First gate appearance

I was born in 1989, England. Hungary was finally free of the Soviet's rein. The country was in ruins, but the politicians ruled it like everything was fine. Two people became uncurable diseases, infected and corrupted the government, turning it rotten, full of greed and evil.

Those two people robbed from the shadows, one turning into a billionaire, the other into said man's puppet, then later when he could no longer bear it, he began fighting against him, wanting to be more, a rival.

But alas, fate doesn't give a shıt about his feelings. When they were 'fighting' for power, money, and influence, they started to destroy the country more, which was already going in the path of destruction.

You're probably wondering: "Why did you say something like that? How did Hungary come into this, when you were clearly away from it?"

Well, when I was 4, my parents got a divorce, and my mother went to Hungary, taking me with her. I didn't know what happened to my father, I didn't see him again after that. In 1993, Hungary on the surface was a good country, but they treated the ones coming into them, while their own people suffer under low wages, and high prices.

As the years gone, the situation got worse and worse for the Hungarians, and better for everyone who came here to live.

As the years went by, I came to realize this, so I started studying different things that may come in handy.

With financial help from my mother and "uncles", I could study many different things. Mother always said that you should study different things, so you could be prepared.

[Author's note: That's actually true, my family wanted me to study different things, so it can come in handy later down in the line. For example, my father's a constructor worker and manager, who has the knowledge how to fix cars, how to do electricity, how to drive trucks, buses, cars, how to do firstly mechanical things like these. My mother's the same.]

I could only speak English at the start, so I would've been bullied, but because of the oh so many sports I tried, I could fight back and suffocate the spark, which in time could've become a big fire.

This, in turn, helped me get confidence and friends, which in turn urged me to study more, and finally understand them fully.

While I was studying, my mother accomplished her dream. She opened a shop and started to work as the manager and cashier. She likes to interact with people.

The things I studied will come in handy, way sooner than I thought because after some months from my 11th birthday, some seriously fascinating happened! Gigantic tornados made out of light-eating darkness were visible in the sky.

I was just dumbly looked at the now black sky, as it became darker and darker, it felt like midnight when I came out of my stunned state, but for some reason, it kept getting darker!

What happened you ask? Simple!

Those tornado-like things I saw in the sky came out from the nearest black hole to Earth.

Those tornados rapidly absorbed the light from the sun, the tornadoes merged into another into a tornado so massive, the previous ones looked like a speck of dust compared to a jar full of sand, but it quickly shrank and compressed itself. All of a sudden it rolled up onto the black hole like a sock, creating some donut-like form.

Its outer appearance was gorgeous as it absorbed the sunlight like it's eating a nice dinner. From time to time, black-violet lightning could be seen running amok its surface. The inside looked like a cave's insides, looking rocky and dumpy.

Of course, I could not see that from where I was standing, I saw this at home, where the news said something among the lines that aliens are going to come here, and conquer this planet or possibly this solar system.

I, as a kid had the same thought in my head as other kids, then I thought about completely different things, which could not have been the ideas of a normal 11 years old's. I thought of plans, plans of how could I help my family if these things come true.

As the news said what they wanted, the emergency protocol from then on continued for about 2 hours.

When nothing happened, they thought that maybe the aliens need time to regroup and wondered, would the black hole, or what was known at the time, the gate, would close any time soon?

The answer was a big no-no.

The gate didn't close for 2 years, and that was the time needed for a drunken, and possibly crazy scientist named Brian Xero, to launch a robbed rocket to go to the gate.

The soldiers tried to shoot it down, in fear of the scientist angering the alien species and possibly igniting an all-out war, which the world is not prepared for.

Luckily for us, Xero came back 6 months later and no angry, enemy alien civilization came with him.

Big yikes avoided.

He said that something magical is on the other side. Yes, you read it right, the other side. The president wanted to sentence the scientist to death, well not really. He first wanted him in court for almost angering something or someone powerful. But as we all know, that's equal to death.

Luckily for Xero, nothing happened to him, yet again. Because the scientist just ripped apart the handcuffs. Yes, once again, you read it right. He just straight up ripped apart the cuffs, and it looked like he didn't even flinch, nor does he looked like he even tried. It was strange watching it at home from the net. It's as if he gained powers... superpowers.

The scientist went home unscratched, without a tingle of worry on his 28 years-looking face. Huh? But it said that the man was 38? What on earth, or rather, what on gate happened to the man?

Later the man posted some very interesting things to us, earthlings. He said that inside was a corridor, dancing in the colors of the rainbow. On each side of it were doors.

Some looked like it was made by boons, others looked ancient. Stone doors, vine doors, pitch-black doors, white doors. Heck, he said that some looked like a dinosaur, flowers, and foods!

Now, as he was the most knowledgeable and the strongest of all humans, he was the one who named the gate, as no one could do or say anything about that matter. The gate was dubbed as "Xero dimensional gates".

