The Eternal Club 4: Speed Up Time
It was very late at night now.
But Lu Li’s eyes were glowing with excitement. The more he thought about the future and potential of what this club of his would look like, the more fired up he felt inside.
His ambitious heart grew at a rapid pace like wild grass on a field.
Such premium clubs did exist in this world. These clubs brought together the most famous, and elite members of society and sometimes even included royalty. It was the epitome of power and status, an assembly of the rich and famous… and membership alone was a status of their wealth and their position in society!
There were private sailing clubs like the one started by the Latsis family, one of the richest families in Greece. That club only provided 100 total memberships and was known as a club for the super-rich.
And there were also clubs like the Skull and Bones Order in Yale University. Admission into the order was shrouded in secrecy and they are said to have held scheduled religious rituals.
Famous alumni of the Order included three US presidents and two Supreme Court Justices, so it was known as one of the most mysterious yet powerful undergraduate societies in the US.1
There was also the Augusta National Golf Club and the Hong Kong Jockey Club. These were also clubs for the super-rich and the elites of the world.
Every luxury club possessed tremendous power and potential.
But once the club that Lu Li had conceptualized became reality, then all these premium clubs were going to be as good as trash!
The Eternal Club was going to rise above everything else.
“The only President of the Eternal Club shall be its founder, Lu Li. He shall be revered and given utmost authority…”
Lu Li smiled as he continued scribbling in his notebook.
“Lu Li shall be the sole decision maker in every aspect of the club. He has the right to lead and instruct all members according to his own will.”
Any instructions given in Lu Li’s name would be as good as an instruction from God himself, so objections or resistance to any instructions would not be permitted.
In short, Lu Li was this club’s king and God. He had the final say in everything.
“There shall be a board of directors that reports to the President. The board will have a total of 12 members, including one Chairman, one Vice-Chairman and 10 members…I will also need one Secretary…”
Lu Li wrote down the entire organizational chart of the club in one shot.
A red glow was already on the horizon outside. The heavy rains had stopped without Lu Li realizing it.
Lu Li, who had finally finished writing, looked through his notebook, then closed it.
Making this huge club a reality was going to become the bulk of Lu Li’s work for a while to come.
He kept the notebook away in his drawer.
For now, Lu Li was going to try out the remaining two modes of his power, which were speeding up and slowing down time.
Since he hadn’t started buying time from others, using these two modes was going to consume his own life.
But then again, time which concerned his life wasn’t something Lu Li would have to worry about ever again.
The first thing he did was to check his own stats.
He did a quick calculation and realized that even without this superpower, he would have lived until he was 95 years old.
This number did surprise him, because Lu Li worked as a programmer. Pulling all-nighters was a norm and there were many people who literally died from overwork in his field.
“Not bad! Even without this superpower, I would still outlast all the other programmers, huh,” muttered Lu Li.
After that, he turned his attention back to testing one of the modes out.
“Let’s try speeding up time first,” murmured Lu Li as he relaxed in his chair.
Once he had that thought in mind, a notification appeared in his mind: [Please choose a multiplier.]
“Two times,” replied Lu Li.
A magical feeling began to flow through his body, and then things began to change.
Lu Li looked up at the time and suddenly felt like all the sounds he was hearing and the scenery around him seemed to be moving at half their usual speed.
He looked towards his laptop screen and kept his eye on the time that was shown on the bottom right hand corner of the screen as he started counting mentally.
A few moments later, he discovered that even after he had counted to 120, the time on his screen had only moved by one minute.
He heard some noise downstairs, so he stood up to look out of the window.
Some middle-aged folks had gotten up early to walk their dogs.
The strange part was that both the dog and their owners were walking at only half their normal speed.
“If that’s the case…does that mean my time flows at a different rate compared to the rest of the world? That time for me flows at twice their rate?” thought Lu Li to himself.
Another thought struck him. He switched the multiplier to ten times instead, causing his time to flow ten times faster than the rest of the world.
He watched as the falling leaves beyond his window fell at an extremely slow speed.
The pedestrians seemed to be moving at a snail’s pace too.
Everything in the world around him had slowed down considerably.
Even the sounds he heard had become incredibly slow.
“My time is moving ten times faster, so everything around me seems to be moving ten times slower.”
“In other words…anything I do will seem ten times faster to the rest of the world!”
“And what if I do this for a longer period of time?” He broke into a bright smile.
He felt that there were many other good uses for this increase in speed, except that it would cost him double or more of his own time.
This ability was amazing. It had provided him with an excellent method of self-preservation.
Once he could move at ten times, 100 times or at even higher speeds than that, he would become nearly invincible!
Lu Li got out of this mode and took a look at his own stats again.
Only two minutes had passed in the outside world, but Lu Li had applied a two times multiplier to one of the minutes and a 10 times multiplier to the other minute. As a result, his total lifespan had been reduced by 12 minutes.
“That’s awesome!” remarked Lu Li with a grin as he clenched his fists tightly.
A moment later, he decided to try slowing down time.
This ability enabled him to stretch time out by at least two times or more.
This time, when Lu Li looked out of the window, he felt as though everything was moving much faster than usual.
“That’s probably how the world saw me just now.”
Lu Li started comparing the two modes.
He felt that slowing down time was nowhere as useful to him as speeding up time.
Perhaps these modes could be useful in other areas in the future.
Nobody knew what the future held, after all.