At the corner where Zgoda and Chmielna streets meet, in front of a small park of linden trees, a boy named Nicolas Love was born on August 13, 2061.He was no ordinary child.Son of Nikodem Love, the imposing red-haired Englishman from Manchester, and Zuzanna Nowak, the elegant blonde lawyer from Warsaw, Nicolas grew up on the second floor of an old building that his family owned entirely. There, among furniture upholstered in soft green velvet, large windows overlooking the park, and a balcony facing Chmielna Street, he spent his entire childhood and youth.From a very young age, he displayed a disconcerting intelligence and an almost unnatural calm. Tall like his father, with a rebellious mane of red and yellow wires, pale skin, and serene blue eyes, Nicolas possessed the strange ability to speak with anyone -whether a Nobel Prize winner or a street sweeper- as if he had known them all his life. People loved him without quite knowing why.Until the age of eleven, he was tormented by recurring nightmares in which an old man in an antique suit and round spectacles appeared seated in the entrance hall, sad and lost in time. Then the nightmares vanished as abruptly as they had begun.While the world was still trying to digest the remains of an alien spacecraft that had exploded in 2059, Nicolas was already studying quantum engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology. He soon became one of the brightest minds of his generation: humble, quiet, and capable of solving problems that no one else could even formulate.But while his parents watched him with pride and growing unease, far darker forces had already set their sights on him.A small circle of powerful figures, led by Elias Meserira, invited him to join a secret project they called "The Image." What no one knew was that Nicolas had understood from the very first moment that this project was inevitable.And he had decided to become part of it.Not because he wanted power. Not because he sought glory.But because, deep in his soul, he felt that an ancient and unknown god had been preparing him for that precise moment in history.This is the story of Nicolas Love: the man who helped build the Beast that would control humanity... and who, perhaps -just perhaps- was the only one capable of destroying it from within
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