Outside the Wall

The sun was shining brightly.

Warm light covered endless fields of green as rivers sparkled beneath the sky. Birds flew freely above ancient forests while the wind carried the peaceful scent of nature. Mountains stood proudly in the distance, untouched and majestic, as though the world outside the Wall was a paradise forgotten by time.

Nope...

That was not what Tyler saw.

Maybe the outside world was a ruined wasteland instead.

A dead land filled with collapsed cities and broken highways. Rusted buildings leaning dangerously against one another while zombies wandered aimlessly through the streets. The sky covered in ash and dust. Rivers polluted black. Humanity already extinct.

Nope...

That wasn’t true either.

The reality outside the Wall was something Tyler could never have imagined.

There was no sun.

No moon.

No land.

No sky.

There wasn’t even air.

Yet Tyler didn’t suffocate.

He simply floated there silently, as though existence itself had abandoned every known law.

It wasn’t a void either.

The place felt... familiar.

Tyler slowly opened his eyes wider as realization struck him.

"...Orion Tesseract?" he muttered.

His voice echoed strangely despite the lack of atmosphere.

Countless enormous four-dimensional cubes twisted endlessly around him. Some folded into themselves while others rotated in impossible directions. Colors that shouldn’t exist flickered across their surfaces. Space itself bent unnaturally around the cubes, creating distortions that made Tyler feel as though reality was alive.

The sight was both beautiful and horrifying.

Tyler floated among them like a grain of dust drifting through a cosmic ocean.

He slowly turned around.

Behind him stood the gigantic hexagonal Wall.

From the outside, it looked far more terrifying than before.

An endless barrier stretching infinitely across space, isolating the entire world within it. The glowing hexagonal patterns pulsed faintly like the heartbeat of a living creature.

Tyler narrowed his eyes.

"So this world is an illusion?" he guessed aloud.

"No. It is real."

A mechanical voice suddenly echoed nearby.

Tyler turned calmly.

A metallic cube floated beside him.

Its body was dark silver, covered in glowing lines that constantly shifted position. At its center was a crimson square lens resembling a single eye.

The cube scanned him carefully.

"Who are you?" it asked.

Tyler stared at it for a moment before replying.

"Decateron?"

The floating cube froze briefly.

Tyler wasn’t surprised anymore. The moment he entered this strange place, he had already guessed where he was.

Orion Tesseract.

The legendary pseudo-chaos treasure.

A place connected to timelines, dimensions, and probabilities themselves.

The red lens glowed brighter.

"You know us?" Decateron asked.

Its eye emitted countless thin scanning rays across Tyler’s body.

"I can detect fragments of Orion Cubes inside you..." the machine muttered. "Interesting. Are you from a different timeline where we are not standing at the brink of destruction?"

Tyler frowned.

"Different timeline?"

"Correct."

Decateron floated silently for several seconds. The crimson lens flickered rapidly as though processing trillions of calculations every second.

"Something happened," it finally said. "Someone obtained control over the Orion Tesseract during the Trial. We failed to predict the possibility of a lifeform controlling a pseudo-chaos treasure."

The cube suddenly stopped moving.

Then its eye focused directly on Tyler.

"I can feel it again," it said slowly. "You are a Chaos Treasure Holder."

Tyler’s expression became cautious.

"Which era are you from?" Decateron asked. "Which world?"

Tyler crossed his arms slightly.

"I thought you were connected to your past and future," he replied suspiciously. "Shouldn’t you already know who I am?"

The metallic cube froze once again.

For the first time, Tyler sensed confusion from the machine.

"As I explained," Decateron answered after a pause, "our timeline was nearly destroyed by something originating from the future."

Its voice became heavier.

"You are also from the future."

The red lens narrowed slightly.

"And the fact that we possess no information about your existence means only one possibility."

Tyler’s eyes narrowed.

"You originate from a deleted timeline."

Silence filled the strange dimension.

Tyler suddenly felt his chest tighten.

"A deleted... timeline?" he repeated slowly.

For the first time since arriving here, genuine panic appeared in his eyes.

"You’re saying the world I came from no longer exists?"

"No," Decateron answered immediately. "Your world still exists."

