VERSATILE: ALTERNATE WORLD

Queen Tanya underestimated the mental breakdown that the two experienced. They were in a catatonic state for quite some time and although they respond to questions, whenever they see a white color, they immediately freak out to the point that they would rather escape from there and run away rather than see the white color before them.

"I...I wasn't expecting this much damage to their sanity like this. Just knowing them being like this is kind of fascinating and terrifying at the same time."

"I told you before that they won't be able to live properly after this. The experience will be forever engraved into their brains. Though I am impressed since they only have the basic form of fear. Most of the victims even formed hallucinations at times and they would freak out that they needed to be sedated or knocked out just to calm them down. So this alone is pretty mild."

Hearing this, Queen Tanya seems to be convinced now that this method is much more brutal than most of her torture techniques combined. She nodded before we went into their solitary cells. The guards needed to tie them up as the two would immediately go straight to the corner and curl up there.

The first one we visited is Uno. He is the first one to lose a lot of sanities as he is more of losing all sight of what he held for before. Now, he seemed like the soul in his body has left him. Even his eyes are looking empty.

"Hello, Uno. Do you still remember us?" Queen Tanya asked.

Uno looked at Queen Tanya and at me then back to Queen Tanya before nodding lightly.

"Good. Now, unless you want to return to the white room you are in earlier..." Before Queen Tanya can continue speaking, Uno started shivering and grating his teeth.

"No, no, no, no...please, not the white room, please... I will do anything... just please, don't return me to the dreadful place. I will tell everything I know, so please..."

The way his voice breaks while pleading is enough for us to know he is not acting out. He is scared and totally stressed out and even mentioning the room he was in before is something that he wanted to escape. He is now totally begging us to stop putting him inside the white room.

"Alright. Tell us everything you know. Of course, if any of this information is a lie, then you will already know that you will remain in that room for the rest of your life and perhaps get you crazy as a bonus."

Uno nodded and started revealing the secret as to why they attacked the other day in the ruins.

They are known as Demon Servants and are the ones who currently scour through the land for the remnants of the demons that went asleep or went to hiding after the great war. They are half-demons and half-humans, a mix of both races which is why they don't have the same wavelength as a human but they also don't possess the same way the same power a demon has.

The reason they attacked at that time is because they are looking for an artifact page for a necromancer book. According to the sources, the owner of the ruins owns it and since he died, that also means he has it as well. However, after they searched and found nothing, the only natural course of action is to find it on our hands. Since we are the only people left there, there is a high chance that the artifact page was in our hands.

That's when I remember the page I picked up that allowed me to learn how to speak on corpses. Is that the one they are looking for? Ah...it must be. However, it doesn't matter as that thing is destined to rejoin with the other pages as well. They will never get it back once it joins in. And with it in my possession, finding them will never be possible unless they identify the abilities of the necromancy I was using are different compared to the original necromancy skills.

"Why are you tasked with waking these slumbering demons up? What are the plans that you guys are trying to do?"

"That...I don't know. I am only a grunt and I am not given much information as to what my missions are but based on what I see after they wake up... they are the great ancestors of the demons and we hope they help us take over the world back in our rule..."

Queen Tanya continues to question him for a bit but there is no new information left except the old things we already knew so we stopped questioning him, removed his restraints, and put him back normally in his cell. The moment his restraints are gone, he immediately went to the corner of the room and started muttering things. We can only shake our heads as that is already an expected outcome from this guy.

The next thing we did is go to the female masked girl though her mask has already been removed long enough. We don't know her name so we can only identify her as the masked girl.

Compared to Uno, it seems the mental breakdown severely destroyed her sanity as even though she was being questioned by Queen Tanya, she barely responds and her eyes keeps on darting around the room. She was shivering and she keeps muttering gibberish words as she continues to try to remove the restraints on her body.

"I think her mind is more fragile than we thought. Her mind has been broken and she is barely capable of communicating," I scratched my head seeing the state the girl was in.

"I see. So depending on how tough they are mentally, they are capable of withstanding and keeping their mental health sane while they are inside the room. Those who have low fortitude in their minds will never be capable of escaping the descent of madness. As sad as it was right now that we didn't get any valuable information from the woman, we now know what they are and what the demons that are tormenting this world are trying to do."

In short, with the help of their ancestors and their primordial powers, the demons are hoping that the awakened asleep demons on the ruins and tombs will help at the job of world conquest. If Lucia was woken up by a demon, perhaps, Lucia is not part of my allies right now and perhaps she might be a boss that I might defeat. In any case, it seems we are also going to have to find those tombs first and reawaken the sleeping primordial time demons up to stop the current time demons to have their way and ruin the world.