Knowledge, experiences, programs, memories, capabilities, skills, functions, limit awareness, frustrations, regrets, faults, imperfections, human emotions and many more...
Lucas was sharing a lot and receiving a lot. His heart felt increasingly heavy, his mind blanked over and over, and he felt the strength of his bodies leaving him.
"Okay... I think I'm starting to get it."
Lucas said as he listlessly surrenders the weight of his body to the cold, marble throne.
"We are all Lucas Nicholas... Except that-"
(We are also the slave assassin of the church of Aridia.)
Said Lucas as he listlessly gazes the stars of the night sky.
[And we are the Legacy of the Athenian race.]
Lucas continues as he processes the information load for all three of them.
[("WHAT'S GOING ON?!")]
All three sigh with frustration as a myriad spectrum of emotions juggle with his heart.
(Who did this to us?)
Lucas as asking but he roughly knew who to blame.
[I think this involved godly level of power to even induce this kind of phenomenon between the three of us.]
"And I think the Evil God of all demons had a hand about it."
[Then again, the most who has influence here would be the Angel God Metatron.]
(How thoughtful of them. But what about me? Who put me here?)
[I will need more information.]
(Of course.)
Lucas rolled his eyes at that robotic response.
There wasn't much to discuss now aside from investigating what brought of them here and what they should be doing right now.
[My purpose since the second I was activated is to save the human race living on the planet called earth as vengeance for the annihilation of the entire Athenian race.]
Lucas became the first to explain.
[I was built as an Artificial Intelligence with the optimal firmwares capable of simulating human emotion and empathy while more core programs are design for warfare combatting and tactical technology fabrication.]
"Oh great, to sum it up, SKYNET is coming superman origin style and complete with its own weapons factory."
[When you put it like that, it sounds like I'm the worst thing humanity will have instead of the threat that's coming to annihilate them.]
"Well, you're the alien A.I. I'm sure they'll welcome you with open arms."
[I see your sarcasm grew more humorous after you died.]
(Oh, yeah. Speaking of dying, did you guys get hit by that truck too?)
"We're all the same guy, genius. And of course, it hurts like a truck."
(Haha.. Yeah. Ow, my body hurts.)
Lucas groans as his muscles stung his pain receptors.
[You look like you could use some medical attention.]
Lucas comments as he analyzes Lucas's predicament in third person perspective.
(No shit. Mind calling an ambulance?)
[I'm 0.2 light years away from earth and I don't think any ambulance can reach you.]
"Sorry, man. I left my phone in my school bag."
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[You got lacerations all over you. Wounds caused by cutting tools. Stab wounds are also noticeable. And third degree burns cover 25% of your total body mass. I'll need further analysis, but I've come to the conclusion that you'll die in 59 hours if you don't get some medical attention.]
(Heh? I feel fine though. Just tired.)
[You're not the Terminator. But if you can, get yourself some help.]
"Guess you're on your own now."
(Copy that.)
"Well, I think I kinda figured what I'm suppose to do here."
Said Lucas as he moved on the subject.
"Right now, I'm what's called a Demon Lord. And my job is supposedly to summon demons as subordinates and pursue world domination. I think I know what kind of setting this is."
(Oh? And thought I drew the short end of the stick.)
"Anyway, it looks like I'm no longer human except for the fact that I look and feel human. Aside from that, I got Demon Lord skills like UNIVERSAL LEXICON, DEMONOLOGY, ENDLESS MAGIC DEVELOPMENT: SPACE ATTRIBUTE, MANA CONTROL and DEMON SUMMONING: ATHENIAN RACE. Also, I got other skills like SCOUTING, EXTRASENSORY PERCEPTION, SUPER REFLEX, SPECIAL OPS MASTERY, STEALTH, and WEAK POINT DETECTION. and some other things I think aren't skills like TRANS-DIMENSIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS, INDOMITABLE WILL, MANA POWER REACTOR and ATHENIAN TECHNOLOGY FABRICATOR."
[That's a lot of stuff I'm concerned with. By the way, what do you mean by the skill DEMON SUMMONING: ATHENIAN RACE?]
"According to the skill explanation, it means I can summon the vengeful race of ATHENIANS which lost in the great war of extinction and were totally annihilated by the PLANET SWARMERS."
[That's mind blowing. So does this mean all the ATHENIANS who died became demons?]
"You're the legacy of the ATHENIAN RACE. What did they do after getting wrecked by aliens?"
[I don't know? I was only meant to be activated if the only living Athenian had died so I don't know what had gone through them before that and none of my backlogs have any documentation why they became demons. Anyway, you already kinda knew that since we are sharing each other's experiences.]
Lucas then processes a simulation using the computational abilities and hardware built in.
[How about giving summoning a go? If they really are Athenians who got annihilated, then I really want to help them instead of the humans.]
"Nice proposal, but it seems that I need to offer up human souls to the evil God of all demons to even summon just the spiritual form of these demons without their physical bodies. And it also said that I need to offer up fresh dead corpses to even summon a fully-fledged demon. And chances vary depending on the quality of the soul offered. So in light of this dangerous, crazy cultist shit, I prefer to stay away from this."
[Fair point. I apologize.]
"If there's anything else I can help, please feel free to tell."
