In 1897, a boat of people from the Horn of Africa arrived at the city of Bombai under the control of the British empire and requested the help of the British military to get the remains of their deceased folk who were killed by evil spirits that had destroyed their village but no one in the military paid any attention to their ridiculous request except for a young ship captain, Harry Devine and the translator who was paid by the locals in ancient jewelry.

The translator translated as the Africans talked about a group of enraged green monsters with long husks and pointy ears coming out of the local shrine and destroying their village after a young child wandered into it without proper blessings and woke them from their eternal slumber.

Since they couldn't fight against the evil spirits alone, they fled from their homeland without doing the proper rituals for the dead to pass on and they were haunted by them so they decided to seek help from the British and they knew it was near impossible for a group of Africans to be noticed but they spent everything they had in order to let their voices heard and it worked.

Harry was considered to be a godsent because he was the only person who listened to their stories without getting paid and offered his help to bring the remains back but Harry didn't believe a word they said nor cared about their stupid traditions and yet Harry pretended like he did because mysterious places in Africa tended to have loads of treasures in them and Harry liked treasures.

Some of the locals tried to volunteer to guide Harry but he refused their brave offers with a reassuring smile on his charming face and simply wanted to ask a couple of questions, mostly about their local shrine and the Africans were eager to inform their hero about everything he wanted to know.

Finding an excuse for taking a ship to the horn of Africa was hard but Harry was friends with the higher-ups and with some bribes, he was able to leave the port with all of his crew and sail to the horn of Africa.

After a couple of weeks and lots of help from the locals around the horn of Africa, one of Harry's men managed to spot the destroyed village and reported to Harry immediately but Harry refused to land on the shore and ordered his men to anchor to avoid getting sunk by the dangerous things that Harry happened to see from far away.

No one had a reason to question Harry's orders and they started to prepare the boats to land but when Harry announced the men he was bringing along to the shore, things got heated in the ship as the men he chose were known to be extremely loyal to him and the ones who weren't selected accused Harry of playing favorites.

A captain getting accused by a lower-ranking sailor was enough reason for an execution and Harry had been planning on lowering the number of his men to get most of the treasure to himself and his plans worked perfectly, the disloyal minority was executed by him without mercy and they served as an example to the rest of the crew.

Now that his disloyal crew was executed and the other ones were silenced, he and twenty men got on their boats under the moonlight and landed on the shore without any problems or so Harry thought before he started to count his men.

There were fourteen men and four boats instead of five, the six men and their boat had completely disappeared but Harry didn't care much about his men and ordered his men to pull up the boats to a safe spot like nothing had happened.

According to the information he got from the Africans, their local shrine was located under a church built by a missionary group that the locals were forced to obey in order to not get slaughtered and surprisingly enough, the church was the only building standing in the entire village and that made things easier for Harry.

He sent half of his men to recover the remains of the dead villagers while he and the rest of his men entered the church, he wanted to lower the number of his men who were going to get a part of the treasure and sending half of them on a fake mission was a great way.

The church was like any church with the only difference being the church's altar, it was much larger than a normal altar and Harry noticed weird markings near the altar as if it was moved multiple times before, Harry tried to push the altar but it was too heavy for him to push it alone and so he turned to his men for help.

With the strength of eight men including Harry, they were able to push the altar and a stone staircase going down into darkness was revealed but Harry didn't go down the endless stairs and called to the other men, something about the darkness had frightened Harry so much that he was ready to split the treasure with all of his men.

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He created four lines of his men with the front three lines having four men each and the last one having two of the strongest men with Harry in the middle of the two strong soldiers, he made all of his men put bayonets on their rifles just in case they encountered something dangerous and they went down the stairs with extreme caution.

Their voices failed to reach the ears of the others after five minutes.

Their lamps stopped emitting light after ten minutes.

Their weight doubled after twenty minutes

Their bodies started to get extremely cold after twenty-three minutes.

Their lungs stopped working properly after twenty-six minutes.

