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It took a couple of weeks to be confident enough with my powers to try one of the abilities I came up with. The ability was called Avatar and it would hopefully let me summon characters from stories and have them be my minions. That way I could keep my life how it is but at the same time I would also be able to effect some change in this world. So I went back to one of the books I wrote and tried to summon a character, it didn't quite work how I wanted it to.
Instead of the facsimile I got a chibi version that was small enough to stand on my shoulder. It kind of reminded me of those cartoons with the angel and devil whispering into your ears, trying to tempt you to their point of view. After trying it a few more times I realized that it wasn't a power problem as I could summon characters over and over without it draining me that much.
During the tenth try I noticed that whenever I summoned a character all the words describing them or their actions would disappear from the pages. Then it hit me, I didn't have enough information about them so I would have to write biographies describing everything about them. From their habits, to life experiences, favorite food, and style of clothes, I would even need to describe their appearance to the last detail. Every scar and freckle, I could already tell that this was going to be really boring, but a day later I was holding the first completed work.
Over the next few days I would try to summon that character only to find something that wasn't quite right. Some of my more memorable mistakes were forgetting to make them three dimensional and missing certain intimate details due to a misplaced sense of embarrassment. But with so much work put into them I began to see them as more than just minions, they became my children and I started to put my all into making them the best versions of themselves.
A week after my first attempt I finished my first child and I didn't wait before starting the next one. Over the next few months I ran into a couple of problems, I couldn't force my views onto them, or at least I tried not to do so. So anything that may happen in the future would be because they made the choice on their own. Making the choice for them seemed so controlling to me and that wasn't something I wanted for my children, I guess I was more of a free range parent, learn something new everyday.
I also wrote about their past struggles, what made them who they were, the events that shaped them into the people I could be proud of. But I made sure to really leave the endings open so they could come up with their own, of course being their parent I made sure they had all the advantages I could give them. Things like Naruto leaning into his heritage and becoming a sealing master, or Krillin learning the Kiao-ken in order to go toe to toe with Saiyans.
Another thing I really struggled with when I was writing their lives out was the tragedies, I couldn't just make their lives perfect because that would take away their defining moments. What made them into the people they were meant to be would be gone, but that didn't mean that I couldn't stop things that were completely senseless. For instance, the Uchiha massacre never happened, when the clan started to raise a fuss the leaders got together and worked it out. Amazing what can happen when you act like the adults you're supposed to be.
It couldn't always be like that, Vegeta or Clark Kent wouldn't be the men they were without losing everything first. But while I couldn't give them that back I made sure what they gained more than made up for it. As for the rest, I made changes where I could and kept the things that would have changed too much. But one advantage I made sure to build in was that any ability that wasn't due to a bloodline could be taught to anyone else.
So everyone had the ability to learn Haki or the Force if they had the potential to do so. Not all of them would as it took a certain mindset but those that did and wanted to would be able to. After finishing the first few Avatars I discovered that any items they had were not as potent as they should be. Zoro's swords didn't have the same weight to them, both physical and spiritual, and would actually shatter after a few swings. To combat this I started to write books that featured items instead of people.
The books themselves were much shorter and eventually it ended up being more like a chapter on one sword in a book of swords. Anyone would be able to withdraw a sword from the book and the chapter would disappear, the ink swirling off the page in a puff of dust before coalescing into the desired item. Another copy of the item could not be withdrawn until someone returned it to the book again.
Everyday I was finding new aspects and quirks to my powers. Certain things worked better than others or little quirks that let one of my children draw more power without draining it from me. I found that the longer I used this power more and more things started to pile up and I started to run out of room. So eventually I made a book that was just for storing my collection, 5 of them in total.
The Armory stored the items I made and Avatar kept the empty books that my children came from safe. The other three books came from my other abilities, one of which was copied from the original user, but I made sure it was a lot more useful than his. He called his ability World of Books because that is what it was, so I called my ability World Forge. Unlike him I made worlds for specific purposes, kind of like virtual reality worlds you could explore.
And like my Avatars I needed to write every detail, so for the most part I kept it simple. Worlds that allowed my Saiyans to train in higher gravity, or let them fight old opponents without fear of attracting attention or destroying the surroundings. But for now I focused on other things, I still had many more children to bring into this world. It got to the point that I was starting to have a hard time finishing them all and I was worried I would develop carpal tunnel before I finished with all the typing I was going to have to do.
