"In a serious tone, she begins."
Hmm, well I'll start.
The Reaper is an event that began on November 7, 2054.
Where the world as we know it was irreparably disrupted.
Before going into details, I specify that I am going to tell you the main points, those that my adoptive father taught me.
I say this because there are lots of details we don't know due to the stop of taking information from other countries around the world.
We still don't know at this time what happened in the other countries, but what is 100% certain is the fact that it was an extremely deadly global phenomenon.
We know this because no plane, boat or drone has ever been seen again near the coasts of the United States.
Although apparently, according to the words of my adoptive father who lived before the Grim Reaper, planes, boats and drones were so numerous that most people were more likely to come across this type of device rather than animals.
You can still imagine that, seeing today more transport devices than animals, it seems really incredible when you think about it.
Also just for your information, we are in the year 2071, 17 years after the Reaper and as you may or may not have seen since you say you are not from here, after the consequences of the Reaper.
Destruction of cities and towns, buildings, bridges, roads, devices that run on electricity, machines and many more.
There are still plenty of things that have either been destroyed or damaged but I'll stop there, the list is long.
It is also a huge massacre among the population accustomed to congregating in large cities, unfortunately for those who lived there, the infected because of the number of inhabitants made short work of most of the people.
This which ultimately had an impact on the number of survivors.
Moreover, many cities, even today, are impregnable lands which require that there be void handlers at least at an expert rank to hope to venture without immediate risk of death, not to mention surviving.
For example those from Sun Hope.
Edward:
Wait wait you talked about void wielders, I've never heard of void wielders or infected in any book I've read.
Rebecca:
Don't worry, I'll explain it to you, but did you say that you've already read books without knowing the Reaper?
The more you talk to me the more you seem strange to me, as if you had been kidnapped in addition to having been locked up in this famous village.
Books that talk about the period before the Reaper are extremely rare due to the infected who destroyed many of them and the fact that the Sun Hope faction requisitions this type of book in mass to find out the reasons behind the Reaper.
I'll ask you a lot of questions about that, but another time, I'll first explain to you what a void user is.
A void wielder is someone who will use energy that their body constantly produces to be able to manifest this same energy outside their body.
The theory is a bit complex so try to hang on, if I talk about void user it's not for nothing.
This is because they will harness the energy that keeps us alive inside us on an atomic scale, manipulating what is part of the atoms' environment.
No need to explain to you what an atom is, I hope?
Because it might be complicated for me to find a definition that you would understand.
Edward:
No, it's okay, I know what it is thanks to books that talked about it.
Rebecca:
(These famous books, eh?
I wonder who could have given him such precious books.)
That's great, well I'll continue, the atoms which are the building blocks of matter and which allow us to be made of matter without which we would be nothing at all.
They are, as you know, an essential thing for life but there is also another thing essential to life which is present in the environment of the atom, the void.
The void has a role as a warehouse where a whole bunch of atoms are stored, which are used to constitute our body as a whole.
The size of this warehouse is of course immense to contain all these atoms at the point where our body is constituted, with more than 99% of void.
It's true that it's impressive, but what interests us in this information is the use of all the energy that this void can contain.
Since man has existed, he has been able to use extraordinary abilities with the help of this energy, people in turn called it magic, others mana, still others called it chi. , ki or even aura.
All different names to talk about this strange phenomenon that people from distant times tried to explain through all their advances linked to their folklore.
No one has been able to formulate a answer clear and close to the truth, until one day.
The day when the greatest genius of the century was finally able to reveal where this energy comes from and how it circulates in the body, which was an unprecedented discovery and which cut short at least more than 15,000 years of human history on the study of this phenomenon.
It's as I explained to you, energy comes from the void in our body but it does not circulate as imagined by people of Prehistory, Antiquity, the Middle Ages, modern times and the post modern era.
The genius of the century, Paolo Falserweat, discovered that the circulation of this energy takes place thanks to our thought or as you can hear it sometimes, thanks to our soul.
The soul creates in this void which is not accessible by no other way than this, an invisible path which, like a seal would do, would come and collect the energy.
This seal is more or less large depending on how you are going to train your soul and can therefore, depending on the size, take a certain threshold of energy.
Which it will bring energy like when water spring into an oasis in the desert, sending energy of void to all parts of your body.
