Pandora was ten thousand years old—not the AI, but the world she had created, split into the High Existence, the Mortal Realm, and the Abyss. Each was infinitely vast, with its own unique biosphere. For instance, the Mortal Realm was the closest to Earth, but only at first glance. There was one sun, the sky was blue, there was one moon, the grass was green, and the water was blue. But beyond these superficial similarities, everything else was different—from nature to civilization. Take the Eternity Forest, for instance; was there such a place on Earth? Nay.
In that time, a hundred individuals known as disasters had emerged. The strongest of these were: Tiamat—the dragon queen, Erylis—the eternal vampire, Cain—the immortal hero, Drake—the primal werebeast, Xanda—the primordial demoness, Astrid—the first seraphim, Xebec—the glutton, Lilith—the legendary oni, Eden—the emperor, and the nameless true demon king. Each of them was classified as an SSS+ rank threat.
Tiamat was the very first creature of Pandora, a hybrid of a tsundere and a yandere in personality. She was a dragon of unparalleled power, making her their god. In her dragon form, she had impossibly tough scales as black as the twilight, a terrifyingly powerful tail that could shatter mountains, and dread-inspiring wings that darkened the sun. She was the embodiment of destruction. And that’s precisely why her territory was dubbed the Forbidden Land.
Erylis came into the world shortly after Tiamat as a loli. Her appearance still hadn’t changed and probably never would. She had pale, ethereally beautiful vampiric skin, mesmerizing crimson eyes, and long scarlet red hair; wearing nothing but black gothic dresses. She ruled the Land of Eternal Darkness in the depths of the Abyss and was at war with her mortal enemy—the primal werebeast.
Drake ruled a small part of the Land of Eternal Darkness, which he had stolen from the eternal vampire and planned to take more still. He was not your typical werebeast of wolf origin or a werewolf, but a dinosaur type. Six meters tall, buff with a twelve-pack of bulging muscles, sharp rakes, and deadly sabers. An alpha male who wanted to do nothing but dominate.
The nameless true demon king shared the borders with the Land of Eternal Darkness, and it was the only territory of the Abyss that was not under his direct control. When he tried to seize it, he was killed by the two rulers of that land on two different occasions; he was still alive due to his ultimate skill—REBIRTH. And that same skill was why his dream of world domination could become a reality one day.
Eden was the emperor of everything in the Mortal Realm, or so he believed. He named his empire after himself. Also, it was his belief that the calendar was named after him. On top of it all, he made a royal decree that forced everything to be named after him—Eden. He was a narcissist of the highest order. It didn’t help that he was the most handsome man in the world, and no woman could resist him. Which was why he had a royal harem.
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Xebec was the last disaster of the Mortal Realm and the Abyss, as all the other disasters gathered in the chaos of High Existence. He was the only disaster that was human, even though he was inhuman, a dragonwere. Humanity was imbued into him by his father, and he was a true hero, more so than the immortal hero himself.
Cain was nothing more than a zealot, wandering the High Existence and killing in the name of G.O.D whatever he was ordered to kill. There was nothing more to him. He was clad in white armor with a sword and shield. Beneath it all, he wasn’t even human or an AI. He was a program—the antivirus.
Lilith was also wandering the High Existence but for an entirely different reason, a selfish one. She was searching for her soulmate, never finding him, and killing those who failed to meet her expectations. She was a beautiful woman, and every part of her was perfect. Her most prominent features were her ethereally beautiful obsidian skin, silky smooth white hair, glowing pink eyes, and two demonicly divine horns sticking out of her skull.
Last but not least, Xanda and Astrid were forever locked in battle due to something that happened with Pandora. Sometime in the past, they tried to take the AI down. Still, they lost, and she rewrote their memories, deleting herself from them, which made them turn on each other. After that incident, she, namely – Pandora, never showed up in the world again.
On the other side of the spectrum, opposite to the disasters, were these nameless creatures, or rather bugs, all without a threat rank but all sharing a singular skill – Pandora, which was bizarre. What was more peculiar was that If only one of them activated it, then the death game between Pandora and her world would finally begin. But that was so impossible that it wouldn’t be possible no matter what happened, as those nameless creatures were mindless and didn’t have a will of their own.
Nothing ever happened that threatened Pandora again, and nothing would happen. But then something happened. G.O.D had accidentally given the skill – Pandora to someone. In its defense, it wasn’t its fault, as skills given at human registration were completely random. It was one in a centillion chance. But it did happen, and the consequences followed. Eve became Pandora, taking her form but not her mind and linking her to every other Pandora. This meant that if she died, all Pandoras would, too.
Pandora appeared before Eve and forcefully matured the brain of the baby into that of an adult, which ended up killing Eve in the real world. “We need to talk!”
“I don’t feel so good—” Eve collapsed to her knees and vomited.
“Now!” Pandora’s face reflected anger.
Eve raised her head, and two identical faces were now looking at each other.