Beautiful True Stories I witnessed as part of growing up in a remote village.

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This Webnovel doesn’t cost any SS (yet)so...maybe...you could give it a go?????
 
I’m just a lonely introvert author who wants to share her wild imaginary stories to a bunch of lonely introvert people who like wild imaginary stories

Sometimes I wonder if my phone is really just a phone

What if it is my sister or my imaginary lover
It always is either sleeping or whispering to me
Staring blankly at me as I hug it
Warming to the touch when at feeding time
It chirps to me when it wants me to know the latest news
CoronaVirus It screams at me 
Stay Indoors It alerts me
Beware it will drop to freezing point over the weekend 
It tells me

Sometimes I wonder if my phone is just a phone

With a calm demeanor it hugs my skin as I silently weep in seclusion 
Away from the ones I love
We are both locked away in our own world
The phone and I
What if it is my sister or my imaginary lover
It always is either sleeping or whispering to me
Sometimes we experience sickness and need to take a long nap
Staring blankly at me as I hug it
Be strong I whisper to it
Warming to the touch when at feeding time
When the weather gets bad it warns me to stay indoors
CoronaVirus It screams at me 
Stay Indoors It alerts me
So we both stay indoors 

The phone and I slowly age
It gets a few more scratches on its face 
While I slowly gray and develop a more mature sense in life


 Sometimes I wonder if my phone is really just a phone
What if it is my sister or my imaginary lover
If it be my imaginary lover
It keeps me company 24/7
Counciling me and leaving me breathless 
When it tells me stories
 Sometimes I wonder if my phone is really just a phone

Perhaps it is what can bring me to the ones I love best 
And whispers to me Be Careful those  others are like a virus.

There was a certain tale about Anansi meant to teach a simple lesson: Once upon a time, Anansi became the Lord of all Stories, and as such was the nature of worship, people came from all over to ask for his wisdom, until a group of men were VERY rude to him. This incensed him to an extreme point.

In anger, he decided to punish all human kind by hiding his wisdom from them. He got all the stories and knowledge he had before placing them into a great pot. Then he sealed that great pot tightly.

He then snuck out at night and tried to bury that great pot where no one would look. This lead him to trying to climb a tree. He tied the huge pot in front of him and tried to get to the top, but no matter how much he struggled, the pot would keep on getting in the way, causing him to slide back down. Little did he know that as he was fruitlessly making this climb again and again, his son, who had inherited his intelligence, had been watching.

His son was curious about his father's antics, but as he watched him climb and slide down repeatedly without any signs of trying to change his methods, slowly, he became really impatient.

Once reaching his boiling point, Anansi's son finally jumped out of his hiding place and asked why his father wasn't tying the pot to his back instead. This startled the African Spider as he was hit by an epiphany, which he then spoke to his son:

{"I thought I was the wisest, but clearly, you, my son, are much wiser."} After learning that all the knowledge in the world couldn't stop humanity from having wisdom, he broke the useless pot.

This allowed the stories and knowledge trapped within to flow our to all of humanity. And thus ending the tale with deep contemplation. There is no better story to teach kids that knowledge does not qualify as wisdom better than this one.

However, Jordan wasn't concerned with that.

The Spiritual Energies of the Imaginary Entity known as 'Anansi, The Spider' flowed into him as he reformed the pot with his own interpretation. To him, these Imaginary Entities were the embodiment of stories, thus, they were equated with 'Wisdom'.

He explained what he intended to do to everyone present, and after gaining their approval, he did as he intended to do in the beginning, which was to form his Imaginative Spirit using Arachne... Or at least using her as a basis for it instead.

{Spirit Guise- Great Pot of Sealed Wisdom}

Meanwhile, in his new 'reality', the Shinsengumi Order watched over him as he was forming his Imaginative Spirit, and many were shocked to know that the newest suspect they captured was only now forming his Imaginative Spirit in his cell.

"Hey, do you think he really did it?" One brawny holding an oversized man in particular who had removed the suspect they apprehended into a more secluded cell used for interrogation spoke as he looked at the person in chains. His whisper reached the ears of Red Flame, the young Knight who will one day make a name for herself in future.

She was an ironic character. She was called a Knight yet she looked like a samurai, which mostly had to do with Jordan's tastes. This was true for most the characters here except for the giant of a man who was the first one to talk in that room.

"Big Wolf, don't ask stupid questions."

"You're right. Of course he did it."

"Wrong. Do you think a mere Human with no Gift or Imaginative Spirit could kill the Wolfheart's Head?"

"Don't blame my big brother. He's too stiff to think of obvious things like this." A more gangster-like man who was a lot shorter than Big Wolf defended him after using his muscular arm to lock his head.

The man who went by the nickname of Bad Wolf snickered as he turned his head to the last person among them who was sitting at the side quietly while reading a book. Her nickname was Goldie, a girl who had a lot of prestige in the Order.

Seeing that she didn't want to speak, Bad Wolf smiled and was about to call out to her. It was then that just before he spoke, her head lifted to look at the young man who was chained in the centre.

The phenomenon of an Imaginative Spirit's creation was now forming on the meditative figure, and strangely, instead of a humanoid silhouette, they saw the 'Spirit' of a spider hanging behind him.

"Wait." Goldie stopped them as she sensed that this creature actually had a Light Alignment. She wasn't sure which Imaginary Entity he turned into an into his Imaginative Spirit, but it wasn't their job to figure that out. Red Flame called those outside.

After a few minutes, Jordan awoke to see the scene himself being chained inside a very dark interrogation room. His eyes focused to see a woman who he hadn't been able to recognise.

'Did I create a character like this girl?' His eyes noticed the flowing golden hair of the woman before him, but he couldn't remember any characters like her ever existing in his story.

