Zyric was sitting on the tree, waiting for the Divine Stone to do something and get rid of the snake, but the Divine Stone just stood there below, smiling, "Hey, what did I even do now? I'm not speaking, I'm just standing here do something quickly. But now I'm also late for school! Can you drop me there on time and then leave my side?" Zyric pleaded.
"Listen, these flying things and all these useless happenings between us, me becoming like you, these things must remain only between us, understood?" the Divine Stone told Zyric firmly.
"Okay, fine, fine. But what will I get in return? Give me some monsters or something," Zyric demanded.
The Divine Stone smacked his own head in frustration. "I can't believe a weak human is troubling me this much. Or maybe it's just because I've chosen a human as my host. Damn that bastard…" His anger built again, recalling something painful from the past.
Zyric noticed. "Why do you get so angry all the time? As far as I heard you mumbling to yourself… are you alone? Meaning, is there no one in your family?"
"No, there is no one," the Divine Stone replied. "By the way, who did you miss more in your family? Your mom or your dad?" the Divine Stone asked.
Zyric came down from the tree, as the snake had already slithered away. Sitting next to the Divine Stone, Zyric answered. "Uh… maybe my mom. Because my dad was not of good nature. He always taught me the wrong things. But I always loved my mom deep down. I could never openly show her that love though, not in front of my dad. I was never able to live with her as a son ought to live with his mother. It always felt as if she was an outsider in our family always. My dad's shadow was always over me, and because of him, I could never treat her right. I wasn't even with her on her deathbed… and for my dad, it didn't make a difference." Zyric's voice softened with emotion.
"Whatever happened, it is good," the Divine Stone said bluntly.
"What do you mean, good?" Zyric asked sharply.
"No, these are not things for you to know. By the way, you don't have a family either. As far as I can read your mind, all your memories have come into me. You hate your sister very much, don't you? But I also hold some of her memory, because at first, I was going to make your sister my host," the Divine Stone revealed.
"Make that crazy person your host? You'd be dead in a day, I guarantee it. You did a good job making me your host instead. Together we will rule the Earth! We'll catch so many monsters and tame them. People will bow before us! Yes!" Zyric said, building castles in the air.
"I'm not here for long. Just stay with me until I recover my pieces. Otherwise, I'll lose this body. By the way… who do you truly love more, your mom or your dad?" the Divine Stone asked.
"Well, to speak honestly, it is my dad. I like my mom as well, but she still always loved Diana more, even though Diana was her stepdaughter. I loved Diana as well. But when that accident happened everything was destroyed. I spent a full year not knowing what had happened to , I lived with my sister as though nothing has changed, as she trained to be a doctor. However, as I suddenly discovered the truth I parted ways with her. I still get angry knowing that for one whole year I lived with my cheap sister, without realizing it was all because of her." Zyric's voice cracked with pain, and the Divine Stone silently observed him.
"So, this is human emotion. Human emotion is indeed strange. Even while being weak, they yearn to become powerful. Is it because he thought he could? No. I won't think about that man again. I barely rid myself of him," the Divine Stone muttered, then stood up.
"Let's go. There's the way," the Divine Stone said.
"What way?" Zyric asked. The Divine Stone pulled Zyric along with him.
In the next moment, a strange golden portal opened right before them. Without hesitation, the Divine Stone leapt inside with Zyric. If Zyric were to separate from him, the Divine Stone would lose his host and become nothing more than a lifeless stone again. That's why Zyric's presence was necessary until the pieces were retrieved.
Inside the portal, Zyric shouted in fear, but then suddenly the light ahead cleared. They landed in a strange iron bunker where two figures, one human and one old man, were locked in combat.
The very next moment, the Divine Stone transformed into his true form and shot forward at incredible speed.
"It's the same stone that was on the news! The one that fell from space onto Earth! That meteor they kept talking about!" Zyric whispered in shock and hid.
The stone knocked the old man in the chest. The old man looked at it in August amazed eyes.
"How can you even be here?" he demanded, but the Divine Stone gave no answer.
Instead, it kept striking his chest, again and again, until at last the old man dissolved into liquid and vanished. From within the old man's chest, the Divine Stone pulled out a shard of itself. The shard merged with its rough body and attached firmly.
"It's starting to look a little round. That means its pieces are spread across different places. Once all the pieces are found, it will become a complete round stone… yes," Zyric thought to himself.
Then his eyes shifted to the surviving human, who stood frozen, staring at the Divine Stone in shock. The man also noticed Zyric. At that moment, Zyric's vision blurred, pain seared through his eyes. The stranger's power was so strong, it was pressing directly on his mind.