The more he explored the place, the more special he found it to be. It was not technology as veins and archaic runes plastered across the walls proved it was some kind of artifact, and a very powerful one, it might even carry an spirit like the yellow chain.
At the very least, he believed this place to be some kind of vessel like a spaceship or something of the sort.
However, this thing looked too damaged to move and even if he could get it back in flight, he had no idea where he was in the universe.
The only hope he got of going back is the pathfinder and the Earth's coordinates stored in it.
His eyes spotted something in the floor, it was the same purple fluid he's seen outside the ship.
Looking at puddle of the strange liquid from before, Thomas was astonished to find out his own body seemed to react to it. The remnants of his demon people all roared in excitement just like an starving person who sees a fine piece of beef for the first time in decades.
Not wanting to take any chances, Thomas took a sample of the thick purple fluid and threw it in the computer for tests.
!!!.....
Purple Fluid's composition has been verified...
Components: Unknown
Final result: Unknown
"I should have expect so." With a sigh, Thomas took a step away from the puddle. He left the bridge and went down the left wind, he then suddenly stopped.
"That!" It was a very large chamber, with illustrations of battles on the walls that seemed to dance in the flickering light while gargoyles and stone knights stood before the door as if guarding whatever was inside.
His eyes caught sight of a sacred-looking golden heart floating midair, irradiating the most beautiful light. It's an aura that wasn't even a bit inferior to the gods such as Bonher or Ares, no, it was even higher than that and way more vicious as well.
White mist covered the insides of the chamber and before the holy heart, the whole world seemed to lost it's color.
With a single look at it, dark, fiendish thoughts flashed. Negative emotions, images of his mom, father, elder brother and his friends all appeared in his minds, but they weren't alive anymore.
It was a very entrancing feeling and for a single moment he even thought of slicing his own neck bathing the heart with his blood, but these thoughts were easily extinguished.
Yeah, that thing must be the Archis. He was assured this thing was anything but a force of good. Following that initial feeling was a flood of visions.
In his eyes, he saw the demon emperors marching upon earth and unleashing their wrath upon humanity. The Adepts fought against the demons but they were too many, a million years of development was sure to make a difference in numbers between humans and demons.
Mars was utterly crushed and soon there would be no human standing on earth anymore.
As for Thomas, he wasn't even able to fight. In the demon armies high-rank demons were numbered millions while he could barely put on a fight against mid-rank demons.
Amidst the disasters, he took his mom out of the city and tried to steal a ship to escape but things didn't go well.
The engine was damage and it didn't have enough fuel for a warp drive, and if things weren't bad enough the giant rift used by the demons to invaded suddenly expanded.
It was so sudden Thomas didn't expect it to happen, and with the increased of it's mass, the rift's gravitational force caught their ship and devout it in a single go.
"This...." Thomas was stunned for it didn't seem like a illusion, no, those were certainly memories, memories that had all been sealed inside the golden heart. But why it's memories about him?
He had no idea what happened after falling down the rift with his ship and sucked into the demon realm. Yet, something told him the result is right before his eyes.
Ba-dum, Ba-dum Dum, Dum Dum...
Each and every single one of its heartbeats was in sync with his own heart, as if calling him closer to it.
All kinds of negative emotions erupted before vanishing just as fast it appeared.
Thomas took a deep breathe and rested his hand on the heart.
[Warning, Warning, an out of time anomaly has been detected.]
[A high level Celestial Entity has resonated with the user. Accept signal? Y/N?]
"Huh? Y-yes."
Immediately the world changed and the scenery of blood-colored sky and black sea extended until the eyes could see.