The gene theraphy and flash cloning have been made public, just as predicted it was meet with a heated debate and ONI is being bombarded with accusations, criticisms and complaints, there is even a protest outside the ONI headquaters. Fortunately his security force is able to keep them at bay.

Naturally it made front news headlines all around remnant and it became one of the most frequently asked topic. It is only thanks to the hunters he gave free treatment to saying a few good words about flash cloning that the heat is on a more tolerable level.

On a side note ONI also made a public announcement on the same day about a 'prototype' hydrogen engine, this was most ignored and barried by the more controversial topic. William had hope that the news about a new power source would distract some of the crowd, but it seems that advertising about using alternative energy in remnant is like advertising going green in an oil rich country like Soudi Arabia in the 21st century.

Never the less sales have dropped but William expects that this will only be temporary as once people finds out how truly useful flash cloning is, they will most likely come back in droves and it be a necessity of life.

With flash cloning a human's life span can be lengthen considerably by replacing damaged organs with a newer younger one. Theoretically as long as the brain doesn't get damage a person could live for all most an eternity by constantly replacing damaged parts.

Moving on the plans for the factories seems to been done ahead of schedule, with him providing most the plans all the architect had to do is fill in the details he overlooked.

Around this time with the 'revolutionary new discovery' made by ONI called instacrete, with that construction of his new factories is expected to be done in a month or two but the robotic components would be take a much longer time to be delivered. It is estimated that for all the factories to be up and running in about 1-2 years time, those delicate pieces of machinery would naturally take longer to make.

Right around this time ONI also began sending survayors around Vale to find titanium and other mineral deposites. It is expected that the survay would take months to complete but due to the local wildlife (grimm) it might take as much as a year, hearing William dispatched some of his half trained security force to guard them.

Unfortunately as the factories that were supposed to build their weapons are still being constructed so they'll have to settle with atlas imported guns for now.

While he could just hire hunters to babysit his surveyors it would cost a lot in doing so, he would need to hire them for months which would amount to a small fortune. While William has the money that doesn't mean he is wasteful.

The reason he is even having such a large security force is for them to protect ONI's interest, he is not paying them to just to sit around all day. Besides this might also be a chance for them to experience some live combat situations.

William expected that there will some injuries so he will give them free access to biofoam and free flash clone treatment for the duration of the mission. As for casualties? He will naturally compensate the families.

William did the calculations and came up with even if half of the people he sent died it is still cheaper then hiring hunters so there is no major lost anyway.

A few months later

The heat from from flash cloning is still strong but not as much as it was when it first came, it seems that the oppositions started to die down when ONI gave more free treatment to a few disabled children from poor families. Seeing the smiling faces of those children who are now able to live normal lives really made a big difference in, pretty soon he should be able to start charging people for treatment and because of that sales started to recover.

Right around this time came the news of one his factory just fishish construction and is now only waiting for the mechanical component to be delivered.

This naturally caused another commotion as a lot people are naturally interested in instacrete, to be able to build a house in a week, imagine the implications!

Unfortunately for them William won't be selling instacrete as selling instacrete would do more harm then good, think about it. With him being the only one being able rapidly build factories, it's only a matter of time before he out produce his competitors and drive his competitors out of business.

Anyway the survay team just finished locating a few titanium among other mineral deposits, hearing that he start making plans for a mining base to be immediately and start mining. Naturally he would be using drones for the mining, his first factory will be producing drones for him to do a wide rang of things and in this case mining.

As for drones in military applications? Well drones are pretty dumb and they are not great at dealing with something that it isn't program for or the unknown, which most of the time unknowns are the reason why battles are lost.

The way to circumvent this is by giving it a smart AI but then again a smart AI is by no means cheap and William is still years away before can he even attempt to make his first smart AI, so a drone army is out of the question.

