SHIN SEKAI: SPARK OF THE NEW WORLD

Schneider's tale

   "I come from a time long before the order. In my time there was no magic but we had reached a point where our technology was almost magical.

   Men could fly and there was no illness or disability that couldn't be treated. We solved all the global issues such as hunger, war and global warming. In other words, we created Paradise on earth.

   It was all good. There was peace, there was harmony and everyone lived a good life. The only things we couldn't find answers to were social problems, the problem of eternal life on earth and a few other question that remained unanswered throughout history. This time was worthy of being called 'the age of Paradise'

   No one at the time expected their Paradise to be turned into hell but it did. It did not happened slowly but overnight and it was not a sight one could bear to look at.

   The source of our hell was that which we had televised and ridiculed throughout the ages. It was a machine uprising. 

   In a world where almost everything was technologically made, the chances of escape were very slim. A few people managed to leave the earth's atmosphere but for those of us that were left down on earth, the inevitability of our deaths was assured.

   We thought we had taken measures and precautions to avoid such situations but it turned out we didn't take all of them. We searched for the root of the problem but we never found it. No measure seemed to work so I resorted to the extreme.

   'The plunderer' A device of my invention that was designed to plunder the technological information of any device and store it in another. Any device that was plundered would revert to the natural state of the raw materials they were made of. Most things would revert to a pile of dust after being plundered so it sounded like a great solution to the machine problem. 

   It was a great solution but the effect was that we would be back in the stone age which most people wouldn't be able to survive. The other option was to remain in a world where no one would survive so in the end, the plunderer was activated worldwide and the world was reset.

   I know nothing about the origin of magic or how I got my powers. All I know is that I woke up a few thousand years after the activation of the plunderer.

   Magic was already a normal thing and beast attacks didn't happen as normally as they should. Behind this fortress is is a plane full of immortal beasts that are deemed impossible to tame. I built this fortress to protect the people and then tried to return to my hometown.

   I didn't expect a warm welcome but it was still worse than I expected. It was already taken over by the order.

   A hiding priest saved us and kept us safe for a while before the order caught up to us. The priest held them back in order for us escape successfully and thankfully, we did.

   

   While I stayed with the priest, he told me something that may have helped me understand the origin of the order. The only logical conclusion I could come to was that they were part of the few that left the earth's atmosphere. The weren't affected by the plunderer so they had superior technology. My greatest question is why they would do such horrendous things to their fellow human beings. 

   On my way back to the only safe place I knew, my powers malfunctioned and I skipped time again and ended up where you two were.

   My greatest joy at the moment is that even as the world has been taken over by these evil tyrants, there are still people fighting against them."