Their eyes saw a light after twenty-eight minutes.

After thirty minutes, all of the men passed through the light and found themselves in an unexpected place.

They were standing at the exit of a cave located in the middle of a high mountain with a narrow path going down into the thick forest below them and a stone staircase that was going up to darkness stood behind them, all of those things were too much for the men to comprehend and they weren't able to move for an entire minute while their mind tried to make sense of the sudden location change and the sun that shouldn't have been up.

"This must be the god's secret land and we have set foot in it."

The men found their answers in God and got on their knees to pray for trespassing into his world while Harry walked down the path to investigate the new realm they were in, he needed to confirm a couple of things and if those things were confirmed, Harry planned on setting up a trade company like the one in India but without the intervention of the government, a private one for him and his descendants.

When he reached the ground, he put his hand under the dirt and waited for a minute to feel the small insects, the feeling of the soil felt similar to the soil of his family's farm and to be absolutely sure, Harry tasted the soil and reached the same conclusion.

The new realm was similar to England at least and that confirmed the first thing he was curious about, the similarity of the realms and that meant it was possible to find resources like Gold and Diamonds for a future mining business.

The next thing he needed to confirm was the similarity of living beings in the new realm and the best way to do that was to hunt one, he grabbed his strapped rifle from his back and started to search for a small animal that he could hunt alone.

A creature similar to a rabbit stood in front of him, it was a little bit larger than a normal rabbit and looked more wild in general but a simple shot from Harry's was enough to take it down and he took off the rifle's bayonet to open the insides of the new realm's rabbit and found out that all of the bones and the organs were also similar with a normal rabbit.

Harry had one last thing he needed to confirm was the presence of civilization and it was confirmed when an arrow flew past Harry's head.

"Gada tat mat!" A man with the ears and the tail of an animal yelled at Harry in a strange language, he didn't need to understand their language to know what the animal man was saying to him, the animal man was telling Harry to drop his bloody bayonet which he quickly did and smiled at the hunter to show he wasn't a threat.

His charming smile was powerful enough to make anyone drop their guard and the hunter approached him, still cautious but not seeing him as a potential threat and the rifle Harry held seemed nothing more than a cane to him.

A blue crystal was hanging from the hunter's necklace and it got the attraction of Harry's eyes instead of the hunter's manhood that was barely covered by a simple cloth, the blue crystal looked very valuable and the moment the hunter lowered his bow, Harry raised his rifle and shot the hunter in his head.

He snatched the blue crystal from the hunter's neck but before he could examine his weird body, he saw the hunter's friends, a bunch of male animal-human mixes with crystals hanging from their necks and they were coming towards Harry after hearing the gunshot.

Even though the crystals interested Harry and he had the firepower to defeat them, he couldn't risk getting hurt in a strange land and decided to return back to the cave exit where his men were still praying to god and begging for forgiveness for setting foot in God's land but when they saw Harry with a blue crystal in his hand and heard that there was more, the men who were scared of god became greedy savages who were ready to kill anybody for wealth and started to march into the forest to find the animal folk's village and their intentions were quite hostile.

Seventy blue crystals and seven men including Harry made it to the ship, they were burnt, bruised, cut, and one of them had severe frostbite all across his body but none of them spoke a word about what happened and simply nodded whenever Harry spoke about the expedition.

Harry sailed for England to sell the treasure and get the things he needed for a trade company but during their trip back to England, the soldiers on the ship started to die to a mysterious disease that killed all of them and spared Harry who had killed his soldiers to put them out of their misery and all of that had happened in the English channel where it was very likely to for Harry to get rescued by a passing ship.

Many people suspected Harry of killing his men but no one dared to speak against one of the richest men in England and the infamous founder of Devine Trading Company which would gain control of the world's trading in a couple of years with the help of infinite resources from a mysterious place until their powers were severely curtailed in the modern age because of a weak Devine family head, Grant Harrison Devine and his pacifistic politics that were against the family motto.

"For the new new world of our liking."