It is now the twenty-third century on the planet Earth, a planet in which the only sentient species that exists is the human race. Humanity has come far from being cave dwellers to a space exploring race, a frontier in which few sapients in this current universe have ever achieved. Cars hovering over head, cities and towns adapted into a beehive manner and people moving along on hovering scooters, bikes or artificial wings instead of their own feet and chatting freely as lords of the sky, earth and sea. Humanity has indeed come very far in this universe but, like always, there is always one that is trying to take things a step further.

Derus Allen is an 80 year old retired biomechanical engineer with an extreme love for creating and the job was merely just a means to do something he loved alongside earn some money. Derus rarely ever left his private laboratory and if he did, it was only to get resources for the project he was working on, a project in even in this century would be considered a taboo amongst society, but it's not like Derus cared about that at all. The only things Derus cared about was if it was possible and how to make it possible which resulted in several dozens of gadgets which would be considered revolutionary if Derus ever decided to market them such as the gravitational language device which allows free manipulation of space to some degree. Due to this reclusive lifestyle, Derus never really made any friends and fell out of touch with his family, although, they would all cringe at the taboo of his project once they knew of it. 

Inside his quaint, private residence, there is a room which houses many computers running along the walls, constantly streaming data into the head of a humanoid inside a glass container at the room's center. These computers constantly sweep the internet for any and all possible data related to science, engineering, weaponry, un-armed combat, etc and load them into the 'brain'. So far, since the 20 years they have been set up, almost all important information has been transferred already, it was simply for Derus to perform the last part of the plan.

Sitting on an uncomfortable, computerized, metal chair in front of the glass container with it's back facing the back of the humanoid inside, Derus uses a voice comand to initiate the process.

Initializing Mind Transfer Process...

'This is it...' Derus thought his final thought to himself before blacking out due to the administration of the potent sleeping drug by the chair.

Connecting human pilot to Ex Machina...

A cable extended from the head rest of the chair onto Derus's head and another leading into the head of the humanoid.

Initializing mind transfer...

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Mind transfer successful. Beginning synchronization process...

From this point, all the memories of Derus's life as a human would be placed in the artificial memory cortex which functions just as a normal huuman's and the data that Derus mined off the internet would be stored in a computerized manner for conscious mental access or for the system to access unconsciously to use as reference. Several hours passed then days and by the time the synchronization process completed, Derus's human body had long since began it's decomposition process.

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Synchronization complete! Performing system check...

At this point Derus 'awoke' to find himself, if Derus could refer by 'he' anymore, as a ball of data inside a black space with code that is being executed being displayed on the walls.

'Status' thought Derus after which a window was displayed.

STATUS - Derus Target Ex Machina Type Inorganic Body Status Normal - Hibernation E.U.R (Wh) 0 E.C (W) 100,000/100,000

'So Energy useage rate and Energy Capacity are abbreviated automatically by the system.'

All systems checked, no abnormalities found. Removing hibernation state...

After this notification window, the humanoid's eyes opened to an area of complete white and a voice sounded from everwhere.

"Welcome to my Domain, I see you have been successful in your project. Allow me to offer you my congratulations."

'...huh?' was the only thought on the shocked Derus's mind which was read by the voice and it continued.

"Do not be alarmed, you may refer to me as 'light' in your language, the divine of this universe in which you humans reside."

"Oh... nice to meet you Light." replied Derus in a voice which sounded synthetic and childlike to which Light responded by saying,

"Yes. So, from your accomplishments and death though your project let you control the aftermath, you are to be sent to a higher order world. A world which unlike only electromagnetic radiation is present but mana as well"

'Mana? So magic?'

"Yes."

'Wait... can you read my mind?'

"Although you are an 'Ex Machina' now, the principle operation of thought doesn't change so I can read your mind just as I can with every other human. Yours was particularly interesting however as it seems you can have a multi-mind."

'That's cool... what happens now? Where are you anyways?'

"I am communicating with you through light, you can say I am light itself, the very thing you see and not the space itself."

'That's... pretty grand'

"I suppose it is. Let me get onto the main topic, I will be transferring you to a higher order universe as you have met the requirements which amongst those would be to identify and use magic."

'I've used magic before?'

"Yes, continuing, you will be placed on an Earth-like world and, at this point only, you are free to change your appearance to one of the sapient races which reside there."

'Can I use magic as I am in this body?'

"You can."

'Then no. I'd very much like to keep my Ex Machina body.'

"Not the most talkative are you."

'I appreciate you doing that for me.'

"I'll send you on your way then, Derus. I wish you all the best."

'Hey no tutorial for the new world and all before I go?'

"With a body like that, it'd be unfair to the residents there."

After Light said that, Derus's vision was shrouded white and the humanoid was transferred away.

"Quite interesting indeed." muttered Light before silence descended onto the domain once more.