Level 0: Inanis Somnium

1:34 P.M. SDT

December, 10, 2012

Chengdu Protectorate, Sichuan Province, China

"Good afternoon Mr. Fang Yun Cai, I'm here to collect you." uttered by a someone named Iwabe.

"Who ordered you to do that?" Wei ripostes.

"Me of course Mr. Emperor of China, the de facto new leader of the soon to be forgotten Tokyo Magic Parliament." Iwabe replied.

Then suddenly three people blocked Iwabe's path to approach. It's the emperor's four children but unusually, the youngest is missing.

"If you're looking for Li then forget it, he's with me now. He swore loyalty towards me." said Iwabe.

"You motherfucker, who died and made you the leader of the Parliament?" asked Cai.

"Who died? Who the fuck died???? You stupid monkey, of course it's that old fart Makoto." Iwabe shouted then snickered.

"And I'd be so disappointed if you kiss you mother with that mouth." Iwabe remarked.

If Cai doesn't believe him, then maybe he has no choice but to show him what happened.

"Tsuchida, Materialize!!!" shouted Iwabe.

And with a sudden surge of energy, his puppet summon named Tsuchida appears. He has four arms with the two arms carrying a blade, with a long blade like appendage as legs, has a jester outfit, a face that has a sickening grim and is controlled by a wooden hand with eyes on the palm area above him. The puppet is also seen to be exerting a black colored aura. 

One second later the puppet's core opens to reveal its core. The core then emitted a bright flash of light towards those in front of its vessel's opponents, acting as a quasi-projector that flashes what happened in the real world. 

Seeing is believing so Iwabe can't blame the man for not believing that easily.

****

2 days earlier at around 8 p.m in the real world

December, 8, 2024

VirtualExperience Tech Solutions Co. 

Minato Ward, Tokyo, Japan

 On a silent snowy night, the capital seems calm, fine and with Minato Ward following suit. The company VirtualExperience was different, as even though they're silent. The yuletide season has nothing to do with the silent night and holy night they're experiencing right now, as every executive and high ranking members of the company was being executed one by one, butchered like pigs and is all for public display in a macabre fashion, inevitably giving Christmas a bad taste in the parents of the bereaved's mouth. Those macabre displays of death is enough to make an ordinary person throw up at the sight of it. With police still pondering the impossibility as the killer is still nowhere to be found as each crime scene was meticulously executed and is so clean that no traced of the killer is found, only high traces of isopropyl alcohol all over the cadaver. 

The tower's remaining executives bid adieu to the C.E.O of the company, Mr. Makoto Onoda. With Makoto wishing the rest of the executives safety as they go home for the night into their families, hoping to alleviate their fears and calm them down given that it's Christmas season, a time of joy. 

Minutes later, he was the only one alone in top floor of the skyscraper, no janitors neither workers nor security guards in his sight. The top floor of the skyscraper that he called as his office. The clouds juxtaposing his success being higher than the clouds that he's seeing right now. After all those deaths due to the closed beta test for project Yumegemu, are worth every penny. 

He felt that those test subjects deserve to die as they're just mere stepping stones for this company's biggest success yet, a virtual game that doesn't need a device to function as mere soundwaves are enough to etch the game into specific areas of the player's brain. It would revolutionize the gaming industry and propelling Japan's video game to the future that he envisioned it to be. No more cartridges and consoles to play it, it'll just be implanted through the brain via soundwaves of the game's main theme song via a bought chip that is next inserted into a television. It's all complex science and science requires sacrifice.

On the good note, those deaths are just for the safety of the general public wanting to play the game for themselves in the future. His hands are already itching by the mere thought of those imaginary wads of cash that'll flood his banks once Yumegemu becomes a huge worldwide commercial and gaming success, catalyzing the evolution and first worldwide step of modern video games into the future.

As he walked closer to the elevator, he then remembered something that was about to be forgotten by the old man himself, his granddaughter's toy doll. It would be rude and unbecoming of him as her grandparent if he didn't give her granddaughter a gift now that it's the Christmas season and the time of giving. "Oh silly me, silly me" he said, visibly bemused. Though bemusements cut short when he hears a faint familiar giggle of a man, unusual because he just locked the office so no one could enter the office unless they go through the vents.

