Zenith Novem

Prime Walker of Control

Ex-Supreme Arbiter of Fate

The Hero That Never Came

Outsider (Formerly)

Infinity (Zenith's Homeworld Universe)

Zypher Janus and Liliya Jaredal (Best Friend from the Arbitrary Days)

The Corupus Family (Old friends)

"King Midas" (Mentor)

Aether Minci (Friend & Superior)

Loy "Stish" Barther (A Trusted Friend)

Xiao (Friend)

**Zenith Novem** is one the most powerful entity across all worlds of the Infinity and he has ability to bend the laws on how the world works in all aspects of reality to his desire as he is the "Prime Walker of Control".

**Tier**: **Superhuman - World Level** (Basic) | **Multi-World Level** (Via Destructive Potential) | **Extra Dimensional Cosmic Level** (Full Potency)

## Appearances & Personality

In terms of appearance, Zenith Novem is usually seen in 1 out of 3 clothing choices, one being his Walker's Robe, his dark-gray polo/jacket with black pants and black shoes, and his commander's/killer's suit. His Walker's Robe is a black robe with a golden embroidered pattern of scythes with golden shoulder pads which sometimes resembles wings and an Arc reactor resembling the Ironman MK85 suit, a navy-blue cape, and a hood with a golden outline with a phoenix sticking out of the front with the wings running along the length of the outline of the hood. His commander/killer's outfit is a modified black military commander uniform with flaps overlapping another set of flaps that extends down to where the knee is, where the inner flap only extends halfway. The black pants, shoes, and the cape is carried over the commander's suit. He tends to also be seen with glasses and a red scarf. Clothing aside, his body is fully concealed when his hood is on, leaving usually his glowing eyes that resembles that of a phantom. When his face is revealed, he is seen to be in his 30's with dreamy blue eyes, and jet black hair with a short style haircut with 3 golden bangs that resemble a simplified bird (2 for the wings and one for the tail).

In terms of personalities, it entirely depends on how you treat him. He is usually caring and selfless to those around him and especially those super close to him... His personality can be classified using different names, but 2 gets their exclusive forms:

* The Maniacal Killer, depicting his madness/insanity/anger and tendency to rush things, his attire being his commander's suit, with a scarf, claws similar to Wolverine's, and a mask that can give even the strongest foes nightmares.
* The Double-Crossing Crusader, depicting his Kindness and his belief in Karma, his appearance is similar to Ainz Ooal Gown's Armor from the anime series Overlord, but with the blue cape and a Roman Crest made of metal instead of horsehair.
* The High Judge / The Arbiter, depicting his strict nature and determination to set things to order, this has no form.
* The Joker, his playful cheekiness that unfortunately isn't observed as often as it used to be.
* The Hanged Man, depicting his sadness, remorse, and his stone-cold heartlessness, this developed over time during Zenith's time as Arbiter of Fate.

## Story

### Early Life

#### Zenith's POV

Zenith was a mere accumulation of decayed matter and energy of unknown types. An innocent wisp who had no meaning, no goals, until it found the will that changed its destiny forever, that being **the capacity to help and care**. Z was a curious wisp that stumbled upon a group of other wisps that were willing to help Fate play his part on other worlds, **making the story ending match the way Fate had planned**, and other things. Z would eventually become a **Whisper of Fate** without him knowing. He followed orders and helped arbiters with making ends meet the way it was meant to be. He'd eventually got promoted, becoming an **Arbiter of Fate**, leaving him to carry out Fate's plans and determine everyone's **Destiny** with his ideals in **Karma** guiding him along the way. He did arbitrary missions in worlds of old, meeting friends, and seeing them come and go as worlds have been made and others were destroyed. Dark theories, philosophies, and thoughts slowly consumed Zenith as he started seeing a pattern in destiny, "They come, they befriend, they wage wars, they die." That, being one of the thoughts that will consume him. He shrugged it off, only to let it backfire as time passed by, Madness got the better of him and his remorse that he sometimes went mad, to a point where **Fate attached Experimental B(erserker)-Locks by force**. He eventually became depressed and opted to step down from position and die. It was a fateful day where a lost soul eventually stumbled upon him, giving him hope and making his life better once more.

