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Chapter 27 - Countless people Died, For Nothing

People always say you should never give power to a madman… and honestly, after witnessing everything that happened, I don't even know whether to laugh, cry, or simply resign myself to nonexistence, just another nameless POV General in this cosmic joke of a timeline and broken universe

Why do I say this? Well… because of everything.

Every single cursed thing that collapsed the moment the protagonist decided to poke the board of destiny like it was a cheap carnival toy.

And yes, I know it sounds dramatic to claim that even destiny itself lost control… but trust me, when you have a protagonist so obsessively paranoid, reality starts feeling like a soaked manuscript being rewritten by a drunk author who's long since stopped caring.

Oh wait, that's close to the truth... Anyway

Let's start with the basics, thanks to the protagonist, the World War ended too fast.

So fast it felt like the universe itself wanted to skip to the next disaster without catching its breath.

And this gave the ideological powers time to "repair themselves.".... Repair, Ha.

What they actually did was stitch their gaping wounds with pride, ego, and unresolved trauma, then pretend they were ready for round two.

And look and behold, a new historical masterpiece was born.

A Cold War that was already stupid enough between Americans and Soviets… now featuring a fully revitalized Germany as a third superpower.

Because of course, what would the world be without adding fascists into the mix?

A perfect cocktail: USSR, capitalist liberals, and fascists, a recipe for disaster baked to perfection.

And disaster they delivered, so much that even the representative of the liberal bloc almost ceased to exist entirely.

Yes, the United States had a civil war, reason? The protagonist, surprised? Absolutely not.

And the U.S. wasn't the only one bathing in internal chaos.

The USSR collapsed into revolution, Germany fell into revolution, and since the world apparently decided to have a collective mental breakdown, half the planet followed suit, the U.K., France, Italy, Mexico, Argentina, Egypt, China, Japan, Korea, Spain… all tasting the lovely flavor of internal collapse.

Oh, and let's not forget the secret organizations, Star's group, Yuno's, Emily's, Johnny's, Escanor's, HYDRA, the Ten Rings, the Hand, the Red Room, and every other acronyms-and-shadow nonsense club you can imagine.

And let's don't talk about the galactic one's

Each and every one suffered internal revolutions, civil wars, purges… a whole buffet of destruction.

Except one.

Itachi's organization somehow remained perfectly untouched, not a single hint of rebellion (Translator: HAHAHAHAHAHA, that's how broken Itachi is, his bootleg clone is still overpowered 🤣🤣.)

How did he manage it? No one knows, not even the protagonist, who, being the idiot-with-power he is, didn't bother to think about it.

Anyway, moving on, The tragedy was only beginning.

After all those revolutions, those that made the world bleed from the inside, countries still continued the Cold War.

Fresh out of internal massacres… and they decided to keep fighting out of pure pride.

I don't know whether to admire their persistence or recommend mass therapy.

Results? A Cold War split into ironic victories

The capitalist liberals won the arms race and economic race, reason? The protagonist.

The fascists won medical and social policy breakthroughs thanks to decoding part of the super-soldier serum, who indirectly helped? The protagonist.

The communists won the space race and gathered 39% of global allies why? You already know, the protagonist.

He controlled everything, purely because he "didn't want surprises."

At this point that isn't paranoia, it's a fucking divine pathology.

Africa, for its part, decided to desert the entire world.

Why? Yes, again, the protagonist.

All Black people worldwide migrated to the continent, the only place where they'd have unrestricted access and autonomy.

And the National superpowers? They shrugged and continued with their idiocy.

They assumed Africa wasn't advancing technologically, in their eyes, they didn't have future

And… well… we all know who the real cavemen are here.

Now let's talk about the internal revolutions, the real disasters, and yes, the protagonist was at fault in almost everything.

Even in the other avatars' organizations, his involvement consisted mostly of stuffing everything with spies… which made things even worse, obviously.

But let's start with the most surprising one, Africa.

