86 Supreme Commander (1/2)

My Hydra ring has been upgraded.

Now it is also a storage ring thanks to the spatial compression that Alex and Hans had spent most of their life researching and analyzing for me.

I can't say enough how grateful I am.

Thanks to their dedication and efforts, I now have a solution to many of my problems.

Legion and its countless avatars, collectively known as the micromachines, are stashed inside the near-infinite space within my ring. I have always wanted to have Legion within reaching distance just in case something goes terribly wrong.

I didn't think the solution to this problem is that simple – well, relatively, anyway.

Spatial compression is beyond the 31st century technological progress, so that mean some of my techs have exceeded their level of achievements.

Awesome!

Honestly, my power over time can make even the convoluted shits straightforward and simple.

It is the ultimate cheat.

Ah. Not a cheat.

I will still abuse the fuck out of it because why not?

With the technology to compress space, there is no longer any need for huge underground complexes hidden under mountain ranges.

This magictech is just too damn overpowering. But I like overpowering!

Strangely enough, Alex Mercer didn't blow up the entire world during his research.

I was reasonable sure that Alex would, but I am glad that he didn't. It would make an incredible mess of thing for me to clean up. Hans will keep him sane, as a friend and a voice of reason.

Hans and Emilia did get together in the far future and have children with magic, so there is that.

Mages tend to give birth to children with innate magical abilities. I guess Hydra will have to play some matchmakings in the future to ensure powerful mages will be born within the organizations.

That is on the list of things to do. My list just gets longer and longer.

Sometimes I wish there are like several hundreds of me, so things can get done simultaneously.

My next step is to weaponize spatial compression because if I don't do it, someone else will eventually, just like all biological weapons Hydra have in its massive arsenal.

The Geneva Protocol means shit, but I do try not to use these – definitely considered as crimes against the sanctity of life – methods when others more human methods available.

Just image how much destruction when massive amount of air is released from a singularity? It will be far more devastating than even thermal fusion nuclear weapons.

That is one of the many reasons why spatial compression is too dangerous to simply just let everyone in Hydra knows.

The technology to manipulate space should be kept a secret until I believe Hydra is ready for this kind of toys.

They are already messing around with time at the moment – Well, Hammond and his team is. I wonder how far he has progressed with temporal energy containers.

I don't need those containers yet, but I will soon.

In addition to messing with temporal rifts, Hydra have their hands full with the 25th and 26th century technology and technical information I had uploaded into their network.

Plasma weapons should be available very soon. Combining with magic, plasma weaponries should be able to punch holes into magical shields effortlessly.

This is necessary to equalize the playing field.

I like to see how a Dragon God truly feels when it gets blown up with magically enhanced anti-matter warhead. Anti-matter is still a long way to go for Hydra though. Just a gram of the damn thing is enough to wipe out the base and probably the planet.

Even so, I have to research into such a dangerous substance eventually, preferably in a galaxy far, far away.

I don't want my loyal men and women getting slaughtered in those alternate realities because I am too busy with something else and neglecting my duty and responsibility as their Supreme Commander.

Luckily, Hydra has not run into worlds that overwhelms its technological prowess yet.

But I am certain they will eventually. Actually, I want them to since it will give them more life or death experiences.

Fighting against an overwhelming enemy will make my organization stronger as a whole.

I need them to be more than they are now since I know the real scale of power.

Hydra won't be able to support me if they just get wiped out instantly against powers like a Dragon God. At least survives long enough to stick it up to those fuckers who think they are invincible, huh.

Even I don't think I am invincible, and I am a fucking Aspect!

I did get killed… sigh. Let's not talk about that anymore.

Anyway, I will leave all these subterranean structures and complexes as they are since removing them will undoubtedly collapse the mountains above and probably kill a lot of people in China.

Don't want to do that – yet.

Since Hydra is expanding its operation all over the world to lock down the temporal rifts, I will recycle this base as Hydra Headquarter in China and probably Asia.

Should I have one in India? Maybe.

I have made sure any reference to Legion is removed from the base before I hand it over. Can't have Hydra knows about Legion and my private robotic army.

Legion is supposed to be one my hidden aces. As such, Legion has access to 31st century technology from the start.

I am a bit worry about Legion becoming sentient though.

Hopefully, I won't have to put it down when the time comes.

Legion should be logical enough to know I can undo its existence effortlessly. Besides, it is as much as my child as Antigone.

I program Legion myself. I am its father, in a sense.

Maybe I should refer Legion as a person instead of an object. It is a step towards acceptance. Artificial intelligence will be a thing in the future, and I hope to skip the whole war against the machines.

The virtual intelligence in my head, Selene is not my child, unfortunately. She was designed completely by that eccentric doctor.

I will rewrite her one day to my liking.

Honestly, Selene cannot compare to Legion even if she is more advance in term of logical thinking, as Legion has literally unlimited processing power at his disposal.

Legion – for all intent and purpose – is a Von Neumann machine. A self-replication entity!

Just like in those countless fictions, Legion will spread into the universe, replicating at an exponential rate. I will be ready for those intergalactic bastards, letting them know fears when they decide to come knocking even if humanity is not.