On another hand his security forces seem to have done well for the most part only sustaining a few casualties, so for now he'll let his security force do it's job. Also it seems that he'll have to expand his security force some more again, because of the new facories and new mining bases he got in plan his current forces would be inadequate to defend them all.

Because those protestors outside of his headquarters is starting to unerve him, he fears that if let alone they would became some thing like the white fang. Naturally the new recruit will under go marine training like their predecessors and those that participated in the survey team mission will get a promotion.

A few weeks later

The mechanical components of his the factory has finally been delivered, it has just recently been installed and is currently under going a few minor adjustments before beginning drone production, having a 'brand new experimental' hydrogen reactor would naturally require caution after all.

2 months later

The mining bases have been set up and the mining drones are now being shipped to their mining sites to began mining operation.

A few months later

Since William didn't hired any faunas labor it means that the white fang has no reason to attack him and even if they do raid his stuff they'll find nothing of value, they'll just find no dust in those crates but dust and since they don't know how to refine those ores it's useless to them.

His factories became operational and began production of a wide variety of things from materials like titanium to something more complicated like weapons and armors.

A few weeks later

The heat from flash cloning is starting to die down, most likely due to the supports he is receiving from the hunters and huntresses. They really like ONI products probably due to the extreamly usefulness of biofoam and flash cloning. It has saved counless hunter and huntresses by now.

William is primarily selling raw metals like titanium and tungsten. As for the rest? As electronic products is very unpopular with the locals.

William naturally didn't sell weapons and armor, he wouldn't want to be at the receiving end of his own weapons after all, he'll keep them to himself.

Sales has been on the rise it has more than recovered, the reason being titanium and tungsten making up for it. It is expected that it would only continue to rise in the near future.

Needless to say titanium and tungsten became very popular because of it's strength and hardness, on a side note unknown to buyer William only sold lower grade titanium and tungsten as he wouldn't want to one day wake up facing an atlas knight with titanium-A armor on.

Now with his factories up and running he equipped his security force with an ODST armor or an armor based on it as he still lack the certain technology to recreate it fully, but all in all it looked pretty much the same while lacking in some features it is as close as he can get.

They are primerally armed with a copy of an M7 caseless and they also have access to vairous other ONI made explosives like grenades. When his men first got hold of the M7, they thought it was a joke or a toy (think of it like when the M16 was first issued to the US soldiers in the vietnam war, they at first thought of it was a toy because it's made of plastic) but when they got a better feel to the weapon they fell in love with it.

The advantages of gunpowder bullets over dust rounds, is that gunpowder bullets has more kinetic force than dust rounds. This is due to dust simply doesn't have a lot of mass like lead, having less mass means that it has less penetrating power and less stopping power.

It's like this imagine being hit by a ball, now imagine being hit by a rock the size of the ball, big difference right.

Also he M7 has the ability to empty a 60 round mag in just 15 seconds which means it fires 4 rounds per second, couple that with it's stoping power and penetrating power. It just made the weapon very irresistible.

Naturally hearing reports of this atlas started bugging him to share it secrets and unfortunately for them he refused every time.

Anyway while his security force goes on and starts naming their new equipment William goes away to meet with his 'research team' and by research team it means that William give them the a few bits and pieces of what he wants to build and they figure the rest out.

He gave them the general outline of the UH-144 falcon, D77 Pelican and few dozen other 'ideas'. He'll check on their progress once in a while and once in a while he will gave them some help in some areas.

A few weeks later

William began his expansion to the agriculture industry, William baught a piece of sizable of land and began farming genetically modified crops.

This how ever raised some concerns from a few people while the heat from this isn't as large as the flash cloning incident but none the less the number of people protesting is not small ether.

William of course know that genetically modified food is complete safe for consumption as people have been eating genetically modified food since around 21st century, that's more than 500 years ago yet scientist still couldn't find any wrong it so it's safe to say that it's just a baseless claim.

'primitives!' To William it's nothing more than the flat earth theory.

