[h3][color=aquamarine][u][b]The Garden of Eden                    [/b][/u][/color][/h3][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/uhC0KuN.jpg[/img][/center][right][h3][sub][color=aquamarine][u][b]                    Day 01; Morning[/b][/u][/color][/sub][/h3][/right][indent]"You don't have to fear, nothing will happen to your sister... as long as you beat the game," The small creature replied to Carson still enraged threats before turning its attention to Minato. "Now, that's a smart choice you made. You all lost quite a bit of time already if you want to have a chance, it's better than you sit down and listen to what I'll tell you instead of crying around in the corner," it added, likely talking about Edmond and Aki's sudden descent into despair.

"I'll be brief about this. The specifics are too complex for you to understand any, so there's no need to tell you about it," the creature said, taking a place in the center of the teacher's desk. It produced a magic-looking staff, seemingly out of thin air, and waved it through the air, projecting holographic images of the deep space, zooming from a cluster of unknown galaxies in until it reached a pale blue dot orbiting around an unassuming, solitary yellow star. "You can call me the Game Master. I'm the agent chosen by the Cosmic Principles to pass judgment on your world," it said nonchalantly, back to its fake cheerful voice.

"To put it in the simplest way possible, life is a very rare phenomenon. Self-aware, intelligent life is even rarer. Even so, the universe only has the resources to sustain a certain number of advanced civilizations. Ever since long before your world was formed in interstellar gas and dust, the Cosmic Principles have balanced the number of such civilizations that can exist at once through the universe. Whenever it passes a certain threshold, they issue a challenge to some of them chosen according to the Principles' will. Any civilization that passes the challenge is allowed to continue to grow, those that fail are obliterated in order to keep the balance."

"The challenge is a simple game, where promising members of that civilization's newer generations are given tools and told to defeat a number of enemies. Since this is your world's first challenge, you have to defeat seven groups of seven enemies before you can be declared victors. Until you do so, you can't leave this battle arena, the Gardens of Creation: Eden." After finishing his explanation, the Game Master looked around the room and asked cheerily, "Is there anything else you want to know?"[/indent][hr]