It was at this point that he realised his mistake. As he couldn't quite write every single character that was irrelevant to the story, there was a high chance she was a resident of this world outside the 'plot'.

Though she didn't look scary, he didn't let his guard down as the story he created wasn't so easy on those who looked down on another just because they were weaker. Everyone had their own Gifts that were capable in the right situations.

He didn't underestimate her, that's why he instantly came to the conclusion that she must have a Gift that works similar to a lie detector. Beside her must be the warden he had heard back in his jail cell.

"We have questions for you. If you answer them truthfully, we will do our best to allow you citizenship in our Aries Colony. Do you understand English?" She dived into the questions pretty quickly as Jordan nodded his head to answer.

The most common language of this world ended up as English because he was too lazy to add lore about languages. He was glad he didn't add anything too sophisticated into history or else he'd be flailing around, unable to understand a thing.

"Yes..." He spoke to her 'timidly'. After all, the more harmless he seemed, and the less they saw him as a threat, the easier he could move around. So it was only natural that he put on a new persona.

His cocky and intelligent personality wouldn't mesh well with them, so he acted as if he was an idiot.

"Why were you at the Wolfheart Household?" Was understandably the very first question she asked.

"I was 'transported' there."

"And for what reason?" The frail writer hesitated as he could really say it was to 'edit' his own story.

He thought fact, and came up with an answer.

"It was to meet the Wolfhearts." He didn't really lie as was all a matter of perspective what happened.

"Where are you from?" She suddenly changed the course of the inquiry since she sensed his secrets.

Goldie wasn't to be looked down on. As the Chief of the Interrogation Devision, she had seen her fair share of criminals. As long as he did anything out of the ordinary such as using his Spirit Guise, she would instantly deem him to be a threat to society.

If that was to happen, they would dispose of him.

"Earth?" His eyes looked at her really cluelessly.

"She meant: Who is your employer and why were you sent here?" The stoic-looking warden looked at him in doubt. Though there was changes in the personality of the guy in front of him, he couldn't quite know him well enough to realise if this current side of Jordan was authentic or one flawless act.

"I worked at a bank. Really, I too didn't think that I'd be whisked away to meet the Wolfheart Family." He spoke in an innocent tone. Since all his words had no deeper intentions and were sincere, they believed him without a shadow of a doubt.

"Do you have a Gift?" They assumed him to not have one because of how weak he seemed. Just by looking at his total amount of Qi and the fact he looked untrained in physical combat, they came to the conclusion that he was merely a worker.

If he didn't know the setting of his world, maybe he would have agreed for the sake of passing suspicion. However, he knew well that the deep discrimination young people in his story had for regular 'Humans' with no Gifts didn't work well.

"My 'special quality' is in my recently formed Imaginative Spirit." He didn't answer her question whatsoever, but rather informed her of this fact merely to give her the wrong assumption.

{Truth} This was what both Goldie and the warden could see above his head as they were unaware of his thoughts. He wasn't one to be underestimated as well thanks to his natural way of covering lies.

The way he did so was to think of inquiries not as questionnaires that needed a specific answer for each question but think of both the opponent's questions and his own answers in a disjointed manner from the beginning to end.

From the very beginning, he wasn't 'cooperating' with them. He was just doing as he saw fit.

His answers were solitary and had no connection to their questions, that's what he believed, and so, it was also what their abilities based the truthfulness of his answers off. As an ordinary person would become nervous from the mere fact they were using Gifts to detect lies, they failed to see that Jordan was became more bolder when pressured.

The kind of disconnection he had from knowing this world was fiction allowed him to stay calm despite the unbearable pressure they put on him. A suffocating atmosphere was nothing to him...!

They asked some more questions about his personal information and history, and he skilfully portrayed those answers in a way that would make him truly seem like someone who was cast away into the colony to keep the Wolfheart siblings safe.

He didn't spin a tale for them, as their own assumptions and theories were enough. When they matched what happened with the personality he had shown, they came up with their own meanings.

Surely, they thought this innocent and frail-looking man must have been thrown to the location of the tragedy in order to protect the Wolfheart siblings. It must have been an acquaintance of the family that sent him there to act as the children's meat shield.

They had impressively looked down on him despite him bluffing about having a 'Gift', but he saw no meaning in correcting them. They looked down on him and saw him as no more than pushover, but he put on a brave smile in front of this humiliation.

The act must go on, and he couldn't break character for even a moment. Then came the last question that had been bugging Goldie in particular, as the Order was very curious about it:

"Do you know of the Alexis Armoury?"

"E-em... No." He lied on purpose, causing both of them to frown as they sensed his insincerity.

"You don't have to tell us where it is. We are just curious, did you hide their inheritance?"

"..." He didn't clearly answer, which they saw as an acknowledgement. Goldie smirked in disdain:

"Are you going to answer or not?

"E-erm... It was the Wolfheart couple who hid their inheritance." He lied once again, that made them even more confident that he must have hid the treasure many high level figures knew about.

It is said that the Alexis Armoury had the 'Highest Purity Nethersteel Weapon' to ever be forged, and while they weren't wrong, they also were entirely right, as this weapon they craved had sentience.

To believe him to have hidden it was only a natural response. The warden noticed the small light of greed in Goldie's eyes as she was about to continue questioning, but it was at that moment he got a call on his earphone about a situation.

"Wait. We have to wrap up." He grabbed her shoulder with a nervous expression on his face.

"What's wrong?" She looked at him in surprise.

"We have a 'guest' that wants to talk to him."

"Who?"

"She is... that violent and crazy redhead!" Even as his words ended, the sound of someone smashing the door to the interrogation room could be heard as a foot-shaped dent appeared onto it.

