From afar, a blue dot could be seen. 

If one went a bit close, one could see that the dot finally showed itself as a big blue planet. The planet seemed beautiful with lights flickering if looked closely. 

However, despite its elegant appearance from the outside, things were quite different once seen from the inside.

This was because the only planet with any inhabitants in the whole galaxy was emptied in a single minute. Billions of the population just vanished out of thin air. 

All the structures… the big buildings, the monumental constructions all left alone, not a single species left to marvel or use them.

Everything was fine just a second ago.

Birds chirping happily.

Gusty winds blowing rapidly.

Humans having the time of their lives, struggling, and being happy at the same time. 

But it all ended in a second when a white light flickered rending everyone blind, no matter how hard they tried, nobody's eyes opened. 

This was what William experienced in the last seconds of his life on his dear planet. Unknowing to the fact that his life was going to twist and churn into hell the same day he was going to finally graduate from college.

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In a small clearing, a man could be seen lying on the fine surfaced ground, it was still dirt but finely leveled into the perfect-looking land.

The young man was none other than William Davis, a 22-year-old with a height of 5'8. He was one of the many average guys. Eyes brown in color, hair the shade of black. 

The usual four abs with some belly fat and a bit of side tires. Chest the average size, with a bit of fat but not without some good-looking muscles.

It had been a while since the young man fell on the ground, when his visibility came after the flashing white light, with only one glance at his front, his eyes rolled back and he fell head first to the ground.

Soon, something out of the ordinary happened, a small object came flying from the ground. It looked like a small comet that was flung toward the young man purposely so as to disturb his ever perfect dream.

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The comet fell to the ground yet no sound came, no boulder formed, no dirt splashed everywhere. It was unlikely as the speed was just too fast to have such a weirdly peaceful reaction.

The object was none other than a metallic ball with a shining metallic radiance. It was like a pool ball but without the usual colors.

CLAN CLANK CLAN

A series of small spider leg like spikes came out of the ball and smashed themselves on the ground. Within a few seconds, the ball of metallic radiance was on its many spiky feet.

Its small size of a few inches crawled its way toward the poor sleeping William whose saliva coming out of his mouth.

When the crawler was just an inch from William's hand. It jumped after a second and without any wait, dug the many spikes under the left wrist of the young man. 

The young man felt a sting but did not mind it. It was not enough of a stimulation to wake his lazy butt from the deep sleep.

The metallic ball could not have him sleep so peacefully, not when its purpose was to make the young man come out of his sleep.

Unfortunately for William, a stream of electric current came out of the metallic ball latched on his wrist finally giving the unnecessarily high stimulus for him to finally wake up.

"UNGHHHH!!!!"

William couldn't even scream properly as his mouth had frozen from the electric shock while he was biting his tongue hard.

It made some blood come out of his mouth yet he couldn't feel it with how his whole body was brimming with electric currents trying to make a chaos of his insides.

What felt like minutes but was actually 8 seconds finally passed when the output of the electric current finally stopped.

William was still twitching, clearly going through the aftereffects of his electrocution.

'W-What happened?' The only thing he could think as his body felt jolts of twitching even when the current was out of his body.

After minutes, he finally calmed down and sat with criss-crossed legs on his own. 

'No one came to help? Oh right, like hell I would have someone look out for me…' 

'Where am I?'

William looked in front of him, getting the feeling that he had done so before too but he stopped with all his chaotic thinking.

"What the hell?" 

All William could see was a dark fog just a few meters from him. It was pitch black in color and William could make nothing out of it. 

After a minute, he had to actually stop looking due to his overly imaginative brain playing its wonders.

And William looked to his right which was the same, in a few meters, on average, just eight to nine meters, the fog could be seen again.

It was the turn for the left yet William had something else in mind, he with a deep breath looked at his back. 

It was the last nail to the coffin when he actually started panicking properly. He had a chill down his spine when he looked at the single construction in the whole place.

It was a… 'Tower?' William could only think while looking at the vertical construct with a height of 10 meters. 

It was a very simple tower, with a gate in the front as an entrance and at the top height of the tower, there was an archer tower-like construction where a ladder seemed to go from the inside. 

William knew about it because he could see the ladder going up from inside the tower.

'It seems better than that creepy fog…' William looked at the fog which gave him the creeps and then got up to move away from it.

When he kept his hand to support his weight to get up, an unbearing pain invaded his arm that he didn't seem to ignore at all.