Hi.

Phenomenal Shift is an alternate universe in which the world's political and economic systems are rattled when occult teachings are merged with modern technology.

At the end of the page, you can find the new story about "the sorcerers".

Please use the links below to access the previous stories.

Phenomenal Shift – Episode List

Chapter 1 - [The Beginning After the First Cataclysm]

Chapter 2 - [The New Realm]

Chapter 3 - [Beyond the Cataclysm]

Chapter 04 ・ The Sorcerers

Over time, more knowledge of the cataclysmic region surfaced through the sorcerers and the earthly beings bound in their service. Yet this progression carried its own consequences. Sorcerers constituted only a tiny fraction of the population, and their abilities varied with their talents and spiritual will. It was not always possible to find a sorcerer suited to a given task, and even when one was found, satisfying their demands often proved difficult.

The work undertaken by the sorcerers was also fraught with danger. For any earthly being to be sent to scout the cataclysmic region, a vast amount of spirit force was required. For this reason, when sorcerers bound earthly beings for such expeditions, they demanded sacrifices to compensate for the missing spiritual force. Depending on the severity of the undertaking, these offerings might be drawn from plants, animals, or, in some cases, human lives. It was the governments themselves who supplied these sacrifices.

Should a sorcerer’s spirit force be depleted, the binding could weaken. In such cases, the sorcerer might be injured, killed, or even possessed by the earthly being and reduced to a living vessel. Replacing a lost sorcerer was a process that could take many years, and there were rarely volunteers willing to pursue such a path. As a result, in an effort to safeguard this precious resource, the governments turned their attention to prisons and orphanages. This practice grew so extreme that those who entered prison rarely returned, and children who vanished were seldom found again.

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Hi.

Phenomenal Shift takes place in an alternate universe where there have been attempts to integrate occult teachings with contemporary mainstream technology. But these experiments end in a regional catastrophe.

This world is made up of a number of stories, which the first three are prologues to.

Phenomenal Shift – Episode List

Chapter 1 - [The Beginning After the First Cataclysm]

Chapter 2 - [The New Realm]

Note: I made all the images by myself in a collage and just put in some retouching - finishing touches with the help of AI.

I shared the third part of the prologue below.

You can also find the Japanese translation of the story in the comments.

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Chapter 03 ・ Beyond the Cataclysm

Meanwhile, the cataclysmic region triggered an intelligence war across the rest of the world. Local government and foreign powers launched numerous military expeditions into the region, seeking to prevent a catastrophe that might recur and, if possible, to secure an advantage over their rivals. Yet every attempt proved futile, yielding little more than the loss of manpower and resources. The information and experience drawn from these repeated failures gradually turned the states toward the forgotten arts of the ancient world and those who still preserved them. Scattered across the world, these artisan sorcerers, long obscured by the veil of modern life, seized the opportunity presented by the governments’ desperation. They reclaimed their standing within society and secured positions within the structures of power. In the end, the struggle over the cataclysmic region was carried into an entirely new dimension.

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Hi.

Phenomenal Shift takes place in an alternate universe where there have been attempts to integrate occult teachings with contemporary mainstream technology. But these experiments end in a regional catastrophe.

This world is made up of a number of stories, which the first three are prologues to.

Phenomenal Shift – Episode List

Chapter 1 - [The Beginning After the First Cataclysm]

Note: I made all the images by myself in a collage and just put in some retouching - finishing touches with the help of AI.

I shared the second part of the prologue below.

You can also find the Japanese translation of the story in the comments.

...

Chapter 02 ・ The New Realm

When all subsided into quiet, the survivors took refuge in places the devastation could not reach. In a short time, new settlements arose as havens where every kind of earthly being touched by the cataclysm came to coexist. Yet humanity, knowing almost nothing of these entities that had watched them since ancient times, could not summon up a shared will and soon fractured. For what unfolded was, to some, a blessing, and to others, a divine punishment.

In an attempt to give meaning to what had transpired and to adapt to these unfamiliar conditions, they had revisited the ancient teachings. Over time, people refined their abilities, forged alliances with the other beings of the Earth, and gained new allies and new adversaries alike. Thus, they gradually reclaimed the power to once again assert dominion over the Earth.

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Hi.

Phenomenal Shift takes place in an alternate universe where there have been attempts to integrate occult teachings with contemporary mainstream technology. But these experiments end in a regional catastrophe.

This catastrophe separated people into two groups: the earthly and the spiritual, further separating the two groups into different spaces. Initially viewed as a catastrophe by the rest of the world, it was recognized that it could be exploited as a new form of energy. Thus, a new global war was triggered.

Here I’m going to talk about how the world after the catastrophe formed and how people live in this new system.

The posts will also feature early concept art from the universe.

Note: I made all the images by myself in a collage and just put in some retouching - finishing touches with the help of AI.

I shared the first part of the story's prologue below.

You can also find the Japanese translation of the story in the comments.

...

Chapter 01 ・ The Beginning After the First Cataclysm

As the Earth was replaced by another, and the sky as well, a whisper spread among the people— petrified by the cataclysm—awakening them to a deeper being. Those who grasped this awakening found their insight deepened and their senses sharpened, lifting the veil that had long separated them from the other beings of the Earth. With the cataclysm sweeping across the region, the arrogant illusion of human uniqueness was consumed by fear and chaos; in its wake, modern society was plunged into collapse.

eruption of the first cataclysm

Hi.

Phenomenal Shift takes place in an alternate universe where there have been attempts to integrate occult teachings with contemporary mainstream technology. But these experiments end in a regional catastrophe.

This catastrophe separated people into two groups: the earthly and the spiritual, further separating the two groups into different spaces. Initially viewed as a catastrophe by the rest of the world, it was recognized that it could be exploited as a new form of energy. Thus, a new global war was triggered.

Here I’m going to talk about how the world after the catastrophe formed and how people live in this new system.

The posts will also feature early concept art from the world.

Note: I made all the images by myself in a collage and just put in some retouching - finishing touches with the help of AI.

I shared the first story below.

...

Chapter 01 ・ The Beginning After the First Cataclysm

As the Earth was replaced by another, and the sky as well, a whisper spread among the people— petrified by the cataclysm—awakening them to a deeper being. Those who grasped this awakening found their insight deepened and their senses sharpened, lifting the veil that had long separated them from the other beings of the Earth. With the cataclysm sweeping across the region, the arrogant illusion of human uniqueness was consumed by fear and chaos; in its wake, modern society was plunged into collapse.

eruption of the first cataclysm