6 The Citys inner workings beging to take form (1/2)

3 Years Later

It has been three years since I got Monaca as a new addition to my scientist team. I had started teaching Monaca more of what I knew and she absorbed it all like a sponge in water. She has become a very dedicated helper even if she had received some dirty looks from the others in the palace.

Speaking of which I am no longer living in the Royal palace's grounds. Since mother died last year, her health was just too weak and she was already getting older and she could not resist even with my medicine I made for her, I moved out of the palace's grounds. Aside from the many Memories there it was only because of Mothers bad health that people overlooked the fact that she lived in the same place as the Emperor. Now with her gone I had the choice of moving to the old Villa in which Charles, Mother and Vincent grew up in or to build a new high-class place. I had chosen to build a new one and was now living in the Phantomhive Manor located on the border of my City.

I spent most of my time in my own personal Company-tower which I had shamelessly ripped of from Tonys Stark-tower only with a large C on it, my city was truly advancing nicely according to my plans and soon enough I would have completed my main objective for it. I now am firmly considered the king of the newest technology and I constantly have to deal with attempts of sabotage, espionage, and other nuisances which would be much worse if not for another thing that is becoming common knowledge amongst those who try to do that.

None who enter my city to take away my tech without my permission manage to leave, all simply vanishing and no one from the outside knows of them. It is a good thing, however, since if they knew of the destiny of those thieves they would long since have given up on entering my city and me and a few of my other associates need fresh lab rats whenever possible.

It is especially so with Mayuri Kurotsuchi, the man was a true monster in terms of morals though I was never someone who cared about stuff like that as all that mattered was that he was good enough to assist me on discovering new things. As I enter my lab I turn to the side and many vigilance monitors connected to other places are going on and in them I see all my scientists working diligently, I only can smile as I think that things are progressing well.

The ones responsible for robotics are Lloyd, Cécile, Sasori (yep, it is a carbon copy of the Akatsuki member and a number from Area 6 specifically Peru, it was a shock for most when I chose him over other renowned scientists in the mainland but he is better so that is all that matters anyway) and Monaca who is now a very cute murder machine if her recently modified wheelchair is anything to go by. They all even have a rivalry on who can create the best Knightmares and other such things and are advancing nicely for it, even if Cécile isn't interested in competing for all that much.

The Cyborg-project which I had started was led by Dr. Gero a man which I had been amused to find. While Android 17 and 18 were not anywhere close to being created the man did have some successes. Among those being General Ironwood who recently lost an arm, the two legs and some of the vital body parts on the battlefield is now fully back to health and can fight much better than before. I also have a man named Genos who was still in training for Knighthood after losing everything during a bombing incident involving revolutionaries in Area 9 (New Zealand), he is now mostly machine but his will is still his own and he decided by himself to become a knight to fight against terrorism. Honestly speaking terrorism is something much more common in this world than I'd expect from the show and the sheer number of victims is astouding.

Anyway, for the explosive department, there is the department head Deidara and his disciple Nina, who still spends a lot of time with me. Seriously it is like she is always either with me, her family and Milly, or learning from Deidara about explosives. She seriously has an absurd talent for the art of blowing shit up, I think she might have the highest talent within the entire city with only very few to match.

On the area of programming, there is Chihiro Fujisaki (a cross-dressing boy who is entirely too young but more than capable enough, he was originally Japanese but moved to Britania to obtain better study conditions and got my eye), and Matsu (she likes to come with Nina when her sister visits, she tries to tease me but considering we are all kids there isn't much of a point) who are also advancing on the development of AIs quite well. If everything proceeds as planned we will have a few dozen AIs within the next year or so and my current hacking programs are enough to invade virtually any computer and the firewall over my systems is so tight that it would be easier to just break in on my city then invade my system, and that is saying something. I had some interesting plans for the AIs including perhaps creating my own Ultron which I could unleash on some poor saps. Or just make a Decpticon, that would be fun.

For pharmaceutics, there is Seiko Abraham, originally Kimura, who was an orphan of Britanian heritage who ended up living in an orphanage back in Japan due to some situations. She won some competitions of chemistry and I went to visit her for it, when I saw what she was capable of I invited her to my city no matter what. A good proof of why it was a good idea was on the new vaccine I took that made my originally frail body more than two times as strong as I was before, now I could at least run from Cornelia for a while!

