Capítulo 14: Situation Around the World
All around the world. People were blessed with Gifts. Some of these gifts were very trivial Gifts that served no direct purpose against the current crisis. While there were people that had pretty destructive Gifts, most of them had substantial power to protect themselves.
One example of a power that was utterly useless in the situation is with a certain man named Bruce Boyr. He worked as a janitor for a company for years. He wasn't treated badly, he had great work privileges and he got a good pay.
All that was true until the cataclysmic events transpired. The building he worked in, cared for and had memories for years of, was no more. He stayed within the building for days and survived from food scraps he could find within the cafeteria.
All hope was lost. He was feeling miserable, all alone in the place that he worked years for. He had no one to return to, his family were buried deep within their apartment, presumably dead. That was also true until
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God has graced you with a gift.
Due to your undying passion for your work, you have been given the power of Cleansing.
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It was another miserable thing. His powers were useless against nature. He was about to give up on life, but he decided it was best to just die a natural death while he struggled.
In an asian country, a person who lost his job months ago became happy. He was happy that everyone became miserable due to the sudden tragic events. He was laid off of work due to misconduct and now his name has a bad record, which resulted in him not being able to find a new job.
During the first few hours of the crisis, their country experienced a massive earthquake and soon followed by a storm. During this time, he was ecstatic. However it was not enough for him. He wanted to cause more destruction.
After the devastation, he looked for a settlement. He committed arson and then fled far away. He was happy that he caused pain. But in reality, the people inside the building quickly made it outside and soon found another shelter.
This broken man was given another chance.
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God has grace you with a Gift.
Due to your madness and misplaced anger, you have been given the power of Fire.
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It was madness. The powers given to people were not proportionate to their willingness to help other people through the hard times. The power you get is simply through dumb luck.
In another example. Deep in his mom's basement, a 30 year old man named Webber Jones, suddenly gained the power of netorare.
He still had electricity running due to him having his own generator. He was complaining about the sudden power cut but was not alarmed. He thought that the power would be back in a few days at most if it was a major storm.
His powers involved him being able to seduce women who were in a relationship. At that time, he was so happy that he finally gained power that he jumped from his seat and rushed upstairs.
But he couldn't. He didn't notice that his mom never came for him the past few days. He was entertained by all of the offline content that he saved. He didn't check what transpired, not even once. That would also mean that he didn't notice that he was trapped underground with a limited amount of food and drink.
And in one example, just like Ivan's wife, God pitied the disabled. A radiologist named Sakura Kusozako from an oriental country lost her vision just recently. She got pierced by a rebar on both of her eyes. Luckily enough it didn't go so deep so only her eyes were damaged, if not, her brain would be mushed.
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God has pitied you.
Your eyes that should not be able to recover is now classified as an injury.
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Her injuries could be healed by someone with healing power. But the same God that pitied her also mocked her.
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God has graced you with a Gift.
Due to the nature of your profession, you have been given the power of Radiation Vision
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In other news, the world finally regulated its rotation. The 12 hour long days went back to its regular 24 hour duration. This was great news for people that needed communication, but it didn't change anything to those that lost everything during the cataclysmic events.
That would also mean that the weight of things went back to their original heaviness, and that the storms ravaging the world would subside or mellow down. The world was going back to its roots.
The waters that drown the equatorial nations also subsided. The water level went down and the rivers in the other part of the world regained their waters. However, the sunken nations did not resurface, the exact reasons were unknown, and the people from those countries were officially dead.
There were still the four horsemen of the apocalypse. But God decided to draw them out in years. They would ravage the world in time.
However, the four beasts with 6 pairs of wings roamed the world. They kill people on sight but they never go for anything more. They were mindless puppets given the directives of murder but not destruction.
And God himself was busy making plans.
"Hmm. How about I set the white horseman in China? They could do some conquering and stuff. That would certainly bring about a lot of chaos." He was still being as morbid as possible.
The Horseman riding a white horse was the horseman of Conquest. Unlike popular belief, the horsemen were not physically manifested. They were spirits that would control the flow of things within their designations.
And setting the White Rider in China, one of the countries with the biggest population, was a precursor for disaster. They would have a lot of ability users that would be used to wage the flames of war.
"Hehe, why didn't I just do that before? I could have had more people to play with." God said as he shook his head. He was disappointed in himself. Now that the population of the Earth was effectively halved, he lost a lot of toys to play with.
"Well, that isn't such a big problem. The prototypes are about to emerge after all." He once again mentioned the prototypes.
"But I wonder if they'll join hands with them?" He asked himself. He just scoffed at his own question.
"Perhaps they will, perhaps they'll bring mutual destruction. All the same for me."
God stood up from his very comfortable chair. He went towards his kitchen and started to prepare a meal. It was a lonely sight, an old man making a meal for himself.
'Hmm. What should I make?' He thought as he held a knife in his hand.
