She sucked in a deep breath loudly before adding, "the scrolls I found said that he was a gigantic fox, with nine tails, with the ability to separate his spirit into many minions. He could send them far away from him, live their lives, before devouring them back and nourishing his spirit power and knowledge with what they learnt. He was a scary and terrifying monster, one in the kind, having no one like him appearing ever in the entire endless history of our world."
"..."
When William heard what she said, he couldn't help but experience a very cold shiver all over his body, accompanied by a fierce trembling out of his control.
This monster… It was the same one he faced and failed to kill before, the one he came back in time to kill, his archenemy, his deadliest nemesis, the nine tailed fox!
"Damn! Don't tell me this is the root for everything…" and as he realised that the one the myth spoke about was real, and he faced it before, he couldn't help but think about something entirely different.
The way he came back from the future to the past was still a mystery for him. He never heard of such a heaven defying ability like this before, especially when it happened when he was on the verge of dying.
"It seems that I died, truly died back then… But thanks to that damn fox's connection with the reincarnation world, and as I gained part of its abilities and spirit, it seems I ended up getting touched by that world…"
That was something that never crossed his mind before and wouldn't have except for his meeting with this lady monster. He returned back in time not only thanks to fate, but also thanks to his archenemy.
"That damn motherf*cker… It seems it gained lots of bad karma from its previous life, ending up with the entire fate and destiny world to work against it, even letting it send the one who'd kill it once and for all back in time to prepare, sending me to do it…"
William was thinking about all this in his mind, with his voice echoing like bolts of thunder in his head. His body kept trembling fiercely without realising it, and his emotions turned from shock, to fear, ending up with rage and determination.
He finally revealed the mystery of his bizarre return, knowing he was sent here to do a mission, a mission that was deeply engraved in his mind since the first moment he opened his eyes back at the Aspire academy.
And even after knowing all this, uncovering the facts about this grand mystery, his determination to kill that fox never faded away, not even in the slightest.
Instead, he felt like he had another reason to kill that monster, which was to save everyone, do the task that ancient humans failed to do. Not to mention his confidence in taking down this monster skyrocketed when he realised he was backed up by fate and destiny.
"Are you ok?!!!"
Just as he was lost in all these thoughts, the monster lady suddenly said, jolting him awake. When he raised his head, he found her big eyes no more than half a metre away from him.
"I'm fine," he returned to look like before, calm and collected.
"It's ok to be scared of such stories, after all you are still a baby."
"..."
"Don't be scared, cute little monster, these stories are all myths and legends. And even if they were true, that monster died and won't return back again."
"Hmm… Tell me, don't you want to turn into a human?" William suddenly asked. He realised how really terrifying his enemy was. A monster that was strong enough to stand against the entire ancient world, against monsters and masters alike? That was a level of power he never imagined to even exist.
So he started to think differently about this accidental chance. He came here looking for a portal to go back to his tiny world, ending up meeting such a terrifying monster in her last moments before dying.
A thought, a wild one, popped up in his mind right on the spot. And he started to think boldly about how to accomplish it.
"Turning into a human? Come on! It's not that I didn't think about doing such a thing, but… Can you even imagine turning into the being you hate and fight for your entire life? This can't be possible right?"
"It's as you said, the fault began from our end to begin with," William paused, thinking about what he should say to convince this monster lady to take such a leap, "if you did that, you would change into a human, hunt down monsters, and be part of the same despicable beings you hate. But you'll live on, live much longer, right? That still counts."
"Hmm… Living much longer is tempting indeed, but the issue is…"
"What? Don't tell me you want to die, and you saw everything in the entire world!" William rolled his eyes, "I bet you never made it out of this world, headed to other worlds, didn't even go to the outer world, right?"
"How do you know all this? These things… I never got the chance to go out from this world! All the big portals are guarded by things that only humans can decipher and deal with!"
"See? Told you," William controlled his own excitement, didn't want to expose the fact he was very much hyped up by what she just said.
She didn't just know where these portals were, but it seemed like she also knew how to activate them.
"But… To become a human, I'll turn every thousand years I slept to just one year of their little lifespan. That means…"
"How long did you stay here? Five thousand years?"
"No, around twenty, twenty-one thousand years…" she gave him such a scary number, and he couldn't help but wonder if she was bluffing or anything.
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