94 Hello Thailand (2/2)
”Master?”
Sapphire utters when she looks at the metallic shackles on both wrists. Their appearance is on purpose – just to remind her of her new position. Must I need to go that far? Nope, but her mind needs to be constantly reinforced.
”Would you like one around your neck instead?”
I question before gesturing to Bruce. Here is another mental reinforcement.
”This is for your protection. It is peak 1st rank monster.”
Sapphire accepts the new pet even though she didn't want it. Its presence will constantly remind her what could happen.
I take out a Heavenly Path to Magic, Basic Introduction, from my Hydra ring and give her it as well. She hasn't master any of the runes yet, but she does know 5 in total. Fire rune has the highest proficiency because of her natural affinity.
I know about a couple of hundred runes, and master none so far. In any case, the amounts of runes should be more than sufficient for what I have in mind back in prime reality.
”I must be leaving this realm soon, Sapphire. Continue your studies at the Arcane Academy. I will drop by time and time to see how you are progressing, so do not slack off. Here are some mana crystals to get you started.”
Mana crystals are actually the currency used between mages. It contains raw magical energy that can be processed to another form, as Hydra have demonstrated. That meteor is equivalent to a giant block of gold.
Someone is being very generous.
And with a snap of my finger, countless spatial portals form, allowing my army to step through, leaving just me, Sapphire and Bruce.
Sapphire is shaken at the display of mass spatial manipulation. She feels absolute no magical energy radiating from me, giving me an even more mysterious aura.
She then vanishes along with Bruce. I turn around and have a look at the village bellow, as many people screams in fright at her sudden teleportation along with a hulking monster.
I chuckle at that before teleporting away. I appear in front of the temporal rift.
”Legion, continue autonomous monitoring. I want to every little details of this world, who the major players are, where their loyalties lie, what kind of military might they have. However, please priorities the following…”
I list all the necessary priorities.
Once Legion acknowledges my order, I return to the prime reality, right after I return the flow of time to normal. Almost forgot that.
The other side of the rift is a building still under construction. The construction stops when people are disappearing, allowing Hydra to move in inconspicuously.
Thais are a very superstitious people, so that helps.
”Supreme Commander on deck!”
The commander of this base calls out and everyone gives their salute. I gesture them to continue what they were doing while I talk to some of the scientists, who maintain the temporal disruptor.
Aside from wondering when I had passed through the temporal rift in the first place, the people in the made-shift base are curious to why the recon team have returned before the scheduled time. I will let the recon team explains that in their debriefing.
”At the current temporal energy level, this temporal rift can last approximately 2 months idling, Great Leader.”
One of the scientists informs me.
Great Leader – that is a new one. But he is of German descent, so I suppose I can accept that. Everyone does call me by a different title, but the military generally addresses me as the Supreme Commander while the scientists uses my name, Mr. Maxwell.
”Once Mr. Washer has a working prototype, I want it to power this temporal rift indefinitely.”
I order the scientists. The prototype in question is a temporal energy capacitor. It is capable to storing and releasing temporal energy.
Hammond Washer should have one ready within a month at the latest.
I turn my attention to the commander afterwards.
”Bring in more men and secure this whole area. If we have not brought the property, buy it and finish the construction. I want an impenetrable military base here within a couple of months, where we can launch an invasion force.”
”Yes, Supreme Commander!”
The command acknowledges. He barks order to the men when I take my leave. I will let him work out how to accomplish what I have requested.
There might be some issues with the Thailand Government, but this is the 1990! There is nothing that good old American dollars couldn't solved.
And if for some reasons, they don't accept money like a good little corrupt government official, a bullet to the head will do. The next person who replaces them might be smarter.
Since I haven't been to Thailand in like forever, I take the time to look around and go sightseeing. It is nighttime in Bangkok, and motorbikes are basically everywhere, zooming in and weaving through the traffics.
It is about 10 am in New York right now, since I have only been gone for about 2 hours when I dropped off my daughter at my mother's place.
I was actually gone for few weeks due to my power to compress time, but who is keeping track of that, right?
Certainly not me.
In any case, I have about a couple of hours to loiter around and try some good old street foods. There are quite a lot of choose from, but much of it disgust me to no end.
They eat these kinds of stuff in Thailand? Well, let me have a taste.
I don't want to stand out too much as a foreigner. In fact, I would have pickpocketed several times if I have a wallet on me. I don't carry around a wallet anymore since I have a storage ring.
[Contamination detected. Neural Toxin. Ophiocordyceps unilateralis (CBI) strain detected…]
[Contamination detected. Cell mutation. Tyrant virus detected…]
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I stop trying the foods even though I can't really get food poisoning thanks to all the nanomachines, but that is quite a lot of contaminations. Let not think too much on it.
I wander the street for a little, passing several massive buildings, including Chrono Reserves. The bank is insanely popular with the local since its policy is very lax in term of providing initial offerings for all the startup companies.
In exchange for shares, of course.
I stop at an enormous building – Lok Entertainment. This company started just 5 years ago, but it has become one of the most powerful entertainment giants in Thailand thanks to all the future knowledge I imparted regularly.
There are countless of people there, sending in their application.
Lok means Earth in Thai, so does Terra, which is Latin. In other word, Lok Entertainment is actually Terra Entertainment.
There is all different version of my company in every country. In China, it would be called Diqiu Entertainment. In Indonesia, it would be called Bumi Entertainment.
This is just to name a few.
I only run the American division since I am an American. It would be strange if I run these divisions myself and force American values on them, but regardless, the chairman and chief executive officer of every division should follow my plans for the future.
And one day, all arms of Terra Entertainment will be merged into a global entertainment giant.