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This update was built step by step, system by system.
If you care about KUME’s foundation, Version 0.0.0.3 is here.

I’m going to share a bit of the lore. These texts are prototypes — some of the versions of the story I intend to explore, both inside the game and externally. I’ve been thinking about possibly publishing some comics, or animating a story and releasing it on YouTube (which would be ideal). I’m still figuring that out.

There are three versions of the main story that I plan to share with you here. As for the more “official” story, I’ll make some videos explaining it.

This is Version 3, which we’ll call Timeline 1 or the Mystic Castle Saga.

**Timeline 1 — Mystic Castle

Part 1**

“Kume is not an ordinary place.

The word comes from ‘Cumê.’
The apex.
The highest point.
The sacred place.

Some say that those who go beyond its limits die.
Others say that no one survives.
And that those who return… do not return as people.

There are those who believe Kume is where the power to grant any wish resides.

And there are those who believe it is where one ceases to exist.”

“Gen is the hero of his own idea of what a hero is.

He believes in good.
He believes in facing evil.
Inner and outer.

But that was never more than a lofty idea.

Gen is lofty.
And this world does not respect loftiness.”

“Gen was born from nothing.
Those born this way are called the Soulless.

He grew up surrounded only by irrational animals.
Always conscious.
Always alone.”

“His race, the TerrestAmphibius, is at the lowest level among all races.

Weak.
Discriminated against.
Scarce.

They survive by draining vitality from living things.

And those who live too long…
or consume too much energy…
reach the peak of their existence.”

“They become monsters.”

“But to Gen, becoming a monster is to die.

Because a monster is form without consciousness.

It is the body without the ‘self.’

To Gen, what matters is the now.
It is remembering who you are.

That is his counterpoint.

He does not seek the apex.
He flees from oblivion.”

“In this world, the strongest inner voice takes shape.

It manifests as power.

It can be faith.
Belief.
Fear.
Desire.

These forces become catalysts.

And every catalyst that matures…
becomes generalized.

It spreads throughout the universe.

Fear, for example, is not only felt.
It exists.

As something mythical.
Cosmic.
Formless.
Capable of crossing dimensions.”

“Gen sharpens his emotions like blades.
Strengthens them like shields.
Ignites them like an erupting volcano.

His power is inflation.

He pulls air into his own body.
Expands.
Compresses.
And explodes.

In Gen’s world, there are organizations created to protect nations.

The armed arms of the world.

They are called Justice.”

“But Justice is blind.

And what should have protected Gen’s small village…
ignored it.

As if it were irrelevant.

The village was destroyed.”

“And then Gen faced something greater.

A monster on a world scale.

The one who looks forward.
And the one who looks back.

There, Gen encountered something new.

Frustration.”

“Not anger.
Not hatred.

Frustration.

Existential powerlessness.
Contact with reality.”

“Despite being talented, intelligent, and emotionally strong…

Gen always loses.

Because here, that is not enough.

He is weak.”

“There is a place in this world called the Phantom Zone.

An island at the point of Earth’s magnetic convergence.

Also called the Event Horizon.

Everything that enters is altered.

Nothing that remains there survives for long.

It is a sacred place.

And it is forbidden to set foot on it.”

“They say that whoever survives the island…
and reaches the top of Kume…

comes face to face with God.”

“Everything in this world is influenced by Him.
Everything gravitates around Him.

And that is why Gen departs.”

Next part coming soon. Follow for more updates.