The World Stones

Atlas was once a human from Earth, a 16-year-old prodigious Japanese student called Iori Matsuo. He was a real science nerd, spending his free time tinkering with various gadgets.

He had a 14-year-old younger brother, Yuto Matsuo. Their mother and father had both died in a car accident, and their grandma who was taking care of them since then, was always absent working in her restaurant.

One fateful evening, Iori did some tinkering with their microwave, smoke detector, some neodymium magnets, and a few ingredients he swiped from science class. When he turned his makeshift “quantum-microwave-oscillator” on, he created an unstable wormhole which quickly engulfed him, sending him traveling through the fabric of reality.

He woke up on an unrecognizable grassy field god knows where. While exploring his surroundings, he came to the realization that he was no longer on Earth. This is when he gave himself the name Atlas to serve as an alias.

His explorations didn’t last long as he got himself into trouble, being captured and put in prison. After escaping, he found himself at a necromancers castle in a deep dark forest. While he lived with the necromancer and his companions, Atlas learned more about the world, how everything was run with the same logic as his games, with levels, magic and monsters alike. Atlas made friends, even finding love amongst his new companions.

When his captors finally found the castle, Atlas tried to protect his friends, but met a bitter end fighting off his captors.

That was when Atlas learned that he had ability to reincarnate by travelling back in time, gaining xp, levels, and new abilities with each reincarnation. He died five times before finally managing to defeat his captors. However, reinforcements arrived. In a valiant sacrifice, the necromancer of the castle sacrificed himself to save Atlas and two of his companions, Yui Valaria and Alesia Sylvaan.

While Atlas, Yui and Alesia tried to escape, they didn’t get far before an enemy warrior at an incredible lvl 90 stopped them (Atlas was only at lvl 5), capturing Yui and Alesia while leaving Atlas to die.

Atlas survived, vowing to save Yui and Alesia. Once he finally made it to the city they were transported to, the lvl 90 warrior took Yui and Alesia to another realm through a portal, making his guards banish Atlas by sending him to an execution realm; a toxic land with lvl 40 troll-sized mantis-like creatures prowling about, meant to rip criminals apart.

After dying hundreds and hundreds of times, he finally escaped the execution realm, defeating a guardian minotaur on his first try, along a horde of skeletons, including a lvl 40 skeleton overlord, from whom he got a powerful sword.

After going through the grueling process of escaping, he made it back to the city with the portals, sneaking in and defeating the portal guards before entering the realm Yui and Alesia was taken to; a realm with ascending floors, each more dangerous than the last.

After Atlas made it to the new floor-like realm, he gathered allies to ascend the floors; a dwarf who got killed on floor 5, a man named Yuki who could turn his skin into stone, a half-demon named Igius Dawn, wielding two axes connected by a metal chain, and finally Rikka Sylvaan, Alesia’s bow-wielding cousin.

In only a year, Atlas underwent rapid growth (from dying thousands of times), ascending the floors along with his comrades all the way to floor 100. This is where he came into contact with the man who captured Yui and Alesia.

Atlas, who was only at level 60 at this time, and the warrior at lvl 90 fought on floor 100. It was a bitterly close call, but Atlas was ultimately defeated, being captured along with his comrades.

He woke up in one of the rooms of the highest castle of floor 100, with his comrades chained in front of him. As his comrades were about to be tortured by the warrior, Atlas broke his chains, but was subsequently defeated and sent to the demon realm.

The demon realm has always been a guaranteed execution, but Atlas… he had his reincarnation ability. He died millions and millions of times, giving up thousands of times, but getting slowly stronger with each death, until one by one defeating the seven demon commanders.

He started with demonic grunts, eventually working up to defeating the first demon commander, a dark monster with terrifying claws. Then came a wizard, a massive demon with a mountain-sized axe, a white demon with two swords, a warrior with armor, sword and shield (lvl 500,000), a lucifer incarnate (lvl 750,000), and the demon king himself (lvl 1,000,000).

Hundreds of millions of deaths later, Atlas seized the first World Stone of this world, a red gemstone embedded in the demon king’s magical staff. Using this staff, and his new level well over 1,000,000, he transported himself back to floor 100. Because of the time distortion of the demon realm and his reincarnation ability, only a single minute had passed.

Atlas utterly disintegrated the warrior with the Stone of Destruction, before transporting himself and his allies away from the floor-like realm.

He and his allies trained and trained, they rid the world of long-reigning calamities and monsters and became heroes in the process.

Eventually, the demonic forces invaded the mortal realm, among them, the seven demon commanders, alive and back to their full strength.

The Demon King went and stole the other two World Stones. One of these stones was taken from the armor of a legendary warrior, the other from the top tower of a desert kingdom’s castle.

Atlas and his comrades were defeated again and again, and Atlas had to watch his comrades be murdered right in front of him, again and again. Eventually, Atlas got hold of the Stone of Life & Time, which he used to travel back in time to defeat the demonic forces. He used the Stone of Life & Time to get a hold of the third World Stone, the Stone of Creation.

