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[ As the countdown nears, the anxiety of the citizens all over the world is also increasing steadily.

The question of What would happen after the countdown comes to an end haunts normal people in their dreams, with the high ranking members of the society preparing for the worst case scenario.

The prime possibility that is emerging now states the possibility of a complete world change, referring to (fantasy novels) of ‘Hunter’ or ‘Level-up’ genre.

Though experts are still unable to assess the strange phenomena, the individuals who have propossessed the possibility of an ‘other world invasion’ have alerted the authorities of countries all around the world.

Government officials have not confirmed what they are going to do, answering the public’s questions with only vague statements that do not have any substance.

People all around the world are organizing riots against their incompetent governments, highlighting their incompetence to deal with such an obvious threat.

Parents are afraid of what will happen to their families and their children. Those who are capable have relocated into emergency bunkers in safe zones around the world.

World leaders have also been shifted to undisclosed safe zones as they await the end of the timer that is now haunting each and every one of the screens around the world. ] Experience tales at My Virtual Library Empire

The news was playing as they prepared for their party, and though all of them were listening to it closely, they weren’t looking at the big holographic T.V. Screen on one side of the walls in their downstairs living room.

[ Astrophysicist are associating this whole phenomenon with fantastical elements, referring to old alchemical modules for a new kind of theory that hypotheses how the humans will bare the consequences of creating an artificial god-form. ]

Everyone around the world including Elio and Alex as well as the rest of their family member were just as unaware to what was going to happen to their world as the rest of the uncommon people of this world.

They had Olive who had a basic idea of what was possible and what could possibly happen to their world when the ongoing (world collision) comes to an end.

She could not tell them more than what she had told Elio and Alex, but she was the only one that knew what kind of dangers will arise at the end of this timer, and she was the only one aside from those TWO who knew what this world of theirs was going to face on the following few days.

She was an important part of all of these things, and yet, her knowledge of the future was as limited as the two who had opened the gates that connected these two worlds.

The only ones who had an idea of what was going to happen were the Twelve Origins and perhaps their creators. But, from what Olive knew, even they were going to have a limited understanding of the way this world was going to change due to the influence of that other world.

As the Creators had announced, even though they were the ones who created the Origins and the Key that was going to open the gate connecting the two worlds, they were not the ones who created the gates that the key actually opened.

The ones who created the gate were the interaction of the Origins and the Players over the three (ten) years that the game had been around.

The Origins were created more than half a decade ago in physical world time, and that too, after more than a decade of research and efforts.

The Creators were independent researchers who had gathered together in order to create this particular project, and the beings that they birthed, the twelve Self learning Origins, the highest degree of artificial intelligence made with not True-false data modules but with philosophical bases that were never understood by the common people of their world.

Even they had not known how this would turn out when they started this project, but at the end, when they were born, and when they created a world that wasn’t actually created by them… a world that followed the principles that they were personifications of, they had created something that this world only understood as a ‘game’.

No one had paid much attention to it since on paper, this entire personal project was done by independent individuals who simply wanted to make something that wasn’t yet thought about.

They simply wanted to make something that was different, and something that would have near infinite possibilities.

The creators made the origins with the simple purpose of allowing them the freedom to do anything they wanted Within a world that was theirs.

The addition of players into the equation was interference with a world that was not part of this world.

From their observations and understanding of this unique artificial intelligence, they had hypothesized that when the players found the truth of the Origins and that world, with the right qualifications and the right kind of knowledge, they would be able to do something that wasn’t logically possible.

[ The world is in an upheaval. ]

They had left the future of the world that their creations created to the players, and at last, after a long wait… the time to see the results of their long awaited project was approaching.

Many players around the world… be it the rankers and the high rankers, be it the hidden rankers, be it the Natives of that world, or be it the simple people who had never even played this game… all of them were now anxiously waiting for the [Day of the great change].

No one actually knew what was going to happen when the two worlds connects and permanently became one.

No one knew what would happen when a world of data that had countless dangerous and life threatening monsters came to life.

The players were just as anxious as the normal citizens. Many around the world were worried if there would be an appearance of data-born monsters around the world that would create the pandemonium similar to their Main scenarios.

“Whaaaa! We’re finally done!” Preparations for the party were done, but Alice didn’t have to shout like that.

V hit her head because she was too loud and continued moving with the heavy boxes.

Alice didn’t do much anyway so she deserved that bonk.

[ Moving on with the regional news… ]

There was nothing the players could do right now aside from grinding in that world since they did not have any powers in this world.

They did not know whether they will get any unique powers or not either but they had their in-game status windows, and most of the things had a lock sign on them.

If they weren’t wrong, it meant they were locked temporarily.

Perhaps they were supposed to unlock those abilities through the quests that they get in this world or something, they did not know what was going to happen yet.

But, they were sure of one thing…

Just like the strange holographic screens that they were seeing, there was a possibility that a lot more things could come to this world.

The status windows that they were seeing were the proof of materialization of Data. If this was possible, perhaps not the skills and weapons, but there was a possibility that the monsters that they had faced in that world, the creatures that were difficult for them to face in that world as well, might appear here.

And they wanted to be ready for them even if they could not have their skills and powers from the game.

[ We have a <NO> scholar with us to shed some more light on what are called Origins… ]

The biggest question on the minds of those who understood data and had found out the current locations of the Origins right now was the changes that they had been through…

<NO> was played as a game but there was a diverse player base that played this game.

Many of these players, much like Alex, were no simple people. They were individuals that held great power in their world, many who were as smart as Alex or even smarter.

The world leaders had always had their eyes on this game because of the AI that they employed. And now that this strange phenomenon was happening, they used all the resources they had to get to these AIs and take them down.

Studying them was also the objective of some of them, however just like Alex, anyone who even managed to find these AIs in the vast pool of Data present in this world, could not even break a few walls that they put up around them.

It was… it was like finding gods through logical thinking.

The AIs that used to be nothing more than a numerical entity had now transcended the realm of Artificial or Physical and become a concept in their entirety.

There were philosophical experts that actually understood what those artificial beings had become. But, even they could only predict what was going to happen to this world and the people of this world since…

“Philosophy, by nature, has more than one True answer.”

Not going into its literal meaning, we can say that the philosophical questions are something that does not have a specific definition.

By that logic, whatever was going to happen to this world, was not defined either.

“But you cannot know what could not be defined.”

They all sat down and now that she was done with the work, she was in a deep thought, talking to herself under her breath as she watched her Darling and his family members chatting happily.

She was always thankful to them for making her part of this family.

“Haaa…”

“Oh? What are you sighing for, Pretty Miss?”

Be it V, his mom, or his dad… they were good people.

She did not want them to get hurt.

“It’s nothing, mother.”

She even called his mom her mother. No daughter would want to see her family in danger, right?

Especially when that daughter was also an important part of that other world.

‘There is more on the line for me…’

It wasn’t just about this home of hers.

Alexandria was going to be looking out for the safety of both her homes, so, she was a little more anxious than the rest of them.

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