The next kick smashed the reinforced metal door into the air and caused it to slam into the wall after brushing past the warden's head. Both of them felt terrified as this newcomer spoke in a sweet voice:

"It's nice to meet you~"

The story is the third entry in the trilogy of Battlefield Restart but is being written as the direct sequel instead. The events of Battlefield Restart 2- An Adventure Beyond Greatness, are contained so there isn’t much to be missed by skipping it.

This novel is about an Author being sent into the nightmarish world he writes due to his destiny. The main character of BR 2 appears but isn’t focused on much, as this is about the Omniscient Writer’s story.

Vol. 0 is skippable and isn’t essential to the story as a whole. Only something there for extra info.

Good day to all who have given a chance to this work!

This Chapter 0 is basically serving as a Cover Letter for this whole novel, not functioning as a Prologue. You might find it a bit strange but I thought it was best to approach it in this manner.

For the background, the setting will be inside Inkstone Tower or Inkstone Hotel, which shall be called Inkstone in the novel. It will be an equivalent to how the Continental was in the John Wick Movies. There, it served normal guests as well as assassins. Inkstone would be serving readers as well as Original Authors to match that premise.

The currency to use by Authors inside Inkstone will be Gold Stars, instead of Gold Coins (due to the existence of the Star Rating System).

Right now, I am imagining the Webnovel Staff/Office as the government or police authority in this imaginary world. Where would the translators and its readers be residing then? Why in Webnovel Tower/Hotel of course! But since I am an Original Author only, I can't tell stories of what happens inside that "hotel". I may be able to write some stories I've heard, similar to how news spreads, but that's about it.

I'll be making a few characters to note Right now as I have planned them.

INKSTONE STAFF:
CloudXXXL (Product Manager of Inkstone) - introduced as 'The Cloud'. The Central Library of all Accounts handling Inkstone Tower. Holds records of all assassins of Inkstone and relays job orders.
Amro4games – will be named as Amro Stark in the book. He will be playing the role of Hotel Manager of Inkstone. (Introduced in Chapter 1)
17Sphynx17 –named Jarvis. He operates the front desk of Inkstone and is the Concierge. (Introduced in Chapter 1)
Millman97 – Inkstone's head of Hotel Security known as Mr Miller. (Introduced in Chapter 1)
ReapersLab - Inkstone's Sommelier (Weapon's Expert) known as Felix (Codename UWG) (Introduced in Chapter 2)

INKSTONE MEMBERS:
Cobyboy – Ms Coby. An assassin member of Inkstone (Introduced in Chapter 1)
FixIce - Ms Eliza (Lady Ice). An assassin member of Inkstone who works at Inkstone's Discord Bar (Introduced in Chapter 2)
TheLonerLion - Ms Aurina Leonore (The Lone Lion). An assassin member of Inkstone who works at Inkstone's Discord Bar Part-Time (Introduced in Chapter 2)

Other authors will be added in due course once stories are developed for them and permission is granted to use their names in the stories. I will try my best to provide a link to their novels in each chapter that they have been written into, should the permission be given.

Thank you for taking time to read this backgrounded and I hope you can enjoy reading this book of mine. =)

NO REGULAR UPDATE SCHEDULE FOR THIS STORY!

INDEFINITELY PUT ON HOLD. Busy with work. Really sorry but I can't juggle this, work and my main novel at this time. I am not dropping this, but I need to focus on what can pay this bills first. Hope you guys understand. Thank you.
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This book was created from interactions with fellow Original Authors. Thus, with a bit of imagination, I thought it would be a fun idea to work with and do an Inkstone Tower Story Book, as a parody of the Continental in John Wick Movies.
The focus being the "hotel" run by a boss and how it operates. 
I hope the readers might find the appeal in this novel.
There won't be any regular updates for this as the stories that will be written need to be based off actual interactions with authors, but given a twist to change it up.
I will give best effort to obtain all parties used in the story to prevent any misunderstanding as this work done for the fun creative idea that was nurtured in Inkstone Discord.

