Tower Clock PoV

*Tick Tock Tick Tock* Year 8320, December 25th at 20:80 I activate the body for the first time, splitting my mind in two. One to act as the God, Stein, and the other to control the new model of the machines. My Automata is finally going to see the light of the world.

My second mind I place inside the crystalline motherboard but as soon I placed it into the body it started to devour it and I couldn’t stop it!

I wanted to cry… the body I had worked so hard to create is now destroyed! The core failed and it had eaten the entire body without missing a single piece. It is then that a window like I had seen Trimp working on appeared before me.

Name(Stein)AgeNames inside the parentheses can’t be changed as it is its true name

I looked at the thing before me and then at the crystalline core that was on the table. ‘How the hell did it eat all that material and yet it hasn’t grown…? this is really a mystery…’ I thought and without wasting time I write the age and name I wanted it to have.

NameSiegfried(Stein)Age7 years oldNames inside the parentheses can’t be changed as it is its true name

As soon I pressed enter the core started to shine and the parts it had devoured started to reappear, but now they are smaller and the core itself became smaller as to fit on the head where the brain should be.

I watched the whole process where the core started to create the head with all the details it should have at the age I had entered, then it started to build the body. Piece by piece it was constructing the Automata it had eaten. The chest area was like a kid's, without muscle and a little rounder than the body I had made before. The limbs were made after that, small bones, muscle-like structures, metal plating, and once everything was completely done the skin appeared covering the body.

The nerves were all in the correct places, the limbs were smaller as with all the body, but it was perfect for the age it was supposed to be. It was something I had never thought about. The symmetrical design I made for the body was there, but the weapons I had placed had all disappeared… I could sense any weapons inside the little body, every time I would just find the boy, the perfect one… I couldn’t even see the wings I created to help its flight ability!

It is then that I notice the connection with the brain. Everything I had made was there. Every little weapon I wanted had been absorbed and was now resting in a super-condensed state. I smile as I activate my body. I can leave the towers for the first time in more than 6000 years. *Tick Tock Tick Tock*

*Tick Tock Tick Tock* Year 8320, December 29th, Siegfried is my perfect copy, but he can’t walk well. It is tricky and the progress he is making is little. I don’t want to look like a fool that can’t even walk, their god needs to be perfect!

“Stein, open that door.” Sieg asks me, he learned to crawl but walking… is a little harder than I had thought it would be from watching mortals for so long. It is good that the body has an auto-repair array. “I want to get all the weapons we couldn’t place inside the body before.”

“I know that. I want to do the same.” Our thinking is linked, and now we are trying to see how much he can absorb before he reaches his limits. “But to think that I could place almost all the weapons and magic crystals inside your body, I would have made it much sooner.”

I open the door and he walks to my beautiful storage area. Every weapon the mortals have been giving me was transported to this place, after I got Trimp to make teleportation circles under the places I stored all the pieces of machinery the priests gave me over the centuries.

“This is our paradise. The place where all the things the mortals gave us are kept.” I laugh as I learn that Sieg can make the expressions like a normal person.

“This is exactly what I wanted. This is how they express their feelings…” I hear from Sieg. “It tickles a little to move the ‘muscles’ of my face to smile or do the other expressions I have seen the mortals doing, but it is interesting…” I nod to him as he tries to walk.

“You should crawl. It would be faster and I can just lower the items to you.” I tell and he shakes his head.

“No, I need to learn how to walk… this… is hard. I have to always watch where I place my feet and monitor the change of my gravitational centre as I take a foot off of the floor.” Sieg walks with a hand on a nearby shelf.

“Trimp, help him get what he wants, I’ll continue the observation of the world.” I tell Trimp and change my focus to the world. *Tick Tock Tick Tock*

*Tick Tock Tick Tock* Year 8321, January 2nd, Sieg has absorbed all the weapons and crystals to use magic. I am sure that his mana pool is bigger than an average magician with all those crystals and the scariest thing is that the crystals have purer mana than the mortals have inside their bodies, so the things he can do use less mana than the others. It is a great cheat to give that all to him, but it is a thing needed to protect Eris.

I am already protecting her from any harm, the world is too cruel to let her walk alone. Slavers continue to exist… it is a thing that the society grew accustomed to have and I couldn’t take them away, but now they have better ways of working because all the kings have made a law that if any slave has a bad lifestyle or workplace the owners would get punished: they would age far faster than normal but slow enough that they could see it happening. I would give them an extra 20+ years, depending on how bad they treated their slaves. It was one of the things no mortal wanted. I am the great observer, nothing escapes my eyes and I have eyes almost everywhere.

Increased aging wasn't the only punishment, there was also a monetary one. Trimp would reap some of the fortune the owner had and would give it to their slaves as a way to change their life. *Tick Tock Tick Tock*

*Tick Tock Tick Tock* Year 8321, February 24th, Siegfried now can walk, run, climb, and do things the kids all over the planets do. And he can sprout the mechanical wings on his back as a way to help his flying ability.

God Stein, it looks like second God Stein Siegfried is finally ready. He can now walk outside and look over the girl in person.

