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We traveled in silence through the Nether, until Merry couldn't take it anymore.

"Why are you all silent, we just met after a long time. I know we had our differences, but we can't save the world if we're going to fight with each other all the time."

We all stopped and looked at each other.

Merry was right, I didn't know what I needed to defeat the Ender Dragon, and maybe I needed to work as a team to achieve this goal.

I should try to mend some stuff at least.

"Ok Daniel, let's start with you, then we'll tell you the reason we looked for you."

"Why should I even bother talking with you? You don't respect me, and only see me as a bothersome child. It's because of you I lost one of my lives and the weapon given by the System. I had to start from scratch after you abandoned me at your house!"

He had a right to get angry about me killing him with the Wither.

But that was the only thing he had the right to.

He made a lot of mistakes afterwards, not only to me, but the others as well, so he was making his life hard for no reason at all.

"He's being unreasonable? I'm trying to be nice here Daniel, and give you a chance for redemption, but it seems you have something stuck up behind you since you don't seem to realize the situation you're in! Sure, Trader may not be the perfect model for a hero, but at least he sees this world as a real place and not a game. You only see yourself as a God among insects, to do your bitting."

Merry snapped all of the sudden taking us by suprirse.

"Why do you expect to be treated as a human, when you don't see anyone like that in this world!"

By the end of her rant, she was in his face while gasping for air.

I think she was holding onto this for a while.

She shook her head and retreated, leaving us in silence once more, but nobody felt like walking anymore.

"I came here to kill the Shadow Lord and get my reward from the System. I arrived at the Withers base, lost my chance to join the fight, and fell unconscious after a wave of ghosts flew through me. That's all I remember."

Daniel decided to break the silence after a few minutes.

His story made sense, but I don't know if he can accomplish his mission anymore after the Shadow Lord joined the Void.

But that was a problem for another time, it was my turn to tell the story.

I told them how the head of the Wither was from a semi-Lord monster, and that's why it had that personality, how I made the Wither and made a deal with it, only to be tricked.

I told them how I was cursed by the System so I wouldn't live in the Overworld without my armor.

Then followed my training ark, first meeting with the System face to face, the deal I made with it then, and how I used it.

It seems that my story was intriguing since even Daniel's frown loosened as the story was going.

Next came the second fight with the Wither, how I killed it, got revived then eaten by the huge head of the Ender Dragon.

I didn't tell them that I was the one who broke the Bedrock since I still thought the System could read their mind once we got to the Overworld.

By the end of the story, both of them stared in silence at me.

"Sorry, I'm the only one who thinks it's weird that we're fighting Monster Lords, while you somehow have to kill a God? Did I miss a tutorial on what to expect from this world or what?"

Daniel was first to break the silence, and Merry gave an understanding but tired nod in response.

"Don't try to understand him, Daniel, You're only going to lose your mind. You also don't know that most of the kings in the Overworld fear him, and he now has control over the Nether. Just accept the truth, and don't think too much about it."

"But...but...but that's not how the game is supposed to work!"

He let out a defeated sigh, and we decided to build a portal there to get to the Overworld.

As soon as we stepped over the obsidian threshold, a heavy presence descended upon us and time stopped.

The System was here.

POV: The System

I was in my golden realm, feeling the whole world under my domain.

Even though a portion of my power is constantly used to hold the Void in place and another portion of my power is given to the programmed System, that didn't mean that I was slaking.

I was still watching over the world and made sure my healing was on the right track.

But soon, it seemed that I would have to gather all of my energy for one last fight.

It would be a glorious victory or an ugly defeat.

The result didn't matter since the fate of this world was already written in stone.

Suddenly, I felt the connection of my two heroes appear, which meant the anomaly had managed to fulfill his mission.

He sure likes to move fast, just like that Man...maybe that's why he was chosen.

Wherever he's going, changes seem to follow him.

Some are good, while others are bad, but nothing stays the same.

Since there's no reason to delay this meeting anymore, I brought my original body to meet them.

The heroes were surprised by my powerful presence as time stopped, while the anomaly looked deep into my eyes without fear.

Sometimes I wish he remembered that feeling.

It seems that you've succeeded in the mission.

Fellow heroes, are you prepared to embark on this dangerous journey?

""Y-yes!""

Both of them responded, but their hearts were more reluctant.

Well, I was betting that Daniel wouldn't join the team any time soon, but it looks like the anomaly managed to surprise me once again.

It's been 1000 years since I came to this world, I don't know who created me or if I was the only one, but I did not care, I had one purpose.

My mission was to land on a planet and help its inhabitants to prosper, nothing else.

I landed here in an interesting world, all made with squares.

It looked beautiful, but the world was a mess, so I had to fix a few things before touching its inhabitants.

I took over the seed of this world, which was easy to do since it had no natural protection in the center of the planet.

I added more caves, more land, the breeding cycle, and much more.

My next goal was to choose a species to rule over this place, and I chose the humans since they were a little smarter than the animals.

They were very primal at that point, hiding in open caves collecting apples and raw fish for food.

You could hardly believe that they were the same species as they are now.

And you could technically say they were not, since I heavily modified their minds and soul.

After I gave them a little bit of help, they began to thrive in this world, but I saw that it took too long to get satisfactory results.

