Chapter 1

What is this? A room in the middle of nowhere? I didn't mean to, but I got lost. I got lost in town which is so impossible because this is where my mother gave birth to me... by force.

Yes, you've read it right! They made my mother give birth by using force. She was pregnant with me back then, but the people in the higher position, which we call the Vasileìa, wanted something on her. So, they used the cesarian machines for me to live even if I was only five months old in my mother's womb at that time. And since then, I've been alone without someone with me to help me grow, but those useless machines whom they want me to treat as a family. 

They made my mother a toy! And then what? Disposed her when they got nothing from her? Inhumane. Well, I shouldn't be surprised, I can even smell their rotting souls from here.

But my question is, what are they up to? All I know is my mother was a scientist. Is it by any chance connected to that? Does that belong to the dots that I'm trying to connect? Will that answer all my questions or will that just lead me to another dead end? No one knows the answer.

They're cruel, aren't they? I lived all by myself, I only have those robots with me but that's worthless! They're the ones who stood as my mother and gave me everything that a child needs. But I owe those robots nothing because if it weren't for their creator, I would have had my mother with me, I would have had a life like every child had. Not a perfect life but a complete one.

And the day that I've discovered that, curiosity made me do things to find out what they are up to. To know their reasons, and to make them step out of their position.

And you know what I've found out? It's the fact that time is trying to hide something and I'm going to decipher the truth with my bare hands. And you can't blame me with this mindset of mine because I had enough of what I've been through. Everything's way more than enough for me. 

If time is my enemy, then I'll try to stop the clock whose controlling it. I'll break everything just to end this fucking shits for I am already tired of it.

I thought I've already started my journey years ago, but I was wrong. I never started actually. I just got fooled again and got blocked by another dead end.

Now, I only have questions and the answers are still far from my reach, way too far from my reach. And now is when my journey will start- a journey where life is just a sacrifice and existence are nothing but toys.

I turned my gaze to a table in the middle with a hologram on it. So, I immediately tried to get it, but I just can't, it seems like it's glued to the table and locked for anyone not to open it.

All I can see is the cover of it but the letters aren't familiar to me, it looks like a letter used a long time ago. It has a map drawn in it which I'm also unfamiliar with and just beside it is an illustration of an hourglass.

I searched everywhere, from the bookshelves to all the corners of this room, but nothing seems important nor interesting. That hologram is the only thing that caught my attention. I'm sure it has something hidden in it.

I kept on searching for clues until I stepped on something on the floor that caused another door to open.

Right! This also happened a while ago, that's the reason why I'm here. I stepped on something while I was trying to go inside the palace using a lane and ended up in a dead-end which surprisingly has a secret door. If every dead-end has a door, then that'll be one of my advantages.

I smirked with that before I entered that door and stopped when I saw the thing that I've been dying to see. The thing that made me so curious just by hearing its name. A time machine, my eyes got fixed on it the moment I saw it. It wasn't shinning but I was dazzled by it.

It's like a time capsule but way bigger than it and has many buttons in it. I can also see what's inside because it's pure glass, but I'm sure that it can only accommodate two persons, and I'm one of them.

But why do they have these? All I know is that there's only one time machine in the world. How important are they to have this? The most prohibited thing in this era, I've never seen any of this till now.

I don't know why they forbid this but I can sense something weird in that sudden decision. Are they hiding something from the past or future? But whatever that is, I'll strive to find it.

A law won't even stop me from doing it even if it cost my life. After all, it's my mother that we're talking about. I have a hunch that this is the reason why they killed her. 

I hid in the bookshelves when I heard footsteps just a few meters away from me. Damn it! No one should know that I've been here till I found everything up. Luckily, there's no hidden camera here that made me more curious than I am. 

If this room is important, why are there no hidden cameras here? I know that for I have found an invention of my late mother- a detector. This is not a trap, is it? 

The noise became louder and louder, a sign that it's going nearer. And there I saw a machine. It's a robot but not a programmed one, it's controlled via computers so a certain person is controlling it and watching everything because it has cameras all around it. And even though I'll walk through its back, it's still is dangerous because I'll still be seen by the person who's controlling it. Unlike the programmed one, this one is too hard to fool.

The world now is full of technologies unlike in the past, and slowly, technologies are eating them instead of them being the ones who are controlling those technologies. Those robots seem to be the leader now instead of their creators.

They became obsessed with creating a powerful one but always ends up unsuccessful.

Well, you shouldn't be afraid of these robots, be scared of what persons can do. Look at the world now, the trees in the past are replaced with buildings that seem to have a contest who the highest is, and that is made by humans. The human whose only goal is to become powerful, they don't even mind if they're destroying someone's life already.

I'm amazed at how the human brain works. It's so mysterious that no one can even predict what it'll do next, and what is running in it. I guess no one in the past predicted that this will occur. No one in the past knew that people will be so cruel and greedy because no one even tried to stop this from happening.

And now, it's so impossible to save this world, even I won't try to do so because it'll just be a huge waste of time. I just want justice then die afterward. 

I immediately got up from where I am when everything was clear.

I followed the path where I came from and got out of that room safely. I am now in the lane and the door became a wall in just a blink of an eye. 

I'm hiding from the flying cars that are patrolling around because it's already midnight and the rules say that no one should go out at this time. And thank God I got home without even a single scratch.

Well, maybe I'll need to ready myself for not just a scratch but a deep wound because I have a journey- I mean war waiting for me. And giving up isn't even one of my choices.

After all, I'm Heszhia Viggo Croñelo, and I am not named Viggo for nothing, because Viggo means war. So if they want an opponent, then war itself will accept their challenge.