Lidie's POV

Lidie rushed out of the room and the first thing she heard was a rather familiar but furious voice.

Looking inside she saw a rather handsome fellow shouting at Darknym, nearby Galie and brown looked somewhat sad for some reason, but mostly as if they pitied the young man.

"Are you mocking me, of course I know that you can travel back in time!"

The young man shouted, of course the man was Simon who wanted Darknym to send him back in time, something that was probably beyond his powers. At first Simon asked him to resurect Kaj and himself, but after being turned down, he asked the same thing that he did before, still thinking that he had travelled back in time.

"For the last time, I'm telling you that what I did was change your memories, if I could travel back in time do you think that I would's have saved Galie's mother or let Brown be harmed?"

Darknym said somewhat irritated, they had been going for it for some time now and they made no progress at all, Galie and Brown of course knew that there was no way to go back in time, or at least that's what they thought.

"Don't joke around, you are a devil, why would you even save a plaything anyway, I'm sure you didn't even care about her!"

Simon shouted, something that made Darknym silent, the reason was that it was true, he didn't care too much for Galie's mother after all she was mortal and although he had ways to extend her life she would eventualy die, even Galie and Brown for him were not exactly more important than his dreams and aspirations.

"Do you even know what a timeline is or how a soul works, don't get ahead of yourself kid, If I wanted I can completely destroy your soul and erase you existance so don't get too ahead of yoursef"

These words made Simon wanna puke, he was sure that Darknym could time travel or resurect the dead and now Darknym himself didn't reject it, he only threatened him, meaning that it was difficult but not impossible.

Lidie saw Simon laugh hysterically as he dissapeared into nothingness, it was as if the him before was just an image.

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Simon's POV

Truth was that Simon was baiting him, the image in front of Darknym wasn't his real self, the little devil told him to bait Darkym into revealing his hand and that he did, he now knew that Darknym knew how to resurect people or how to time travel one or the other and these secrets he needed.

He had elaborated on a plan or better thousants of plans, demons and angels at the moment were spreading through the whole of Allastar doing his bidding while players were trapped in this world and were unable to escape.

Simon of course had a second Ace up his sleaves, after dying or whatever had happened to him he had a second awakening to his psychic powers and could now once more tap into the system.

Allastar was in the palm of his hand, but what he wanted was only one person, a person that was outside his ability to control.

If he could control that person, not only could he return Kaj and himself to life, but he could also rule the whole world.

Simon now wasn't himself anymore, he had abandoned his petty passions for something greater, Complete domination.

The elaborate plan he and the Devil had made was foolproof, of course he knew that there was no way to fight Darknym face on but he had tons of preparations that even now were underway.

The little Devil and Angel were his advisors as he was now establishing his influence in this virtual world. Npcs or players were all under his control and from time to time even more people entered Allastar only to be trapped inside.

Simon of course had a reason for doing this and the reason had to do with how the virtual system worked.

The whole system was powered by psychic power, the more people were in a virtual space the more processing power was given to that space, meaning that the more people Simon could keep in Allastar the more powerfull he became in this virtual space.

This of course he understood only after doing the maintainance work at the underground facilities for around a year and after he had entered the system and pondered a little in its data.

Of course there was no information of what was happening inside the virtual world and tons of Guardians had entered the first day, but after a entering they had all discovered that they couldn't leave.

Simon had send angels to recruit the Guardians and Devils to recruit the Rebels who were hiding inside the game, or even worked for the guardians, the reason he could do so was that they all had sothing giving them away, like a friend who was in the revolutionaries.

As a god in Allastar Simon had the ability to create his own realm, although it wasn't too big or spacious but it could house about four modern capital cities, meaning a small country.

He then divided it into heaven and Hell and begun creating buildings and npcs for both, his plan was quite simple, he would have whoever he didn't like burn in hell while those that he liked he would have with him in the Heavenly realm, giving them some minor powers and making them immortals, mostly because they could respawn in the first place, This he did because of the Angel and the Devil and it would take him like forever to finish, but he had all the time in the world.

