Chapter 2: A bit of background
(1st POV)
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Earth, a beautiful planet filled with life!
Where the majority of the people could live comfortably and at peace.
But 200 years ago, everything changed.
Monsters appeared, from various different myths, fairy tales, and even the ones that was thought to be the imaginations of people.
They all took different shapes and form.
It brought despair and chaos to human society.
They were believed to be the manifestation of human emotions.
From good to bad. From happiness formed a monster of despair, attracted to the feelings of happiness around it, keen on stealing them by killing. From anger formed monsters of chaos, it's only goal is to slaughter everything on its path, and countless more.
Wars were fought, lives were lost.
People was forced to fight back in this never ending nightmare!
In the end humans were losing.
That was until an existence called 'Ego' was revealed. A weapon or ability used to kill monsters, formed by the user's self. Only a few people possessing these weapons were called Awakened, and they were treated like heroes! With glory, honor, fame and riches.
People rejoiced and found hope on the awakened.
They fought hard battles, suffered from mortal injuries, it took the combined strength of the awakened to fight hard battles and win.
And at the end of the day the world was once again at peace.
Awakened built their own kingdoms, started their own governments and took care of their people.
On the other hand, one side did not like this one bit.
The Government
Disputes from the awakened and the world's government rose, as the government felt threatened by the uprise of the awakened.
Countless arguments ensued. Along with fights, between kingdoms and the country's government.
In the end war was inevitable, War between the government and the awakened.
Government made alliances with each other. Day after day, more lives were lost. Fight after fight, the war became more intense
A war so great that it was dubbed as the greatest war in mankind.
'The Graveyard' they called, because of the sheer number of victims that it took.
The war affected the world so badly, that it started shifting so that it could ensure its own survival, and continents crashed into one another. Islands sinking, new ones rising, in the end it created one whole land mass 'The Gaia continent', named after the primordial earth in Greek myths.
In the end, it took the joint effort of a new government with the awakened and normal people to unite everyone in this chaos.
From that emerged the Gaia Company.
A company of normal and awakened with the strict purpose of enforcing peace between 2 sides.
They oversee how the awakened will get paid, and they pay for the damages when monsters attack.
They get support from both the public and the awakened.
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Or at least, that's what it looks like.
The Gaia company, it practically controlled the world right now.
It provided support to both the awakened and the normal humans, a seemingly perfect company in the era with its goal of returning peace.
But of course that's not all to it.
Everything has a flipped side to it.
A giant company like this is bound to attract bad eyes and start their plans from the inside.
From old politicians to greedy people, they slowly planted influence inside until it started growing, and now there are seeds of corruption inside this prestigious company.
'Well, that's just my observation at least' I thought to myself.
Thinking of the history of this world. I can somewhat understand how this company became the forefront of this world. In dark times a new light came to 'save' this world. A cliche scenario that happens in stories that I've read.
Hmmmm…
'What should I do?' I thought as I leaned back on my chair staring straight at the ceiling.
Me, who was a normal human before dying and waking up here. Of course I was scared for the future ahead.
But what can I do?
I have already regressed here. I don-
'I don't want to die again' The thought echoed in my mind. Even though I have once accepted death, I can't seem to accept it again.
It was like something reigniting my will to live.
Probably the dog.
You know what?
It's the dog's fault.
Always has been. Change my mind.
'God…' I thought to myself. 'I'm so tired already…'
*Sigh*
I looked back at my cell phone screen and still saw it loading.
"I keep waiting and waiting and this damn thing just won't stop." I say to myself.
As I impatiently wait for the wheel, I contemplate some information that I dug up.
"Egos huh?" I say tiredly. An external variable that has helped mankind in its time of need. It took form from different legends and presented itself as the user's own weapon.
It was the hope that was needed, a light at the end of a tunnel.
But of course as human nature dictates.
It quickly became worse as greed and jealousy rose. Which led to the aforementioned war.
After doing a lot of research, and investigating in my room I found some things that I really needed to think about
First, this world.
It was like right off a book or movie that I watched in my previous world;Monster attac, Hero Say no, Politician say no, war go brrrr, and then post apocalyptic stuff. Even with everything that has happened, the world has continued to develop normally and prosper more technologically speaking compared to my last world.
Second, myself.
I only remember things from my old world, and not this current one. I need to investigate my origins, there are already a lot of differences compared to my previous life like the monsters, the continent, my neighbors…
The only things that really resemble my old life are my family and this house. From the pictures that I've gathered it seems like my family is normal and has no powers whatsoever, but that complicates things more.
If I get some op power from my wheel, people would get suspicious of me because there is no history of my family having 'Egos'.
From what I read, only families with ancestors that have wielded these so-called Egos are capable of getting one, but in some rare cases, First generation wielders do appear, but the chance is so small that it happens 1 out of 100,000,000,000 times.
That small
Hmmm…
What to do? What to frikin do?
Of course first is to investigate my new background, what things I liked, the things that are important, the new things that have come out, my lifestyle and my surroundings.
It should be easy considering it looks like I am the same as the one here.
I should look if I had a diary of sorts around here to see my current standing.
As the gears in my head start turning…
I considered every possibility to make myself more familiar with this world, monsters, people and most of all Egos…
A lone question seemed to swim in my mind.
"Where did they come from?" I question no one particularly
Observation #1: It seems like, things got more complicated
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[3rd POV]
As we see our protagonist thinking, he didn't know the impact he has made throughout the world.
Visions blurring, Fates changing
Countless people and beings have experienced the same sight, a change in the future, a broken dance with destiny that was just held together by a miracle.
As people panic there are more who are curious about this anomaly.
One particular soul watching him with curiosity in his eyes, his eyes beaming with amusement as he watched him contemplate
'Yes, he would do nicely' the lone soul thought as he floated inside our protagonist.
The person, still clueless, continued to think of countermeasures for his future.
'It would seem we will create change, so fly high' The soul thought, 'ταξιδιώτης'
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"A new variable? Hmmm" A voice of a man said in interest. "A pleasant surprise."
The man looks at a distance for a while, with a glint in his eyes.
"Fu- fu hahahahaha" The man suddenly laughs. "It's all messed up! How interesting."
He stood up as he walked towards a door
"I wonder how bossman will react to this hehehe" As he opens the door and leaves.
As the door closes, not a single sound can be heard nor was there a sight to see in the room.
It was only total darkness