2099, a Crucial date in the Story of Humankind. What marks this year as special was the end of a Century and the prelude to another. At this point of time Humanity has made many Keys discoveries starting with the cure of Cancer, the amelioration of the conditions of life. Allowing people to live  ten more years on average.

       Virtual Reality was already a thing, but it became the biggest advancament for most of the population.Why?, you would ask. "It's because of the adventurous human mind: Having explored everything there was they turned towards the most thrilling next thing;Virtual Reality.

           Virtual Reality or more precisely the game Industry had a great boon and a Spectacularly development and Big Industries started to pop up. This period saw the birth of legendary games like:"OVERLORD", "ANCIENT WORLD","MIDDLE EARTH".But If asked everybody will tell you that the best was NOVA Corps Gaming Industry,the king,the tyrant who by itself produced two of the three legendary games  and a few other big names.It wasn't known to the public, but the  person behind most of the games and especially of the two legendary ones was the same person,known as Balthazar, famous Under the moniker of the demon.

◇ _ _Baaz, That Was the nickname that the sisters gave him, from having lost both parents to getting picked on by the other children Balthazar endured all, they started stealing his things, calling him names and finally they came to the fists. It was then that he snapped. He was never the bigger,the strongest guy but nerdy as he was he was knowledgeable about human anatomy and on that day they had to call at least five ambulances to transport the grievous wounded kids.Since then, avoided by everyone his childhood became centered about video games, they became his favorite hobby. Wanting to create a game on his own, he started learning Coding.After high school he directly went for an internship at a young Nova Corps. From there he became known as the silent type and it was a particular event that brought out his angry nature .

           Nobody Really like messing with the status quo, especially when there's money and fame involved. Imagine this situation, a young entreprise, a ton of money circulating from some old games still doing well versus a wave of ambitious young men and women dreaming of advancement,hungry for recognition and full of creativity.Of Course it would not bode well with the etablished order because as the new wants to surpass the old, the established would not take it laying down. It would start to fight back and what's better than a little bit of bullying.   So the older cadres started to bully the young batch. At first Balthazar tried to take it  cooly but he finally lose it when  a cadre stole his idea for a new game and profited from it, he went to confront the man and the man had to visit the infirmary  because Balthazar broke his nose. After that, they had to pin him down so that he would let the face of another one alone . These events marked him as someone that should not be messed with. After producing "MIDDLE EARTH" and " ANCIENT WORLD" he became director of one of the elite team,he was 38.

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     In his forties, Balthazar started working  on a new game ,and announced that this time he will be doing it solo. From designing,  coding, testing...he will do it all. This put the enteprise in a frenzy, as he choose to keep it  a secret as even the CEO wasn't allowed to known of what type of project he was working on . The only known thing which was public was that Balthazar reportedly said:" This will be my magnum opus, after that it's over". If anybody else said something like that it would be forgotten really fast but it was Balthazar and who was he? The one behind "MIDDLE EARTH" and "ANCIENT WORLD" to say that it will be his magnum opus what kind of game will this game be, will we be assisting at the birth of the first mythical game? Those were the questions that everybody was asking. Sure Balthazar was known for his temper because more than once has he fired people just because he was in a bad mood, around him people were usually tense and intimidated but one of his inherent quality was his tenacity because more than once he encountered setbacks  but he kept going. If he fell a thousand times, he will charge again , again and again and when told something was impossible he would relentlessly and meticulously tackle the task and eight times out of ten he will succeed and because of that his team produced many games especially the two games considered as legendary.

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        "COLISEUM" that would be the name of his game. That's what he decided, sitting in his office Balthazar was reviewing the last details of the game, debugging the last bugs, checking the parameters, it was late. The sun went down hours ago and the moon was full shining bright with  a blood red glow.Baaz refocus his attention on the gam, this game was very important for his career and for the enteprise, their rivals was the one who produced "OVERLORD" and as the years went by they started to get cocky. Imagine their distress when they learned that Balthazar was working on a New game and that game had the potential to depass the revenue combined of the three legendary games. Lost in his work Balthazar did not realize that his clock stopped working and that the whole world was frozen and a light  unknowingly started to appear in his eyes. Minutes later everything came back to normal as the clock started ticking again, Baaz paused and lifted his eyes seeing nothing out of the ordinary he went back to his work. It was already 5 AM when he finished for the day and as he was preparing his things the lights went off. Startled he grabbed his phone and started to make his way down from the twentieth floor to the parking lot . As he was turning around the corner a hand went to his throat,  surprised he tried to fight back but another pair of hands struck him in the solar plexus,  he fell down:" You... arghhh" that's all he could muster before a knife went to his heart silencing him for ever. The next day a piece of news shook NOVA Corps Industry. Balthazar, their ace was assassinated a the door of his office, in the locals of the entreprise as the lights went off, the game he was working on was stolen and his computer disappeared.

        Six months later another piece of news shook the gaming world, NOVA Corps' rival produced a game qualified of peerless  but one thing was still on the mind of the employees of NOVA Corps:" The demon is dead".