"Oh, that's just my outer shell, I told you before, right?"
"Don't tell me she also forgets things easily!" William got the feeling that she was asking herself if she said it or not, a thing that made him think in his mind about her mental status.
"Don't worry about your safety, my body is safe."
"..."
William refrained from asking anything, to not get a weird answer again. He kept walking for hours, following the stream of white fog around. He didn't see anything different, not until he ended up at a place where he could see beyond fifty metres.
The white fog seemed to recede from this place, showing something that was no better described as an opening. He knew her words from earlier had something to do with the real thing, but he didn't think she really meant it.
"Couldn't she have said a portal or a gate, other than opening," he thought to himself, feeling like he was dealing with a six years old kid or something.
"Come inside, I'm waiting for you there," her voice came, and this time it felt like she was standing just next to him.
He passed through this opening, to find out a huge space that stretched for thousands of metres around.
In this space, not a speck of white or green fog was there. The place was like a giant dome, instead of walls, thick layers of white fog was there.
The place was filled with lots of lavish green vegetation, thick to the extent that the ground was gone. William looked around, and there was no shadow of that lady. As for the hole he came through, it closed the moment he passed it without making a single sound.
"I'm right here, where are you then?" he looked around while saying this, before suddenly freezing. His vision was replaced from pure green to a pure pink pair of eyes, looking extremely alluring and beautiful, making this place pale in comparison.
The pair of big pink eyes blinked; jolting William awake. He retreated for a couple of steps, only to find that these two pairs of eyes were appearing out of nowhere, floating in midair, in the middle of two clouds of white and green smoke.
"You…" he pointed towards the pair of eyes, only linking these with the lady monster he was speaking with for the past hours.
"What? It's just a projection of the real me."
"Why won't you come here by the real you? I'm too weak to do anything to you," William mistook everything, took what she did as a way for her to protect herself from him.
"That's funny, hahahaha!" His words invoked a pure hearted laugh, one that wasn't that simple. The moment she laughed, William saw the entire space tremble, as if an earthquake was happening thanks to her laughter.
At the same time, the fog stirred up, giving him the impression it was going to collapse or something.
"Then…"
"I told you, you know nothing about what I'm doing," she paused, before adding in her usual cheerful tone, "this… This is my grave."
"G… Grave?!!" William looked at her eyes in doubt, and the eyes blinked again as if they were real before her voice came again:
"Grave, the place where we die, don't you know that?" she snorted, and William froze for a second there as this wasn't what he meant. "I've reached the end of my life power, ending up either choosing to level up or select another path."
"Mon… Can we select another path?" amidst his momentarily daze, he was about to say something that'd expose his identity. Luckily the lady monster wasn't that focused on him right now, was lost in her own thoughts and that critical decision she took many thousands of years ago.
"There aren't just two paths actually," she sighed, shoving away such disturbing thoughts, "I never taught anyone before anything, so let me try the feeling of being one's mentor. Listen up, monsters have a fixed time span, just like those barbaric humans. But our life span…"
She started to speak, spoke for almost an entire day. William thought this was going to be a simple lecture, which wouldn't last more than twenty up to thirty minutes. But he was totally wrong.
This lady monster was indeed honest in what she said, and wanted to try to teach someone something she knew. She started to speak, jumped from one mysterious topic to another, topics that William never heard of before.
He was sure such knowledge wasn't even known by any master, or else this would rock the entire world, the entire worlds of masters.
She started speaking about the different paths any monster had at the end of its life. According to her, the life span of monsters was like the spirit purity stages of masters, had ten grades where they jump from one to another after the passage of one hundred thousand years.
The last stage was the one that the nine tailed fox was stuck at. Any monster arriving at such a stage had two main options in front of them, either select the path of ascension, the same path the nine tailed fox selected, or to select the one as what this lady monster here did.
The other path was for the monster to select to end its life in peace, entering into a super long hibernation period, sleeping for too long, living inside a grand space like the one here.
The entire swamp region was considered her entire body and spirit entering deep slumber. The area of green fog and swamps was her body, and the white fog area was her spirit. As for the area of lightning, it was the separation zone between the two, a place that was forbidden for any human to pass.
That might be the main reason she never took William for a human, considering him as a special breed of monsters or something.
Yet that wasn't all! According to what she said and explained in great detail and utmost care, this path included two other paths inside.
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