Hi, my name is... well I don't have a name. I'm a slave. Maybe not even that, slaves at least have names, I'm just Experiment No. X. X cause apparently as my "parents" tell me, I'm the most successful and strongest experiment my captors have. No of course not they don't let me see my parents, not that I have any for all I know. These A.I robots are the designated parents they have given me, because they're obviously afraid to show themselves to me.
I live in a single house, on a prairie, in a box. The box is what keeps me here, and its huge, at least 2 square miles in diameter, and the top has a lackluster sky artificially projected to make me feel "free". I've lived here for 15 years, that's how old I am. The only time I leave is when my robot parents give me a tranquilizing shot and I end up in another box to be tested by more robots. My life is seriously fun isn't it...
Just kidding.
They give me books, educational ones and fictional ones, to make me grow as a person and make me smarter. They teach me the laws of the world so I can make stronger magic for them. Yes, MAGIC. Don't worry, I've tried escaping using the very tool they try to teach me, but its grown obvious magic won't work, even if I'm smarter than them. The infernal box is the bane of my existence, I've learned I'l never get out on my own. Neither with the help of Ol' robo parent number 1 and 2, I named them Tim and Erica cause why not, and I've taken them apart countless times and programmed them to free me countless more, but as soon as I reboot them they revert right back to how they were made and don't help me one bit.
Thanks to the fictional books they've oh so graciously given me, I've learned a bit to compare with this world and make believe others. I surmise this world is highly advanced in technology and incorporate said techology with magic to make them stronger. Magic stoves, magic guns, laser swords (my favorite), flying magic cars, magic world ending devices, etc. I don't know how many continents there are, or how many stars are in the sky. I know how many stars are in the sky in this box though, I've counted don't worry.
Today is another just like the rest, day 5,511 of my existence as the clock above my stove in the kitchen tells me. I've been told to make a new magic gun where the bullet curves back into the barrel after hitting the target to refill the energy it used firing. Truly hard, this is a bullshit idea but I'm forced to comply regardless..
[ugh, am I suppose to magnetize each plasma bullet that fires so it comes back? This'll just waste energy..] nameless
I'm currently shaping the metal provided to magnetize the swirls in the barrel to make each bullet come back. But I soon learn after the 15th try I don't have the mana capacity to complete the last swirl.
[Guess I'll just cultivate some more. Jeez I thought i was powerful enough, are they trying to make me a monster?] nameless
I lay down in the grass, cause whoever said being cross legged makes it easier to cultivate, is an utter moron. I twist and swirl the mana around my navel complementing the already formed formation I have, and attempt to add another. This will be my 270th addition to my dantian, this time I'll try going all the way around my formation adding a full circle to tighten it all up. I start to draw the mana from the surroundings making it my own, and add the circle. As soon as it was complete and started tightening the interior formations...
Hello, little one
I stand straight up. Who was that!? I look around, there has to be someone powerful around but I see and feel no one whatsoever...
I know you hear me, don't make an ass out of yourself and greet me already
Um..
[....hello?...] nameless
Who am I kidding, there's no one her..
Yes, I am here. And there. And Everywhere. Wanna guess who I am?
[Robo parent No. 3?] nameless
...no I am the True Final God, the strongest of us all. I see you made a interesting choice with your dantian and you're trapped in this box thing, just came to stop by and say hello.
Just stopped by? Is this guy crazy? What the fuck is happening..?
I'm not only interested in your dantian choices, I am interested in your soul. How is it you've kept a neutral and pure soul after being locked in this box for your whole life?
[....My captors can't all be evil can they? It's not like I have stockholm and love them, rather I hate them. It's just, maybe some are innocent, they give me books and deign it suitable I have parents whether they are robot or not. I could totally have it worse.]
That's an intelligent observation of you little one. What if I could give you the power to do whatever you wished with them all?
Hmmm... is this a test? Fuck it, it's not like its true so I'll just answer truthfully...
[I'd kill all the guilty, and punish the innocent because they are bystanders of the guilty allowing them to continue. Why?]
Just as I thought, you are truly just, foverever gray. Never evil or good, truely fit for judging. Let me show you something...
I see a huge white hand appear out of nowhere in front of me and tap my forehead. *whoosh* AHHHHH IM FALLING NO NO no... no? What is this.... a huge multiverse. Hundreds of worlds, rotating around one huge one.... no that has to be a black hole... i'm falling towards a black hole great. I'm going to die, great god whatever please stop this ok just AHHHHH....
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[WHERE AM I?!?!] nameless
Around me are ginormous statues, some beautiful and some odd. There is one in the center and I notice a man sitting on the foot of the center statue that looks identical to the statue itself.
Hello little one, I showed you the universe as a whole, all under my control. How did you like it?
Wow this is real... Holy fuck this is real....
Holy what? I am the holiest so don't add fuck to the end please
I sit down and relax my mind. Wow this is a lot. Is all my time reading fictions finally for this?