Emily governed through faith, hope, and a religious authority centered on "Mother," as you already know.

But the protagonist, as always, shoved his hand into the machinery and revealed that Emily was a "priestess abandoned by that entity".

Did people get angry? Surprisingly, no, after all, to them, Emily was their savior, the one who guided them, not the supposed Mother.

They followed the faith only to help Emily regain forgiveness that nobody even knew existed.

Then Emily ascended to "Sequence 4"… and everything collapsed.

People split into three beliefs, who, let's be honest here, are stupids

One group trough Mother had returned.

Another group trough Mother never existed and it was Emily all along, testing them.

And a last group trough Emily had broken ties with Mother and become a goddess herself.

Three beliefs, one country, one continent… and an unavoidable religious war.

Emily chose to support the third faction, the only one that explained her current and future powers.

And if this were a normal world, the other two groups would've surrendered..... But this isn't a normal world.

This is a world contaminated by the protagonist.

The remaining factions united to kill Emily, why? To "cleanse the heresy" and regain Mother's forgiveness.

Emily… Emily was forced to kill her own people, those she called family, those she promised to protect.

And while she bled, cried, and tore apart the ones she loved, the protagonist just continued with his nonsense, concerned only with "avoiding surprises."

If Wakanda hadn't helped Emily..... the tragedy would have been even worse.

Even so, half of Africa rose in rebellion, and only a fifth of the rebels survived.

That was a massacre, an emotional genocide, blood spilled for nothing but lies

All because of one man's paranoid need to control everything.

If it weren't for his brainwashing, his spies, his endless interference… none of it would have happened.

But with the protagonist, there are no "what-ifs." only corpses, fear, and plans stacked upon plans.

Now let's move on to another revolution, one just as bloody, but at least slightly more understandable.

As you know, Star controlled the mystical side of the world… except for Kamar-Taj, obviously.

And as you also know, fantastical creatures united under her naturally, she was their spiritual leader, their living goddess.

Even more so once she reached Sequence 4.

But the sorcerers… oh, the sorcerers.

Thanks to the protagonist, again, they "discovered" that Star was ascending to "deity" status through the "faith of her followers."

Of course that was false, but accuracy never mattered here, what mattered was their reaction.

And surprisedly to anyone, they panicked.

Because nothing terrifies a sorcerer more than someone more powerful than they are.

So they declared war, a war hilariously stupid, incredibly desperate, and inevitably doomed.

It was a one-sided purge

Star didn't even participate, her followers, fanatical to the core, fought with such fervor that their own lives meant nothing if it meant killing a single sorcerer.

And they succeeded, because they wiped out all sorcerers worldwide, except Kamar Taj for obvious reasons.

Why kill them all? Because the protagonist wanted it that way, after all, in his mind "They might oppose my plans."

The protagonist, a being already borderline below dimensional masters, is STILL unsatisfied? Still afraid of surprises?

You cannot write something this ridiculously stupid, this is peak narrative sabotage, This is a fuking... *sigh* anyway, returning with the history...

Star, meanwhile, felt no betrayal she expected no loyalty for humanity

To her, humans are unworthy of the moon, she hates the USSR for putting a flag on it, she hates the demigods living there she hates Khonshu for claiming dominion over it.

In short, she hates anyone who pretends to have authority over the moon.

But she learned patience, learned to wait, thanks to Emily.

Star contacted her, Emily pitied her and helped train her in the past, since then they stayed in touch.

And although Star didn't help Emily during her catastrophe, Emily didn't mind, in her worldwide, Star must be also suffering for the revolution

After everything, Emily sees a glimmer of humanity in Star amid all the misery.

But well.... only one of them truly suffered because of her revolution, but neither fully understands the other's emotions.

And I could continue with the rest, but those are… long, I'll explain them later.

The other battles were brutal, not as bloody as Emily's or Star's, but still significant and important

Yet none of that changes the fact that countless people died, for nothing.

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