## **Chapter 1: Beyond the Rift**
**"Kaal means Time... but only a human who dares to outrun time can truly become *Kaal*."**
He wasn't just a name.
He was a mystery—a cryptic mantra that interpreted itself.
He was a storm, whose echo could be heard shaking the very foundations of science.
He was a question, for which even the universe had no clear answer.
**Kaal.**
No one remembered his real name anymore.
People knew him only as *Kaal*—a name that symbolized power, speed, and destruction.
But this destruction wasn't outward.
It was the end of old rules, rigid theories, and limited thinking.
He was not even twenty, yet his eyes held depths far beyond the limits of ordinary minds.
He would spend hours alone, gazing at the sky, as if conversing with the stars.
His heart thirsted for something that no ocean or river could quench.
It was a thirst for the *unknown*, the *paranormal*, the *extraterrestrial*.
While boys his age swiped their fingers across phone screens, lost in virtual worlds,
Kaal played hide-and-seek with electricity—by opening circuit breakers.
When someone said, "That's impossible,"
Kaal would smile and reply,
**"If it were impossible… then my very existence would be too."**
He built machines—devices science hadn't yet even defined.
He broke codes—ones considered uncrackable even in military-grade security.
He created inventions meant for a century into the future—yet he played with them today.
But for him, technology was just a means.
His true dream was—**to witness the worlds beyond Earth.**
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### **A Dream of the Impossible**
"Are we alone in the universe?"
"Is there a place where time flows differently?"
"Is consciousness truly confined to the body?"
These were the questions that filled the pages of his diary.
He knew that modern science could no longer answer his questions.
Rockets, fuel, propulsion—all outdated ideas.
Light speed?
Too slow for him.
"If it takes me millions of years to reach another solar system, I'll die long before I arrive.
I don't need time... I need a **crack in space itself.**"
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### **The Seed of Distortion**
For years, he spent countless nights in a dark room,
its walls plastered with codes, equations, and star maps.
Computer screens glowed constantly.
Only the clatter of keyboards, the warmth of processors, and his sharp breaths echoed in the room.
Teleportation—wasn't a new concept.
But turning it into reality...
That was his obsession.
An obsession worth wagering his *life* on.
But every law of science failed him.
Every formula—every theory—every experiment…
**Failed.**
The last time he'd cried was when he was seven.
But one night, when his teleportation model failed again,
a single tear slipped from his eye.
That was when *madness* began.
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### **The Rift Plan**
"If I have to break the limits of the universe, I must tear a hole in its very structure,"
he wrote in his logbook.
He devised a new plan—an *insane plan.*
The idea:
* To harness the voltage of all of India into one point.
* Gather hundreds of transformers.
* Create a current strong enough to rip a **rift** through Earth's crust and atmosphere.
* Open a *portal* that would shatter the laws of space.
This wasn't the dream of a scientist—it sounded like the plan of a *mad god.*
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### **The Science of Crime**
Now, he had to fuse science with crime.
He started slipping out at night.
Wearing a black hoodie, his eyes gleamed—piercing the dark itself.
He broke into factories,
hacked security camera codes,
and stole massive transformers, bringing them to his hidden lab.
Each night, he added a new piece to his *grand mission.*
He now had 324 transformers.
He wired them all by himself—calculated every equation on his own.
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### **The Final Night**
He wrote the final line in his notes:
**"I'll have 0.5 seconds… to jump into the rift."**
The rift would stay open for no more than one second.
If he didn't jump in time...
It would close.
And his body—would scatter into fragments.
Or maybe, something even worse.
**"If I succeed... I'll be humanity's first traveler beyond the universe.
If I fail... just another madman's death."**
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### **The Experiment**
It was night—silent, deep, and terrifying.
The world slept...
but Kaal's eyes held no sleep.
He stood in his lab—between his dream, his madness, and his death.
He turned the system on.
He could hear the heartbeat of every transformer.
The voltage slowly rose.
The air crackled.
The earth began to tremble.
And then...
**"BOOM!!"**
With a thunderous explosion, the air tore apart.
A rift opened in the sky—
as if some invisible hand had ripped it.
A blue, trembling portal appeared.
Exactly as Kaal had seen in his dreams.
His heart raced, but his feet didn't stop.
He ran.
With complete faith, full power, and absolute madness...
**He jumped into the rift.**
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### **The Void**
The moment he crossed the rift...
**The void swallowed him.**
A depth of darkness without color or light.
Vacuum in every direction,
crushing pressure on every inch of his body,
as if he had entered the mouth of a black hole.
His bones began to crack.
His body felt like it was melting.
His consciousness wavered.
His heart nearly stopped.
And then...
**Darkness.**
Pure...
Eternal...
Infinite.
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### **Next Chapter...?**
Did Kaal step into another world?
Is he alive?
Or did he merge into an existence we cannot comprehend?
And if he *is* alive...
Was *someone* waiting for him on the other side?
Or perhaps...
Has Kaal now become something…
**that even time cannot bind?**