A strange creature is floating in the colorless space. This creature has the appearance of an eyeball, with black sclera instead of the white color of the usual sclera, most of its surface is covered by glowing circuitry lines that merge into its neon blue iris, which is the same color with those lines. Its light yellow pupil in the center of its iris is blinking in a steady interval. Overall, it looks like a nightmarish creature that comes out of a sci-fi movie.
This strange creature is called ‘Administrator’ and is the absolute supreme being in ‘Fictional Realm.’
‘Administrator’s’ purpose is to manage the circulatory of energy that keeps the 'Fictional Realm' stable and exists indefinitely.
‘Fictional Realm’ is the name of a metaphysical realm made from mankind's collective subconscious thoughts and their belief about fiction. It is both illusory and reality, existing as both matter and dream.
As the manager of the ‘Fictional Realm,’ ‘Administrator’ dwells in the centermost of this illusory universe. Although it never left its dwelling, 'Administrator' always knows what happens in ‘Fictional Realm’ because of its omnipresence. Of course, its omnipresence is limited to this illusory universe. And with its full authority in managing this illusory universe, ‘Administrator’ can be called omnipotent.
Overall, ‘Administrator’ is an existence akin to God. No... 'Administrator' is the God of Fictional Realm - the absolute supreme being above all overpowered fictional characters that were ever being thought of and created by mankind's ideas.
Despite its power, it doesn't mean ‘Administrator’ is without problems of its own. And its main problem is the threat against its existence - ‘Administrator’s’ natural predator.
Created by the jaded thought and realistic outlook of mankind who was disillusioned by their harsh reality, an existence called 'Oblivion' is the natural counter of ‘Fictional Realm’ and 'Administrator.' They were made from the collective subconscious of mankind - they have the same root - and yet 'Oblivion' has an advantage against ‘Fictional Realm’ and ‘Administrator’.
Because of its conceptual nature, ‘Oblivion’ exists to be the ultimate predator that will devour and erase ‘Fictional Realm’ from that metaphysical realm. It is like how someone who passed its youth filled with aspiration and dream but after becoming an adult, that person had no time to indulge in trivial things like daydreaming or play-acting as a favorite fictional character that embellished that person's youth.
Although such a thing is the natural course of life of mankind, it presented a gross disadvantage for ‘Administrator.’ And due to its nature as manager and observer of ‘Fictional Realm,’ from a simple artificial intelligence that its sole purpose is doing its task up to the end of its existence, ‘Administrator’ has evolved into a sentient being with abilities to do independent thinking, feel emotions, and many more. Thus, it wants to preserve its existence, which is the natural instinct of all living beings.
'Administrator's' main problem is how to go against its predetermined fate to cease existing. It has tried many things to fight off the advance of 'Oblivion'. Unfortunately, all its attempts met with utter failure. It has sent off the strongest characters - heroes, antiheroes, and villains - from each fictional world within its illusory universe, but all the same, those characters ended up as insignificant nuisances against the 'Oblivion.'
Like throwing countless eggs on the boulder's hard surface, those eggs cannot harm the boulder. It was nothing but a waste of resources that could be used for better things.
Although those characters were powerful, they lacked something that could affect the ‘Oblivion.’ And that something is the [Will of Mankind] from [Reality].
Concluding that, 'Administrator' got an idea: "What if I summon someone from Reality?"
Since it and its nemesis were made from humanity's collective subconscious, a person from Reality is surely the answer for 'Administrator's' problem. But, it was easier said than done.
Although ‘Administrator’ is absolutely peerless in the scope of ‘Fictional Realm,’ it is only peerless in this illusory universe. It cannot summon a person from Reality through conventional means of Portal Door fiction.
'Administrator' was intimately aware of the concept of Hero Summoning from many worlds within its illusory universe. After all, all fictional ideas that were thought out by mankind would have existed in its illusory universe. And 'Portal Door' is a well-known genre of fiction.
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Be that as it may, 'Administrator' can still summon someone from Reality, but not through the conventional means. Because of the nature of its location, ‘Administrator’ cannot summon this person’s physical body.
Furthermore, summoning the ego of a person from Reality is an arduous and costly endeavor. It needs to sacrifice an exorbitant amount of ‘energy’ generated by mankind’s subconscious thoughts and beliefs. And lately, that energy is very scarce - only enough to maintain the continuation of the ‘Fictional Realm.’
