An Ton's Journey

Well.

In my absence, many things happened.

As if...

The only thing was the church of unity.

Not much can happen in a month, at least nothing serious and worth attention.

So, as I approached my costume, I had a dilemma. I had no ribcage, no skeleton...

And I need to wear this stuff in public. well, time to make a next version of exoskeleton that I could easily control with my powers.

Power. Force.

Days went by, as I was working from home, creating structurally better and more useful... robotic body. It couldn't be really called exoskeleton anymore. Not in the last week, when I integrated Khaydarin crystal, console, and a whole network of artificial muscles that would move it when I didn't want to fly.

This robotic body will be mostly controlled by console, while I would just give commands. It is much easier then always using force to move my whole body.

As I could now see, hear and feel with my skull, I had to create a visor for myself. And this was easier with the help of this world's holographic tech, as it was pretty simplistic and easy to implement. At least until I find out how to make one that I have in my database.

After I finally was satisfied with my new body, and obviously tested it... not really, I checked my new system building crap again.

And what changed was that I now had four units of universal energy... it's not much. Really not much. But it seems that it is being generated somehow.

But, four units in a month... that's lame.

And to compare, cheapest function to unlock - more digits for Universal energy counter, costs 10 units of energy.

Thankfully, this system 'creating' bullshit has it's own way of giving me knowledge about stuff.

Obviously, to unlock 'interface' I would need to spend years if I continue in this manner.

And don't even speak about making new functions or better interface.

I can only currently afford... nothing.

It is depressing, but I don't really need to depend on it, I already have almost everything I need.

Leaving my house in my new body, that looked like a living human, at least a human in a fully encased protection suit, I decided to go for a walk.

I might not enjoy just walking, but after I regained sense of feeling, I enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my face... skull.

It was relaxing, if I don't pay attention to others and just submerge myself in the feeling.

I missed it.

I didn't even know that I missed it. And it was strangely obvious. You don't appreciate things until you lose them. It mostly works that way.

At least for me.

And I can't really get rid of it.

Basking in the sun was good, for the first thirty minutes, until I stopped indulging myself in a false fantasy and moved away from my garden, where I had a heater in the shape of the sun...

This earth already didn't have clear enough atmosphere to simply enjoy sun rays from the land levels. Only skyscrapers were high enough to enjoy the light emitted by the sun directly. Without clouds and smog.

It is not fast and grateful job.

Especially when I will have to start working against the manufacturing companies.

At that moment I would need to have enough money and workforce to introduce new stages for their factories.

Stages that would require recycling. They would provide jobs, energy, and more resources for companies. At least for some of them.

But, ot would require investment from them, and it is the main reason they wouldn't want to even start reading possible long term benefits.

I am beginning to think just to stop being considerate in a year or two and begin forcing ' clear earth ' stuff onto Everyone.

I have capabilities for this, and only my sense of reason stops me from it.

I either force it, and it all fails if I leave, or slowly educate them and make it long term, but they would continue it even without me.

Well, or I just could combine it by using two different companies.

Hmm...

Slow and clean.

or

Fast and dirty.

I don't know.

Well, That is enough about business, time to enjoy myself and destroy some unity fanatics that began rebelling after being announced as terrorists.

Masses don't even suspect that government is trying to protect them. Government is always portrayed as bad by masses, no matter the reason.

Yes, they were not angels, but they were not the worst I've seen. And I wouldn't call current government BAD. They were trying their best.

No matter the result.

Mostly those riots resulted in many human and monetary losses.

Thankfully, they all had their special costumes that saved lives on multiple occasions. And even after almost dying, many people still acted like they are invincible.

Obviously, I didn't intervene. I just watched from the side, how government had to use army instead of only police.

Especially cruel things were happening when masses were being led by the believers in unity. Blood and fire were filling the streets and buildings where they marched. And no one listened to reason anymore. Humans under the heat of the moment, under the influence of the crowd would do things that they would never even think about.