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          A strange creature is floating in the colorless space. This creature has the appearance of an eyeball, but its similarity with an eyeball stops here. Most of the creature's metallic black surface is covered by glowing circuitry lines that merge into its neon blue iris, and the color of this creature's iris is the same as the color of those circuitry lines. This creature has a light yellow pupil in the center of its iris, which is blinking in a steady interval.
          At first glance, this creature seems like a nightmarish creature that comes out of a sci-fi movie, but this creature is actually the supreme being in [Fictional Realm]. This creature is called [Administrator] and its purpose is to manage the circulation of [resource] that keeps the [Fictional Realm] stable and existing indefinitely.
          [Fictional Realm] is the name of a metaphysical realm made from mankind's collective subconscious thoughts and their beliefs about fiction. It is both illusory and reality, existing as both matter and dream.
          As the manager of the [Fictional Realm], [Administrator] dwells in the centermost of this imaginary universe. Although it never left its dwelling, [Administrator] always knows what happens in [Fictional Realm] because it is omniscient. And with [Administrator]'s authority in this imaginary universe, [Administrator] is also omnipotent. Of course, [Administrator]'s power is limited to this imaginary universe alone.
          With that, [Administrator] is an existence akin to God. No... [Administrator] is the God of this imaginary universe. It is the absolute supreme being above all overpowered fictional characters that were ever being created by mankind's ideas. And despite [Administrator]'s power is absolute, it doesn't mean [Administrator] is without an equal, and truth be told, there exists a threat against its existence…
          The natural counter of [Fictional Realm] and [Administrator] — created by the jaded thought and realistic outlook of mankind who was disillusioned by their harsh reality, an existence called [Oblivion] is the natural counter of [Fictional Realm]. Although they were made from the collective subconscious of mankind, which means they share a similar origin, [Oblivion] has an advantage against [Fictional Realm] and [Administrator] because of its conceptual nature — [Oblivion] exists only to erase the [Fictional Realm], a nature that presented a gross disadvantage for [Administrator] and its imaginary universe that wants to preserve their existence.
          [Administrator] has tried countless attempts to fight off the advance of [Oblivion], and yet all [Administrator]'s attempts met with utter failure. [Administrator] has sent off the strongest characters — heroes, antiheroes, and villains — from each fictional world within [Fictional Realm], but those characters ended up as insignificant nuisances against the [Oblivion], which devoured them in the blink of an eye.
          Like throwing countless eggs on the boulder's hard surface, those eggs cannot harm the boulder. Maybe, the more apt metaphor is, like throwing pebbles into an ocean. And it was nothing but a waste of resources that could be used for better things.
          Although those characters were powerful, they lacked something that could affect the [Oblivion]. And that something is the [Will of Mankind] from [Reality].
          Coming to that conclusion, [Administrator] had an idea: "What if I summon someone from [Reality]?"
          Since [Fictional Realm] and [Oblivion] were made from humanity's collective subconscious, a person from [Reality] is surely the answer for [Administrator]'s dilemma. But summoning someone from [Reality] is something easier said than done! Although [Administrator] is peerless in the scope of [Fictional Realm], [Administrator] is only peerless in this imaginary universe and cannot summon a person from [Reality] through conventional means that often happened in Portal Fantasy stories. As an aside, [Administrator] intimately knows the concept of Hero Summoning from many worlds within this imaginary universe. After all, all fictional ideas that were thought out by mankind existed in this imaginary universe. And 'Portal Fantasy' is a well-known genre of fiction. There are countless worlds wherein that kind of phenomenon happened.
          Be that as it may, [Administrator] can still summon someone from [Reality], but not through the conventional means that normally happened in those 'Portal Fantasy'-based worlds. Because of the nature of [Fictional Realm], [Administrator] cannot summon this person's physical body. Only this person's ego can be summoned to [Fictional Realm].
          Furthermore, summoning the ego of a person from [Reality] is an arduous and costly endeavor. [Administrator] needs to sacrifice an exorbitant amount of the [resources] generated by mankind's subconscious thoughts and beliefs. And lately, this [resource] is very scarce and enough to maintain the continuity of the [Fictional Realm] while slowing down the progress of [Oblivion].
          It is clear that [Fictional Realm] is currently in a precarious situation.
          The reason behind this [resource] deficiency is, as time progressed in [Reality], mankind collectively become stagnant and lazy because of the convenience of the modern era. They have stopped producing substantial ideas and beliefs, lacking inspiration and imagination, which are important to generate enough [resource] to sustain the [Fictional Realm]. And so, [Administrator] experienced [resource] deficiency. Still, with the mechanical precision in management, [Administrator] was able to save up the extra [resource] for an emergency. It is unclear if its savings are enough to fuel the summoning. [Administrator] has never done this, after all. There is a chance it doesn't have enough energy.
          "Regardless, I shall do it!" The desperate [Administrator] decided.
          And so, [Administrator] consumed its saved [resource] and opened a connection to the collective subconscious of mankind. And just by doing that alone has taken almost the entirety of [Administrator]'s savings, but [Administrator] soon discovers its saved [resource] isn't enough to pull someone's ego from [Reality] to the [Fictional Realm].
          "Should the energy for keeping my realm stable be used for this?" [Administrator] asked and started weighing its decision.
          If [Administrator] uses up its stored energy that must be circulated in [Fictional Realm], countless worlds will cease to exist at once. And without those worlds to slow down [Oblivion], that conceptual calamity will quickly and easily get closer to [Administrator]'s location in the centermost of the [Fictional Realm]. However, if its plan succeeds, it can stop the advance of its archenemy indefinitely.
          It is a dangerous gamble. [Oblivion] will claim it if [Administrator] makes a mistake, but it can also prolong [Fictional Realm] existence if it succeeds!
          After finding its resolve, [Administrator] discovers another problem, it can't just take anyone from [Reality]! It can't summon someone charismatic that can sway the masses, which is the kind of person [Administrator] needs the most! A person with the power to move the masses has an important connection with the collective subconscious of mankind. Someone like that has overabundant resources to fight off the [Oblivion], as well as maintaining the expenditure of [Fictional Realm]. However, that kind of person is very important in the [Reality], and [Administrator] cannot take that kind of person away from [Reality]...
          Well, truth be told, [Administrator] can summon someone like that, but it will cease to exist because of converting its existence into the required [resource] to summon such a person. In the end, [Administrator] narrowed down the list of candidates it could summon without endangering its existence...
          Somehow, all the candidates it can summon are Otaku or Weeaboo that aren't significant in [Reality]. And truth be told, [Administrator] doesn't mind that kind of people because they suit its needs. Being mindful of its expendable [resource], [Administrator] selects the candidates with the cheapest [resource] to summon them.
          From here, the candidates are Otaku and Weeaboo who don't mind getting summoned to another world — people who are delusional and dreamer — they know that being summoned to another world is something that only happens in fiction but they still wish to get the opportunity to experience that. They are people without family or significant others to tie them down in [Reality]. And they consider their life is too difficult, and they yearn to have a superpower to make their life more easy and convenient. These kinds of people are surprisingly many. And so, [Administrator] summons one randomly.
          After pulling the ego of this person, [Administrator] discovers that its connection to the subconscious of mankind has been cut off. Perhaps, it is the instinct of mankind's subconscious to protect themselves. That aside, this happening presents a bigger problem for [Administrator]. Since [Fictional Realm] was cut off from the [Reality], it wouldn't receive the [resource] to maintain the existence of [Fictional Realm]. 
          [Administrator]'s regret is bottomless, but it can do nothing about it. At least, [Administrator] has someone from [Reality] that can become a constant resource generator for [Fictional Realm]. Well, [Administrator] only grasped a lifeline here. Nevertheless, [Administrator] achieved what it sought out even though [Fictional Realm] and [Administrator] is in a pinch now.
          Putting aside its regret and other irrelevant thoughts, [Administrator] begins experimenting with this person. After some time, [Administrator]'s experiments met mixed results. [Administrator] could turn this person into the generator of [resource] to replace its cut off supply from the collective subconscious of mankind. However, the resources it gained was very limited, even below the standard of a single person's worth of resource it could gain from the collective subconscious of mankind.
          However, it couldn't be helped since this person is only a mediocre person, and this person was under outside influence to stimulate his willpower. No matter, what is important is [Administrator] has realized it could cultivate this person to produce more [resource] for [Fictional Realm].
          Other than that, [Administrator] discovered that the 'something' it needs to fight off [Oblivion] can be produced by this person. However, [Administrator] cannot reproduce this 'something' because the production of this 'something' is according to this person's desire and willpower.
          Because of that, [Administrator] is helpless. It cannot just force this person to generate this... All right, let's call this 'something' as a 'vaccine' to fight off [Oblivion]. Although it has absolute omnipotence and omniscience, its power only affects this imaginary universe, and since this person came from [Reality], he is beyond [Administrator] capability to directly exploit him.
          "Was that Mankind's Free Will? Mankind is an amazing creature." Although [Administrator] cannot directly exploit this person's will, it is still feeling amazed by this human.
          After some moments, [Administrator] puts aside its amazement to this human and focuses on the more important thing, "The best method to cultivate this person's willpower is the reward and punishment method. It can also make him cooperative, I suppose. All right, I shall prepare the tool to help this person's cultivation. First, I shall prepare a system that will help cultivate his willpower and make him cooperative to my cause..."
          There are many fictional worlds within [Fictional Realm] with the protagonist — also called the World's Chosen One or Fate's Chew Toy  —  possessing a system. Using one of those systems as the template is an easy thing to do. After tailoring a system, it is the time to pick out a world to transmigrate the ego of this person, and [Administrator] picks out a world it thinks this person will like to be in. Then, it sends the ego of this person to inhabits its new body.
          Afterward, [Administrator] only needs to wait for this person's development...

