They saved us from a dying Earth, only to turn us into monsters.

A secret group calling themselves the Enix plucked me from the apocalypse, gave me an incredible power system, and forced me into a brutal death match against other survivors. I was one of the lucky few to make it out alive, armed with a power they can't control: my own imagination to create, build, and materialize any weapon or object I can imagine.

Now, they've given us our grand purpose: to protect the last human settlement from a tyrannical emperor on a war-torn alien world. They call us heroes, the last hope for a species on the brink of extinction. But with every battle we fight for them, the lies begin to unravel.

We were told we are fighting for humanity's survival, but the truth feels far more dangerous. In a universe where our saviors might be the real demons, my power isn't just for creating weapons—it's for finding the truth. And I'm starting to suspect that the greatest threat isn't the emperor we've been sent to kill, but the very people who saved us.

"That's exactly what they're thinking," Keno said. "They are beings of immense intelligence and perception, with the ability to discover cosmic phenomena with a high efficiency that far surpasses ours. But in the end, they don't understand them, nor do they grasp their meaning, because their thinking is mechanical. It can only deal with numbers and results, unlike humans, who are fascinated by these phenomena, fall in love with their beauty and perfection, and try to understand them and the meaning behind them. As for them, they just discover the phenomenon and then move on to the next one. That's why robots will never be like humans, no matter how much consciousness they attain.


Chapter 66 - The Truth About This World