I’ve created a homunculus of a dragon, but that doesn’t mean I can stop making other homunculi. Human-shaped ones are the most useful, after all. This is a human world, after all…
Rather, I want to continue increasing the variety of homunculi patterns to solve the personnel problem.
Honestly, the average human in this world is so poorly educated they can’t even handle a simple McJob.
In the cities, things are a bit different, but speaking in terms of the overall population, 80% of people can’t do anything other than swing a hoe in a field.
It wasn’t until the early modern era that farmers began improving things through scientific knowledge and became more efficient. As for the farmers in this world, they can literally only swing hoes!
So, it’s quite economical to capture spies or assassins and repurpose them.
‘Alright, pets! Gather!’
‘Yes!’
The four men and women gathered here are my pets.
And they all serve as the data source for every homunculus I’ve made.
First, the dog.
She’s a woman I acquired in Proxia.
I broke her using alternating methods of painful torture and non-painful torture.
Next, the rat.
He’s a spy. While the dog was an assassin disguised as a maid, the rat blended in with the common folk to gather information and poison targets.
This one broke easily when I continuously stimulated him with a machine, impregnated him, and made him give birth, only to crush the newborns in front of him. Over and over.
Of course, being the kind soul that I am, I didn’t actually kill the twenty newborns. They’re safely stored away.
They’re children created using my own sperm, with not just their genes but their very existence’s data file modified, so they’re not even ‘human’ in the first place.
I plan to raise these children in the same place as orphans and find some use for them.
Now, for the men. First, the monkey.
This one was a mage. An intellectual, and although divorced, he came from a noble family.
So, I locked him in an empty space and extended his subjective sense of time by a factor of ten thousand for a few days. The room had a feature that resurrected him immediately if he tried to commit suicide.
He broke easily.
Finally, the sparrow.
He was a merchant and spy. While the monkey’s knowledge was academic, the sparrow was more practical, dealing with business, craft, and trade.
I tampered with the sparrow’s brain nerves and flooded him with excessive ‘happiness.’
He broke in no time.
From these broken individuals, I copied their brains, extracted the data, and used it to create my homunculi.
While I could technically create both the brain hardware and the mental ‘software’ like how to walk and talk, it’s pointless to make such large datasets from scratch.
Even if I can create the body, it’s not like the ‘how to walk’ or ‘how to speak’ programs come pre-installed.
So instead of creating everything from scratch, I just copy and paste existing data like this.
Like with the ‘laws of the world,’ as a human with only human-level processing power and memory, I can’t create such detailed data from scratch.
Even if there were some ultra-amazing quantum computer that could handle quadrillions of terabytes of calculations in an instant, it would be wasted on a low-spec being like a human to operate it…
Well, I’ve already come up with a solution to that, but I haven’t implemented it yet—it’s still in the experimental phase using Aida.
In any case, I want to continue obtaining various brains and gathering more data.
Breaking someone’s personality is quite a hassle, but if I don’t, I’ll get errors when I try to copy the data.
Oh, the errors are like when their personality collapses and they turn into a vegetable. When I say ‘breaking’ people, it’s a form of ‘processing,’ not total destruction. It’s tricky, and I’ve ruined several trying.
Besides, I still don’t fully understand the distinction between personality and knowledge, so I can’t properly file brain data yet.
I need to break more people and gather more samples.
I wonder if any of the executives will try to rebel… Then, under the guise of punishment, I could break their personalities and turn them into tools.
…No, that’s not good. I shouldn’t harbor such evil thoughts towards my employees. I have to trust them.
Once my research progresses and I can separate personality from knowledge, I’ll be able to copy only the knowledge without breaking them. Copying knowledge doesn’t require breaking them.
But right now, I’m just so short on usable personnel…
Even I, along with the executives, am working to the bone every day, studying, studying, and studying some more.
Well, it’s not too different from when I was a businessman on Earth, but I’ve never been a CEO before.
While I’m still fine studying programming, having to study management while also running a company is exhausting.
I’ll probably be this busy until everything’s running smoothly, so I have to hang in there…
‘Sigh… this is so exhausting.’
‘Yes!’
‘It’s quite the hassle taking care of all of you, too.’
‘Yes!’
‘So die.’
‘Yes!’
All of them killed themselves in their own ways.
The dog bit her tongue, the rat disemboweled himself, the monkey bashed his head on the floor, and the sparrow crushed his throat.
Alright, good.
Their performance is still intact.
Although I have homunculi now and don’t need them anymore, I want to keep the original data.
I have backups, but this is the master copy. By further training them, I can extract even better data.
I don’t like generating secondary copies from homunculi. Doing that, making copies of copies, degrades their completeness.
Since I’m copying something as complex as ‘humanity,’ I want to copy directly from the master.
‘Ah, sorry. Got lost in thought.’
I immediately resurrect the tool-people who had died.
They’re all smiling happily. They’re like employees at a super-friendly workplace.
Hmm, I guess this is what they call a ‘family-like’ company.