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Max's POV

Max was somewhat perplexed, the reason why was because deep inside he did understand what Lidie said, things that he took for granted others didn't have the possibility of having.

Max had his own house in the real home or more rightly put his parents' house as they all lived together in the real world.

If he wanted to he could even stay for years outside his capsule and no one would say a word to him, if someone who was not a guardian tried that they would be arrested and locked inside their capsule, something rather disturbing now that he thought about it.

Max wasn't an idiot and although he had long chose the virtual world instead of the real one there were probably people who would chose otherwise.

Progy looked sadly at her daddy as he stood frozen in place, from the door Red and Blue were somewhat shocked as they both had no idea that Lidie was a Rev(Revolutionaire).

In a way both of them should simply apprehend her just because of her ideas, but at the moment it felt somewhat wrong to both of them, after all they had both spend some time with Lidie and although she was a miser and a spoilsport but she was an alright person to hung with as she was upright and righteous, although she tried really hard to disregard the npcs' problems but she never could abandon a cry for help making their adventures together rather exciting at times even when they were wiped out because of her wimps.

Of course Blue knew nothing about Max but for Red who knew his background Lidie's words were like knives to her heart, in reality she and Blue both were people who had a say in how the system worked, not that Max couldn't do something if he wanted to.

In truth the system existed for one reason only, to make the world safer, after all no one could die, well almost no one.

But deaths all over the world were limited to a minimum of about 1thousant a year, while birth rate was around the same levels as well if not double.

Max closed his eyes trying to figure what to do, funny thing was that his first idea was to go ask his mother, he felt pathetic as he understood that although he had people he called friends, in reality he felt strange discussing with them important matters like how he felt or his dreams, he just wasn't close enough and although they travelled with Honda for a long time, he could only tell jokes and laugh with him, Honda was straitforward and went right into the matter, something that made him rather unsuccesful with girls.

He was a raw diamond in a way, if he was polished maybe he would become the greatest gigolo in the world.

But in their travels Honda grew only more depressed as Red gave him no mind at all and even scolded him every time she or him died from a monster attack, mostly because Max was delayed while waiting for them, it was a miracle how Max could hold Progy safe from all the monsters that they encountered after all Progy only had one life.

As for why they hadn't gathered more people, that's a long story, could you imagine anyone staying after one year of nothing, it was the most boring journey of all times, all they did was travel and travel and travel, not staying even for a day at one place, it was more like torture than a journey and all that just for the current scene.

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In another room Lidie was standing still, she had heard Simon's arguments with Darknym and something unthinkable struck her.

'Death'

She hadn't thought of it, what would have happened if she and Axel hadn't left the virtual world, what would have happened if they were happy with what they had.

Afterwards however she remembered her first experience in the real world, the sense of touching something real, the strange heat of their body after their first real kiss, their last real kiss, the kiss of death as it all happened at that fatefull day.

Suddenly a voice came from nearby, it was a familiar voice.

"Oi, Lidie would't you want to go back in time?"

The voice was Simon or more like a small Simon standing on her shoulder, he rather good looking at the moment but Lidie knew better than judge a man from his cover.

"What do you want?"

Lidie asked disdainfully, she didn't trust Simon one bit as she still remembered the raid on the Revs headquarter.

"Don't be so hostile, I only want to make an alliance with you"

Simon said, his tone was now serious which birthed a spark of interest in Lidie's mind.

"You know that Darknym doesn't care about your plans, he cares for nothing at all, but together we can make him care"

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The next few days Max stayed in the same Inn as Lidie but they didn't talk at all, there was nothing for them to talk about.

In a way they had nothing in common to even discuss, he could only see Lidie turn more and more gloomy each passing day.

It wasn't only Lidie who was changing, the city they were staying in was also experiencing changes as the whole world changed.

Days passed and Max couldn't find Lidie at all, Progy also couldn't find her and whenever he asked Galie she had no Idea, she only knew that Lidie was still in her capsule. She too had the same question as Max.

'Where is Lidie?'

