in a garden on top a large castle on the west coast of Australian continent.
An old man with jet black hair with a hint of silver wearing sunglasses, Hawaiian shirt and shorts while sleeping under the shade of a picnic umbrella
with a 7yr old kid beside him who was also wearing the same identical outfit.
"So, you want to hear the story of my life"
"Yeah, grandpa SIN, I want to hear about all your adventures
with my father, grandma, uncles, aunts, um my cousins and....and ooh ooh master ZED too, he said you were like...um what was the word?"
"...brother in arms?"
"Yeah, that's what master said"
"Damn bastard he always comes up with these cringy words"
"Grandpa what is 'bastard'"
"Nothing, you didn't hear it from me, ok?"
"okay"
"So, the story huh, it's pretty long do you have the time."
"Yeah, I already did my sword practice and master said that now I can play but, I want to hear the story, please!"
"Ok fine, so....."
_______
So, it all began in the year 2022 when I was a teenager 19yr old to be exact,
know by the name of ARJUN SINGH (Yeah, I changed my name to look cool -_-).
a typical nobody who did nothing but watch a lot of anime
and play a lot of video games,
I mean what could I do, I was 5'6 had a near 0 muscle mass,
Had average looks, well my mother did say that I had beautiful hair
It was all black at that time, and I belonged to a middle-class family,
obviously, I didn't have any girlfriend.
because why would I?
and life was pretty Good except for the fact that I was scolded by my family every day for doing nothing in my life.
Well, it was just a typical Asian family thing.
it all went to shit when two powerful countries started a war because of another powerful country (f**king geopolitics)
things got ugly when nuclear bombs were launched,
whole world was shit scared thinking it was the end if that bomb landed
but when the said bomb reached the stratosphere it
just exploded on its own.
We thought it was a miracle of God that it exploded and we escaped extinction
But God damn, the world had some other plans for us,
As the cause for that explosion was
a strange object which
was a big pearl like black sphere
probably 8-10 km in diameter and that massive thing was right above our heads,
Nobody knew how it got there,
why it got there,
when it got there,
People thought it was the god who placed it there
to protect us, heck even a cult was formed right away.
But I as of now, sure as hell know,
that it was no God who put that sphere up there.
Well back to the story,
The war came to a halt as an unknown ball was hovering above us
and you can't start a fire in your neighbors' house
when your whole neighborhood is on fire.
So, a peace treaty was signed and
Well to know the unknown a space mission was launched with 4 guys,
They went to collect data about the sphere on the said sphere which was named BB (Big ball).
Their space craft landed on the BB 9 Km in diameter (now confirmed).
The space guys went ahead to explore it and
Well, by the grace of the modern technology
it was all live streamed on big news channels and people all around the globe were watching it,
and all was going smoothly and then,
they came across a red line on the BB and well they kept walking around the said red line
to know/find if it meant any thing
and then they suddenly realised that the red line drew a "0"
On the ground then they scouted the area ahead and
when they realised what the strange 0 marking was
they were scared as the BB had a clock/timer on it that was ticking.
The same big ball which survived a f**king nuclear explosion,
And was hovering right above our heads.
Being scared was the least we could do.
[20:49:50]
[20:49:49]
[20:49:48]
[20:49:47]
what was this timer what did it meant?
Was it a countdown to the end of humanity?
Was it a time bomb from the aliens?
What was it?
And that very question threw the world into chaos
People started rioting as if it was a secret experiment of
some powerful country to counter the war.
People who were away from their family went to see them as if there was no tomorrow.
I too saw this first hand
My dad who was always constantly nagging at me to do some work
Was hugging me, saying that he loved me and would protect me with his life if he had to.
Sweat came out from my eyes.
_______
"You were crying weren't you grandpa."
"What do you mean I was crying, and if you want to hear the rest of the story don't disturb me, Okay?"
"okay"
"As I was saying...…"
_______
Sweat came out of my eyes.
And what I did was even more emotional
.... I
.... Went....
...And....
Started playing video games.
Yeah, I was a piece of shit,
like the probably the world was ending in a day or less and I was playing video games but what could I do I had no girlfriend
And the friends I had were also playing with me.
So as time and cries went by,
the next 20 hours passed and the BB clock had
Only 10 min left.
Humanity was ready for the worst-case scenario.
As in the last 24 hours we had tried every possible way to get rid of that giant cursed ball.
But as expected nothing worked,
because previously it did survive the mightiest weapon of human race
and was still standing.
What else could we do.
And as probably our last 10 min ever
My family got together and were watching the news like everybody else
praying to God and hoping that it wasn't the end.
as it got down to last 20 sec
I started getting nervous as the clock was ticking.
'I don't want to die like this'
[00:00:20]
'I'm still a virgin'
[00:00:15]
'I don't even know the ending of one piece'
[00:00:05]
'I can't die like this'
[00:00:00]
[!!!]
What?
[!!!congratulations tower download complete!!!]
what tower? what download?
I was already having a headache but the next message blew my mind
[!!!!congratulations you are chosen would you like to enter the tower!!!!]
[Ch. 1 ~fin~]