He then goes to the door and then opens it slightly to find Iwabe giggling weakly as he played with the doll he plans on giving to his granddaughter, now opened and expelled out of its packaging. As every twists and turns that Iwabe gives to the doll it was accompanied by the dolls giggle. He made the doll do a split, make it pose like a ballerina and made it dance a bit. Iwabe was acting like a little child playing with dolls, with his body, age, work, gender and expectations being the only critics in this moment of play.

Makoto already has a gun in hand ready to shoot Iwabe. As if he was to be left alive, Yumegemu wouldn't be released to the public for monetary gain, it would just be used in the wrong hands and pave way to control all people in the world considering that the mother controller Sekai can expand its control throughout the whole world, however as he opens the door and brandishes his gun, he then saw Iwabe already striking a pose on the table and aiming on Makoto's arm with a gun; he fired his .45 at him before the old man could do so, disarming and rendering him defenseless. 

And just for good measures, he then shot two of his kneecaps, elbows, and hands just so that he wouldn't do something funny behind his back. He could've just killed him right here and there but however that's not how he want things to end for him. 

"You sick and crazy son of a bitch, where is my son?" demanded Makoto.

"He's roasted like a marshmallow on a stick near the deep forested area of Hanagasaku, of course dead." he said while laughing.

"Here's the proof" said Iwabe to authenticate and validate what he's saying to the old man.

******

Scrolling through his phone, he shows Makoto a video of his son Ishiro with Iwabe sitting on a log. Ishiro was drenched in gasoline, tied to a long stick, under his knees are a circle of sticks from nearby apple trees. 

Iwabe conversed with the man for two minutes straight before throwing a matchstick on Ishiro, incinerating his whole body and immolated him here and there listening to him screaming, pleading and shake like a loach in salt. When the screaming stops and with his whole body being roasted. Being the absolute psycho he is, he then took out a pack of marshmallows, puts it on a stick and then roast it over Ishiro's burning corpse. He doesn't mind the smell nor felt fear or remorse for what he had done, he's used to it. 

As he took a bite out of it, it's taste is that of marshmallows unsurprisingly, with no hint of human taste. Its redeeming qualities having the smell of charred apple wood and human flesh.

This continues until Iwabe finished all the marshmallows and then dumping the whole container of gasoline to the stake alongside Ishiro, further incinerating his body before leaving the area to be discovered by the authorities tomorrow morning. 

******

"You absolute monster, how dare you!!!!" Makoto angrily said while tears fall down his eyes.

"You made me into a monster, you killed those who are dear to me? I'm just exacting revenge on this company that's all." Iwabe rebutted.

"All your other executive died of a gruesome death. Those who you bid farewell to, don't worry they'll serve me a purpose on the day Matsuri gets awarded for his heroic actions inside the dream world." he added.

But unfortunately, it's time for the famous pioneer of Japanese virtual technology to fall from grace. He's already old so he should just retire, from life that is.

Iwabe then showed his back on Makoto, he sees his chance. Using his last remaining strength he stood up and tries to pick up his gun. Iwabe anticipated this and then kicks him out from the building, shattering the windows and defenestrating Makoto, screaming as he fell to his death. His splattered body made an artistic display of brutality on the originally white pavement of the company, it wouldn't take long for the applause to fly like a bird. Bystanders screaming in horror and disgust, that's what Iwabe calls as applause. He escaped through a hidden exit supposedly used during emergencies, but not before destroying evidences of his entry.

An hour later and the scene was cordoned by the police.

Iwabe then wondered what would be the next course of action to do now that Makoto is now dead and it's now certain that her Kasumi is also pointing him as the only and primary suspect for her father, besides even forensics wouldn't know about it because he is wearing a glove when playing with that glove and that doll is inebriated in alcohol by the time he left the floor.

Then he remembered that in December 19 about 11 days from now will be the VirtualExperience's Christmas party and also most of his classmates and also beta players of Yumegemu would participate in it, because why not. They risked their life for it so a little treat wouldn't hurt maybe he'll just participate there but wearing a different disguise as the people there fully knows him and wouldn't be extremely alarmed if he was seen. Bunch of cowards.

*****

"Now Fang Yun Cai, do you believe what I said now?" he wondered. 

Iwabe is now a sick a heartless monster but he doesn't care. All that must do now is destroy this old and rotten world and replace it with his very own utopia, his very own dream world. Now, with Makoto gone, the Fang family are the only ones who are standing in his way.

