What in the World is this World

A calm place, in the endless void of space, a flash of light streaks past followed by three more. God streaking past trying to escape from his unusual enemies, as they are spewing nonsense about capturing and torturing the so called "God." Though the God just ignored them and kept flying in a panicked motion hoping to escape.

As God continues flying there comes an abrupt stop, as a sword is lunged through gods mouth and out his back. All that is heard is a choking sound before a giant humanoid elephant yells, "His godly power is ours you don't stand a chance against the three of us." Everything happened so fast, but in the end the giant humanoid elephant was the only one left standing. His face soon turned to one of absolute hatred and anger after looking at the corpse of the dead god.

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Earth 2057, post rebirth

Earth is past the point of apocalypse. The world has collapsed, the order trashed, a new power has risen. This is the era of games, when a madness descended upon the world video games were raised to the level of prophets and kings.

I was born in the heart of the city, where even trees dared not grow. As life was already too packed together. My mother always told me a story. One of the fall of a giant rock that led to the end of the age of exploration. The story went, there was once a rock that floated through space but it was special. It contained life, but this life was unlike any others it was resilient, it had a resistance to almost everything. It could develop a resistance faster than it could kill them, so they could live in space. Eventually after many years of travel, this rock hit a planet. The life started to reproduce and eat endlessly. I was always told it was similar to a bacteria, as it ate other life, but these were stronger. They ate life and grew past the point of having just strength, but also developed thought. These extraordinary creatures were called slimes.

These were our greatest enemy. They were stronger than us, smarter than us, and they could adapt to our powers, but so could we. We adapted to their power, we developed magic. Magic that was able to kill them. We called it magic, but it was more just energy used to manipulate the surroundings. This happened because humans were able to stop storing energy as fat, and start storing it as "mana." Of course these terms only came from the games that predicted our future. Though soon magic kept having less and less of an affect. Soon more people with strange abilities appeared. We called them warriors as they had immense physical strength that was enhanced through mana. Though this hope came at a time of need when over half of humanity died. This hope didn't last long as the slimes soon adapted. So we started to look into our past, hoping for salvation. We found it. There were these machines that could destroy, but they too became weaker and weaker with time. Only with the combination of all three were we able to keep them at bay. At this point there was so little land we didn't have much place to live. So we crowded together hoping for something to change. As more and more people were born, we had to push back harder and harder. It cost us dearly and many lives were lost. We still don't have the land we need. That is why I will become the hero humanity needs.