The Tower That Shouldn’t Exist

“The problem with rewriting time is that it always writes back.”

Recap of the First Novel:

Viraj, an electrical engineer, accidentally got involved in a secret time-travel experiment run by the eccentric scientist Lucius. What started as a simple fixing of paradoxes spiraled into a full-blown collapse of time itself.

In their desperate attempt to reset reality, they made a bold choice: rewrite time while keeping their memories intact. It worked. Or at least, they thought it did.

But then they saw the Clock Tower.

A structure that had never existed before. A monument to time itself standing right in the middle of their city. A silent reminder that something had gone horribly wrong.

Now, as they try to resume their normal lives, the real consequences of their actions are about to unfold.

Present Day – The New Reality

Viraj groaned, rubbing his temples as he stared at the impossible sight in front of him.

The Clock Tower loomed in the distance, ancient yet futuristic, its golden gears turning in complete silence. It wasn’t there yesterday. And yet… people weren’t reacting to it.

In fact, they acted like it had always been there.

Lucius stood beside him, sipping his coffee like nothing was wrong. That was a lie. Lucius always looked smug, but this time, it was forced.

Viraj exhaled. “Tell me again. What. The hell. Are we looking at?”

Lucius took another slow sip. “A structural anomaly caused by excessive temporal energy.”

Viraj’s eye twitched. “Lucius.”

Lucius sighed, finally turning to him. “Fine. It’s a monument that shouldn’t exist, but somehow does, in a timeline we supposedly fixed. Meaning…”

“Meaning we didn’t actually fix anything.” Viraj finished, his stomach sinking.

Lucius nodded, staring at the clock’s massive glowing hands.

10:10.

It had been frozen at that exact time since they noticed it.

That’s when Viraj’s phone buzzed. He glanced at the screen.

Unknown Number: “You created the Tower. Now you have to answer for it.”

His heart stopped.

Before he could react, the clock’s hands moved.

Tick.

10:11.

And the world shuddered.

A Glitch in Reality

The streetlights flickered, the air vibrated, and suddenly—Viraj wasn’t standing in the city anymore.

He was in the middle of a battlefield.

Medieval knights, fully armored, clashed with men in tactical military gear. A World War II tank rolled through the streets of what looked like Victorian London. Above them, a steampunk airship hovered in the sky, its cannons aimed at a futuristic drone.

Viraj barely dodged as a knight swung a flaming sword at him.

“LUCIIIIIIUS!!” he screamed, ducking behind a broken telephone booth.

Lucius appeared a second later, dodging a laser blast. “Okay, new theory—time isn’t just broken. It’s BLEEDING.”

Viraj grabbed his collar. “EXPLAIN.”

Lucius grinned, slightly manic. “Different time periods are colliding. The rewrite didn’t just reset history—it smashed it together.”

Viraj’s stomach dropped. “So… this is our fault?”

Lucius grinned wider. “Oh, absolutely.”

Another explosion rocked the street as a Roman chariot burst through a wall, its driver screaming in Latin.

Viraj sighed. “I really hate time travel.”

Then, amidst the chaos, he saw something worse.

A figure standing in the middle of it all.

Dressed in a long, black coat, face obscured, watching them as if they were expected.

And then—

Another text.

Unknown Number: “The Timeborne is coming.”

Viraj’s blood ran cold.

Whatever was happening… this was only the beginning.

To Be Continued…

"The past, present, and future are merging. And somewhere in the chaos… something new is being born."

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