To be continued in Demonion Gaiden 02: The Blooding of Thornwood.
"What kind of something?"
But a piece in a cursed mine? The humans had grown sloppy in their victory.
As Zagan approached, the rib thrummed . A vision slammed into his mind: the Demonion, whole and terrible, standing against an army of light. He saw his generals—Lilith, Bael, Forcas—kneeling before him. He saw the world burning. Demonion Gaiden 01
"Drinking again, my lord?" a soft, chittering voice whispered.
He reached out. The bone did not burn him. It fused. The ichor crawled up his arm, and for the first time in ten years, the broken horn on his head began to glow.
It was a story of a fallen king, a single piece of a broken god, and a village that was about to learn what true terror meant when Zagan looked at their meager families and thought not of slaughter… but of recruitment . To be continued in Demonion Gaiden 02: The
That word— Before —made Zagan's blood, still thick and hot despite the decade of decay, stir for the first time in years. Before the defeat. Before the seal. Before his shame.
It was a rib. A single, thirty-foot-long rib of black metal and living sinew. Runes of annihilation pulsed along its length, dying and igniting in a slow, painful rhythm. It was alive. And it was hungry.
And then he saw the truth the Fragment showed him. The Liberators had not won through strength. They had cheated. They had used a stolen piece of the Demonion—a heart-shard —to forge a cage for his power. That cage was still intact. And it was hidden. As Zagan approached, the rib thrummed
"The village of Thornwood," Kael hissed. "A day's march west. They found something in the old mine shaft. Something from the Before."
Here is the story for Demonion Gaiden 01 , written in the style of a dark fantasy visual novel prologue. Prologue: Ashes of the Old World
Inside, the walls wept a black ichor. The air tasted of rust and ozone. And in the deepest cavern, surrounded by the broken bodies of the Thornwood villagers who had dared to touch it, lay the Fragment.