PART I: THE ENTITY OF THE REFLECTION
In the sepulchral silence of the Void, a voice resonated in Wistert's mind, vibrating with an ancient presence.
"Who are you?" Wistert asked, his voice soft but firm. "It seems you can feel me..." the voice replied. "Look behind you."
Wistert turned around. Before him materialized an entity whose form defied logic. It wore a mask of laughter and madness, surrounded by a bath of blood that integrated into its body to form grotesque limbs. Anyone else would have screamed in terror, but Wistert remained impassive. Its mana felt strangely familiar to him.
"I see you don't recognize me," the entity said, "but you do recognize my magic."
"I won't say I know you," Wistert replied as he fluidly drew a prototype weapon from his hat. "But in this neutral place, I only care if you are a threat."
Combat erupted. The entity launched lines of liquid blood—the Spike Technique—against the child. Wistert reacted with astonishing skill: he used Inverse Mirrors, transferring his physical body to the reflection of a nearby lake while his Moon soul formed an astral body for combat.
After an exchange of blood energy explosions and using the Acmusr Hat to purify the area, Wistert managed to chain the entity with links of pain that burned like coal.
"I surrender..." the entity groaned. "Those chains will kill me. No one can separate their soul from their body like that... What are you?"
Wistert approached, but suddenly, his mind clouded. A voracious, dark, and alien hunger began to devour him. "I want to eat... it doesn't matter if it's living flesh..." Horrified by his own thoughts, Wistert collapsed, fainting in front of the entity.
PART II: THE PALACE OF VASSALAGE
While Wistert fought for his sanity in the Void, in the Palace of Vassalage, Mishias—the Infinite Star of Manipulation—played a game of chess over a continental map. Her opponent was Adelia, an empress turned into a puppet.
"Tell me, Adelia..." Mishias smiled with arrogance. "How does it feel to know that Wistert is, in reality, your brother?"
Adelia trembled. Her thoughts flew back to Wistert's dark origin: a madness engendered by seven aunts and his mother, who fused their fetuses into a single pregnancy to create a being of incalculable power.
"He is my brother..." Adelia thought with pain. "And this woman has marked him."
Mishias, reading her mind, tightened the invisible threads connected to Adelia's daughter. The girl's screams echoed in the room. "Do not try to disobey me," Mishias warned. "I will give Wistert the purpose that his 'pure' mothers took from him when they cast him into the Void. I will be his savior... in my own way."
PART III: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN
In the Kingdom of Alboreket, Adelia met Soffiat, another of Mishias's vassals. Unlike Adelia, Soffiat adored her captor.
"Mishias is not evil," Soffiat said. "She saved me when my father banished me at age eight and the Lorentz mafia tried to sell me in a casino. She gave me protection and a home. The world made her cold, but her heart still remembers the betrayal she suffered."
Soffiat revealed an ancient truth: the conflict between the Moons and the Infinite Stars is a hybrid war that has shaped the world. She spoke of the Void Stars, artifacts that grant desires. If the desire is impure, the wielder becomes a Void Titan.
"Only once was a desire pure," Soffiat explained. "A girl asked for the world to face constant extinction so that the races would learn to value each other. That two-thousand-year war brought the peace and medical technology we know today. It was a necessary sacrifice."
PART IV: ELAINA'S REVENGE
However, a new shadow was rising in the catacombs of the ancient Kingdom of Borarrg. Elaina, a young woman possessed by a Void Star that could not consume her will, swore revenge.
"I want to see the agony of the Lorentz mafia," Elaina declared, surrounded by intense blue fire. "They sold us, they mutilated us... me and my only friend, Wistert."
Elaina was unaware that Wistert was still alive in the Void. Her only engine was rage. "I will eliminate the Queen of the White Moon and erase the entire mafia from this world. Only then will Wistert and I finally rest in peace."
In the darkness, a voice whispered once more to little Wistert: "Stay awake... the eye is watching you."