[Yes our... *cough* Your universe is amazing. I assume we are in the center now?] nameless
No Gods themselves are the only beings capable of getting here as myself, I'm currently showing you an illusion to meet you face to face. Hello, I am nameless as yourself but others usually call my Almighty or True god, nice to meet you!
[um.. nice to meet you too sir true god? Why has someone great as yourself deemed in necessary to meet me?] nameless
After reading your memories, analyzing your soul and finding your fate, I've come to think I should offer you a job.
Offer a.. job? really?
[But sir, as you've no doubt read from my memories, I wish to be free, under no one and strong enough to not be held down. why would i accept one captor for another?] nameless
I am not your captor, you never had to answer as you did. This job I offer will allow you freedom in a single world and to be the strongest, not being held down by anything or anyone.
[If that's so, then how is it a job? That sounds pretty easy if i do say so myself...] nameless
You will be the guardian of the world. A new world. One that hasn't had a guardian to guide it before. Life to good. Life to evil. Your job will be to balance the world, not to let the good or evil lean to far on one side. Keep the world gray to let others grow stronger, or to live peacefully as they like. Or kill millions, just as long as their... guilty as you'd call it. You as my apostle will recieve misisons from myself, and can do as you like along the way. You won't always have a mission and can guide the world as you like in the meantime, because you are just.
...This is perfect...
[I accept! Please allow me to be your friend then!] nameless
Friend huh... All my friends have names. Would you like yours?
me?.... a name?
[Don't make it lame at least thank you.] nameless
I grant you the name Drake. Never a last, because you'll never stay still. Go now!
He waves his hand and I fly backwards. Fuck is this gonna happen all the time?
I find myself back in the infernal box still standing like nothing ever happened. Did that really just happen? I look around and find the metal I was melding still sitting in a bucket, everything is the same. Where is oh so mister true god?
and enjoy your new life little one.
Wow it was real. Or am I hallucinating? Isn't this where I teleport to the new world? Do I have to die first and reincarnate there? Whatever I'll just finish this super bullshit weapon for Captor No. 1 and take a nap, I'm obviously to tired for this.
I finished it all up alright. Only took me 30 minutes after my dantian change. Why the hell do they make me do such a simple thing and keep me here, are they to dumb to do it themselves? Ugh this box is getting to me, I'm going to sleep.
[zzzzz...] Drake
I sit up. Where am I. This is not the box, and is obviously not a dream I feel humidity in the air....
Welcome to your new world little one! Did I surprise you?
This is....
I look around, a volcano to my left, mountains to my right, I am in a field not unlike the fake prairie in the infernal box....
[Yes. I was surprised mr. true god sir. Why did you wait till I was asleep to teleport me here?] Drake
Oh no, not teleported. I had to kill you and send your soul in this new body I made for you here. Did you want me to kill you while you were awake? That would hurt little one, your welcome.
Wait... new body!?
[Why a new body!? Be more god like and fictional and teleport me! This is so realistic, not fantastical like my stories at all...] Drake
Yes new body. Your mana formation in your dantian wasn't strong enough to survive a full world teleport, so you had to die. Thus, you have to formation now. Better get to work. No time to dilly dally, I will freeze time a square mile around you for five years. I have put enough supplies to live and a book of magic laws and stages around you, study well and grow the strongest in this time, I won't be able to talk to you during this time. Good luck.
.... I'll sit down then. Wow this is a lot. He is right, I have to get to work and I'm obviously at the beginning again. At least I'm not in a damn box. Let's get started.
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5 years later
My old formations were shit. There and 3 dantians. Not one. Stupid old world scientists, I am ridiculously strong now, I feel like I could undo this time barrier by myself but I'll leave it up courtesy to mr. true god. I think it's about to go down anyways. Yup there it goes...
Drake! How'd it go? Are you.... What is with that white hair of yours!?
[After my entire body became mana itself, it let me change my appearance but due to being sentimental, I kept my body the same minus the 5 years of working out, I just wanted white hair cause it's badass] Drake
Body made of mana! Boy you are one step from becoming a God yourself! You really worked hard. Alright, are you ready to work?
I sat down finally breathing in the fresh air that came in after the barrier came down. Yeah, I've worked out for 5 years and I have to say, I'm pretty chiseled haaa. After I finished my last formation my body became mana itself and could change it all so working out was pointless. But white hair is cool so I'm happy.
6ft tall, long muscles but not to big to be bulky. White skin from being inside the barrier, and white hair in a messy bowl like shape, my bangs covering one of my eyes. And a... devilishly handsome face? I'm not sure, robo parents said I look good but I don't even know honestly.
[Yeah I'm ready. And don't call me boy or little one, I'm 20 now... call me Drake. It's what you named me after all] Drake
Good Good! Alright pick up that compass, it'll point to whatever objective is in a mission I give you in the future. But for now it should be spinning because you're already here. This continent doesn't have a name, but you could call it the demon continent. I'd like you to stabilize it please, before it overflows and reaches the normal continents.
Hard mode already? I want a laser sword please