But the most interesting ones are the scientists that are more deeply studying the body, or to be more precise cloning technology and other more extreme modifications to the human body. The ones helping me there the most are Mayuri Kurotsuchi, Tearju Lunatique and the Kihara family, a family of scientists that are extremely capable but not really that ethical and thus are on the wanted list of most countries, not that I care of course since I am sure of their loyalty to me. I even have some of the Kihara family members owning their own labs in the City for them to create their own things freely, I am a good young man. Besides, the Kihara family members do not care much how I use what they make as long as they can keep inventing things and continuing their pursuits.

While I was thinking of all that I can feel my eye tingle as a smirk played in my lips, someone decided to stop being loyal I see. Well, I guess it is fine as well.

”Mayuri, will you still need more lab rats?” I asked as I approached him. He laughed hearing me say this before opening his mouth.

”Yes, there are never really enough test subjects for the more invasive experiments for me.” he said.

”Well, you are in luck then. Some idiot decided to throw away my gift for some reason, likely money or prestige, so I will bring him to you later.” I said cutting off our conversation as he shook his head in disapproval before continuing his task.

I turn to the computer on the side and start working on it, before long a video feed shows up of a man trying to act normal as he leaves the city, it was one of my scientists that was responsible for the work with Seiko. I can't tell why he turned his back on me but I suppose I can always hear it from his mouth anyway.

Connecting to one of the internal guard divisions of the city I waited until someone answered.

”Hello, My Prince. What is the issue?” A serious but calm voice said as a image of a tall man with dark blue hair, broad shoulders, dark blue piercing eyes and glasses wearing a blue uniform said. He was the leader of one of the safety keeping units I formed in my city, the Scepter 4, and was one of my personal knights as well.

”Comander Reisi, there is an escapee trying to run away from the city. I want him brought to me as quickly as possible, his state must be as close to healthy as you possibly can.” I said.

”I will see to it. How much damage would be acceptable and is he expected to be armed?” Reisi asked without losing a beat. But, knowing him he likely is trying to find a way to give some extra punishment to the one trying to run away and that betrayed me.

”I just need him brought to me, doesn't need to go further than the necessary for that. Also, see if he is looking for someone with the dose of truth serum I gave you last time. If there are any spies connected to him in the city I want Scepter 4 to eliminate them all. I want the true development of this city to remain a secret to anyone from the outside. Also, contact Jungle after getting the info and if the person isn't untouchable tell them to ruin the organization behind them.” I gave my orders after thinking some more.

He nodded and went to do his job. I could calmly smile as I can already predict how things will turn out. I have currently 4 forces in my city, all with their own characteristics and I can easily tell that outside of here any of them would be game changers in any war.

The first one is Scepter 4 led by Reisi. It is responsible for the policing of the city and guard duties, they are all highly trained individuals I obtained from various places though they are mostly pureblood Britannians. However, I made it a point that none of them were to be conceited brats and I examined them myself and in any demonstration of racism they were promptly punished as that sort of thing is counterproductive to this city.

The second organization is Jungle, they are likely the least and also the most threatening force under my control. Their main objective is to infiltrate on what is considered secure systems of my enemies, find their secrets, and deliver me news of them. If needed they also fabricate scandals as well but due to how usually there are true things to their words the world usually believes it and the influence of it is not to be trifled with.

From the other two organizations, well they are my knights (some in training, some already official and all of them with the potential that would likely not lose out to even the likes of Suzaku or Kallen), and the final one being my military troops, even if they are still 'in production'. I guess it will take a while for them to fully work as I intended them to.

There are other smaller groups I am trying to create to deal with some more overt operations, but I will need some more time to make them fully operational. I suppose not everything can go exactly as I want, but at least the project is going decently well and in a few more years I can expect my army to be fully formed.

But seriously, I could only chuckle at how my now eye-patched Geass works. Uncle V.V. and uncle Charles were also surprised when we figured how it worked and we all could only think that nothing would be more suitable for my needs.

After all my Geass of Absolute Enhancement and Trust is just too suited for me and my plans.

