My superpower? That's not what I'm thinking about.

Some spend years studying the secrets of time, creating complex machines and magical artifacts.

And me?

I accidentally became the master of time... just by pressing the alarm clock.

Welcome back to my world, where even an ordinary morning call can lead to the end of reality.

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### (Royal Palace - Morning)

You already know how my morning begins.

BOOM!

- AKKI, GET UP! - my "favorite" adviser shouted as usual, throwing a cobblestone.

But he missed.

I blinked in surprise (although, let me remind you, I am still invisible):

- You missed?!

- YES! AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW!

It was suspicious. The adviser is a master of cobblestones. A miss is like a dragon forgetting how to breathe fire.

And then I heard the annoying ringing of the alarm clock.

— Damn, forgot to turn it off again.

I reach for the alarm and…

PRESS.

[Hidden ability: "Time Paradox" activated.]

[WARNING: consequences may be… um… COMPLEX.]

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### (Time chaos begins)

As soon as I pressed the alarm:

Time slowed down.

The advisor was hanging in midair with a boulder that was just "hanging" in front of his hand.

The tea in the cup froze in mid-air, not spilling.

I'm… moving normally.

— Uh… hey? Anyone?

Zero reaction.

[Congratulations! You accidentally became the master of time.]

[New title: "Master of Alarm Clocks".]

[Effect: +100% chance to break space-time with any interaction with alarm clocks.]

Well, of course. Why not?

First ability check)

I tried snapping my fingers.

Time started moving… backwards.

The advisor throws a boulder.

The boulder flies back into his hand.

The advisor looks like he doesn't understand what's going on (logical).

- Okay, that's funny.

I press the alarm again.

Time speeds up.

The advisor starts moving so fast that all I hear is:

- "AKKIVSTAVAYAKKIKEFASTAKK!"

Hell.

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### (Accidental apocalypse - on schedule)

I decided to experiment.

I turned the alarm forward a few hours.

At that moment, a…

METEOR hit the palace.

- WHAT THE?!

I pressed the alarm again in a panic.

Time rewinded. The meteor disappeared.

I fast-forwarded again - the meteor was falling again.

[Congratulations! You accidentally created a time paradox.]

[New quest: "Avoid Meteoric Deja Vu."]

Great. Now I'm also a disaster tamer.

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### (The Advisor in a Panic - Classic)

I finally returned time to normal.

The Advisor looked at me (well, where I was supposedly):

- "WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!"

- I... I think... I have control over time.

- "HOW?!"

- I pressed the alarm.

- "...I'M GOING ON VACATION."

- No, don't go!

- "I'M SERIOUS!"

Problem: Time loop)

I thought:

What if I rewind time to a day ago to fix everything?

I did.

But when I returned, I saw... my past self.

- Oh, no.

- "OH, NO!" I screamed in the past.

We both grabbed our heads at the same time.

- What are you doing here?!

- "Me? AND YOU?!"

[Congratulations! You accidentally created a time clone.]

[New title: "Master of Yourself".]

[Effect: +50% chance of getting confused in your own head.]

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### (Battle with... yourself?)

We started arguing:

- I'm the original!

- "No, I'm the original!"

- Prove it!

- "I know you hate broccoli!"

— EVERYONE KNOWS THIS!

So we… started fighting.

Invisible me versus another invisible me.

From the outside, it looked like the air was fighting itself.

The advisor walked in, saw this, and simply walked out without saying a word.

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### (How I fixed it all… by accident)

During the fight, I pressed the alarm again.

A time explosion occurred.

All the clones disappeared.

Time returned to normal.

[Congratulations! You "fixed" the time paradox. (Question: how exactly.)]

[New title: "Genius of Time (Accidental)".]

Well… as always.

Epilogue of the day)

I was sitting on the throne.

The advisor looked at me, sighing heavily:

— "Did you save the world again?"

— Yes… by pressing the alarm clock.

— "…I quit."

— No, I didn't quit!

— "…Damn."

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### (End of chapter)

I wanted a simple life of a miner.

Now I am a king, a revolutionary, a dragon's husband, a god, the savior of the universe, the president of a dimension, the conqueror of the Chaipukh army and… the master of time.

All because of the alarm clock.

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### (Chapter expansion)

After I dealt with the time paradox, I decided that I could finally rest. But, as usual, my plans were disrupted. The next day, I woke up to the loud ringing of the alarm clock. I reached out to turn it off, but…

[Hidden ability: "Time Vortex" activated.]

[WARNING: The consequences may be… um… VERY DIFFICULT.]

At that moment, I felt myself being sucked into some kind of strange vortex. I tried to resist, but it was useless.

— WHAT'S GOING ON?!

I found myself in a strange place. There were endless clocks around me, the hands of which were moving in different directions.

— Uh… hello?

A figure appeared out of nowhere, resembling an old man with a long beard.

— "You're finally here, Akki."

— Who are you?

— "I'm the Guardian of Time. You've disrupted the balance of time, and now you have to restore it."

— How did I do that?

— "You pressed the alarm clock."

— Oh, this again...

[Congratulations! You've received a new quest: "Restore the Balance of Time."]

[New title: "Chosen of Time."]

[Effect: +100% chance of getting into trouble due to time paradoxes.]

(Time Travel)

The Time Keeper explained that I needed to travel to different eras to fix the time rifts I had created.

- "You should start with the Ancient World."

- Ancient World? What did I do there?

- "You accidentally invented an alarm clock."

- ...What?

And so I found myself in the Ancient World. There were people in tunics around me, looking at me with surprise.

- Uh... hello?

One of them approached me:

- "Who are you?"

- I'm... um... an inventor.

- "What did you invent?"

- An alarm clock.

They began to applaud.

[Congratulations! You accidentally became a hero of the Ancient World.]

[New title: "Inventor of Alarm Clocks."]

[Effect: +50% chance of becoming a legend in any era.]

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### (Fixing Time Rifts)

I spent a few days in the Ancient World explaining to people how to use an alarm clock. But then I realized that it only made things worse.

— "You created a time rift, Akki." — the Guardian of Time said, appearing before me.

— How?

— "You invented the alarm clock too early. Now people will be too punctual, and it will change the course of history."

— Oh, shit…

[Congratulations! You accidentally changed the course of history.]

[New quest: "Correct Your Mistake."]

### (Back to the Present)

I finally returned to my time, but something was wrong. There were people around me who were too punctual to the schedule.

— "Akki, you messed up again." — the advisor said, appearing in front of me.

— I know…

— "What now?"

— I have to fix it.

I pressed the alarm again, and time began to slow down.

[Congratulations! You have started to fix the time paradox.]

[New title: "Time Corrector."]

[Effect: +75% chance to accidentally fix everything.]

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### (Chapter Epilogue)

I sat on the throne, finally restoring the balance of time. The advisor looked at me, sighing heavily:

— "You saved the world again?"

— Yes… by pressing the alarm.

— "…I quit."

— No, I didn't quit!

— "...Damn."

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### (End of chapter)

I wanted a simple life of a miner.

Now I am a king, a revolutionary, a dragon's husband, a god, a savior of the universe, a president of a dimension, a conqueror of the army of Chaipukhs, a master of time and... a corrector of time paradoxes.

All because of an alarm clock.