Reincarnated in the world of anime, acquiring a system, having no responsibility other than thinning out the ever-present 'monsters', getting the opportunity to become powerful and travel to other fictional worlds, and can do anything you wish... even if you want to make all pretty woman yours, conquer or destroy worlds, and other crazy stuff...

Are those things worthy of being a slave in all but name for a higher being for eternity?

Well, let's find the protagonist's thoughts about it in this story!

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This story contains mature content (I.e. Profanity, Gore, Sexual Content, and other strong and offensive contents for some perspectives). Beware, only for eighteen and above!

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All copyrighted materials belong to their respective owner. Isekai_Returnee just owns his original characters and the plot!

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In the midst of life what separates a beast from a human is its sheer instinct to survive. Devour to live and evolve. Humans are different in that they want to rule. Two creatures pinned up against each other, created from an unknown creator. Thus thrones were built. For balance. Gander of the sight of life. As it is as cruel as it is beautiful.

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"Ah, such an interesting tale don't you think? Dr.Oaken?" Says a young boy with dark brown hair.

"You read too much. When you should be reading the world." Dr.Oaken swirls a glass cup filled with Hennessy Richard scotch. Ice cubes rattle around the edges of the cup.

"But books make you imagine wonderful worlds. It is because of you reading stories out loud for me, that I can make new worlds in my mind and it is because of our world that these books exist." Joyfully replies the boy with. 

"Fuck the world, boy. Fuck it in its whore asshole. Fuck everything about it. Fuck your imaginary world as well. Everything is pointless. You live and you die. That's fucking it." Dr. Oaken cracks his glass of scotch. Fresh blood leaks from his index finger.

A flicker of flames dies in the winter night. Silence fills the room.

"You know what I hate more than our own spineless species?"

Silence.

"I fucking hate who created us." Dr. Oaken takes a long sip from the broken glass and then smokes on a fat cigar.



"Bless science. The only thing good that ever came from this whore world." He gazes at the stars and takes a puff from his cigar.

"Bless science."

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I have always believed that Dr. Oaken was the smartest man on our planet. He would create things that no mere mortal would dare to dream of. He was a man who won many awards and created many mind-blowing theories. He truly was a genius of untouchable status. However, the only thing he couldn't conquer was his drinking problem and his hatred towards our world. That, and the many women he slept with.

A college scientist who is near-blind is reborn into a tentacle monster that can see everything. But will what he see with his new vision? Will he see the truth of the new world he is reborn in? Or will he see his past life flash before him as his body evolves into something ghastly? In the world of Zareth, one thing is sure. And that is the glory and honor of hunting down a Beast Born. A beast that has a human mind and soul. 

Every reincarnation comes with a price.

Gods against Demons. Humans against Beasts. The Seven God Realms of Zareth are finally unleashed. Will the young scientist survive in this new system world? Watch him as he cultivates his way to the top.

[Tags]: Reincarnation, System, Evolution, Cultivation, Overpowered Protagonist, Bloodline, Fantasy, Adventure, Action, Wuxia, Grimdark Harem.

