A Foolish Regressor's Only Choice
An infected world.
With a never-ending invasion.
Status screens, unique skills, gods and demons… even monsters capable of ending the world in a single breath.
“Hah… what kind of nonsense is this? What did humanity do to deserve any of it?”
By the time he reached his twelfth life, Iskael had already watched the world end more times than he could count on two hands.
He had failed as a hero, as a survivor, and as a lover, thrown back again and again using the tool he desperately monopolized.
he stood alone at the cliff’s edge, but he looked nothing like the terrified survivors scattered far behind him.
He looked over the Zenith Chasm in silence. Below him, the abyss seethed with monsters in the millions.
An evil smile permeated his face, the kind no good soul should ever be able to make staring endlessly at the abyss.
This smile was unordinary. A smile like that could only come from a psychopath of a sadistic nature.
Wind fought against his clothes blowing against him, and beneath the torn fabric of his shirt, black linen tattoos shimmered like living veins of ink, crawling and shifting with unearthly symbols wrapping his torso in all sorts of hidden places .
He stood above the ever hollowing Zenith Chasm, as the sole vanguard for the beginning of the raid.
Having fearful last minute thoughts are normal, for anyone staring at such an abomination of numbers.
Yet you see only one mantra stayed firm this young man, Iskael's heart.
A coping mantra more dear than anything.
“The one who conquers time…” he murmured, eyes glinting with something far beyond hope or despair.
...
"Will conquer the universe.”
He stepped forward.
Air rushed past him as he let himself fall, his body flipping weightlessly through the tranquil yet furious winds, and as he fell those black tattoos began glowing brighter with each rotation in preparation for something.
Then, as monsters roared and the world shook beneath him, he whispered:
“Ah.. well I guess I'm still just a half step there if we want to be technical…"
But you see, my little karma farms...”
His grin widened.
“I’m still a regressor.”
**BOOOM**