Luckily I participated in a game that gave me a rather useful prize a while ago, I wasn't sure what it was at the time and it had been sitting on one of my shelves for a while. But with one of my new abilities I could figure out what it was, Life Story was able to tell me that it was a brain to computer interface.
I won it about two weeks after I got the brain boost but I thought it was some sort of brain scanner, kind of like a miniature MRI. It looked like a swimming cap that had a bunch of wires erupting from every square inch. All the wires connected to one side of a piece of metal about the size of two half dollars stacked on top of eachother, and a USB cable came out of the other side. But Life Story allowed me to learn everything about the machine as this ability allowed me to be able to learn everything about whatever I used it on.
It didn't matter if it was a person or an object, it literally told me the Life Story. Once I worked the kinks of course, at first it was rather hesitant in giving me what I wanted. Like giving me a blueprint of an object or its atomic composition instead of telling me an instruction manual. But once I got it working I used it to figure out what everything in my shop was. And I was glad I did, apparently some of the stuff I thought was harmless was actually insanely dangerous.
Like this one thing I thought was a normal wallet was actually a cursed item that would drive whoever used it insane with greed. Eventually they would reach the point of selling their organs just to fit more cash into the wallet. Apparently by that point it would have woken up and started to absorb whatever was stored in it to make itself stronger, kind of like a pay to win sort of thing. Only with more dangerous consequences for those that got addicted.
Luckily no one had bought it yet so no one was hurt and it was still slumbering. With that and others like it cluttering up my shop I needed to find some way to keep it safe, and I was also running out of room again from using Life Story so much. Whenever I used the ability I was left with a book that went from the size of a pamphlet to an encyclopedia. And it wasn't like I could burn them to make sure no one else would read them, that would just be wrong.
So the next two books I made were called Vault and Storage, the Vault was where I kept the dangerous items and was actually a product of World Forge. It was kind of like a prison dimension and a warehouse filled with dangerous artifacts all in one. Storage was for all the information I collected, plus any of the more unique items that were starting to pile up in my home.
My shop was starting to get cluttered again with all the things I was putting on the shelves every day. Being a junk shop there were days that I went without selling anything and when I took apart some of the items I won they filled up a lot more space disassembled than assembled. Then there were also the people that come in here to sell things, most of which were from my father's day of owning this shop.
I made sure to cut contact with the ones that dealt with illegal goods a long time ago so it was mostly, you know… junk. Broken furniture that was made of nice materials, things were thrown away but just needed a little elbow grease to make nice again. You wouldn't believe what people would throw out. But with all that intake and not much outtake I was running out of room.
So Storage was storage, it was pretty simple and after everything was packed up there was suddenly a lot more space. I even decided to make the fifth book on a whim so I could store all five in my night stand next to my bed. This one was called Realms and it was where I stored the half dozen worlds I made with world forge. Except for the vault, I was a little worried that one of the objects would be able to jump from one book to another if I store it inside. And the other worlds inside the realms book were much easier to escape from, they weren't meant to keep things in after all.
But keeping them apart just added one more book and it wasn't that much more space than before. The book that was filling up the fastest was the Avatar book, now that I had the interface I was able to transcribe straight from my head onto the computer. I'm sure that with someone without an enhanced brain it would not work as quickly but I was able to project a stream of thoughts as quickly as the computer was able to type them.
Now the only thing that was slowing me down was the speed of my printer. But two weeks after I started using it I was holding my final child, at least for now. It was a good thing too, with each child taking up a single page there Avatar was over five hundred pages long. Any more and I think I'll have to make a sequel. But as I laid in bed for the night I couldn't help but smile, all the work I put in was going to be worth it.
Starting tomorrow the world is going to change for the better, whether they were ready for it or not I would be dragging this world into the future. And all without them even knowing I was the one who did it. It was the nice part about my plan, all of this and now that I made the preparations I could sit back in my shop and play my games while I watch my children take the world by storm, they would be my legacy like any other child.
Of course that didn't mean I wouldn't interact with them, what kind of parent would I be if I let my child out into the world and then told them never to come back. No, I would be sitting at the center of this web and have the best seat to watch it all go down. I kind of wanted to watch the faces of some of the people I knew in the world just for the shock that would appear when my children took the stage.
