Umbrella Chapter 2 - Umbrella Corporation (Patreon)

"Sir, are you alright?"

Alexander turned around and saw a man standing. He was a middle-aged Japanese man with a bit of grey hair and black eyes, wearing a black suit and standing there like a stone statue with an unreadable expression on his face.

"Yes... yes, I believe I am Goro..."

Goro Takemura was a former bodyguard of Alexander's father, Lord Edward Ashford and he was also a person fiercely loyal to the Ashford Family for the help that he once received in the past from the Ashford Family.

"How much many could Ashford Family fork out in liquidity as fast as possible?"

Alexander asked as he looked at Goro Takemura, who then took out a tablet and checked it out.

"Over half a billion dollars..."

That was a lot of money, and that was just cash across various accounts or hidden places; it was liquidity, not counting other things like properties, realities, and shares in various companies that were owned through generations by the Ashford Family.

"Then I have a task for you, Goro..."

Alexander stated because ironically, though the moment he got [Master Genetics (Legendary)] and [Master Virologist (Legendary)] as rewards from the Gacha, he also got the corresponding "identity" in the world.

He could proudly call himself Dr. Alexander Ashfrod, with two doctorates in Virology and Genetics.

"I have decided to establish the company and build a modern-day Empire... go and take care of everything around it; the name of it should be Umbrella Corporation. We will deal primarily with Biotechnologies, Medicine, and Arms..."

Goro Takemura, as a loyal servant to his master, then went to carry out the orders.

The Ashford Family had more than half a billion dollars in their disposition, which was far more than enough to finance some crazy projects, and Alexander could afford to invest a lot of money and suffer some losses.

He planned for the Umbrella to be a private company so he wouldn't ever sell any shares of the corporation to outsiders.

***

2nd of June, London, The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge.

[Congratulations to the Host for completing the Achievement and obtaining a Premium Gacha Ticket as a reward.]

[Gacha is now rolling!]

[Congratulations! User Alexander Ashford has received The NEST - Hidden Laboratory (Unique). The User may find the NEST underneath the Arklay Mountains in the United States of America.]

NEST was a large, subterranean laboratory complex located in the Arklay Mountains not far from Raccoon City and directly beneath the Umbrella Chemical Plant. For him, it would serve as a perfect place to conduct research into Viruses, Super Human Projects, Weapon Projects and training the troops...

Naturally, they would need to finish that place up and strengthen the defenses and some other features so it was truly unreachable from the outside or from the inside. While Alexander detested the idea of B.O.W. as they were failed products to him, accidents could happen all the time.

[Warning! Anomaly detected! Primogenitor Virus has appeared somewhere in the world...]

[Please prepare for the Outbreak. Countdown: 4 Years, place of Outbreak: Racoon City.]

"Oh... fuck..."

Yes, those were the only words that Alexander could say right now... it seemed that there was no free lunch in the world, and apparently, more rewards he obtained from the System, the more dangerous the world would become...

Cause and Reaction, it seemed.

[New Mission has been Issued.

- Contain the Outbreak in the Raccoon City, Reward: x5 Premium Gacha Tickets.]

"And now I would need to fight zombies... I just wanted to gain eternal life, become superhuman and enjoy life surrounded by luxury and beautiful women..."

He sighed a bit as he sat in a luxurious limousine, but he soon calmed down and stepped out of the car as Goro Takemura opened the doors for him when they arrived at The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge.

Right now, he was here to recruit another person to his team, Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, who was summoned to this world; now that he thought about it, if he summoned someone from the Halo, didn't it mean that they would sooner or later meet the Covenant?

Hopefully not, because aside from a few characters and bits of lore, he didn't know anything about the game franchise.

"We can go, Sir."

Goro Takemura said, and Alexander grabbed his black suitcase where he had some documents about the Progenitor Virus that he had studied for the past few days, concepts about creating superhumans, and so on...

Locating the office of Dr. Halsey was rather easy despite the huge size of The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge because she was rather famous. Naturally, geniuses like her are not a common occurrence.

"Goro wait for me here... don't allow anyone to enter."

Alexander said as he knocked at the door and entered her office... which seemed to be in a mess because everywhere he looked, there were papers, books, and electronic devices; one thing he noticed about this Earth was that it was slightly more advanced than his original one.

"Dr. Halsey?"

He asked when he noticed a young woman, she was twenty-five years old, sitting among the papers and looking at some kind of equations on them. She had short blonde hair slid backward and subtle green eyes as she looked at him with a very annoyed expression for interrupting her work.

"Why are you interrupting my work?"

Alexander chuckled at that because she was straightforward... that was good; she went straight to the matter.

"May I?"

He asked more out of politeness but didn't wait for her response as he sat down.

"Allow me to introduce myself, Alexander Darnic Prestone Ashford, the sixth Earl of Ashford and founder of the newly established Umbrella Corporation; it is my pleasure."

He kissed her right hand before he continued.

"And I also have two doctorates in Genetics and Virology and I came here with a proposition that would be certainly interesting for a mind of your caliber."

She raised her brow, hearing that it wasn't the first time some pompous noble visited her or something, but most of them were just bootlickers that cared more about her appearance and wanted to use her for their own gains.

Still, this was the first time someone with actual education and someone who was even younger than herself and already had two doctorates which were pretty impressive.

"And what is your proposal?"

She decided to humor the man for a moment, though at the same time, she was also curious about what all this was about.

"What would you say on... elevating the entire humanity to a whole new level?"

Alexander stated as he opened his black suitcase and presented her some documents titled with "Project: Sentinel" and "Project: Flashlight".

And then he waited, and as he observed her expression, he grinned in victory.