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"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page," ―St. Augustine
Year 2125. 7:00 PM. A City.
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Within the bustling metro, the city lights sparkled amongst the smog after a heavy rain.
This cityscape was livelier than the dulled starless sky.
As flying aero vehicles and citizens geared with Mira Safety CM-90M gas masks and anti-gravity solar boots floated above the ground, dust particles could also be seen moving about.
The pollution was really beyond control.
Even when A City was the world's most technologically-advanced and richest region, there was no escape from the truth―
This world was dying.
At a rapid speed.
The planet has been abused for thousands of years and the current generation reaped what their predecessors sowed.
Ten decades ago, a devastating pandemic disease caused by an incurable virus awoke from dormancy when the glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica melted to the ground.
The said virus wiped nearly all life forms on the face of the planet.
Flora. Fauna. Even humans.
Most of the Earth was inhabitable.
About every place on earth were dried bodies of water, submerged cities, dead livestock, withered farms and forests, pest infestation, radioactive environment from residual nuclear wars and experiments, contaminated or carbon dioxide poisoned air and barren soil.
However, the worst among all these crises remained to be the deadly virus which still existed today.
This virus had no known cure whilst the years of eager researches proved to be futile.
Perhaps it was because of the failed nature campaigns or the abusive country industrializations that the Earth had resulted into what it was today.
It was a little too late before humans started to take counter measures seriously and attempted to reverse the global crises.
Maybe this was the payback time for everything the humans did.
It was an inevitable revenge or karma which was undeniably well-deserved by the humans.
It was the age when nature struck back.
As the crises prevailed, the survivors were gathered by the living world leaders and together built one nation in a renamed country known as Gaea, where all nationalities and races coexisted in peace amidst the chaos beyond the nation's towering walls.
With hopes of restoring mankind, the world leaders developed a government which was acceptable to the new nation.
A new unifying currency, gil, was imposed and the last habitable land on earth was seized.
Gaea's new cities and regions were established and named as alphabets.
Regrettably, absolute power corrupted even those who had the best intentions.
Gaea's government was no exemption from this.
The government turned greedy of the scarce resources and became ruthless with its rules.
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Astra Chronicles
General FictionIn a dying world, Skyler and other prodigies set out on Academia Astra's special mission only to discover a plethora of secrets that were thought to exist solely in a fantasy. Not the fairytale kind. But darker and twisted fantasies. #mystery #roman...
