[Welcome, to my domain! I am ■■■, Goddess of this world, the world my creation all call Alexandrias! I welcome all of you, distant travelers from an another world.]
Karim's eyes widened in shock as he saw a woman infront of him, atleast 2 and a half meter tall.
The woman wore clothes resembling what women romans used to wear, sleeveless and covered her entire torso and feet.
The woman wasn't just beautiful, she was built. Her body was muscular but on the lean sie, as if she had lifted a lot.
Karim swiftly looked around and found himself alongside with 10 other people in a white sky. Feeling the cold floor, he looked down and saw a transparent floor, underneath was a humongous whale like animal swimming by as countless other creatures he wasn't familiar with.
Just as Karim was about to panic, the woman, the Goddess clapped her hands together once and the entire scene shifted into that of an office.
[You may be confused, you may be scared. But worry not, my dear distant travellers. I will explain the situation to all of you without falsehoods.]
Karim felt his body shift in gravity before he found himself sitting on an arm chair infront of the woman.
The woman leaned her back into the throne like chair, in front of her, a large desk filled to the brim with all kinds of shining gemstones.
[As i have said, i am ■■■—, hmm.]
The woman pursed her lips and let out a soft sigh through her nose, [I forgot that i made an auto censorship for the translator. Well its good that it's working, otherwise everyone might get have a little few screws out of their heads.]
She let out a smile, one that dazzled even Karim, much less the ten other people.
[My Divine Title is "The Everlasting Growth", a god of this world which my denizens call, the Alexandrias. As to why all of you are here...]
The woman leaned forward, forcing all of them to listen to her.
[I kidnapped all of you.]
"..."
[It was quite hard too. To kidnap a being from another dimensional plane, and it was just an attempt.] She waved her hands to the side as she chuckled.
[I wanted to grab a few billions of you from your dimension, from your planet but instead, i only managed to get 11 of you here.]
The woman let out a sigh while she smiled.
[Anyway, i have a favor to ask all of you.]
Everyone stayed silent. Soon, a woman, one with blonde hair raised her hands up and spoke, "Can we go back home?"
The woman looked towards her, before shaking her head.
[To be honest? I really doubt you can go back home, after all, i only made use of a loophole in the rules as well as a 1 in a
The woman crossed her legs, [But if you do me a favor, i may be able to arrange a deal with the "one beyond the dimensions" to give you all passage back to your original dimensions. Though no promises.]
The blonde woman stared at the woman for a moment, before nodding her head.
"...I see." The blonde woman then sat down as a man in checkered suit stood up.
"If i may ask, what is the favor?"
The woman simply stared at them for a moment, before leaning back to her throne.
[Im... quite perplexed. Most of whom i forced to come here panicked and such, but it seems you guys are a different breed altogether. Are you mortals that calm in your original dimension?]
Letting out a nervous sigh, the woman smiled and spoke.
[I need all of you to become "Variables" inside my world. You can do whatever you want, chase after riches, fames, women, men, so on and so forth and so go.]
The woman leaned forward, [In exchange, i will help you find a way back to your dimension, and as a freebie, i will let you keep whatever you gain in my world back to your home dimension.]
Everyone stared at each other, before some of them started talking to one another.
The woman just leaned back to her throne and watched in amusement as the 11 humans spoke to one another.
"Well, just as this... "Goddess" have said, we can't go back home. So, I might as well take her up on her offer. Besides, we can't just refuse and be left here."
"Even so, there's a chance she might've been just lying about being a god, y'know? How can we trust what she's saying?"
"That's a good point...."
Everyone spoke to one another, giving opinions and feedback as Karim stayed silent. He really wanted to go back home.
He remembered that he was on his way back home when he suddenly appeared here without any warning.
Pursing his lips to the side, his eyes narrowed and he spoke, "What does she mean by whatever we gain in her supposed world, we will be able to bring back?"
Everyone stopped talking and turned to him.
One of the men nodded his head and turned to the woman on the throne, "If we may ask, what did you mean by—"
[As i've said. Anything you get in my world, you bring back. Riches, power, slaves.... Even magical abilities.]
"Magical abilities?"
[Oh, that's right. I forgot you came from a technological type dimension. Ahem, you must have those fictional stories in your home dimension, correct?]
Everybody nodded their head, though one did look at all of them confused.
"...What do you mean fic—"
[That's what i mean. Power.]
"..."
Everybody went silent before they huddled up again.
"Does that mean we can get superpowers or something?"
"Maybe."
"Remember those isekai genres? This might be it."
