It turns out as he expected, The sage was a demon of the Silver Fang Clan, a powerful demon clan living other side of the border with the Sonad Empire. Despite being a fairly new clan, their ruled the Silver Fang City west of the main continent and their power rivaled that of the Sonad Family on the other side of the border.
Being descendants of the moon demons with the main affinity of wind, the Silver Fang Demons are skillful archers and warriors with great mobility in the battlefield.
Horan, the old sage was one of the thirty children of the Silver Fang Demon Lord who joined the exploration corps at sixty years old to escape the politics and internal fight of the clan.
In the Exploration Corps, he would delve into one of the greatest mysteries of the Stellar Domain(Galaxy).
In the corps demons would delve into the dimensional rifts to plunder and colonize other worlds. In Horan's case he was returning from one of his invasions when the device used to guide him back to the demon domain broke.
Like Thomas already knew fairly well, most people would immediately die upon entering the rifts since most bodies couldn't handle the lack of atmosphere, oxygen and most important the mysterious force inside the pathways.
Another reason to why humans wouldn't dare to enter such a rift is because it couldn't be mapped at all. Things like physics couldn't' be applied to it, two people may walk in the rift the same time and appear in different sides of the galaxy, or even farther away.
According to Horan, this was a problem which plagued the demons for centuries. Since they lived in a barren region of the galaxy without many recourses such as water, the demons of the demon domain had no choice but to try their best in finding a safe alternative to find better worlds to live in.
As unpredictable as it is, the internal pathways of the rifts couldn't be mapped. So the next best thing was a device which could serve as a beacon guiding back to where they left from.
"In order to help interstellar exploration through the rifts, we made the Pathfinder." Saying this, the Sage pulled out a slightly aged bracelet filled with inscriptions. "Even if we couldn't decide which world he would go to, at least we had a safe way back home. As you see, mine has broke over two hundred years ago when I came to this world."
"Why are you telling all of this?" With some time to digest all the information, Thomas was still confused to why he was telling all of this.
As for the old man, he laughed it off. "Forgive this old man, maybe is just that I haven' found a similar person that I'm a little excited. But all I'm saying is not washout purpose, I don't know which species are you, but I have my guesses."
"I'm human."
For the first time the old man was surprised. His thin eyes which reassembled straight lines widened in a instant. "Human?! I'm not familiar with it, but I can see signs of demonization in your body. Your physique is somewhat unique as well."
"..." During this time, Thomas was silent since he didn't want to reveal too much to a demon no matter how friendly he looked.
For a moment, the old sage looked closely into Thomas' eyes before nodding to himself. "Uhh... It's worse than the little lion miss. Your demonization is brought by artificially integrating with a demonic physique. I don't know how the body of another species could integrate so well to the point of forming a demon pearl. It seems even I can't help you with this. However, if you keep exploring this world, maybe you will find what you need."
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Ignoring Nana's pouting face, Thomas carefully analyzed his talk with the Sage Horan.
He learned that the demon had a method to find the way back to the demon domain by relying on the Pathfinder. With the correct coordinates, this device will guide one along the dimensional rift to its registered destination without much complication.
According to Horan, those strong enough could even use the dimensional rift to access other dimensional and planes across the universe without the need of such a device, something which was very far away for sure.
Thomas also didn't tell about his fight with Arthur which was the reason he was brought him, even if the sage told his tribe was enemies with the Sonad, he didn't dare ask too much since this was only their first meeting.
From his fight with Arthur and how he was planning on bringing him to the demon domain, it was certain the demon prince knew the coordinates for him to return later on.
'I just hope Arthur has not fallen somewhere else and is here in this planet, I may need his Pathfinder to get back home."