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Chapter 2 - Initiation at the academy

So where was I? Ah yes I just enrolled into the time-master academy at the age of 6, the first thing they do is actually very brutal but necessary, they throw you directly into your own time stream so for that instantanious moment you get your entire life revealed and belief me it's chilling. This process makes sure you know the importance of securing the time-stream and at the same time break you down to build you back up to become a time-master, it also makes it possible for your older and younger selves to be present in every moment of time, because if this does not happen well the entire universe might implode and all of creation and everything beyond the border of the known will seize to exist. But enough about that, let's continue.

The next couple of years weren't anything special just the regular studying training and gaining understanding of time itself. It's during the later 400 years that I met my oldest friend/colleague let's call him Rudolf because he always had a red nose. Rudolf was exeptionally good at manipulating time and space and through this experience he was rumoured to become the next Arch-Chronos. well up until this point he was at least, his older version was, but that's not important right now. Rudolf and me were inseperable as {young} lads and together we made sure our instructors never had a moment to rest, we did this by bending the rules a little like creating a black hole during our exams or trapping the headmaster in a continous loop for a couple weeks, well weeks for us about 2.5 billion years from his perspective, when he finally got free he was so disoriented and crazed that he was not able to function for a couple decenia, we really had a good laugh with that one.

then when the day came for us to graduate Rudolf got the great honour to become a continous paradox, meaning that no matter what happens to him he will never cease to exist. This only happens when the Arch-Chronos himself demands it, so it means that Rudolf would go on to do many great things during his service. Me on the other hand well this is were things take a turn for the worst as the moment I got my pocketwatch a blast of chronal energy released meaning that something bad was about to happen and this is were my story truly begins.