Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 12, Real World I

Team Japan and Aqua's first question was the following. How did Sozin escape the hell hole that they called God's Dimension and the Mission Worlds.

Sozin: So you want to know how I escaped that dimension?

Aqua: Yes. If you've really are from that place like us and have escaped then that already gives us hope. That it's really possible to survive that hell hole of a Dimension and live through God's trials... yet it would help us to know how you did it. We already know about 'Back to the Origin', but that is just an end goal for us. We would like to know if there are any short cuts to gaining more Points and rank rewards and other tips that you can provide that could help us stay alive till then,

Kampa: Also, stories of your own experiences would be helpful I bet. You wouldn't believe how many times my life was saved in my mercenary days from remembering the past stories of war heros. Like how they survived in the jungle alone or how they infiltrated an enemy camp in the middle of the day.

Hikari: Kampa is right. Even if it doesn't appear helpful at first, hearing the experience of a Player who has succeed in the Mission Worlds can only be helpful to us all.

Sozin: Okay then. Let me first start from the beginning. It was about 100 years or so since the time that I ended up in God's Dimension like your team and escaped.

Sozin began to go over his experiences in God's Dimension. Like us Players of Team Japan, Sozin was suddenly thrusted into that dimension and found himself in the movie Resident Evil, this was back before when the mission were still horror movies. Also, although he lives in Japan now he lived in another country and was the team leader of Team China.

The part about Sozin being in the Resident Evil movie 100 years ago was startling, but he explained that back then God would bring Players into the world's of Horror Movies, Horror Stories, Sci-fi Movies and Disaster Films whether they were already out or not. You could still exchange for the movies and book like you could now, but the first missions for newbies were much harder back then than now as they had no hope of knowing the plot.

Sozin: Back then the first movie for a newbie was extremely hard. No one knew the plots, so they had to heavily rely of the veterans who survived beforehand.

Hikari: I see. It's frightening to think God could look into the future and acquire horror movies and other ideas for his missions he cooks up for us ( Wish I could do that for Manag and Anime, but what can you do? ).

Sozin: It's a little different than that... But that's a talk for another day and may not matter to any of you. Anyways, back to me, for my first mission I ended up in Resident Evil 1 and somehow survived.

Sozin survived his first mission and coincidentally just like how I did, he had a breakthrough in one of the three realms and completed a hidden side quest, so once he came to the the Terminal Lobby for the first time he had a lot of points to enhancement himself.

Before the next mission he exchanged for his still dominant enhancements, Ki Energy and Vampire Mutation that would make the core of his battle potential in the future. Sozin and with his wife, a human creation he made from his childhood friend who died of cancer, he would lead his team into the next mission and beyond. Sozin glossed over some details, but his description of his missions into horror and thriller movies really resonated with all of them, especially Shin.

Shin: ( What a amazing, yet frightening tale. Even for an otaku like myself and God's Dimension not yet being manga and anime, if he wrote down his journey in a light novel or cell phone novel, I would have read it to the last volume and start an online petition for it to be made into an anime. If it wasn't for the fact I could understand Sozin's trials having gone through some myself I might actually have stolen the idea and call it "Terror Infinity" or something like that ).

And then at last Sozin had collected 50,000 Points to leave God's Dimension for good. By this point his most of his original teammates had died in the Mission Worlds sadly, but the few new and old that did stay alive with him had become powerful enough to survive without him... Or that was what he wanted to convince himself so he could take his wife back with him to the real world.

Sozin had used all the rank rewards and leftover points he no longer needed for himself and gave them to his teammates before leaving for good, but still to this day he has yet to meet any of his old comrades, including those who like him should still be alive thanks to their enhancements. Worldwide travel with airplanes were not as developed as it is today, so it was very possible that they escaped and just never had the luck to run into them and had passed away by now, yet...

Sozin: I don't think my choice back then was wrong, but with old age comes regrets when you look back and doubts about one's actions in life. That my late wife would die with me if something had happened to me in one of my missions always weighed heavily on my mind and heart, so when I had the chance to leave I took. I don't think that I made the wrong choice, but I still feel unsatisfied to this day. By the end we had all become strong and capable warriors, but without a doubt I was the strongest member and the team leader at that time. I had also even gained A rank rewards and had even unlocked the Third Stage of the Genetic Constraint. My absence was definitely a blow to the team, so if a truly dangerous mission came for them all and I wasn't there... Let's just say that leaving behind my brothers and sisters I went to war with in that dimension, all just to survive is one of my three great regrets in life.

