Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 132

Nikola Tesla. Scientist, myth, legend.

Keuranos system. The grandest invention of the scientist, the basis of the myth, the epitome of his legend.

From the time when primitive cavemen looked up into the rumbling sky, behind the flashing of lightning, behind the glow, they saw the appearance of their gods. Behind the rumble of thunder, they heard the inevitable march of the titans. And beyond the destruction it wrought they saw the manifestation of divine anger.

From the very dawn of reason and thought, man was not able to imagine the flashing of lightning, the rumble of thunder as anything other than the incomprehensible power of the divines. From the thunderer Zeus, the king of the gods Indra, the forefather Perun, all the way to the powerful Enlil, lightning has always been the greatest symbol of the power of the divine. As the arrows of warriors strike their enemies, so does the lightning bolts of the gods strike the wicked.

And so, the power over lightning was ascended to the pedestal of the gods, akin to a force incomprehensible to the human mind. It was declared a great natural element, beyond the control of any mortal.

So it was proclaimed, and worshiped as the wrath of God. And so does mankind admitted their weakness, giving the reins of lightning to the hands of the divine.

That is, until Nikola Tesla, the Professor of Thunder and Lightning, was born.

An exalted scientist, a genius beyond compare. He was hundreds of years ahead of his time, only he had the capacity to stand up against divine will.

For how long people took on faith, the incomprehensible power of the elements. His mission to expel such mysteries, so great was his burden. Just as great was his strength.

"For if the gods do not grant lightning into the hands of man, then I will bring them lightning myself!"

And so Nikola Tesla, the Modern Prometheus, the First Thunderer of Men, overthrew the gods.

Having touched lightning, having touched the invisible laws beyond the control of humanity, he had reached the divine. And so with the greatest symbol of divine power, with the manifestation of their anger - and, having accepted the battle with the very concept of divinity, he subdued the lightning.

"For I will take away your symbol of divinity, I will subjugate lightning itself. For I am a man, and my mind will triumph over the divine principles!"

And so Nikola Tesla conquered lightning, starting his greatest crusade of reason.

Subsuming the invisible laws, he turned lightning from a symbol of divine power into a reforged sword of human will, denying the very divinity of the greatest divine symbol. Raising his understanding like a banner, he led humanity forward, like Danko carrying his heart in front.

And to this modern Promethean the Keuranos system was his life-long dream.

An endless source of energy transmitted wirelessly, it was supposed to open a new page in human history, forever erasing humanity's need for energy, unchaining their potential.

But as Danko's heart was trampled upon, and just as Prometheus was chained to a rock for his actions, so was Nikola Tesla was thrown from his pedestal.

The Keuranos system, a dream that would open the way for humanity to infinity, never came true.

The towers rising above the clouds remained only sketches in the margins of notebooks filled with Tesla's writing. The supposed magnum opus turned into nothing more than an unrealizable dream of a genius madman.