In a week, civil war began all over the galaxy. Barely any station or colony was safe from it. And in all this chaos, I provided armed protection to my workers, as their families were moved to the safer places that were protected in a way that only spaceships could damage them.

Like, protoss shield. It could resist atomic bomb. And obviously it had it's limits, so planet breaking weapons could damage my existing shields. And most probably destroy them.

Thankfully, I didn't support any group and established agreement with government that made it possible for me to be known as 'friendly' group.

Even though people in my company tried rising up, like in many companies, but only people from church influenced companies were rebelling.

Unlike my expectations, even though it was damaged, economy didn't just get destroyed immediately. Civil war, or better called agressive rebellion, was mostly active in space or on the ground levels, where people could walk or fly.

Middle levels and above, in most places, were still functional. Not as good as before, but acceptable.

After watching from the sides, and recording all the really active fanatics, I began sniping. And not just sniping with a rifle one by one, I used orbital satellites from which, using invisible rays, I began rapidly cooking them.

Yes. cruel.

But they deserved it.

Some might ask me

" But Anton, where did you take this technology? "

The answer is - " Out of my ȧss!"

For fuċks sake. Zeoss technology is so much more advanced than anything you can think about making, that their basic knowledge is OP.

The only reasons for not using such things is that they can be easily protected against with energy shields and it being cruel.

Ok. ok. I'll stop wasting your and my time.

I reached a point in my life where I can decide the future of humanity, and I'm not really trying to save it.

I just don't really think I need to. They can mostly do it by themselves. Especially when they found out about existing enemy.

As for me, I will be living my life until I find out how to generate more universal energy, Or collect enough to unlock more functions that might help me in any way to either produce more universal energy, or get my body back.

Currently, I had no other goals except for:

- Clean the Earth

- Enjoy my Life

- Attempt to get more universal energy in any way, even ridiculous.

- upgrade my system

- get myself a body that can feel things

Not really much, and I'm not really in a hurry for anything except the last one. And it might be the hardest of them, as to get it - I either need to somehow connect my brain to the new body that would be able to give appropriate signals to certain actions, so I could feel them.

And the main problems are knowledge about my brain and hard skull that is hard as fuċk.

I couldn't even damage teeth on it, in any way.

I obviously tried things that wouldn't damage my skull as a whole. I'm not suicidal.

So, the only plausible choice for me is system and it's unreasonable possibilities.

At least unreasonable to me.

~ A year since I got a system ~

I bȧrėly hold myself from getting decimal counter for the universal energy number.

No results in increasing UE( universal energy ) production.

Civil war became a war against obelisk monsters.

~ Two years after system appeared ~

I did it.

I bought it.

[ Universal energy decimal counter ]

Current UE | 13.37...

Yea... I couldn't hold myself for long

Monsters are now named Antropomorphs.

War began in full, almost everyone believe that war is needed.

Except for believers in unity, who mainly now work undercover and behind the scenes, and some stubborn and unwise people.

Earth didn't become cleaner as many dead bodies and destroyed places appeared. Antropomorphs led by obelisks were strong.

~ Three years ~

Why did I buy the counter ?

UE | 26.74...

War in stalemate. Government is researching weapons to fight Antropomorphs on global scale.

~ Four years ~

Slight increase in UE generation rate.

UE| 40.0...

Not my work, I think.

I got addicted to online games again.

Still no sign of war ending

~ Seven years or more ~

Humanity are extremely good at creating chemical weapons of mass destruction.

The only flaw is that no life can survive some of these weapons, and purely targeted virus or infection is difficult task.

~ Ten years ~

Humanity is overpowering Antropomorphs, as certain sound frequencies are hurting them and repels all and any attack.

No sign of war ending.

I bought [ Simplest interface ]

UE | 9.001...

Worth it. I can see...

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thank you for reading, and enjoy if you can.

Well. slowly my brain gets back to be interested in this story.

Slowly.

Very slowly.

Let's hope that it doesn't stop at it.

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