Chapter 1 – "A Beginning from Beneath the Earth"
📍 Year 1 of the Tower – After 2330 Earth Time
The earth breathed faintly, as if trying to groan, to whisper secrets no one could hear anymore. From within its fractured layers came a deep, obscure voice, murmuring:
"This is not the beginning of the story… but the ending that refused to die."
Light seeped through cracks in the ruins, sketching hazy lines across shattered walls. The land, once alive with abundance, was reduced to wreckage. Five world wars had erased everything: millions of souls extinguished, cities vanished, and a sky turned to ash.
Weapons had ceased to be mere tools of war. They had become beasts of fire and code, devouring all that still pulsed with life. Cities fell, oceans blackened, and at last the sky surrendered, leaving only a suffocating veil of dust across the horizon.
Through this devastation, humanity dug—deeper and deeper—beneath the end itself. In the earth's bowels, under layers of death, fragments of mankind remained; no more than a thousand. No nations. No armies. No sky. Only waiting. Waiting without knowing what for.
An old man stared at a flickering screen, its numbers flashing a grim warning: "Radiation Level: Fatal." Yet as the readings dropped for the first time in centuries, some dared to ascend. But what awaited them was not the light of salvation, but a slow, merciless death, burning them from the inside out.
Among the survivors, unexpected mutations emerged: extraordinary abilities, minds that could think along a thousand paths at once, analyzing the universe in a single glance. Children sketched symbols into the air that ignited into light, while young women bent elements around them at will.
And so a new story began. The remnants of humanity resolved to abandon Earth, uniting their powers to forge the impossible: a starship unlike any other. Rising from the underground, it pierced the void, leaving Earth to shrink behind them, searching for another world.
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📍 The New Planet – Alpha
The planet was dreamlike: breathing trees, luminous lakes, mountains like the edges of stars. At its heart rose a black tower, higher than sight itself, its body shrouded in shadow, never fully visible.
As the ship entered the atmosphere, a translucent screen spoke directly into their minds:
"Welcome to Planet Alpha. From this moment, your first journey begins… within the Tower."
Thus the Tower Calendar was born. A great nation rose around the tower, known as the Land of the Wise, governed by a single unyielding law:
"The Tower is the sole guardian against this world's dangers. Obedience to the Elders is the price of peace."
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📍 100 Tower Years Later – Northern Region B
In a cramped room, dim light filtered through a small window. Dust drifted in the air. The sound of pages turning echoed softly as a young man sat surrounded by piles of ancient books, his eyes glimmering with a dangerous mix of curiosity and resolve. His name was Iyas.
He was no admirer of heroic tales; his pursuit circled a single question:
"What is the Tower? Or… who is it?"
He closed the book slowly and stood. His footsteps across the metal floor echoed the tension in his thoughts. Through his window, the Tower loomed, silent amid the mist, immense and imposing.
Before him, an automatic screen flickered to life, displaying his intelligence rate: 69.096%—a number fluttering like a red specter. Something inside told him the reading was incomplete, and that something within the Tower was always watching him. Not the system… the Tower itself.
He pressed his palm lightly against the glass and whispered:
"I will uncover your truth…"
And in that very instant, the Tower—without question—was already watching him.
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📍 Inside the Tower – Unknown Location
A vast chamber, hundreds of screens glowing in the dark. Behind them, a colossal figure cloaked in black. Among the images, Iyas' face appeared, staring. A thick, shadowed voice resonated from the entity:
"The fruit is not yet ripe…"
Then the light dimmed. The screen faded. Silence swallowed the room.
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– End of Chapter One –