Mechanic Alicia Roosevelt

Introduction (iv) Reality

"What do you want to use the dark stone for?" The avian asked. This seems to be the second test as Alicia Roosevelt thought, she had been a leader for a long time and she knew how the wicked individuals talked.

The avian had used a carefree voice to ask her this question, anyone else who didn't knew a thing about business conversations would think that this question was just an out of the topic but to Alicia Roosevelt, it was not, it was actually the second test even if the avian asked it so casually.

The previous Alicia Roosevelt wanted to use the dark stone to rule the world, yes. She wanted to use the stone to finish off her antagonists like the crazy king Virtya Markov who had been getting on her nerves lately. There was a bugging sensation in Alicia Roosevelt's heart, her past self though it was vague, it was still urging the current Alicia Roosevelt to say that she wanted to use the dark stone to rule the world. That was after all, an inherent desire of the past Alicia Roosevelt, she was born that way and nothing could change that but right now, the current Alicia Roosevelt was different, she could not allow herself to be overwhelmed with the desires of her past self.

Alicia Roosevelt calmed down her agitated heart and swallowed painfully before answering, "I want to use the dark stone to reshape the human life and save the unfortunate." This answer came from the deep heart of Alicia Roosevelt, it was now what she wanted not something that she had just said on a whim to exite the masses. The second question of the avian had some relations to the first question. One had to pass the first question first in order to undergo the second question.

"Hmph!" The avian snorted before saying, "Here comes the last question." As Alicia Roosevelt expected, the casual question was also a part of the test, she could only heave a sigh inwardly. She was complacent.

Alicia Roosevelt thought that just like the first two tests, the third test would also be a question. The third test came so fast without her anticipating it or being prepared.

The environment where Alicia Roosevelt was in changed in the blink of an eye. In front of her, the avian was no longer there as it had been erased completely, it was as if Alicia Roosevelt had only been seeing an illusion but that was not it, what she had experienced earlier was as real as it could be.

Right now, Alicia Roosevelt was in a place that she had never seen even though the place existed. It was a place that was like heaven to her because of the advanced level of technology of this place. She had never seen people this interacting, happy and friendly towards each other because where she came from, it was only a matter of Survival whereby the strong trampled on the weak but in this place, people have everything, there was no need of being jealous to each other or killing each other for resources. It was a peaceful and a happy place that even Alicia Roosevelt wished to be among the people of this place.

"Do you think that what you are seeing is real and that your world can be developed to be like this one?" Alicia Roosevelt heard a disdainful voice asking her in her mind. She jerked aside as she thought that something was wrong with her or that she was hallucinating but she then remembered that she was still undergoing the trials of the avian. What made her to remember that she was taking a trial was because the people of this developed world could not see or feel her presence. Alicia Roosevelt was like a soul that could not be seen by mere mortals, it was not that she was stronger than these people, it was just that she was not of this world so this world could not accept her, she was in this world yet she was not in here.

Alicia had paused for a long time as she pondered about the question that the avian had just asked her. This question was not easy to answer especially to a person like her who came from a primitive world that didn't even knew the meaning of a spaceship and warframes. Can someone so primitive believe what was in front of her was real? That was impossible, how could buildings be that tall, what were they build of, not to mention the flying objects(aircrafts) that were flying to the sky. 'Just look at that city suspended in the air, is it even possible to build a city in the sky? you have to be pulling our legs, right?'

Alicia Roosevelt's face portrayed a complicated expression, she didn't knew if she should accept that everything in the city is real or merely a fantasy thing. It is just like asking a person if they themselves are real objects or fake objects. Does their life that they take pride in really exist? What if they are not even alive? What if we are mere projections of the real thing? Our real selves may be somewhere else observing how their projections(us) are faring. The life that we are living may be fake, it is not worth spending time and desire to fulfill it to the extend of doing things that we ourselves never wanted.

But one should know that Alicia Roosevelt's monstrous desires had birthed countless unruly inner demons in her mind. To reach where she was meant that her will was so strong. Other people would have given up on their desires but Alicia never gave up, she sought everywhere on how she could one day satiate her desires despite the continuous flow of inner demons in her mind which were fueled by her desires. Other people would have gone crazy and became retards if they were in her shoes.

"It is real. Yes, the life, the development, happiness and peacefulness that I am seeing in front of me is all real...sniff!" Alicia Roosevelt said in a low voice and then she sighed melancholically. If the life that we live is believed to be real, we also believe that we are the original and not some stupid copies, then everything is real and exists in their own realms. Our dreams and nightmares are real, it is just that they exists in another dimension that is different from the one that we live in. Death, life and resurrection all of them are real. They exist. It is just that some people have refused to acknowledge their reality, they fear that they would be secluded from the matrix.

"Congratulations on passing the test, you are really an interesting thing, I hope you will make a better host..." The avian finally said ecstatically. The confinement and the reality around Alicia Roosevelt disintegrated into shards before Alicia Roosevelt found herself still in the dark cave where her minions were fighting against the rotten corpses.

One would have expected Alicia Roosevelt to be in a celebratory and ecstatic mood because she had passed all the three tests but that was not it, she was sad and detached as if she had lost something that she held onto dearly. Alicia Roosevelt herself didn't knew what that thing that she had lost was because her mind was hazy about that scope.

Strangely, there were no rotten corpses in the dark cave anymore. For some reasons, Alicia Roosevelt could see clearly in the dark cave as if it was daytime but she didn't indulge herself in her newfound ability because she could see that all her army and minions had been slayed, there was only a heap of severed appendages, skulls and a putrid stench that permeated the cave. Alicia Roosevelt was not affected by the death of her minions or this smell either, she had a nonchalant look on her face as if she was an overlord that didn't care about the death of mere mortals.

"Rise!" Alicia Roosevelt uttered calmly.

After her utterance, all the corpses of her dead minions started to revive one by one. It was as if what had happened earlier was simply an act and now that they had finished acting, it was time to close the play, her being the director.

"Beep"

[ Developer system initializing ]

[ 10%... 40% ... 70%... 100% ]

[ System initialized successfully ]

As her minions continued to revive, several notifications appeared in front of Alicia Roosevelt which scared her but she calmed after realizing that it was the system thingy that the avian gave her, it was probably the infamous dark stone that she came here to find.

Author: "With the end of the prologue, I will now unfold Alicia Roosevelt's toxic relationship and kingdom building.

One should know that Alicia Roosevelt's negative character has been corrected, will she really allow Theo Christian who dumped her before, to be with her once again? Although Theo Christian is also a leader of the Northern empire, he is also a toady of Virtya Markov. Keep in touch as we see how the foolish and bigmouth Theo Christian becomes a stumbling block on Alicia Roosevelt's career as a Mechanic employed by the developer system.