Psychopomp

"What? Do you mean all the creatures living here are three thousand years older than us?" Jez asked, his mind clouded, confused about hearing the monster's claims.

"There's no way that's true," the man with the machete said, rejecting the thoughts while shaking his head.

Even Royle found it exaggerated. After all, according to the records they knew, the oldest living existence until now was Calix, the king of spirits. He had been around for a thousand and five hundred years, and at this very moment, this snake was telling them something unbelievable.

"It's not my problem if you don't want to believe my words," Tencent replied, hissing.

"I have been alive and here since the beginning of time; I witnessed the fall of different races, the war of reclamation, and even the shattering of the other sun," he added.

"War of reclamation? Other sun?" Jez repeated, his curiousity now at its peak.