Chapter 1: Wake up

The boy got up from the bed in confusion, the unfamiliar wall, the unfamiliar ceiling, and the white sheet was printed with a blood-red cross.

[Hospital?] The boy had such a term in his head, but it plunged him into a deeper confusion - [What is a hospital?, why do I know?]

"Woo ......" A severe headache hit, and the already chaotic thoughts in the brain began to spin wildly [It hurts, it hurts, what is going on?]

"Isn't Patient 104 awake?"

[Who's talking?]

"Who's to say it's not! It's normal to be stupid even if you get hit like that, right? After all, you see ...... right in front of you."

[Who is it, who is talking again?]

"But it's a blessing in disguise that I've become an Awakened One!"

[Awakened?What's that?Seems familiar?]

"The awakened must also be able to wake up, otherwise it's just a [beep-] liquid supply device......"

It seemed that two women were talking outside the door, although it was very quiet, but it reached the young man's ears without falling, which made the young man's already painful head hurt even more intensely.

"Ah!" the boy could no longer bear the sharp pain in his head and cried out frantically.

"There's a situation!" Almost as soon as the voice came out, the door was slammed open, and two young women in nurses' outfits rushed in, and it seemed that they were the two who had spoken before.

"Bed 104 has a manic reaction!" said the older nurse over the walkie-talkie, while the younger one pressed the teenager hard against the bed.

"No, I can't hold it down, tranquilizer!" said the younger nurse, feeling the struggle of the patient below her, turning to her companion.

"Yes!" The older nurse took out a small barrel-shaped device and attached it to the boy's wrist, and with a "snort", about five milliliters of liquid disappeared from the transparent barrel-shaped device, and the boy fell silent. That's about a needleless syringe.

"What's going on?" a male voice came from outside the hospital room, followed by a tall, thin man who looked to be in his forties, who appeared to be a doctor.

"The patient has a sudden manic reaction, and there is no dimensional shift. The little nurse glanced at the monitoring equipment and replied.

"It's good that there's no offset. The doctor seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, took out a device similar to a stethoscope and put it on the door of the boy's head, and straightened up after about two minutes, "It's okay, normal reaction after awakening, after all, the patient was too stimulated before, and it's a good thing to wake up, but you two always pay attention, as long as there is no dimensional shift, it's no problem." ”

When he had finished explaining this, he turned and left, and he walked as fast as if there was some kind of flood beast in this room.

"......" The two nurses looked at each other and sat helplessly on the bed next to them, the doctor could escape, but they couldn't!

At this moment, the two of them suddenly regretted coming to this hospital, although the salary is very high, but they can't bear the high risk factor! God knows if the guy who was an awakened one moment will become a degenerate the next moment!

At this moment, the young man on the hospital bed was staring at the ceiling with his eyes wide open, but no one knew what kind of intricate fusion was going on in his mind......

……

I don't know how long it took, a slight luster appeared in the young man's godless eyes, which was a sign that his memory had been prioritized.

Playing a fighting game will also cross?] The teenager's heart is very complicated, and his memory is even more complicated-

His name is Feng Xue, and he is an ordinary otaku in the twenty-first century, and he is playing a fighting game called "Shonen Jump Smash Bros.", not the official one, but a mugen fighting game made by the people, and the brawl is not a character, but a profession, but none of this matters, because he just finished choosing a profession, and was sucked in by the computer screen, and then wore it.

And at this moment, he not only has the memory of his unlucky predecessor in his mind, but also the memory of a guy named Cangdu.

[This Cangdu's memory, is it the so-called awakening?] Feng Xue suddenly thought of the conversation between the two nurses before, and shuddered inexplicably, [Cangdu, this name seems to be a little familiar......]

With the passage of time, Feng Xue, who gradually began to absorb his memory, became more and more fortunate in his heart, as a soul, his memory had the highest rank and retained a complete life imprint, in other words, this time he crossed over, not someone else absorbed him.

And the predecessor who is also called Feng Xue as a physical body retains all his memories because he is the owner of the physical body, but the imprint of life has been shattered, as for the unlucky ghost named Cangdu, he only left a "career tutorial" called the Exterminator, and even lost his own memory.

Wait, Exterminator?

Feng Xue was suddenly stunned, he wouldn't have traveled to the world of death thousands of years later, right?

However, as he continued to absorb the memories of his predecessor, he finally figured out what this "awakening" was.

It all started a thousand years ago.

That's right, you read that right, it was a thousand years ago! Feng Xue actually traveled to a thousand years later!

