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It wasn't as if only the Puppeteers were at fault. In fact, nobody could even begin to point fingers. After all, causing World War III was an inevitability, especially with tensions as high as they were now.
Puppeteers... Special human beings that had the talent and skill to control the very transcendent energy lingering within themselves in order to affect the external forces lurking outside.
By controlling this energy inside of oneself, the individual would be able to rewrite the current events in the outside world.
At first, this practice was known as "sorcery", or "magic". On the contrary, magic utilized the human subconscious to access 95 percent of the stored information in the brain in order to rewrite the information of the outside world, thus creating phenomena.
Puppeteering, however, was the manipulation of an internal energy in order to affect the external energy. Depending on the type of energy one was compatible with, a supernatural ability or set of abilities was granted to the individual.
The name of the practice was also quite unique. "Puppeteering" indicated manipulation of something else in order to produce an event, while "magic" indicated manipulation of events in order to convert the affect of the said event.
See the difference? Good.
The practice of controlling external events with the human structure was thought of as nothing but fiction before the year of 2668. Due to the instability between global powers growing worse, it wasn't surprising when a group of terrorists decided to attempt a potentially disastrous assignment.
This assignment was the replication of planet Earth. Normally, this would have seemed to be a preposterous proposal, however given the proper components needed to do so, the temptation of the human design was proven dominant.
Utilizing Puppeteers, individuals across the globe insisted on utilizing dimension-distortion-related Puppeteers to create another Earth.
Energy was running low, after all. Wars were breaking out left and right over resources; fossil fuels were nigh-practically nonexistent, tar sands were destroying the environmental structure of Earth, and the only renewable energy source was given only to military-affiliated bodies of individuals until another effective source was found.
In all seriousness, replicating Earth was not that big of an erroneous assignment.
But problems stretching beyond Earth's hospitality would occur. The entire circadian cycle system of Earth would have potentially been disrupted or even foiled, orbits would shift in unprecedented and unknown ways, and if the mission were to be a failure, total cataclysm would occur from the dimensional changes in space.
It was safe to say that Earth's inhabitants were mostly madmen, proven when these groups insisted on proceeding with the plan anyway.
At this time, Puppeteering wasn't known as an art, or skill, but a paranormal phenomenon that was never before seen.
After several failed attempts of apprehending these individuals, and the expected deadline coming up shortly, the military of the United States of America finally decided to accept Puppeteers into their like of work and take down these people.
After no more than a week, the entire collective body responsible for multiple criminal appearances of paranormals was apprehended.
Ever since then, the art of Puppeteering was widely regarded as a life saver, as well as a destructive component if used in a negative fashion.
But it was unconditional to mark it as a practice.
Even under these conditions, it wasn't easy to do so.
For example, the only way to obtain Puppeteering skills varied, with some through very low-chance experiments, others through heredity, and most through mutations in DNA from various means.
Therefore, an educational system prioritizing Puppeteers was created.
From there, the world spiraled out of control. Technological advancements exceeded humankind's expectations and renewable military-owned energy was gradually being forced into the general public's domain, yet human nature proceeded to be as corrupt and hypocritical as ever.
The era where the human mindset and supernatural arts of fiction decided to either coexist or exterminate the other had started.
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Hello! This is another fantasy story I plan to produce. I'm not sure if I have a particular schedule for which of my projects I'll be working on according to the date/day, but I am sure that I will be publishing chapters of both in intervals.
Don't forget to check out "Between Two Tides" from my good friend "TMS_Trash". His writing skills are naturally coming together as he writes but his imagination is quite interesting to read through as a web novel.
I'm expecting "The Ghost who Rises" to be a fairly long novel, needing plenty of volumes, however I'm not so sure how long this one will be. If the setting and future interest you then let me know and I'll immediately start putting together all of the plans I have.
Happy reading!
— The Clockmaker
