standing in the wreckage are
two new characters locked in a deathmatch. One
is a guy hurling sticks of dynamite, and the
other is a man wearing a bearskin pelt wielding
a glowing mystical axe. It's an immediate escalation
of the combat stakes. Xionix, having just promised
to protect the innocent, doesn't hesitate. He
jumps right into the fray to stop the dynamite
thrower from obliterating the sacred forest.
And this intervention introduces us to one of
the most mechanically fascinating allies in the
series, Shane Ngo. Shane is a mystic, the last
known survivor of the Terrafaran tribe. And his
physical description is completely jarring. When
Xionix looks at him, he sees a frail, battered,
deeply wrinkled old man. struggling to hold his
weapon. But during the chaotic exchange of dialogue,
Shane reveals a horrifying detail. He's only
30 years old. Which introduces a completely new
mechanism of elemental consequences into the
lore. I was trying to wrap my head around how
a 30 -year -old could look 80. The best way I
can visualize it is by thinking of like a battery
dying on your phone, but the phone is your actual
life force. Right. Or like a pressurized cabin
in an airplane flying at a high altitude. The
airplane analogy is spot on. Right. Shane's weapon,
the Mystic Axe of Shuriks, contains a specific
elemental gem. That gem essentially acts as the
pressurization system for his life force, maintaining
his youth and vitality. But the guide he is fighting
managed to shatter the axe, breaking it into
two distinct pieces. The whole of the cabin has
been breached. Exactly. The integrity of the
weapon is compromised. The enemy took the half
of the staff that houses the core gem, leaving
Shane with just the severed axe head. Because
the symbiotic tether between the mystic and the
gem is severed, the pressure drops to zero. Shane's
life force, his very youth, is violently venting
out into the atmosphere. He is aging decades
in a matter of hours. It's a brilliant narrative
device because it creates an immediate visceral
ticking clock. Zeonix doesn't just need to win
a spar. He has to engage in a high -stakes retrieval
mission to recover that gem before Shane's biological
clock runs out completely and he crumbles into
dust. And the obstacle standing in their way.
The guy hurling the explosives. He turns, gets
a good look at Zeonix, pulls out a crumpled wanted
poster and starts laughing. He reveals his identity
and it ties the multiversal expansion right back
to Zeonix's personal tragedy. This man is Creator
Steve's brother. Known as Fusemaster. Fusemaster.
And the weaponry he wields is a tactical nightmare.
He fights with a long steel staff entirely coated
in highly volatile gunpowder with a constantly
burning fuse at one end. And the mechanic of
this weapon is insane. If the staff strikes anything,
the ground, a tree, or another weapon, the kinetic
impact triggers a massive localized detonation
right in the opponent's face. He has a devastating
weapon. But through some elemental property,
Fusemaster himself is completely immune to the
blast radius of his own weapon. If we analyze
the tactical implications of this, it forces
Xenix to completely abandon everything Kenshin
taught him about defensive swordplay. How do
you even fight that? If Fuse Master swings at
you, your instinct is to raise your blade and
parry. But if your steel touches his staff, it
acts as a detonator. You block, you explode.
You attack his weapon, you explode. It nullifies
the entire concept of blade -to -blade contact.
Xehanix is forced to rely entirely on evasion
and the ranged atmospheric strikes of the whistling
wind style. It's a brilliant way for neogentrics
to test the limits of Xeonyx's new powers against
an opponent who punishes traditional martial
arts. The scene leaves us hanging right as Xeonyx
attempts to strike the staff, gets blown violently
backward by the concussive force, his clothes
scorched, while Fuse Master just laughs maniacally
in the burning clearing. We are promised an incredibly
explosive, highly tactical confrontation to kick
off the next chapter. And honestly, I need a
break. The pacing of Act 2 is relentless. It
truly is. We went from the quiet tragedy of a
hidden family in Sakaar to a dynamite -wielding
maniac in a magical forest fighting alongside
a rapidly aging 30 -year -old mystic. My brain
is absolutely fried processing the sheer volume
of world -building and the massive shifts in
character dynamics. It requires us to go back
to the drawing board. It absolutely does, because
Act 2 fundamentally changed the lore, the power
scaling, and the true motivations of almost every
mentor and parental figure in this universe.
We cannot just keep moving forward blindly. We
need to audit our own understanding of the text.
So for episodes seven and eight of this deep
dive, we are going to do something special. We
are strictly dedicating the next two discussions
to reopening all of our old Act One debates.
We're going to put our initial theories on trial.
Using this new multiversal evidence. Exactly.
I want you to join us next time as we look back
at the Serviced War, the early dojo training,
and the political destruction of Pekadesh through
the lens of Eon Pax's surveillance state. We'll
see if we stubbornly stand our ground on any
remaining theories or if we completely cave and
change our minds all over again. There's a lot
of subtext we likely missed the first time around.
There always is with neogentrics. But before
we sign off today, I want to leave you with one
final, deeply unsettling thought to mull over.
We know the parents were hiding. We know they
lived on the furthest outskirts, avoiding all
attention. Yet E .M. Pax knew exactly where they
were. He knew their exact address, and he specifically
deployed Crater Steve to wipe them out. A targeted
assassination requires precise intelligence.
Exactly. Which means someone told him. Someone
in that quiet, seemingly peaceful town of Sakaar
noticed something, or was paid to watch. If the
mapmaker of this story is actively working for
the enemy, we have to ask ourselves who else
in the seemingly safe lands of Pekodesh is currently
operating as a sleeper agent for Eon Pax's empire?
Who was watching the family? And more importantly,
who is watching Zeonix right now? Keep reading,
keep questioning every character's motive, and
we will see you in Episode 7.