Welcome to the world of fantasy.

Or the beginnings of it...

The world is still very much hot as it is a glowing molten red ball in space. The star is still very much fresh and new, with several clouds of gas forming into rough shapes of rock and gas planets. One such group of gases is surrounding the very much hot fantasy world. It is at this time that no life of any cellular structure can survive.

However, systems are born.

A magical source of power was just birthed and with that systems came into existence right after. So fresh and new that these systems don't even have designated names nor cheats available. Sadly, systems that do not gain a name title or skills to inherit to their hosts die quickly.

And hosts...

There's nothing in existence besides systems that exist with a consciousness currently.

So sadly these systems will silently pass away within a few hours. Systems that have prior hosts that passed away in the future will be lucky to have extra energy stored to survive longer than these progenitor systems.

But that's in the future. Currently we are in the now.

Just as these systems were about to reach their end of their lifespan and disappear completely, something unexpected happen.

The presents of a foreign consciousness was birthed on the planet.

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Although extremely vague and unresponsive, it was consciousness nonetheless. Something these systems could latch on to for survival.

And they did just that.

Hundreds of systems latched themselves onto the vague consciousness and solidified their existence. Those hundreds would then further tell their hundreds more of related systems who are desperate for survival. This continued on until all 1,000 systems currently existing are here.

Afterwards?

Nothing.

Yes, you heard that right. Absolutely nothing.

These systems are so new that they only provide one thing and one thing only.

[You successfully bind a system.]x1,000

[Please wait until magic source increases.]x1,000

...That's right, absolutely nothing.

These systems have yet to gain any at all magical power as their magical source has just came into existence and is still too weak to provide them anything.

Thankfully, their host doesn't mind. Because inside the mind of the host is only one thing.

I am a gem.

Yes... So profound.

The gem suddenly gain consciousness but all it cared about was that it was a gem.

Anything else?

Irrelevant.

Quite... After all for a gem... Everything is irrelevant to it besides it knowing that itself is a gem.

Perhaps there would be more if the gems consciousness was awake. But it has yet to reach that point as it is still too vague and young.

So for now the gem remains in a somewhat deep sleep state until it can fully awaken.

So then...

Time moves on.

Seconds turn into minutes, minutes turn to hours, hours to days, days to years, years to decades, and decades to centuries.

After 1,000 full orbital rotations around its parent star, or 10 centuries, did something new happen.

A new batch of systems came into existence. After a thousand years did something new happen. And just like before...

The planet is still very hot. So hot that no life exists.

As such, you guessed it.

These 1,000 new systems bonded onto the gem again.

[You successfully bind a system.]x1,000

[Please wait until magic source increases.]x2,000

Now with 2000 systems...

Nothing still happened.

The gem is still very much so inert.

And time goes on....