4 Creators (2/2)
”Yep, you sure are, and believe me it took a lot of effort on my part” Said a voice behind Koren. Koren turned around, expecting to see nothing, just like before. However, In front of him stood a woman. This woman wore clothing similar to Koren, which can only be described as a decked out uniform from a postmodern military. She had jet black hair, flowing all the way down to her ankles with streaks of white in between, her light caramel skin that seemed to shine even in the vast nothingness and dark brown eyes with a ting of Gold around the pupils. Koren had never seen someone with such beauty, and charm.
Koren realized that he had been staring, and started to blush. ”Um, big sis, are you Hope.” Said Koren after getting some composure back.
”Tadaaa, that's right, it's me. Honestly I didn't think we would meet again this early.” Said Hope with a slight sigh.
”I thought I would have to wait for you to become at least 13 years old, but thankfully you were able to procure a power source to jump start the network.” Said Hope as a small earthen yellow shard appeared in her hand.
”The spiritual shard” said Koren with clear astonishment in his eyes. ”Yes, this shard can be regarded as a type of power source, although the conversion is still dodgy.” Said Hope as she held up the shard and raised her eyebrow.
”Big Sis hope, who are you, what is this place, what is happening to me, why did the” said Koren but was interrupted with Hope's index finger on his lip. ”shush kid, I'm getting to it, give the lady a minute will ya” said Hope as she removed her hand from shushing Koren.
”Koren, I know you have a lot of questions, and I will answer them to the best of my ability, so just sit down and listen.” Said Hope, and with her words the dark nothingness retreated.
Koren suddenly found himself in a tent much like the ones in his village. He looked around, shocked. For a moment he thought that he was back home, but then Hope appeared and he knew he was still in her illusory world.
”I'm sorry Koren, I brought you here since I thought it would make you more comfortable.” Said hope after noticing Koren's change in expression.
”Its fine big sis, please continue” said Koren looking straight at hope.
”My name is Hope, and I am an artificial Intelligence, modeled after my engineer Dr. Clair Escanor.” Said Hope in one breath looking at Koren with wide open eyes, expecting a response.
Koren's eyes flashed with a hint of understanding. ”AI, an abbreviation of artificial Intelligence, so you were created through the use of technology… wait what, how do I know this??” said Koren with confidence followed by confusion again.
”haha, I was right, the network link is working. Don't worry koren, the network is there to help you learn faster and grow stronger. It will allow you to understand everything I say, and store any new knowledge you acquire in your gene repository. It is one of the biggest technological breakthroughs of the human race.” Said Hope with clear pride in her voice.
”We humans, are a very powerful race in the Terran Universe, our home world is called 'Earth', and the source of our power, is Knowledge” said Hope with gleaming eyes.
”For several thousands of years, humans continued to spread throughout the galaxy, we pushed the borders of possibility and terraformed worlds, tamed entire systems by building mega structures around stars, we were invincible.” Said Hope with enthusiasm, however, her face which had been gleaming at this point, suddenly turned dire.
”And that's when we encountered, Them. A race just as accomplished as ours but their technology was so Wrong.” Said Hope with a look of disgust on her face.
”We called them The Godless, as their technology resembled much of what we saw in our worlds myths and legends . They demanded our complete surrender, and ordered us to hand over all of our knowledge and technology in exchange for their protection.” said Hope.
”And so the war began, entire worlds abandoned, star systems destroyed, chaos and destruction everywhere, with no end in sight. Their technology was so alien to us, it almost looked like magic, and after recovering one of their vessels intact, we found that it was indeed a type of magic. Turns out, Magic is just a form of energy that behaves differently from ordinary matter, it literally bends the laws of physics, and incorporates itself with our materials, it was, in every sense of the word, miraculous. After centuries of war we finally cracked the source of their magic.” Said hope with a slight grin while looking at the entranced Koren.
”A Stable Dimensional crack. The Godless actually evolved on a world with a Stable dimensional crack, connecting them to unlimited power from the very inception of their race, how lucky.” Said Hope with clear envy.
”But so what, We humans never had any advantage, so we pursued knowledge, step by step, we created technologies that allowed us to stand and fight the Godless.” Said Hope with all traces of envy gone.
”We are Humans Koren, we are Creators, and that's exactly what we did, we created a miracle. We created YOU!” Said Hope with her index finger poking Koren straight on his forehead.