After his little stunt, he began to write a book, a book almost everybody read at least once when it came out.

Sometimes you would read it because it's simply a good reading. Something that even Stephen King envies, a real-life fantasy story. A story about Brian Xero in a different multi-dimension.

It sounds like something from a sci-fi, but it's a fantasy story in a middle-aged world.

I really liked Adrian from the book, it feels like he is from here, from this multi-dimension, from this Earth. Very humane, easy to piss off, lazy, it's like he is a modern man.

The story is about Xero going to the "Hallway Of Opportunities", through the" Xero Dimensional Gate", and as he writes it, conquering it. It simply sounds absurd to do that, but while half a year has passed for us, he was away for more than 18 years, away from this civilized "heaven".

Of course, the military of almost every country tried to kidnap him for more information, and thus more of a headstart, but they got destroyed, massacred.

The scientist could use "Prime Matter", an energy never seen before. If I had to classify it, it's like a unique energy system of that world he was in, like mana or ki in other worlds.

Yes, other worlds, he met not just people from that world, but also met different species, different humans from far away multi-dimensions, demons from "hell", and others.

Beast men of Chálé, demons of Siklá, humans of Similur, lizard man of Azoth, races of different worlds, different dimensions. Different cultures, different cuisines, different common sense, different train of thought, everything was a big mess.

Oh, the chaos of Similur's large grasslands, the destruction caused because of different 'sacred meets' eaten, the sheer amount of people speaking different languages was enough to be crazed.

The book says about different energy systems being used, different martial arts being deflected by beings far superior to us.

Everybody was in turmoil, what if they come and conquer us, slave us? What would happen if they came with that might written in the book?

Of course, there are idiots everywhere, so the "Anty-Xero group" formed, because they thought that Brian Xero was a man with small strength, with zero courage, with a drugged brain.

But the next morning the people who said this started missing, started to being hunted. They did riots, trying to gain monetary gain, but Xero quickly dealt with them.

He was getting frustrated, frustrated that people think that he's crazy, a maniac! But he just wants to help them, help humanity!

If they could go to the different worlds, getting stronger, knowledgable, and smarter is a viable option, so didn't that mean that, if they were to come back to Earth, full of knowledge and power, they could break through evolution's restraining forces?

That they could evolve past what a weak human is? Into supreme beings? Into energy-wielding overlords of the multi-dimensions?

Let's be honest, who wouldn't want to be gods, wielding power far surpassing that of a mortal could ever imagine, of what an eye can see.

I-no, we, humanity doesn't want to be exterminated, but the higher-ups doesn't want to believe the man's words, and writing, they wanted evidence, video evidence.

So the mad lad just went and did it, in front of their smug faces. Imagine being the big and mighty leader of a country in one day, then a covering coward in another.

So he went and sold off his knowledge, bought a country in Europe, built an economy, built an academy, came up with a 3D simulation program, and trained personally the first few selected people to be the first explorers. He send them to fight and train in another world for 10 years each.

Because the time works funnily in the Xero Dimensional Gate, in short XDG, we had to wait for 2 months for the first one to come out. Then came another one 3 weeks later, then another two. Just 9 lived, the rest from the squad of 25 died. Pretty high mortality rate.

The countrymen of each one named them, the 9 shining stars, and Xerc, the North Star. Kinda cringe, not gonna lie. But it is, what it is.

So yada-yada, let's just skip the boring part! Fast forward to the good part! My last day of school!

I'm 14 this year, and because I'm smart, I jumped classes 2 times. So instead of me being 16 and graduating from school (the second layer of Hell), I am 14, way ahead of my peers.

Of course, that means that I have to wait 2 years 'till I'm 16 years old, to be able to enter the [Nebula Academy], those 2 years will be enough to train my body and mind some more.

I'm currently deciding if I should buy a Rubik's cube, which is surprisingly from Hungary! Or should I just read some novels?

By the way, there is this surprisingly good app, and web page called NovelHUB. Maybe I could read some Broccoli fanfiction or some two peace fic?

Anyway, as I was walking down the road to our house, I saw somebody, somebody I know! That's non-other than TRoller, my gaming friend.

A punk, if you can call him that. He is a year younger than me, his real name is John Smith. He is talented in trash-talking and, like his name implies, trolling.

He'll be an important friend later on the line because he'll save my life 2 times.

Once some months in the future, when I broke a vase, and my mum wanted me to apologize, and be honest if I was it, because like I said, I was the one who did it. She would probably ground me for weeks to come, but in came my hero, John.

Who, after apologizing, told my mother that he was the one who broke it.

I was moved to tears, which caused my mother to realize what was going on, so she contacted his mom and told her what happened. Let's just say that the lionesses were not happy.

We got grounded. He for 1 week, and me for 2 weeks. Thanks for the sacrifice!

So in those 2 years, I trained, I relaxed, I studied, just for the sake of cementing my admission into the [Nebula Academy], and became a student.

And that is what I did.