The Tree Theory

Have you ever heard of it?

No? That's OK… this theory can be dealt with by time, multiverse, decisions and more, let's take an example; If we talk about the multiverse, there are millions of these universes that are different but with the same history that little by little are coming together from the root to the trunk. The trunk is the similarities between these universes that unites them and then separates them.

And if it wasn't just for that? What if they were more than similarities? What would happen...if those universes, timelines and more decided to merge into the trunk?

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"Can you imagine? The future is close to us, not only because of the innovation of technology, but the solution to our problems is finally here!"

I watched in silence as a co-worker made his presentation to the company officials.

My name is Song Min-Woo, I'm from South Korea and I work in a company specialized in technology, we have created various devices that people use today, my partner found a way to help the environment but this is not what they are looking for. for entrepreneurs. They do not care.

"Mr. Dong-Won Lee, we ask you to stop bragging about things you shouldn't be involved in, this was a waste of time, get back to work Mr. Lee"

"E-EH?! B-But!"

I put my hand on my friend's shoulder as a sign for him to stop, he was silent for a while and then turned to see his superiors.

"I understand, sorry for the inconvenience"

He made a slight bow, grabbed his things and left with me, I patted him lightly on the back to ease him, I could see the discouraged look on his face.

"Let's have a drink, I invite you"

I told my friend and he smiled at me, however, that smile didn't last long, the ground began to shake like crazy, everyone got scared, we immediately all went down the emergency stairs, the earthquake was too strong that the windows we could see how some buildings were collapsing, the strange thing is that structures began to sprout from the ground, when we managed to get down we all looked towards a store where there were televisions in the window.

The news began to explain what was happening.

"Kathia Rogers here reporting from Calgary, buildings began to erupt from the surface destroying everything in their path, just like a freak sequence of tremors, this is not just happening here, but all over the world! This news is broadcast to everyone from Canada, Calgary Evacuate everyone, it's a global emergency, I repeat, it's a global emergency!

These were the words of the reporter from Canada, those of the other countries were not very different.

"a global emergency?"

Dong-Won asked in a whisper, his face was as pale as the others.

The military arrived to start evacuating people, I stayed watching the news and saw a shadow growing on my feet, when I looked up I saw a cement rock, it was going to fall on top of me, but a guy pulled me away making me dodge the rock, when I turned to see a soldier grabbing my wrist with heavy breathing, he immediately released me and went to help more people.

"I almost die"

I mentioned still shocked by what happened, my friend grabbed my shoulder to get me up and see if I was okay.

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"You idiot, we have to get out of here!" my friend yelled angrily snapping me out of my trance, he sighed to calm me down and pointed to the screens, my friend turned around seeing something was happening"

“Wait a minute… what is that? It looks like a hole has formed in the clouds in the sky… something is coming out of it…”

a mysterious and luminous figure slowly descends from the sky, when touching the ground with the tip of his foot the earthquakes stopped, the people frightened by what was happening kept shouting and murmuring, this enraged the mysterious figure, so he snapped his fingers, and everyone lost the ability to make a noise. Many were upset that they couldn't speak but could only express it with their panicked looks.

The being that came down from the sky between the clouds smiled when he saw them trying to speak, just a giggle and began to speak.

"God's Favorites"

As he spoke, a burst of lights came out of the luminous humanoid figure revealing a child, his hair looked like threads of gold, his skin white as porcelain and his eyes were blue that looked like crystals but had a white pupil but the most impressive thing was the mark that he had on his right cheek, it looked like a scar but it had a diamond shape.

"you have to be kidding me"

He mentioned with a frown, the idea that we were the creation and favored of a god seemed repugnant to him.

"I'm bored. Why don't we play a game?"

Some yellow screens appeared in front of all the humans on the planet with a common proposal.

[Would you like to play "The Master of Games"]

and with only one answer... YES

Still unable to make a sound they began to protest, throwing things at the boy, a timer appeared on the screens along with the question, each one had a different time, the first one to run out of time died and a consequence was revealed.

[If you don't agree to play, you will die]

Everyone pressed the "yes" option with fear, others refused and died, and others hesitated but could not complain for what they wanted, when they pressed the button the ability to speak returned to them, and they began to yell at the child.

some thin and small metal boxes fell in front of everyone, this will surprise them and some peeked out to see what it was but when they got closer to the box, 6 metal legs grew 3 on each side and jumped on his face and then went to the doll left-handed of all and implanted in his skin.

The screams of agony were present in all the continents of the world, the device began to open the skin of the human in front of him and got into his muscles to then sew the wound causing intense pain, at the end of the procedure a number appeared on his hands. dolls just like a notification appeared on a screen

[Current number of incarnations in the world: 8,038,595,686+]

["The Master of Games" has started the ESC system]

[The celestials are joining the local live]

"I'll be quick"

the child spoke, calling everyone's attention

"You are the incarnations, or something like that, you are going to went through trials, blah blah blah, you are going to suffer a lot obviusly"

he said the last thing with a cheerful tone, he seemed to be having fun

"I hope that you reach the last stage"

was the last thing he said before disappearing into a whirlwind

["You have received a gift from "The Master of Games"]

[Open?]

I pressed the open button with some fear, and a square gift box came out of the bracelet, a sphere with an illustration of a chain was inside, I took it out and looked at it carefully, I ate it, it had a bitter taste and rough, Shit, I think that wasn't edible

[You got a skill]

[Congratulations, you are the 5th to have obtained a power]

[Acquired Skill: Master of Chains (Lv. 1 +1)

"did you open it?" Dong-Won asked me with a sphere in his hand, I smiled at him as a sign that he had done it, he looked at it for a while, since he didn't know what to do with it, he looked at me and I made a sign that he had to swallow it, He proceeds to eat her without hesitation and also got his notification.

Everyone began to swallow the spheres that came out of the boxes, it turns out that each one came with a unique ability, which would not be repeated, for example, there is only one person who spits fire, there is only one person who can heal and so on.

When everyone swallowed the gift, a screen appeared to everyone

[Mission #1]

[Hunters and Prey]

[Riddle: "Even though blood drains and hunger elapses, you must avoid eating me, as I may make you sleepy]

[The first scenario has started]