"Woah.."
Ethan had nearly walked nearly the entire way and had almost made it to the base of a huge mountain range, which was known by the inhabitants of this planet as an 'eternal tomb', to which Ethan found pretty strange, and, he arrived at a large pool of glistening water that was close nearby.
"I don't think I know this place.."
"..Wait..! There's something inside the water..!"
He saw many things in the water, mythical sea creatures that were never seen before on Earth, sea-plants that were too unique to even have been considered actual 'plants', and much more.
He also saw some kind of strange glowing light at the bottom of the pool.
"Woah.. I don't think I know what that is at all.. is it some kind of bio-luminescent sea creature or something?" Ethan said, he was in complete awe at the sights that he saw here.
"Hm.. the closest thing that matches its description is.. the heart of an primordial beast."
"I'm not really sure if it is though, plus, I don't think anything that valuable would randomly be at the bottom of a lake."
After thinking for a while, he decided to leave it for later.
"Oh well."
"Since it's something that probably only I know about right now, I guess I'll leave it for now."
"To be honest, it sucks that I can't find out what it is or what it even does yet, but since it's all the way down at the bottom of the lake, I'd probably drown to death if I tried to swim down." He said, and he left soon afterwards.
"Hm.. I wonder if this universe has another Earth just like mine.. if so, then maybe I could go and visit it soon." He said, he was still venturing through the forest, and he had found some new clothes to wear.
Although they were rags, they were better than not wearing anything at all.
"To think that dying would actually give me a second chance at life, and in such a world where there's all kind of new possibilities and stuff for me to explore.. I'm definitely going to enjoy this to the best of my ability, perhaps, I could even try to become the wealthiest person in existence, or maybe the strongest!" He said, his ambitions far outgrew himself greatly.
"But, still, I wouldn't want to experience dying again.." His stomach churned after he said that, the concept of dying was completely foreign to him, and even now, it felt hard for him to believe that he had actually died, "Hm. It.. feels weird saying that out loud."
After walking a bit more further, he made it to a large cavern, and he decided to enter inside.
"Woah.. I guess even the caves on this planet are much different compared to the ones on Earth.." He said, he was right, as they were all kind of strange luminescent gemstones in this cavern, and they glowed a strange, unique colour that he couldn't quite find familiar.
He walked even deeper into the cave and made it to a large, spacious area in the cavern, however, there was something strange happening there.
"What the.. who is that? Why do they have such an imposing aura?!" He saw a man, chained up, who had messy, long and black hair who wore plain black and white robes.
He also had a scar on his nose, as well as all over his body.
"Ha.. ha.. ha.." The man wheezed out, Ethan didn't know why at the moment, but he felt a strange force that felt like it was slowly gravitating himself towards him.
"The new world rejected me for who I was, but I rejected them too,"
"Those all-powerful beings that seem to control all and know all, they claim to have power and dominion over all that exists, yet they cannot get rid of me, all because they know that they aren't the real gods, the ones that are far beyond the skies."
"What the.." Ethan was completely confused, who was this guy? Why didn't he have any information about him? Did he only have information pertaining to other planets only?
he felt a shake from underneath him, and then, he saw a strange beast descended from the very top of the cavern and landed right in front of him.
It exuded an ominous energy, and it was also quite intense.
From the aura it gave off, plus the fact that it was quite aggressive towards me, he knew that he was gonna have to fight it off to survive.
"Wait..! How am I going to fight something like that off?!?"
it unleashed a wave of powerful energy all around itself, and he could barely even withstand it, although the man who was imprisoned by glowing white chains was completely fine.
"What the..?" He saw that the beast had now locked eyes with him, it was a hideous thing, an alien-like beast that you would only see in fantasy movies and the sort, but right then and there, it was in front of him.
It had scales all over its body, and it was a quadrupedal creature, that was grey in colour, and had red eyes all over its body, so it could basically see everything around itself, and it also had sharp claws and fangs.
Slowly, it started to approach him, and he took several steps back in response, but unfortunately, he tripped as he was walking backwards.
Then, the beast rushed towards him, it had identified Ethan as prey.
"Hehe.. this is proper entertainment! Keep me entertained more!" The man bound in chains shouted out, to Ethan, he seemed to be a crazy lunatic, and, for some reason, the beast totally ignored him.
"Shit..! I can't just die here! I only just got here!"
Luckily for him, when he tripped, there was a wooden sword near him, probably belonging to one of the skeletons in this vast cave.
Even though he had no experience with swords, it was definitely worth a try.
He charged at the hungry beast, and began to strike at its body with the wooden sword any where he could, while dodging, or, well, trying to dodge, all the attacks from it.
It wasn't until he hit one of the many eyes on its body that he realised that they was its weak spot, but, along with that realisation, it also became more fierce and even more ferocious with its attacks.
"It's attacking me even more now?!" The beast clawed into his side, injuring him greatly.
"Urgh.."
He clutched his wounded side, and prepared to dodge it's incoming assault once more, and once it charged at him, he managed to dodge by a very slim margin, however, he had not looked back in time.
Ethan turned around, only to see the beast charge straight at him once more, but this time, he couldn't dodge, no matter what.
"..!"