Fang Yun Jie, the third sibling rose to her feet and suddenly attacked Iwabe. She was a bit nimble and agile to be able to dodge Iwabe's hands from striking her. But Jie using a sword is a far cry from Iwabe using only his hands to block her sword, all without sustaining any wounds. Cai warned her sibling to retreat and stop attacking Iwabe as they're universes apart in strength. 

"Oh wow, she's exerting mana and her life force in exchange for increased stat boosts. That's quite boring if it doesn't even hurt me in the slightest bit. Might as well end it." Iwabe thought, itching to end the boring, lackluster and bland display of skill in front of his very own eyes.

He then backs off a bit.

"What are you chickening out?" Jie taunted.

"Hey catch" Iwabe said to Jie and then flicks a coin into her which she blocks with a sword .

And as she was blocking that projectile, Iwabe was now at a close distance, already ready to strike.

Then the sounds of a single sound of a slash and a loud squelch can be heard.

As in that window of time, the emperor bear witness to his very own daughter blocking that coin with her sword and then getting decapitated by Iwabe's katana. As her headless body slumped to the ground, Iwabe then skewered Jie's severed head into his sword. Now that's a nice attachment to his katana's blade, these attachments are hard to come by in the dream world.

"Your children are weak" Iwabe said.

A fog then covered the area and those fogs materialized mirrors and fractals of sharp glass like snow, he's now trapped. Another gimmick of the Fang family, specifically Fang Yun Mei. But without their baby brother's power of the elements they're just dogshit of a fighter like he doesn't need to exert even a percentage of his power. What a let down considering that they're an empire wider than the Northern Force. 

"Wow, I'm not a little kid to be entertained with party tricks you know" Iwabe hurled at her.

But before he can say another word, tiny wounds appeared on his face. No sooner than that his clothes started to tear and rip whilst he's standing. As he imbued some of his mana in his eyes, the area is full of sharp micro icicle alongside sharp dew webs that spun from mirror to mirror. What an effort they've did just to stop him. And outside is Wei, he eldest son of the emperor prepares his area wide spell "Gambler's Haven".

The area outside as well as the skies above acquired a shade of yellow suddenly became a separate space itself. A space that that looked like a casino, naturally because the spell is called Gambler's Haven, but he didn't expect Wei to unleash a larger percentage of his power, justifiable because he will kill every single member of the Fang family right here right now. 

"You've committed so many crimes, including genocide, betrayal to the Magic Parliament, regicide and the most grim of all, killing your own father. Your actions are riddled with high treason, and your hands stained by the blood of other people." 

"With the power vested in me by god, I Fang Yun Wei will deliver judgement with my own two hands in order to stop this rampage of yours." 

"May the god and the people as well as the emperor guide me in handing out my verdict."

"I hearby sentence you to death, under the Yin Empire law."

"Hanazono Iwabe"

While listening to the elder son of the emperor yapping, Iwabe can't help but crack a yawn while he was just busy standing and taking hits inside Mei's spell that served as a distraction. The spell overall was worthless and did no damage whatsoever. 

He's utterly disappointed with every family member's strength. He expected them to be strong but no, they're weak. They can't even bypass his Zero ability, is he too strong for this world now? Well he'd be damned if that's true.

*another yawn*

It's so boring inside that he can just read a book and sit whilst she exerts her mana and magic power into every attack, which all were in vain when it comes to him. If they want to hurt him, they should've at least brought Tenma with them.

"Why must you all keep disappointing me?" Iwabe said in frustration.

Mei was utterly shocked, frustrated and in disbelief. As she spent years perfecting her abilities and enhancing her strength and magic power, enduring grueling training alongside her siblings. All of that hardwork only to be disrespected by Iwabe out of all people, all her attacks proved worthless.

"Nice tricks, now I'll shatter this foggy mirror dome type of nonsense you created." He said, in a rather bored tone, unamused by what the girl has been doing with magic.

As he shows his power to the dome, all of it got swallowed by the encroaching shadow, all of it, leaving nothing to spare. Mei still retaining the disbelief was now trembling, in clear terror of the shadows that shatter each piece of her dome compressing it like a vise, cracking and shattering above her head. Her magic cannot keep up with the compressive force of Iwabe's magic.

Until all traces of her power vanished on the surroundings, she then tries to do a last minute effort to ditch the battlefield and escape to safety but unfortunately Iwabe saw it coming and a wormlike shadow monster made from his shadow dome bit her from the stomach and rips her in two crosswise pieces, knocking her upper half airborne, with the last thing that she sees is another shadow worm's jaws as her head gets ripped off from her body swiftly and many more worms below emerged to feed on her dead body.