It isn't like those from most others that either enhance themselves directly, are capable of causing direct harm to others, or alter their minds and force them to do something they wouldn't want to, its effects are more subtle and also much more interesting and hard to use.

When I activate this Geass I connect to my target, if he or she truly is loyal to me then the effect of the Geass will activate and the person's full talent blossoms forward unhindered. It is like the entire capacity that it would take years, if not decades to draw forth is all brought out instantly and enhanced further than what they'd normally be able to reach.

Not only that but they become a part of what I can only call my mind-hive, if they need to process information faster they can draw upon the hive and use part of my own capacity of processing information and of others if that won't pressure them, I also can do the same with them but need to be careful as my initial test-subjects which I tried my Geass on became Brain-dead when I drained to much capacity something which I could not reverse at all. I was just lucky that those people had been not allies as I shudder at what could have happened if I discovered that feature on someone more important like Nina or Slaine. Anyway the best part of my Geass is that the moment someone stops being loyal I can sense who it is, they stop getting any benefits from my Geass, forget they had it affect them or what it was, and I also continue feeling their location no matter how long it passes, I can never be betrayed so to say.

In other words, all scientists and fighters in my forces all can be classified as super-human by most people's standings. When I obtained my Geass I made it a point to put its effects to bear, everyone who was willing to work for me and not betray me was given a Geass and those who don't were simply removed from the equation, I didn't kill them as there would simply be too many dead if I did so but as I didn't much need to explain what the Geass was all about everyone that didn't know simply thought I had developed some sort of super-soldier drug to enhance those I trust.

Well, that is just wrong. I still need some time before Seiko can finish those particular projects, she first is creating a drug that would help those suffering from addictions remove all traces of such substances from the body and repair the chemical receptors to make the person healthy again. It is part of my way to deal with the refrain infestation that will eventually begin to ravage Japan and most likely other Areas. I want to scout all talents and willing fighters that could work for any of my subsidiary organizations I can find including those amongst the numbers but if they are under drugs it would not be easy. My ability to see the ”talent” of people was negatively effected by Drugs as the results were muddled quite a bit.

As I was musing the projects of the many scientists under my domain I started my own new pet project. It is the blueprints for how to deal with my GN Drive. It was driving me mad, I have long since finished the project for the mini perpetual energy generator that would fit in a Knightmare but the fact that if I were to install it would make the ejection capacity impossible was not something I could easily deal with. I talked about it with my robotics staff and none could find a solution for it, but thankfully I managed to find one that just might work.

It is the Calculate Fortress used in Toaru Majutsu to protect the Windowless Building. It constantly scans its surroundings with Electromagnetic Waves and ultraviolet rays to identify any source of impact, as soon as the impact gets close enough it is canceled out by vibrating the impact areas the exact necessary and with the exact frequency needed to paralyze any and all attacks. It would effectively cancel out any and all attacks, even nuclear explosions wouldn't destroy it, but implementing this to Knightmares would be a waste right now due to the generation currently being far to low-tech and not to mention that especially the programming needed for it is complex to an absurd degree. I am facing some difficulties with it, to be totally honest. I really didn´t want to destroy the timeline to much by creating stuff like the Lancelot almost ten years before it should happen otherwise Britannia would just steam-roll the opposition.

After working on it for about thirty minutes a knock came from the door as Kirumi opened it.

”Young master, Commander Reisi asks permission to enter.” She said simply.

”Sure, bring him in and the package with him as well. And please bring some snacks for us to enjoy.” I said as she bowed to me and left. About two minutes later Reisi entered the doors with a struggling young man on his side.

I took one look at the man and he stiffened a bit, he was one of the ones I added not long ago and was friends with someone who ended up as a spy from Schneizel. The spy is now being used to test a drug used to force the cells on an area to become equal to stem cells, but the results were still not quite there yet as instead of regenerating he is giving birth to a third arm, it is quite extreme and on the grotesque side to be honest. I guess seeing his friend becoming an abomination made him want to quit, oh well I bet there was also someone that paid him for something as well so money likely helped the deal.

”So, I suppose you decided to leave the city then. Would you mind telling me why?” I asked mostly rhetorically.

PHEW!

He simply spits in my face. Well, I guess there isn't much more of a reason to be reasonable.

