Chapter 285: Long Live Hydra
“It seems that coming to the Imperial Academy was the right decision.” Owen repeated what he had just said, showing how excited he was. At the same time, he narrowed his eyes, a grand plan forming in his mind.
“Long live Hydra!” After a moment of silence, Owen suddenly shouted like a madman to the empty room, his eyes frighteningly bright.
The name Hydra not only represents numerous bases but also its true nature: infiltration and parasitism. The little mustache from World War II and the motherf cking director of SHIELD have the most say in this matter. So, if the Academy City is compared to SHIELD, Owen smiled happily.
Although this is difficult, is it as difficult as when Hydra took root in SHIELD?
At that time, they were all prisoners, but in the end, they turned the tables and became the masters. They are definitely role models for us.
Owen kept rubbing his nose, sweating from the excitement of his inner thoughts, showing how thrilled he was.
Academy City allows the existence of clubs similar to societies, but using Hydra directly as the name is too obvious. Because he is Hydra III, this would be considered a personality cult and could easily arouse the vigilance of others. So, he’ll use “Nine-Headed Serpent.” The condition for joining the club is to record a video shouting “Long live the Nine-Headed Serpent!” Thinking of this, Owen wondered if he should prepare a mithril steel shield, a lightning-type one-handed hammer, and a puppet exoskeleton in advance. Then, he could take a group photo or something, as a commemoration of the newly established Nine-Headed Serpent branch, the Avengers.
Unknowingly, the sky darkened, and Owen finally woke up from his daydream. His stomach was already growling with hunger.
Without wasting any time, Owen ate something casually, took out familiar paper and pen, and began to scribble, perfecting this wonderful idea.
With his current abilities, he probably wouldn’t be very attractive to teachers, and even if he was, he couldn’t touch them.
Owen didn’t intend to touch the Academy’s nerves now. Even if a few teachers weren’t taken seriously by the Academy, he still didn’t want to take any risks.
It was the same in the Northland before. Owen tried his best to overestimate the Empire, so he developed his territory very discreetly. That’s why he wasn’t targeted by the Empire and successfully infiltrated the Empire’s interior.
Owen understood now. The Imperial Border Army was all a facade. The Empire’s true strength was never the hundreds of thousands of border troops. It was hidden too deeply. Even he only saw the tip of the iceberg from the Imperial Academy.
This wasn’t Owen’s wild imagination. With the technological level of the Crystal Student ID in his hand, Owen wouldn’t believe it if someone said the Empire didn’t have magic cannons or golem mechs.
Because even he, if he disregarded the cost, could create prototypes of these two things. Not to mention the Academy City, which concentrated the essence of the entire Empire.
It could be said that if someone told him now that the Academy City was actually a Sky City that could fly, Owen would believe it.
So, even if he wanted to make a move, it could only be limited to the students. Because no matter how big the commotion he caused, it wouldn’t attract the intervention of the Academy’s higher-ups.
However, after thinking carefully, Owen realized that he had oversimplified things.
Although students were simple, it was only relative.
The environment and education that noble students had lived in since childhood made them not easy to fool.
Commoner students weren’t fools either. They might have been naive before, but it was impossible for them to remain naive after entering the Academy City.
To be precise, Owen had to offer enough benefits and a grand enough goal. Moreover, benefits alone weren’t enough. It was easy to be treated as a fool and a fat sheep.
Hydra had the goal of welcoming back their god, the Inhuman Hive, and ruling the world. What did Owen have?
After thinking for a long time, Owen decided to first develop Hydra among this year’s freshmen. As he progressed through the grades, he would gradually expand the scale, layer by layer, and eventually spread to the teachers’ groups, devouring the entire Academy City.
Of course, this process had to be very careful. Although there were no superheroes here, the strength of Legends was no weaker than those top-notch superheroes.
Destroying the paper and pen in his hand, Owen rubbed his brows, stood up, and stretched. He replaced the furniture in the room and lay down on the familiar bed, falling asleep instantly. However, he didn’t leave without taking precautions. If Moliti was persistent and dared to sneak into the Academy City to assassinate him, she would probably face a big surprise.
Next, Owen selected the subjects he needed to study while arranging his room.
His room arrangement wasn’t as simple as replacing furniture and decorations. He carved various magic restrictions, installed golem mechanisms, and even exchanged for an underground dungeon chamber beneath his room, creating a perfect private experimental space. It was estimated that even if someone disappeared in his room, Conan wouldn’t be able to find them.
In addition, during this time, Owen also followed his senior sister to attend those basic classes and read the books she helped him choose to fill in the gaps in his understanding of the Empire. It could be said that his senior sister’s help wasn’t just lip service. She also put it into practice, making him feel her deep concern.
With the supplement of basic knowledge, Owen was also planning his future learning direction, so that he could be more efficient.
Interestingly, the Academy City didn’t restrict professions. Instead, it was very free. It could be said that students could learn whatever they wanted.
Theoretically, an assassin in plate armor, wielding a warhammer in one hand, a staff in the other, and carrying a bow and arrows on their back could exist. Even more bizarre combinations of professions existed, completely depending on the student’s interest.
However, this professional knowledge was only limited to the basics. Advanced courses were charged by the hour, and ordinary people simply couldn’t afford them. This was also the reason why commoner students sold themselves.
Therefore, cases like his senior sister weren’t isolated but rather a common phenomenon. Even more tragically, many people who weren’t good-looking enough or lacked strength weren’t even qualified to sell themselves.
If one could still pay to learn advanced courses, top-level knowledge truly belonged to a very small number of people. Because almost all top-level knowledge was in the hands of scholars and Legends, obtaining it wasn’t as simple as spending money.
Under such circumstances, Academy City was the only place where ordinary people could come into contact with top-level knowledge, but only the most talented geniuses had the possibility, and it was only a possibility. Because to learn top-level knowledge, one had to obtain the recognition of Academy scholars and Legends, which meant that one had to have the corresponding potential.
Although Owen’s intelligence attribute had improved a lot, he wasn’t confident enough to call himself a genius among geniuses, so he had to find another way. He had to hide his purpose while trying to show his own value.
Actually, this wasn’t contradictory. His goal was to let Hydra grow with the nourishment of the Academy City. Before that, he had to have enough value to achieve this goal.
If he didn’t even have the value to be used, then there was nothing to talk about. Therefore, Owen chose the subjects he was best at, which would make it easier for him to show off in class and attract the attention of teachers and students, so as to promote Hydra’s influence.
Because he was busy improving himself, Owen didn’t even know that he had two more roommates. He only met them when he went out late.