But my anemidity was worth far more to me than the entertainment I would receive otherwise. I would just have to settle for hearing about it second hand, at least until one of my children makes a device to read memories or I win one in a game. Even if this world had already experienced a lot in the years since I arrived here, and even before that, it still wasn't anything compared to what was possible.
Tony Stark had his armor, the X-Men were fighting for the rights of mutants, and the Fantastic Four had their accident a couple years ago. And while Magneto had his Brotherhood, and the Hulk had destroyed part of Harlem there hadn't been any alien invasions or mystical catastrophes. At least there haven't been ones that grew to a point that they could no longer be contained by the ones creeping in the shadows.
The ranks of which I was about to join, it was time for ERA to step forward and make Shieldra reflect on their actions while giving the Sanctums a little breathing room. ERA being the organization I planned to create to provide support for my children, it stood for Exploration, Research, and Assistance. The basis of what I was going to provide to the world. Not just exploring the boundaries of what was possible but the limits of our reality and beyond.
Reaching anything and everything in order to better understand what can elevate our world and what can destroy it. And providing assistance in whatever is needed, from helping a little old lady cross the street with her groceries to stopping an outer god from invading our world. To help with this I would be dividing all my children into four divisions, making sure that their opinions were taken into consideration as well.
I didn't want them to be stuck researching if they discovered their joy of the stars and wanted to journey the cosmos. But they would have the choice between Protection, Pioneers, Paths, or Pillars. Protection would offer just that either as Vanguard protecting our world from threats, as Clues discovering dark conspiracies hidden behind a generous facade. Or as the humble Gophers, helping with whatever was needed whenever it was needed.
Pioneers would map the entire earth from the bottom of the oceans to the hidden pockets of space scattered across the globe. And that was only a small part of what they would do, they would also explore space, time, the dimensions surrounding us, even the multiverse and beyond. An endless adventure I am sure Luffy will be overjoyed to join.
The Path would rediscover our history without bias, what did happen would be recovered how it happened instead of how it was written by the winners. And we would take the lessons learned to explore our potential for the future, in both magic and technology. We had access to both so why not travel each path and see where it would take us.
The final division would be filled with the unsung heroes, the ones that walked in the darkness so others wouldn't have to. They would seize control of the underworld and establish rules to protect the innocent, hopefully one day they wouldn't be needed but I was of the opinion that crime could not be wiped out, only controlled. And while I still drew breath there would be crimes that were not allowed to be swept under the rug, not anymore.
It also wasn't like my children could not join more than one division, they could spend their time however they would like. Going on adventures and spending their free time exploring history or discovering cures for diseases across the world. I was not about to put a limit on what my children could do, it would be their choice alone.
But most of this was for the future, right now I would have to gain a foothold before I tried to reach for the stars and beyond. Even if I tried to reach that far right now I was capable of doing so, it would take a long time to bring my children up to that level. The potential was already there in their stories but they would have to spend some time writing about their own future to fill in the past I wrote for them.
It was my fault really, I wrote down everything I could think of and some of what I envisioned for them was too powerful. My abilities were just starting out and I couldn't make Goku a planet buster, I could barely make the kamehameha destroy a boulder. But it didn't hurt to dream and thanks to a little tidbit I added to all the books they would grow into all the abilities I wrote down as long as they lived their lives how they wanted to.
Whatever they did would be recorded and the more pages that filled my books the more my power would grow and the more power they would be able to use in turn. And one day my vision for the future would become reality and I could just sit back and watch my children's potential blossom. The smile on my face as I fell asleep couldn't be erased by anything, and as I dreamed of the possible futures that smile would only grow larger.
The current advanced chapters are:
Flip the Script Ch1-2
The Game Ch1
Millennium Ch1
Haven Ch1
Who is a Zoo? Ch1
God of Games Ch6
Breathe Ch1
Another Wayne Ch1
Salvation Ch1
Guide Ch1
Growth Ch1
I Wanted a Real Gamer System Ch8
Ark Ch3-5
A Real Gamer System Ch3-5
Tinker Ch1
Further Ch2
Puzzle Maker Ch3
A Thousand Words Ch1-2
Free Range Ch1