
by JNarrator
Humans have been trapped in a nearly empty pocket universe for the past few million years, with all but no mana circulating inside and a fractured section of The System in there with them as their eternal jailer. The rest of the universe did have their reasons after all; the humans caused not one but two cataclysms in the first hundred years of being introduced to the wider System universe. Not to mention the two Chaos gods that rose from their people in the first fifty years, while still being made of flesh and generally being remarkably unremarkable for the insane situations they managed to engineer. The universe forgot about humans except as boogie men to scare kids, saying they live in swamps and kidnap children to take their toes for hair tonic, if they don't remember to brush their teeth. Honestly, it might be something one human did, who could put it past them? Only the human gods managed to stand the test of time, and most of them were forced into a coma-like state by the lack of mana. In the end, there ended up being only one, the greatest of the gods of magic, and he managed to endure on Earth for years beyond counting, slowly building up enough mana for one last spell, one that could be the basis for the prison break montage he'd always wanted. Merlin's trap has finally triggered. It's time for humans to bring some fun back to the universe again. Follow the story of Rob and Isla as magic and the system return to the world, and the apocalypse begins. Should be all the fun you love in a chaotic end of the world LitRPG, with humour, friendship and some romance as all good stories should.TW Contains: Gore & Violence, Profanity.
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