39 Apocalypse (1/2)

There have been many discoveries in the history of mankind that completely overhauled the way people see things. For example, the fact that Earth is a round planet and not a flat surface. Joshua smiled as he remembered what his history teacher once said while talking about prehistoric humans.

”If tomorrow someone discovers a skeleton that proves mankind is actually a few million years older than we currently know, we'll just scratch the pages in your notebook and start over.”

His situation was similar, he had built his soul world based on Catherine's instructions. However, with his newly acquired knowledge, could he still use the same method to proceed?

Unfortunately, before he could start making a hypothesis on the situation, the ground abruptly started to shake. Joshua lost his balance and fell down. Suddenly, he grabbed his head in pain as he was overcome by a terrible headache. He recognized the phenomenon instantly. Part of his world was being damaged. Gritting his teeth, he stood up and took a look around. Cracks were starting to appear at every corner of his world.

”LUNA! WHAT'S GOING ON?” he yelled.

A blue screen of death appeared in front of him.

[FATAL ERROR!]

”WHAT ERROR?!?”

[System Hardware has been damaged. Emergency maintenance required! System is shutting down.]

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Seeing Luna shutting down like this made Joshua panic for a second. However, it's not like he had never experienced a system crash before. He looked around, everywhere he saw the cracks spreading. Meanwhile, his headache kept getting worse. Before he could figure out what to do, the door to Catherine's world slammed open and she rushed through it. She looked around and seeing all the surrounding damage, gave him a furious look and yelled:

”What the hell are you doing? I told you to consult with me before attempting to evolve your world!”

”I didn't attempt to evolve my world, the process started on its own,” he answered.

”What? How the hell did you do that?” she replied, her anger being replaced by surprise.

”I don't know! How do I stop this?”

Catherine bit her lip as she thought for a moment. After what seemed an eternity for Joshua, she finally said:

Before Joshua could reply, she sprang into action. She brought out five fragments that circulated around her. She then waved her hand and they all dispersed. The pieces were made of water energy so Catherine easily manipulated them to cover all the cracks in the world before freezing them. This seemed to do the trick, frozen in place the various fissures no longer expanded.

While she had contained the outburst, this was temporary. She looked at Joshua. Even though he was just a soul projection, he didn't look healthy. She placed her hand against his cheek and asked:

”How are you feeling?”

Joshua did a quick check up. His headache was still present but was slowly fading away. He placed his hand on her shoulder and smiled.

”A bit better. Thanks a lot, I owe you one;” he answered and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

”Good. Now that the crisis has been averted, can you please explain what happened?”

He nodded and began to tell her the events of the day. He went over the various experiments he had performed and that he finally found a way to inspect a rune's content.

”That's where it gets strange… You see when I examined the runes, I realized something about how the energy is handled within them. But before I could start doing further tests, I was suddenly overcome by a monstrous headache and my whole world started to fall apart.”

”Hmmm… this could be a big problem… Tell me, that discovery you made, would it impact how you build your world?”

”Probably, now that I know of it, I would use it to evolve my world further. That's what you advised me to do.”

”Indeed, but remember: a soul world is the representation of its user inner world. If somehow the way you see things would drastically change, the world could be damaged and even destroyed in some extreme cases. Such an event is rare, but based on what you told me, that's most likely what happened to you.”