In the dark of the night, there's a man. While everyone else is sleeping, he is working. The night is quiet except for the clicking sound of a keyboard, the only source of light in the room comes from the monitor.
That man is committed to his works, his life works, his masterpiece, his goal on life. That man is designing one of the most coveted things a human being can wish for. That man is working on the elixir of immortality.
Ever since he learned about the mortality of humanity, James has always been afraid of it. He is terrified at the notions that one day he will be gone from this earth, and so because of that, he spent his childhood day searching for solutions but unfortunately, he found nothing.
There is no fountain of youth, there's no philosopher stone, there's no elixir of life nor there is an ichor, it is all fantasy, a lie, but his determination is real so instead of getting discouraged by his luck of not finding a way he kept on searching, from another perspective.
He gives up on fantastical means and instead turns to a more realistic approach, medical study. He hopes that by studying how to heal the human body he can prolong his own, he wishes to make his own philosopher stone, his own ichor.
He has spent 3 years in college before it all happened. Whether it's unfortunate or fortunate is still a debate on James's heart. 3 years in his study of the medical field the manapocalypse happened. It's a misfortune that almost all of the earth is destroyed, his family except his sister die, his friend on college die and overall the apocalypse but on the other hand, the manapocalypse brought something new to earth, something that can be used to further his goal for immortality, that thing is magic.
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Magic, or rather mana come to earth by the portals, the portals that connect earth with another world filled with mana, the main component of magic. Unfortunately, mana is not the only one that goes through the portals, monsters of all kind and sizes from small goblins to the large behemoth come through the portals to lay waste on the earth.
Humanity at the first stage of manapocalypse can somehow fight back using modern weaponry, sadly the thick skins of the behemoths or the magical shield of other monsters cannot be penetrated by conventional bullets. To combat those indestructible monster, humanity is forced to use their strongest weapons, the nuclear weapons.
A short summary of the event that came after is that everybody loses, there's no more monster on earth but there's also no more earth. To even survive the aftermath the survivor of the earth have to live on the other world that is on another side of the portals, that include James Rose.
Before the whole world come to ruins, few people have the brilliant idea to brought modern technology to the other side of the portal that is no called Limbo because even though it is the source of ruins fo earth it is also what saves the people of earth from total destructions.
Those that survive rebuilt civilizations both on the wasteland called new earth and on the resourceful Limbo. They built cities, towns and villages circling the portals so that they can still live off the resources from limbo but also live on earth.