102 Powers and Abilities Auxiliary Chapter (2/2)

Maximilien does not need an army that does not obey his command. There will be no subordinations, especially during a mission. If someone refuse a direct order from their commanding officer or squad leader, they will just get executed right away.

There is no room for negotiation. All Hydra members know this, thus make them extremely efficient and super ruthless.

Maximilien doesn't really care about the people he doesn't know that much if you haven't notice. He cares about humanity as a whole, not individual people. If anyone goes against him and attempt to destroy all that he tries to accomplish, he will kill them in a heartbeat – probably.

Two heartbeats if they are family and friends.

It has been demonstrated that the bubble can expand to encompass an entire world. Doing so allows Maximilien to do his social experiments. It hasn't happened yet, but it will soon.

Just imagine the God create the Earth within 7 days. Well, Maximilien can do that in seconds.

7 days is way too much time for someone like him.

What else? Hmm… not sure. If I remember, I will update this.

[Temporal Duplication (Aspectual Class)]

Temporal duplication is another extension of Time Manipulation.

Maximilien figures this out when he was practicing temporal bubble ability. As he can interact directly with the temporal bubble and whatever are inside the temporal bubble, it allows him to basically steal things from the past by bringing it into the presence.

There is something that Maximilien cannot duplicate, however, for example – a soul.

If Maximilien brings a person inside the temporal bubble to outside, if they already exist somewhere, the copy he created will instantly be erased from existence since a soul cannot be in two places at the same time. This is the same as monster cores as it contains the essence (soul energy) of the monster, but unlike a person, the core becomes inert.

An inert core is actually very useful, as you will find out in the story eventually. Maximilien does have a few inert cores in his pocket dimension, since he has become a hoarder.

He hoards everything even if they appear to be useless.

What else? Not sure. Will update if I remember. Heh…

[Selene (Technological)]

Selene is a virtual intelligence designed by the eccentric doctor of the 31st century. She is to regulate all the nanomachines floating inside Maximilien's body. She is also to prevent the nanomachines from becoming self-aware and gain sentient.

Selene is not actually inside Max's brain because he definitely wouldn't allow something of the sort to happen. She is actually inside all the nanomachines floating inside his bloodstream.

As a supercomputer, Selene can interface with everything electronically and wirelessly. She can hack into virtually any computer system of the 20th and 21st centuries. She can also connect and talk to all the virtual intelligences, such as Shield or Legion. There is actually more virtual intelligence than those three, but they will be revealed when they are relevant to the story.

While in the prime reality, Selene addresses Maximilien as Operator. She calls him Master when they are in other realities.

As a virtual intelligence, she is not self-aware. She does not think independently and does not have a self-preservation directive. However, as a story progresses, she will gain sentient as well as an avatar.

Her personality will be based on Cortana from Halo franchise. When does that happen, who knows? I am jumping from one plot point to another at my own pace. At the moment, it is barely just the start of the journey.

I will talk a bit about the nanomachines inside Maximilien due to his augmentation. Some people have been complaining about why he can get hurt by someone like Halle Berry.

The nanomachines inside Maximilien gradually alter his genetics over time, making him an enhanced or evolved human biologically. This is different from standard augmentation or military grade, which does give instant boosts. When Max went for the augmentation, the doctor has already said so.

The final benefits are much better than instant boost.

And as his genetic is altered, Max gains increased strength, increased stamina, increased endurance, accelerated healing factor, expanded mental capacity and so on. Since adjusting genetics of a person is an art and exceedingly dangerous, the changes are happening in very small increment, allowing Maximilien to become more used to his augmentation.

Furthermore, Maximilien has a limiter on his Strength on to prevent unintended destruction.

Just imagine how painful it would be if his junior is solid steel? He would not enjoy it either.

Max likes to enjoy the little thing in life, whenever possible. All this power and not enjoying it is such a waste. This sometimes make him distracted, but he is focused on the main goal most of the time. Or at lest he tries to be.

[Legion (Technological)]

Legion is Maximilien's newest tool.

The virtual intelligence was created as a contingency plan to Hydra. Maximilien learns from his mistake in the Galactic Empire. Human-lead organizations will always become corrupt regardless of how safety measures are in place.

Only cold calculating machine will not, hence Legion is born.

Maximilien programs Legion himself, so it is like his child. He considers it as such, and he even gives it a gender instead calling Legion an ”it”.

Max has a great plan for Legion in the future, so he always keeps an eye on Legion. He hopes that his child doesn't go rogue when it finally becomes self-aware.

Legion is male. Selene is female. Shield is female. Each of them will become self-aware. I already make dozens of foreshadowing about this. It is inevitable, and only when they become sentient, does they can help Max with a lot more stuff he needs. At least one artificial intelligence is required to suppress the other artificial intelligence. Hopefully that will be Legion, for we are one, we are many.

The micromachines are called XCOMBAT or simply XCOM. They are mainly served as Legion's avatars. Hence, Legion is actually everywhere.

Despite being called micromachines, Legion do have access to nanotechnology as the entire repository of human knowledge is within Legion's mainframe.

That is actually not correct. Unlike Shield, Legion doesn't really have a mainframe, so it doesn't have a weakness. Legion is based on the replicator in Stargate, where the sum of individual parts adds to the overall strength. So, to kill Legion, all of the micromachines must be destroyed. Even destroying a lot can hurt Legion.

The reverse is also true, the more micromachines Legion has, the more powerful he becomes. That is why Maximilien has him spread out the galaxy and start replicating.

But the main Legion is currently residing within the storage ring on Maximilien's finger.

Legion has access to spatial compression, which allows him to do many things.

One of Legion's special abilities is assimilation. He can devour another lifeform – biological or technological or even magical – and then reanimated it as one of its avatars.

Sadly, he cannot devour spiritual entity since they doesn't reside on the material plane.

Anywya, the newly created avatar gains all the powers and skills that the assimilated has. This allows for some cool stuff that you will get to see later!

This also allows Max to have a true terrifying army. As more and more beings are assimilated, Legion become more powerful as a whole. Hence the motto.

We are Legion!

I will try to make an epic scene about this part. ^-^b

[Magical and Spiritual Stuff]

This stuff is very complex, and this chapter is already long enough.

I will write about them when you learn more about it. We are still on the first arc, which is about 500 to 600 chapters long, so all of this stuff about magic and spirits is way out there at the moment.

The magic stuffs will come in play next arc, where people of the prime-reality will be selected to learn magic in a control environment. This includes celebrities, stars and idols. Oh, the public knows about magic by then, so it will be super fun. Most people should be able to use magic or sense magic by fourth arcs when the Gods start to become a problem.

For now, you just need to know only Max and a handful of selected individuals on the prime reality can use magic during the first arc.

And only Max as a living person can do all the spiritual stuff for the first arc. It will be hilarious. Well, I will see you guys in the next chapter. Enjoy!