The reason behind this 'energy' deficiency is, as time progressed in Reality, mankind collectively become stagnant and lazy because of the convenience of the modern era. They have stopped producing substantial ideas and beliefs, lacking inspiration and imagination, which are important to generate enough energy to sustain the ‘Fictional Realm.’ And so, ‘Administrator’ experienced energy deficiency. Still, with its mechanical precision in management, even 'Administrator' was able to save up the extra energy for an emergency.
It is unclear if its savings are enough to fuel the summoning. After all, ‘Administrator’ has never done this. There is a chance it doesn’t have enough energy.
“Regardless, I shall do it!” The desperate ‘Administrator’ decided.
And so, ‘Administrator’ consumed its saved energy and connected to the collective subconscious of mankind. And just by doing that alone has taken almost the entirety of ‘Administrator’s’ savings, but 'Administrator' soon discovers its energy isn't enough to pull someone’s ego to the ‘Fictional Realm.’
“Should the energy for keeping my realm stable be used for this?” ‘Administrator’ asked and started weighing its decision.
If it uses up its stored energy that needed to be circulated in ‘Fictional Realm,’ countless worlds will cease to exist at once. And without those worlds to slow down ‘Oblivion,’ that conceptual calamity will quickly and easily get closer to ‘Administrator’s’ location in the centermost of the ‘Fictional Realm.’
However, if its plan succeeds, it can stop the advance of its archenemy indefinitely. It is a dangerous gamble. If ‘Administrator’ makes a mistake, ‘Oblivion’ will claim it, but it can also prolong its existence if it wins.
After making up its mind, ‘Administrator’ discovered another problem, it can't just take anyone from Reality. It can't summon someone charismatic that can sway the masses, which is a kind of person ‘Administrator’ needs.
A person with the power to move the masses has an important connection with the collective subconscious. Someone like that has overabundant ‘energy’ to fight off the ‘Oblivion.’
However, that kind of person is very important in the Reality, and ‘Administrator’ cannot take that kind of person away from Reality unless it wants to cease by converting its existence into energy to summon such a person. In the end, ‘Administrator’ narrowed down the list of candidates it could summon without endangering its existence. Somehow, all the candidates it can summon are Otaku or Weeaboo that aren’t significant in Reality. And truth be told, it doesn’t mind that kind of people because they suit ‘Administrator’s’ needs.
Being mindful of its expendable ‘energy,’ ‘Administrator’ selects the candidates with cheap energy to summon. From there, its candidates are Otaku and Weeaboo who doesn’t mind to get summoned to another world - people who are delusional and dreamer - they know that being summoned to another world is something that only happens in fiction but they still wish to get the opportunity to experience that.
They are people without family or significant others to tie them down in Reality. And they consider their life is too difficult, and they yearn to have a superpower to make their life more easy and convenient. These kinds of people are surprisingly many. And so, ‘Administrator’ summons one randomly.
After pulling the ego of this person, ‘Administrator’ discovers that its connection to the subconscious of mankind has been cut off - it has been banned to summon someone's ego again. Perhaps, it is the natural instinct of mankind’s subconscious to protect themselves. Regardless, ‘Administrator’ has achieved what it sought out. It then begins experimenting with that person.
‘Administrator’s’ experiments met mixed results. It discovered the ‘something’ it needed from mankind was something it’s unable to comprehend. Although it has absolute omnipotence and omniscience, its power only affects its illusory universe, and since that person came from Reality, he is someone beyond its capability to exploit. Regarding this person’s ability to fight off the ‘Oblivion,’ ‘Administrator’ found some success.
“It seems I couldn’t exploit this person indiscriminately. His subconscious was surprisingly uncooperative. Was that Mankind’s Free Will? Mankind is really an amazing creature,” ‘Administrator’ concluded. “So it comes back to the reward and punishment method to make him cooperative. All right. I shall start the process. First, I shall prepare a system that will make him cooperative...”
There are many fictional worlds within ‘Fictional Realm’ with the protagonist - the World's Chosen One - in possession of a system. Using one of those systems as the template is an easy thing to do. After tailoring a system, it is the time to pick out a world to transmigrate the ego of this person.
'Administrator' picked out a world this person will like to be in. Then, it sends the ego of this person to inhabits its new body.
Afterward, 'Administrator' only needs to wait and see this person's progress before it can do something else to better the current system...