In a realm existing beyond reality, heaven, or earth. It was an endless empty white void. It had a clear white sky, barren of clouds. It also had unequal chipped tiles, obviously colored white, laid upon a concrete, that was also white. Although, it isn''t actually empty, it has something, well it has one thing.
Client 1.
It was created for unknown reasons, by an unknown being, placed in an unknown place. It was a spherical orb placed on top of a Greek-like pedestal, albeit it was not really placed, but floating an inch above the pedestal''s surface.
A lot of questions can be asked from looking at this simple image. Is it placed in the middle? Is it alive? Is it really alone? Well, I don''t know, yes, and no.
"Where am I?"
The orb had no emotions nor could it move. But it could do one cool thing, talk.
[Welcome]
It may not have limbs, but it did have a consciousness. It didn''t know who created it, but it did know what it could do. It could express itself through words programmed in its system... body... or... I don''t know what''s inside an orb.
"Who was that?"
But thankfully the orb was born without being alone, there was something else. Who, the moment the orb got to exist, after blinking its imaginary eyes. The orb didn''t know what it was, but it talked, it could speak much better than it could.
[Welcome]
"Is that the orb?"
[Welcome]
"Stop repeating it!"
Unlike the other thing with it, the orb was still getting used to releasing sound. The orb only knew one word, well... it knew others, but it felt stuck and just couldn''t come out. It''s not like changing the words mattered though, the orb didn''t even understand anything. It doesn''t know the meaning of what it said, nor the rambling of the other thing with it, so it had no choice but to just repeat.
[Welcome]
"Stop!"
The other thing got closer to the orb and smacked it. "Why is it so hard!" The orb didn''t know what happened, but the sound was definitely getting louder, that it understood.
Then the other thing got further away, much further away. It was saying another word, the orb didn''t understand what it meant, but the sound was the same for a really long time. It was like one word, just like what the orb’s “Welcome”.
It stared and stared. The orb couldn''t do anything but watch as the other one slowly became quieter. Time passed, seconds, minutes, either way, it didn’t matter as the orb couldn’t even perceive time.
"Just what are you?"
The other thing got closer to it again and something came to the realization of the orb, something that it knew it could also do.
[Zakil Exel]
[Level: 0]
[Strength: 2]
[Agility: 1]
[Endurance: 2]
[Magic: 3]
"What?"
Something came out of the orb''s body, or well... something just came out of the orb or inside, whatever it was, the orb couldn''t see it, but it knew something just showed and the orb was the cause of it. The orb wasn''t that intelligent, so it didn''t care and just stared again, losing touch with time.
“Is this a Status Screen?”
The other thing talked again, and it won’t stop any sooner. The orb just stared once more, and it wouldn’t change any sooner.
“Am I in… another world! Yes!!!! I could finally have my own harem, my OP skill, but where am I?”
It released a long sound. The orb was confused… or it wasn’t. It just ticked like it was starting to experience something.
“Is this some sort of waiting area? Wait, then that means it’s a tower-type isekai! Wait, but that’s not good. I won’t get any woman by just climbing floors.”
The orb once again learned another thing it could do. Something came out of its body. This time it knew it was out. It could see it. There was something above it. It doesn’t know what it was. But it knew it was different from the other thing in front of it... front? Whatever.
[Endless Tower]
[Floor 1]
“So I click this right? Wait, am I ready…? Yah… I am ready… it’s just the first floor.”
The other thing clicked the other thing that came out of the orb’s body. That sounds... confusing... anyway, both the other things disappeared. Just like when it first woke up, it was alone, in an endless white void.
Client 2.
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Time passed. Roughly around 4 minutes and a half. But the orb doesn’t know that. It couldn’t count. Nor does it know numbers. It was staring at the endless void until it was disturbed.
“Where is this!”
It was like the other thing, but it looked different. The orb didn’t know how, but it knew it was different.
[Welcome]
“What was that!”
The orb couldn''t understand the words. But it could recognize it was similar to before. It was almost identical, that it knew. But it still couldn’t let go that it was definitely a different one. It just sounded the same. It heard it, but what it was seeing was different.
[Welcome]
The orb just sounded out the same thing. It already happened once. It was just repeating what it had done.
“Is it you?”
The other thing was definitely different.
The orb was sure of it. It could remember. It was unintelligent, but it could remember. The orb remembered that it didn’t happen that way. It learned that sounding out the word just that many times changed something. It was learning. Slow, but it was. Insignificant, but it was.