### Dominus Termini (Termination of Domains)

This is one of the events which scarred Zenith for life as his Arbitrary sight grew sharper as he can see further possibilities down the line... All he could see was death and destruction. The fears started to sink in as he started to feel other timeline branches surrounding him... Janus and Liliya, who were there at the time, saw that he was surrounded by magical string branches of blue, Zenith backed up in fear and ended up tripping over *said* branches, he saw even more torment and he wanted everything to stop. **He wanted everything to end, so strings were pulled apart, along with timelines, worlds, multiverses, along with crippling their cosmic structures to nearly collapsing**. The situation was resolved at the last second, but everyone started hunting Zenith down after Fate ordered the hunt. He was eventually caught and was put on the B-locks.

#### "M"'s POV

There came a child who will be called "M" (For personal reasons), who was born a cute little boy on the 20th of November of an unknown year. He had been living his life as a happy toddler with his family, had gained good friends, and had an overall good life as a little one. He eventually gained more knowledge than that of a 7yr old with his curiosity in Space, Anatomy, among other things, excelled in academics, and gained a taste of music and the arts. This good chapter of life would last until middle school where he died due to a tragedy. His belief in resurrection has had him hoping for a life as good as his last. **The now lost soul eventually encountered a depressed Zenith one fateful day** and they had an exchange on their views of life, the concept of "existing", and other related things. **The souls agreed to merge, letting the child's soul be the dominant half out of the two souls**, and eventually leading Zenith to his eventual **rebirth, and** **from this moment on, this phantom will become the Z we know today**.

### Rebirth, Reflection, and Redemption (RRnR I)

It was at this point where Zenith had changed his view on the concept of existing and has started to continue his missions, but this time, under the motive to **give everyone the ends they deserve** with the same 3 concepts he's learned from the vey beginning. He started showing signs of mental and slight emotional improvement, as well as the expansion of knowledge in other topics involving reality such as **the** **abyss**, **timeline structure / branching**, and more. More worlds come and go, but Zenith remains happy for the people he helped along the way in between missions, he'd either reflect on previous missions, check out the **Archives** to study various info, or hangout with some of his friends, usually **Zypher J**. (High Lancer of Fate), who has been with him all these times no matter what happened. **During his missions he'd maintain timeline branching, making ends meet, and putting an end to anomalies. Aside from his payment and recognition, he'd also start to collect various weapons and precious memories as their respective worlds end**. It was at this point where Zenith Novem has has been promoted to "High Lancer", but eventually became Honorary Arbiter due to his influences that caught Fate's eye, 7 Years pass before Zenith has officially been appointed as **Arbiter of Fate**.

### The Encounter with an Infinity Walker (Minor Event)

Zenith Novem became a frequent visitor in the Coded Archives, in which that, and his widely known name, has caught the attention of the Head of The Manor, **Corupus Alpha, Prime Walker of Corruption**. Despite his nature, he was a nice guy who introduced Zenith to the **Corupus Family**, who owns the Coded Archives due to long forgotten reasons... Whenever Zenith would come and visit the Archives to learn about things across different worlds, he'd sometimes pay the family a visit, whether it be telling stories and sharing experiences with **Corupus Codex (Corupus's Son) and Cassie Corupus (Codex's Wife)**, or training with **Corupus C. Angela (Codex's Daughter)** in the training halls of the Manor or in the Archive's Arena. Visits to **The Halls of Infinite** reflections back at the Manor were paid when Zenith seeks for **High Judge Mathias'** advice or personal judgement.

### The King and Arbiter

Some say that this was the prime of Z's little renaissance as one of his arbitrary missions would lead him to a person that he'd personally call **"King Midas"**. This has been the first time where he has been treated as family. He has been taught "The way of the commoners", the values of people, and a few other things that made a huge impact on himself. Since "Midas" was a human, he lived his life until his time had come. If you ask Zenith about his time with Midas, he'd say that there won't be another friend like Zypher Janus or Midas during those times.

