On a planet in one unmentioned magicless universe in a city once famed for its beer in a year where the planets lifes days are counted only in a handfull of years a man in his 90-ties thinks about his life and future.
Since childhood he fed himself everything about magic from tales to esoteic knowledge and the worlds physical laws and through more than 77 years of practice he honed his mind to the point of perfection. From practices of “probabilistic manipulation” using hand gestures from rhetoric to internal energy sensing during meditation from chinese novels. He even used his countries free education system to study phylosophy and art at highschool and university to aid his goals. After years of practice and disproving some for his pursuits more usefull philosophical theories from famous philosophs from around the globe he came to realization that all of his practices and theories only work based on influencing his own perception of the world to see an effect regardles of his practice and not because of them having an “unnoticable effect”, like most of their creaters said in their description, because of lack of practice. But nothing stoped his efford as he decided to live the life of esoteic and try to find his way to magehood. This led him to live a life where he barely got by selling his esoteistic expertise and products to superstitous folk.
In 21. century with the bloom of internet and new cheap pocket electronics and abundance of his research material he slowly tried to create a true spell a spell which wasn’t an illusion or an educated guess. And as his years started to be counted in years he had left he fell into self-imposed sleep using his newest technique and through it had a vision. A vision of all times, laws of the universe and of The cycle. This vision with facts which could not be disputed. He posted it on the internet in the newest format which enabled thoughts to be shared in their raw form. The vision was shared with his fellow inhabitans of his planet and as no expert could disprove the vision and could only confirm its facts everyone started to trust it and they started calling it The truth of the eternal cycle. It told of history as from infinite point of mass created by the most inteligent lifeform from its universe to save itself from heatdeath of the universe, or another example of blind pursuit of their goals. To the cycles of all lifeforms slowly growing “inteligent” enough to use all resources in their enviroment that kept them alive, in many cases on worthless pursuits, until they were forced to move to another area, planet, star system, galaxy and progress towards the path of destroying the universe or dying out trying. But in the vision people saw a flaw an energy which ought to be, but wasn’t, an energy of intelect. The energy preventing the cycle. After a few days from posting the vision a being comparable to a god descended to their planet and shared to all of the worlds lifeforms the knowledge that all of them are able to ascend to the“complete universe” if they completely desire to do so.
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That was how it was supposed to be in the vision, but it wasn’t. In reality just after his vision he got cut out from the internet, because of electricity shortage and everything he heard was the ringing of sirens and a loud notice notice “Citizens please listen. Go to the nearest nuclear bunker. We are under nuclear surprise attack. USA, China, Russia, France and the UK decided to destroy our country using thermonuclear and hydrogen bombs. Their intentions were posted on the internet 10 minutes ago as most of you must have already read. Citizens please listen. Go to the nearest nuclear bunker. Their motivation is to use the created wasteland for science experiments and to create a renewable energy cycle which will turn solar radiation and air into heavy elements. The reason they chose our country is quote. Because you are in the ideal position and the worlds most hated country because of your past 12 presidents which were voted for on bookface by 12 year olds based on how ugly they are and their supposed alcohol tolerance end quote. Citizens please listen. You are to enter your nearest nuclear shelter in the next 2 minutes. One minute from now is the time all state-build nuclear shelters are going to be closed. Citizens listen bombs will fall in the between the next 30 to 300 seconds based on your location.
Well... fuck...... What now? Based on location? I am near the brewery. Nobody will Nike the brewery right? Finished his thought a senile old man and started preparing for his way to survival. Or not because he was too busy thinking about the universe, existence and esoteic to prepare himself for nuclear apocalypse and in just a moment everything turned to white.... And then black.
It lookes like the brewery was an important place.