Chapter 5 The meeting with god

It was just another normal weekend night for Kyung Min as he lay on bed, getting ready to end another day of his mundane and boring life. The pleasant feeling of sleepiness lingering on from being drunk quickly dragged him into a deep slumber. He was not aware at that time, but while he was starting to fall asleep, his body started to brightly glow white and suddenly his entire body broke up into tiny light particles and floating towards the sky, seemingly disappeared into thin air.

Kyung Min opened his eyes and found he was on lying down on a cold marble floor that was completely white and speckless. He slowly stood up, and when he started to look around, he realized he was inside an arched corridor in some kind of underground tomb or cathedral with walls made with the same white marble as the floor. There were strange statues of creepy looking fantasy creatures on the wall, with some looking quite familiar, neatly spaced out along the length of the corridor. The corridor was dimly lit with exquisite looking skull themed blue tikki torches that were glowing eerily without any flames. When he looked up at the ceiling, he could see epic drawings and illustrations of large alien creatures fighting what looked to be cavemen pointing at the aliens with what looked like sticks and the battle was surrounded by detailed drawings of stars and planets.

After a minute of admiring the various artworks around him, Kyung Min shrugged and decided he have seen enough and started to walk towards the end of the corridor. He never had such a realistic feeling dream like this before and the strange things he was experiencing was starting to make him feel excited. There were ancient looking doors with the same exquisite carvings and painting on them on each sides of the corridor, but Kyung Min strangely did not have the urge to open any of them.

When Kyung Min reached the end of the dimly lit corridor, he was surprised to see he was standing at the base of a large underground plaza with steps leading up to the top. There were eight other arched entrances to corridors similar to where Kyung Min had entered the plaza from, but he had no idea where those led to. In the center of the plaza up the steps was another, smaller plaza with a pedestal surrounded by 9 pillars.

On top of the pedestal floated a bright blue sphere that was large enough to fill the smaller plaza the size of a small house completely. The sphere looked like a miniature blue sun and was magically floating in mid air mysteriously pulsing blue.

When Kyung Min climbed the steps and stepped past the pillars to have a look at the mysterious ball, he suddenly heard a feminine voice that was calming but oppressive at the same time.

"Welcome summoned, Kim Kyung Min. I am the goddess of fire and technology of Vocorve and you are one of the thousands of chosen ones from earth summoned by me to represent me on Vocorve."

"You........ are the goddess of technology of Vocorve?? What are you talking about?"

"I am not exactly a god Kyung Min, as an entity created to develop civilizations, the biological beings I was in charge of decided to call and worship me as a god. That was during the time I was fully operational. I was woken up recently like the many others who are like me, by the god in charge of protecting this dimension to warn us about the incoming danger to Vocorve. It appears an alien invasion is on its way"

"That was not I was curious about......Wait hold on, Why me, and why would I or how can I even represent you? Oh, what am I saying, you are just a imagination in my head, I am sure I had too much to drink last night. I need to stop reading too many shitty novels and focus on getting that job."

"You were chosen by me due to your inner desires and dreams, you always wished for something like this didn't you?"

"Well yeah, I sometimes imagine building and commanding my own scifi army but that is only because I am a huge military and science fiction fan. Which does sound like a lot of fun, but thats not nearly enough reason for me to help you nor am I even capable of doing anything I said. So, are you at least going to give me some cool powers something?"

'Although, this situation is quite interesting so why the hell not, how badly can it end in a dream anyway?'

"Just like the other summoned, you get to pick three things"

"Three what? Powers? Weapons?Abilities?"

"Any of those."

"Hells yeah, then I want the biggest and baddest battlecruiser you have. You sound like you are some kind of AI. You should have one don't you? Why not go easy mode when you can?"

"Be reasonable Kyung Min, I am limited in resources and there are more than 90,000 summoned left that I am in charge of sending down"

"Okay then, fine, I can comprimise. A smaller ship like a cruiser?"

"No KyungMin. I have to remind you this would be considered a fantasy world on earth with what you call magic existing, you can always ask for any magical power or weapon you want"

"Soo.... A magical corvette?"

".......no......."

"Hey, mages and knights are really cool and I enjoy those stuff too but I am pretty unathletic and I don't think I am smart enough to use magic like in all those novels. A good ol' laser rifle sounds like it would do me good."

"So you want a laser rifle?

"No wait, no hold on. I don't even know guns are even a thing or even useful down there. Are you going to at least give me some ideas about the planet you are sending me to before you make me choose something and potentially get me killed?"

"It has been 3000 years since I was last operational and I have no idea how technology advanced on the planet. The only other operational AI that was operating told me new gods were born while we were dormant and what looks to be new civilizations appeared. I will update your brain with knowledge about the information I had during that time for now.