Hikari: I, I never thought that possibility before. This is definitely a good team with Shin, Aqua, Misaki, Shuai, Kampa, Saki and myself. There is still even a lot of room for improvement, yet objectively speaking Shin and Aqua will most likely gain the most points and rewards. They can take risks we all can't and defeat the bosses that the rest of us can't face alone.

Shin: Hikari, I wouldn't-

Misaki: Hikari has a point. In just our first two mission Shin has acquired close to twenty thousand points and the Veteran Aqua had many great enhancements and was able to keep up with him. Aqua especially is strong enough in my opinion that it wouldn't be strange for her to consider saving up her points now for 'Back to the Origin' since she now has strong teammates to back her up. The two of you will definitely reach 50,000 Points before the rest of us.

Shin: Don't worry so much you two. Even if I had the points to for it I wouldn't. My ultimate goal is to make use of the exchanges to become an OP protagonist. I might not be satisfied even with one million points and a few dozen A and S rank rewards. Besides, after hearing about what happened with when Sozin left I can't imagine myself leaving you all behind. Aqua is the same, right?

Aqua: ...Who knows.

Shin: Aqua?

Aqua: I... want out of that place desperately, Shin. Maybe for you Shin and those here I could consider waiting for a while, but where will it end? We will always keep getting newbies and some of them we will end up bounding with them like Shin, Hikari, Misaki and I have with the newest members Saki, Kampa and Shuai here. Where will it end if I keep waiting for everyone? Do I have to wait till we have a full team of twenty Players that won't die on any of the missions before I feel that it is okay to leave. Let me say here and now I won't, Shin. I would have to stay in that place forever if I have to wait for potentially over a dozens of comrades to gain the points to leave with me. I am more likely to die from going on all those mission then any threat a single boss could would be for me.

Shin: ...

Saki: Lets leave this discussion for later in the future people. It isn't worth considering with the points and rewards that we have right now. Also, I doubt what Misaki said, that Aqua herself is at that point to be saying up for 'Return to the Origin'. If she tried to at this time to save up points she would die.

Hikari: I agree with Saki. Sozin, you mentioned that you had two more regrets? What were they if you don't mind telling us?

Sozin: I don't mind telling you one since it may or may not have to do with you. My second regret has to do with my wife. She was the love of my life, but I never gave to much thought as to what how are future would look like together.

Shuai: I don't understand. Weren't you happy?

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Sozin: We were, but time... is a cruel bitch and so is being careless. Before I left God's Dimension for good I had acquired enough points to exchange into money for us to live comfortably for the rest of our lives, enough to even buy this island, yet I forgot to enhance her.

Misaki: Why would you do that?

Sozin: Why... Let me tell you it straight now kids. It is impossible to live long enough to save up 50,000 points to return home for good without turning yourself into a monster. I am a vampire with Ki energy who hardly aged in the last 100 years, while the women that I love did. It wasn't the easiest thing for her too see her loved one not age like herself, and seeing the women that I love die well before I did for a second time... I wished nothing more then to just punch my past self for not raising her Cell Vitality and Immunization Strength. Just enough so that she didn't pass away of natural causes at 70 years of age thinking she wasn't suited to be the wife of an unaging and powerful being like me. That's my second regret. It may not mean too much to any of you, but if you have a human creation that you genuinely love then make sure that they have the ability to live about as long as you, and just to be safe the strength to protect herself in an emergency. Nothing happened to us, but living a few decades in the real world you will learn that peace is an illusion and that wars can effect anyone, no matter which advance country you live in. Also, a person can catch a disease or get into an accident on streets that you walk by every day to work. That's why it's better to be safe than sorry.

Misaki: ...

Misaki, the only one with a human creation who he is in a relationship with listen to Sozins words like they were of the upmost importance. Misaki's position is very similar to Sozin, and so he would never want to go through what he did. Still, this just means that what Misaki needs to accomplish has increased, and so has the difficulty.

Sozin: Moving on, before my wife died we had a family. A son, which was surprising.

Kampa: Why?

Sozin: I questioned if I, with a vampire bloodline, could have a child with a normal human ( Excluding the Human Creation part ), but my fears were needless. The two of us had a son and he in fact took a lot after me.

Aqua: As in he inherited your enhancements?

Sozin: Not all of them, but my Vampire and Ki energy which were at A rank or above, my son was born with those powers to some extent. My powers were diluted by having a child with a normal human though. His powers were naturally in the C-B rank range. Then when he had his own children sixteen years ago, the twins that you met earlier, they inherited both of our powers, but one was greater then the other of our powers. Ken was born with a strong body and with more of my son's Ki which was at the entry D rank and small traces of the vampire mutation. Kaiyo wasn't born with much Ki and it wasn't at a level suitable for combat, yet had the Vampire Mutation at C rank.

