1 Prologue (1/2)

[World Domination System booting up.

Current World: Mainland

Host Status: Near-death

Current Goal: Survive

Overall Goal: Dominate and Conquer the world!]

'W…what?'

As a flat, emotionless voice echoed in his ears, Daneel awoke from what felt like a year-long slumber.

His thoughts were muddled, his mind slow. As he struggled to escape the clutches of the darkness that kept calling to him alluringly, he realized that something…felt wrong.

His senses returned to him one-by-one.

First, he tasted something metallic on his tongue.

Then, a clamor of many voices speaking at once reached his ears. It made him wince, but when the sensation of touch arrived hand-in-hand with a flood of pain, that wince turned into a grimace.

His eyes snapped open, but closed again when the sunlight blinded him momentarily. He could hear people walking away, now, and as he fought with the impulse to scream due to the agony that filled his body, a terrifying realization dawned upon him.