According to the historical records of this era, on November 11, 2031 AD, a major event called "Dimensional Annexation" occurred in history, and countless "dimensional gates" appeared on the earth for no reason, and a large number of lives from the second dimension came out of it, including humans, beasts, ghosts, demons, and even zombies.

At first, human beings were very frightened, worried about the end of the apocalypse, but this fear quickly disappeared, because they found that the barrier between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional has not disappeared, for the three-dimensional humans, the two-dimensional inhabitants are like a mirage, and the same is true for the two-dimensional visitors, as if the earth-destroying attack in the two-dimensional cannot break through the screen, and the three-dimensional will not hurt the two-dimensional even if they tear up the comics, although human beings can talk to the two-dimensional life, interact, but can't really touch each other.

As a result, there is no change in human life, but you can watch all kinds of two-dimensional creatures of different planes fight each other every day in a hyper-realistic 3D movie, maybe when you go to the street, you can see Sun Wukong three times with golden flashing, conquering the king vs. Qin Shi Huang or something, but no matter how they fight, how they destroy the world, they can't hurt the three-dimensional (probably like a holographic projection).

What's even more interesting is that there is more than one character in each two-dimensional character, and it seems that due to the overlapping of parallel worlds, new dimensions are constantly merging into the earth, and it is said that at its peak, there were more than 280 Artoria at the same time.

Human beings have even obtained some real technology through communication, but the black technology of the second dimension cannot be studied, just because there is no material unique to the second dimension on the earth, such as the technology of the rebellious Lelouch world relies on a room temperature superconductor called Sakura, but there is obviously no such thing on the earth, so even if the technology of the Lelouch world is obtained, the earthlings cannot build mechas.

As for those martial arts, magic, and immortal arts, they are even more untouchable, just because the three-dimensional dimension has neither aura nor magic power.

Later, human beings discovered that the "dimensional gates" that brought two-dimensional creatures connected to small worlds, so they sent troops in, but people were disappointed to find that everything in any world was the same as the two-dimensional inhabitants, which could be viewed from a distance and could not be touched, and even if humans entered that world, they could not take anything with them, and nothing could be left (just like watching a 3D movie, although it seemed to enter it, but what could not be eaten, what could not be drunk, and there was no other way to interact except talking).

Time passed in such a harmonious way, but disaster quietly happened.

On January 14, 2200, there was a vicious event known as the "Cataclysm", in which humanity lost more than half of its population within a month, a large number of countries perished, and humanity once fell into a state of survival, and the root of everything came from several parallel worlds called the Holy Grail War that originated from the world view of the moon.

When countless two-dimensional inhabitants came to the three-dimensional through the "dimensional gate", a concept called "Holy Grail" also quietly arrived.

The Holy Grail itself is just an aggregate of high-purity mana, and the system built to touch the "root" and achieve the third method, the "Heavenly Cup", has a mechanism to interfere with reality by consuming pure magic power, so as to achieve a limited number of wishes. But in the plot, there is a mixture of impurities that should not be mixed in - a soul named Angora Manuel.

Angora Manuel is not a Heroic Spirit herself, but she was involved in the Holy Grail War as a Heroic Spirit, and when she was defeated, she was classified as a Holy Grail according to the Heroic Spirit's death rules, but the Holy Grail was set to fulfill the wish of the first human to touch the Holy Grail.

As a result, Angora Manuel, who entered the Holy Grail as a heroic spirit, but had the reality of a human being, was fulfilled the so-called wish in his subconscious - he was willing to bear all the evils in the world in this body.

This was originally just a part of the reincarnation plot, just like the Dragon Ball GT world made a wish with the Black Star Dragon Ball and then the Dragon Ball would destroy the planet where the wish was made, it couldn't interfere with the real world at all, however, the blackened Holy Grail entered the three-dimensional world with the carriers of the Holy Grail and the Black Holy Grail such as Alice Phil von Einzberen, Ilya Sophie von Einzberen, and Sakura Makiri.

Then, the Black Grail follows the wishes of Newman in Angola to gather the evils of this world, and tragedy is born.

Because the Black Holy Grail not only condenses the "evil" of the Moon World, but also absorbs the "evil" of the three-dimensional human beings in the real world.

After going through the cycle of the secret realm (the secret realm is a peculiar, following the so-called plot cycle of the world, the two-dimensional creatures can leave the secret realm and enter the three-dimensional, but the secret world will still operate according to the plot inertia, until the end of the plot, it will return to the origin of the plot again, reincarnation, and it is precisely because of this that there will be a large number of "isotopes" in the real world) and brewing, after hundreds of years, the Black Holy Grail has become the source of all evil to break the barrier between the three-dimensional and the two-dimensional.

