61I own nothing.
The year was irrelevant as far as Humanity was concerned, more pressing matters presented itself to the world.
Some time ago, Professor Akaba Leo has successfully united the four dimensions together into one world, ARC-V, with the bonus of populating it with the denizens of the old dimensions. However, the hopes of reviving his daughter with the world were dashed as she could not be found anywhere. Only her fragments were found, living amongst the Human populace of the new dimension.
Making matters worse was the monster that followed them all, despite all of Leo's preparations and counter-measures. The Supreme Dragon King Zarc appeared before the world and begun, or rather continued, his genocide and destruction.
But that is not the end of the shocking changes ARC-V contains over the other dimensions. Through some outside force, the world was also populated with Duel Monsters. No holograms or Real Solid Vision, these were the true to form creatures from the game and were living beings that walked the world. By invoking the memories of the terrible treatment Humans subjugated them to, Zarc rallied a mighty army to aid him in his vengeful crusade against Humanity.
There was some hope however. Unlike the Hard-Light monsters that couldn't be harmed by anything but Duel Monsters, these Duel Spirits, as many called them, could be injured or even killed by conventional arms. Then there are the duelists who can call upon the power of their deck to fend off the Dragon King's army. There are still drawbacks to these means to counter-attack and was carefully considered by the numerous resistance cells around the world. Conventional arms effectiveness depends on the Spirit they are used against and firearms/munitions are in high demand.
Larger and powerful Spirits require both sustained small arm fire and support from heavier weapons and, with luck, vehicles to be brought down. Smaller Spirits could be defeated by simple knives and bludgeons, though one must consider the combat strength of their target before striking.
Duelists, while holding the power of Duel Monsters, has their own issue to contend with. Those who disrespect and mistreat their cards were usually abandoned by the associating Spirits, stating that Zarc was correct about Humanity's cruelty.
Despite these possibly crippling drawbacks, the Humans survived using both superior tactical skill and speaking ability to win unavoidable battles and convince enemy forces to join them. Even then, Humanity is only just surviving against the reign of the demon duelist. As of now, Humankind is hiding amongst ruined cities, vast forests, intricate mountain caves, frozen tundra, and arid deserts. They fled from unwinnable battles while befriending any Spirits they could. They would resort to theft, sabotage, and sometimes terrorism to even have a chance against the demon duelist and his forces. All to survive so that they may be able to see tomorrow…
Despair and desperation was high, but a sliver of hope still existed amongst the hearts of man. A hope that someone will rescue them from the terror of the Supreme Dragon King…
And that was the prologue. Unfortunately, it will be a long while before I could write the next chapter to this. I estimate that it would be at least a year before that moment and Arc-V will be long gone... But I will do it anyway as I am a writer and would want to see where I could go with this.
With that said though, what do you think about this? Would you want to read something like this? Is this something you would want me to write?
I will wait for an answer while I continue to work on my other ideas.
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Oh yeah, next chapter you'll be meeting another avatar of this account lurking about. Her name is Eris and she is be a bit weird.
That is all I got for you this week.
So, until next time. T1.