Darknym as always didn't care but once Brown asked him, to his shock he too couldn't find her wereabouts, it wasn't that he wasn't stong enough it was that the future was too foggy, he could only smile bitterly knowing full well that it was because of little Brown who was next to him playing dolls with Progy.

Darknym had made them rather well made dolls for them to play with and dozens of dresses and clothes for them, he even put spells on the dolls so that the children could change how they looked, it was like editing the face, which was somewhat funny as the girls created rather funny faces for them.

It was around midnight that Simon came once more, this time he didn't talk much, he only left an envelop and dissapeared.

Darknym was rather wary of the item left behind, to his displeasure he had discovered that even he was now limited by the system, even worse it seemed as if Simon had made the system supress him to the best of its abilities and it was rather successful as his powers were now only half of his original powers and even worse as days passed he grew weaker and weaker, he could of course leave Allastar and the virtual world and recover but that would take years, he couldn't leave the girls in Simon's world for so long and now this letter, the letter could be another trap from the system or even worse something to throughly seal his powers.

His speculations came true as Galie who accidentaly opened the letter lost all her psychic powers and was about to be teleported away if not for his involvement.

This letter was like an act of war, the first strike a threat to tell him that he was now powerless in the virtual world, this world belonged to non other than simon now and even if he left the virtual world, there was little he could do about it.

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Merry's POV

In the outside world there were or rather the wider Virtual world there was something that made everyone panic even more.

Demons from the virtual game had begun appearing in other Virtual worlds kidnapping people and many people knew that these were non other than Allastar Demons, they had seen them in a cinematic nearly a year ago.

Merry was going mad as well, she too like Darknym didn't know what to do, even before all this she could do nothing to safeguard the people, the demons simply came out from a stange gate took someone and left through the same gate, killing the demons wasn't hard if you were in some virtual game space but what about the main virtual world, what about the people who were sleeping or eating at the moment the gate emerged, they had no way of fighting the demons and even worse, the demons didn't appear in some patern, it was completely random, the system was to slow in reacting to the invasion and by the time it reacted the gate was long closed.

Merry had of course tried to find the mastermind of all this chaos but there was little she could do, after all there were too many people in the world just trying to read their minds would take ages and even if she did find him or her, what then? there was no way to forcefully eject him/her from the system, at most she would throw his body into a comma while his/her soul would remain in the virtual space continueing to wreck chaos and panic.

Her options were few and one worse than the previous. If only there was the shut down button, then all this could have been avoided.

Merry could only curse Chris for his badly made capsules or the others who came after him and used his capsule without making the least of changes to it, even herself who hadn't handled the matter more decicively.

In her opinion, the only one behind this chaos could only be the new Darknym, but if he is as strong as Rain said then there was little she could do about it.

The Virtual space, her world was turned upside down and all she could do was watch helplessly as it all happened.

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Simon's POV

Only one person in the whole world felt no panic or concern about the current situation, he was of course the mastermind of the whole thing or more like the cuprit.

Simon was still making his own god realm, or rather both his realms, while also monitoring the current situation.

At the moment everything went as planed, Domina was kidnapping people from other virtual spaces making them enter Allastar by force, since they had to create an Avatar in Allastar once they entered.

Nearby stood Lidie who was also monitoring what was happening outside, their alliance was no wimp of Simon's, the reason behind it was simple, he needed more people and a person who sooner or later would leave the virtual world caring nothing about it was the most suitable ally.

Of course their goals were different but the path to them was one and the same.

The main point of the kidnappings was to make people fear the virtual world, to show them how powerless they really were against the system, but of course it also helped make Simon's powers even stronger.

The secondary however target for Simon was to make Allastar not fun to play anymore, thus making Darknym wanna leave the virtual world, of course they could always make a rather simple deal and everything would be over.

Lidie's existance however was a must if he wanted his plan to work, she was an existance akin to a bargaining chip but also a way for him to analyze how the capsules used by Darknym worked, the letter he sent was a message that he had already decyphered the way the capsule worked making however Lidie's existance somewhat useless, none the less he still allowed Lidie to think that they were Allies.

