Circles

I observed a device resembling an early 21st century motorcycle helmet without a visor. Before I created it, many people didn't believe it could actually be done.

Many companies have tried to imitate it but have failed. It's not that the helmet itself is inimitable. The problem is in the program on which the helmet works.

The language in which the program was written is called the Universal Language of True Silicon Intelligent Life, ULOTSIL for short. This language was created by Daniel Void, aka me, and only I can understand it. This helmet is just the beginning.

I put it back on the desk and look at the computer screen. A smile will involuntarily appear on our face. Today is my 19th birthday, and it's also the day the first fully immersive virtual reality online game was launched.

Half a year has passed since the helmets were launched on the market. All the games that could be played on it so far have been very simple offline games, but that will soon change.

I click a button and Battlehold Online is officially open to the public. Along with it, a game engine was also published, allowing to create a game of complete immersion in virtual reality.

I turn off the computer and get up from the table. I will leave the office. I go to the dressing room and change into my official robe. I look at myself in the big mirror.

I see a thin young man with blond hair, green eyes behind glasses and a slightly androgynous face. He is wearing a white jacket that reaches mid-calf.

I leave the dressing room and go to the front door. They open automatically and I walk into the corridor. It only has an elevator and stairs. I go to the stairs and go down one floor.

I live on the top floor of Fate Circle's central building. The whole floor belongs to me, although two-thirds of the whole floor is my private laboratory.

The highest-ranking members of the company work on the floor I went to. At the same time, there is also a conference room, which I am heading to.

I come to a large double door that opens in front of me by itself and lets me in. A large circular room stretches out in front of me. Twelve chairs are regularly distributed in it.

Fate Circle has a very unique organizational structure. It is composed of circles. Each manager in the company has eleven subordinates under him. Together they form a circle. Every eleven leaders together form another circle. He too has his leader, who can be part of the next circle, as a subordinate, and it continues like this, up to my circle. We run the whole company. Each member of my circle leads one department.

Even my circle has a leader. His word is law in the company. His name is Amon, Amon Deus Dark Atlant. He is my co-owner. He became one a year ago, even before the helmet was launched. While he took over the management of the company, I lead the science and research department. At the same time, I am also his representative.

Two chairs in the conference room, they are already taken. I walk over to my seat and sit down relaxed. I cross my legs. I rest my elbow on the armrest and support my head with my palm.

Not even a minute after my arrival, the door opens again and a woman comes out, her name is Judit Warden. Aside from Amon, he is the last existing member of the ruling circle, as the company only has four departments at this point.

Outside of my department, they are Judith's news department, then the entertainment department led by Alexander Michaelovič, and finally the untouchability department, which is in charge of Viktor Perich.

We all look at Judit. I speak to her in a casual tone, "You're late."