### The Road To Omnipotence (RRnR II)

As Arbiter of Fate, Zenith Novem would have access to missions that involve universes based on worlds that are well known as games or series in our reality. Some of these were **Undertale and it's AUs, YokoVerse (Drakengard/Nier Series), Final Fantasy, The Transformers, Star Wars, etc.** Zenith was in his prime as he performed better and better as missions progressed. Other than that, he also started to gain more and more power as the B-Locks loosen up on restrictions, making him a more formidable fighter on the field and a fighter who surpasses even the strongest entities in their respective universes. He tried to experiment with tampering with reality again, until he came across the cosmic structures yet again. Remembering that he could've destroyed them, he tried to fiddle with them little by little until he knew how to manipulate them, granting him some control over it.

### The Decay

Zenith indeed has made more friends, but his fear of loss eventually got to him as wars and loss of friends haunted him at a faster rate, to prevent such things from happening, he decided to fake his emotions to other people in hopes to mitigate his remorse and to prevent it from hunting him down to the depths of insanity. Only a few people have managed to make Zenith show his true colors. He still performed his missions with the highest effort overall, and he did gain more and more power, but the frequent deaths made him feel empty, bringing him back to the same state he was in all the way back when he was a whisperer.

### Entering The Genshinverse

One day when Zenith was receiving a mission from "King Midas", he accidentally entering an unknown portal that take him into an unknown world. It takes him into a cliff with green meadows. It took him quite a long time to realize this if he was already in another world. Not long after when he started exploring the area, he also met a blond-haired boy who was looking at him. Apparently, the boy already knew about his arrival in that world, so he immediately took Zenith to a city called Mondstadt City which was also the city where the boy lived. When he got there, he was told by the boy that he was an **Outsider** there because he was not from this world and universe, and he also met another outsider who had just entered the world a few days ago. The boy started to introduce the outsider to Zenith and this outsider was named **Loy Barther** who had the nickname **Stish**, Zenith also introduced himself to Stish. After a while, Zenith, who already knew about reality from other fiction, started to feel something odd about him being dragged into this world. He felt that his being dragged into this world was not a coincidence but that someone had set him up to enter this world, and he was also aware that what had set him up for this world was not "King Midas" but someone else. The boy also confirmed this, where their arrival and several other outsiders were not a coincidence, where the boy deliberately summoned them to this world because there had been an anomaly in the Outsider Effect that had occurred in this world. Outsider Effect is an event and/or condition where characters or some things from another fiction enter the Genshinverse, this fictional universe, and the world that they are in right now. The boy explains that the events of the Outsider Effect are getting out of control where characters from other fictions are starting to enter the Genshinverse non-stop every time, and the reason he summoned them to the Genshinverse is to help him overcome this, where he will order them to face the outsiders who will become a threat to the Genshinverse by confronting the fictional characters of their respective fictions. Zenith, who in the past had often had similar task and became a protector for several worlds from other fictional realities, finally agreed to this, but Stish had a different matter, where he reluctantly refused because this world was not his business, and he asked that the boy to return him to his world again, but the boy said that anyone who enters this world, he will not be able to return, including himself, and not because he really cannot return, but because the boy will never return he returns to his original world. It's true, anyone who enters Genshin World, will find it difficult to return to their original world, but that boy has the ability to return anyone to their original world. The boy also explained that he only has 2 choices at this time, accept his offer or he will be considered as part of an outsider who is considered a threat and will be hunted down and finished off by the inhabitants of his world or other outsiders who side with him. Zenith also started to tell Stish to accept the offer from the boy, because he felt that there was a bigger problem that had befallen this world and several worlds from other fictional realities including theirs, which he explained maybe was part of the defense of their respective worlds from the outside, from Genshin World, because this Outsider Effect events that already getting out of control and getting worse, will have the potential to destroy the fictional reality involved. Finally, Stish also agreed to this, and they said to the boy that they were ready to start their task, whereupon the boy began to teleport them to different universes where they would be placed respectively.

