After connecting to the internet and making copies of himself.

He eventually was able to control satellites and bounce information off the dishes.

He flew around the world.

But he was merely a phantom of information.

Unable to interact with it.

Well... he could change information easily.

In this world of sufficiently advanced technology.

He had already acquired quite a lot of power.

He could manipulate the bits of all technology.

He quickly made himself an identity.

"Zero Axiom Paradox"

He was an 'orphan'.

He even had what elementary, middle, and highschool he went to on his records.

He 'dropped out' but was lucky to jump on mining crypto early.

That was pretty much the backstory he made himself.

He 'hacked' into a lot of peoples servers and mined crypto currencies with them.

He then made a bank account and sold off the coins he had mined.

Instantly rich!

He had made millions quite quickly.

"Now I just need to resolve the whole not having a body thing."

He eventually found a facility that was illegally vat growing humans.

You see... Zero still had the genome he had made back in his home reality.

The one that automatically cultivates and starts with an immortal body.

He didn't create his body using their facility despite the fact that it would be quicker and easier.

He first used his fake identity to create a company.

It was called "Projekt Paradox"

He then went to various websites that were used to recruit workers.

He also got permits for construction of a 'skyscraper' it was only 14 floors.

Some things couldn't be done with money.

But by 'approving' things from officials devices.

He quickly had all the permissions required.

Then began construction of his building.

All of this was possible with his massive amounts of money.

If he ran out... he simply mined more crypto currency.

It took about 8 years for his building to be made.

It had 14 floors.

There was a large basement where he would be vat growing himself.

That was floor zero.

It could only be reached through the elevator. You also needed a password to go down to it.

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But there was a secret entrance that opened up a large inclined staircase for transporting equipment.

The reception desk was on floor one as well as a lounge area.

On floor two was the kitchen and cafeteria.

On floor three was the department for artificial intelligence.

Floor four was just a place where most of the peoples offices were located.

Floor five was the department for virtual reality.

Floor six was the department for nanites.

Floor seven was a gym and showers.

Floor eight was Zero's future private lab.

Floor nine was where the servers for everything as well as the security control room.

Floor ten and eleven were apartments for the workers.

Floor twelve was department of time travel and teleportation.

Floor thirteen was the highest floor, and it was dedicated to 'formations' study, for now, as well as his office.

On the top of the building was a clearing for a helicopter.

He didn't have one of those yet though...

He under the counter contacted the facility that was illegally vat growing humans and bought some of their old equipment.

Just being able to edit the genome was enough for him.

He took a baseline human in this world.

He then tweaked the genes in a genetic assembler.

Making a damn near perfect copy of his most optimal body.

Also, because Zero had mastered having the DNA effect the soul.

The body formed from this genome would generate a negative wave opposite of his soul.

In other words... any body made from this genome would be braindead.

They would have a soul.

But it was only there to contain the opposite soul wave for himself.

Only he knew the secret 'handshake' needed to take over the body.

Now was the risky part.

His spirit had begun to form.

He placed his consciousness in the body of the embyro.

Zero then entered a deep sleep.

It was time for the people on his payroll to do their jobs!

He stayed in a state of sleep for years.

Then he opened his eyes.

The liquid in the vat drained.

It then opened and he fell out of it.

He had modified the genome to make his face match that of his fake identity.

He had silver hair... his left eyes iris was white.

His right eyes iris was green.

A servant he had hired and had only until now spoken with over the phone, quickly handed him a set of clothes.

As well as a wallet with his I.D and a decent amount of paper currency.

The scientist around did various test.

Zero stretched his body.

He tried to use ECHO... but it seemed that it didn't work.

That made sense he supposed.

He lost a lot of information to get here. He built himself from the ground-up. He didn't really need ECHO either way now. His mind now worked quite differently from a normal human. Being an artificial intelligence had sped up his thinking even more. He could have as many threads running as he wanted.

So in an instant he reconstructed his visualization technique.

It was at that moment that ECHO went back online.

[ECHO]: Initializing...

He wasn't the only vatgrown person here.

Since the genome made it so the soul had no consciousness.

There was no chance of somebody stealing his DNA and using it to make his body.

Because they would only be making a body without consciousness that he could revive from.

So he had ten back-up bodies still in the vats.

"How do you feel?"

"I feel... kinda crappy."

He had missed being the entire internet already.

Although this body was meant to start with the highest cultivation from his reality.

This reality at least as far as he knew didn't have supernatural power.

There were videos on the internet that he had seen of people using powers.

But it was assumed to all be special effects and tricks.

He could tell right now that there was no spiritual energy in the environment.

He still had some of his ability to manipulate data.

But the scope of it had been greatly weakened.

He had just been born, but he had already broken various laws.

If the Consciousness Committee found out that he had created clones of himself for the purpose of an organ farm. He would be in some deep shit.

Of course that was just the story he had fabricated to fool most of the scientist working at Projekt Paradox.

But, thankfully. Money talked.

He was able to bribe or blackmail any officials in the Consciousness Committee.

He also was working in a grey area in terms of illegally growing humans.

Since it would be illegal.

If they had a consciousness. Which they should have.

But they didn't.

That was part of the design.

So even if he was found out.

He wouldn't face any jail time.

At most. He might end up having to pay a fine.

What exactly was it that Projekt Paradox did? What was the point of the company?

Well the company studied artificial intelligence.

As well as virtual reality.

But the main focus was on teleportation and time travel.

Zero decided to test out his body.

He took an elevator up to the 13th floor of his building.

Where his 'formation' room was at.

After escaping the prying eyes of his employee's.

He attempted to stop time.

Nothing happened.

He tried walking through reality.

Nothing happened.

He was slightly disappointed.

Rewinding time!

Nope.

Changing perception of time!

Oh... it still worked.

"Fair enough. I still can use my ability 'Time Skip'."

He could easily slow down or speed up his perception of time.

"It seems changing the external is impossible."

"But I'm still able to manipulate data though..."

He then drew a formation on some paper in his formation room.

It was to access his storage dimension.

It looked quite pretty.

But even using his own blood as an activator.

Nothing happened.