Umbrella Chapter 8 - Direction of Future Steps (Patreon)

Alexander welcomed everything that could increase his power in any given form, even though right now it would be more dangerous to go into fights; he knew that the moment he successfully developed the T-Virus that could enhance individuals, then it would be an entirely different manner.

Though... the most precious thing that he obtained from the Gacha was obviously the Fusion Core.

The Fusion Core was technology from the Fallout Universe, a world that was in many areas technologically far more advanced and some of their inventions were like straight of fantasy...

People in the Fallout Universe mastered Nuclear Technology to the point where they developed clear Nuclear Fusion as a limitless source of energy; even Cold Fusion wasn't out of their reach.

Standardized fusion cores are a high-grade, long-term nuclear battery used for military and commercial applications before the Great War. Used by civilians to power a multitude of devices, from automobiles, to generators, the military instead used them for warfare, supplying Power Armor and some Gatling Laser models with energy.

If they could study it and uncover the secrets of the Fusion Core, it would be a staggering achievement that would push the technological boundaries of the world by whole decades. 

Now that he pondered about it, the problem with researching this would be that he could only entrust it to the people who were 110% loyal to him. It was literary technology from a different world.

He would have a hard time explaining where it came from... 

However, he could always blame it on the Anomaly.

The last thing that continued to elude him somewhat was the last reward he got from the Gacha and which actually had God-Rank rarity. This was the first time he got something that rare, if he didn't count the Summinings that were actually as rare as the God-Rank Gachas were.

[Mission Invokator activated.]

[Special Achievement Added.]

[Achieve S-Rank Evaluation during the Racoon City Crisis. Reward: Trans-Dimensional Klein Gate: ??? (I Have a Mansion in a Post-Apocalyptic World).]

Alex calmed himself down when he saw the mission and its subsequent reward because he knew that it would be very hard to fulfill, but at the same time, it would be something that could properly use his power and accelerate the development not only of his Corporation but the entire world by at least few centuries.

Acess to worlds like Fallout or Alternate Earth of the I Have a Mansion in a Post-Apocalyptic World... both of world were filled with a tremendous amount of technological innovation and advanced techniques that almost made him salivate.

'It seems that expanding the military power is necessary... everything should be concentrated within the NEST in the Arklay Mountains, so we have it close to the Raccoon City. With the incoming payments from the military for the rifles, it should be enough to expand the production of weapons several times and earn even more money to be used in the expansion.'

Right now, Alex wasn't keen on saving the money, but rather, he decided to invest everything back to expand as fast as possible without endangering the future and foundation of the Umbrella. 

Without the Mission Invokation, he wouldn't have chosen this step, but the Trans-Dimensional Gate to the Fallout Universe or I Have a Mansion in a Post-Apocalyptic World was too tempting for him to just pass.

The technological advances that he could obtain from such a world were staggering and could become the foundation of the Umbrella Corporation for the next decades. Still, obtaining the S-Rank Evaluation of the Mission to Survive the Raccoon City would be hard. 

With just 500 men in the Umbrella Security Service it would be impossible, not to mention the purpose of the Umbrella Security Service was the guard the facilities of the Umbrella Corporation and other important objects for the Corporation and not to engage in the direct fights.

'The US is full of army veterans who are discarded, and many are living in terrible conditions; we can start recruitment from there and give them a new life. This way, we could easily obtain a large fighting force on a very good level... If only I had something like Extremis that could heal missing limbs or so... the cellular regeneration of the Extremis would allow for recruitment of many people who lost everything and their fanaticism would reach whole new level. Unfortunately, such a thing is rather far away.'

Alexander planned to recruit the former soldiers of the US Army en masse; many of the veters of the United States Army were discarded and often living in terrible conditions or poverty, especially those unlucky. 

He planned to collect them one by one, capitalizing on the foolishness of the US Military for his own intentions.

'Now that I think about it... Progenitor Virus had a certain level of healing properties; theoretically speaking, if we could isolate the particle of the healing factor, we could theoretically replicate a weaker version of Extermis Serium or at least something that could regenerate even lost body parts, but that would...'

Soon enough, Alex was lost in his thoughts, but he managed to get a certain level of epiphany because he got an idea of how to make some working serum that could regenerate even lost body parts with the usage of the Progenitor Virus.

He had already sent the five samples that he had to the NEST, where they began experimenting on it and injecting the Progenitor Virus into the random flowers to create Stairway to the Sun, and the preliminary reports showed that it had been successful.

The Progenitor Virus was originally harvested from the flower Stairway to the Sun. Stairway of the Sun can be identified by their eight fused-petals, which are of irregular shapes. In colour, the head changes from an orange-red to yellow.

In the Resident Evil Stairway of the Sun, also called Sonnentreppe in German, is a species of flowering plant native to West Africa, and belonging to the family Asteraceae, which includes such flowers as the Chrysanthemum or Sunflower.

The Stairway of the Sun became central to Ndipaya culture sometime in the Neolithic, and were the first to take note that flowers which grew in the caverns were toxic unlike those growing elsewhere.

In their apotheosis tradition, a tribesman became a god-king after eating the flowers in the Garden of the Sun rather than die from its toxic effects, and any tribesmen who wished to become the next king would have to pass a series of trials, including the flower-consumption to gain the title.

Research by Umbrella Pharmaceuticals in the 1960s indicates that Stairway of the Sun is one of many organisms in the world in which Progenitor, a retrovirus, exists within the genome. Normally inactive junk DNA, for unexplained reasons the environmental conditions of the cage triggered active production of the virus.

With humans evolving with certain genetic defects, exposure to the virus is almost always fatal, with the survivors gaining superhuman abilities.