"What? Besides the 3000 years old part, you sure I can remember all that?"

"You will understand them all eventually"

"Fine last option then. I have a good idea. I want you, you know, like stay connected to you down there. From what you told me so far, I am assuming you are some kind of AI right?"

"I am sorry Kyung Min, it would take too much energy to reach me in this dimension of space and I am going to be overloaded with other things. You are one of the first wave of summoned and you are going to be on your own down there. I sent messages down to the empires and republics that worshipped me before and maybe still do. I am sure they can assist you. "

"Well any AI would help. If you are not gonna give me my ships in my own fantasy dream, I am going to build my own. An AI and a printer that can print everything I need sounds like a good idea"

"You still have one item left KyungMin"

"Hey, I want a fit body. Its been a while since I went out for a run since my service and and a year is more than long enough to turn someone chubby. I don't think I am fit enough to be fighting space aliens."

"A healthy body free and immune from all known disease and disability is basically included for all summoned. Would you like an enhanced physical body then?"

"Nah, can you just combine that last item with the other two and send me down with the best AI you can afford and with all the technology you know on it?"

"Very well then, I will send you down with one of my children and a 3D printer.

After that, Kyung Min was finally briefed about the mission he was summoned for and some other details about the AI he was going to obtain. He saw images and footages of worlds overrun with millions of ghastly beings that were a good mix of demons you heard about in bibles and fictions, familiar looking fantasy monsters, alien creatures, and even love craftian horrors that looked absolutely horrifying. And after a few parting words Kyung Min started to slowly fade away

"Be careful down there and please be nice to my child. From what the Overseer of time told me the new gods are the crew members who retained their memories - they became so powerful after going rouge, after getting worshipped as gods by the local inhabitants who are reality bending psychics, actually became deities. The Overseer thinks one or more of them called the xenos horrors onto our world over a power struggle. Find who that is and eliminate them. - This is your secondary mission You will not remember this part for your own safety but, good luck boy"

"New gods what???"

Hunter woke up on his back with his body extremely sore and when Hunter tried to lift his body up, he was barely able to move a muscle.

'Stay still Hunter, I am not done yet! Hunter, you almost died. '

"Oh, Hey Glados. Whew look at all that mess over there, we really did a number on those chickens huh. I am starving Glados, do those oversized chickens taste as good as they look and sounded like? Looks like we are having fried chicken fried in bear fat for dinner tonight!"

'I am glad to know you are feeling better Hunter. But, I was barely able to heal you this time. You are running dangerously low on the nanomachine reserves in your blood, Hunter. And since they are bioengineered cells and are used up whenever they regenerate bone and tissues by growing into the neccessary components, if you sustain critical injuries like that again I will not be able to save you. You need to be more careful.'

"Thanks for saving me Glados. You are right; I am getting absolutely tired of this almost dying thing. We really need to do something about the monster problem in our area. I haven't even ventured further than a few klicks from the cave and I have no god damn clue what is out there."

'Should I build more drones Hunter?'

"Yeah, I don't think the anti-material rifle is going to help much with how fast those fuckers are moving, unless I know where they are coming from and are ready for them. I am going to need some actual armor too. This bear hide did not do much and I look like a complete tool in it."

"Oh yeah, Glados, I remember talking to your mom now. Man, I totally thought that was a weird dream and did not take that seriously at all. You should have told me you can see my dreams and memories when I sleep, that was stupidly embarrassing. I hope my brother is nice enough to clear my hard drive..... You know, like what true bros knows to do for his fallen brother. Why couldn't your creator give a guy a warning and give him some time to get ready? We literally have to fight demons and I have to worry about my collection being scrutinized by my family and some poor cop when they try to find out why I supposedly went missing?"

'That is hardly important right now, and mother did what she must, why should she care about your collection?'

"Oh don't be like that Glados, like hell you would know what an socially unhealthy young human male still living with his parents in his late 20s have on his hard drive? Okay, Jokes aside your creator really did mess up, we were supposed to be teleported someplace where people actually knew we were coming and could help us. I am pretty sure that office lady was also one of the summoned like me and it did not end well for her for sure."

'We should not be that far from civilization Hunter, Mother could not have made that big of a mistake. I think she sent us to the right place but we are just on top of a civilization that went extinct. Humans seems to enjoy fighting each other to annahilation from what I glimpsed from your world.'

"Hey that was only movies and worse case scenarios that could happen, we never actually got close to sending each other off. Well, on the way to find the nearest human civilization, I hope we don't run into anymore of those merry groups of raptors running around. We are going to need more than just a few drones, and we are not leaving this place until we are prepared and can cover the whole forest with drones."