Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 13, Real World I

Sozin: So do any of you have any more questions to ask?

And although Sozin said this he was already staring at the Player who he and everyone else in the room knew has questions that needed to answered.

Saki.

Saki was driven by a singular goal to learn about the Genetic Constraint, the man who rescued her in the past and the people behind her kidnapping. Two of her three questions have been answered to some extent so far, so all that reminded for her was to find more out about them... The people who killed Saki's parents and kidnapped her for unknown reason.

Saki: The question that I most wanted to ask you Sozin is this. Who were the ones who kidnapped me? I can already guess that there are some communities of survivors of God's Dimension here in the real world. What did they want from me and the other children that they kidnapped?

Sozin: Is this for revenge?

Saki: ...No. Because of them it is hard for me already to experience strong feelings for anything. If I bothered to entertain those desires then I wouldn't have the capacity for anything else.

Sozin: I see.

Aqua: I too want to know more about these survivors and the communities that they have made here in the real world. What happens to people that survive that dimension after returning to the real world and how and will it relate to us once we finally escape as well?

Sozin: In the past it didn't. God might want Players to evolve and become powerful enough to cause great changes in the real world, but rarely do the Players who make it out hold such vast power. An individual can only do so much, so for a great change in the world to occur that person must be a god like existence and have the will to change the world as well.

Shin: Is that why our world isn't more fantasy like? Even if a god level Player made it back they held no desire to change the world. Well, I am slightly pissed off that they didn't make the world more Manga like, but I can understand.

Hikari: You can?

Shin: Yeah, I mean, after going through those trials I think that anyone would just want to live in peace, right? I would, and things like changing the world and world domination are troublesome goals even with godlike powers.

Shin saw it like this.

Unless you are just going to wipe everyone off the face of the earth and start over, you are going to have to deal with the bullshit of other people. They will also expect you to do everything and never make a mistake, and even if you do everything right they'll still bitch and moan about something else. They also won't understand you even if you have the best intentions. Half the world will see you a benevolent king, while everyone else will see you as a demon lord ruling with a iron hand. There may even come a time when a hero of justice who doesn't know any better comes to defeat that person, expecting that the world will become a better place if they are defeated.

Shin: Really, I would never want such a job even after becoming OP. Not even the ultimate M would take up that post.

Sozin: Whatever the case, the point is that for the most part I lived a normal life after escaping that place. I lived half my life without meeting my teammates or anyone else from God's Dimension... And I wish that I never had, or if only they were my old teammates. I'll answer both of your concerns Saki and Aqua. This is what a friend of mine I met thirty years ago, who's also a survivor of that dimension I ran into told me.

God's Dimension has existed for a long, long time

Over the course of history God has been choosing and abducting people in the real world who have fallen into despair and thought about ending their lives to test them, and to see if they can evolve like those of the past could. According to one theory such people who seriously wanted to die also wished for a reason to live, and if given such a purpose than they would show spirit and a desire to live far beyond what normal humans who lived decent lives could.

God's means of how he contacted the people in the real world changes with the times. Computers, letters, dreams, and there was even a human creation who would visit people, but it all ended the same. All those who answered YES were transported to God's Dimension and entered the world of horrors and fiction. From there they could only live and evolve, or die.

God's Dimension and the Mission Worlds are incredibly difficult to live through and to collect enough points to return to the real world, yet there are always those who manage to make it back. Players who have with their own strengths and power of will gathered the necessary points needed and came back to the real world. These individuals possessed amazing enhancements, mutations, and other abilities and when they had children they would inherit some of their abilities. These descendants are what the modern people of this world call monsters.

Vampires that suck blood, Werewolfs that attack and turn others, and the ghouls that would eat human flesh. They are the descendants of the survivors of God's Dimension, yet the powers that they were born with became weak and unfocused overtime, so they would develop instinct that they could not control like their ancestors and become true monsters. These freaks would eventually die out due to their bloodlines becoming too weak. Time and time again survivors would make it back to the real world, have children and this cycle had remained unchanged for thousands of years... Or at least till the abnormality occurred.

