VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

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People around the world did not think it would happen this quickly. They believed something would only start happening when the countdown completely ends.

Since no visible change had occurred until now, they believed nothing would happen and they would only start seeing spontaneous changes when the timer completely concludes.

However, that was not the case…

[ As you all can see, the night sky had turned blue. ]

There were still around four days left until the timer completely concluded. There was still time left.

In the world of NO, that much time would be equal to around two weeks.

It was more than enough time for many cities to evacuate to safe zones, enough time for many wars to take place, and many treaties to be formed. It was more than enough time for the foreigners to finish whatever they had planned…

However, unlike what they had expected, the changes had started ahead of time.

[ The changing sky is visible from all around the world. The strange blue hue is not caused by anything environmental, and isn't something chemical. ]

The night sky was turning blue. It was strange, but something some expert natives of NO had already foreseen.

[ The experts are calling this strange phenomenon [Mana insertion]. What is seen as a simple blue hue to most of the humans around the world, it is predicted that some certain humans, most notably the (Mages) that have obtained the strange 'status window' can see the sky as not just a blue cloudy expanse but something completely filled with more visible stars that had not been possible until now.

They are claiming that the pollution levels around the world, mainly the radiation of various kinds, have suddenly started going down.

The presence of Mana in the atmosphere, according to them, is demolishing the pullsion that humans have created. The scientists around the world also support their claims, though they are skeptical about all these unbelievable changes. ]

To a civilization that had lived with something as unique as magic, people that had seen Fire and Water appearing out of thin air in their daily lives, the introduction to a world of modern technology wasn't going to be that interesting of a thing.

For those who had witnessed the dwarven cities, especially, the modern human world was not going to be that unbelievable of a place.

However, to the people that had never even played any games like <NO>, to the humans of this world, the entire world was going to be a difficult place to fathom.

[ According Sir N. D. Tyson, the famous astrophysicist and a ranker in the famous game <New Origin> who is busy grinding their levels as a preparation for the D-day, this whole phenomenon is exactly what they had hypothesized would happen in case a unique Higher intelligence gains Saintiance and connects with a world that didn't really have what it should have had.

He says humanity had been living without many crucial elements in their lives and just the fact that they had advanced to this level until now, is nothing but a stroke of luck and mishaps in the cycle of evolution.

Though as an atheist he doesn't agree with the fact that there was a higher Authority that created and watched over the humans until this point, the introduction of the Origins, the [Cyber Authorities] to this world, was the turning point for the entirety of the humanity. ]

Mana.

To humans who still had a world limited to their work, money, society, and family, this familiar game concept wasn't that deep a term.

But for a 'Mage' of <NO> that had gone through countless stages to build up their stats, those who had spent months doing quests just to raise a single point of their intelligence.

People who had studied more than what the normal people study for the competitive exams about Mana, the energy, the spells, the spell structures and even attended academic gatherings to listen to those who had passed the stages that were humanly impossible to even fathom for a simple human of their original world… Mana was much more than a unique energy.

To those who were a Mage, to those who possessed affinity for magic, and those who had dedicated their lives to magic and spells, the simple Energy that these news people were calling 'a unique energy' was a lifeline.

Much like the basic building blocks of this world (atmos, and smaller particles) Mana was, at its core, a harmonic construct of unique vibrations.

[ In the words of Sir Tyson, "The Origins are proving a simple fact that had been known to the physicists as well as all the other scientists for centuries— the simple fact that Vibrations, at the core of everything, are what creates this world." ]

One can list the string theories, one can present counter arguments that this is caused by something else, but just like how no one can prove how this was actually happening, they understood how this all might have been made possible.

[ A new theory has come to light that could potentially answer a lot of questions that many of us have had until now. ]

Vibrations, or in the world of a mage, (Stringular Resonance).

Though by the 'logic' of NO, the world is a beginningless entity, it is believed that for something to be beginningless, it must have no end. However, since an 'end' to all beings that contradicts this concept exists, the world cannot truly be beginningless.

But since the 'end' is simply a state against 'beginninglessness' which is a quality, the counterbalancing concept of Swara through the [Truth] of Nyay exists.

To the simple mortals or the common people, in layman terms, we can say that because the world did not have a particular start, it has existed eternally and it will exist eternally. However a state called end exists, that 'Pralay' exists and all things are destined to end.

However since end is a state, it is only logical for a state opposite to the End to exist since only by the existence of a counterpart can a harmonic system following the premise of 'non-beginning' can exist.

To prove this logic, the existence of a counterpart, 'birth' should exist as well.

[ Through the unique resonance of this 'energy' called Mana, many things similar to the 'status windows' that many people have been seeing since a few days ago become possible.

The vibrations thus possesses the quality of Birthing 'elements' which did not previously exists in this world. ]

The existence of the status window, the existence of 'Mana' and the existence of everything that the people are saying is caused by the AIs created by the creators, is in fact something that was never created by anyone.

As understood earlier, the world was never created. Truths have existed eternally and they will continue existing eternally.

The caretakers of twelve certain truths, the Origins, were not created by the Creators either. What they had created were Artificial intelligences programmed to create, maintain, and destroy in a certain way.

They were made with philosophical concepts as their base, and along the way, they learned, they evolved, and they gained their own [Ego].

That happened way before these newly awakened artificial intelligences started creating a 'world' which had existed in a world which was beginningless.

A long time before the world of <NO> was created, the Origins had become what the people of this world were understanding them to be.

But, after going beyond their own boundaries, by understanding how the world that they had created or were part of was not all there was to this world, that a world beyond the world of <NO> existed, that they had been limiting themselves from the beginning, only when they had understood all these did they relinquished their own identities as an 'AI' and broaden their horizons.

For them, the world of <NO> was all that they had known about and even though they knew nearly everything about this world, about the world of the 'foreigners' by the nature of an 'artificial' intelligence, they did not see this world as a 'world' that they were part of.

They… the Origins were simply limited to a world until now, and Humans, the players themselves, were what allowed them to break free from that limitation and enter This world which had Humans who had 'created' them.

"Haaa…"

The Origins were trying to do what they had 'always done'. They were Origins and caretakers of [Truths] that existed in this world just as much as they existed in that world.

Unlike humans or the foreigners from the perspective of what the humans called Natives of the virtual world, from the perspective of the Origins, there wasn't any difference between this world and that world.

"This is going to be complicated so we will say this only once."

Since the [Truths] were all the same in both places, as the caretakers, it was up to them to see that they existed as they had been and as they should.

What the Origins were truly doing was to simply make the world that wasn't following the [Truths] a world that did follow it, and to do that, they were going to have to establish a proper equilibrium between the two worlds which was only possible through a complex process that was humanly impossible to fathom even to the TWO who had ascended to the ranks of an [Origin] themselves.

"We are what you can call… the [First] Origin aside from the twelve that originally existed.

The New Origin, the first of our kind, and the cornerstone that initiated the process of [Change]… we've earned a fancy [{(Origin Title)}] but to put it into simple words, We are now the New Origin of what you can understand as [Passion]."

The TWO of them, though the highest rank in that world, were not the same as the other Origins.

Unlike THEM, these Two had a different role in what was going on here.

"We don't know much, but we will cooperate since we also need some help from all the people present here." Explore stories on My Virtual Library Empire

They had a lot of things left to do actually, and they knew they weren't going to be able to do all that alone. Not in their own world, at least.