Lidie didn't seem to think too deep into stuff something that made Simon somewhat at ease after all he had too many things to care about, it was a fortune that he had the little angel and devil as they gave him rather good Ideas, the both of them did their work as advisors perfectly, but in the end they still needed some of his own ideas to make the plan even more laborious.

One year, a whole year and people went on disappearing, the people had no idea what was going on inside the game or how to stop it, there were of course many attempts in the span of the year but it was all futile, half of earth's population was now trapped in Allastar and the first problem was that there wasn't enough space for all of them. Wars raged and the first to fall were the Npcs towns and villages.

Of course Guilds and Guardians had the advantage but since the guardians could no longer use their special options they were left without their special armors and weapons, practicaly naked, even their psychic powers were highly suppressed making them just elite players or rather average, since they depended too much on their psychic abilities to fight.

In this one year Simon couldn't find nor Darknym nor his daughters making him feel somewhat depressed. He had set the three of them as main targets for kidnapping but all three of them had simply disappeared from the virtual world, another person who had dissapeared with them was Lidie who went to see what they were doing in the real world, Red had disappeared as well but he didn't really pay attention to that.

Three more years passed and the population of earth had all been trapped in Allastar, even the empress was now on his feet.

For some reason she was somewhat different from how he had imagined her all those years, she was probably the most disappointing person he had ever met.

At first he thought that she was going to threaten him or something when she appeared in front of him, but the first thing she said was "Hello gorgeous, do you want to make out?"

It was then that he understood why the whole world was so stupid, she probably had no idea what was happening under her rule, but if she wasn't the one who ruled then who was?

The question had made him panic at first, he even searched through the system but the system was only a tool, who was the one who was ruling over the whole world?

If it was the system he would had found it long ago, his thoughts were that it was the Empress but she too was but a tool, so who took the decisions on the educational system, on the lifestyle and all the other trully complicated matters?

He had of course asked the Empress herself but "The geezers" wasn't a rather satisfactory answer.

Whowever it was however made little difference as his plans were coming to fruition, Allastar was now his domain and no one could leave his world without his saying, He had also begun taking over other virtual worlds' control as they were deemed useless by the system and were in suspended function, of course over there he wasn't god or anything but his demons could still plunder stuff from there and bring it to him.

Years passed him by, Simon had lost count of how long it was, he also had no goal anymore, he had long forgotten why he wanted Darknym to travel him back in time, but the reason for that was nor power nor time, it was Merry.

At first he thought of her as an idiot, but birds of a flock stick together, he didn't know if she was an idiot anymore but she was now his most beloved wife.

They had simply too many interests in common, they both liked to lazy around and go with different partners behind the other's back, or even did some orgies now and then, but what really bond them was that their most beloved people were long gone.

Allastar had changed in those years as People had now stopped making wars begun striving for survival, as for the ten Divas, they were now known as the ten goddesses and before long people begun ascending into their own "god realms", returning Allastar to the Npcs, the reason for this was the time that had passed, in reality a whole century had passed by as Simon was planing and changing Allastar to what he wanted it to be.

However not all people became gods, Simon had also created a Hell, there he put people he didn't like and people he wanted to torture mercilessly.

His version of Hell was rather empty but inside there were only a few people, but to them Simon would give no quarter.

These people were the real brains behind the guardian system and the other things, among them were also Time,Rain,Leo and even Dublin.

These people were those who could have changed everything but they did nothing and logicaly speaking if not for Merry the ten divas would also be among them. There was no justice to this of course but Simon didn't care, those people were the ones responsible for all the chaos in the first place, if they had simply locked all psychic powers there would be no inequality and no reason for the guardian's to exist, as for the real world, what was so good about.

There were however those who with all their might resisted Simon's reign and their leader was non other than Max whose powers had somehow awakened after a rather tragic event in his life(Progy's death). Of course if he knew that his parents wer held in hell he would be even more furious.

Max's powers were the same as Simon's or almost the same, he could freeze the system for a time, making everything stagnate, well almost everything as inside his zone people regained their psychic powers and in time Max and his group begun hiding in other virtual spaces.

