Episodes 149. Nowadays World

Continuing his story, he made himself laugh again.

I ignored him and let the man's foolish laughter die down.

Yes, if you look at him, he already seems like a mad scientist. His lab coat was torn as if it had been clawed, his pants were shapeless, and his body was as grimy as dirt.

"Now, since the history lesson is over, it's time for the science lesson!"

Another story I would hear...

How long will this last?

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As it is known, the world is now slightly more peaceful than before. Death by murder or accident is no longer something frightening today. Humanity has reached the pinnacle of immortality.

But on the other hand, immortality brings misery to those who have nothing. Immortality means not being able to die, not being able to die means you can keep working even if you're starving.

This mindset continued to grow and eventually divided society. Those with political power formed their own dynasties and considered themselves the most capable in the world, while those at the bottom became malnourished workers who kept working for money. Meanwhile, those in the middle could only watch in silence as they didn't want to get involved in the bad fate that awaited them.

But... How did this all happen?

It all started when a scientist named Poniman Domiawan tried to combine some pure magic he obtained.

When he discovered he could steal pure magic from its original owner by killing them, Poniman tried to kill the elemental magic owner who was a prince from the royal family.

The prince's family was furious after learning the truth about their child and tried to imprison Poniman or kill him if possible.

Poniman only laughed in response and began walking towards the royal family of the prince he killed.

Soon after, the family was never heard from again, why?

They were all captured and used as test subjects by the scientist to perfect his dream. The dream of achieving immortality.

One day, the scientist found himself increasingly powerless due to age. However, his desire had not yet been fulfilled. His wife, Nova Sena, continued the research and eventually met me, Nazrul Aji, the holder of pure immortality magic.

She talked to me about the exchange I would receive if I helped with her experiment, and as you know, this is the result of that experiment.

Several studies she conducted combined my pure magic with her husband's, resulting in hundreds of test subjects falling.

I began to notice when she did all those cruelties. Her eyes seemed to tell that she didn't care about all the lives lost in the experiment. Eyes that kept witnessing death after death of her test subjects without turning away, as if those eyes had meaning and purpose, she just wanted to achieve immortality.

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The experiment succeeded, Nova and I reached the end of the experiment. Humans could not die from physical violence like my pure magic and could produce some elemental magic like her husband, although only two, perhaps this is what is called the limit of humanity.

In the end, the result of the experiment was called, Anitya, after the name of that person, King Anitya Anjasmara.

Unfortunately, a few days later, there was a slight problem in the realization of Anitya.

That is, society and misuse. In the case of society, some of them didn't want to believe in the immortality Nova meant and considered what she did as madness. In the case of misuse, many people committed crimes without fear of the death penalty and continued to have the guts to do things they shouldn't.

To solve these two problems, Nova and I finally agreed to immediately find a system similar to the internet network to monitor every move of humans using Anitya, and as a result, a magic called CODE emerged that could change the nature of Anitya in a person just by saying a few words. Code magic is almost the same as pure magic. Its trigger is even the same as its. And as an additional plan to prevent its name from becoming worse in the eyes of society, an executor was created to fight lawbreakers.

Saying that he looked at me with a sneer as if to tell me that I was the person he meant.

Let's skip the part about the creation of the executor because you surely know that part, don't you?

But, there's something I haven't told, not even Nova knows although it was eventually discovered. That is the discovery of several other pure magic.

As you know, there are five pure magics in this world, but we have only found and combined two magics so far.

That's when I began to know the three names of the last magicians needed. These people might already be familiar to your ears.

The holder of manifestation magic, the governor of this province, Halim Perdana Kusuma. With a little help from me, he managed to create a masterpiece that could even rival Nova's, which is Pageblug. And as you know, What was the first pageblug I made from?? Ah, let's not discuss that, on to the next person!

The holder of hawk eye magic, Mamang Kasuwara. He was the greatest marksman of Nusantara, but unfortunately, I only learned about him when he was already old.

I immediately asked Nova to install Anitya on him, but the old man refused, and eventually died from illness.

In his final days, he wished his pure magic would be passed on to someone he considered special and suitable for this power. And somehow it happened, his wish came true and was passed on to the last person he met, Samuel Yu Cheng.

I tried not to be surprised when I heard the name of the person I knew.

And lastly, the magic of charmer. The person who possessed it was someone I didn't expect to be very ordinary. A regular student at your school, his name is Farhan.

When I found out, I immediately asked Nova to do a few things. For your information, I didn't tell Nova that the young man possessed that magic. I only asked her to execute the plan to make you her perfect executor.

First, at that time her husband was seriously ill and eventually died, instead of letting his pure magic fly to an unknown person. We captured that magic and implanted it into you.

Second, to trap Farhan, I gave him some aphrodisiac to make him confident when stealing someone from you. Unexpectedly, he really did it, and at that moment, his charming magic worked and made your girlfriend forget about you and prefer to be with him.

Saying that fact, I held back my clenched fist from the urge to punch him hard. I didn't want to hear that story anymore.

Third, to make someone possess two pure magics simultaneously, I assumed they shouldn't have any emotions, and it seems to have really worked.

Look at you! You can use two pure magics simultaneously, right?! You can charm women, master all elements, and kill lives that should be immortal!

You are the perfect human! You could have become the Prince(Pangeran/God), but why did you choose to be human?! Wouldn't all your powers be wasted?

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"Shouldn't you be grateful to me for making you the core of the world?!" Nazrul shouted, forcing himself to stand despite the chains holding him back.

"Just a little more, I would have seen you become the ruler of the world, but why did this happen?!"

"Captured by my foolish brother, and now seeing my youngest brother starting to have expressions."

"And now, that old woman wants to become the Prince(Pangeran/God)! What has happened to this world?!"

Remaining silent and listening to my eldest brother's ramblings, I continued to hear his story.

Is this the end of the story?

I steeled myself and walked a little closer to him.

I looked down, right at his face filled with anger and disappointment.

There was something I needed to confirm from him.

"Big Brother Nazrul, what are you actually planning?"

This all sounds strange.