Becoming A Tech Tycoon Begins With Regression novel Chapter 225

Ethan smiled as he looked at the results before him.

"System?" He called out.

As if reading his thoughts...which it kind of was, the system gave him the notification he was waiting.

[Congratulations on successfully creating the 'All-in-One Nanobot Colony'.]

[Designation: Aegis-Class Adaptive Colony.]

[Primary Functions: Medical Repair, Physical Enhancement, Immune Augmentation, Neural Protection.]

[Secondary Functions: Environmental Resistance, Toxin Neutralization, Emergency Reconstruction.]

[Threat Resistance Rating: S-Tier.]

Ethan's smile got wider as the system continued analyzing his creation.

[Since the host utilized upgraded blueprints from the System Shop and exceeded baseline parameters, a bonus reward will be issued.]

[Reward Calculation in Progress…]

He waited for a while, looking as the interface loaded.

[Reward Issued.]

[You have unlocked: Nanite Sovereignty Protocol (Passive)]

Ethan's brows rose slightly as he read the description that appeared before him.

[Nanite Sovereignty Protocol:

All nanotechnology created or controlled by the host is immune to external hijacking, reverse engineering, or hostile assimilation.]

[Effect: Any foreign nanotech attempting to interact with host-created nanites will be forcibly analyzed, overridden, and absorbed.]

[Note: This effect applies retroactively and scales with host technological mastery.]

[You have earned 1,000,000 SP]

This solved one of his worries without him doing anything, right now, he didn't have to worry about others hacking the nanobots.

"System," he called out again, "open status."

[Displaying status....

Name: Ethan Carter

Age: 20

Title(s): Innovator of the Impossible, Architect of Realities.

Technology Level: Tier 4

System points: 16,736,420 SP

System version:

V 2.0 (progress: 18.2%)

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{Skills}

Quantum Field Manipulation: (Locked.)

Nanite Sovereignty Protocol (Passive)

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{Knowledge and Proficiency} [Tier 4]

Artificial Intelligence (AI): 100% → Tier 4

Robotics & Automation: 68% → Tier 3

Cybersecurity & Hacking: 100% → Tier 4

Quantum Computing: 52% → Tier 4

Biotech & Genetic Engineering: 98% → Tier 4

Nanotechnology: 30% → Tier 4

Energy Systems & Fusion Tech: 75% → Tier 3

Weapons & Defense Systems: 80% → Tier 3

Software & Algorithm Design: 96% → Tier 4

Material Science & Fabrication: 30% → Tier 4

Mechanical Engineering: 100% → Tier 4

Electrical Engineering: 98% → Tier 4

Quantum Engineering: 50% → Tier 4 ]

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{Assets}

Companies: OmniTech Corp, Solterra.

Current savings: $85,000,000

Income source(s): OmniTech Corp.

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{Inventions}

Sentinel, A.T.H.E.N.A, O.N.I, Vitaband, Adaptive liquid alloy, Zero point energy core, Simulation Chair.

Current Tech influence: Low (14.5%)

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{Missions}

Mission Title: The World Network

Objective: Expand OmniTech's operational presence into at least five major global sectors within the next 12 months.

Progress: 3/5 territories established.

Reward: Unlock of TDI's 4th Module — [REDACTED].

Bonus Reward: +20% global influence, +10% system version.

Failure Condition: If OmniTech loses majority operational control in any two sectors.

[Project Aegis]

Objective: Develop a global defense network capable of withstanding extraterrestrial or quantum-scale invasions.

Time Limit: 1 Earth Years.

Failure Penalty: [Extinction Event]]

NB: Due to the host gaining access to Quantum field manipulation, the TDI 4th module has been upgraded.]

"This is it," he chuckled, "the preparations are complete, time to deal with the cockroaches."

As if on cue Athena suddenly reported, {Sentinel seemed to have been successfully copied.}

A classic misdirection.

Unfortunately for him,

"That won't happen," Ethan said.

***

Meanwhile, the engineers at Helix Tech were working overtime, just in hopes to meet the release marked for tomorrow.

Sentinel....no, Helix Aegis was supposed to reach the public tomorrow as a better version of Sentinel, but even they knew that was far from the case.

They were doing everything they could to at least get it to activate its predictive functionality.

After all, without that, it'd only take a week at most before the public realized that this was a cheap imitation.

The atmosphere inside Helix Tech's primary development wing was suffocating.

Monitors glowed with cascading lines of code, error windows stacking atop one another like unspoken accusations. Coffee cups littered desks, some untouched, others drained hours ago and forgotten. No one had gone home.

Not really.

"Run the heuristic loop again," one of the senior engineers snapped, fingers flying across his keyboard. "Increase the sampling window. If we brute-force enough variables, something has to click."

"It already did," another replied hoarsely, eyes bloodshot. "Three hours ago. And it failed. Again."

Helix Aegis responded exactly as it always did, fast, efficient, and fundamentally hollow.

It reacted to threats.

It did not anticipate them.

That single missing difference was the gap between a revolutionary AI and a glorified intrusion detection system. And everyone in the room knew it.

"What about the adaptive core?" a younger engineer asked, voice tentative. "The part we commented out earlier—the one throwing recursive paradox errors?"

The room went quiet.

The lead researcher slowly turned toward him. "That block is unstable. It keeps rewriting itself based on nonexistent inputs. If we leave it active, the system collapses."

"But Sentinel has something like that," the younger man pressed. "You said so yourself. Something that lets it predict instead of react."

The lead researcher clenched his jaw.

"Sentinel," he said carefully, "has something we don't understand."

That was the real problem.

They weren't building Helix Aegis.

They were trying to recreate something done by a far more advanced mind. It was like copying answers in an exam, a single error would mess everything up.

Across the room, a red warning flared briefly on a secondary display before it quickly vanished

No one noticed.

Not as Athena quietly catalogued every keystroke, every desperate workaround, every unethical shortcut.

{They are attempting to simulate predictive behavior through brute probabilistic inflation,} Athena informed Ethan in real time. {Success probability: 2.7%. Projected public exposure failure: 96.4% within seven days1.}

Ethan exhaled slowly, eyes half-lidded.

"They're cornered," he murmured. "Which means they'll do something stupid."

Should he help them out a bit?

Nah, that probably wasn't a good idea, it would be even more interesting watching them self sabotage in their 'race' against OmniTech Corp.

"This should be fun."

What she's saying is, they're faking the probability of success and any test they try will end in failure within a week