### The New Story Arc

After the Fictionverse is fully restored, and everything returned to normal again, Zenith returned to his original universe, Infinity, and his original home in Enos. 3 months have passed, and Zenith is starting to remember his past when he was in Genshinverse, it turns out that he is also one of the few characters who still have memories of the events of Fiction War and also memories of their previous life before the Fiction War happened. Zenith also began to remember his friends in the Genshinverse and also several other friends from other fictions who had also become his companions during his time in the Genshinverse. He also thought back to Mona, the woman he had secretly liked when he was still in the Genshinverse, deep down in his heart, he actually wanted to express his feelings to Mona, but he knew and realized that Mona only loved one, which was Aether who is also her little brother figure. He also still remembers his conversation with Mona where at that time Mona said that she would always be faithful to take care and look after Aether like her own little brother and will wait for him to grow up until the time comes, when Mona will express her feelings for Aether to become her life partner which Mona also knew that Aether actually liked her, despite their age difference. In the midst of his confusion, suddenly a white light appears in front of him where Zenith is teleported to a place in a dimension, where it looks like a garden with a very beautiful river. The white light began to say if he is the True God and True Creator of Genshinverse, where he has heard Zenith's heart that really wants to return to Genshinverse, in particular, he really wants to express his feelings to Mona, his crush who has been secretly he likes. True God and True Creator began to offer Zenith to return to the Genshinverse if he wanted, which Zenith immediately agreed to that, and soon he moved again, where he was currently in a room that looked like Aether's bedroom, then Aether also appeared in his Divine Form and began to offer Zenith so that he would become his loyalist as an outsider and become a guardian of the Genshinverse, where Aether promised to give Zenith his dream to marry Mona and live life with her and everything he wanted in the course of his story. Aether gave him a universe where everything Zenith wanted was in that universe, but it was an **Outcasted Universe** or a universe that was exiled from the Genshinverse main dimension, where he purposely created that universe to be a bumper universe to protect the Genshinverse from outside threats. Zenith also agreed to this because he really-really wanted to tell Mona his feelings and make her become his life partner. Finally, Aether teleported Zenith to go to the universe that Aether had created where, when he got there, Zenith began to say to Aether, if the current name of this universe is **Universe of Outcasted Phantom**, which represents Zenith who is a phantom who lives and becomes the guardian and main character of the universe that was outcasted from its parentverse.

Sometime later, Zenith met a peculiar girl in blue whose interest in Astrology caught his eye, which is it's Mona herself. They met on a Liyue peak, and soon slowly came together. They both were there for each other. He was once deciding to become Mona's assistant, but they eventually became close, but they never engaged since they both knew that it would crumble Zenith's heart just to see her go forever. They still stayed close and remained together until the point where they start to like each other. A few months later, Zenith and Mona start opening up a Cafe where he starts to work in the Cafe along with Dark as a chef while Mona took in orders and pretty much runs the place. Mona and Zenith grew closer and closer each day until she ended up confessing to Zenith about her love for him, just as they "did the deed" in the cafe attic. No villains nor fiascos happened, except when both Dark and Zenith died after their death duel just outside the archives. Zenith had just enough soul power to bring Dark back, but he eventually was brought back by Dark, willfully exchanging his life for his as Zenith deserved to live rather than Dark. Zenith then found a way to temporarily let Dark live again as he is technically dead. Zenith still lived happily with his circle of friends, which is similar to his friends when he was still in Original Universe. Then Zenith finally proposed to Mona, and they eventually married. Time passed and she gave birth to the family's firstborn, **Lyra Celeste**. She had a happy life and started to gain a random assortment of abilities, most notably her advanced shapeshifting capabilities where she can gain both form and memories of the form she takes. Her name changes every form, leading to her being usually called **"Alice"**. Only Zenith calls her by Lyra should he feel a little nostalgic. She has changed from a girl with a traumatic past, to a Kitsune, to a Neko, and occasionally others that both Zenith and Lyra are familiar with just to test what she can and can't become.

## Abilities

This is a list of some of Zenith's abilities since he likes to hide up his destructive potential.

