I entered the building, it was a magnificent sight, a tower that lived up to it hype..A tall building similar to the sky scarppers back in my world but this one was taller much much taller to officially be tagged a wonder, if it was built in my world.
FUN FACT: THE TIME TOWER IS FIVE TIMES THE HEIGHT OF THE BURJ KHALIFA, IT'S HEIGHT IS APPROXIMATELY
4,140 METERS OR SIMPLY 13,583 FEET TALL.
The system said, confirming my suspicions about the size of the structure, i totally couldn't see the pinnacle even of i stood hundred meters away from the building.
As i walked in, i was greeted by three green automated robots, one of them was holding a Pad with the illustration of a palm on its screen,
'Please place your Palm on the screen to Access entry' they said in unison, thier automated cracking voices making me twitch.
'Hey, system! Will this work, if i place my hands here? And what happens if it doesn't?'
I asked inwardly, since it hears my thoughts anyways.
'I DON'T KNOW SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE TO FIND OUT' she said and i scoffed, bewildered by her incompetence. What was the use of having her around..if she doesn't know everything?
I decided to place my palm on the screen after all, curious of what the outcome might be and because i didn't want to find out what would have happened if i had decided to ignore them and enter the building anyway.
'BE CAREFUL THESE ARE MAC.302 WAR BOTS, TRY ANYTHING FUNNY AM YOU ARE DEAD IN AN INSTANT '
Yeah thanks for nothing stupid system, as i placed my palms, a white, thin horizontal line appeared, moved around the screen for a few seconds and dissapeard, the screen vibrated and turned red.
'it says here that you are not a citizen from the city, state your business here please ' the robots said in unison.
'I SUGGEST YOU TELL THEM THE TRUTH DAMIAN' and so i did, taking the system's advice beacuse i didn't have one of my own. After my narration, the robots exchanged glances with each other and looked back at me.
'Come with us' they said and moved out, i saw that there were three other bots standing by not so far from the entrance, once we were out of sight they jerked up ito action and marched to the front line.
We reached an elevator and walked into it
'200th floor please ' one of them called and the elevator shut close, before i could say when the elevator opened up again, we were in the 200th floor, it was a seconds journey!. I wondered if it was teleportation but i later discovered that these were high speed elevators going at the speed of sound.
The 200th floor was a quite interesting place, it was a long aile of doors, doors enough to cause paranoia . It was entirely blue; walls, carpets, drapes, ceiling, doors every inch was completely covered with blue, i remember that i got overstimulated by just looking at it.
We walked to one of the doors at the far right of the aile and the robots knocked on it, the door automatically opened, revealing a magnificent sight like i had never seen before. It was literally impossible for this kind of space to exist in a section where the doors are so close that a thin person could barely fit in between it's space. But there it was an otherworldly vast space, it was completely overshadowed with clouds that looked like it was about to harbor rain, i could hear the ticks of a clock i couldn't see too.
We walked past the mist and came across a desk sitting, isolated in the vast space.
'YOU ARE NOW IN WHAT IS CALLED A TIME ZONE OR ALSO KNOWN AS A SECONDS AREA, THESE ARE THE SPACES BETWEEN SECONDS. THE PEOPLE OF THIS WORLD SOMEHOW FOUND A WAY TO CONVERT THESE SPACES INTO A LITERAL VAST SPACE. THESE SECONDS ARE ALSO TAKEN FROM MOMENTS IN HISTORY AND AFTER A QUICK ANALYSATION OF DATA I HAVE CONCLUDED THAT THIS SPACE WAS TAKEN FROM A....' but before she could finish, i cut her off immediately, the system was overly explaining and i honestly didn't care for that information although how interesting it might be.
'You are now in the office of the Administrator, we made a report on your case and he will be with you shortly ' one of the robots said and they all zoomed off ,back through the way we came.
I stared the desk, wondering where the Administrator was, then i heard a whooshing sound coming from above me before i could look up a great shadow passed me and landed with a boom in a flash. A great gust of wind blew my way, shifting me a few feets backwards.
'Whew!' i heard a great dep voice coming from the direction the mysterious shadow had landed, i regained my stance and looked up to find the most tallest person i had ever Seen, it was a humanoid eagle, beaks and feathers with the exception of talons. The eagle spread his feathers showing off his spread and to be honest, it was humongous. A humanoid eagle, who would have ever thought?.
'I hear you are a transverser' said the beast as he still maintained the pose, this made him look goofy and i laughed involuntarily, he sterned his face and i thought i had entered big trouble, but he soon came out of the pose and joined me in laughing, we both laughed harder for a few minutes and stopped with a sigh.
'What is a transverser, System?'
"ANSWER: TRANSVERSERS ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE MOVED ACROSS PLANES OF EXISTENCE"
'And...is that all you have?'
'YES, THAT IS ALL I AM ABLE TO PROVIDE'
The system was really an incompetent one and if i didn't recieve a detailed explanation from the eagle i would have been completely clueless on my situation.
'Do you have an ability? To join the Society, you have to posesss time powers if you want to join our Army.' he said after i had explained my situation to him.
'Do i?' i was asking the system
'YES, CURRENTLY YOU POSESSS AN ABILITY CALLED TIME GAZE, IT HELPS YOU SEE A MOMENT IN TIME. BUT ONLY IF YOU HAVE A SUBSTANCE OF EXISTENCE FROM THE TIMELINE IT'S SELF. OTHER ABILITIES WILL BE UNLOCKED SUBSEQUENTLY'
I grunted, that was really overwhelming, i began to question my life and why i was even doing this in the first place.
'Yes it's called Time gaze, it only works if i have a substance from the time it's self' I answered, attempting to sound intellectual, but i failed anyways.
Chad huffed.
'That's quite convinient we needed another Time gazer in our ranks, the other ones were getting.... Disposed' He said looking at me sternly, i didn't acknowledge what he said at the last part anyways so i gazed back at him..he mistook this as an act of courage on my part and patted my backs with one of his huge wings, this caused me to loose my balance.. tripping on my own shoes.
We ran a test on my abilities and when he acknowledged my powers admitted me into the program. I was now a member of the paradox society.
"ATTENTION: FIRST TASK COMPLETE.. GRANTING TEN BUFFS TO YOUR ABILITY; TIME GAZE. NEW ABILITY UNLOCKED"