Old Man Pond

"Created by the two brothers of Akhaten, Gillian and Old Man Pond, that organization focused on one thing only. To destroy the Husks and establish military strength to overcome the citizens of this world. From those words, you can tell that the group was doomed to fail from the start."

"And unfortunately, I was guilty to be part of that group's devilish acts. One of which was the experimentation with the use of the victims of the Unknown Children case file. I wasn't the one who experimented on them, but I was the one who dragged them into the hellhole in the first place."

"If I'm not mistaken, Astria Faust was part of a case file of Unknown Children by the Congregation. I remember every single child's name in that case file because I was the one who initiated the program. It started with a few children eliciting symptoms of Magecraft."

"It should've been alright to show signs of Magecraft if you were a Mage, but if you were born to human parents, the child should not have access to any form of Magecraft unless something amiss. So when I found a handful of cases involving human children using Magecraft, I was shocked."

"When I dug deeper, I realized I needed a system to hold all the case files and profiles of each person and store them safely somewhere. That's when I created this system which spans this whole room. I went against the Old Man Pond's orders to stop the investigation."

"At first, I thought it was because it was a fluke in the system or that it wasn't worthwhile to get that involved. After all, the cases were minimal compared to the wars and conflicts we were up against during that time. But Baldwin told me to continue the investigation but do so while laying low."

"What I found after half a year of the investigation was mind-boggling. All of these 'Unknown Children' that I was studying were all descendants of the Old Man Pond. And, before you start asking questions, no, he wasn't the type to go around impregnating women," explained Z.

The Galaxian Mage had left Ysabeau to rest on the giant bed and had his back facing us as he told of his memories. It seems like Z has got some skeletons in the closets, he doesn't like to reveal. Z's tone when talking about the matter sounded guilty, as if he was the one who did the atrocities.

Also, Z's talk about the Old Man Pond was quite negative. I should assume so since all of the Founders had beef with the ex-commander of the Congregation. And I would have thought Old Man Pond was the type to go around sleeping with unknowing women.

"Then how could he produce so many offsprings?" asked the Slayer.

"That guy has got another nickname, you know. To the originals from the Congregation, we used to call him Poisoned Pond because of his Element and blood. The guy has the Element of Poison while his blood was highly contagious and could multiply rapidly in warm temperatures."

"I only learned about the blood fact when I had enough and wanted to march up to Old Man Pond's office to give him a savage beatdown. I honestly thought the guy was going around assaulting ladies in their sleep. But Baldwin stopped me before I could walk out the door."

"The Angry Man said that a long time ago when the Poisoned Pond was a compassionate person, he found that his blood was special and compatible with all human bodies. As such, Old Man Pond donated his blood to several wounded humans who were dying of loss of blood."

"Unfortunately, Old Man Pond hasn't got much patience. I guess that's why he kept rushing projects and operations without seeing the consequences. He was the type to shoot first and talk later. This guy didn't think about the effects of what a Mage's blood could do to a human."

"Remember, this way back when most of the Mages rushing from the Great Noble War were settling down onto this planet. We didn't know about cross-breeding with anyone else. Can you imagine if Mavislin hooked up with Gillian instead? That'd be whole another level of weird."

"Aren't they like years apart?" asked Bryan, breaking the tension in the air.

Heh, even when confessing the dark truth about what he did, Z created jokes to lighten the feeling of uneasiness in the room. But that joke ain't fooling me.

"I'm sorry, but if you must know, Mavislin is a fully-grown Valkyrie. Technically, the Valkyrie is older than Baldwin and around the same age as Gillian. Anyways, back to Old Man Pond, those offsprings of his weren't the results of him going into ladies' pants."