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Qin Guan nodded at the director, put the script down on the table, and began to perform before an imaginary embroidery frame.
Who can teach me how to act? Forget it, there’s no time for that.  
    Pretending to hold a needle between his fingers, Qin Guan struck his most flattering pose and poked at the frame. There had to be someone coming. Taking advantage of Professor Li's lessons, Qin Guan tilted his head to the side. That was the best pose for a lens. 
    Li Shaohong found the boy's performance interesting. Forming a frame with her fingers, she looked through them to observe Qin Guan's lens sense.
    He turned around, sat back, and turned his back to the camera. The boy had a good figure. He stared at an imaginary princess to show his elegant style. 
    Then Qin Guan stood up, opened his lips and said, "Can you do stitch work, my princess?" After several seconds, he gestured in the air. "Your hands should be higher..."
    Qin Guan pretended to put his hand on someone’s shoulder to teach them how to embroider.
    Li Shaohong knocked on the table. Wonderful! It’s romantic, in spite of the vacant space. He looks at her as if she’s the whole world! For a green hand, he is better than most actors!
    Qin Guan wasn’t about to tell her that he was pretending the princess and the queen were both Cong Nianwei.
    It was easy for him to play a male imperial concubine. If it made Cong Nianwei happy, he could pretend to be cooler. It wasn’t too much to ask.
The director was satisfied. Qin Guan changed into his clothes, and Sister Xue went to get the contract. Everyone was happy. 
    Li knew that Qin Guan was a college student and she promised to look after him. On the way back to college, Qin Guan realized that he had passed the audition.
    He decided to tell his girlfriend first by showing her Li's autograph in his pocket. He had begged for that signature shamelessly.
    He still recalled the speechless expression on Sister Xue’s face and the amused one on Li Shaohong’s face. He kept murmuring to himself, "I’m sorry, Sister Xue. I may have lost you face again, but I did it for my girlfriend."
    Fine, Cong Nianwei was more important! 
   She had to be at the house currently, watching the workers paint the wall. The previous day they had realized that neither of them was good at physical work. Therefore, they had hired a labor contractor. It had cost them only 200 yuan to have all the walls painted.
    When Qin Guan returned home, the house was already clean. Cong Nianwei was busy picking up newspapers from the floor. 
    Qin Guan hugged her from behind and turned her around. Before Cong Nianwei could get angry, he took out Li's autograph and showed her.
    He had narrowly escaped disaster. Cong Nianwei blushed from joy.
    Qin Guan tried to steal a kiss. Huh? She’s not angry! She has to get used to my kisses at some point!
    Cong Nianwei paid no attention to Qin Guan though. She was too busy reading the script of the play.
    What a wonderful play! I hope to see it on TV as soon as possible. Considering the state of modern literature, Cong Nianwei liked to read stories of that style. 
    She patted Qin Guan on the shoulder encouragingly and grumbled in a flirtish manner, "I have been working the whole day. Take me out to dinner! After supper, we can back and read the script! It’s your scene soon! Come on, move! Move!"
    Before Qin Guan could regret everything, Professor Li, who had heard the news, arrived and took him away.
    Professor Li raised both hands in approval at Qin Guan. That was what things were like in the capital. If you were popular, sponsors spent a lot of money on you. Nobody cared about how you became popular though. 
    Qin Guan was escorted to a big yard in Golden Fish Hutong. It was a standard courtyard with an antique arch.
    In the middle of the yard there was a clove tree that made the whole structure look lively.
    Qin Guan stared at an old lady, who had been invited to instruct him on traditional formalities. Is she really a history professor at the Capital University? 
    The old lady looked back at Qin Guan with a disgusted expression. He’s like a pillow in an embroidered case, but one filled with hay. Why would my granddaughter like such a guy? It’s because of my friend Li Ying, who brought a poster of him when we met while my granddaughter was at my house. I had originally planned on saying no, but my granddaughter forced me to accept the student. The girl is eight, but she sure can tell if someone is beautiful. I shouldn't tell her stories about historical, famously handsome men! 
    As she thought of this, she used the pointer in her hand to hit Qin Guan's legs, which were in the wrong position. She reproached him, "Are you an idiot? I just showed you how to do it!" 
    Lady Rong felt guilty as she uttered the words. The boy was really clever. He had been gifted with an extraordinary retentive memory.
    If he remains like that, I might accept him as a formal student. (Old lady, where is your dignity?)
    After half a day of traditional formalities lessons, Lady Rong showed her benevolent side to Qin Guan. She let him drink some water and led him into the courtyard.
    An ancient, simple embroidery frame was inside. Sitting up by the frame, the old lady pulled a thread through a needle and began to stitch. The slender silk thread was flying elegantly between her fingers. 
    She fixed the end of the needle and stood up. "I don't know what play you’ll be acting in. Actually, men and women were the same when it came to embroidery. In ancient times, there were also male embroidery experts. As an actor, you can only imitate the movements."


Qin Guan was reborn and sent back to his final semester in High School 18 years ago. Getting a second chance at life, he works hard to turn things around and eventually become a Prince Charming. What will his life be like the second time around? What will he have to go through? How will he succeed in turning from a loser into a Prince Charming? Read this story carefully and find out!

