"A monster? Aha, You really think, I'm scared of monsters?" His tone sharply echoed in the vast void. "I'm not afraid of monsters." The boy was firm. The boy believed that his ancestors had killed thousands of thousand monsters, beasts, and those things that came from the deep sea.
"Is he teasing me? Well, if he is a monster, why is he hiding? Hmm, where is he actually hiding? Is he a ghost? I can't see him." The boy walked near the wall and touched it, creating a light wave upon his touch. "Whoa...this wall is amazing!"
"I don't believe you're a monster." He looked up at the colossal wall, where there was a black sky with shining stars. "Wait ...those stars was familiar, I always saw them every time my father was stargazing." He wondered silently.
The echo of the boy's mind was grasped by the wall, and so the man in the wall already knew what the boy was thinking.
"Your voice is too kind. You don't roar like monsters either?" The boy replied. "Wait a minute, are you imprisoned here on the wall?"
"Imprisoned?" The voice mused. "Perhaps, you're right...but," His voice lace with deeper mystery. "Actually, I am not hiding from you...I am just here in my realm, looking at you on this dagger's void."
"This void is our temporary meeting place. I don't belong here, just like you." The man explained, then his tone chuckled subtle. "Well, I already help you escape from them."
"Their prehensile tongues glued at me before the dagger teleported me here." he said, then he concluded."So, you mean I was not caught?" The boy said with a hint of positive tone. Then, he also thought, "Aaah, Mr. Martheuw Cereun means that he came from somewhere else? Oohh, that's why I can't see him."
"They are not actually lizards, they are actually the inheritors of the Lacerta entity, who hunt real treasure...unlike you...you only hunt eggs."
"Hey!!! What's wrong with my hunting, ahh?" The boy clamored. He believed that hunting treasure didn't give him a satisfaction. Besides, he had seen what the treasures of Thallerion had owned.
"You only prove to me that you are a good boy...wealth is the beginning of evil desire." The wall flickering joyfully.
"Uhm, what do you mean by Lacerta entity?" The boy eyes narrowed on the wall as he trying to understand it.
"The lizard, the cosmic lizard in the universe that has the ability to control reptilians.... be careful with that creature." He advised. Those are from the Lacerta clan."
"Lacerta clan?" The boy pondered. "I heard it already to my grandpa's stories."
"Remember this...Use the dagger to defeat the bad entity. I know, you know how to fight, but you better escape from them.—Don't comeback in the stream anymore!" He reprimanded.
"I know how to fight. My friend Matheros trained me how to use a sword. He is 3 years older than me. He is a good friend of mine."
"Oh, I see, you're lucky, you have a good friend." His voice was laced with happiness. "But, what I mean is, today, if you tried to face the Lacerta clan, you will only understand what is between life and death."
"Life and death?" The boy pondered. "Is that the same as my grandpa? He was born and then he died?"
"You're still a child. You don't understand it. Someday, when you grow up, you will not just understand it, but it will crush you. So you better avoid conflicts." The wall flickered brightly.
"Crash me? Like...like those eggs I collected?"
"Yes, just like that." He answered the boy, directly.
"Can I ask a question?" The boy said. "Hehe, maybe he belongs to a powerful entity like Orion, who fought together with my ancestors back then to fight against beasts." He can read my mind too, so, no doubts, he is a super entity." The boy was excited to hear the answer as he was thoughtfully thinking.
"Hmmm?"
"Are you the Orion entity, the Thallerion protector? Or other entities?" The voice of the man breathed heavily and inhaled with concern.
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to answer your question...wait, until you become a great warrior."
"Why does he need to hide his identity? I don't understand him. Me? Become a warrior? Hah...that's good to hear, hehe." He secretly mused.
"Huh? You told me I can ask a question, how can you not answering my question?"
"Did I say that?"
"Not really... but..."
"If you're really a smart kid ... Can you answer my question?" The man said. "If you answer correctly...maybe, I can answer your curiosity."
"Yeah," the boy was joyfully listening. "Hah, that a promise!"
"If there is a single entity with Four-legged or a ferociously biting... destroying your land, do you still trust Constellar's entity?"
The young boy closed his mouth, as he pondered what the man is trying to say about Four-legged entity. "The four legged, ...is that a beast? What kind of Constellar entity is that, uhmmm?" Then, he spoke.
"Are you telling a warning about the Lacerta clan? If then, I can tell you, my country was a forgotten land...but I can still trust them because, my grandpa's said... Without Orion, there will be no Thallerion."
"Well, it seems you still a child, who doesn't know exactly, how the cruel world ruin lives because of the traps, schemes, and plans by the Constellar-entities... Remember, you must still be a warrior...with your own strength."
"But...my grandpa told me... entities, human, must learn to forgive!"
"Can you still forgive them, if you will see the truth?"
"Huh?"
FLASH!
A blinding light suddenly struck Xerxez vision, then, on his surroundings, he was teleported into the different dimension, but this time, the surrounding become louder. The visual swept him from a blinding light space into a terrifying scene.
"Woah, what was that light!!?"
He saw the light violently crashing down from the sky. He saw a wide, glowing shield affixed to the heavens like an ultimate, unbreakable barrier, and a creature trying to destroy it with a powerful mechanism. The boy was too young to understand, ignorantly watching the face of future.
GRAWRR!!!!!
"Ah, is that a monster?" The boy was surrounded by a billion creature growling, and violently prowling around him, the earth was infested by those creatures, created, summoned by the Constellar-entities.
"If this is still real, then, I saw real monsters, and a long-tailed creature breathing fire...His is fighting...and fighting... against magic and powerful weapons? and then he become a— boy? Who is that boy? Oh, it disappeared!"
Then, a vertical line rise in the sky. There is a black. An open field in the sky. Suddenly, there are giant tentacles appear too! It resembling claws, and trying to widen the hole in the sky. There was embers as big as boulders fallen from the sky, and the fire was unleash into the ground, it cracked, and there there was a fault, spewing lava.
"Whoah, there is a monster face, made of thorny evil energy, a halo of dark purple monster, peeked out from it. Its eyes, like... like the galaxies with malicious intent? Ehh, he stared at me!"
One tentacle, it coil at him, like an octopus!
"No, I have nothing to do with this, the man just brought me here." The boy felt like peeing himself in fear at the sight of the lashing monster as he was gripped. "Let me go!!! Please, no, don't eat me!!!"