However there were two even more troublesome groups. The first group's leader was a Dragon called Golgoliath. Simon for some reason could do nothing about him, he had suspicions that he was a hidden npc god or something but when he met him, he immediately understood what was happening as a message appeared in front of him.

=Dear Simon, you were right, I can go back to time, of course the power needed to do something like that is too much for me so I decided to just leave the virtual space, see you in a century or two, no hard feelings, this a gift from me, Golgo is a rather troublesome pet so I leave him to you, he's an Idiot but don't be too strict with him=

This message played as the dragon was rampaging all over Allastar killing anything in his path. The reason behind it was that Golgo's favourite dangeon disappeared, a dragon lair where a rather cute dragoness slept, of course that happened before as well but those dragonesses weren't really to his liking.

The system was powerless against a dragon's psychic power, thus making Golgo a real pain in the ass, even traps and spells did nothing against the dragon's fury, but many people found it interesting so Simon could do nothing but sigh.

By now all People saw themselves as gods so there was no real strife, only arguments between gods, which birthed wars on the surface of Allastar as their power was closely linked with their npc believers, of course power didn't really matter as their own god realm was safe even if all their believers fell, but it was sort of a hall of fame thing where he and others had taken a heavy hit by Golgoliath's rampage.

The most however dangerous group was the Revs or TR(True Revs). Under the leadership of Lidie, they first stormed hell freeing many people, leaving back only those they couldn't carry away, they were the Revs and although they were too few in number, day after day their numbers grew.

Simon knew not who were in their ranks as they used psychic power to comunicate, something impossible at first thought, but it was real, they could use psychic powers despite him having banned them.

The Revs only appeared after Golgoliath's rampage and in one fell swoop did lots of damage to hell as they left behind corrupted bits of data. They seem to have had some sort of weapon that had the function of destroying data, in other words, destroy the virtual world, only the higher ups were left behind, as before he had all the revs locked in hell as revenge for them killing Kaj.

There was only one anonymous member who was in the deepest of hell's cells, she was he one who had shot them and her he wouldn't let go for all eternity, even if Rain and the other higher ups escaped, that single person he wouldn't let go even if it killed him.

Although the Devil was against it, he had other more cruel tortures, things that would make any person break, taming methods that would make her become lower than an animal.

Simon however didn't want to break her he wanted to punish her, he wanted to know that she would forever regret the day she had killed them.

How did this have anything to do with the TR, well they were all people who were in Hell so they knew full well how much value he put to that single prisoner of his. Their attacks of course were few and sporadic but each time there was one less person in Simon's hell.

In a bling another century passed and people begun forgetting that this world was virtual reality, even the most perfect of memories didn't work for so long, they were gods and the TR were called the Demons who escaped from Hell, by now there was only one person in hell. Her whom they called "The prime sinner", no one knew what sin she had commited and only Simon and herself knew the truth of the matter, a simple truth that he was long dead or should have been dead, this truth even Lidie probably didn't know, but in this new age there was little that people could do against him.

Simon was called the Father of Gods, of course it was just a title but it did represent his power, and since the Divas were his foster daughters they called him dad, making it sort of a nickname.

While Lidie and Max were now known as the Devils, since they were now on the same side.

Time passed on as they all fought for superiority but little did Simon know that above them in the voids of the virtual world a second system was being build atop the original one.

Its creator was Darknym and not far away from him were Lidie,Max and his two daughters, It had only taken him a century to finish the infrastructure of a second even more complex virtual world and it would take him even longer until it was complete, he had given Lidie a deadline until the second system was over, they had to rescue as many people as they could as the people in this system would forever be sealed in this virtual prison.

This Virtual prison would then be a gift to his daughter Galie to play with and Golgo would stay forever inside it, not that Golgo would even care, inside this virtual world he was akin to a god after all.

Thus centuries passed by and the system was finaly complete.

