"You're standing on my head right now," Ertos said slowly.
Lily had just transformed back and was busy straightening her skirt while picking burrs out of the fur on her tail. At those words, she sprang up with a howl. "Ertos? As in the Ertos?!"
That slow voice rang out again, seemingly without the slightest emotional fluctuation. "I don't quite understand your way of putting it..."
"Don't mind her. She's into literature." Hao Ren pressed Lily back down, then instinctively looked up at the sky. The energy accumulated from the earlier battle had yet to dissipate, so the invisible "jellyfish" in the sky had appeared once more. Its undulating surface shimmered with rippling light, and countless slender tentacles hung down from the heavens like threads amid the clouds, connecting to the giant statue soldiers on the ground. "You... are the thing in the sky?"
"You were the first to observe me. Before I was affected by the energy-rich environment, you observed a part of me," Ertos seemed to confirm Hao Ren's guess. "That made me interested in you... Few creatures can observe the spirit-form of a Chaos Wanderer, aside from those exceptionally unusual or ancient beings. But whoever or whatever you are, I should still thank you. Thank you for freeing me from this long period of servitude..."
"Chaos Wanderer? Is that the name of your race?" Hao Ren frowned. He had yet to ask what Ertos meant by "long period of servitude." Instead, he was first interested in Ertos himself. "Weren't you supposed to have died many years ago? Killed by that 'Great Dominator'..."
At that point, he suddenly remembered something. "Could the 'Great Dominator' who fought you back then have been the 'evil spirit' in the pyramid?"
"Chaos Wanderers do not die easily. Many times, death is merely