Filthy, red-hot black mud poured out of the Holy Grail, contaminating the first two-dimensional creatures.

The polluted two-dimensional creatures are eroded by the extremely strong evil thoughts called "the evil of this world", and become beasts that only know killing and destruction, and only a small number of strong people can contain these tens of billions of evils with the ultimate "power" and maintain their sanity, but even so, it is inevitable that there will be a tendency to "blacken", and these blackened two-dimensional creatures are called twisters by humans, which means - people who are distorted by evil thoughts.

What's even more terrifying is that these twisters who are polluted by the evil of this world can break the barriers of the dimension! (Because the evil of this world at this time already contains the evil thoughts of the third dimension, so the two-dimensional creatures can also be said to be polluted by the three elements, as long as the evil thoughts of the three dimensions are infused with the evil thoughts of the three dimensions when attacking, they can touch the three dimensions)

Most of the cities that were suddenly attacked were destroyed before they had time to react, and the remaining cities without the secret realm of the "Moon World" began to defend as soon as they received the news, but the situation was not optimistic.

But human weapons are completely incapable of working on these two-dimensional lifeforms!

On the contrary, it is the unpolluted two-dimensional visitors who take on the responsibility of saving mankind, not for the sake of three-dimensional humans, but because they do not want to be polluted. Survival is the reason for resistance.

And these unpolluted two-dimensional creatures are called free ones.

However, the power of the evil of this world is really huge, and it only takes a piece of black mud to be able to blacken the two-dimensional creatures that originally stood on the side of the three-dimensional dimension.

Forced into desperation, some people even tried to gain the power to attack two-dimensional creatures by contacting the black mud, however, everyone who did so was polluted by the black mud and became "degenerates" who also took the extermination of humanity as their own mission.

Fortunately, there is no end to the road, and a month after the cataclysm, humanity ushered in a turning point.

Zhuang Langqing, who was called the peerless powerhouse of the Peerless Arsenal by later generations, met his fate at this moment - the legendary powerhouse known as the Hero King: Gilgamesh!

As a character polluted by black mud in the plot of the Holy Grail World, this Gilgamesh became a twister for the first time, and led an army to attack Yanjing City.

But something miraculous happened, Zhuang Langqing was not only not killed by this blow, but turned into a black whirlpool, inhaling the blackened Gilgamesh directly into his body.

When the whirlpool was restored again, Zhuang Langqing already had Gilgamesh's treasure, the King's Treasure, and Zhuang Langqing also guarded Yanjing City under the powerful power of the King's Treasure.

Knowing this, people suddenly realized that Zhuang Langqing was actually able to attack the twister!

As time went on, more and more examples of the same appeared, and powerhouses who absorbed the twisters appeared all over the world, and they were called - the Awakened.

The power of the Awakened is far more than that, after they kill the twisters who are similar to themselves, they can also obtain the power that the other party has, so as to continue to become stronger! Zhuang Langqing was called the Peerless Arsenal in later generations, and it was precisely because he had gathered a variety of peerless skills such as the King's Treasure, Gangdarulf, Infinite Martial Arts, Ten Strong Martial Arts, and Xuanwu True Martial Arts at the same time.

Under the leadership of the Awakened, the human race has retained the last place to stand and established eight base cities, but as time goes by, there are only four left today (they are London City in Europe, New York City in North America, Yanjing City and Chang'an City in Asia, yes, because there are many people in the Celestial Empire, there are also many awakened people, so there are two base cities in Asia, as for the ones that were destroyed...... The base city of Moscow was destroyed by the Scourge of the Dead, and dozens of Lich Kings devoured each other and merged here, erecting the Frozen Throne, the base city of Tokyo was destroyed by the Blackbeard Pirates, and the four islands of Japan sank and became an ocean at the moment, the base city of Athens was destroyed by the Saint Seiya Legion and is now Athena's Sanctuary, and the base city of Cairo was destroyed by the Mummy Legion, which is now occupied by various pharaohs, and it seems that dark duels are very popular).

After an unknown amount of time, an awakened person named Li Youcheng was united with a free person (her name is not recorded in history) and gave birth to a descendant - a hybrid child called the Sword God by later generations: Li Qingfeng.

