“ We are finally reaching the place.” Mr. Tuz said while confirming that the coordinates were set. Dimensional jump was like traveling into another dimension but with your eyes and ears covered. It was an advanced application of teleportation but I never went into too much detail. It was like it would disintegrate your molecules into plasma or something. It was one of the tech from the future guys made after the soul badge technology was understood. Soul badge was like an identification number and everyone has it when they arrive. It was like a nano chip implanted at the back of their head from the get go and it would show all information about that person from age to other specs. It was like a weapon as it would be the only way to travel through the collapsed world. It registered with it the lease and all the monetary details you would have and as well a weapon against the Depraves which were able to kill a person. They were the cure as well as the death. That is why the only enemy were the Depraves. The turned Depraves to be more specific. It was a common rule.
Depraves could kill a person and they could make people powerful too by giving them riches. They were the natural inhabitants of this collapsed world, we were the trespassers. So humanity allied together and made the Deprave antidote to counter the convergence disease. This soul badge could be usually any item when it was switched to standard mode. It was connected to a person`s neural network. Everyone needed one but it was something all of the people possessed. I was one of the few people who did not or more specifically, l mastered in crafting them, That is why I was one of the few soul crafters. Soul crafters and neural scientists were different as soul or life was something that was beyond the understanding of the neural scientists. It was beyond the expertise of the future humans that came through the portal. It was a thing that the previous residents of this world had made. They were made by someone but others attributed them to their deities and whatnot. There were many bogus claims and I for one wanted to meet the person responsible for making them as a thanks or for something more. I had not known at that time but maybe it was because of gratitude or something more. I did not care, the only thing I had wanted was to reach my home as fast as possible and find the ultimate reality of the collapsed world as to why this world was made and set up in such a way as a thanks or as revenge, I could never say cause I was more focused on living or was it death. The answer to it was unknown.
After a sudden jolt of the meter, I was finally brought back to my reality or the moment I was in. People had conspired about the existence of aliens, deities and whatnot but in this world, such things were all collectively called the Depraves. They were everything and time travelers, self proclaimed creators, inventors, discoverers and a zillion things were terms humans called them. They had made groups and fought siege battles, recruitments and other things for the single purpose of finding a purpose. Everyone just minded their own business and there was equality in everything but was it? Absolutely not, the only thing that there was not, was a moral code. There were contra measurements for the defaulters and that was the siege of their financial and other assets and to work in the Deprave community. They were not given beauty serum and other things. They were prone to sanctions and as a result they were thrown in with the Depraves and treated as a low caste. With the seizure of a soul badge, the identity of that person was lost. I never made mine in the first place or was it stolen from me. I could not remember as it was from a long time ago.
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“ Are you gonna jump in or not?” Mr. Tuz asked, “ and by the way I am a she, not a he.”
“ Oh! I got what it was trying to say but nevertheless I insisted on calling it a he because it might be odd to just change it as he had been a constant employer of mine for the last three or something years. He knew everything about me so I did not really think much about it. I considered a close associate of mine or a friend as others called them.” I mused myself in such things. When you have the time of a century, you tend to overthink such things and I was doing one of such things. It was habitual of mine as with time wisdom came but with no death, there were unlimited time and resources as time is the most important resource of all. In the entire cosmos, there were many things beyond the control and understanding of humans as everyone worked with their own tools and l for one with my own.
Mr. Tuz or miss, whoever this Deprave was, was starting to ogle at the new equipment I had just made. I custom made most of my equipment by myself. After a thousand years of hunting by myself, l could make most of my equipment as a mercenary because of the odd jobs that I took most of the time. From defending to manufacturing, teaching to other unknown stuff. I had participated in such stuff and now l was even able to afford my own dimensional shift. I was a farmer, a soldier, a fighter, an engineer, sometimes a doctor. In the collapsed world, people mostly just passed their lives as empty husks. Many people from the east called the immortal lands where they were brought after life. People called this place the “place of happiness” or whatnot. One thing was sure, they all called it a place of refuge. The most obnoxious thing was that most of them thought that they had died. Some remembered dying. It was never confirmed as they belonged to different timelines and places so it was very difficult to verify which people belonged to which place or time. There were many fakes who started preaching about religion and whatnot. I mostly just ignored them as there were many more pressing things than just to look at these people, at least for me.
