The Magician Of Sound

In the sky, a shadow came into his vision, backlighting the moonlight and making it hard for Kai to see the species of this shadow. However, one thing for sure.

'It's huge?' Kai narrowed his eyes.

The shadow slowly descended to the ground, revealing its true appearance.

"Wha—" Kai stepped back when he saw the protector landing in front of him with that giant body and immediately laying down on the ground.

Without any care of its appearance, she made herself comfortable before greeting the two. "Yahoo…I have heard the news."

"Clot. You are finally here. You lazy bum."

"You know how I operate, right? I rushed here and only got an insult. Are you going to bully me again?"

"…" Kai couldn't say anything. A few things shocked him, but the first thing that lingered in his mind was the protector. It had a hairy body and sharp claw, but more importantly, it looked like a sloth, but a giant one.

Its height alone was around ten meters. He didn't see it earlier because the sloth was too far, but the wingspan of this sloth was enormous.

She looked at him and stretched its claw. The speed was very slow as if she didn't want to do it, but Kai waited for it and heard her saying. "Nice to meet you. I am Moclothesp, this guy calls me Clot, so you can call me with that name too."

Kai was startled to see that the sloth was asking for a handshake, so he immediately shook her claw.

"Nice to meet you. I am Kai Carter. Just call me Kai."

"So, what are we doing here other than greeting this guy, Tris?" She asked lazily.

"I don't know. We will only have a warm chat with him and since the humans are spending their time to keep us in check. Maybe we can take this guy as a hostage." The dolphin said jokingly.

"…" Even though he could feel he didn't mean his statement, he still couldn't dismiss it just like that.

"Well, I am too lazy to take care of him, so if you want to take the guy, you can do it. For me, as long as they don't reach the deepest area, I won't make a move…After all, they often spotted me in the past."

"True enough." The dolphin nodded. "They were pretty good to my kin as well."

"So, what do you want to do?" She asked Kai this time.

"Ehm…Can I access the internet?" Kai asked.

"Internet?"

"Yeah. I want to know more about you." Kai nodded.

"Hmm…Show us?" The dolphin narrowed his eyes.

Kai opened his device and started accessing the internet, searching for their identity or myth in the human database. Not long after, he found the giant sloth's identity.

"This is me?" Clot asked.

"Probably. This is the one that fits you the most…" Kai nodded.

"What's in it?"

"You can't read?"

"Of course, we can't. We can only speak other languages. I mean, we only need to know how they talk and construct it in our minds, so we know how to use their language. That's all." Clot looked at Kai as if she was talking to a fool.

"Yeah. If not, we will need a very long time to learn other languages. That's why most of us only learn languages from the magical beasts around us. I don't know if you have noticed it, but that's the reason why the people of the sea only control their sea beasts."

"!!!" Kai suddenly understood what he meant and recalled all the past events. 'It was indeed true that the protectors from the sea only controlled the sea beasts. There was one instance where we fought in an underground nest, but it was the zodiac that controlled the beasts, not him.

'In other words, the dolphin said the truth regarding them to only be able to speak with sea beasts. This was important information for Kai because it would be useful in future wars.

'Still, I am confused. I don't know why the failed zodiacs could talk to the beasts around them. Or they might not be able to talk to them, but the other party was the one understanding them. And those intelligent beasts conveyed the order because the zodiacs were a kind of their family.

'That was the only explanation.' He thought while looking at the sloth and the dolphin.

"What? You are not going to read it?" Clot sulked.

Kai hurriedly replied. "Of course I will read it. There is not much information around, so I will just say a few things. You are considered the mapinguari. The people described you as someone related to a cyclops…I mean, a monster that has one eye.

"And you often got spotted between the woods, making people worship you as a mythical creature or something."

"Hmm… That's not too bad. But I am a Sloth. That's what my mother told me in the past, and I have two eyes. Look at me."

"Well…This is just folklore." Kai shrugged.

