Part 1

Once upon a time.

There live a human boy.

Blessed from birth with an extraordinary soul.

Blessed with knowledge of the world.

Blessed with caring and love.

But those blessings also bring jealously.

Jealously from mortals and immortals alike.

So those with envy in their heart planned to kill him.

Some of them said to kill him before he matures, it was rejected as his soul was protected at young age.

Others said to kill him after he grow old and weak, it was rejected as he will be too strong before they could kill him.

They fought for their own decision, but eventually agree to one plan.

“Kill the boy just after his teen ages, then just curse him with suffering.”

So they begin their plan, at the night of blood-red moon.

They start to gave him curse after curse.

Most of them were countered by the protection of the gods, as the boy were doted by them.

After the long indirect fight the boy’s soul start to weaken , so the soul escaped. bringing three curse and three gifts.

And one friend.

The soul journeyed many place and world with his friend, learning many things.

Until they arrived on a world, filled with good and bad.

The boy and his friend chose this world as their place to reincarnate.

And became something, known as Athanatos.

Part 2

“Good afternoon ladies and gentleman, today we have a special guest. As you know, Vision.Inc is the company behind the newest technology breakthrough, the VR Capsule ‘Ark’. So we would like to invite the person behind all of this. Please welcome, Vision.Inc lead researcher and the creator of ’Ark’, Mr. Jonathan Glove!”

“Thank you Mr. Bannet, it’s my pleasure.”

“Okay, I’m sure everyone here would like to hear about this new VR Capsule, the info I receive is that this one will be a revolution of VR, how is it different to past VR devices?”

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“The new VR capsule is different from the core. Other VR devices analyze brain signals to receive inputs, but the ‘Ark’ not only receive inputs from brain, but also from ‘souls’”

“Ah, how mysterious, can you explain it more accurately?”

“Of course, what we mean is our VR will not only know what you want to do, but it can also read your real life experience and other thing, but because this feature maybe too uncomfortable to some people, it has been made optional.”

“Ok, next, with this new VR capsule your company also launch a new game with it, titled ‘Progress’, can you give us more information about it?”

“I would love to, unfortunately our company has strict rule regarding secrecy, so I can only say some thing, first, it’s not like typical game nowadays, our game is an entirely new universe, and it will continue to grow with the players. Many new feature are included but the most charming feature it has is to import experience from our worlds.”

“How that’s work?”

“Simple, we read the ‘souls’ of the player. The experience and other things players done in real life will affect their character as well.”

“Sound ambiguous. Ok, our time is up, thank you for coming to this show Mr. Jonathan, we will wait for the release of ‘Ark’, can you tell when is it?”

“It will be in six months, but the beta test will begin next week and from there 5 player will be chosen based on performance. The chosen player can begin one day before the release and will be given special class, so good luck.”

“We all can’t wait for it. Again, thank you for your time.”

“It’s my pleasure.”

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Somewhere in Asia, a 17 years old watched the show through his television.

“Interesting.” He says before grinning.