The smell of iron, oil and other users far to strange for me to know assaulted my senses, even the feeling of the air, from ceiling fan moving above me, felt like fingernails all over my body.
For some reason, the room was bathed in a red light, while a yellow one soon around, like a madman screaming, while in the background the sound of static lingered.
"... Good your alive, I don't have much time so I'll make this quick..."
"...You were caught in a multi-dimensional rift, the good news is, I saw you and managed to give you as much weaponry and equipment for you to live. The bad news is you're going to hate me for it and all of that equipment won't be enough."
"Right now that ship you're in is in complete lockdown, nothing he's in, nothing gets out. Every piece of armor, weaponry and shielding site is fully operational, be it magical or technological..."
"...you have soil to grow food, water purifiers/recyclers for clean water. That ship is capable of flying in space, flying inside planets, moving inside water and moving underground, as well as thru magma and so on due to its armor and shields."
"...Seems like a lot. Good, that's where the good news ends, you were moving to fast for me to actually help you properly, so things like replacement armor or extra weapons..."
"...No, at best you have an extra gun and that's it, as for armor and ammunition, you can get around that by retrieving the shells you use, or making more with the materials around the ship."
"...My times up, Oh before I get cut off, you can clean the soil from the outside using the purifiers. Also, there are demons, evil gods and the world around you is a currently a never-ending hell..."
The static noise ended and as I rose to my feet I couldn't help but lower my head at the sight the images the monitors in front of me were displaying. As far as the eye could see, was a world that was a crimson red and even though it was raining, the rain was red, or better said red blood rained, in this cursed land.
"Computer do I have an army?" I asked, while not really expecting an answer.
"The current defense forces are the equivalent of five legions worth of defense bots of all sizes...Processing... Suggestion, deploy scout drones, it's better to know of the dangers around your current location." The computer answers.
"Why would I do that?" I asked, even while my head was still punding.
"Do, to the current surrounding environment, there is a high possibility of you having to move front the current area of the moment." The computer answers.
'...How high is that possible?" I asked the computer.
"...99%"The computer answers.
" What's going on?" I asked.
"...Your presence has not gone unnoticed and a large number of demons is headed towards your current location." The computer answers.
"Get me out of here," I said and I felt the engines begin to power up and in an instant, the feeling of weightlessness soon took over.
"...processing, do to the inexperience of the captain, emergency plans have now been activated. Deploying scout drones, searching for in corrupted lands and resources, ."
"/... None tested...searching for minimal corruption... Located...all other resources have been completely tainted, redirecting the ship. ...activating defense bots... Activating... Living rooms...activating purifiers. The computer says as I feel the ship slightly turn left.
" How much is left that it's actually useful?" I asked.
"...Useful materials are as follows one cup of water and two handfuls of dirt, there is nothing else in this world." The computer answer.
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Her eyes burned as the sand entered them, the hellish thing was carried by the hot dry winds, forcing her to repeatedly close her eyes, something that was more than dangerous, considering that she was currently hiding, from a group of mad women.
Her mother and father once told her, about a long-lost time where their family served a kingdom so vast and powerful, that even the lowest of slaves lived like kings.
Food was always an arms reach away, water was plentiful and the elements, were no issue.
If such a time was real, it was long gone, never to return.
She was naked and like the rest of the tribe, she struggled to find anything of worth, for even the dirt itself, was worthless.
Nothing grew any more, the stories she heard of a land where green things grew out of the ground and when ripe, a person could eat them immediately, was so odd to her, that be living such stories was like believing, that a person could sleep, without hearing the whispers of the gods demanding blood.
The only things that came out of the ground now were worms and animals that one had to eat while they were still alive, otherwise, they would turn into puddles of blood and internal organs, that would call the demons to their location.
Clothing, the few there was had to be made of living beings and offered little to no protection, wearing anything like armor, was like lighting a fire inside a dark room.
Everyone all of a sudden knew where you were.
As for water, they were forced to drink each other's blood, anything that fell from the sky or laid on the ground would warp a persons body until they became just another abomination and if it wasn't their bodies that changed, it was their souls.
They would begin to grow like beast and kill everything within immediate sight.
There were few people now, actual people anyway, nearly everyone was either a servant of the dark gods, had been mutated into a protest thing or had simply gone insane.