"Me, me. I wonder what humans thought of me and my kin." The dolphin asked.

Kai immediately searched for the pink dolphin and found more information than the sloth. He only opened one of them, and Clot immediately sulked again.

"Why are you this famous?"

"Hehe…You should appear more often." The dolphin looked content when he won the "fight" and asked Kai to read the information.

"You are considered a mythical creature too. But your legend is around how you are a shape-shifting seducer of the night…According to this legend, you morph into a tall, handsome and elegantly-dressed man. And often seduce the wives and daughters…" Kai suddenly hesitated to continue when he read further.

"Pfft. Morphs into a handsome guy?"

"Hehe…This information is perfect. I am indeed handsome. Just look at me." The dolphin shamelessly took pride in the information. "I indeed transformed into a human sometimes…Well, according to their brain, since I could create some sort of illusion that made me look like one. And then, I talked to locals and such to improve my language and befriended them. So, I didn't seduce them."

"You, handsome? That's the last thing I will think of." Clot laughed happily.

"Oi! You can ask my kin, and they will surely tell you how handsome I am."

"They must be your subordinates." Clot mocked him even more.

"…" The dolphin had nothing more to say.

"Besides, we are different species. How do I even know you are handsome? I don't even know whether this human is handsome or not."

"It's because you never went around. I often swam to the surface and met them to know them more. Well, that's where I learned their language." The dolphin snorted.

Kai couldn't help but smile when seeing their good relationship. These two must have known each other for a long time. He then continued to look for the next information. "It's rumored that you will take lone swimmers to the mystical underwater world of Encante, from which they can never return."

"Oh. That's my home. I never brought anyone to my home unfortunately, but trust me… It's beautiful. Do you want to see it?" The dolphin smiled.

"That is something I like to see…But probably not now. I have many things to do."

"Well, you can only watch around in my home, so I guess it's not very important. You can come back a few decades later. But make sure you come back, alright?"

"I will." Kai nodded with a serious expression.

"And don't be like this girl…She dares to say that my place is not fit because of her extra-large body."

"I am not fat."

"You are…Why don't you admit it?"

"This is my slim version…"

"…"

Even Kai couldn't speak anymore and decided to continue reading the article. "Anyway, from here, you seem to be inflicting a lifetime of nightmares. In here, it said, "If you point out a nearby river dolphin to a local fisherman, don't be surprised if they refuse to look."

"A weird way to say that making direct eye contact with a river dolphin is a perilous thing that will unleash a lifetime of nightmares."

"Oh! I sometimes did that, but in my defense, they were the ones seeking death. We were and are peaceful creatures, but they often attacked us indirectly or directly. So, I snapped their mind and made them go through nightmares." The dolphin acknowledged it. "Well, it was only a year or so as punishment unless they killed one of us. But yeah, it might feel like a never-ending nightmare."

"I never thought you were so cruel." Clot narrowed her eyes.

"Well, they were first. I only retaliated. It's like you who expelled many people when they invaded your territory."

"True enough. I didn't like them because they often destroyed my place, so I beat them sometimes. Well, yeah. This is how we operate. As long as you don't harm us, we won't harm you. Tell the humans that. And sometimes, those guys go out of the territory and make things difficult, but yeah, I don't really care about them because my kin is also inside my territory, in the deepest part of the Amazon forest. Don't search for it." Clot nodded and looked at Kai with a serious expression.

"Yes, yes. I also wanted to say that. You can't expect your enemy to not point their sword at you when you are pointing your sword at them. We usually treat humans and other beings in this forest with kindness, and yeah, don't betray that. As for other species? They are under my protection…Probably? Well, only those around my place… You are going to kill some beasts around here, right?"

"Unfortunately, yes," Kai added unfortunately because he felt bad after knowing these two were actually pretty warm and friendly.

"No need a second thought. Those in the outer layer and inner layer are those who don't need us, so we are not obligated to protect them."

"…" Kai ultimately nodded his head even though his expression was still down.