”Wait.” I said as Reisi had a sword about to pierce the man's back for what he just did. He still looked completely professional but his killing intent was quite strong right now. ”I still have a few uses for most of him.” I explained and Reisi nodded.

I looked down at the person as I took of my eyepatch. My Geass already was permanent after using it on so many others so I needed to hide my eye under the eyepatch, not that it made much of a difference for me to see as it was seethrough to me and even had some cool stuff added to it. But the important thing is what I was about to do.

”You, know that you betrayed me and want to leave, but first leave behind the gift I gave you. Now, give back all that you received.” I ordered as my geass activated as it fully drew away its influence from his mind, but not before pulling with it all the processing capacity that I granted him along with a bit extra. His potential that I unlocked now is mine.

Again, this geass is the most benign and malign Geass out there in my opinion. To those who accept me as their leader or boss, even if only by association they all can get better than they were ever before and live fulfilling and good lives, but those who betray me will not have any chance for a good future. Truly, a Geass for a gentle evil tyrant as Uncle Charles likes to call it.

After I did that I felt my own mind expand further for a bit, but even that was quickly consumed by the Mind-Hive I have going so that everyone gets a tad smarter on the expenses of those who would otherwise bring nothing positive to the city's future.

”Take him to Mayuri, I am sure that psycho can find some use for him. Also, give me a report on everything you found out about his motivations and objectives when he left the city.” I said as Reisi bowed and went to work. Not long since he left Kirumi re-entered the room while carrying a package filled with page after page of information, or better said resumes.

”Young master, these are the scholars that have shown interest in your proposition. I did as instructed and gave all that came and were properly tested and these are the ones who passed it.” She said.

”Thank you Kurumi, that is all for now.” I said as I took the resumes in hand.

It is another thing I decided to do. If I want to make this place truly an example for the world at large than I must do it right. I spread my recruiters across all of Britannia and its conquered areas with orders to attempt recruitment of anyone with the capacity to teach regardless of status. Of course, this didn't exactly sit well with most Nobles but I promptly ignored the complaints of sullying my city with scum Numbers as my answer was very simple.

'If you don't want them to get the spots then get them yourself, it is the way of Britannia to take what it desires.'

That helped shut them up nicely, Schneizel's help on the side also helped but he likely just wanted to send as many spies as he can into my city as he and many others likely are curious of what I am producing, after all, anything I release is always more than 40 years ahead of everyone else but I never show any military tech unless the emperor demands it.

Now, of course, I tested everyone that asked for a job equally and now I have the top 400 of the empire to work with me as teachers. Now all I need is to release the news of acceptance for all students between the age of 10 and 18 who desire to study on the city, if any of them decide to and pass a basic exam they can live here and eat well and be taught and given opportunities. They can be called whatever they want here and those who desire to continue here and work as scientists, engineers, or other things are welcomed to do so. Those who decide to stay will also be able to bring their loved ones and family to live here, I intend for this place to be a home for talented individuals everywhere.

Well, at least that is my intentions. I want to make as many talented and capable individuals appear in my city and them having loyalty if not directly to me then to this city. Of course, the tech used in most of the city is not that dangerous, the security measures I put in place are nothing that can easily be dealt with to enter the areas where actually dangerous things are located, and the number of surveillance cameras installed throughout the city is enough to make even the combined number of cameras in Pendragon and the next five main cities of Britannia seem tiny in comparison. And that is not to forget that any criminal organization or spy circle that tries to form is promptly stomped out of existence with not one member surviving unless I am feeling particularly merciful.

And so I simply nodded my head as I gave the order to bring all these teachers to the city as well as sending more recruiters to all Areas and cities within the Empire with news about the grand opening of my Academic City and the rules I established. Now, I can't help but wonder how will the world react when they understand what it is that I am doing. No other place in the Empire ever allows for Numbers to receive any education beyond highschool-level so imagining the reaction of those who look down on Numbers when they hear of my decision is enough to make me happy. (Even the Highschool stuff was only taught because the Numbers needed to have some knowledge for their Jobs where most of the time their Boss was a Britannian.)