### Pure Offense

* The ability to use any weapons from other worlds efficiently.
* **Words of The Abyss**: The 4Z's signature weapon set. It comes in a compact device that can form into various words of the abyss, those being "Damnation (Scythe), Retribution/Torment (Sword), Punishment (Lance), Anguish (Daggers), and a few more." Being hit with any of these can be fatal to anyone who gets hit except for the user and anything killed by it will be sent to the abyss, never to be seen ever again.
* **Reality Bleed**: Cut through anything that exists and make it bleed out its essence until it no longer exists.
* **Self Destruct**: Zenith's will to commit suicide is due to the fact that he sees himself as a threat during meltdowns. This is used to wipe out all methods of cloning, mimicry, and replication at the exchange of Zenith's mind, body, sanity, and soul being crippled.
* **Impulsive Disarray**: This allows Zenith to unleash devastating shockwaves of any magnitude and intensity with the anger, insanity, and corruption bottled in him. Direct hits are usually fatal unless one of Z's trusted ones are nearby and within the blast radius.
* **[N] Star Strike**: Strikes enemies [N] times in a star pattern with the option to have [N] weapons/abilities accompany it. Can be split among enemies or in one swoop.
* **Otherworldly Barrage**: These comes in different severities in the form of "Houses". The 3 Types are the houses of Cowardice [Ranged], Recklessness [Melee], and Insanity [Mixed]. Any % of these may be used, but a "Full house/suite" is achieved by going all out in each house, unleashing every weapon specialized in ranged or near-field combat.
* **Astrologist's Will**:These are an assortment of abilities Zenith named after his promise to the Mona Megistus of Universe of Outcasted Phantom was established. Today, these abilities are honed by Zenith's love and loyalty towards his wife, Mona Megistus Novem as the promise pulled through and as Zenith confirmed that she contains the direct soul of her. These attacks come in different forms:
	+ **Stargazer**: Summons a magical Astrolable the size of the entire field with the actual essence of the real stars projected within the impossibly accurate astrolable. Due to the sheer perfectability, the stars assume fusion and blows up, dreading destructive damage with each blast on the field.
	+ **Shooting Star**: With the aid of the Walker crystals, star-like reality rifts will rain down literall falling stars from the sky.
	+ **Supernova**: An enhanced version of Zenith's Shockwaves that spreads out stars similar to that of the Stargazer attack.

### Pure Defense

* **Crystal Fortification Type I**: An unbreakable crystal layer will be added on top of Zenith's skin to avoid further injuries
* **Crystal Fortification Type II**: Walker Crystals can be sacrificed to become literall barricades should allies need defensive aid.
* **Phantom Seal D-Type**: An ancient phantom seal with sacred runes of divinity that can act as a minor shield.
* **Abyssal Protection**: A lower version of Walker's Immunity where all damages and ailments on allies are nullified. Low chance of weapons also gaining Abyssal Imbuement. (Refer to "Words of The Abyss")

### Crystal Capabilities

* **Mental Projection**: Displays thoughts onto the crystals, it sometimes helps if Zenith gets distracted while calculating possibilities.
* **Realized Imagination**: Allows the crystals to change form or composition to fit nearly every needs of Zenith. The only limitations are that it can't create life and mental fatigue can be induced if the projects are complex, precise, or big. This is used by Zenith to make barricades, form wings, create emergency ammo, and more.
* **Advanced Warping**: Zenith can make vortexes, make reality blankets and make reality bend using crystals in order to teleport if Zenith's not in the mood to fizzle.
* **Laser Strike**: Crystals can open up to reveal cores of energy that are used to unleash lasers of energy that deal destructive damage. They can be modified with other abilities to spice things up a notch.
* **AOE Crippling**: This can severely weaken/cripple anyone in the AOE. Zenith can choose who or what gets affected or who becomes immune.
* **Omega Mastery (Zenith and Dark Exclusive)**: Zenith has the ability to aquirre more than 5 crystals at once by borrowing reality shards and turning them into crystals, it has been proven that 5 crystals is the optimum amount since Zenith already has enough time, energy, and resources to do practically anything, Zenith can make more though if he's feeling a little too grand.

