"What wonderful curiosity!"
Watching the images projected by the Watcher, Brad was unstinting in his praise.
"This is a technological leap for this universe's magical community!"
"If they hadn't been infected with the blood cross virus, these Kamar-Taj sorcerers probably would never have touched the mysteries of the multiverse in their entire lives."
Seeing how utterly unreasonable Brad was, the Watcher angrily swept his sleeve and shut off the projection.
"What, don't you want to witness their rare moment of greatness with me?"
Brad taunted him.
The Watcher fell silent. Ever since Brad had acquired transdimensional computation and a nanotech divine body and left the Home Universe, he had slipped beyond the Watcher's observation. To learn anything about Brad's movements, the Watcher could only infer them from Brad Base in what Brad had named Home Universe Number One.
At first, the Watcher had thought Brad would be like Multiversal Ultron, frantically searching for his location to take revenge.
But Brad hadn't.
Only when Brad entered a universe in the multiverse and lingered briefly could the Watcher occasionally catch sight of him.
And in certain universes, the Watcher couldn't see any trace of Brad at all, because those universes contained stronger beings who refused to let the Watcher spy on them.
The universe containing the Beyonder's projection was one example.
Of course, the Watcher also knew why Brad never stayed in any universe for long.
Some kind of force was constantly hunting Brad.
And the Watcher knew that Brad, as he was now, couldn't resist that force.
The Watcher had thought Brad could only spend his life on the run, perhaps never finding the time to take revenge on him.
That was, of course, one reason the Watcher hadn't taken Brad seriously in the first place.
But after leaving the Beyonder's