Almost as happy as when I managed to prepare the machines that are doing the constructions of the most important parts of the city underground (It was not easy to do this stealthily but it was a good challenge), when I managed to dominate the home appliances, agricultural products, and medicinal products to treat many diseases that plagued the empire and were thought incurable before. There IS a reason for this city to be getting so famous as any of the products related to it always dominate the market and all of them are cheap enough for even the Numbers and honorary Britannians to buy and improve their lives. Hell, Ciel even had major Customers in the EU and Chinese Federation. In fact, Ciel had at one point met the Eunuchs who had slyly suggested for him to visit the Chinese Federation when Puberty started with them indicating that they would have some of the more beautiful Noble Daughters ready to meet me, probably in hopes of me marrying one of them and therefore giving the Chinese some more beneficial Trade-agreements.

But nothing beats what I felt when I installed those smell detectors within the city to identify anyone who brings a forbidden item to my city for Scepter4 to escort them out. After all, anyone who eats those accursed no-sugar chocolates was almost criminal in my eyes.

Thinking of that-

”Aauuhm.” I released this sound as I took a big bite from a chocolate bar on the side, a content smile on my face. Yeah, nothing beats sweets after all.

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”Aahh, this is pure bliss.” I said, I was sitting on my chair with some good sweets by my side and some of my friends around me in my personal gardens on top of my tower/lab/home. Slaine, who was now with his family living in my city, was right by my side much like Nina, Matsu, and Milly. He was with a book open as he was reading something with a slight smile while the three girls were talking animatedly with each other while enjoying the sweets, I also invited some others but most of my family were too far away to come here but at least I had a few new additions to my table.

First was Mayuri's daughter Nemu who was quite stoic over 90% of the time but was curious and was not a bad presence to have around, by her side, there were two of my current knights (not the official knight that all royals must have as neither wanted that post for some reason). The two knights were Lyle and Neil Dyland, a pair of twins that lived happily with their families until a terrorist attack and now hate terrorism with a passion, both experts in sniping and good examples to the future knights that are still in training like Slaine himself who is a Knight in training. My knights are the top of the crop chosen by hand by me, there are not many and some are still children or simply too young but none of them aren't talented enough, many think me crazy with some of my additions to my knights like the kid who I recruited not long ago.

Soran Ibrahim is a small child soldier who escaped from the conflict between his country and its neighbor for oil resources. He was captured during one of the military training expeditions of my knights (they need real experience and with their current Knightmares even those not yet up to standards still are more than capable of surviving) and brought to the city to receive proper medical treatment as he was simply too close to dying.

After we understood who it was that was rescued things got interesting. Normally someone like him would be executed on the spot due to his dubious allegiance but I instead made him one of my knights in training after I talked with him. My reason is that the Orange around him is calm but strong and his Red and other colors are quite strong as well, he would be a great addition to my forces. Not only that but he also told me how his desire was to end foolish conflicts throughout the world that are focused on civilians (he doesn't have that big of a problem with death in a battlefield, go figure) and save people so when I explained to him the type of power I am creating and how this force is to work to stop revolutionaries and terrorists as well as safeguarding those same civilians he wanted to ensure protection he agreed to work with me but said he'd shot me if I were to use my power to terrorize the world. He is now being taught the language and the basics of how to behave as well as talking to a proper psychiatrist to help him deal with everything he saw and had to do back in his nation. He even said he wanted to change his name to Setsuna Seie as a way to show that this is a new life, apparently, Setsuna on his mother language means peace-bringer or something like that.

It honestly annoys me that I can't go and end this ridiculous conflict after Setsuna told me of it and how it is going on, how it started, and how many are dying for something so easy to fix, but the Emperor didn't allow me to deal with it as the whole area is too strong right now and the official decision is to wait for both sides to either weaken enough or one loses while weakening the other to make the victory over them all the easier. I at least prepared a refugee camp near the area for all of those who escape it to live, something the Emperor wasn't so happy about but let me do it when I told him it was a way to win the hearts of the people of the area for when we invade and take everything away.

As I was thinking that and wondering what my next delicacy would be someone outright kicked the door open with all the delicacy of a bull in a glass shop.

”CIEL! WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS?” A woman yelled and I turned to answer until I saw who it was, when the dark pink hair came into view I turned around and started to run away, there is no way I want anything to do with her. ”Come back here this instant!” Cornelia yelled as she started running after me, her knights by her side to help her as I looked at my own knights that were only laughing from the side.