Shin: The abnormality?

Sozin: That's right. That is the best way to describe them. People have always managed to escape that place over the course of history, but about 800 years ago a powerful team of Players, and I mean truly mean powerful group with the best possible enhancements returned to the real world. They held the kind of exchanges that you can't get without choosing not to immediately return to the real world because they cost so much in points and rank rewards. They also trained their abilities to the point that they surpassed there rank limitations, including the S rank exchanges. This team of Players had acquired close to true godlike powers and had finally choose to leave God's Dimension and return to the real world.

Sozin then explained that this team of god level Players numbered five in total and the rest of the world would later come to know them from the nickname others gave them.

THE IMMORTAL KING - The strongest man in the world and he who can not be killed.

DEEP ZERO - The greatest magician in the world who can destroy cities and nations with a single spell.

DIVINE BLADE EDGE - The fastest and greatest swordsman in the world whose sword can cut anything.

TRINITY - The most powerful Psyche Force user in the world who is said to even be able to foresee the future and all mysteries of the world.

WRATH - A devil like man who knows no bounds and destroy all that he touches. Also the former team's leader who lead those moster like existences.

Shin: Cool nicknames.

Hikari: Shut up Shin!

Sozin: Just so you know they didn't make up those names themselves. Their enemies who had the luck to escape them made them up. Their names also have to do with the main enhancements that they use, but that's only a rumor and I personally have only met one of them.

Hikari: Which one of the five did you meet?

Sozin: Claire, or who you would know by her nick name Trinity. She was the only female in the group and from what I've heard the only one of them who you can talk to normally as she is the most sane.

Kampa: Wait. Are you saying that these people are still alive today? Even though they left God's Dimension 800 years ago?

Sozin: That's correct. They are very much still alive for good or bad. You see, what made this group of Players so special was that they didn't try to escape the dangers of that world, but truly tried to evolve to the next stage of humanity and fully unlock the Genetic Constraint. They stayed, went on dozens, maybe hundreds of missions and got the very best enhancements, so they are very much still alive today thanks to them.

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Misaki: They sound insane. So they had the ability to survive and leave that place whenever they wanted to, but they stayed to play with all the exchanges. They were insane to not just leave.

Hikari: Misaki is correct. What a odd team they were. They were all a bunch Shin Players. Five Shin's in a single team... I feel sick just imagining it.

Shin: Hey, I am right here!

Sozin: You are correct in describing them as a odd bunch, but that place will definitely make you go crazy one way or another, I have, yet to the very end they had a goal. To evolve to the next stage of humanity, but in the end that failed.

Saki: Failed. How so?

Sozin: From what I was told it was that they could either only reach the Fourth Stage of the Genetic Constraint, or that they couldn't ascend to a higher plane of existence like those who did before them after reaching the Fifth Stage.

Then Sozin went on with his story.

Depressed and finding that going on mission was pointless anymore as they could not move on to the next plane of existence they came back to the real world. They believed, wanted to believe that they could then be satisfied with living in peace in the real world, a goal they had discard long ago, but in the end they couldn't. All of them, on one way or another had become immortal, non-human beings, so they couldn't live like other humans anymore.

If they stayed in one place for too long people would notice that they didn't age at all, and before anyone could suspect that there was something wrong with them, the five of them would have to pack up and leave. They kept doing this over and over again for hundreds of years till they ended up sick of everything in the real world. Now knowing that they couldn't fit into the real world the five of them came back together and they tried to go back to God's Dimension where they felt most alive, but they couldn't go back.

Shuai: Why not? They were depressed enough right?

Sozin: Yes, but it wasn't possible for them to return to that God's Dimension anymore. Once you choose 'Return to the Origin' you are forever banned from returning to that place.

Aqua: That is good to know. Who would want to work so hard to leave that place to only return later?

According to Sozin they didn't share this hope, so the five former teamates had come together once more and came up with a plan. They would send teams, teams composed of individuals they have chosen and who will listen to them and have them head into that God's Dimension to learn more about advancing to the next stage of humanity. God's Dimension, the Mission Worlds, evolution, God and those who came before who made that place, they were given instructions to discover every truth.

