September 1, 2065.
10:00.
Inside the palace's private study.
William sat on the sofa in the study, drinking the coffee Serena had brewed for him while reading the morning news through a holographic projection.
Most of the news concerned which colony was about to be completed, which expert had predicted that land prices in a certain star system would skyrocket, or which angel had actually accepted a television station's invitation for the first time ever. There were all kinds of stories like that.
With a wave of his hand, William shut off the holographic projection before him and drained the coffee in his cup.
He placed the coffee cup on the low table in front of him, then leaned back against the sofa and gazed up at the beautifully decorated ceiling, sinking into a brief spell of contemplation.
He had traveled from 2006 to the present, and everything was simply too dreamlike. In just sixty years, humanity had entered the interstellar age—even the inter-universal age.
The greatest contributor was...
The Engineering Team.
More precisely, the Engineering Team after the system granted it [Rapid Construction].
The Hive had been completed within a year, Jiu Hai Colony on the moon had been built in less than two years, and construction had begun on a colonial city on Mars at the same time.
Later, with the assistance of the Templar Defenders, the Engineering Team had practically begun modifying and rebuilding planets as if it had activated a cheat.
As expected, the Engineering Team was the true eternal god.
Relying on the enormous cash flow at his disposal, William had purchased every affected area whenever an anomaly was contained.
Back then, a joke had even circulated among the employees: once all anomalies had been contained, the world would belong to Umbrella.
In fact...
After