As he re emerged from the shadow dome, Iwabe saw that the pavillion which they were dueling on is now a gigantic roulette, with him standing on the green platform with the number zero. And that the vicinity of the Fang family estate in the Chengdu Protectorate was now fragmented and the ground is now non existent, it's a bottomless abyss below.

The number 0 means that if the ball lands on this number, he'll receive 35 times more damage than the normal allotted damage amount for this art.

As the ball spins and spins he was immobilized, he can't move. He must've exerted too much force in this, even using his life energy. Is he crazy?

And as the ball lands on the zero where Iwabe stood. A large surge of power confronts him, as expected it's 35 times more stronger, man it hurts even though he received half of the 35 times multiplier alloted for that area. 

Multiple yellow colored crevasses in space opened and began firing at Iwabe, it's all chips. But those things pack a punch, he still needs to exercise caution. He effortlessly dodged them all in great speeds, funny that even until now he mostly used his hands, and that he only use his blade in beheading Jie.

As he was dodging projectiles from all directions, he was then suddenly stabbed in the heart by Wei, who blended in with the omnidirectional barrage to sneak a fatal attack.

"You're done, and justice has been served" Wei exclaimed proudly as he took out his blade on to Iwabe's heart.

"Piece of shit" Iwabe cursed under his breath, with his health bar on the magic pixel. He then knelt involuntarily, seemingly dying in the hands of Fang Yun Wei but no.

Iwabe has another trick up his sleeve. The system then gives him a notification.

*Condition has been met*

*Belial is now at your disposal*

"Prove your fealty to me, Belial."

Iwabe whispered and all of a sudden, the surroundings turn monochromatic, all black devoid of colors. With violent grey bolts appearing from the air surrounding the are and hair turned white, his sword gaining a bone like look and is much more menacing.

He then merged his two katanas into one, and exerts most of his power. With him now gaining an additional giant arm made of bone holding a bone blade with the same power as his weapon.

On that moment, Kang, one of Wei's siblings came to aid his brother in taking down Iwabe but he came at the right time to test Iwabe's awakened powers. 

"Skeleton Vajrapāṇi" Iwabe said coldy that summoned a Vajrapāṇi who was a skeleton but its power is strong, with the creature parrying all the strikes Kang gives with his power and countering him with thunder strikes. 

The fight between Kang and the summon lasted for few minutes until Kang defeated it, the bones scattered but then holds him in place, restricts and constricts him. Realizing what may happened to him, the joy he felt was quickly replaced with thanatophobia, he screamed Wei's name for help hoping his brother would be fast and strong enough to save him. 

Wei screamed his brothers name as he reaches for him but a large thunderbolt hit Kang's vicinity, killing him and crushing him to a pulp as at the same time the Vajrapāṇi reappears from skies riding that giant thunderbolt all while stepping on Wei's dead brother.

"You're the last one left Wei" Iwabe said with a smug, he was too weak, he can't kill him. And with your death I'll summon the Unknown Being from the skies of Sichuan to wipe this filthy world and have it begin anew." he said.

"Belia Regnum"

He said and the two of them got taken to another domain with only the two of them in it. 

Wei, then strikes Iwabe but suddenly, bones ensnared him, and clung to him until he reached a point where he cannot move as he's chained from head to toe with bones, he can't fight anymore.

Now from the ashes, 5 skeletons soldiers all with veils and a long handled axe in hand emerged. They then walked to a side in Wei's body. One of them placed it's axe's blade on Wei's arm and then amputates it, the other soldier did the same to the remaining arm.

Now to finish off, they placed their axe on 5 different sides atop of Wei's head. 

Iwabe was kind enough to let Wei have his last words as in this domain, no one can bear witness to his execution and to the end of his life. None of his siblings, including Li won't be able to see him in this shameful and pathetic state.

Wei, knowing there's no use being high and mighty anymore, lost his will to fight and was rendered powerless in the face of Iwabe's Belior Regnum. He isn't royalty anymore, he isn't a part of Fang family, he doesn't have a home, friends, family, wife, kids and servant to go home to. Iwabe deprived that right the moment they clashed blades. All the right he has left is the right to say his last words, as his right to live is now non-existent. 

"Take good care of Li for me, Iwabe. And tell him that I'm sorry for all the things that I've done to him for the past years."

"I'm such a worthless...brother."

