The doctor goes down.

Prerequisites:

The Destined Downfall

The malevolence of the mind

The true test of humanity, they say is to assist a person who can do you absolutely no benefit. The doctor's work would revolutionalise the contemplative faculties of the inexplicable thought processes of the human mind. Humanity, as we know of it at present, would be radically altered. Man would never stand up to comfort his counterpart ever again. He would be metamorphosised into a blood-sucking leech, a soul living only to drain vulnerable lives. His quest for immortality would be fulfilled. He would reach the highest echelons of power, only aspired by the base, weak, coward creatures of the present. The ramifications of this neo-scientific breakthrough, one with the power to immortalize the soul, was earth-shattering. The doctor realized this, but only a moment too late. He felt an excruciating wave of throbbing rising through his dilapidated body-dilapidated by age and wisdom-and he collapsed...and with him collapsed any prospects of fortification man had in his favor, and yet man remained blissfully ignorant of his impending doom.

Were I a man of tranquility and unruffled composure, I would have negotiated with the doctor in terms of material wealth he aspired to obtain in return for this staggering invention. Were I my former weak humane self, the doctor would be alive now. Were I a man with any trace of solicitousness I would give a thought to let a man die in all his glories that he deserved. But now he lay bare and motionless on the floor, at my feet, still traumatized, agony and despair lurking in his stunned eyes, his face pale with horror, blood-red cold blood-gushing with freedom from its imprisonment in the old man's body. In a moment it would all be over. He had served his part to the world. He would be received well in heaven, but of this I was not sure, for the monstrosities his invention was about to unveil on the world was deadly. And he closed eyes his eyes.

I was now a man with immortality. And there was the congregation of noble mortal men. Who would gain ultimate victory was anybody's guess.