Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

After Corey spoke, the room became silent for a few seconds before Ashley sat on the bed, not too far and not too close to Corey.

"What exactly do you want to know?"

Ashley asked and Corey rested his back on the headrest of the bed then replied:

"Everything you know regarding our current world and the top powers of the world.

I know you know a lot or at least more than most, so tell me what you know and also about you if you want to."

Hearing Corey's reply, Ashley's brows furrowed slightly before she sighed softly then muttered to herself:

"Now where do I start from."

"How about you start from you. Tell me about yourself, your background… That's if you want to. I'm not forcing you."

Corey replied calmly hearing her muttered words.

Ashley looked at Corey for a few seconds before her lips parted open and she spoke:

"Before the apocalypse happened, the people in power knew beforehand that it would happen.

Some humans outside the planet came into our planet and met with world leaders unknown to everybody, even me.

The humans told the world leaders about the incoming apocalypse but didn't tell them about the wish screen. At first the world leaders didn't believe them but eventually they did, though I don't know what they did to convince them.

After convincing the world leaders, the humans decided to integrate with the us, the natives of the planet by bringing their religions and forces here.

That's why we have the Temple of Flames which serves their god, Ogun, The Temple of Water which worships their goddess, Oshimiri, The Temple of Earth which worships their goddess, Gaea and The Temple of Darkness which worships their god, Lucifer.

The people that brought those religions were the actual Popes of their religions which is strange whenever I think about it."

As Ashley muttered her last words, Corey replied with a calm tone:

"Yes it is strange but don't go off track and continue the story."

Ashley glanced at Corey and when Corey saw a hint of displeasure in her expression, his lips twitched and he spoke:

"Please."

The moment he said 'please', the hint of displeasure disappeared from Ashley's face causing Corey's lips to twitch once again.

'Women.'

He thought and just as he had this thought Ashley continued speaking:

"Although I mentioned only the popes and the temples, there are more human foreign forces that came before the apocalypse.

It's mainly due to this foreign forces that the world leaders were able to do a few things, for example, if you noticed, even if the apocalypse happened, you were still able to receive calls and messages. Communication through mobile phones is still possible.

I don't know what else they did, but that's one."

"When did this foreign forces come to the planet?"

Corey asked with a slightly confused expression, since a thought had been bothering him ever since Ashley spoke about the world's history.

"About 10 years ago."

Anna replied and Corey's confusion increased.

"So they had ten years to prepare but the world still became like this?"

Corey's words contained a hint of mockery, disdain and disappointment.

"I'm not entirely sure what happened but when I called my father, he told me that the apocalypse was much worse than he expected and that the Universal System cheated lots of people."

Ashley sighed after speaking and Corey had raised eyebrows hearing her words.

"What do you mean?"

Ashley glanced at him before fidgeting with her fingers subconsciously, a worried expression could be seen on her face.

"In most movies and novels, whenever there's an apocalypse, it's either a zombie, parasite, disease or mindless monster related apocalypse at the beginning.

But this time, the apocalypse that happened was much worse.

New Earth is currently split apart and wars are been waged as we speak."

Hearing the anxiety in her voice, Corey kept quiet and waited for her to continue her words.

"When the apocalypse happened, you saw the face with twelve eyes that appeared in the sky and released twelve beams of light to different parts of the world?"

Ashley asked and Corey nodded.

"According to my father, the places where those twelve beams of light landed have become inhabitable to humans

The places have changed so much, for example, one of such places has become a place that's always burning, fire rages non stop in that place and it has literally become hell.

Another place has lightning that continuously strikes the ground.

While at another place, an extremely huge and tall mountain appeared from the beam of light, killing everybody that was in that location.

There were so many changes at the twelve places that it has become forbidden lands on the planet."

Hearing the words of Ashley, Corey was at first intrigued but then he became confused.

"Is it because of these twelve places that you said the apocalypse was much worse and that wars were been waged?"

He asked and Ashley shook her head.

"It's not because of that."

She took a pause, then continued:

"After the twelve beams of light were released, portals emerged in different parts of the world and different races appeared.

Races like vampires, werewolves, undead, titans etc. appeared in different parts of the world, and if the foreign or native forces in those places were not strong enough to defend their territory or land, then the new races would take over that territory.

So currently wars are been waged, both by the foreign and native forces of New Earth."

"I see."

Hearing the words of Ashley, Corey mumbled while stroking his chin.

"But how come there's no war here? In this territory controlled by the Temple of Flames?"

He asked but then he remembered something and spoke:

"We're in the territory of the temple of flames right?"

"Yes we are."

Ashley nodded her head then continued:

"As for why there's no war, my father is not sure but the strange thing is that, in the places controlled by the four temples, the only thing people faced were revenant species and they are relatively weak and are like mobs."

"Also, I think those foreign races are even afraid to go the territory of the four religions."

Hearing Ashley's words, Corey's eyes glinted in a contemplative light before he spoke:

"You said something about the Universal System cheating lots of people, what did you mean?"

Ashley sighed as soon as Corey finished speaking then a chuckle filled with slight mockery and amusement escaped her lips.

"I don't know if I should say that the Universal System cheated them since honestly, nothing is ever for free."

"What do you mean."

Corey's brows furrowed hearing the ominous words spoken by Ashley.

"You know that there are some people that wished to become gods, the strongest human, strongest devil etc.?"

Ashley asked, her tone containing slight mockery and pity as she spoke:

Meanwhile Corey nodded and Ashley seeing him nod, continued to speak:

"Well, the thing is that their wishes were granted but the Universal System played them."

"Those that wished to become gods became 'gods', the Universal System made them tier 4 beings, they became gods... but they were merely gods amongst men.

As for those that wished to be the strongest human.

Have you ever heard of a high human before?"

Ashley asked and Corey nodded shocking Ashley.

"You have? Where?"

She asked in a shocked tone and Corey replied nonchalantly:

"I met one crazy old man like this and he told me a few things. High humans was amongst them."

"Oh… That old man was probably from a foreign force."

Ashley said and Corey shrugged nonchalantly, not bothering to clear up the misconception.

"Anyway, those that wished to be the strongest humans, were made to be the strongest normal humans on New Earth and their power was barely on par with tier 3 beings.

The worst part of it was that, those that made all those wishes were temporarily unable to tier up, but the duration of the inability to tier up was not mentioned."

"Hmm."

As soon as Ashley finished speaking, Corey's brows furrowed and various thoughts passed through his mind.

At first he found the situation of those who wished to become extremely powerful immediately amusing, later, the words, 'Nothing is ever for free' spoken by Ashley made him frown with an uncomfortable feeling.

'What she said is true, nothing ever comes for free.

Unless the Universal System is genuinely a saint and I 100% doubt that.'

Corey thought and decided to put this thought at the back of his mind since at the moment, there was nothing he could do concerning whatever consequences or payment, the Universal System would give or want from him.

He looked at Ashley for a few seconds then he spoke:

"Thank you for all the information you've given me."

"It's nothing really. You would have learnt about it eventually."

Ashley waved her hands slightly and replied in a nonchalant tone.

"Now that you've told me about the world, tell me everything you know about the temple of flames and their pope."