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rebellion against gods

In the busy streets of modern day Tokyo, a young man strolled along with his friends. His face, his mask, always smiling, yet his heart was empty . No one knew him, yet his name would be passed down throughout generations as the entity who swallowed the world. The world before event or in later years that which will be called the "apocalypse", was the same as ours. One where no magic existed and all beings were limited by the laws of the world. The impossible was made possible by technology. In such a world, the gods decided to "strengthen humanity" and hence opening Earth to the other realms. The system, the creation of the heavens. The system was meant to govern the worlds, to guide its habitants and be a tool to kill those who posed danger to the heavens. It's rules were absolute to all the realms under the heavens. The heavens a realm filled with immortals and gods, that existed to govern the laws they commanded. These gods had the responsibility to also govern the lower worlds. However one can say that the heavens were not absolute but were one of the primordial realms that existed since the birth of this universe. Apart from the heavens there exists nine other realms that were its equal. And with this information the system initiated.......

holymee · Fantasy
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Origin

Toshinori, age 18, japanese student, an otaku with few friend. Unlike your usual MC he was a level headed guy, his only flaw? he thinks too much. Having read light novels, wuxia, and philosophers like Socrates, Descartes, etc. his mental state became twisted to the extent where he felt that life had no meaning without immortality. A life where one struggles from a young age to adapt to the society, where one is branded with a caste, a religion, a social statue, a language from our birth and fed the lie that we control our own fate, our own destiny. The world became an illusion to him, a world where no matter how much he tried would anyway come to an end.

He felt like a drifter, who wanted to die but felt it was too much trouble to commit suicide. He wished for magic, chakra, qi, anything that would liven up his life. The day did come but it came at a terrible price.

The 19th of March 2025, the great apocalypse occurred and the world plunged into darkness, and from the darkness the gods initiated the system.

The system, the perfect product of the heaveans chose the most efficient method to terraform the world to contain magic. The method was cruel beyond measure. The system chose the habitants of the new world on the basis of their mental fortitude. The greater the mental fortitude the more power you were allowed to wield.

It segregated humanity into those who had the good in them, the warriors of heaven, the ones who had evil in them, the demons, and the neutral, the heros. The rest who lacked the mental fortitude to wield power were weeded out, their life essences extracted and used to create energy, the birth of mana, which came at the cost of the lives of 7 billion people.

In order to calculate the psychological strength the system created three tribulation to judge humanity, the first was to test their worthiness, the second to classify them and then third to grant them skills and power, with the grand massacre the age of magic began