In a Parallel World.
December 31, 2150.
In a simple yet tidy apartment, an 18 year old youth was lying on his bed as he silently watch the news program.
The old television in front of the bed continuously reported the news.
"Next, we will be broadcasting the news regarding the game "Limitless"."
"December 31st, 2150. Today is the most awaited day for the students, as it is the talent awakening day. Many are excited as to what is the next generation will become. It's no exaggeration to say as this will determine the fate of the student this year."
"The principal of the Zone A's No. 1 High School has said that this year, the school is expected to produce S-grade students."
"As everyone knows, last year, at the year 2149, the Zone A's No. 1 High School has produced 3 S-grade students. Their talents are the [Blessing of the God of War], [Lich King] and [Blood Devourer]. As such they were protected by the federation. And under the guidance of the famous teachers and they become the focus of the federation."
"Last year we witness some of the blessed students. And we are hoping to see more of the blessed students today. Now let us wait and see to what will this year bring us about.
The youth on the bed sat up slowly, looking at the old television before the bed, and fell into deep thought.
Though the news may be an ordinary news broadcast, as nothing special could be heard from it.
But for this youth, it was an extremely shocking news for him.
"This year ... is 2150?"
"I-I reincarnated?"
With his head down in confusion, quietly looking at his hands.
Fair, young and strong!
While he was confused on how it happened, as he thought that he was dreaming, he tried to pinch his skin for confirmation.
'So it's real, I'm really not dreaming'
'I'm alive'
As Gray was now utterly convince of his reincarnation. He was happy, as he was given the chance to live again.
And to his luck, he reincarnated 10 years from the future.
The day of the talent awakening.
As he has now confirm his sitution, Gray narrowed his eyes slightly.
50 years ago, year 2100.
The day how it all began.
The game "Limitless" was introduced by an unknown company.
They stated that people 18 years old and above could mentally log in to the game anytime and anywhere they wanted. But they advice that you do it in your home. After all when you log in, your consciousness will be suck into the game and your body would be left defenseless.
While majority of the people laugh at the nonsense of the company, there was still some of the curious people.
These people who logged in were shocked at the thought of just logging in mentally. But what come after shocked them even more.
They discovered that the abilities and skills you obtain in the game can brought back to the real world.
The people was overjoyed of the thought of having magical abilities.
Though it brings power it also brings disaster.
During this year, the order of the world became extremely chaotic.
Murder, robberies, kidnapping and all kind of crimes could be seen everywhere.
The Federal government took notice of this, so they enforce the military to suppress criminals. But this did not show obvious results for a short period of time.
It lasted for a full two years of time!
The order of the world slowly recovered, though it cost the human population to dropped from being ten billion to seven and a half billion.
Three and a half billion were the lives that were taken in that catastrophe.
Limitless became a taboo for everyone, the federal government issued a law, banning the people from playing the game.
However, was it something that could be banned because it was forbidden by the law?
Let's be honest, it's difficult.
Because logging into the game was way too convenient!
All you needed was a thought of logging into the game, then you can secretly increase your strength.
Therefore, although the crime rate related to Limitless decrease, they never disappeared.
The federation took notice of this and realized the severity of the matter.
Sneaky villains can ignore the law, while they can secretly log into the game and increase their strength. On the contrary, the law-abiding and honest citizens remain ordinary people.
If this went on, and once they reach a critical point, disaster would erupt again.
However, the Federal government could not suppress them by force.
So the Federal government change the law, not only they allowed all people to play, but also set up academies all over the world to nurture students.
At the same time, they also set up special organization to specially focus on training talented students.
Through this, those with special talent would be monitored.
This kind of change benefited the world, and gradually the world recovered.
However, good times where short-lived, twenty-five years later, Limitless actually updated its server!
The monsters from the world of Limitless suddenly gain the ability to invade the real world, and the monsters were restless and were eager to move!
Every once in a while, powerful monster appear on earth and attack the humans. In a more severe situation, there would even be a beast tide, which means a large number of monsters invading the earth.
In order to defend the invasion of the monsters, humans had to have sufficient strength.
In everyone's heart, the importance of Limitless was once again risen by a large margin!
Ordinary people awaken their ordinary talent and lived a mediocre life.
Meanwhile, once the blessed people awakens their powerful talent they would be able to reach a new greater height in their lives.
It could be said that the real world are inseparable from the Limitless.