The forest behind soult academy had no name
That's because none of the students ever returned from it.
The teachers say said it was just wilderness. Nothing special
But jin could feel it—a pressure in the air,
Like the sky itself was watching.
He walked through the mist, unknowingly stepping into a place older than time itself.
At the heart of the forest, the trees began to bend upward — unnaturally. The roots curled like spirals, and the cloud above froze like a paused video.
And standing in the center... was a bieng that didn't belong to these dimension.
He had a crocodilian form — green-scaled, humanoid, and massive — but longer you looked, the more your eyes bled.
His arms... bent directions that didn't exist. His shadow move sideways while is body stood still.
Is name was—
"Gatorom."
"Fourth-dimensional guardian of the eternal plane."
Jin couldn't breathe. His instincts screaming at him to run.
But Gatorom didn't attack.
He simply observed – with four eye rotating across his face like clockwork gears.
"You carry him." His voice was deep and split across three tones at once.
"The soul of orcuin. You are the one he escaped into."
Inside jin mind, the voice of orcuin deep in growled
"Leave. Now. That thing see to much."
Jin took a step forward instead
"Who are you?"
Gatorom shifted, revealing a symbol carved into his chest — a burning circle surrounded by ten star
" I was one of the watcher."
" the ten-dimensional realms created us as guardian after sealing orcuin within the omniscient." Lock
Jin's mind reced
" the omniscient lock..."
Gatorom nodded slowly.
" realms across reality's gave up their source energy to forge a prison that no being could escape — even a creature like him."
He looked directly at jin now, and for a moment, Jin saw galaxy spinning
In his eyes.
"But the seal failed. Orcuin is no longer bound. He broke through the cracks... and find you."
Jin clenched is fist
"Why me?"
" because you where emty." Gatorom say
Emotionally shattered. Spiritually blank. A hollow soul is the perfect vessel."
Gatorom lifted one claw, and a swirling map of the universe cosmos they are in showing star galaxy planet sun, and ten glowing realms each shape like different ancient rune.
" these are the omniscient realms. Their power seal orcuin of billions on years. But now, their light is fading."
He looked directly at jin
"If orcuin fuses fully with you – if you begin to use your original power obsorbing soult like he once did — he will eventually reconstruct
The path of devourment. And once that happens.
The projection shattered into burning fragments.
"...he'll eat these dimension. Not figuratively. Literally."
Jin felt it now. The power inside him — growing every time he fought. Every time he got angry. Orcuin wasn't giving him strength... he was unlocked it.
Gatorom stepped forward — his body warping reality with each movements
"There are others like me. Watcher. Being outside your timeline who guards the truth. You must find us.
"Because when orcuin awakens fully... you won't be jin anymore.
Jin stay silent.
Then ask quietly," can I stop him?"
Gatorom stared at him for a long moment and then said..
"Maybe. But only if you're willing to destroy part of yourself that need him."
And with that, the fourth dimensional being tuned into mist — fading between space in time and time.
Jin stood alone.
The forest echoed with silence.
Jin say so I have to these alone.
Behind his eyes orcuin laugh
"The star fear me."
"But I love watching you hope."
End of chapter 3