Welcome To Nullaria by nullaria at Inkitt

Summary

The human eye is limited. We perceive only a small fragment of reality: white light broken down into seven colours. But beyond those extremes, in the spectrum where sight fails, the Earth conceals its cruellest mechanism. The planet possesses its own purging system. When a person completely loses their will to live entirely, the world treats them as a broken cog and discards them as rubbish: it generates an accident, a fall, a decision that seems random but is not. The body slips into an inexplicable coma in a hospital bed, whilst consciousness and soul are torn from reality and banished to a hidden realm. Welcome to Nullaria. An unstable kingdom that mutates constantly beneath the weight of what souls carry within them: their fears, their traumas, their sorrows, and the remnants of a hope they no longer knew how to hold. Here, perception is the only true power. What your senses fail to detect will be precisely what destroys you. Dante Montenegro is one of those discarded pieces. A cynical thief, weary of everything and without purpose, whom the system has already marked for elimination. Trapped within this nightmare, he understands that his only way out is to awaken a perception capable of seeing what lies hidden beyond the visible spectrum. But his time is running out. While Dante struggles to heighten his perception and prove that his existence still holds value, in the real world the final decision is on the table: if he does not evolve in time, his family will disconnect the life support, erasing him from the face of existence forever. Alberto Báez

Genre: Fantasy

Author: nullaria

Status: Ongoing

Chapters: 6

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 18+

Prologue: The Depuration Protocol.

In nature, compassion does not exist. It is a silent truth that many species on the planet understand by pure instinct: when offspring are born weak, ill, or simply do not fit into the pack, they are left behind. There is no malice in this act; it is simply Natural Selection functioning with cold precision, without hatred and without hesitation.

However, in the human world, things are different. We are countless souls on this Earth, each convinced that they have a guaranteed place and a special value. But the truth is much cruder. In our arrogance, we humans invent patches. We create laws and use beautiful words such as “hope”, “empathy”, or “second chances” to hide a reality that we are terrified to say out loud: at times, some people simply have to be discarded.

The Earth is a living organism that does not tolerate failure. To the world’s system, we are nothing more than organised matter, and when a piece ceases to fulfil its function, the original design removes it from the path. There is no room for that which is useless; it is, once again, Natural Selection.

The Depuration Protocol does not kill you immediately: your body remains on Earth, connected to hospital machines that keep your lungs functioning. But your consciousness and your soul, those parts of you that life no longer needs to use, are expelled from reality and dragged towards a spiritual landfill: Nullaria.

There is no appeal. There is no warning. The system does not hate those it discards; it simply no longer considers them. And that indifference is, perhaps, the most terrifying thing of all.