The cube floated around Tyler slowly.

"However, in your timeline, we were destroyed before our influence could ever reach your world."

Tyler remained silent.

"That should have erased countless connected possibilities," Decateron continued. "Including you. Like you never stepped inside the Orion Cube."

Its crimson eye flickered.

"But you still exist."

The cube paused again.

"That means ....."

The surrounding four-dimensional cubes twisted violently as if reacting to the conversation itself.

The lens glowed brighter.

"You were there ... Before the destruction has yet to occur."

Tyler’s mind raced rapidly and said, "Wait... Let’s make it simple.."

"So someone from the future traveled to the past," he said slowly, trying to piece everything together, "obtained the Orion Tesseract during the Trial... and destroyed it?"

"Correct."

"But you survived?"

"Barely."

Tyler looked around at the incomplete dimension surrounding them.

The broken cubes.

The unstable space.

The endless emptiness.

Everything suddenly made sense.

"You’re hanging on by fragments," Tyler muttered.

"Yes."

Tyler rubbed his forehead.

"And now you want me to go into the past and stop whoever did this?"

"Eventually," Decateron answered calmly.

Tyler stared at the machine.

"You’re seriously asking me to interfere with timelines?"

"You already interfere with probability simply by existing," Decateron replied instantly.

Tyler opened his mouth but couldn’t refute it.

A Chaos Treasure Holder was already beyond normal logic.

The cube continued speaking.

"However, the Rules prevent direct intervention at this stage. We cannot send you immediately. Because you are already in a trial."

"Then why bring me here?" Tyler asked.

"You are the one who came here. The reason why you were able to leave that world is because you have lots of Orion Cube Fragments inside you.."

Tyler blinked, "Yeah... By the way I am not getting any tasks after I finished the last one."

"The future responsible for assigning your Trial no longer exists," Decateron explained. "When you completed your previous task, there was no surviving system capable of generating the next sequence."

Tyler let out a long sigh.

"So what now?" he asked.

Decateron floated closer.

"I will personally assign your next task."

Tyler raised an eyebrow.

"You can do that?"

"I am still part of Orion Tesseract."

That answer alone carried terrifying implications.

Tyler looked at the machine carefully before asking another question.

"You trust me that easily?"

For several seconds, Decateron remained silent.

Then it answered.

"No."

Tyler smirked faintly.

"But," the machine continued, "I can observe traces of a failed master ritual on your soul."

Tyler’s expression froze.

"A failed... what?"

"Our future selves attempted to make you the Master of Orion Tesseract."

Tyler’s eyes widened slightly.

He genuinely didn’t know that.

"I can still detect the remnants," Decateron said. "The ritual failed because you already possessed another Chaos Treasure."

Tyler immediately thought Decateron in future.

So even Orion Tesseract had once attempted to bind itself to him...

He was wondering how powerful a person can because if he acquire this cube. But Tyler was just satisfied with Copper Pot.

The cube floated backward slightly.

"Very well," it said. "You should return now."

Tyler glanced around once more before suddenly asking,

"What exactly happened to this world?"

The surrounding space trembled faintly.

Decateron’s voice became quieter.

"This realm is incomplete."

Its red lens dimmed slightly.

"When Orion Tesseract was destroyed, countless worlds connected beneath our authority collapsed alongside us."

Tyler remained silent.

"We preserved what fragments we could. There are lots of broken world like this across this space."

For the first time, Tyler sensed something resembling sorrow from the machine. And this broken dimension was merely the corpse left behind.

Tyler slowly nodded.

Without another word, he turned and flew toward the gigantic Wall.

The closer he approached, the larger it became.

The barrier looked endless from the outside, like the boundary separating reality from the unknown.

Tyler took one final glance back.

The twisting cubes.

The broken dimension.

The lonely floating machine.

Then he stepped forward.

The hexagonal Wall rippled instantly and swallowed him whole.

The moment Tyler crossed back inside—

Bright glowing words suddenly appeared before his eyes.

---

New Task Assigned

Conquer the World

And Live a Satisfying Life

---

Tyler stared at the message blankly.

"...What kind of ridiculous task is that?" he muttered.