[New Modification]

[Personality Adjustment: 34.43% Completed, Users current objectives have aligned with primary directives. Forced Integration: Rejected. Continue monitoring for further changes.]

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"How do you feel?" Haley asked lightly, the kid was in plank position as he had been for the past two hours straight as Haley directed the drones to finish up some last upgrades on the base, he had kept one eye on the kid using a spare work drone to ensure he wasn't slacking – something that didn't happen.

Antares look up at him with sweat pouring down his face and softly dripping onto the concrete, "This is.. it's incredible." He marvelled with laboured breaths but even so Haley could tell that he would most likely have no problem hanging on for another one or two hours if he asked him to.

Antares, of course, had installed Medical Analysis which had over the past week caused his body to develop rapidly causing him to reach his current state. Haley had only given him v2.0 but the 2x increase in physique alongside Medical Analysis assisting in healing his frail frame had allowed him to rapidly recover and make rapid developments in simply a week worth of time.

'I really should change that name going forward.' He thought as he looked at the file for v2.5 that laid on the screen of his HUD, '001 how many points do I have?' He thought, out of the corner of his eye a new indicator appeared with a small counter.

[421]

'How many do I need to upgrade Medical Analysis straight to v3.0?' He asked with interest, the counter disappeared and 001 instead appeared in its place.

[100 Points will be consumed. V3.0 is the limit of what I can upgrade the Modification to, if you would like to develop your physique further I suggest creating a branch-mod based on the code of Medical Analysis with a sole focus on physical development.]

'Can't you just write it for me?' He asked with a small sigh, but as expected:

[Negative. The User must build the framework from which I can build upon.]

Haley shook his head, 'Just upgrade Medical Analysis to the limit for me would you?' With that 100 Points disappeared and in their place he could feel a wave of heat wash over his body as his entire body felt a massive rise in energy from within.

After several moments the feeling disappeared only to be replaced by a feeling of invincibility, a feeling which of course was false but he could tell his body was at least strong enough to at least kill the average man with a single full-force blow to the head.

'A 3x increase in physique is really this insane huh?' He thought, slightly glad that he had restricted the versions that he had released to the public otherwise although it would've sold like crazy most of the Universe would descend into chaos with many people suddenly gaining immense strength by paying for it.

With a brief shake of the head he snapped himself out of his own thoughts and told Antares to get up, Antares looked at him warily as if he could detect how strong Haley was simply by looking at him – even if his strength had increased he still felt hopeless compared to him.

"Take these." He said before throwing one of the pistols he had collected from before and a rifle from the stockpile he had ordered from the Black Market. "I've hired a trainer for you, 42th Pitort Street in half an hour. He'll teach you close-quarters-combat and how to handle these."

Without another word he turned back and started to walk to his room that had been created by the drones in the far corner, Antares just stood there awkwardly holding the two guns and asked, "How am I meant to get there without being seen with these?"

Haley laughed and waved him off without turning back around, "Consider it another part of your training, if you get caught don't expect me to come save you."

Haley could almost feel the anger rising in Antares but he ignored it and ordered #01 to follow the kid to make sure he had a way out in the case that he got caught, otherwise he ordered the drone to remain undetected and only alert him if Antares was about to get himself into inescapable danger.

With precautions set he took a breath and sat down at his computer before starting to type, he copied the base code used to increase the muscle structure from the Medical Analysis code and began to build upon that – by analysing that code he learnt how to interact with the nerve system to stimulate a response from certain parts of the body by overclocking the self-sufficient energy supply of the nano-chip that the HUD was based on.

He discovered that if the user ate sufficiently his body would develop faster because the chip would have more energy that it could take from the food provided and use for stimulation of the nerves.

He could somewhat imagine the reaction of the scientific community if they discovered such a thing was truly possible, he remembered having read a paper where a certain modification expert had theorised that such a thing would be possible in the future but current human trial were unadvised as they could result in the test-subject being put into a vegetative state for the rest of their life if done incorrectly.

Obviously 001 had the know-how to do this process correctly without causing damage to the user making Haley more curious as to where exactly the thing that was cohabitating his own body had come from but despite his queries he was no closer to discovering the truth and doubted that unless he took apart his own head to dissect the Data Sphere it was unlikely he would ever be given satisfactory answers.

Haley spent an hour setting up the framework which basically stimulated the entire body in cycles which would result in a physical enhancement similar to the older versions of Medical Analysis, the function was basic and immature but apart from using 001's code as reference he had developed this entirely on his own.

Secondly, he had the idea that if the code to increase the physique of a human body overclocked the chip to stimulate the body then he could do the same thing for the human body although he doubted that a normal chip would be able to handle doing so he had no doubt that 001 and the chip installed by 001 into Antares were much more advanced than humanities own technology so theoretically he could activate on demand a state of heightened senses and reflex.

After another two hours the basic frame was entirely done, and Haley dubbed it Power Boost v0.1 before asking 001 to help advance it.