(Okay, I guess it's my turn to explain... Except that I don't have much to relay really. I was built to be a mindless slave killer for the church to purge any would be victims who come to know the dark side of the ever so benevolent church of Aridia. Don't know my parents, grew up in the slums, was taken at a young age, was experimented through a superhuman project, but became trash afterwards. Not finding any merit to keep my ego, they put me through some brain washing and craniotomy modifications and turn me into the perfect cannon fodder assassin asking no questions and complaining nothing. The last thing I can remember happening to me was that I was chasing my target but ended up fighting a group of skilled adventurers with a flame mage leading them. They left me for dead because they thought I died being burned alive.)
Lucas fell silent as they listen to Lucas explaining what was happening to him and how it happened. Cross referencing it from the experiences they were now sharing, they felt like they've live the life of a boy who never knew what it's like to be human. They stayed silent for a long while until...
"Wow..."
[Tough life.]
They were utterly speechless afterwards.
(Yeah... Hey, do you sense a setting here?)
"Now that you mention it, I do sense it."
[It feels as if... We are all experiencing the three types of settings those isekai light novels were getting popular with.]
"Right, it feels like I got summoned as a Demon Lord right after I died."
[And I got reincarnated as an Artificial intelligence after I died.]
(And as for me, I think I got transmigrated into a slave assassin's body.)
[Summoning, reincarnation, transmigration of the soul... All at the same time? How is this possible?]
"And how are even connected to each other?"
[I think it has something to do with being the same person.]
(And the worst thing is that our characters got bad karma.)
"A Demon Lord, an Artificial intelligence, and a dead beat Assassin. Yeah this definitely belongs to a bad karma game."
(Are we gonna be fine?)
[Worry about yourself more.]
(Fine be me.)
And so the conversations between three entities progresses.
[Before we move on, let's decide on something here. Like our roles to support each other. I think I'm best suited for the role of being the information processor between the three of us.]
(What does that mean?)
"It means Lucas the A.I. here will be our tactical consultant if we come across anything tricky."
[I'll also be willing to be the advisor of any major decisions you guys will be making.]
(A smart computer to do the thinking for us? Can't complain here.)
"No objections from me."
[Excellent.]
Lucas was satisfied with their answers.
"And speaking of roles, how about we start calling ourselves with different names instead of sharing the same name?"
(What's wrong with having the same name?)
"It confuses identity. Let's say I was trying to talk to Lucas the A.I. but you responded instead. Don't you think we should call ourselves differently in order not to confuse each other?"
(Fair point.)
[If that's decided, I shall bear the name Luke.]
"Nice. I'll be Lucas then."
(Guess I'll go for Nicholas. Or Nick for short.)
Luke, Lucas and Nick. These three individuals associated through supernatural linking, constantly conscious of each other, and sharing experience with one another, had their lives flipped to the unknown where no one knows what will become of them.
As destiny intertwines, how will their story unfold?
[By the way, Nick, why are you in a middle of a circuit looking circle?]
(Huh?)
As soon as the three started to notice the oddity in Nick's surroundings, Nick was was already inside a brightly lit circle with glyphs and arrays where particles started dancing in a tornado.
"Wait, that's not something normal. That's a Magic Circle for Summoning! You're being summoned Nick!"
(What? Why?!)
[You think the church is doing something?]
(I don't think the church is doing anything! Guys, help me!)
"Move out of the magic circle!"
(I can't! I can't move my body!)
In a panic, Nick wanted to lift his body from the ground but he felt no strength in his muscles except for the numbing pain being inflicting him as he tries his best to nudge.
As the thought of being summoned for unknown reasons to God knows where crosses his mind, Nick felt terrified.
(Someone do something!)
["..."]
Luke and Lucas could only remain silent as they froze still, watching the magic circle perform its purpose, completely helpless. Slowly whisking away Nick's body particle by particle and vanish into thin air.
(Guys...?)
"It's been nice knowing you, Nick."
[I'm sorry.]
(Fuck...)
Finally giving up, Nick surrenders to the magic circle and with a flash of light, he was gone.
[I lost connection with him.]
"Me too."
Luke said worriedly as he could do nothing.
"You think he'll be okay?"
[I don't know... Wait, hang on. I'm picking up on something.]
As soon as Luke said so, images began to unfold before their vision like a video being played fast forward. And soon enough, they finally got a feel on Nick and his situation. What's more, he was fully healed and standing. Once more his experiences were shared to them again. However, they fell silent as Nick stood with other strangers before well endowed woman wearing white ceremonial robes emitting this holy aura.
The woman spoke before them.
"Welcome heroes to the world of Arcadia! As request by the Goddess of this world Aridia, we beseech you oh chosen ones with great destinies, please save this world from the Demon Lord Lucas Nicholas!"
(What)
[The]
"Fuck?!"
The world of Arcadia was about to experience the most confusing event ever to be recorded in the annals of its history.
[Oh? I'm already close to earth.]
"What? That's so fast."
[I'm traveling in a super protective shuttle at space warping speed. It can cover a lightyear's distance in 60 minutes. I'll be crashing on earth, at a place called Nevada in 12 seconds.]
"Nevada? You mean Area 51 in America?"
[A fitting place for an alien like me, don't you think so? Oh? Oh crap.]
"What's happening?"
[For whatever reason, Jupiter's gravity veered off my course and now the shuttles making drastic corrections.]
"Meaning?"
[I won't be landing on Area 51... And according to my calculations, I'm gonna crash in the middle of the pacific ocean.]
"In the middle of the ocean? That's too bad. Anything I can help?"
[...]
"I thought as much."
Lucas shrugs at Luke's predicament.