"What?! This... you…" Heze was momentarily shocked.
'Yeah, it seems like your father is hiding something. I don't sense the queen's domain in you, and your body has the same aura as the depths of the Sea of Bones. Let's talk calmly—our goals seem to align,' the whale said calmly in his mind.
Heze looked at the whale, and the pieces started to fit together. Everything that had happened in this universe recently, and everything that went down on planet Gloom... If he really was the Heaven-Defier, someone of his level could have orchestrated it all.
He remembered his father's excited words. The young Leviathan's eyes sparkled, and his body pulsed. He took on a humanoid form, but instead of the imposing, muscular version they'd seen before, Heze now looked like a young human, at most ten years old, with dark skin and a brooding expression.