And it's not like this has something got anything to do with them anyway, if they want to eat it then don't buy it, it's that simple! It's not like he is forcibly shoving it in to their mouth, they are free to not eat it if they think it's harmful.

And what right do they have telling him what to plant and what not to plant, last time he cheaked it's his business and there is no law against it, so they have no right interfering in what plants what he plants.

For now William just ignored those people who have to much time to waste as he has better things to do, he ordered the drones to resume planting while his security force held back the protestors.

Like wise the drones obediently fallowed it's orders and resumed planting, ignoring the background noses from the protestors.

A few months later

When harvest came, due to genetic modifications his plants have much higher yield and bearing much bigger fruits.

Thinking back to the unwelcome reception when he started planting these William tried to compensate by selling the crops at a ridiculously low pirce, not that he'll be operating at a loss even if it is pirced less than one forth than it's normal counter part.

That action didn't go unnoticed as the next day, it hit the front page news saying tempting people to eat poison with abnormally low prices. After seeing that article people gathered infront of ONI HQ to protest.

'honestly speaking, what are they even protesting about?' William thought not understanding why these people gathered.

Normally when the price of food is to high thats when people protest but the exact opposite is happening here, they are protesting because he priced his crops too... Low? They want him to what...raise prices?

'you know what? Forget it! just these ignore them, they're only embarrassing themselves. They'll get tired eventually.' he thought as he ignored them.

2 years later

William's agricultural expansion was meet heavy resistance at first but eventually most people couldn't stand the temptation of the low price and tried it. Once they did they found that ONI's genetically modified food has a richer taste than the regular unmodified one. Not only is it cheap it also taste better as well, so people began switch to ONI's food products.

This lead to some local farmers being driven out of business and forced to sell their land, which would eventually end up being bought by ONI there by expanding ONI's agricatural empire.

The farmers tried to protest but has little effect as William just simply ignored those sore losers and kingdoms couldn't do anything as there is no contingency for such as thing to happened, this is simply unprecedented.

And besides would they really want to stop ONI? I mean ONI is driving down food price which should be a good thing society at large right? Especial in this grimm infest world where food is scares. The kingdoms is currently caught in such a dilema.

Anyway now William just turned 17, it has now been 5 years since he came to this planet and thanks to his hard work his company has now grown to a sizable one.

It is even said that ONI can even matched the Schnee Dust Company but it's like comparing a football to a baseball player, they are simply playing an entirety different ball game.

While the Schnee is primerally a master of dust which run most of remnant and ONI is at this point the master of foold which it a necissity of life, if ether one of the suddenly dissapears over night it would be a disaster for remnant.

If the Schnee suddenly dissapears then most of Remnant would fall apart as every single piece of technology (excluding ONI's technology) they have is based solely on dust. Now if ONI suddenly dissappears then there would starvations.

William is prude to have made such an accomplishment, now William is currently thinking hard on something as something poped up recently that has his attention drawn.

It's the matter of aura, recently he just discovered that you could train aura to make it stronger.

'Ooooh, I didn't know you could train your soul and make it...bigger? stronger? Have more energy? ' William thought, he had thought that souls were supposed to stay the same no matter what happens.

Why he didn't discovered it sooner?

That is because he has been busy helping 'research', managing ONI, breaking deals and inspecting his various holdings. Part of ONI's success is partly due to it's strict professionalism, you wouldn't find people napping on duty or people lazing around. It's like a military facility while nothing like a real ONI (halo), it still better than most company on Remnant.

Anyway so right now he is contemplating wether to attend one of these elite academics and see how does he actually make aura grow bigger. He wondered if he could make a drug (dustless of course) that enhances aura.

He wanted to know more about aura as everything he read about or anyone he asked about just answered him with nonsense. As the saying goes 'seeing is believing' so he'll attend a school that teaches aura along with others his age and hopefully with their combined insight, he'll make be able to make something tangible out of it.

Fortunately for him there is such a school nearby and it's called beacon.