As his mother left, Ethan told the maid to make him bacon and eggs. Then he headed towards the basement, the place that everything started.
" Wuu! Here we go,"
Creakk~
Ethan opened the door to the basement and Immediately it was followed by a creaking sound.
As he took a step inside the dark and omnious basement, he suddenly began to feel like something was different here, it felt as if there was an ocean here about to drown him.
As he eventually reached the end of the stairs, the first thing he spotted was a golden chip hidden behind a washing machine at the far corner of the basement.
Ethan walked towards the golden chip in the wall, as he shifted the washing machine to the side revealing the golden chip's full glory.
That golden chip was A1
[Hello Ethan, hope you found what you were looking for in the lab yesterday. And funny enough I don't remember you coming out,]
The mechanical voice of the golden chip rang in Ethan's ear like a bell, but Ethan put on a smile and said.
"Yeah, I guess I did find what I was looking for. And I think I got more than what I expected," Ethan said with a sheepish smile as he scratched his head.
[ Well I'm glad that you found what you were looking for!]
" Yeah. And talking about what I was looking for, do you know what kind of language that was written in the log book?"
Ethan was silently praying that A1 would be able to translate the language for him.
[ I am sorry, but my translating function is no longer available]
Hearing what the ai said, Ethan had a dissapointed exppression on his face," since you don't know how to translate it, I guess I'll just keep it for now,"
Ethan said, as he put his hand into his pockets, expecting to bring the log book out, but he didn't find it. Then a flash of realization dawned on him.
_ oh yeah, I didn't take it from the lab, I can't even remember how I left_
Ethan silently thought, as he de itcided to go into the lab and go and get it.
" A1, open the door to the lab for me,"
Immediately he said that, the wall parted into two, revealing a hidden passageway that led to a long ago abandoned lab.
" Thank you,"
[ You're welcome.]
And with that, Ethan took a step inside.
Walking along the dark passageway, Ethan suddenly remembered something," Oh yeah, punching the wall turns on the light,"
Ethan then raised his fist and hit the wall. But instead of the lights turning on, the wall actually broke, creating a hole as big as a fist.
" Whoa! Is it just me or was that part of the wall extremely weak?" Ethan said as he stared at the hole his bare fist created.
" What is that?"
Suddenly, a glint of light shone inside of the hole. Immediately it caught Ethan's eye.
He stretched out his hands and grabbed the thing that was shining light in his eyes even in such a dark space like this passageway.
As he pulled it out, he saw what it was.
" I wonder what this is?"
It was a transparent rock with glittering little stars shining all around it, it was shaped like a small crystal orb that was as big as a fist.
Then he stared into the hole again and realized that there were six more of those rocks inside it. As he took them out of the hole, Ethan placed them inside his pockets and began walking.
In a few minutes, he arrived at the end of the passageway and opened the door.
And just like last time, he was attacked by the pugent smell of blood and carcasses everywhere.
" Someone should really clean this place up,"
Ethan began walking in the direction where he found the black blood. As he kept on moving, he suddenly had this weird feeling of dread.
" What's wrong with this place. It feels as if a lot of people had already died in here," Ethan said as he continued walking.
Every step he took would make him feel as if he was crossing as sea of blood and a mountain of corpses. It was very dreadful feeling.
As a minute passed by, Ethan arrived at the cabinet and right on the ground was broken glass from a former test tube. Some kind of liquid was surrounding it and releasing a dreadful air into the surroundings.
As he bent down and was about to touch it, Ethan heard Amon's voice in his head.
" You bastard! Don't you dare touch that thing. Do you want to die!"
Amon yelled at Ethan causing him to momentarily retract his hands from touching the blood.
Wooosh!
Amon flew out of Ethan's consiousness and arrived beside him with an angry exppression.
" You bastard! It seems like you want to die quickly. How dare you even think about moving close to that!!"
Ethan with a confused exppression responded," What happened, did I do something wrong?"
" Did you do something wrong?! You were just about to kill us both!" Amon said with his left eye twitching fervently.
Ethan still confused said," Look could you speak clearly. Like in a way I understand,"
" You were just about to touch the part of my blood that holds residual chaos energy." Amon said with a frown.
" Residual chaos energy? What does that mean,"
" When a powerful beast above the fifth level of their respective world stream doesn't use his Powers for more than a thousand years, they would begin to build up chaos energy which is both dangerous to them and others around them,"
" I am an incredibly strong and powerful beast so I was able to last so long with chaos energy, but if I had been left like that inside that darkness for a hundred more years, I would probably been dead,"
" The moment I left the darkness, and integrated myself into your body and mind, I used my abilities to the maximum, allowing the chaos energy to wash off me."
" If you had touched that part of my blood with a very concentrated amount of chaos energy, it would have consumed you and destroyed your soul. Not even giving you the chance for you to exist."