Countless fragmented images flashed past his eyes. Unlike when he experienced the lives of Prometheus that felt like centuries, these visions only took about five minutes and when it ended Thomas.
'I see...' Fifteen years ago when Adepts were something new, a branch of the Human Alliance that was focused on finding a way to increase the number of human adepts.
At that time, there was little information about Anima Energy and the researchers could only slowly experiment and test on artificial organisms before advancing the next stages.
It was when a member of that department, doctor William Bravas that decided on trying something different. He injected the blood collected from a low-class demon into a rat when something astonishing happened... That rat which was nothing out of ordinary had evolved into something else.
Its claw turned sharper, and its strength was enough to pierce through steel like butter. Once this doctor reported to the his superiors, they congratulated him and went to test other types of blood under the Project Blue Blood.
Gazzel participated on the first few rounds when they were stating experimenting on humans. In his veins flowed the blood of an Aeripor. An rare monster that only appeared on earth once and was kept secret by the government.
Aeripor are humanoid creatures with ordinary physical capabilities but with an ability similar to Lycantropes. Once a human entered in contact with Aeripor's toxin it released in the air, they would start feeling a piercing pain in the lungs before returning to normal.
The problem was once the effects seemed to vanish, the subject would have his mind under the Aeripor's full control under an area of 10 meters. From a total of a hundred people that were injected with their blood, only Gazzel survived and gained the ability release a similar toxin. A toxin that is weaker but could control his minion from a higher range.
It wasn't needed to enter in details to know how inhuman was these experiments that were done in secret.
The organization to which Gazzel belonged was made of of other test subjects that managed to escape the high government control. Among these people was Chris, one of the younger subjects that was put under operation in his sixteenth birthday.
In Gazzel's memories, Thomas didn't found anything about Chris' sister, but there was a lot of interesting things that could help him on Pearl Tech's case .
As for the strange 'portal' that appeared under Dexia Institute was something way more surprising. It was only one of the many passages leading to an underground installation discovered by the members of Gazzel's organization. Not even they know how that passage would take the whole institute into it.
"I guess this is more than enough." Afraid of seeing something things that would be better unseen, Thomas released the grip of Gazzel who fell onto the ground without making a noise as foam was coming out of his mouth. It was unknown if he would even remember who he is after all of this.
Of course, Thomas didn't really care as from the memories he saw, this man isn't any better than those who experimented on him.
Immediately, he opened the Character sheet to see what changes had been done in his demon form.
.....
Thomas Ries (Moonshadow Demon Form)
Level 1 (20%)
Moonshadow Demonic Energy: 20/500
Strength 35, Agility 35, Dexterity 30, Intelligence 30, Charisma 30, Willpower 30, Demonic 45
Demonic Traits: [Child of the Moon] [Ruler of the Shadows]
Skills: [Demonic Sense] [Soul Devour] [Shadow Projection] [First Moon Rising],
...
Thomas' face was frozen in shock. Slowly he turned around, immediately that immense purple, moon, the extensive plains, everything easily dispersed. Yet even after returning to the old factory, the hundred and five necros were still kneeling on the ground.
Now that he saw his character sheet, Thomas understood the reason behind their strange actions.
[Ruler of the Shadows (Trait)]
[Effects:
1. Dark Soul: Any creature of the night with lower power than you will fall under your control in a area of 50m.]
[2. Shadow Walker: When in both the parcial demon form and full demon form (Moonshadow), the user can easily walk through shadows. (More effects shall appear as the user raises his level)]
[Child of the Moon (Trait)]
[Effects:
1. Moonforce: When fighting under the moon, all attributes increased by 30%. (More effects shall appear as the user raises his level.)]
[Soul Devour (Active Skill)]
[Effect: Devours the soul of any target weaker than you. Increases the physique's power. (Its prolonged use can cause severe personality disorder.) No Cost.]
[Shadow Projection (Active Skill)]
[Effect: Uses shadows to cast hyper realistic projections. Cost: 30 Demonic Energy(Lasts 30 minutes)]
[First Moon Rising (Active Skill)]
[Effect: Summons the image of the Ancient Purple Moon. All attributes will receive a boost of 100% during 5 minutes. Other energies will receive a debuff of 30% of effectiveness. Cost: All demonic energy.]
Together with all these new skills, Thomas received lots of information about demons due to the awakening of the Moonshadow bloodline that made him understand a lot about the demon society.
Information about laws, ancient techniques, treasures of the demon race and costumes of each clan were directly implanted in his mind. The Moonshadow demons were directly descendants to one of the ancient demons, the Moonshadow Demon Emperor. He and all his descendants had the affinity with the moon and shadows as well the innate to ability borrow the strength of the dead.
Thomas even believed more and more skills would automatically appear once he raises his level now that he knew how do to it.
"I think this is more than enough for now.' Then Thomas turned his attention to the Necros before him. Despite not being curse as they were made using a certain type of toxin that mixed with the air, it seemed his skill still had some effect of them and it would be safe to walk around with them as long no one sees how they look behind the cloaks and masks.
If only his spatial storage was big enough...
However, could he be walking everywhere bringing so many people at once? It would be too suspicious.
Wait... Thomas had a closer look at the beautiful yet dangerous pearl in his hand.
Despite the new knowledge in his mind, he had no idea about what the cat-eyed pearl in his hand could do.
"Kez, do you know anything about this?"
Without a clue about the ominous object, Thomas went to ask the demon lord if he knew anything that could help him.
[I don't know, let me have a closer look at it.](Kez'ganak)
Through Thomas' eyes, the demon have a closely inspect the pearl and the mysterious fluctuation of energy it gave off. Soon, the tone behind his voice turned darker.
[This... I think I read something about it before, but can it be...] Even the highly experienced Demon Lord was unsure about the pearl which THomas held in his hands.
[No, I'm sure it is.. Thomas, I believe the pearl is a ominous artifact used by dark magicians back in the day. This is not something I have much knowledge of, but you may be able to use it to store all the Necros safely. Try binding it with your blood.]
"My blood?" Thomas immediately understood. In some fictional stories, there were some artifacts that needed to be bound with blood. So is it one of those artifacts?
Thomas made a cut on his finger and let a drop of his blood fall on the black pearl. The pearl let out a dark light before it melted into his blood.