Editing City Series:Volume8b Chapter17 (section)

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'''The Three Sages and Early DT

When DT was first virtualized and began its transformation into the city it is now, three academics researched DT before the Demigods came about.

They were experts in the fields of science, chemistry, and old Lives research and they became known as the Three Sages.

They modified DT and created both the DT OS and the foundation of the Bodies.

The identities of the Three Sages have never been made public. It is only known that one was a European man, one was an American woman, and one was an Asian man.

Their records have been locked up in a Swiss bank data vault and their destruction is forbidden lest their Concept Existence Lives be reborn.

There are a number of theories as to why Switzerland has gone to such lengths to permanently lock away their records, but the most likely is that they carried out human experimentation while in DT.

When DT was first virtualized, it was difficult for people to enter the city. But during that initial period, the Three Sages investigated DT and developed the OS. Some historians say, '''“During the early period, the Three Sages somehow created ‘a person who can enter DT’, but the threat that person represented prevented that information from being made public.”'''

If that is true, then who was this '''person who could enter DT'''?

DT’s boosted speed was known at the time, so one theory says prisons around the world requested the creation of a facility to hold prisoners with extremely long sentences. In addition, many hospitals are said to have asked to send terminal patients there. The historians mentioned above suggest those people were modified to enter DT.

In other words, '''people were combined with incomplete Bodies that were still being developed''' and they could not be separated from the virtual data afterwards.

This has not been confirmed, but it is known the Three Sages’ NPC Bodies all ceased to function in DT when Archon Suedomsa arrived. But they were not abandoned. They were stored in the intermediary layer where they sleep as a portion of DT’s current OS.

They were sacrificed so the programs embedded in them when they were created could be made a part of the DT OS and they could function with the bare minimum of data while they sleep.

The intermediary layer where they sleep looks like a free zone, but it is actually a data space not even the 13 Demigods can easily access.

That makes it next to impossible to determine whether or not those NPC Bodies are what became of people from outside the city during the time of the Three Sages.

After the Three Sages created the initial version of the DT OS and left us many mysteries like that, they retired in 1963 and left everything in the hands of the researchers they had gathered.

From there, their research results were used by the researchers who took over, leading to various problems and advantages of the virtual world, as well as ways of controlling those things.

The Three Sages did so much to create the foundation of DT, but they are said to have died in the blast caused during the 1st Godtact Experiment.

However, no one ever saw their bodies, so there are some who say '''they became a part of DT or they lived out the rest of their lives in the outside world.'''