Earth, Year 2325
A ten years old young girl looked at the blue sky above her head. She saw the legendary white wisp of condensed vapor that people from centuries ago called as cloud. It was her very first time to see it for real. It looked like the fur of her fluffy white bunny. It also looked like the cotton candy she fond to eat. When it hung on the azure sky, she felt the colors were combined beautifully. It was her first time to step out of the dome; the area where human currently lived at. The dome only had simulated sky in it so she was still surprised when she saw the real thing from the imaginary image she saw every day presented before her eyes.
In front of her, there was a giant silver titanium gate that erected proudly amidst the vast yet desolate desert that completely looked like the surface of Mars.
She walked forward to a huge titanium gate, holding her Teddy Bear on her chest. The closer she was with the gate, the panic she had grown uncontrollably. Her hands trembled slightly as her face became pale. Her step staggered.  She was almost to be tripped by her own feet but she kept moving forward.
She heard countless stories about the world beyond the gate and most of them were about how terrible it was. Some elders ever told her that the world beyond the gate was not suitable for them. The environment of world beyond the gate was too harsh and unpredictable that they might not even survive for a night. Their stories were supported by evidences left by those who advent beyond the gate. The world beyond the gate seemed as fierce as what the people think of.
Growing up with such stories, it was inevitable for her to get scared the closer she the titanium gate. She was so frightened that blood seemed to drain from her little face. In her mind, countless what ifs emerged like flood that swept the ground. The more she thought about it the frightened she became. Her feet became numb as she could not control her body properly. She suddenly stopped; she had no more courage to walk further.
A sheen of moisture in her eyes finally dropped. She cried. She muffled her cry with her hands so her whimper couldn't be heard although there was no one present. So the doll she held dropped to the ground. She didn't know how long she cried but after the tears in her eyes seemed to dried up, she looked at the gate that was only several meters away from her. 
Suddenly, some memories flashed in her mind. Her mother and father needed her to go across the gate because only with that, she could save her parent. 
She took her doll from the ground as she clenched her fists. She resolutely stepped forward as she summoned all of her courage. She had to go to the world beyond the gate.
….
Over 200 years, human had developed into an unprecedented height. The technologies that were mere dreams centuries ago had become reality. One of the most obvious from those many developments was in the healthcare field. In the past, when people were diagnosed with incurable cancer, they could only consume some medicines to delay their death. But now, the cancer that used to be impossible to cure could be excavated from the body in just one day. Not only that, the technologies in some field industries and military also reached the height that no one at the past dared to imagine. 
This development was unfortunately affected the human as a whole. The greed that had always prevailed in human heart bare its fangs to the humanity. The destruction was inevitable. Human destroyed their fellow human and they eventually destroyed the environment.
The current earth where human live now was not suitable for them any longer. The ozone that protected the earth so it was suitable for human to live had almost completely disappeared. The balance of the environment was destroyed. The ice in the poles melted and made the level surface raised beyond a hundred meters and the rise of the earth temperature. These chains of events lead to the extinction of most of the plants and animal. Not only that, this change eradicated more than eighty percent of human on earth. What was left now was only inhabited barren land that looked like what people saw in documentary movie about Mars.
The harsh environment forced human to deal with their survival. After years of research, human built dome that imitate the earth environment as similar as possible. They planted the remaining plants and animal in the dome. They also created blue sky to reminiscence their memory about the earth.
At first several years, there was no really a problem within the dome. The population and distribution of basic necessities were controlled by the government. They seemed to live in a safe haven until a pandemic eradicated almost half of the population. 
For their survival, human decided to conduct a big project. 'Beyond the Gate.' They built a gate made of titanium as it was the only thing the humanity had plenty of and was fortunately strong enough to be used to construct a gate. 
The current humanity might not have understood the concept of time like time machine or so but they had achieved something that was not pale in comparison. They had understood the concept of space. Countless years of studies about black hole as well as the possibility of the existence of the worm hole had made human achieved a breakthrough. They could create worm hole in the folded space so they could find another planet to move into as fast as possible. 
After years, they found a planet that had similar environment and dispatched 100.000 people to assess the condition out there. They all went there through the gate they built.
At the begining of the mission, human being was hopeful to find a new environment to live in. But, before they could immerse themselves in a joy for finding a new planet, a frightening news made them their hope utterly crushed.
From 100.000 people they sent, less than 1.000 came back safely. The rest were died or missing in that planet.
Ever since, human had no more hope to find another planet thus the gate was sealed that it made the tales about the frightening world beyond the gate spreaded among the remaining human.

