In that moment, Xerxes was helpless, but he was determined to face the monster. Yet he knew the monster possessed power far beyond that of a normal human. So he expected to be in a dangerous challenge.
"Aren't you the child I saw in my vision?" he pointed to Maximus.
"You must be the one spoken of in the prophecy by the divine king of the cosmos, the one who will end me?" he said. "If so, I will not allow that to happen in the future." His voice grew louder.
"Try to touch my son!"
"What can you do, King of Thallerion? You're not Orion!" the monster retorted. "I have already killed the previous chosen ones through war. If you are the next Orion, go ahead and save your children from the murder I'm about to commit." It suddenly disappeared and was now holding Xerxes's two children.
