"Y-Your Majesty, are you okay!?" Jeanne scrambled out of the stealth spaceship the moment it landed. His knight looked pale; she was terrified that something had happened to him.
"You should ask that my suit," Marcus replied as he sat on the grass. Not far from him lay the wreckage of the helicopter he had taken down.
"..." She walked over, taking a deep breath before looking around.
The estate was gone, there were corpses around, and there was a wreckage of a military-grade helicopter.
It looks like a mess.
"Jeanne, use ELS to fix this. I will be moving out of Atlantic Federation, maybe somewhere warmer. The East Coast is not the best spot to relax." The Emperor said with a small frown.
"...As you wish. Are you going to retaliate?" The red-haired knight asked him with a concerned tone.
"Indeed, I will put fear of death into their very souls." He stood up and walked to the spaceship.
The Emperor modified the vessel to act more like a transporter of his equipment. So far, the number of people he had brought with him to this reality was only Jeanne.
The fewer people there are, the better it is for him. One could say that, in this world, he was more like a Batman than a ruler.
He has his power armour, a spaceship, and a secret lair in the Persian Gulf, which is about all he has.
Not that he needs anything more for a place he is treating as a data-collection centre.
"I-I see. You have a mission to do, and I have mine." Marcus got up from the ground as he walked towards the stealth warship and towards the waiting platform. Once there, he spread his hands, and the robotic hands began to put the suit on him.
Soon enough, he was ready, walked out of the spaceship, and used his neural interface to access the data he had on Blue Cosmos.
'Sadly for you guys, the only laws I follow are my own. If you think that you are secure, then you are sadly mistaken.'
The Emperor narrowed his eyes as the Gravity resonance activated, and he disappeared from his yard.
Jeanne sighed, seeing him do something crazy again. Still, she had her mission, so she walked to the ship and opened a briefcase containing a tiara and a glass container of liquid metal.
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[Particle compression at 100%, preparing particle cannon…]
Marcus pointed one of his rifles at the estate beneath him.
It was Azrael Estate, the very same family that founded the Azrael Foundation, the core piece of Blue Cosmos.
'Not anymore.'
A purple beam descended from the sky, erasing manor in an instant.
There was no fire, or explosion, nothing. That is the power of GN particles when they are charged and ready to destroy.
"Double check, Legion. As they say, one should double-tap to make sure it's done properly."
[Of course, running scans…]
Marcus looked through several scanners before dismissing the windows.
"It appears they are dead. But this is not the end. Let's continue."
The Emperor narrowed his eyes as he moved to the next target.
One by one, he erased estates and buildings that were closely related to Blue Cosmos; he made sure he left some alive, on purpose, to make sure they had fear of death edged into their very souls.
With the buildings destroyed and the backers exterminated, it was now time to curb their numbers.
*SWOOSH*
An armoured being with wings cut apart the warehouse doors and strolled inside.
"I would knock, but the doors were far too fragile."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"You can't hide from me."
As the armoured individual spoke, the six wings from his back detached and flew towards hiding radicals. This location was one of the weapons stashes, where they get their weapons for the bombings and all that.
Marcus intentionally targets the locations where they THINK they can do something.
But physical bullets? That is so… ancient technology.
"Aghh!!!"
"Hiiii!!!"
"W-What is that!?"
The six bits like swords rushed for the hiding terrorists as they began a slaughter.
Some of them stopped hiding and opened fire on him, but Marcus simply stood there at the entrance and waited for the bits to slaughter.
The blades sliced and diced through the warehouse.
Within minutes, it was silent like in a graveyard. The armoured Emperor looked through several different scanners to make sure everyone was dead.
After destroying one warehouse, he went to several other ones; he didn't destroy all of them, but at least blew up half of them.
Will Blue Cosmos retaliate? Sure, does he care? No. But unlike them, he is immortal, and his technology is close to 500 years, if not more, ahead of them.
Once he finished, he returned to his hideout in the Persian Gulf.
"Ugh… menial labour, never thought I would do it again," Marcus commented after taking his armour off.
"...Your Majesty, you should get a bath and a change of clothes," Jeanne commented as she looked at his state; he looked like a beggar.
"You are right." The Emperor didn't deny it; he looked at himself, and it was bad. "And you will join me." He then smirked at her.
"...As you wish." Jeanne slightly blushed as she knew what was coming next. One could say that she is enjoying being the only one with him in this reality.
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Marcus' G.A.R.M research institute had quite the selection of people.
There was the blonde man by the name Ulen Hibiki, who was one of those typical scientist types who are obsessed with their work.
His project is called the 'Perfect Coordination Project'. By 'perfect', it means that it has all the benefits of Coordinator but none of its drawbacks.
Unlike Innovators, who naturally evolve upon exposure to GN particles, Coordinators undergo specific alterations; as a result, their birth rate plummets.
As two coordinators are not truly the same species.
Because of that, having 2nd-generation coordinators is rare, and 3rd-generation is basically imposible.
Now, what Ulen wants isn't some sort of… program for everyone or a fancy breakthrough. While Marcus could use that technology if he truly needed money, there are ways to make money, not that he wants.
But the man simply wants to create the Perfect Coordinator.
Then there is the Accord Project. Run by a blonde woman by the name Aura Maha Khyber.
