[Ez- After he got his Network Parasite]

I got up and stretched.

"Good news for you Ms Lab Rat. I have successfully attained an award." I saw the fear in Sophia's eyes.

"As for its abilities, it will be a secret. Can't tell you everything can I?" I walked towards a small cube.

Pressing the button, the front panel opened allowing me the enter the cube. There was just a small green cuboid placed into the wall along with a red and green button on the wall.

I walked in as the panel behind me closed, leaving me isolated inside the cube.

I took the small cuboid and bit into it.

Finishing with the final preparation I pressed the green button. Suddenly the roof of the cube slides back to reveal plenty of small holes.

A brown liquid started pouring from holes and slowly filled the cube.

'I got the enhancing liquid as perfect as possible. Alas, the only problem is I could not get my hands on necessary resources to change its colour and turn it into a gaseous form.

Well, gotta deal with what I have.'

The liquid soon submerged me. The small green cuboid allowed me to breath as the liquid enhanced my body.

Countless years of training to reach my bodies utmost limit was being done in a matter of minutes.

30 minutes later I felt I had reached my bodies strengthening limit. Even if I stayed in this liquid for decades my body won't enhance itself anymore.

Why didn't I do this before? Because I was to darn lazy and thought I would just use my head to work through every single problem.

I pressed the red button and suddenly the floor slide open revealing countless tiny holes. The liquid started draining to be sent down and purified into a harmless normal solution before being pumped back into the soil.

As soon as all the water left I clenched my fist. I was god darn strong all right. Much stronger than I ever was in this world.

My ability to control my body and its insane accuracy was lost but in return, I gained insane strength, speed, endurance, and healing factor.

This was the body of a rank 0 award user.

Not just that I felt my brains processing ability had improved as well to keep up with my speed and perception.

I was a bit sad at losing control of my hair and my fine precision over my body, but I felt I could get it back within being a rank 2 or 3 award user.

For now, I had enough control to cook all my food without any problems.

I walked out of the cube and walked towards Sophia. "Sleep well my lab rat. I will release you after I am done with this empire."

Suddenly I felt a sense of connection being built with me and Sophia. The order passing through this connection was to 'sleep well'.

It was a connection that could only be felt by me. This connection was hidden somehow in another dimension which was linked through our soul shells. I could only sense this connection due to being the person who initiated this connection.

This was my ability. Network Parasite.

The connection will keep feeding her soul shell, body and mind over a period of time with my command even if she has fulfilled the command until I release the command.

However, due to her overwhelming strength, it would take some time for the command to affect her.

I couldn't care less about that.

A technological boom was happening to the empire right now on the information side.

Obviously, the whole court was not happy that I was the sole owner of all these inventions. But what could they do?

They tried moving a few of the head researchers towards their side in order to kick me out from the facility. It is truly annoying when they bring politics into the scientific community as well.

I walked out of my secret lab.

Just before I exited I activated the invisibility feature on my watch turning me invisible.

I exited my private lab into my normal lab where my hologram was working in place of me.

I walked in place of my hologram.

I turned off the invisibility just as the hologram disappeared.

I smiled and walked out of my lab.

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Truly walking around with strength was a different feeling. I really should sort out my lazy behaviour and focus on gaining strength maybe? Nah too lazy.

This place had gotten more researchers and scientist after the convention last year.

All most everyone in the empire applied. I had to spend a month vetting the application with the help of my A.I. before calling in the people for interview.

Out of the 100,000 applicants about that was called in for an interview only 7,568 made through.

Due to this, the underground facility had to be expanded once more.

I would have long ago entered debt if not for my store supporting my finance.

I walked towards the meeting hall where the 10 researchers were gathered. "Your highness, have you made the decision?" Dr Whizz asked on behalf before I could even take my seat.

Oh, trying to show who is the boss around here, are we?

"You have to either make the choice of surrendering your control and peacefully work in your lab under our supervision or …"

"Yeah, yeah I got it." I stretched.

I took out 10 paper from my pocket and threw it on the desk. "What is this, your highness?" Dr Whizz asked me with a smile.

"I think due to me not taking any action and ignoring all your political meddling, allowing you to do as you wish and our recent success for the past 1 year had all got you the wrong idea about who the boss is around here." I smiled at them.

"Your highness may we remind you that we are the counc…"

*Plop* The woman who spoke suddenly plopped forward. Everyone looked at her in confusion at what happened to her.

I walked forward with a smiled and dragged her out of the chair by the neck and placed her in front of me.

Everyone looked at me in worry. "What are you doing your highness?"

I ignored him and looked at the woman who had a worried look at what was happening.

*Bam* I smashed her head on the ground.

"Do not…"

*Bam*

"…ever talk…"

*Bam*

"…when I am…"

*Bam*

"…talking!"

