Reincarnated in a depressing erotic world but living a normal life (right?) The veil

"Ehh...? You don't know?!"

"Ohh, that's right... Sorry."

Just as I was wondering if Echidna was still so uninford even as a goddess, I rembered from her words the fact that she had been sealed before I (involuntarily) beca her 'vessel' during our first encounter.

"Well, since neither Echidna nor the reader knows what the veil is, that only ans one thing... It's story ti!!"

"Don't ruin the mont, Echidna!!"

[Start of the narration]

"A long ti ago, when the barriers separating the ordinary from the fantastical did not yet exist, and humans coexisted (tried to) with the wonders that spread throughout the world, the seas, the skies, and the unexplored corners of space, it was then that 'tragedy' struck.

In that distant past, making use of knowledge brought from other worlds and dinsions, combining it with all kinds of magic and anomalies, humanity had reached its peak of prosperity, even with the constant threats its world faced.

But everything changed with the birth of a greedy man who would be known as 'the Count'. He was no ordinary human, or at least as ordinary as one could be by the standards of that era.

He had been born with an absurd power in every sense of the word, capable of 'altering' anything the user desired. To give an example, he could turn a God of justice into a sexual deity or an innocent child into an incubus king instantly, without them being able to offer any resistance. Even worse, the changes, depending on how he made them, affected the environnt and those related to the altered people or beings.

If he turned a wise king into an orc, the change could go in two directions.

The first was when the affected person was capable of noticing the change in themselves, but because their existence was completely remade, they no longer cared about who they were before, following the 'scenario' that was given to them as their new normal and reason for existence, while showing aversion to who they once were.

While the second was much worse and more terrifying, as not only did the person change, but the whole world changed to adapt to the new 'scenario'. Want an example? Well then, imagine you are a simple driver, but you are given the scenario that you are the Count's chauffeur. And in that instant, your car and clothing beco a dieval carriage with dieval chauffeur attire to match the image of the scenario. And in the process, everyone in the world believes you were always like that, even having mories of your life before the change. No one thinks it's strange or unnatural.

Now are you aware of how dangerous he was?

The Count altered so many beings as to have an army that propagated the madness of whatever his twisted mind could imagine.

Things went so far that he beca a threat to the entire omniverse, but no one could stop him since his ability worked on literally anything, making it almost impossible to get close enough to end him due to the risk.

It wasn't until so of his own creations rebelled against him that the weakness of his power was discovered.

He was incapable of altering sothing that had already been changed a second ti, and that was what allowed his defeat after a fierce war that left the world severely damaged.

And so, to allow the world to heal, the fantastical was separated from the ordinary by a barrier, and thus the veil was born."

[End of the narration]

"And that's what happened!!"