“An orb… in the middle of a creepy white void…”
It got close. Well, it didn’t know what getting close was. But in its eyes, it grew bigger. It knew it was about to be touched. That sounded wrong, but that’s just the basic thought.
[Kakil Senda]
[Level: 0]
[Strength: 3]
[Agility: 2]
[Endurance: 3]
[Magic: 0]
The same thing happened. Something inside of the orb appeared, glowed, shined, highlighted? More thoughts appeared, but it still didn’t understand it clearly. It was just random lines in its mind.
“What is this? And what is this orb?”
[Welcome]
The orb couldn’t resist. It sounded out its only known word once more. It felt a sense of joy doing so. Maybe it could feel emotions. It just didn''t know what emotions were.
“Hm… what happens when I swipe this away…”
The other thing moved and so that thing appeared again. The one that the orb could see.
[Endless Tower]
[Floor 1]
It didn’t know what happened to the other. But it felt a sense of worry. It did, just a little that you couldn’t find it. It was just visible as the Orb didn’t feel anything else. It was like having one ball in a ball pit.
“Floor 1… what is that?”
[Floor 1]
It became bigger. The orb couldn’t understand much but it could see changes. It could see movement and size.
“Is it telling me to click it?”
The orb was trying to release something. It was trying its best to say something. There was something stuck in its body. It couldn’t let it out. It tried and tried.
“Well, no harm trying?”
The thing then disappeared again. It was just like the other one. And then that voice came out of the orb.
[Start The Floor]
It was longer. Much longer. It felt a little happy. Just the same size as that worry. But it did feel a little weird. Like, that wasn’t what it was supposed to say. Or it was trying to convey. But it didn’t know what those words meant, so that feeling didn’t last nor even appear. It was just a guess.
Just like the last time. Time passed. This time it was 7 minutes. The orb still didn’t know time. It didn’t even feel like anything was passing. It just stared. Stared at the endless void once more.
The thing then appeared. But now it was much lower than the orb. It was looking down.
“Rrrrr”
The orb didn’t understand what the word meant. But it was the first time he heard that sound. It was short but felt like something. Something it just didn’t know.
“Aghhh!!!”
It moved. Just slightly. The sound changed, it was now louder but it was still just as short. A minute passed and the thing wasn’t moving. It stayed.
The orb started to not see it. It started to blend with the floor. The orb couldn’t perceive it. To it, the floor, air, the void, and THAT thing, they… they were all… the same. The only difference was that one of them moved.
A few minutes and the thing then moved again. The orb noticed that it was multiplying. The thing turned to small things and started to move fast. Some were getting smaller, and some were getting bigger, until everything disappeared. You could say… it evaporated into multiple orbs.
Client 3.
“Shit! Did I die?”
Another thing appeared. It was once again different.
The orb knew. It also knew that the words were far different. It was not something it had heard before. It was a different sound. It was quite happy to hear a new sound. Time passed and the orb felt more alive.
[Welcome]
The orb said. It''s just the classic line.
"Is that a talking orb?"
It was different once more. It just knew it. And it started learning more.
“Well, hello… do you know where this is, little orb.”
The thing talking was close to the orb. To its view, it was bigger. The thing was releasing sound a little slow and with something in it. It was looking at the orb. The orb felt a little emotion of embarrassment, so then it talked.
[Welcome]
“Is that all you can say? Then alright, that’s a good start.”
It touched the orb. Then it knew what appeared once more. It was the third time already and it felt more and more familiar.
[Sole Deron]
[Level: 0]
[Strength: 2]
[Agility: 3]
[Endurance: 1]
[Magic: 3]
“This doesn’t seem like the afterlife… thank you mister orb.”
The Orb still couldn’t understand. But it did feel something. It knew it could do it. So it did. And that thing appeared in front of it again.
[Endless Tower]
[Floor 1]
“Ohh… what is this?”
The Orb succeeded. It didn’t know what that was. But it felt happiness or more like proudness about itself.
The other thing then touched what appeared out of the orb and the thing disappeared again.
The orb was used to it and wanted to say something. It was trying hard once more. It remembered the feeling of what it just did. It tried remembering and it succeeded. The streak of proudness just wouldn’t stop for the orb. I’m happy for it.
[Bye]
A longer time passed. It was 6 minutes. The thing appeared again. It was just like the other one. It was lower than the orb. Simply put it was on the ground. It didn’t move like the other one. And it didn’t make a sound either. It was different. The orb stared at it till it disappeared in its sight as it blended with the floor.
And so just like last time. The orb saw it once more as the talking thing disappeared into the air. The orb had the perfect message for it.
[Bye]
Even though it didn’t know what it meant.