"The Truth Of It All"
Day 155
Hyru's Island Fortress

	Hyru stood in front of his window overlooking his empire, as he often
did.  Many thoughts ran through his mind, mostly about the future.
His future and Spyre's future.  Without turning around he lifted his
finger and the door to his chamber swung open.  In walked General Vira
of the Spyre Versatile Corps.  "Yes what is it General Vira?"  "Master
Hyru, I apologize for interrupting you but I thought this matter was 
important enough to bring directly to you.  It involves the Shadow-Tal
resistance."  Hyru didn't turn around but simply said, "Yes.  What of 
them."  "We recently gained intelligence that they were trying to set
up a base in the Swamps of Soun.  We guessed they wanted a base there
since the Rampage Corps couldn't be used on them in that environment.
We felt it was of great importance to get rid of them quickly so I sent
some of my Corps and Stealth Corp agents to destroy them.  I also have
news of an attack, not ordered, of the Rampage Corps on Ralla.  It seems
the town is destroyed."  
Hyru still didn't turn around or respond immediately.  
"How interesting.  But it does not concern me.  A 
matter of small importance.  I have things to do that are of much 
greater consequence.  I am sure you and my other loyal subjects will
remedy the situations.  You may go now."  Hyru stood still for a second
and then turned around and saw General Vira still standing in the same
spot, never having moved.  "You require something else?"  "I wish to 
ask a question please Master Hyru if you would allow me to," General
Vira said with a bow.  "Very well if you must," Hyru said.  
"Lord, the other Generals and I are puzzled by your lack of interest and action in
recent matters.  You are concerning yourself less and less with your
empire and letting us make most of the decisions.  Your rule seems, 
well not to say anything to offend your but... no longer in your hands."
"Are you saying you don't see me as ruler anymore?"  Vira stepped 
back, "N-NO LORD!  You are still supreme ruler over all Monic.  It is 
just that we have not had the benefit of your great leadership or 
wisdom for a while.  And we just wish to know why."  "Well normally I 
would kill you for questioning my action or my... in-action but since
you are my General and a good leader needs his followers to understand
some of his actions, I will tell you.  Do you know where we stand as 
the clan Spyre in the hierarchy of nature?"  "Yes.  We are higher than
all other creatures and people and therefore better and more evolved."

"Yes.  That is correct.  You know the early Monic people were not very
advanced and had little in the way of abilities or intelligence.  But
over time and evolution Spyre has greatly surpassed all creations, save
the Man and the Overseer himself.  I see the early Monic people as 
having four main survival needs that drove all their actions and
life.  Food, shelter, clothing, and reproduction.  The Man who came
before them also had these needs but he went far beyond those needs and 
gained much higher needs.  Along with the higher needs his 
intelligence and other abilities increased.  He was designed that way
by the Overseer.  But the Overseer destroyed him and made the early
Monic people very primitive.  Even Monic people today have the same 
four basic needs and nothing more.  They may seem to be more than
that but when it comes down to it, that is all they are.  Primitives
that allow those basic needs to control every aspect of their lives.
But out of all these inferiors came Spyre.  A group of peoples that 
broke free of this mold and is so much more than any other people."
	Vira nodded and kept on listening intently as Hyru preached on.  
This was something she had longed to hear as many Spyre agents had 
begun questioning Hyru and many had been killed for their actions.
If only the people of Monic really knew how unstable the Spyre hierarchy
had gotten.  But as Hyru said they are primitives, not very smart. 
But with this information Spyre could be as solid as it originally 
was.  Agents not following orders exactly like they should was 
something Spyre would not tolerate.  
	Hyru continued on, "Spyre is a clan of more evolved beings 
that are just below the Man.  With our continual gaining of knowledge
we grow that much closer to his perfection and power.  And then another
step above that and we would be like gods!  The Overseer fears us I 
believe.  He never planned on something like Spyre to come out of all
the other people he created.  But since he vowed never to interfere 
with man again, we are free to grow."  "Then why do we have lowly 
primitives as our servants?  Why don't we just wipe them out and have
a world populated by a perfect race?"  "Because General Vira, although
we have much greater needs, desires, and are highly advanced, we still
have the four basic needs.  Now why should we waste our time with those
when lower people can provide for our basic needs?  They give us our 
food, shelter, clothing, and when we desire, help us to create more
people like us.  This leaves us to concentrate on our higher needs.
And in return we allow them to live.  Does that not seem 
fair?"  
"Yes Master Hyru.  You have such great wisdom.  I will inform
the other Generals of your words."  Hyru turned back around, "You do 
that."  Hyru pointed his finger and the door to his chamber opened.
General Vira left and went back to Spyre's main base.

"What a waste of time." Hyru went back to ponder his thoughts. 
Hyru was on the verge of a great discovery.  Through many years of living and
using the Omni Gem's powers, he found out that it had many different
uses and abilities.  The things he could do with the Omni Gem seemed
limitless.  When he mastered one power of the Omni Gem, another would
present itself either through experimentation or imagination.  Unlike
others, Hyru didn't believe the Man was destroyed by the Overseer, but 
instead destroyed himself.  With the Omni Gem anything could be 
realized, practice one ability until you have pushed it to the limit and another
appears.  It took a longer amount of time and much more practice with each
ability to master it and then you moved onto the next one.  Things like immortality
and the creation of living things, which seem extremely powerful, are nothing
to the Omni Gems true power.  
	Hyru theorized that the Man made it to a point 
in his ability with the Omni Gem where he had gotten so powerful and attempted
something so great that he couldn't control it and ended up destroying himself 
in the process.  Hyru had reached a point similar to that and had nearly killed
himself.  But with some quick thinking he had survived.  With that experience 
Hyru vowed not to repeat the Man's "mistake".  So he was thinking and 
calculating so that soon, he could surpass the Man and move to an even higher
stage of evolution.  The last thing that Hyru had attempted was moving
large objects, the planet Monic had moved from its orbit temporarily and then 
Hyru put it back.  His excitement was so great that he quickly moved to the 
next ability, manipulating much smaller objects.  It was of no great feat to 
move large objects like houses, mountains, and then a planet with practice. 
Getting larger with each object until he could move something very immense.
But moving to smaller objects, so small that they cannot be seen was much more
difficult.  If he could master it, things like opening rifts in dimensions, in space,
in time, and controlling the very building blocks of life would be at his disposal.
He made the mistake of attempting a rift right away and almost ripped himself 
apart.  He needed more practice with small objects before he could try it again.
But he feared time was running out, for some odd reason, and his patience was 
wearing thin.  His thirst for power was much larger than he could control and
the Omni Gem provided the means to realized it...