Unlike regular Coordinators that get altered in a woman's womb, Accords are designed from scratch and raised in liquid tanks.
Similar to cloning and the Innovade style of creation. Now, the reason Marcus is funding her research and giving her what she wants is that there is potential for true psychics in her creations, and that a certain pink-haired woman is working with Aura.
This woman is helping Aura as she wants to create a 'perfect' daughter based on her genetics, a superior being to a coordinator.
And then, of course, there is Gilbert Durandal. He is also helping him with funding. Unlike other scientists who want to create superior people, he is studying genetics in general, developing medicines, and mapping the human genome.
Of course, he has his ambitions, and that called… Destiny Plan.
A system that can determine what a person is good at and then assign them to that role.
A change in society.
In other words, he gathered Earth's craziest people in one spot, and they are sending over all of their data to him.
Of course, they don't know that. Well, that is the prize for all of that money.
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"Please come inside, do you want some coffee or maybe some tea?" The brown-haired lady motioned for Marcus to enter the laboratory.
"Relax, Via, I am here to make sure you guys have everything you need." The disguised Emperor motioned for the nervous lady to relax.
"Y-Your money is more than enough." She sighed in relief. "I have heard that someone bombed the estate. Are you okay?" The lady was concerned for his well-being. She was shocked to hear that! The Earth is slowly becoming volatile.
"It's, it was Blue Cosmos, I sent government officials after them. As you can imagine, they didn't escape unharmed." He said with a smile, and the lady blushed a bit.
"...I-I see it's good to know that everything is fine." She tried to smile back, but she was nervous regardless.
"How is Ulen and his research?" Marcus asked Via.
"...After securing his funding, he rarely leaves his office. I do apologise that he is not here to meet you in person." She looked at the floor. The woman was ashamed of her husband's behaviour.
"It's fine, let him know that I am 100% behind him." He reassured the brown-haired lady.
He was about to leave, but then she stopped him.
"...May I have a moment of your time?" She looked at him with a certain look.
"...Sure…"
What happened next… well…One doesn't need much imagination.
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"...You can't stop, can you? Regardless of realities… this time it's a married woman?" Jeanne sighed as she couldn't believe what had happened. What is she going to say to the Empresses!?
"Hey, she needed to lean against someone. What can I do?" Marcus defended himself!
"...Tell her that you have 10 wives and several lovers…" The red-haired knight sighed again.
"...Hmm… I suppose… anyway, let's continue. I have other research sites to visit." He patted her back to calm her as they continued with the visit.
Next was the Accord Project; unlike the Perfect Coordinator Project, which a man and his wife ran, the Accord Project was run by two women.
They didn't need to walk far; Marcus made sure the complexes were connected and close to each other.
Inside another research facility, a blonde woman proudly showed him her work.
"...This is the design, I based him on my genetic sequences. It will be a boy by the name Orphee Lam Tao." A blonde lady showed a design she was working on... she even given him a name already...
Marcus looked at the DNA strands; it was not bad. But honestly, it lacks the third strand Innovators have.
It is still a human, the lifespan of a human; there is no infinite potential of an Innovator.
"Not bad, Aura." The Emperor smiled at the blonde woman; she looked at him with pride.
"I was thinking of having a daughter, but she wanted one, so instead I went with a boy." Aura looked at pinkette next to her.
Honestly, Marcus needed a bit of willpower not to stare at the pinkette. It was a literal carbon copy of mature Lacus Clyne. There are some differences, but honestly, not much.
"Yes, I think I will name her Lacus." The Pinkette said with a dreamy tone.
"Indeed, my son and her daughter, I would say we will be a family." The pair giggled like teenage girls, thinking about uniting families.
'I am pretty certain your mind got twisted somewhere in between Aura Maha Khyber.'
Marcus thought to himself as he looked at the other DNA strand; he was far more interested than the boy Aura was thinking of creating.
'I might as well create my own Lacus.'
The Innovade technology has improved considerably over the years.
With the Accord data before him, and his own technology, he can truly create something perfect…for himself.
"Wonderful, it would seem you have things covered here." After making up his mind, he was ready to move on.
"Yes. You have our eternal gratitude." Aura thanked him, and her assistant did the same.
"Don't worry, just continue doing what you are doing. Don't worry about funding, leave that to me." Marcus smiled at them, and the pair got slightly nervous.
"Are you sure? I don't think people will easily accept humans who are not born naturally or the amount of genetic alterations we do." Aura was sceptical about how long he could throw wealth into the bottomless pit that is their genetic research.
"Relax, dear, money is not the issue. Once you finish your research and it succeed, it will change the world. You will see." Marcus reassured her.
"...Yes, I hope for that as well, I hope that Orphee and Lacus will lead humanity into a bright path." Aura clenched her fist as she had a resolute look in her eyes.
"Don't worry. I have your back. Besides, I can always sell Durandal's treatment and medicine; that stuff will always make me more money."
With that said, Marcus left them. There was a huge smirk on his face. He checked his phone, and Legion showed him that everything was up to date.
He got the blueprints he wanted. For some of the experiments he wants to do, he can start doing them as well.
"That look… are you going to make your own Accords?" Jeanne saw the grin; she knew what that grin meant!
"Maybe, maybe not. Maybe something grander." The Emperor winked at his bodyguard.
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