Love Quest Into The Void

Have you ever wondered what the apocalypse would look like and what would follow in its aftermath?

Could it be natural disasters like tidal waves, earthquakes, tsunamis?

Or the invasion of pandemics, monsters, zombies as in science fiction movies?

Or conflicts between nations and the outbreak of a third world war accompanied by nuclear bombs erasing civilizations?

No, the apocalypse I want to show you is not just one but all of the above combined, and I'm not joking at all, your world is about to come to an end if you don't start doing something about it today.

This was the strange content broadcasted by a mysterious person appearing on the TV screen while I was still having dinner with my family.

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Ten years ago, while having dinner with my grandparents, as usual in a family meal there would always be rice, vegetables, soup, and side dishes, not to mention a small TV, a treasure of rural families. We would sit at the table together, dine, and enjoy the news at exactly seven o'clock every evening.

It was the day when everything happened, in a way that no one could have expected...

The TV screen gradually blurred with distorted sounds, making us think this TV was old and encountering some problems. Then, the images started to become clearer and instead of the usual beautiful newscaster from the television station, there was a mysterious figure dressed in a black cloak. The voice of this person was also very strange but somehow I could understand it as if listening to my mother tongue, warning of a catastrophe that would bring this world to an end.

This person repeated many times a phrase meaning 'Void', likening it to the world's apocalypse, requesting governments to start building emergency shelters, conduct drills, and establish a warning system for spatial instability.

Finally, the mysterious figure made a prediction about the disaster that was about to happen, the first would begin exactly two years from that day and then disappeared from the television news, mysterious as the way they appeared.

In the following days, news articles about the mysterious figure were reported across social media, news, and television stations worldwide. Some thought it was a prank by some hacker group, others fully believed in it and crazy cults parading made governments around the world deploy the military to suppress.

Indeed, it might have been a real prank... but what made the public and the media, even celebrities quite agitated was because of its intriguing mystery. And there's one more thing, at the same time, the mysterious person was broadcasted on all electronic media including TVs, computers, phones, and even radios. In each country, the mysterious person used the language of that country, fluent as if a native speaker, and the broadcast duration matched perfectly, not at all like a pre-recorded clip.

The keywords about 'The Void' quickly became a hot trend for a short while when social media was not yet as developed as it is today. Until everything began to settle down, people started to believe it was just a well-invested joke. As usual, governments around the world also ignored the warnings and baseless demands... and then two years later...

In the city of Pearl Springs in the Sunrise state of the Crimson Shores territory, a strong earthquake occurred along with tsunami waves that began to flood the city of over a million people. The space twisted and then shattered like a broken mirror, creating a strange black crack. In an instant, as if containing dozens of nuclear bombs, the distorted space caused a shockwave that wiped out life on three-quarters of the Crimson Shores territory, leading to the collapse of a capitalist superpower.

That day, humanity first learned of a disaster known as 'The Void' which the international language refers to as 'The Void'. More than two hundred million Crimson Shores people were killed or severely injured, and creatures within the crack's range that survived gradually became mad, their bodies transforming into grotesque beings that attacked the living. Yet, that was not the worst part as from the other side of the crack, countless powerful monsters emerged that seemed to only belong in science fiction stories.