May 2154.
A man stood alone in a room full of Technology which would be considered unimaginable by 20th century standards, the man looked like he was in his 90's limping as he walked. Limping painfully towards a nearby window. He peered out the window, at a barren wasteland, seas were non-existent plant life was on the verge of extinction.
"This is my last chance." The man spoke to himself "I've created a computer world where I can live for the rest of my life where I can leave this wretched place and start a new".
He had been working on this "Alternate reality" as he called it. For 70 something odd years, And finally, on sitting on death's door he was able to create it. The world he created was a world full of non-existent creatures, a world where he could call home, far away from the hardships of reality.
The world was composed of three parts.
One the Ordinance System, this system was as it sounded what governed the laws of the world from how physics worked, how it would generate terrain, all based on a template that could be changed by anyone with administrative privileges.
Two the Discernment System, this system judged how an entity would react to it's surrounding the driving for evolution. It would judge what taste you would be tasting what was hot and what was cold what hurt and didn't hurt.
Three the Predominance System, this was the best of all three albeit not the most technologically groundbreaking it error checked the other to systems, checking for bugs and errors so that the world would function properly.
Off course an administrator could break those rules and do as they please.
The most groundbreaking feet the man-made was the ability to create self-aware AI. The AI would have the same level of intelligence as humans from his world give or take a few percentages to create some randomness.
Sitting down in his chair getting ready to transfer his consciousness to the virtual world he couldn't help but lament that he didn't have enough time to fix the current one. His plan was complete. He created solar panels that would generate energy for the computers of the virtual world for eternity and drones that would fix and manage the outside world. As his consciousness transferred to the machine he hoped his plan would work. This was the first time this kind of this was executed. So many unknowns but there was no time to look back.
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"Hello, Mr. Tomini" a wall of text appeared before him. "That's right, my name is Tomini that's the first time I've heard of it since..." his memory flashed back to his youth "Well..nevermind," Tomini thought to himself.
"Would you like to start your character creation?" the computer output the message [Yes]/[No] Two buttons side by side.
Tomini was ready to start his new life he excitedly pressed the "Yes" button.
He was prompted by another screen among some of the things on screen were Classes, Skill Points, Races and Stats.
"If I'm going to start fresh in a new world. I'll choose human for my Race" Tomini pondered. Humans weren't particular superb at everything there stats were average all around but had no main weaknesses. Some of the other Races were Dwarves, Elves and Demi-Humans. Each race would have its own Unique skills once reached a certain level they would be able to unlock a higher tiered race. For humans, it was the Arch-Human.
"Okay, and my class will be... Magic Swordsman". Magic Swordsman was a combination of Sword skills and Magic spells a Magic Swordsman could use his sword and shoot spells out of the tip of their blade or enchant their sword during battle these two were among some of the things the Magic Swordsman could do.
Of course being the genius Programmer that Tomini was he had designed the Three Systems to generate Spells, Skills Plants and Wildlife. That also meant people from the virtual world could also create these things but at a slower rate due to the fact that they did not know about the templates.
For example, if they wanted to create a new spell they would have to try to find keywords in order to create them for example. The light element would refer to spells using light attributes.
Among the spells and skills a person could get they numbered approximately 2,554 excluding Unique skills so that the computers would save space in memory.
"There won't be anything once I finish my character huh? I guess I'll observe the way it's created. " Tomini said speaking to himself. The way Tomini programmed the world was by starting from scratch and allowing the Systems to generate a world for him.
He feared if he did it by hand he would take more than ten lifetimes to create a world. He opened a rift in space using his admin commands and sealed himself that way he wouldn't experience time.
Tomini groaned "This is gonna take a while a couple of hundred years more for empires to form." Waiting for what seemed like eons so that planets would form and spread life was boring and Fascinating to Tomini.
Seas were created and along with the seas, single-cell organism was created. A million years went by and the first single-celled organisms fused together and created multiple celled organisms. Later the first fish was created, another million years later life was abundant in the sea. After plants sprouted on land giving a chance for sea life to come to land.
After waiting for eons the first members of the races were spawned they built villages and created farms, kingdoms were born and kingdoms fell, Till finally the world was stabilized.
"I guess it's time," Tomini stated with a grin.