The Eternal Crossroads

Crossroads Street is a street filled with intersections. These intersections divide the whole street into N sections. The rectangular areas separated by intersections are vast, and each is different. At the center of an intersection, you might see the four seasons all at once. Barriers separate the rectangular areas, so you don't have to worry about being "attacked" by different seasons.

Crossroads Street is like a maze. In the real world, once every N years, someone appears with the ability to open Crossroads Street. They may be male or female, and are called a "Crossroads Key," the key to Crossroads Street. They possess powerful spatial abilities and can tear open space to send people chosen by Crossroads Street into it. No matter how long you live, you won't be able to explore every rectangular area of Crossroads Street before you die. Whenever you enter an area, the path behind you disappears. You can leave only after completing the area's "task," which means "making it to the end alive." No one knows where an area's end is. The only thing sustaining you is the will to survive. Of course, you don't need to worry about food. Everyone who enters Crossroads Street gets a spatial ability called "Storage Space," which contains an endless supply of food. Crossroads Street is like a game, with different levels. The higher your level, the larger your space. At level 10, it's infinite. To level up, you can kill other people or, just like in a game, kill monsters and complete quests. No matter which setting you enter, you might trigger a quest. So the most important thing for surviving in Crossroads Street isn't food, but strength. No one knows the highest level or how many settings Crossroads Street has. In short, it can have cities, forests, deserts, and scenery from all four seasons. Generally, however, there won't be any "people." When you first enter, you can choose an ability, but the System won't tell you what it is. You can only choose based on the ability's name. You can also choose an ability from an anime.

In short, Crossroads Street has everything. I'll explain it in more detail in the story, and do my best to clarify the things the blurb doesn't make clear.

Crossroads Street is a place somewhat like the endless horror cycles in Infinite Terror, but it has no Lord God, only a "System." It has no "ordinary people," only NPCs, lifeless like characters in an online game, "humanoid computers," and artificial humans who come back to life after dying and repeat the same routines.

Later on, you might obtain the ability to "build a house." Then you'll have a space of your own, where you can have the "home" you want. But you must be at least level 20. You need only 10 experience points to reach each new level, but gaining them gets slower and slower. You might get only a fraction of a point for a quest... It also depends on how well you complete the quest and how difficult it is.

If you're wondering whether you can trade points for items, like in the Lord God's space in Infinite Terror, you can, but... I advise you not to before level 10. Otherwise, you might spend a huge number of points on something you can't use. Items traded from the System have hidden properties before level 10, and their prices are random. An expensive item might cost very few points. If you're lucky, you might get something that boosts your stats or level. But you'll have to wait until level 10 to find out things like your stamina and mental strength. In other words, before level 20, you can only "sleep rough," and before level 10, all you can do is keep improving your original abilities...

No one is immortal in Crossroads Street. It's nearly impossible to get out alive, and no one has so far... Well, the "Crossroads Keys" don't count. Once you enter Crossroads Street, you'll almost certainly die unless you're powerful enough...

Perhaps it's a slaughterhouse where almost no one survives. If you're lucky enough to become a nonhuman creature, your chances of survival might be better. The points system here is like that in an infinite-flow novel, with storylines and points, but no one can protect you. If you're lucky, you might find people to team up with, but generally, you rarely run into anyone. Unless you're level 50 and enter the "Central District," you might meet some "people." But nearly everyone in the Central District is a self-reliant powerhouse, and they're not easy to get along with. After all, reaching level 50 is no small feat. If a "Crossroads Key" can reach level 100 in Crossroads Street, they can travel freely between any spaces. However, once they enter Crossroads Street, they have to wait until all the current "chosen ones" have entered before they can leave. Because of their special status, some people who receive inherited memories will gain the predecessor's memories and abilities, as well as half their level. But if a chosen one receives an inheritance, they get only the memories and abilities, though they'll need less experience to level up.

Ah... If you want to get out, you have to reach level 100~ Compared to the outside, only 100 days will have passed~ That means if two people want to emerge at the same time, they'll need to be the same level~ A "Crossroads Key," however, can come and go at any time. So in Crossroads Street, you never age~ And the person called a "Crossroads Key" stopped being human long ago, when they became a key...

Ah... Right, everyone in Crossroads Street has a code name~ It's the name you use there, the one you choose for yourself... Oh, right, you can have only one code name~ You can pass it on to someone else before you die, but no one else can take the same name~ Just like in a game where duplicate names aren't allowed~

That's Crossroads Street, a realm whose end can never be seen...