"Oh yeah! Then there's a chance i'll get a system or something? That's pretty cool."
"Really? Systems are overrated."
"Hey!"
Everybody soon came to a conclusion. Everybody voted on going to the woman's world and become what she called variables.
"Before we tell you our answer, may we ask by what do you mean by "Variables"?" One of the woman spoke out.
The woman let out a smile, [Variables, those who i can use to help propel my world into something more. Currently, my world is stagnant, there's not much happening and there's not too much war or any other developments happening.]
[I want to change that.]
The woman stood up and infront of them appeared a sphere, a planet.
[This is Alexandrias. From the billions of years of development, it made a total of 4 continents, 18 archipelagos, 17 massive underground caverns, and many more. From the current timescape, a total of 346 countries have been founded.]
The woman then pointed towards a certain direction.
[These two countries hate one another, to the point of butting heads whenever their citizens see each other.]
A scene appeared of two men getting into a fistfight with one another.
[But somehow, somehow, their respective country's leaders refuse to go to war. Another example is of this merchant guild and caravans, another....]
She continued to speak out examples after examples.
[So the world became stagnant. Strife and chaos gives rise to opportunities, growth, and such. If there are no strife, if the world is not in chaos, then it will stagnate. Like a plant not watered, the planet will wilt.]
The woman then stood infront of them.
[This is why i need you all, variables. I need you to do whatever you want in this world. And from that karma, there's bound to be actions that will trigger a spark. From that spark will give rise to opportunities for growth and make my world become more powerful.]
Everyone listened as the woman explained.
[So, what will your decisions be?]
Everyone looked at each other, before nodding their heads.
"We accept your offer."
The woman let out a smile.
[Then i will give you my blessings.]
***
Karim stared at himself in a mirror for a moment.
Black hair with streaks of white from the stress he got from working 4 jobs at the same time, his body was somewhat toned but compared to body builders, he might as wel be a twig.
He is tall, somewhere around 180 centimeters and he couldn't be called handsome like those celebrities in his world, but he is a little good looking.
Dark brownish pupils with a darker eyes from the insomnia back home. Working 20 hours a day did a number on his mental and physical health. He was 22 years old this year, but because of the insomnia and the stress of doing 4 jobs, he looked somewhere in the 30's.
Pursing his lips, he remembered what the woman had told him.
[Blessings is a tool that beings of higher status such as myself, can bestow upon a certain mortal. Though it would only be within my Concepts, but being a ■■■ type god gives me some leeway.]
The woman had told others their Blessings befote turning to him.
[...I see you aren't that good with the idea of becoming my "Variables". Isit because you want to go back home?]
Karim remember telling her yes, to which she only responded with, [Well, lmao you can't yet. So suck that.]
She told him before cackling, she then gave him smething and smiled, [This one im giving you is a little special. I hope you'll survive.]
"...What does that mean—"
That was all he could remember before appearing in a cave with some supplies. Judging from the fact that the others weren't here with him, he surmised that they must be nearby or something.
He got out of the cave and found himself inside a large forest and at the center was the cave he was in. Thank god the cave was just a little lower, just above the trees by a few meters.
He couldn't imagine if the cave was somewhere at the top. He probably freeze to death if that was the case.
Karim pursed his lips and tried thinking about what his Blessing could be.
Name: Karim Forchester
Age: 22 Minor Rotations
Perks:
Idiot Savant(Stg 1)
Lucky Looting(Stg 1)
State:
Physical: Somewhat Fit
Mental: Unhealthy
Ailments: Insomniac, Fatigue
Skills:
Quick Packaging(F-)
Culinary(E-)
Driving(F+)
Fast Metabolism(C)
Programming(E-)
Design(F-)
■:
Goddess' Blessing: Double or Nothing(ZZ)
>
He saw a screen appear infront of him.
This was also one of the things that the Goddess gave them. A tool that could give you general information about yourself. That's just it.
Unlike those of other novel where they could gain the information of other people or objects, what the Goddess gave then was just a tool where they could see what they are.
She opted on giving them a tool where all of their information could be seen, but everyone somehow managed to talk her out of it, so this is what they got.
Pursing his lips, Karim thought about his information, especially the perks and the "■" sections.
You have the ability to learn things incredibly fast, but there is a 50% chance that whatever you learned would be forgotten.>
You are somehow able to gain more loot from objects and people.>
<■>
You can essentially gamble any non living things. Either you can double their quantity or to remove them from existence.>
Karim stared at it for a moment, before nodding his head.
"I don't want to do this..."
He muttered silently while crouching down in despair.