Human beings were surprised to find that this child, who has the blood of both the awakened and the freed, was born an awakened person, and was able to use Li Youcheng's awakening skill - the innate formless body-breaking sword qi at the same time, but also able to contact the two-dimensional and three-dimensional substances at the same time, and all of a sudden, the social pattern of human beings has undergone drastic changes, and even tried to legislate to require every awakened person to combine with at least one free person! But because he didn't want to force the free man to the opposite side, he turned from coercion to encouragement, and even abolished the restriction on monogamy for this reason (that is, as long as one of your wife or husband is a free person and gives birth to children, then it doesn't matter how many husbands and wives you marry).

However, the situation where everyone is an awakened person has not happened, but children with the blood of the free are more likely to awaken, but the human beings with the blood of the free still have caused great changes to the three-dimensional world, because these people with the blood of the free can access the second dimension!

Relying on these hybrids, human beings began to mine the unique substances of the two-dimensional in the secret realm, and with the efforts of a team of scientists composed of half-breeds, a number of black technologies were born, the most important of which is the weapon that can harm the twister because of the mixed two-dimensional substance.

Humanity began to counterattack, starting with the four base cities, and began to slowly expand outwards to regain lost ground, and at the same time, the strongest group of Awakened began to try to raid the lunar plane, trying to end the catastrophe by destroying/purifying the Black Grail.

However, the carriers of the Black Holy Grail seem to have thought about it for a long time, and they began to migrate slowly, and finally reached a meeting in Africa, fused into a huge Holy Grail, spreading evil waves to the entire planet, weak two-dimensional creatures (such as two-dimensional insects and the like) will be polluted just by moving on the earth, and those that have not reached the fantasy level, whether two-dimensional or three-dimensional, will be blackened as long as they set foot on the African continent.

Not only that, but hundreds of lunar planes scattered around the world have also changed, and black mud gushes out every ten years, and after a painful lesson, humanity has found that if the time comes, it is possible to prevent this catastrophe by sending the Awakened to participate in the so-called Holy Grail War and destroying the Holy Grail after victory.

At this point, the human being, the twister, and the free enter a relatively balanced social structure.

And the secrets of the awakened are gradually being discovered-

First of all, the birth of the twister is because it is polluted by the evil of this world in the third dimension, when the evil thoughts of a three-dimensional human happen to be in the body of a twister, and the physical attack of the twister (whether long-range or melee) also happens to touch the three-dimensional human, and this attack happens to contain a trace of evil thoughts belonging to this human (if the twister wants to attack the third dimension, he must inject a trace of the evil of this world into the attack), the twister will be sucked into the life imprint of the three-dimensional human.

Next, three things happen –

In 90% of cases, the life imprint of the twister will be shattered, and then the human will obtain any one or several of the memories, skills, bloodlines, exercises, talents, and so on of the fused twister, so as to turn from an ordinary human to an awakened person, and the reason why the half-breed is easier to awaken is only because his evil thoughts are easier to absorb by the Holy Grail.

The second case accounts for 9 percent, which is due to the inability of the awakened person to fully bear the memories of the twisted person and cause personality disorder, resulting in dimensional deviation, or even life brand fusion, in this case, he will be imprisoned in a special prison until the end of the dimensional shift, and it can be determined whether he has become an awakened person or a degenerate, and no matter what, this person is no longer the original person (because the life brand represents the existence of a person, if the life brand of the twister and the awakened person's life brand merge, the life brand will change, resulting in irreversible changes in both personality and memory) 。

As for the third one, which only accounts for a 1% chance, it is that the human spirit has been greatly stimulated, unable to accept the power of fusion, and eventually leads to the simultaneous shattering of the life imprint of both sides, and finally becomes a fool or even a vegetative person, if this kind of thing happens unlucky, then the end of this unlucky egg will be more miserable, the male is better, just become a [beep-] liquid provider, and the female will become a reproductive machine miserably, artificially conceived and then give birth to a hybrid child who may become an awakened person. Although this practice has been protested countless times, it has been maintained only because it contributes to the continuation of the entire human race.

And Feng Xue's predecessor would have been the unlucky third type, but due to the chaos of Feng Xue's soul, this body regained the life imprint, thus forcibly becoming the first type, but because the relationship between the life imprint of the twister was shattered along with the predecessor, Feng Xue only got a part of the memory, as for the bloodline, unique skills and the like, he didn't get it at all.

However, Feng Xue didn't bother about this at this time.

"With all the cultivation methods of the Exterminator profession, are you still worried about having no skills?" Feng Xue thought so......