They all hunted down the remaining humans, those that hadn't fallen and either tortured them or used them for entertainment. They would either simply have the people fight for their lives, unarmed and against something they could never win against.
The worst was when a person lost themselves fighting, at first they would seem normal, then...then they lost themselves completely.
So what did all of this matter in truth, it didn't. Nothing mattered.
She would have smiled at the irony of it all, here she was alongside a group of survivors trying to stay alive, there was no reason for it, they simply wanted to live.
Their pursuers were no different, they simply wanted to eat and from what they believed Human meat tasted better than that of worms or animals.
The various holes they hid in, were nothing more than just that, holes in the ground. The remnants of a long forgotten battle.
Like dogs, their pursuers sniffed the diet trying to find their sent and all of a sudden a large shadow made itself known. Her eyes widened as a massive beast lowered itself, its massive body had already made it perfectly clear that escape was not an option.
She knew that her only hope of survival was to remain hidden and hope that the creature either left or killed her quickly.
With a loud moan, the creature made its presence known and instantly the mad woman launches themselves at it, soon only the smell of burnt meat followed. The creature moaned and simply stood on top of them.
Hours passed and the creature's shadow covered their hiding stop, finally, hunger and thirst won over and one of the survivors made a run for it, only for a metallic tentacle to envelop him.
Immediately a green light covered the man, she watched from her hiding spot as the dirt, blood, oil, ash and other materials were removed from him and a strange thing filled with a clear liquid was given to him.
The man sniffed the thin and his eyes widened as he took a drink. "Water." The man said.
Soon a woman ran and again a metallic tentacle captured her, the process repeated itself, only that this time a strange round object was given to her. The woman bit into the object before her eyes widened and she immediately began to devour it.
One by one they all began to emerge from their holes on the ground and a strange orange glow began to cover their surroundings, soon she felt her body begin to sting only for all of the filth to be burned off her.
She soon found herself in possessions of a strange red object and a container holding some water.
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I looked at the monitor apparently the extraction of little resources remained was done, unfortunately, blood clouds had started forming, so going back up was out of the question.
Apparently, the ship could extend its force fields several feet down and slowly purify the ground underneath it.
On the plus side I found out I had a large garden inside the ship, the bad news was I was just one person and the fruits and vegetables would begin to rot.
The screens showed a group of savages that were using the ship as cover from the hot sun and as safety from the storm. Fortunately, they weren't insane, so I figured if the food rotting was going to become a problem why not just give it to them.
The computer immediately responded with three possibilities, the first would be that the people would become too dependant on the ship providing them with food and so I would become responsible for the people beneath the ship.
The second, the people's bodies may not be completely tainted, but there was no way of knowing if their minds were. Thus, I could end up making a crazy bunch even stronger, than they ever would have been, without me.
The last possibility was that, while the ship was gigantic and only a blind person would miss it, the people on the outside, would be well fed and that would alert everyone that there was food. Whether people looked at the humans or the plants as food, was on the people that would see them.
Still, anything that wasn't eaten could be turned into nutrition paste and compose for the plants, still, it was better for the people out there to eat the stuff before it went to waste and so I allowed the ship to give them food and water.
Apparently, the ship has several floors and each one is the size of a city and several fields worth of farming land's, from what the security cameras showed a bunch of robots were moving around maintaining the fields, hell there was even an ocean inside the ship and when a forest.
The computer began to beep, the scout drones had already mapped out the surrounding lands and had picked up a large number of soldiers headed in the direction of the ship, still, it was impossible to fly up because of the blood clouds, so the ship was stuck flying only a few feet above the ground.
Still, it was time to move again, if the people followed then so be it, if they didn't they weren't my problem, to begin with.
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Her stomach felt full?
It was a strange feeling, it certainly wasn't a bad one, but what had the creature done this? Why feed them?
A loud moan from above her, alerted her that the creature was about to do something, perhaps it was about to eat them. It had fed them in order to eat them later or perhaps something worse.
Only that nothing happened, the creature instead simply began to move.
She looked around her and found that no one else knew what to do, for the first time in years, they had eaten food that didn't scream when they bit into it and drank water that didn't burn when they drank it.
Their bodies didn't hurt and the blood that fell from the sky didn't burn them while they were beneath the beast.
So slowly one by one they began to follow the creature, until everyone was underneath it once again.