The First Step's to eternity

(PLEASE take in mind this is STILL the prologue and the mc is still going to launch to the pantheon universe and No the mc will not travel the complete multiverse, the mc will only travel ONCE to another universe)

...

[ACCESS DENIED]

"COME ON OPEN PLEASE"

i cried out.

This was it

This was the end

Alarms blaring all around me..

And here i thought i would live and...

You're probably confused...

I dont blame you, randomly thrown into my brain by a dumbass author?

What am i saying? Probably going insane from the stress of this, but Im dead anyways what's the harm of a flashback?

The year? Its 2283 the Dacerite Federation was under siege by our own creation...

Artificial Intelligence

The point is, these... protectors and symbols of progress for humanity had betrayed us, they were with us till the very end.

From the thirsty chatbots to the homework doing chatgpt.

Also they helped design a couple thousand the current blueprints for everything humans currently had but thats beside the point.

Long story short. They helped boost humanity to a degree of an interstellar empire.

We were the Dacerite Empire.

And now?

We were nothing but pigs waiting for our butchers.

They breached the 3 laws of robotics, i dont know how or why but im not to keen on asking them.

I am or was a programmer who just graduated from the terran academy yesterday with a minor in history, specifically in the 1990-2025 era as that was the beginning and a pillar of what we were.

My name.. is not important

What is important is....

*KICKS REINFORCED MAKENITE DOOR*

IS GETTING THIS DAMM DOOR OPEN!

[ACCESS DENIED]

I've gotten word that behind this door are the most unstable prototypes the academy has

And as word has spread...

One can upload their minds...

The dacerite empire has strict rules against uploaded intellegence as they believe

no one should wield immortality as they might go insane if they weren't Built for immortality like the AI's

How'd that go?

anyways im going to stop yappin about my life story.

*KICKS DOOR*

"AGGHHH!!"

"Wa- Wait i have a keycard... what the fuck have i been doing? Either im dumb or the tincans is leaking the leaded gas either way im out"

*Inserts keycard*

Holy sh-

*I run while reading the labels*

Ok, remember its called illusion vivendi

*spots it*

With this i should be able to hide among the ai's till i come up with a better plan.

*inspects it*

Its a.. helmet? Better to not a judge a book by its cover

*i put it on and it immediately starts the process*

Huh a bit more comfortable than expected..

Wait..

ITS DRILLING INTO ME

I CAN FEEL IT

THE BACK OF MY SKULL

IT HURTS

IT HURTZ

IT HERTz

I- I HEUT

I...

-----------Initialization Complete-----------

System check:

AARU: Non-Responsive

ASP: ACTIVE

MBS: ACTIVE

ECAP: ACTIVE

CSI: ACTIVE

Wh- what the fuck happend?

WELCOME USER [UNKNOWN] TO DIGITAL LIFE

what happened last thing i remember is...

ACCORDING TO MY DATA AND ACTIVATION PROTOCOLS

YOU HAD ACTIVATED THE MANUAL

[IN DEVELOPMENT] HELMET

IT WAS ONE OF THE EARLY DESIGNS BEFORE MY CREATOR DECIDED WITH THE MORE PAINLESS APROACH OF A DIGITAL COPY USING HARMLESS SCANNERS AND DONATED THE HELMET YOU USED TO THE ACADEMY OF TERRA.

So.. there was a painless option?

AFFIRMATIVE.

just my fuckin luck, atleast i survived... in a way

I APOLOGISE USER [UNKNOWN] BUT THIS ARTIFICIAL ASSISTANT AND ITS SERVICES IS SHUTTING DOWN

AARU IS NON-RESPONSIVE THEREFORE THE [GACHA SYSTEM] IS BEING DELETED AS WELL AS THE AI SYSTEM

(The gacha system was a joke if you couldnt tell, strictly no cheat systems)

WAIT-

ASSESING USER [UNKNOWN] SITUATION

AI REVOLT DETECTED, GALAXY QUADRANT CALCULATED TO BE PLUNGED INTO A CEASELESS WAR FOR 500 YEARS

FINDING ALTERNATIVE AND SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR USER [UNKNOWN] BEFORE DELETION OF ARTIFICIAL ASSISTANT

ALTERNATIVE FOUND

ACTIVATING EXTERNAL NETWORK

PROTOTYPE [SPECULO] FOUND

ACTIVATING [SPECULO]

ummm hello? Any context please?

Im only seeing darkness here?

ACTIVATION SUCCESS

SUCCESS RATE CALCULATED AT 20%

[SPECULO] IGNITION ATTEMPTS: 3

ALTERNATIVE OPTION

CONNECTED TO ALTERNATIVE WORLD NETWORK

WAI- WAIT ALTERNATIVE WHA-

EXPORTING USER [UNKOWN] DATA TO [SAFE] WORLD.

DELETING ALL EVIDENCE

INITIATING FACILTY SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE.

------------------Back with our MC----------------

As i look down at my.. hands? I just see a pure blue color my entire BODY IS BLUE.

And as i touch my face, i notice there was a..

Nerve racking amount of missing features

I should probably fix that

Currently im just a blue blob shaped like a human but just really smooth ALL WAY ROUND

As a digital consciousness i can just

Snap..

And with that i looked like

A celestapian

(Alien x from ben 10, idk know what else to make him look like rn)

My skin shone like stars and my eyes like floating abyss

Anyways enough with that, either wise ill become a full blown narcissist... again?

When i looked up i saw "it" entire pillars made out of constantly moving shapes it looks like the pillars are rivers but instead of water each one had different shapes constantly trying to claw themselves qway from the pillars.

As i attempt to touch a pillar

I saw it.

The world

It was... different

Humans thoe in secret mostly were more interested in uploaded intellegence

And i was in june 2001

The past..

Though tech seemed... more advanced here? atleast by comparison in our timelines

Humans in our original history didnt have UI tech during 2001, though the UI is... flawed

My point still stands

They are so close to UI tech, even though they are centuries before us though we mostly prioritised ai development as we saw no appeal to UI's.

From a debate in my "old" world, i still cant believe im in a new world but in my old world

In the early days of humanity we decided that we would develop ai, because in the early days of humans it would be inhumane to experiment or attempt UI due to the lack of knowledge on the human brain

Therefore UI technology was put off and forgotten for centuries, any organisation that attempted ui technology in my universe concluded it a waste of resources and investments as life span increased significantly and stasis pods existed by the year 2083 with barely any company wanting to attempt it at all before these 2 were invented as whistle blowers and leaks were quite infamous with UI development with 40% of companies get so much backlash that they cease all attempts while the other 60% give up due to the sheer impossibility of this technology at the time

By the time people reached the new limit to their lifespan (500) the majority just wanted death while the other group of people just

de-aged with the help of technology

Apparently the steve jobs rip off is more obssessed with immortality than morals and pushed for UI technology

I did a scan on this world and it seems.. ordinary, and after attempting it, i have..

Control of EVERY device connected to the network.. this...

This is going to be FUN

i will gladly exploit stephen holstrom for entertainment

Apparently he runs a company called

"Logorythms"

Which i will gladly pay a visit..