Hikari: I see. We had once assumed that the monsters of legends that we knew of and thought to be fiction were potential descendants of survivors of that dimension, and this confirms it.

Sozin: You are correct. If any of you have children they will more then likely inherit your whole body enhancements and genetic mutations, but we can go over that in more detail later. Well, those are my experiences, but sorry to say I don't know anything that can help you out like some cheat code. I am aware that God has recently changed the missions that you Players go on and with that my tips of what to do for a certain movie scene or what Quest Items that are a must to pick up and how, are without a doubt now outdated.

Saki: Then what about something that is still the same? What about God?

God.

Definitely not the one true god, but as far as all of us mortals were concerned was no different as it controlled our action and lives. That ball of light in the Terminal Lobby was in charge of our missions, enhancements, and anything else that we need. Even if you hate that dimension you can't survive without interacting with it, or you would die sooner rather than later.

Sozin: God, huh. That is a bitter and not so sweat memory for me to recall. Unfortunately, I never did learn too much about that mystery. I don't know much, yet I've heard of others who do. What I do know is this. God doesn't have the ability to think. It's just a super computer that's running on a program. I can assert that God doesn't have the ability to think and lacks a personality. If it had a personality then it could one day develop in a way that it's creators never envisioned. Worse case, like those Terminator movies it could gain self awareness and rebel against its creators and us in the real world. Anyways, once you know it's a program, then you can get around its limitation for many things. It will be the same in horror movies, or the Manga and Animes that you all go into now.

Shin: So how will this help us?

Saki: So you don't understand?

Shin: Sorry, but I failed computer science.

Saki: What Sozin means to say is that we can possibly get around the rules God sets for us. If God is a computer program that has to follow set rules and lack a personality, it means that it can't think outside the box and get in or way if we trick it. For example, we are forbidden to disclose informtion about God's Dimension, right? If say Shin, I made a scheme where you alone came back to the real world and without knowing or being aware of it, you disclosed information about God's Dimension. Now, would God punish us.

Shin: The fact that I can see you doing that is scary, yet I am guessing no is the answer to your question by the flow of the conversation.

Saki: Correct. You wouldn't be punished since you didn't tell anyone, and nor would I because I am still in the Terminal Lobby of God's Dimension, so the rule doesn't apply to me. In a way, it is the same kind of logic you use to kill off newbies indirectly. The rule states that Killing a newbie will deduct you 1000 points, but if your group is being attacked by zombies and you trip a newbie so that they would be caught it isn't considered killing them in God's programming. An actual person person would make the argument that you did in fact kill them, but God is very literal in how it looks at things. Long as the stated rules are not technically broken then nothing bad will happen. God won't summon a trial and argue that you broke a rule, since it lacks the ability or judgment to do so.

Sozin: Saki is right. Looking for loop holes is a key to surviving. I once had a mission in one of the movie Alien movies and during the fight with the Queen and a group of regular aliens at the same time, the space ship that we were on was breached during the fight and soon exploded. I had thought my entire team was going to die at that moment, yet we didn't. It turned out that in our mission to kill all the aliens, the fact that they technically died before the blast reached us allowed us to survive the mission. Also, the points for killing the aliens and the queen were given to every player alive since God couldn't decide on how to reward the points and rank rewards with that kind of ending.

Loopholes.

Shin at that moment thought back to High School of the Dead and BTOOOM.

A part of his team mission in H.O.T.D was to reach the apartment of a friend of one of the female main characters, but what if they instead directly met up with the friend? If Shin had to guess, if the friend said that going to the apartment was too dangerous and suggested a JSDF base to rest at, the mission itself would conform to it. Maybe a mission to join and help the JSDF would be created. This is the plot change category where changing the plot results in new main objectives and very rewarding Hidden Side Quest.

As for BTOOOM, the Final Boss was a cyborg so what if Hikari took control of him somehow with her hacking... Or even better, had him return to base and self-destruct, taking with him all nearby Btooom Soldiers and Btooom Commanders there who were not ordered to go to the island. Team Japan could have gained an untold number of points and rewards. It's so outside the realms of the main mission that God would be confused and allow it and maybe reward every Player similar to what happened to Sozin.

Shin: Well, I geuss when we get back there will be much more formus to explore about the Mission Worlds.

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Managed to get wifi today. We'll see about tomorrow. Also, I wouldn't mind some Loophole ideas.