He fought a final bitter battle alone against the seven demon commanders, using the three World Stones to overwhelm the Demon King, reaching a reality-breaking level of 1 billion by the end of the battle. With no control over his powers, Atlas broke the fabric of the world with his final swing, erasing the world completely.

Following this, Atlas ended up back on Earth, confused and disoriented but still with his immense strength and abilities, as well as the three World Stones. What was strange was that his brother was nowhere to be seen.

Atlas’ vast strength and abilities quickly attracted unwanted attention, and he began to be hunted by the worlds militaries. He hid in the forests of Siberia for months, before a dark entity appeared before him, with a sinister aura as powerful as his own.

The entity was the very incarnate of evil, having stolen nearly all of the magical power from Earth’s people.

Atlas and this entity, both with a power equivalent to a level of over 1 billion, fought and fought, destruction following their path. The battlefield quickly transcended the boundaries of Earth itself, taking place somewhere between the moon and Earth.

In a desperate attempt to save the Earth from imminent destruction, Atlas created a wormhole and entered into a stalemate with this creature of darkness, creating a separate world where their powers were locked.

Atlas and this shadow creature both tried to influence the happenings of the world, looking for a way to break free and gain autonomy again. Three-hundred years later, both Atlas and the shadow creature got their powers back, continuing their battle.

Once Atlas defeated the shadow creature in an intense battle, it turned out to be his brother. In utter shock and grief, Atlas let his powers go out of control, destroying the world he had created, and himself in the process.

His reincarnation ability activated, and he went back to the fantasy game-world. From there, he created a portal back to earth to find his brother. When Atlas arrived at his old house, his brother seemed normal, but quickly the shadow took hold of him. After great efforts, he separated the shadow entity from his brother, valiantly defeating it and absorbing its power.

Following this event, Atlas sent his brother back to Earth before creating a new world of his own creation, a magnificent world. Atlas had made a copy of himself into this world, with a fraction of his power but connected to his soul. This was so that he could experience the world of his own creation. This copy had no memory of himself as Atlas, but had his psychology.

This world was short-lived, as another God, the creator of the fantasy game-world, sealed Atlas in a powerful prison along two other Gods, sent his loyal warrior (a warrior with a level of 1B), to suck Atlas’ world dry of its power.

Atlas escaped from this prison by transferring his soul to the copy he made in his world. After breaking out, he helped the other two Gods escape as well. This turned out to be a mistake, as when he arrived in his own world, these two Gods betrayed him.

Atlas fought against the God’s loyal warrior (lvl 1B), the two Gods (lvl 3B and lvl 4B) managing to absorb all of their power. It wasn’t enough however, because the God of the fantasy game-world had a power equivalent to a level of 100 billion.

Atlas’ world was destroyed, and Atlas himself was killed by this God. Unsure of the scope of his reincarnation ability, Atlas was sure he was going to die, but he woke up back in the fantasy world, back on floor 100.

In a matter of two minutes, Atlas teleported to the locations of the World Stones, gathering all three to himself. He teleported to the demon realm to get them to submit to him as the new Demon King. He teleported to the heavenly realm to forge a new weapon that could fit the stones, a sword with three holes for each stone.

Using this new weapon, and new tactics, he just barely managed to defeat the other God, absorbing his power.

When Atlas went back to Earth to rid his brother of the shadow entity, he discovered a terrifying fact; the one who placed the shadow entity on his brother was none other than Satan himself, with power corresponding to a level of over 700 billion.

Atlas went to rescue his brother by going through the levels of hell. Atlas and his comrades eventually found his brother imprisoned in an arena. They defeated the guards, before facing Satan’s most powerful warrior, Lucifer (lvl 100).

Following this battle, Atlas’ brother gained control over the shadow entity’s power by absorbing Lucifer’s power (100B) into his own soul.

Following this, Satan himself appeared, crushing them with overwhelming power. Atlas’ previous comrades were all permanently destroyed, but somehow, Atlas and his brother were able to escape to the surface of Earth.

On the surface of the now-frozen Pacific Ocean, they fought their final showdown against a partition of Satan‘s power (400B). Atlas’ brother sacrificed himself to give Atlas a chance (Atlas absorbed his brother’s soul).

By tricking Satan into giving him more power, Atlas managed to defeat this partition, which ultimately slinked back to the underworld upon being destroyed. Satan’s final message to Atlas was a warning, “once I have recovered, I will return, I will destroy Earth, and all traces of you!”.

After having his powers and lifeforce depleted to a mere fraction of their original size, and after having his only brother and all comrades, including his lover (Yui) killed, the now-injured Atlas left Earth to go recover his strength.

In a desperate attempt to generate more power for the coming showdown between him and Satan, Atlas created a new world (TWS world), where he distributed the three World Stones and a portion of his own power into the substance known as magilite.