Chapter 1 - What is in the black hole?

Year 4082, Earth's Calendar.

In space, at the edge of the black hole attraction's range at the center of the universe, floats a small black spaceship. The motors and lights were turned off, if not for the starlight, it would have been impossible to see it in this complete darkness.

The spaceship corridors were empty and silent, making the atmosphere gloomy. Not a single sign of activity was present.

In the control room, where the artificial intelligence core which controls the spaceship was situated, an aged man was looking through the only window of the spaceship straight in the dark hole, which was said to be the first thing created in the universe.

Tiredness, fear, nervousness, and excitation could be seen in his eyes. The man sighed and sat in a black capsule, a mini-form of the latest bunker created of meteorites' cores."It's my only chance at life and if I do nothing I will soon die of old age anyway. The black hole, the only place unexplored in this universe, where gravity mess all the universal laws. Time, space ... Nothing is spared by the supremeness of the black hole. If I enter it, will I be crushed, erased? Or will I transcend death and find a new life? Hahaha" Laughing out loud, Byron's fear transformed into excitation and determination. If he survives in the black hole, millions of possibilities will exist.

"My body won't last long, even with all the preparations I made. It is said that all beings possess a soul, no matter if it is a human, an animal or a plant. Even the scientists recently admit it, if not they would have succeeded to recreate life long ago. It means that there is a chance that God truly exists"

"And in the religious text, the soul is said to be the essence of life, without it, nothing would exist. All the souls are just a part of the universe creator, also called God, who used a part of himself to insufflate life in us, thereby creating the soul."

" I truly hope that the soul exists and that it can survive in the black hole, where time and space are messed up. It's my only chance to escape being reincarnated in this universe without my memories like said in religious text" Thinking of earth, Byron couldn't help but frown at the unpleasant memories.

He was born into a rich family. But he sometimes thinks it would have been better to live with a poor family, even if it has shaped him into what he is today.

The only good memory of his family was his mother. Thinking of her he couldn't help but smile goofily, which soon turned into a frown. She died when he was 18 years old, collapsing the balance in the family.

In the 4000th years after JC, humanity has successfully conquered the universe and its secrets, with only the creation of life and the black hole as unsolvable mysteries. Earth was destroyed long ago, and humans migrate to a lot of other planets. His father's spaceship construction company encompasses a huge part of the universe, with thousands of billions of clients, making him one of the universal tycoons.

His father's brothers and sisters harassed his mother days and nights, to give them their brother legacy, saying that she should focus on raising us and letting them lead the company. Thankfully she wasn't a fool and knew that the moment she gives them an inch they will snatch all things. So she raised her children in the building of her husband's office, occupying the place of CEO till one of us brother and sister inherit our father's legacy.

She was satisfied when they seemingly give up after a few times. Unfortunately, she greatly underestimated humans' greed. Seeing that a frontal approach didn't work, they instead choose to corrupt Byron, his big brother, and his big sister, making the latter two more and more distant from his mother and him, and when they were 'mature for the reaping', poisoned his mother.

It's only at her death doors that she finally saw through all the lies and tricks, making her give all the inheritance to the only child that still loves her despite all the brainwashing in her back, that she didn't saw because of the tiredness accompanying the job of the CEO of such a company.

Byron was bright since childhood, he knew that his uncles and aunts were up to nothing good, and he tried to warn his brother and sister multiple times but in vain. They didn't listen to him thinking that he just wanted to have their father money for himself. And he didn't dare to say it to his mother, knowing that she was under huge pressure already, so he played the ignorant, and gave his mother all the true love she needed.

So the day that she died, and learn that she was poisoned, he knew that it was his brother and sister doing, urged by their uncles and aunts, and regretted not talking about it with his mother. Even if she would have been crushed, at least she would have lived, and he could have left with her live a peaceful life far from this greedy family.

But he couldn't know that they would resort to killing, even if he was intelligent, he didn't know the true depths of the human darkness before this day.

After his mother's funeral, he became the company CEO. He didn't want it, but he took the job. They killed his mother for it, so there was no way that he would let it to them.

He took revenge on all of them, including his brother and sister, to whom he lost his 'humanity', by torturing and killing them. Secretly, of course, it was as a stage that he didn't have yet enough power to do it in front of the whole world.