With this energy, you can for example, increasing the strength of your punches or increase your physical resistance.
The possibilities of using this energy are almost infinite and the applications too, even if for the applications useful in real life, it is already a little more complex in terms of explanations so I prefer to explain it to you later because what I told you is quite complex
I prefer to let you breathe a bit by just explaining what the infected are so as not to be too ignorant if you ever get asked questions about it.
The infected are completely normal-looking humans, who at the time of the Reaper became completely insane and violent against anyone unfortunate enough to have been seen by them.
If an infected meets the gaze of a person, he will instinctively seek to chase them down until they kill them in the most horrible way possible, believe me you don't want to know what happens to those who are killed by these monsters.
This is the information that everyone was able to see for themselves with all the testimonies of survivors who were used to know this but since then we have had more information on these infected thanks in large part to the Sun Hope faction.
Edward:
I wonder Rebecca, what is this Sun Hope faction that you're talking to me about?
You've talked about it twice but I don't really know what this famous faction is.
Rebecca:
It's true that I didn't talk about it, sorry.
I myself don't realize how many details that must be for you to memorize with everything I'm saying, I unconsciously told myself that maybe you didn't need to know that since not everyone don't necessarily know this guild.
Let me correct that, the Sun Hope faction or guild Sun Hope, name it like you like, is a guild created in Richmond in the second state north of ours, the Virginia.
To actively fight against the infected and allow survivors a better life in general.
It's a faction that functions like a government, responsible for ensuring our security or something like that.
I can't really explain to you the notion of government that my father taught me because for me, who never know this kind of structure, this is a bit abstract.
Edward:
I see very well what you mean, once again I have already read a ton of books where the notion of government was well established so I understand well what it can be even if like you I have never seen one .
I am comfortable with this concept which was visible before the Grim Reaper.
Rebecca:
I'll continue then.
The Sun Hope faction not only helps the residents of Richmond but also the surrounding towns and villages to fight against the infected by sending void wielders to hunt infected for a fee.
It's not the only faction that does this but it's certainly the most popular and respected for this type of task.
The faction also helps maintain order if necessary if there are murderers roaming the towns and villages, as happened years after the Reaper.
It's just an exhaustive summary of everything they can do but it already gives you a good idea of everything they can do being such a big group.
Anyway, I come back to what I wanted to say about the information we have from the infected.
The Sun Hope faction has since the Reaper greatly helped in the search for the reasons which pushed completely normal men and women to go on a violent rampage. against an entire population.
Thanks to dead infected who have been dissected to see how aggressivity is triggered, we know that the infected owe their aggressiveness to a gas present in very large quantities in the body.
Which would in theory stimulate the part of the brain responsible for emotions, sending only signals related to aggressiveness.
Besides, there is something else strange in the bodies of the infected, it is that in their bodies, the intestine and the stomach were always found completely empty, which implied that the infected were not feeding or extremely little.
Those who examined the bodies deduced when they discovered this that there are only two possibilities for the infected to survive.
That the infected are dead people kept falsely alive because of a parasite or else that the gas allows the infected to survive without water or food by a process that no one knows.
Another piece of information about the infected that Sun Hope void wielders found while fighting infected, void wielders who remained in ancient abandoned cities specifically.
It is the fact that some infected are capable of wielding void energy, depending on whether the infected before the Reaper knew how to use the void or not.
Finally the last information we have is that the infected are incapable of speaking but they can still have elaborate attack strategies if they are part of an entire group of infected.
That's it for the infected, although wait I forgot to say that too, it will seem obvious to you but I'm telling you anyway.
If you come across infected people, run as far away as possible because a normal infected person alone is physically stronger than an adult who doesn't use the energy of void.
I'm warning you in case you have the idea of going into other towns and villages more dangerous than here.
Understood ?
Edward:
Yes, I would think about your warning, don't worry.
Rebecca:
Well, with that normally you will be able to live peacefully without being accused of being an alien.
Edward:
Thank you for telling me all this, I'm a little more aware of the situation I'm in now.
Rebecca:
No problem, otherwise you can manage to move parts of your body where it doesn't hurt, Mr Alien?
Edward:
"Edward smiles, thinking of this nickname."
(What is this nickname, seriously.)