In that moment I prayed to be gifted with the strength of Samson so that I would be able to pull this place down on top of us, but my wrists remained bound to the wall to either side of my head. I saw our chief tormentor press up against Christina where she was tied off to the central pillar.
"Oh God help her!" I said, as my heart cried out for mercy from this nightmare we had been thrown into.
Christina screamed and swung away as far as her chain would allow and our former guide continued on across the cavern. He lifted the crystal piece up above his head triumphantly and was greeted by a raucous uproar of those gathered within the cavern as if he was a rock star.
He mounted the stairs at the other end of the room to a raised dais and reaching out he placed the crystal into a slot that looked like it had been made for it. The walls of the room came alive as runes were highlighted in patterned sequences everywhere the eyes strayed.
The gathered people screamed out jubilantly, as if a great thing had been revealed, but all I saw was more darkness of thought. I hadn't known this level of depraved evil even existed, but now I was neck deep in it and I felt powerless to be rid of it.
There seemed to be no way to redeem the current situation. It felt like hell itself was opening up and spilling its foulness into the lives of those eagerly seeking its influence and control over them.
The crowd before us began to twist in circles as they moaned and groaned in what sounded like pain and yet to look at their faces as their eyes rolled back into their heads you would've thought they were experiencing the greatest pleasure of their lives.
"This is bad! So bad Eli!"
Matt's voice barely registered above the awful din of all the ecstatic screaming going on in the place.
I turned my head to him and screamed out in impotent fury, "Do you think you have to tell me that? I've got eyes!"
Matt just shook his head, "No, you don't understand how much worse this is! Remember the message I deciphered on the device that was from Nimrod the first emperor of the world after the flood?"
"Yes?" I said impatiently.
"Well when it talks about him it says that he "began to be" mighty before God. The word for it is the same Hebrew word used to describe Goliath and giants in general and the contextual wording of the verse implies immoral sexual rights having been performed according to some Jewish scholars."