Sunlight seeped through windows lighting up the dark room, on a bed that was about to fall apart, Ray frowned his brows due to the sudden light.
10 minutes later unable to bear the sunlight that was constantly shining on his eyes, Ray woke up.
Rubbing his eyes he looked at the table clock that displayed time and date together.
It was 7 AM, May 28, 2010
Rubbing his dizzy head awake, Ray got up to get ready for the office, if he got late he would have to put up with his boss's nasty expression for the whole day.
Walking toward the bathroom Ray frowned a little, he remembered yesterday was 28 May, So why was the clock still showing it was 28 May, frowning he walked back to check whether the clock was broken.
Picking it up from the table he looked at it intently, No everything was normal, clock dials were functioning normally, and the bearings that showed the date were also good.
What's the problem?
Muttering Ray felt like he had forgotten something, looking at time, memories from last night suddenly came to him.
Pocket watch, pain, space-time shift, and fainting.
Remembering this Ray almost jumped in his place, he remembered he should have fainted in an alley 5 minutes from his house and now he appeared in his bed this morning, something was not quite right.
"By the way where did that damn watch go, that pocket watch" Ray muttered in his heart.
As soon as he spoke 'Pocket watch', a translucent panel that looked quite sci-fi suddenly appeared before his eyes, causing him to shiver.
At the same time, this panel appeared a piece of information was also forcefully inserted into his brain causing him to become dizzy.
It took him some time to digest these memories, then he was trembling, the corners of his lips almost cracked to the base of his ears.
Don't worry, he didn't become a lunatic due to the forceful insertion of memory, he was just excited.
It turned out the pocket watch that he took was not just a simple watch, it was a physical manifestation of the Time rule, and now it had merged and become one with him.
This means he is Time and Time is him.
This has given him two simple but incredible traits.
One is that he has become Eternal and Immortal existence.
Eternal means he will never age, his age will be forever static at the age of 18 years old, and Immortal means he will never die due to disease, injury, or any other way because his time is forever static, so even if he is shredded to pieces or is so destroyed that neither single of his cell nor his soul remain, he will still appear intact in same place the next moment.
Second is that he can manipulate time freely, without any consequences.
He can reverse, pause, and fast-forward time to any moment, which means if he wants to travel to the 1900s from 2010 he can do it by just adjusting the date on the panel that is before his eyes, similarly, he can even travel 1000 year, 10000 years or unlimited years into past or future at will.
He can even stop time and live hundreds of thousands of years in a moment, and the buggiest thing about this feature is that it has no consequences, even if he causes a butterfly effect, there will be no paradox, identity distortion, or anything like that because he is unique on Almighty time stream.
Understanding these things, Ray was excited, this meant he was invincible, eternal meant he would never age, immortality meant he couldn't be killed and time manipulation meant he couldn't be trapped, isn't this invincible?
It took him some time to restrain his excitement, then he carefully checked the panel before his eyes.
Panel
Past: (input amount of time to reverse or specific date)
Future: (input amount of time to fast forward or specific date)
Time Stop: (xx)
Attributes:
Eternal & Immortal, Unique
This was the simple panel that he saw, he could understand it just by looking at it, for the first two functions, he could provide the number of years or the specific date he wanted to go whether in the past or the future.
As for the time stop function, according to the panel explanation, it would display the amount of time he has spent in Time Stop.
As for the attributes option, it will display his abilities.
Looking at the panel he wanted to try the effect, as for which function to try he decided it was the time-stop function, and for traveling to the past and future he decided it for later, anyway as an Eternal, he wasn't in a hurry.
Looking at the Time-Stop button, Ray pressed it with his mind, as soon as the button was pressed, it felt as if the whole world had gone silent.
The chirping of birds, the whistle of the wind, the honking of cars, and the chatter of people coming and going on the street were all silent, everything was frozen and quiet only Ray was able to move in this environment.
Suppressing the discomfort that had risen due to the sudden pin-drop silence, he walked in front of a window facing the street and looked out.
Everywhere he could see was frozen, a bird was frozen in the air, some people were frozen with one leg in the air and another one on the ground, and a leaf falling from the tree was frozen mid-air.
Wherever the eye could see was stationary except Ray, taking his eyes off the window, Ray called the panel in his mind and the translucent screen reappeared before his eyes, but what was different from before was that the time stop function had changed, it displayed like this.
Time Stop: (3:30)
And it kept increasing at the frequency that a second beat. Looking at it Ray understood, that this was the time he spent when time had paused for the whole world.
Looking at the numbers that kept jumping every second, Ray looked at it for a while and then closed the panel.
Picking up his coat from the hanger he went outside, he decided to pause the time as long as his mood could handle it, although he could pause the time for an unlimited amount of time, people are social animals he may be able to bear loneliness for 5 or 10 years, but any longer than it will make him depressed.
So, he will only pause the time for an internal that his will can bear, he didn't want to become a lunatic as soon as he got this awesome cheat, that will be a loss.