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Author: James
last update2026-10-20 13:26:09

What follows next was cold, unforgiving unbearable cold. It seeped into his bones like icy water, dragging him out of the endless white abyss that had sallowed everything.

"...."

His eyes twitched as he tried to slowly open up and look around, the blinding light was gone, the eyes in the sky together with it but he also noticed something really different.

The sky that stretched above him was remarkable unfamiliar. Two moons hung high up and neither looked like the one he'd known all he's life.

One of the moon glowed sliver while the other was crimson, half part of both clouds hidden behind drifting clouds.

"...Where..." Ray's voice came out hoarse.

He slowly sat up, but immediately started regretting it as a sharp headache pierced through his skull like a heavy bullet.

"Ahhhh!" He voiced in pain holding a side of he's head.

Beneath him, the ground was no longer concrete as it was, it was all now soft grass. Trees towered in every single direction and their leaves were strangely glowing with a faint blue particle that also seemed to be drifting through the air like tiny stars.

"... This... This isn't Earth." He whispered to himself as his heart pounded.

"This had to be a dream, or I'm I hallucinating?" He thought.

Suddenly a faint low chime sounded inside his head.

*Ding!*

He's entire body froze in place. As a translucent blue screen materialized before he's eyes

[WORLD RECOGNITION IN PROGRESS...]

[WORLD RECOGNIZED...]

[Please remain still]

Ray blinked twice in disbelief. "...No." he said but the screen remained rooted in place. "...No." he said again as he tried reaching out but his fingers passed straight through the hologram

"... I'm losing my mind?"

[Scanning User...]

[Soul Signature Confirmed..]

[Transmigration Successful...]

[Installing Hero.exe...]

A prigressuin bar immediately appeared.

[10%]

32%]

[57%]

[81%]

[100%]

[Hero exe Successfully Installed...]

Ray stared. "Hero?" He murdered as his lips curled into an asked smile.

"So...!" He laughed nervously. "I think I actually got isekai'd?" He thought.. "if that's so, the this wouldn't be so bad. If the stories were anything to go by, then this was where the overpowered abilities appeared.

Just then, in the middle of he's thoughts, the screen flickered.

[Installing Villain.exe...]

"...Wait! What?.." he said as his smile faded

Another progression bar appeared.

[12%]

[43%]

[69%]

[95%]

[100%]

[Villain.exe successfully installed...]

"...Villain?" Ray barely whispered with a shacking voice as a cold chill ran down he's spine. "Why do u have both?..."

The screen frozed, and the blue light suddenly turned crimson. The letters distorted and pixels tore themselves apart. Lines of text rapidly filled the interface.

[WARNING!... WARNING!..]

[Two Primary Systems Detected]

[Fatal Conflict..]

[Hero.exe refuses coexistence..]

[Villain.exe refuses coexistence..]

"...Excuse me?" He voiced but the screen just kept going.

[Attempting Forced Separation...]

[.....]

[.....]

[Forced Separation Failed...]

[Attempting Emergency Shutdown...]

[.....]

[.....]

[FAILED]

[.....]

[Attempting Administrator Override..]

[...]

[...]

[Access Denied...!]

"What the hell is happening?!" He asked and immediately the whole forest around him shook, mana surged wildly around his body. The once glowing leaves all around burst into brilliant light and Birds flex into the sky.

The system interface began breaking apart, entire sections disappeared as words overlapped one another.

[CRITICAL ERROR]

[Primary Programs Corrupted!]

[Emergency Merge Initiated..]

"No, no, no , no..." He screamed as pain exploded inside his head, he collapsed onto the grass. It felt as though two different memories were trying to force themselves into his brain.

The system screamed

[Merge progress]

17%

42%

76%

99%

[...]

[...]

[Merge Complete..]

What followed next was silent, complete absolute silent, then a voice that was calm but obviously filled with exhaustion. "Who are you?"

"... Who's there?" Ray question as he jerked upright.

"...You're not the one we were searching for." Another completely different voice answered, this time lower, colder but yet still strangely composed.

This was when Ray realized that these voices there weren't coming from anybody hiding in the forest, they were inside his head.

"Who's talking?" he asked, but he's question was followed by a long silence.

Then the first voice spoke again. "...Lucian."

The second answered. "...Kael.“

And the two voice fell quiet once more almost as if they were staring at each other. Then at the exact same moment they whispered

"Who are you...."

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