“Good to hear that.” I nod to Trimp's report. “It was difficult to master everything you had to do, but now you just need to be yourself, forget about being the God of Time. You were the god, now you are Siegfried, the first and only Automata in the world.” I tell Sieg that is now playing with water magic inside the almost empty storage room.

“I know that already, we are the same so I know what you desire.” Sieg disperses his magic. “Now is the time to be able to protect her personally. No need to interfere with time… well, just if I really need it.” Sieg smiles jokingly and I figure out what he means by that.

He is going to stop the time of any enemy and when Eris gets away from danger he would kill the guy and then would make time flow again. ‘I can see that we really are the same.’ I smile and look at the time 15:30, it is not time to let him go just yet.

“Now, just wait for six hours. It will be the perfect time to you sneak out of this place.” I tell Sieg. “We need to think of a place you can stay at… we can’t leave a homeless kid alone in the city…” It is the first time I thought about that. Not once I thought that I would need to think about a place to stay. The city will not tolerate a kid sleeping in the Tower Clock's plaza…

Why not let him go to one of the orphanages in this city? They will not suspect that God Stein Siegfried is a machine, since he can eat things as well. We will just need to see how well you can act like a kid.

“I can do it, I have been observing them since I was placed here and almost all they do is play until they are 7 years old. From that day forward they start going to school, to learn about the worlds.” Sieg answers and I nod.

“But is just not that, they have already learned the numbers and letters by the time they go to school. That place is just to help them.” I say and he nods. I had observed the mortals for a long time and their customs are all in my memory. “Let’s make sure that you have a good story to say to the people who run the orphanage.” I ‘sit’ with them to try to think of a good story for Sieg. *Tick Tock Tick Tock*

*Tick Tock Tick Tock* Year 8321, March 12th, I don’t need to fear for the life of my loved one any more. I am always close, watching her in the shadows, just looking at her beauty.

The orphanage accepted him quickly and his story is known by everyone there.

Sieg is a kid that a guard found, we made sure that would happen. He had lost his family to a bandit attack and he survived because his mother helped stop the bandits while he ran away.

The guard that stopped him worked inside the city since the only gates the city has were around the castle. *Tick Tock Tick Tock*

*Tick Tock Tick Tock* Year 8321, July 6th, it is midday and Eris just entered her house to eat. Siegfried was sitting on a bench near her house looking at the family lunching together.

‘You want to talk to her, don’t you?’ I ask him through our link.

‘Yeah, I want to go and befriend her so that I can stay really close to her…’ He answered.

‘Just go, I’ll stop looking at you every five minutes if I know that you are with her almost all of the time.’ I tell him with a smile on my face.

I had Trimp tamper with the documents at the school so that he is going to stay in the same class as her, but she never really talked with him, just a few lines here and there.

‘I’ll wait until she gets out and starts to play with the other kids so that I can ask them if I can play with them as well.’ He says with a smile on his face.

‘I’ll be waiting to see it.’ I tell him to go with his plan. They will probably get to be friends in no time, and using that he can make her fall for him. *Tick Tock Tick Tock*

Eris PoV

After lunch I ran to play with my friends as usual. Today we are going to try hide and seek without the use of our Data Receivers to look for the others. It is fun that we can all play like this inside the city since God Stein is always protecting us, it is knowledge everyone has but for me… I feel like he is a close friend. I started to notice that time would sometimes freeze for everyone but me, but I never understood why our god would do that.

“Can I play with you?” A voice came from behind me. I look at the owner and I found the boy that is in the same class as me. Sie...Sie something, I don’t really remember his name, he is difficult to talk to and he looks strange with those gear-like cyan eyes. I almost never talked to him, but he is very intelligent and would always help if someone has problems. My friends and I make a circle as we talk with each other about him.

“Should we let him play with us?” “His eyes are strange.” “Does anyone know him?” “Where does he live?” Everyone asked different things but in the end we voted to let him play.

“You can play with us, we are playing hide and seek.” The oldest boy, Arthur, said and we all nodded. Seeing it he runs to us and stops a few meters away. “What is your name?”

“Siegfried, call me Sieg for short.” Sieg says with a smile.

“I am Arthur, and these are Mira, Wendy, Ryan, Victor, Aurora, Eris and Brandon.” He says gesturing to the each person. “You are ‘it’ and we are using that tree as the safe place. Did you understand?”

“Yes, so I just need to start around that tree. Any other rules?” He asks, tilting his head.

“Oh, you can’t use your DR to look for us.” Ryan said and we all nodded.

“Okay!” He shouts as he runs to the tree. “I’m starting! 1, 2, 3,...” Sieg said right after getting on the tree.

As we hear him counting we run in all directions. ‘I have the perfect hideout, and since he never came here before he will not find me!’ I thought as I go to my secret spot.

Siegfried’s Automata body.

Siegfried’s Kid Body

Writer's Spot: Good to see you again, Time Travelers.

THIS IS IT! The last prologue! *throws virtual confetti*

It was hard to place everything I had planned in this prologues... I had too many holes to fill and now I can say that the story will now start to walk.

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ARE YOU GUYS LIKING IT?! Well, now the story will develop slowly and the chapters will take a little longer to be done since I need to plan what I want to write.