The teams that they sent into God's Dimension of course had to go through the same trials as everyone else does with the missions and everything else, but they had the backing of five strongest survivors of that dimension who have been on hundreds of missions. With their vast knowledge and experience to get around God's rules, the average causality rate had gone down by a degree, so they were able to successfully create and send teams of Players into God's Dimension who could survive the mission who were at their disposal.

Shin: Did you say teams?

Sozin: Yes. You may have realized it, but all of your teammates are Japanese or were in Japan when they answered YES to God and were brought to his dimension. Your team of Players are the current Team Japan. For every country in the world there is a team and a Terminal Lobby were Players gather and go on missions.

Hikari: Every country in the world? That means there are 190 or so teams in the the world all together. How has this been hidden from the rest of the world for so long?

Sozin: It isn't too hard really. The five members of that team do cover up any incidents from Players from God's Dimension, yet they don't have to do much. Even with close to 200 potential teams in the world the casualty rate on the mission are still very high, so high that even with the support of those five god level Players I doubt that there are even close to over a one hundred teams active at any one time. Now moving on I have to mention the change that happened two hundred years ago.

Till 200 years ago the five of them had worked together peaceful for that goal of one day discovering all the mysterious of God's Dimension and one day moving to a high plane of existence, but a problem occured. It was the fact that once you live long enough you begin to change.

After years of experience too much of life and the world has to offer, seeing your friends pass away, the world advancing yet not improving where it counts, having all the power in the world yet people still kill each other over the smallest of difference in the grand scheme of life... Both the good and the bad experience that a person goes through in one life time, the five of them experienced them over and over again. Living too long wears you down. The five team members who were already scared by God's Dimension from what they had to go through either became crazed, indifferent or overly zealous about God's Dimension. This lead to a friction between the five and eventually they all went their own ways.

There were many reasons why, but the main reasons were because of the magician DEEP ZERO and WRATH the former leader. In their spare time to relive bordom, the two of them would cause chaos in the real world for fun and to potentially have more people despair and end up in the other world as their pawns. Sozin explained that many of the war in the last 200 years, if not all of them were started at the hands of those two. Eventually the infighting about methods between the five lead to a split in the original group and they made their own organizations that would fit with their own ideals and purpose for God's Dimension. Each new organization are all composed of those who have survived, are still in, or the descendants of those who have survived God's Dimension and the Mission Worlds.

Sozin: Collectively, they are known as The Four Pillars, one pillar for each new organization. DEEP ZERO created Mass Enlightenment, a group who seeks knowledge of God's Dimension whatever the cost. WRATH created Blood Crusade, a group that seeks to evolve and erase the lesser, previous species of humans and use their power however they like in the real world or the other. DIVINE BLADE EDGE, the strongest of the five created Absolute Reckoning, a group to to oppose Mass Enlightenment and Blood Crusade and guide human into a peaceful future, but yet they are known to take extreme action to do so in the name of justice. TRINITY and THE IMMORTAL KING, the married couple of the group created Dove United, a group that has become somewhat indifferent to the truth of God's Dimension after witness the chaos that it caused, what they caused, yet still wish to keep the real world in peace and unchanged by those who have been to God's Dimension.

Mass Enlightenment... Blood Crusade... Absolute Reckoning and Dove United.

Saki: So the ones who kidnapped me as a child were...

Sozin: It was an operation backed by both Mass Enlightenment and Blood Crusade. They... What they planned to do with you and those other children was that they were going to train you all to become soldiers and one day future Players for them in God's Dimension.

This revelation silenced them all.

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So how do you like the new development of this FF the four heavenly-, I mean The Four Pillars. A very worn out, but classic reveal in a battle story. In the near future Shin and Team Japan will encounter teams from them. Whether they will fight to the death, corporate and something else... Only time can tell. The only thing that you can know is that God's battle will no longer just be restricted to his dimension... Also, this author has subpar naming sense when he came up with "Four Pillars".