With a deep sigh, the skeleton guards took it as the green light and slashes Wei in five different sides, slicing him in a star shaped manner. His body split and mangled into five different pieces.

Iwabe walks away from the scene.

******

And on the center of the estate, Iwabe summoned the hand of the Unknown Being.

A black hand from a rift in space appeared. Iwabe successfully the summoned Unknown Being, a part of it but once it touches the world. It can end everything in it, erase all data and coding inlaid into the world, it force restarts the game.

With no one to stop him Iwabe waited, until on the very last second, Iwabe safeguards his Troupe members, his very own crew of actors willing to do his own bidding. The Shadow Ensemble, or known rarely as the Shadow Troupe, by using his other demon Astaroth's power that bypasses the effects given by the Unknown Being, basically preventing them from getting deleted and have them suitable for recycling in his own world in the future.

A graceful touch of the Unknown Being on the ground turned everything and everyone into pixels, that slowly disintegrates and poofs everything, organic and inorganic matter, living creatures big or small, young and old, male and female with the Being's powerful touch indiscriminately wiping out everything it could reach at such rapid speeds until.

*System Error*

And one second later, Iwabe returns back to the real world. And he must prepare for a big day tomorrow as he has a party to attend to, a party where he's the main spotlight.

******

December, 19, 2012

About 9 days after he crashed the Mother Controller's system, and rendering project Yumegemu to a halt. And right on time, there's huge celebration to mark the success of Yumegemu's first non company beta test all employees aside from Iwabe who was assumed dead by the company and everyone when in fact he was alive and well, still breathing and kicking.

And thank god it's a masquerade party, so no one would notice him. He would use a fake name, Miyajima Kaito, and he would supply the party with crates of wine and champagne that he laced with arsenic and thallium, which is fatal in large concentration, is tasteless and odorless and can blend in with the liquid. Those people who are present in the premises would do one big and grandiose toast to celebrate.

Those toxins are enough to cause toxic neuropathy, so even if they survived, long term effects await them. But Iwabe mostly wanted most people in attendance to die, but omitted the wine into its rather moderate short term effects for his best frenemy, Tenma and some other selected people. He must feel what Iwabe felt, he wanted him to be in pain and anguish and to show him that he picked the wrong man to mess with.

And thankfully he got an invitation from Makoto before Iwabe defenestrated him in the top floor of VirtualExperience building. 

So the plan sprung into action now as the wine he had donated for this noble cause has arrived at the outside the venue's premises and being cooled on the storage room of a truck being parked there. They'd first release the one which aren't laced, or the cheap wines he supplied to be consumed by the participants of the celebration.

Iwabe booked a table alone on the second floor, away from the main delegates such as Tenma and his wife Sugiro, his brother Matsuri and Makoto's daughter, Kasumi. He beforehand sneaked a .50 desert eagle he stuck underneath his table to finish the job. 

The stupid guests doesn't recognize him, including the guards, such nice work Komachi did in the makeup part earlier that day. Might give her a big allowance and twice the payload should the mission goes successful. 

Oh wait the celebration proper has begun, might as well sit down and tuck in to the delicious foods, drinking the wine isn't poisoned.

The emcee expressed her utmost salutations to the esteemed guests participating in this bittersweet celebration of the successful beta test of the first game that doesn't need a device to run, but it only uses the player's brain as a medium; which is none other than Yumegemu. As well as the untimely passing of their beloved CEO, Mr. Makoto Onoda, who was murdered 11 days ago. Without him, this whole project wouldn't be possible.

And they would like to extend their utmost condolences to the families of the bereaved before everyone extends a toast and drank the first batch of wine. This was then followed by speeches from other executives, although it's extremely boring; waiting it out was a sacrifice Iwabe was willing to make.

After many plates of food and a plethora of wine comes and goes from his table. The moment he had waited for had begun. They've finally took out the wine, Iwabe filled his goblet with normal wine he sneaked on his hip flask from his pocket and told the sommelier that someone had already filled his glass so he had to pass.

After a few minutes of unwanted dialogues, unnecessary eulogy and praise for each of the bereaved's contribution to the dead. Everyone now had a glass of wine in their hands including his targets.

"Everyone raise up your glasses" the emcee signalled the guests.

Iwabe did the same, "Nevermind, there's no need to call Komachi for this crap" he sighed under his breath.

"To the future and success of the VirtualExperience!!!"

"To the success of Yumegemu!!!"

"Cheers everyone" the emcee cheered to the crowd.