### Support/Misc.

* **Arbitrary Sight**: Was used to keep Zenith aware of all events in the past, current events in the present, and all future possibilities (No matter how extreme it is) when he was still undergoing arbitrary missions... Now, it's one of the few sources of Zenith's fears... he only uses it to keep him updated with everyday events.
* **Basic Entropy Manipulation**: Can bend corrupted energy in any way possible and used to withstand other corruption types. Also acts as enhancers for other abilities in the form of the 6 Phases of Sanity. The only drawback is its extremely high sanity cost.
* **Heal/Purification**: With the help of Zenith's "Crusader" persona, he's able to heal and support himself and allies when hurt or inflicted with corruption.
* **Kitsana's Kitsune Orb Support**: The Kitsune orb Zenith absorbed as his way of safe keeping apparently now serves as Zenith's emergency life support and the one thing that keeps Zenith's soul shining when Zenith succumbs to his own insanity
* **Reality Manipulation**: This grants Zenith the ability to roam on any layer of reality he so chooses, along with manipulating space, but not time, unless Path of Control has been activated. Zenith can cause rifts to fast travel, tear off reality veins via. Reality Bleed and manipulate/weaponize each layer according to what they are or even break multiverses completely.
* **Crystal Manipulation**: Zenith can make crystals that can satisfy the needs that the Walker crystals fail to achieve since it might end up in the crystals being away from Zenith. One example could be that of jewelry worn by a person Zenith won't expect to meet again.
* **Phantom Arts**: This allows Zenith to do various enchantments with special seals, but they are more used in terms of support, mainly healing and purification.
* **Elemental Mastery**: Thanks to the Multi-Vision Zenith has made out of all the 7 visions and a few changes, Zenith has the ability to control all the possible elements of the world.
* **Immortality**: Zenith is a phantom made of decayed matter and energy that has gained the morality, kindness, and appearance of his human side, since he is technically a ghost, age doesn't affect him.

### Zenith-Exclusive

These abilities can't be copied, stolen, crippled, stopped/nulled, or removed.

* **Path of Control (Prime Walker of Control EXCLUSIVE)**: This allows Zenith to overwrite all known laws and rules. Everything is governed by rules which dictates how things work. Zenith will override those rules with his own. This can't be stopped once unleashed. This can be jokingly called as Zenith's "Auto-win Trump Card". This will instantly give Zenith control at everything he desire with only a greater impact on Zenith's stamina. "Just say the word, and everything will go according to his will."
* **Walker's Immunity**: This allows Zenith to not be harmed or inflicted by any threat. There are exceptions like the Species Law of Heirarchy and the influence of Entropy in place though. It's just that anything ranked lower than Zenith can't hurt him.
* **The Madlad's Trait**: Zenith is capable of defying all known odds, cheating his way out of death, and gain something from every situation. If you find a way to kill him, he'll be back when you least expect it,
* **Destructive Potential**: There has only been one recorded proof of this power. It all started during the Dominus Termini Incident, when Zenith became so traumatized by the faults along universal timelines that he ended up resonating with said timelines, ultimately destroying them all, along with nearby universes, eventually leading up to the end of several multiverses of worlds based on games, novels, movies, and series alike along with crippling the cosmic structural supports that keep them stable. It is to this day that he lies to himself that it was something else that caused it only that, in reality, he single-handedly caused the most deaths in any accident ever possible in the Infinity so far. Upon becoming the Prime Walker of Control, he discovered that his powers have increased significantly, allowing him to destroy the multiverse with ease if he so chooses.
* **VI Stages of Madness**: If Zenith's anger can be translated into damage: This would be how it would go:
	+ **Phase I**: In the psychological sense, Zenith is still perfectly fine to a fault. As for the environment and appearance, chuckling and laughter of children can be heard, indicating the hell one will face if one doesn't stop. He'll appear in his Killer Suit if he's sure he can stay in the first phase. In terms of combat performance, agility and overall damage will rise twice to what he already has.
	+ **Phase II**: Psychologically, Zenith seems more unstable and it's a battle between reasoning and rage. Environment and appearance, a sense of dread and despair makes the enemies' visions darken and sense of danger rise as Zenith has unlocked 50% of his potential, leading to a change in design in Z's clothing. This phase is normally skipped due to how little his temper is left.
	+ **Phase III**: Zenith at this point will be nearly fully blinded by rage and desperation. Is is at this point to where the Kitsune orb is what still keeps him stable when he's on his own. He's able to go full throttle if he must and it takes him a while to calm down after a battle's over... He'll appear without the killer's mask and his body will have taken a monochromatic scheme where the skin is black in color, riddled with purple corrupted marks and one eye scar on each side of his face, one being purple and, and the other, red. His eyes will have fully dimmed to black and his iris matching the color of the scar that's on the opposite side of the face.

NOTE: Phases 4-6 primarily involves Zenith giving in to his insanity. The only thing that can happen here is that he will slowly break apart until he delves too deep to where he is basically dead.