'Kill, kill, kill I will kill him, I will slaughter all of them, I will drink their blood, kill all the men, rape all the women and create a special brothel to use them, drown their children in the pool of blood of the men and the semen of the men that raped the women, destroy everything they hold dare. I will…'

"Hello kid, how you are doing?" Mr Gu's greeting broke Sylas out of his dark thoughts.

Mr. Gu did not notice anything wrong since even with all the dark thought Sylas' face looked like he was lost in thought.

'Poor kid, probably reminiscing of the good times he had with his family before he was captured.' Mr. Gu thought.

"Ahh Mr. Gu Good morning, I didn't see you there." Sylas replied as a smile appeared on his face.

"You know kid, I keep saying once you get out of here you should try singing, your voice is very beautiful." Mr. Gu said in an effort to lighten the emotion.

"Thank you, sir… My mom used to sing me to sleep." Sylas said with a slight depressed smile on his face.

'Fuck, I only made it worse.' Mr. Gu thought as he tried to think of a way to help the poor kid. 'Ahh, I know.'

"You know what kid, go scan the command station for any malfunction or maintenance needed."

Sylas paused as his expression shifted to shock, as he glanced at him, "Really?"

"Yes, as long as you don't do anything stupid." Mr. Gu said.

However, he was not troubled as Sylas was a good kid and very skilled with his work that the scientists here were debating on making him part of their group.

Besides there was nothing he could do especially with the slave chip imbedded in his neck.

"Thank you very much for this chance, Mr. Gu." Sylas said as he at once rushed away to get to his job.

Mr. Gu chuckled as he saw Sylas run away, 'I guess the least I could do after is give you an easier job for at least today.' Although Mr. Gu knew Sylas was trying to trick him, a veteran supervisor into giving an easier job he did not mind.

Alas he could not be more wrong.

Immediately, Sylas was out of sight of Mr. Gu he said in a faint voice, "Time to complete Phase I and Phase II."

*******

Sylas stepped into the command center. His boots clanked softly against the metallic flooring as he approached the main console.

Around him, the faint hum of machinery resonated in the silence, broken occasionally by the muffled snores of the Command centre's personnels who were still recovering from their leader's lavish party the night before, everybody ignored it as this was nothing new.

The noble in charge of this base was one of the second generations young masters, who like most other nobles saw this as a punishment.

Since he did not cause any major trouble, and his clan was well connected and occasionally gave donations his activities were ignored.

Even the staffs did not have problem with him since he did not interfere with their work as long as they completed their quotas.

Sylas's face remained neutral as he immediately began working.

 As he worked, he ran diagnostics, muttering occasional observations to himself.

He moved normal for a while doing his job when he suddenly started a countdown in his mind.

'Five… four… three… two… one… now.' He paused for a few seconds before going about his job.

A few minutes later a feminine voice was heard, "Master, I am done, we have five minutes."

"Good job Sera."

*******

*Base Surveillance Centre*

"This fucking system has glitched again." The sergeant in charge of surveillance cursed. He turned to one of his soldiers and said "Radio that in." 

"Do we always have to do that?" The soldier grumbled as he picked tapped his communication system.

"Protocol kid, we always follow protocol." The sergeant replied.

Before the soldier could say anything else his radio connected as a voice sounded from the other end.

"Maintenance team here."

"We experienced another glitch in the surveillance system can you come check it." The soldier said.

"How many times do I have to tell you guys up there that the system has been operating for several years without proper maintenance so it normal for it to experience glitches once in a while. In a few months we will upgrade the entire system."

"But…" The soldier tried to defend himself however the Maintenance team leader cut him off.

"No buts I don't have time to…" Just like he did his soldier the sergeant also cut off the maintenance Team leader.

"You have to… you don't have a choice; it is protocol or do you want me to report you for breaking the rules."

"You mother fucker… I have done everything, I checked for virus, I checked for AI interference, I checked for hacking, I and my men did basic repair on some of the parts we could even though that could not have been the problem. We even checked for patterns to see if we can get a pattern with which the glitch happened; we could not find one. I cannot find a problem except the duration to which it functions. DO YOU WANT TO KILL ME."

"You have to understand that…" The sergeant tried to explain.

"I DON'T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND ANYTHING. WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT ME TO DO. I TOLD YOU WE ARE NOT ON THE PRIORITY LIST FOR UPGRADES BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT MADE ANY GROUNDBREAKING TECHNOLOGY FOR NOW."

"I FUCKING TOLD YOU. NO, YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN. PROTOCOL THIS PROTOCOL THAT. FOR FUCK'S SAKE DON'T YOU DARE CALL ME FOR THIS ISSUE AGAIN OR I SWEAR I WILL COME OVER THERE TO STRANGLE YOU."

"IF YOU WANT REPORT AND SEE HOW MANY FUCKS I GIVE." After ranting the Team leader disconnected.

A brief moment of silence ensued before some of the soldiers burst into laughter.

The sergeant sighed as he ignored them. Even he could tell that he was already doing too much and there was nothing left to do than wait for the upgrade.