"Cheers!" the crowd replied and then proceeded to drink the wine.

A few minutes later, each of them one by one experience nausea, stomach pains, abdominal pain, headache and overall weakness. They'd experience severe symptoms, after all they all ingested the contents of a wine bottle containing 25 grams of arsenic and 5 grams of thallium salts as additives individually. 

Not long after that, their mouth started to foam clutching their chest, having difficulty breathing. Everyone dying en masse like flies, struggling in a world of pain until....they......die.

Oh even those beside him are falling from their tables, all experiencing those litany of symptoms. Until they all died, and became just a lifeless body, no soul, no heart, no right to live, all deprived with a single glass of wine, oh so simple.

Tenma is weakened, Sugiro collapsed unconscious, Kasumi was oh so confused as to what is happening around him, Matsuri felt the same but still manage to ask if everyone is okay.

Sugiro though almost at the brink of unconsciousness manages to resist it, and sit herself up amidst the ensuing chaos. Tenma manages to stand and help those alive near their table despite being in pain. 

"As expected, might as well enact my pièce de résistance." he thought, then took out the .50 desert eagle he hid on the table then a careful aim at Matsuri's back

As Matsuri saw his sister fall from the table he rushed to give him helping hand.

Iwabe had the perfect angle

Sugiro reached out to hold Matsuri's then all of a sudden 

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

4 shots rang through the room much to the horror of those wincing in pain due to the poison. Hitting Matsuri in the left lung, heart, trachea and in the brain. Killing him in living color of his sister's point of view. A devastating sight for her and a spectacular sight for Iwabe.

"Absolute Cinema, magnifique!!!!! Hahahahahahaha" he said maniacally, as all his efforts paid off it's in full bloom all for him to enjoy whilst others are suffering.

Sugiro screamed her brother's name loudly, with hints of anguish, grief and a sense of loss.

Iwabe slowly descended upon the stairs savoring each moment, each step, each second, like a gourmet meal. As he closed the distance, he took one look at Matsuri's dead body, shoots his head once more as a form of mercy shot and for good measure.

Sugiro on all fours, despairing, grieving and mourning. She angrily snarled at Iwabe for it, asking if he was satisfied and all the wrongs inflicted to him had been justified. 

"I'm not satisfied honestly" Iwabe said as he walks behind Sugiro and shot her on the spine.

"If my wife dies due to all of your wrongdoings, I'd kill both of you next. I lost three of my most beloved family members and one of my daughters because of you and everyone here so it's only fair if the lives you've killed would be repaid by yours" he told them.

"Forget arresting me, I have legal immunity" Iwabe said as he walks away laughing. 

There's nothing everyone can do at the situation but wait for the imminent help.

********

At night, the incident became global news in a blink of an eye. With Iwabe watching it on his phone as he went to the VirtualExperience company building now a ghost house with no residents on site, he then ordered some people he hired to move all the necessary tech required to run Yumegemu into a secluded area about 200 meters away from his house on a separate small scale building. That is where he'd place and engineer the Mother Controller; improving it to the point where it infect virtually every piece of tech available in the modern era and have everyone's brain be engrained with the game itself, that way he can put everyone in his game, that's his ultimate plan that would take him years even alongside others for assistance. He is not a greedy pig like Kasumi's father, rather he'd just give away the company's magnum opus for free to everyone worldwide.

Yeah, everyone. But unfortunately it would take him 5 years for it but it'll be worth the wait.

*******

Present day 

December, 16, 2016

And Iwabe was ready to enact his biggest plan.

"Hack the broadcast Mr. 'Fang Yun Li' " Iwabe ordered.

As he did, Iwabe then he wore a fox mask with a voice changer and then with another girl, apologizing to the viewers for interrupting their daily news as it is something the whole world must hear as it's urgent.

********

After that announcement, he waited until everyone was on their beds and then switched on the Mother Controller: Sekai; causing the game to spread like wildfire around the world. 

"Well then, it's time to meet our lucky player." Iwabe said as he went on to his private lounge, to rest his head and enter the game.

-Level Zero completed-

Author's Note: Hello, Lazycat here! I apologize if the prologue took longer than expected, a few months to be precise. It's just that I've been writing this bit by bit while tackling my studies (especially research XD) and as a student my studies come first, then I confronted some personal matters lately by the turn of the new year (well that sucks). But still I hope you'd all understand and I look forward to giving you another chapter to read.✌️(^_^)✌️