Just another random day in New York with the sun at an all time high raining its wrath upon the insignificant humans. Global warming is no longer being dismissed as some superstition either, with the entire world deploying whatever means at their disposal to keep humanity from extinction.
Kalel was playing his part in keeping humanity occupied with developing games at SONY. Most of his games have gone global each stuck in the tongue of every youth. He had earned a pretty good reputation with a massive fanpage that left every A-list celebrity green. The entire world knew him by his alias, Draxys, inspired by his surname, Draconis.
Wiping his forehead of the dripping sweat, Kal's eyes never left the screen with his focus refusing to falter while he cursed," Dammit all! Does the bloody AC work no more?" That was how much the global warming had deteriorated. Switching the AC to its lowest temperature barely did a thing.
While Kal resolved to have two more ACs installed, an ethereal unisex voice boomed across the entire world.
[Humans from Earth 216. I am ENIGMA. A Universal System made by the Council of the Gods. 100 million of you have been chosen to become a part of Godly Ascension , a game created to unlock your hidden potential. You will be transmigerated into the CORE of the Multiverse where you'll be given a chance to ascend and to save your doomed reality. 5 second countdown has been initiated.]
[4...]
"Wtf...this can't be real..."
[3..]
Confusion. Fear. Excitement. Expectations. All sort of emotions flashed through the minds of the humans witnessing the floating screen display.
[2...]
Kal had way too many questions but decided to wait. He was very familiar with the concept of transmigeration as some of his games involved such a plot. Especially the Lords of Conquests, his game that oneshot him to fame prior to its launch. In this regard, he already held a significant advantage compared to the 99 999 999 contestants. That is, if all this wasn't a hallucination. Maybe it was a symptom of deprived sleep. Kal seriously entertained the thought.
[1...]
Kal closed his gleaming brown eyes as his consciousness slipped but before that, he heard a whisper of a female right inside his mind.
{And so begins the Fall...}