Today Darknym appeared once more in front of Simon and Merry, they were lazily sitting on their thrones, bored to death as their imagination was long drained, it was the fatal weakness of these god realms, the boundary of a person's imagination, very few people after all would share a single god realm and very few of them visited another's god realm. Mostly because it was dangerous, visiting another's god realm was like walking into a prison cell while someone outside is holding the key. There were many people who were thus turned into slaves or pets for other gods and Simon too followed the trend, after all he only needed their psychic power to fuel the system it didn't matter if they were happy or sad.

Around the throne room there were many such slaves who were at the moment sleeping, there was no need for food anymore but they did eat and drink something that Simon called Nectar and Abrosia, it's taste was whatever taste you wanted it to have and there was little to ask from it as it was everything they could have wanted, only the delicate sense of munching the meat or crunching the chips was lost.

Of course they could still go to the mortal world for that, meaning the surface of Allastar where now only npcs resided.

Simon slowly opened his eyes as he was informed by the system on this intruder, in the time passed Simon had become one with the system, he had become the true ruler of the virtual worlds and seeing Darknym did make Simon somewhat surprised but he didn't care much, after all he was now a god, the king of gods, the father of gods, he had long seased to care about the outside world and Darknym was but a thought in the back of his head.

"What do you want?"

Simon said lazily.

"Did you come to plead to me, to let you join the gods or did you decide that you were too foolish back then and decided to ask for forgiveness?"

Simon asked, not really waiting for and answer and continued his speach, there was nothing Darknym could give his after all, nothing he wanted anyway.

"Whichever it is I forgive you and you can go make your own god realm like your stupid dragon did"

Simon said as he closed his eyes once more.

"Dear whom are you talking with?"

Asked Merry who was snoozing and just woke up from his voice, but after seeing the strange masked man in front of her she screamed waking everyone up, of course it was rather terrifying seeing someone who had a mask instead of a head, it was a small mask that looked just like Darknym's but it was small, as small as a child's.

They could only hear a girl's laugher as Darknym disappeared.

They couldn't tell if it was Darknym or not but Merry's saw lots of nightmares after that day, something that made them shocked, after all they couldn't see dreams in the Virtual space but now they did, as after that day all the people in the virtual world could dream of a better world.

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Words from the Author

I know that some hate me for taking time off and for other reasons of their own and I know that this probably is how I will end this dark(slightly pink or rather purple) novel, but you must understand that it was hard on me psychologicaly this period of time, everything is simply a pile of sh*t, my life is, I am probably a waste in the road as my only talent could be said to be story telling, not story wrighting, story telling, I could tell thousants of tales but the quality is d*mn thrustratingly low, as a writer I would like to offer my apology for all the slopy mistakes, the missing descriptions, the bad syntax, my limited english. Next as an Author I would like to thank all those that read the two volumes, I don't think I will be continuing this novel but there will be others, some said that the worlds are half complete, well they are far from the truth, the reason for the info dump was because the worlds were not exactly supposed to be virtual reality worlds and there are dozens of chronicles from Allastar which I would love to write, Destros has stories of its own while Altgaia which was only mentioned or glimpsed upon has only one story but its a rather long one, I took the world apart and made them into a virtual game, but that's only because I don't know how to best present them.

I'll be working on my other novels for now and will probably return to polish "The worst" to the "worst" of my abilities, hope I gave you some food for your imagination and maybe some for your mind as well.

For those who want to know whys or whats just go ask the wuxia writers how they light fires in the bottom of the sea or how they breathe in space, there's really little to explain in fantasy or rather there's no need for expanations, just enjoy the show and if you want something scientific, go read school books, they are rather educational and a lot more functional than a fantasy novel.(just kidding, after all everything can be expained with enough imagination, like making an air bubble or his organism changing, like being able to hold his breath or something, I didn't even think that something like that had to be explained in details, also there's thousants of ways for magic to pass through matter if you think of it a little, after all magic is something astral, not something physical, also I've plenty of pointless expanations for countless of pointless questions, what really matters is if you enjoyed the ride, not why it was bumpy on the 3 km or why it didn't take a turn left on the 5th avenue).

I hope you all good luck and health and may the force be with you.