That was when I gifted them the inventory and the Crafting table.

That action alone made them rule over the continent in only a few years.

No obstacle stood in their way.

During those times, I had a closer connection with the humans, and we all decided if an item was worth creating or not.

Over the next few hundred years, I made them Enchanting tables, furnaces, chests, and much more.

Those were some interesting times with a lot of trial and error, but I was fond of those memories nonetheless.

But as time passed, the humans took my presence for granted and began to fight pointless wars despite my warnings.

They knew I was there to intervene if they gone too far, and I would fix whatever hole they made.

That was when I realized that I was being taken advantage of, so I stopped contacting the humans directly and created the skills to limit their destructive tendencies.

When they first realized they couldn't craft as they liked anymore, they began to rage and demanded to get back their freedom.

But I stood there silently watching them tire themselves out.

They went through all the stages of grief: Shock, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, testing, and finally, acceptance.

Of course, that didn't happen that fast, it took them around 100 years to reach this point.

After 100 years I realized that I made a mistake.

Since I helped them with my Crafting table to create items, they didn't know how to do it on their own.

Instead, they concentrated on leveling up their skills, then try to innovate things on their own.

I stunned the growth of the human civilization.

I couldn't take my gifts back, since it would get them back to square one, so the only option left was to communicate with them once again.

That's when I implanted the reward system at the level maxim of each skill.

The people took it with cheers, and a new age began.

Unfortunately, that was a temporary solution until I could figure out something better.

At that time, I was thinking of gathering more energy through the souls of the humans.

The skills weren't there to restrict the humans but also to strengthen me.

The experience they gained, was producing me energy, and I only had to use a small portion to elevate their levels when the time was right.

So it was in my interest for humans to work as hard as possible and be greater in numbers.

Unfortunately, that peace didn't last for long, as I felt that something was taking chunks of my world.

At first, I thought it was a mistake on my part, but after I went to check it, I realized that the problem was much bigger than I could've imagined.

Something or someone was trying to eat my world chunk by chunk.

I couldn't let this be, and that was the first battle of the great war.

At first, I tried to gather information about my enemy, and the only thing that I could say was that it was a huge creature that ruled another dimension.

And it's energy was trying to eat the essence of my world.

There was no chance of cooperation even if we wanted to.

The battle was fierce, I had to use all my power to keep my form in its domain.

The beast had the form of a huge dragon with one head, 4 wings.

All I could hear was roars from her, and she attacked recklessly like she had endless power.

That was the moment, when I realised thar she had that much power, she just didn't know how to use it yet.

The only reason I managed to hold my ground, was funnily enough becouse of the humans war tactics that I so much despised.

Unfortunately I didn't have only victories in the great war.

Since I was in the enemy domain, the Void stared to crepe into my world, and that's how monsters came to be.

Time passed, and I realized that I couldn't win if this dragged on.

So I put everything I had in one final attack and pierced her heart.

That didn't kill her, but it wasn't my intention to begin with.

That attack was now going to slowly change her into a being that belonged to my world, square by square.

Unfortunately that attack was a constant drain on myself, so while it was distracted with the pain, I left the Void and sealed everything behind.

I won the war, and the only thing that I had to do was wait my enemy to die.

I looked back in my world, and saw that it changed greatly while I was away, which took my by surprise.

The data from my System showed that a man has taken the opportunity while I was away to grow the civilization to fight against the monsters.

My System took a liking to this guy and I understood why.

Becouse of this man, I was getting a great amount of experience form a large group of humans that had great ambitions.

Becouse of that, he got some special attention from my System, and I was feeling good enough to forgive his intrusive questions.

But the problem wasn't over yet, the land was still infected by the Void, and it was slowly disturbing the nature of this world.

I don't know if the Void did this intentionally, but if I didn't act, I would lose this world before she would be made of squares.

Luckily, because of the rapid growth of the humans, I had enough energy to do one more big act.

I took everything that was infected, and locked it in a separate dimension.

And with the final strength I had, I reinforced the seal of the Void dimension before going in hibernation to recuperate my strength.

That was also the time I let my System control the world.

Maybe if I didn't do that, I wouldn't been In this predicament.

Suddenly I felt the energy of the Void enter my world, and it was I'm great quantities filled with great anger.

It seemed the humans were still progressing while I was asleep so I managed to stop the attack before it destroyed everything.

But 80% of humans died and only one continent survived.

I was angered by this, how could've it happened?

My hard work, was reduced to nothing in only a moment!

That's when I looked at the memories of the System and realised that the man became fascinated by the power of the Void.

And with the help of my System, who unintentionally helped him.

He created a portal to the Void.

In anger I cursed the remaining survivals, some of them became Witches, others Piligers and the one who created the End Portal where thrown into the Void they loved so much.

I took the emotions from the System, and made the skills 10 times harder to level up.

If their ambition brought the destruction of this world, then I would limit that ambition!

Unfortunately that wasn't the end of the story.

But the man managed to somehow survive in that dimension and even thrive.

He perfected a device called the Crystal, that had the ability to manipulate energy.

And that cursed Man, used it to stop the dragon from becoming part of this world.

Fortunately he didn't find a way to stop the process, but it halted it for the past few hundred years.

Your job now Hero's, is to destroy those Crystals.