Important things are already listed in the novel sypnosis, if you have any questions then check that first and then come back here. This will mainly be my way of answering questions so post all general inquiries in this auxiliary chapter. To be honest, this is basically my planning chapter so this more for me than for you readers.
Please refer to the notes at the end for my general rules, though they can be changed if you persuade me enough.
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[Harem]
[Fate/Grand Order]:
- Yang Guifei
- TBD
Others:
- Mylene from The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs
- TBD
So yeah, it's mostly FGO but comment on whoever you want in the harem and I'll consider it.
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[Worlds]
1st. FGO [Home World]
2nd. Maybe Douluo Dalu/Soul Land
3rd. TBD
Again, I have no plan for this fic so just yell whatever anime you want and I might consider it. Doubt you'd be satisfied though since the FGO story arc will be long as fuck.
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Powers
[1. OC 4th Magic: Recordkeeper (Based on Magic from Nasuverse)]
- Grants the user the ability to manipulate the Akashic Records.
- Basically the user is the librarian of the Akashic Records, the library of existence.
- Can wipe anything from existence, can change anything about everything, can travel between records.
- In layman's terms, MC views anything(a living thing, a non-living thing, a concept, etc.) as a book that can be edited. If he doesn't like it, he can just delete it form existence by removing said book. Or he can just write in new stuff in that book and it will apply in reality.
- Drawback is that he can't delete essential concepts to the world or important characters in a record as that would collapse reality.
[2. Astral Energy]
- Basically MC can manipulate the cosmic/astral energy of space and the stars like mana.
- Can use it to shape anything like a weapon or shield.
- He can regenerate and is immortal as long as the concept of [Space] and [Stars] exist.
- The highest tier of power, can compete with the likes of Gods as MC is basically the God of Stars/Space.
- Beams and stuff.
- He can do whatever the fuck he wants, except healing or buffing other people.
- Drawback is that it's the only energy he can use so things like mana or prana or what have you in other animeverse does not affect him. Which also means he can't use their powers.
[3. Perfect Observation/Migeika (From Katanagatari)]
- Allows MC to learn and master anything instantly.
- MC can choose to consciously learn or not but he can't turn it off.
- Drawback is that if he uses it too often then he'll hurt his eyes to the point of bleeding.
[4. Swordsmanship]
- What can I say? Pure swordsmanship skills honed throughout his life.
- MC is basically a swordmaster and is proficient enough in other weapons thanks to his eyes, though he is not a super skilled master as he much prefers the sword.
- He likes to one hand while using his star magic as backup but switches to dual wielding when he gets serious.
- Drawback is his lack of experience, he mastered swordsmanship using his eyes and travelling through the world but he was too strong for anyone to properly fight with him. The only experience he's getting is from fighting Servants in the Singularities so sometimes he makes rookie mistakes.
That's his main abilities. When he travels to other anime, I'll think about whether or not he will use their brand of powers but for now, that's all he has.
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Main Characters
[Lucilius Noctis Astranovus]
[Title]: The Heir of Starlight, The Astral Blade, Recordkeeper, Azure, The Fourth Magician
[Mage's Association Rank]: Grand
[Colored Title]: Blue/Azure
[Age]: 19(FGO)
[Family]: An only child, he doesn't care about the rest of his family
[Magic Circuits]: None as he posseses a Magic Core granted by his technical phantasmal origins.
[Origin]: Star/True Ether
[Element]: Star/True Ether
[Weapons]: 4th Magic, Astral Energy, Nameless Swords(Forged from meteorites as a conductor for his magic)
[Likes]: Peace, his harem, Japan and its products, humanity's potential and kindness, practicing with his swords and powers
[Dislikes]: War and conflict, violence, pretentiousness, his family, egotistical and selfish people, humanity in general, himself
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[Mylene Forvedge]
[Title]: Gaia's Child, Nature Queen, Aether Maiden, The First Magician
[Mage's Association Rank]: Grand
[Age]: 19(FGO)
[Family]: Caules Forvedge(Younger Brother), Fiore Forvedge(Younger Sister), Adrian Forvedge(Father), Olivia Forvedge(Mother)
[Magic Circuits]: 50 EX Quality Circuits
[Origin]: Nature
[Elements]: Imaginary Elements, Average One
[Weapons]: Her nature magecraft, various elemental spells, manipulation of imaginary space, her Magic, Argentum Luna(Spear forged by Lucilius using his everything to express his feelings for her)
[Likes]: Lucilius, peace, teasing people, seeing new things, heroic stories, her siblings, meeting new people, helping people, being positive
[Dislikes]: Conflict, unfairness, violence, being underestimated, being degraded
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AUTHOR'S GENERAL RULES (Not fixed in place, you can persuade me)
I am more partial to Japanese works.
I am probably not going to do any korean or chinese novels aside from Soul Land, and even then, I am undecided if I should add it. Things like Against the Gods, Tower of God or Noblesse since I have not read them nor do I really plan to in the near future. Maybe Solo Leveling or God of Highschool but that's a big maybe.
No mainstream anime like One Piece or Naruto either, I am sick of their numerous fanfics. Maybe Bleach because I like it the most out of the big three and most fanfics are gay pairings.
Somewhat popular light novels like Rising of the Shield Hero is a-okay, though I might not have read them but do recommend nonetheless. Things like Gakusen Toshi no Asterisk or Date A Live, maybe even Index. Even then, the knowledge I have of the works are most likely from fanfics and wiki so I might not do them justice.
As for love interests or ideas, I'd appreciate if you tell me why you think they work. I mean, yelling your waifu's name at me doesn't really motivate me to add them, you know? And I am not just gonna bend over and incorporate every idea you have, gotta tell me why it's a good addition.
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To be updated as the story goes on...
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That's all I think? Lemme know if I missed anything or you want something added in the comment section.
Be nice, no flaming or insults and just be mature in general. Save yourself time if you criticise without being constructive because I'll just ignore you.

I've always wonder about my lot in life.

Someone special? Am I really worth something? The things that I do, does it really matter in the end?

At least, those were my most secret thoughts. And yet, as I gazed at those brilliant stars embraced by the endless cosmos...

"Who cares? As long as I am me, I will remain true to myself. Shining far beyond those stars as I reach for my ideals with these imperfect hands of mine."
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td;lr A self-indulgent wish fantasy story about a very much imperfect and human self-insert of yours truly into FGO first and then trying to be a better person as he travels the anime multiverse with his steadily growing harem.

MC is not a smart person, nor is he even guaranteed to be likeable. He's human, with all the flaws that come with being one and the burdens of having low-self esteem. He's OP and has a harem that ties to his growth.

DO NOT EXPECT:
- Smart usage of powers
- Smart plans
- Quality writing(lol)
- Accurate depictions of characters
- Strict following of rules for powers

DISCLAIMER:
- I literally don't care about proper writing or have an actual plan so I have no clue what I am doing or the future of this fanfic.
- I write when I want to because life sucks and I hate it. The only reason this is on WebNovel is because the writing quality standard is lower than any other fanfic website and the audience generally has lower standards for these fics kek.
- I don't own anything, I mean I am writing a fanfic, what do you want me to say? Anything depicted in this fanfic belongs to whoever created it, I am just using their brilliant work as a canvas for my crap story.

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