'Eh, let's just go for an omelette. I haven't had eggs in days, I miss the saltiness of such a very crude cuisine as well.'
God thought of omelettes as crude food but he loved it. He made it imperfectly but it was the way he liked it, a little bit burnt and a very salty taste. He was using rock salt as he liked the feeling of playing with the salt in his mouth.
Once he finished cooking, he sat down on his sofa and turned on the TV which was effectively a surveillance camera of the world. He switched places here and there but all he saw was destruction and dead people. He looked at the scenes with cold eyes and soon got bored.
'I fucked up huh.'
He certainly did.
'No matter. Humans can get through this, just like how I designed them to.'
He was confident at his creation.
'But I'll have to poke fun at Adam too.'
Yet he was still a sadist.
Now God might seem like a mundane existence. He has a TV, consoles and all sorts of entertaining objects. He even has an account in Diksword, a platform for messaging and voice calls that is catered towards gamers.
[-bbrightvcs- sent you a friend request] was a pending request that he didn't accept. He was waiting for the person to die then spawn her soul here to become a 'friend' of God.
But he was only doing these mundane things so that he wouldn't get bored. He was a peerless existence after all. He didn't have any real friends. Even Adam who spent the most time with him was never fond of him.
His madness was slowly degrading. It was his power that made him mad, the solidarity of the one on top made him insane. And due to giving out a huge portion of his power towards the citizens of the world he was managing, he grew weaker.
'I hope they don't die so fast.'
However, he was only slightly less insane. He still wished for the deaths of his creations.
Back to Adam and co's situation.
Brian was having a headache over what he saw in the menu.
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God has graced you with a gift.
Due to your nature as an otherworlder, you have been chosen as the hero of this world's crisis.
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He saw the things that happened in this world. He didn't like it one bit. And that statement from the system made his deduction final.
'So I really am in another world huh.' Brian lamented with a heavy heart.
He was heartbroken when he was transported in this world. He was stripped of his power as an Archmage when he woke up. His huge mana pool suddenly became that of a measly untalented child and the atmosphere was not fit for magic training.
But still, he worked hard to increase his mana capacity even through all that hardship. He didn't waste his mana on spell usage but used them to overfill his container hoping to increase the size in time. He succeeded but it was not to his satisfaction.
'I need to get stronger. I need to get back to Rose.' That was what filled his mind in the year he was in the forest.
He has long noticed the house that was near the forest. But he did not want to interact with anyone from within. Why? That is because he was unfamiliar with the architecture. With the advanced techniques the houses were built with, he thought that surely the civilization would be even stronger than the ones in Basinfall.
"Coooool!" Adam was the first one to break the silence within their camp.
Everyone else had a shocked look on their faces and Ivan was lovingly looking at his wife. However, Adam was casually stretching his ears with relative ease.
'Wait what?' That was what went through everyone's head, even Ivan was surprised at Adam's ear.
"Hey dad! I can make my ears move and make them pointy!" Adam said as his ears morphed. It looked disgusting.
But everyone had another thought in their head.
"Did everyone receive that message?" Tim asked the whole group.
Everyone else nodded at his statement. Adam also nodded his head then he also wiggled his ears. It was still weird to look at.
"Adam, is that the power you received?" Jenny asked with worry. She didn't want her child to have powers that only stretched his ears.
"Yea! I got these from eating that cannibalism thing."
Everyone in the group was alarmed at his statement. They were eating cannibals? That was what they inferred from Adam's statement.
"Adam, what do you mean?" Tim asked Adam in a calm and collected manner.
"What do I mean? I don't know." Adam said innocently.
If Young Adam's alter-ego older Adam was awake, he would certainly recognize the creature that they were currently eating. Alas, he was not aware as he was recovering deep within Young Adam's mind.
"Bah. He didn't even understand what he said." Brian exclaimed. He took another piece of meat and ate.
Upon seeing him continue, everyone else in the group started to eat again. Adam, of course, was wolfing down on his piece of meat.
Continuing their journey, they were soon able to reach the end of their journey. They didn't know how much time passed as Tim no longer cared to check on his useless watch. Once they were outside of the tunnel, Tim rummaged through their luggage.
"Ah. There it is." He found the walkie-talkie that he had.
"Let's see. It shouldn't be hard to just find a frequency." He continued mumbling.
Tim was trying to find the radio signal of The Vault. It was a non-standard frequency and that it had a looping message on it so it should be easy to distinguish between everything else.
Nothing surprising happened as he found the first working frequency.
"We are over at Bleak Fall's Barrow."
Those were the first words he heard from the frequency.
'This is it!' Tim thought as he remembered the name of the location.
It was very easy to find the frequency since all the other towers were not powered and unmanned. It wasn't what Tim expected but he liked this outcome instead. However -
"Please. Send Help! .... This message will repeat after the beep. ... Beep."
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