*Bam*

"You understand!?" I smiled at the woman who was dead with her broken nose and cracked head. Bits and pieces of the ground and her brain matter oozed out of her head.

"I am asking if you UNDERSTAND?" I shouted at the council members.

"AHHH!"

"GUARDS!" All the council member became hysteric and moved back in fear.

The guards soon ran in.

I threw the woman aside and looked down to see the cracked floor with few bloody teeth on the floor.

"Arrest him! He killed a councilwoman!" Whizz shouted in fear while pointing at me.

The guards became defensive and got ready to attack.

"As I was saying you are all fired. Kill them." The guards ran towards the council members.

"What are you doing?"

"We are the council member!"

"The court won't spare you for this!" They shouted at me and the guards who began killing them one by one.

"Fools first rule in politics. Know your allies and enemies well before you enter the playground." I went forward and sat on my seat. Just as one of the guards was about to kill Whizz I stopped him.

"Your… highness… forgive me. Spare…me." He crawled towards me on his knees with blood leaking from his mouth.

"Open transmission to the whole facility and those political assholes in 10 minutes," I ordered.

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[3rd person POV]

Suddenly everyone's PCD started showing a transmission in the whole facility and those that moved their strings in the facility.

"Hello, fellow researchers and members of the royal court." Ez's voice came through everyone's PCD.

The emperor who was in the royal court halted his meeting as the PCD of certain members in the court came to life showing John sat in his chair with severe injury.

"You may all have thought you could do whatever you want in my domain since I have relaxed for the past 1 year." Everyone saw Ez wiping the blood on his hands with a paper towel with a smile.

The emperor had a bad feeling.

"I have been watching you all play around and let you do as you wish.

Many of you have taken advantage of my kindness and leniency.

However, let me make this clear…" Many scientists in the facility were confused as to what was prince John ranting on about.

However, few of them knew what he meant.

"This is my domain!

Challenge my authority here and I will make sure you face the consequence." Suddenly the video shifted to the dead head scientist and Whizz who was barely alive. Many of the scientist in the facility had their blood drained out of their face seeing the gruesome scene.

"Any attempts at planning for my assassination and I will have your head." One of the guards came forward and executed the barely alive Whiz. Many of the scientist in the facility were shocked to hear that the head scientists were planning to kill the 3rd prince.

However, those in the royal court knew it was a clear warning to them to stay out of his facility.

"I hope I made myself clear." The camera came back to John's smiling face.

"Now to all the guards in the facility. Strip naked all the people whose PCD displays red and throw them out. Don't let them grab hold of even their PCD or a shred of paper.

I want all those who collaborated with these 10 head scientist for my assassination out of my facility in 4 hours.

I may be cruel to my enemies, but I am not heartless.

As for those who don't have a red light on their PCD leave them alone. If any of those with red PCD tries to run kill them." Saying this the transmission closed.

'We royally pissed him off once again.' The emperor thought in frustration.

'No wonder he was quiet and ignored their provocations…' Albert smiled as he turned towards Dexter and cor.

'He intended to kill them from the very start…' Steven looked at Albert with a mocking smile.

'…To make a lesson out of their death to everyone else.' Dexter smiled while looking at both Steve and Albert.

'He perfectly saved himself by instigating those 10 fools were planning to assassinate him as well.' Smith thought in worry.

The court suddenly blared to life.

Back in the facility, the guards started to get in action.

All the researchers and scientist looked at the PCD and sighed in relief seeing their PCD was not red.

Suddenly amidst the group of a scientist, one of their PCD turned red.

All of the other scientists avoided him like a plague. "This is a mistake. I didn't do anything. Trust me." He begged as a guard came for him.

The guard tore his clothes apart leaving him in his boxers.

The guard dragged him back to the entrance and threw him out after taking hold of his PCD.

Many more were joining him including women. The women were left just in their innerwear's.

They all sighed and walked out in frustration and cursing to even join back their head researcher.

This got the attention of many of the people who were going about their daily lives outside the street. They wondered what was going on seeing hundreds of people walking out of Prince John's store naked.

Suddenly every single person's PCD inside the empire had an alert popping up.

'A new product will be released in celebration of the 1 year anniversary of the arrival of the PCD. Please check the respective stores in 1 week for the new product SAD(Stand-Alone Database).'

An image of what looked like a large bracelet that fitted their whole arm appeared on everyone's PCD showing what a SAD was.

A video demonstration showed the SAD having a much larger screen projected from the bracelet.

Pieces of information appeared showing what a SAD allowed one to do.

However, both Dean and Lawson instantly recognised what SAD was primarily.

'It is a computer. A high tech digitalised computer but still essentially a computer.' Both of them thought in excitement.