In the deepest depths of his mind. Thomas was buried deep in his sea of memories. It was a scene where a elegant young man looking to be in his early twenties was surrounded by countless mighty shadows.
The whole world was breaking apart, fragments of countless dimensions melded together in what seemed to consumed all of existence.
[YOU MUST STOP THIS!]
A loud voice spoke in his mind when...
*BOOM!*
A mass of countless memory shards formed an storm of visions, images Thomas couldn't see if they belonged to the past or future. It was something was completely different from everything he had experienced until now!
Everything around him was gone and for a second, a large disc-shaped object with a golden chain all over it appears. The chains covered most of the strange object's body, yet some traces of light were able to escape, forming an incredible show of lights in this dark cold space.
Time went by in a flash. Thomas didn't know how long he was stuck in the visions when suddenly he heard an earth-shattering loud noise that ruptured the entire world.
"Ahhh!" His eyes weakly opened, his mind was in a panic state. He couldn't understand what he just experienced.
Almost immediately the events of the past few hours returned and Thomas was thrown in a chaotic state. He didn't seem to have anything after his cut off the beast's head. The things he had just seen in his unconscious state faded from his grasp. "Where I am? Did I win?"
Recovering his senses, Thomas could see he was laying inside a medical pod filled with nutrition fluid, outside the pod he could also see the layout of a hospital room. Surely he must have been in a pretty bad condition when the soldiers found him.
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As soon he woke up, several notification appeared in he retinae, leaving him lightly stunned. It must have during the period he was unconscious.
Outside the room, Thomas could hear their voices coming from the corridor.
"Tell me doctor, how is he?"
"The patient is fine. The previous examinations showed no internal injuries, heatbeat stable, blood pressure is just a little high but its normal for an Adept. He is in a extreme exhausted state though, his body was lacking lots of energy so we left him in the med pod to absorb some nutrition fluid for Adepts."
After searching through the interior of the room, he heard the sound of doors opening followed by steps.
Katherine dressed in her usual battle suit walked in the room together with a female doctor.
"Look, he's already awake." Katherine felt the stare directed at her and immediately saw Thomas blinking his eyes inside the medical pod.
One hour later, the doctors made another row of exams before confirming there was nothing wrong with him. Soon, his mom had arrived as fast she could and saw her son chatting with the female doctor about his condition.
When seeing her arrival, Katherine walked over to her, "Oh ms. Ries, your son is over there. There is nothing wrong with him, he was almost unscatched when the soldiers at Vallar Gate reached him. I can't stay here any longer, tell your son to head to the association tomorrow morning to complete his registration."
After saying that, Katherine headed out of the room. As an Elite Adept, she didn't have much free time.
Leaving Thomas with his mother, Katherine drove her flying car towards the Association building.
The accident that happened on forest led to over two thirds of the participants dying miserable deaths and casualties could be a lot high if Thomas didn't succeed in killing the beast. The appearance of a beast at the peak of 3-star was a rare tragedy in the history of Association Adept Selection and the entire human alliance.
If anything had happened slightly different, even the city would suffer heavy losses.
The families of the participants were furious about the association careness for not discovering such beast sooner, many members of the association became the target of hate within the internet.
When the selection ended due to this tragedy, an investigation was launched as well. Soon, it became clear that a demonic beast was in fact an ordinary low-rank demon after it was forceful mutated by injection of drugs.
The existence of drugs that could rise the power of Adepts were no secret. With the right amount even a old granny could awake as an Adept.
However, such drugs were greatly harmful to the human body and could provoke strong reactions and even lead to death. Beasts on the other side seemed to transform into unstoppable killing machines, their growth speed would also be astonishing.
But this discovery also caused a lot of panic throughout the Adept community of mars. Drugs that could transform the lowest rank of demon into such a beast could only have been made by human hands.
With all the clues, the only thing the adepts of Dexia City were sure was that the person behind it was a very powerful adept in order to the avoid the detection of the soldiers at Vallar Gate while. As for why he so give drugs to beasts?
It was a mystery, maybe a lunatic who was testing his drugs on beast for fur or maybe a traitor conspiring with the dimensional creatures.
Of course this part was kept as a secret from the public. Knowing that an Adept was behind the incident would only make things worse for the association.
Katherine was in a meeting room on the fourteenth floor of the association building.
Other than her, five people were sat around a large glass table.
An short-haired man wearing a red suit, a middle-aged woman with light brown hair, a man wearing a white shirt with a long scar on his face and a masked figure seating on the corner of the table.
The middle-aged woman upon seeing Katherine's arrival waved at her. "Katherine, I see you are here. Can you tell us what you wanted to show us?"
"Of course. It's about the promising boy I have found. Look at these pictures." Saying that, Katherine pressed something on the wrist computer and a holographic screen popped up in the air. Little by little images started to appear.
The first image showed the face of a young man in his teens. His young and immature face he showed as he fought a dragon-scaled Lion with a short blade.
"..." The masked figure who was seating the farther away from the others exclaimed in shock the moment it laid its eyes on the youth in the screen.
Reaching out with its hand from him, the masked person soon quieted down and only kept staring at the images on the
The image changed once more. It showed the same youth, now bathing in orange light as he dashed through the forest, leaving afterimages. In the picture he was exchanging blows with the monstrous Azure-Horned Beast.
Finally, with his battle suit in tatters, the youth was like a Wargod! Fiercely cutting off the beast's head with his own hand before he feels down.
At moments, his energy of him changed between blue, red, green, yellow, but the one that was most incredible was the strange orange-colored energy he wielded at the last few pictures.
Some of them already heard that Katherine had found a young Adept with the Heart-attribute.
However, they still didn't believe in it until it was shown right before their eyes. These images had been taken by the society leader's own satellite so there is no way they are fake.
The red-haired man's eyes showed a hit of amusement. "Wow, so his energy really does change colors according to his emotions. Hey tigress, can the boy learn the attribute-exclusive techniques?"
"I don't know yet. I only helped him train in the basics, his own anima ability is more than enough for now."
The middle-aged woman nodded with her head. "Right. There is no need to rush things. Katherine, has the boy agreed to join us?"
"I have not yet told him about us ma'am, I was planning on bringing him here tomorrow morning to meet everyone."