The Strongest Empire

7 June 1899

Today was Andrew 18th birthday, a very important day for him. Due to his special situation, he didn't celebrate his birthday grandly. Only a few people he brought from the British mainland and the servant attended the 'party'. Well, not even a party actually, just a few symbolic events and it was done.

After the party was over, Andrew excitedly entered the study room and locked the door.

"Hey system, you there ?"

[Ding! Strongest Empire System officially activated!]

After an electronic sound rang inside Andrew's head, a blue panel like a hologram appeared in front of his eyes.

[Host: Albert Frederick Andrew Lewis

Position: King of Nyasaland Kingdom

Authority: First-Level

Life Intensity: 1.15 (1 is the average adult human)

Life Expectancy: 18/97

Reputation Point: 10,537,900]

It was a typical game-like panel, but what shocked Andrew was not this. The fact his life expectancy being showed was just too incredible!

'System! Is all of this true ?' Andrew exclaimed.

[Please don't doubt me, Host! 97 years is your theoretical life expectancy. It doesn't mean you can fully live to 97 years old! For example, your lifestyle can add or reduce your lifespan, or you can even die at 30 years old due to a car accident!]

Andrew breathed into a sigh of relief as 97 years old was long enough for him, long enough for him to complete his plan and maybe seek a way to increase it.

'Do you have anything that can add my lifespan? You know, something like Life Serum, Gene Agent or something like that.' Andrew asked hurriedly. Lifespan was always a plague that haunted humanity since the beginning of their existence. You could see many examples of what madness could a human did just for an attempt to add their lifespan.

[Please open the shopping mall and see it yourself!]

After the System said that, another panel appeared in front of James view.

[All Nuclear Fission Related Technologies until 2050 - 1 Billion Reputation Point

All Internal Combustion Engine Related Technologies until 2050 - 1 Billion Reputation Point

All Recipes and Manufacturing of Manmade Material until 2050 - 1 Billion Reputation Point

All Aviation Related Technologies until 2050 - 8 Billion Reputation Point

All Automobile Related Technology until 2050 - 1 Billion Reputation Point

All Pharmaceuticals Related Technologies until 2050 - 1 Billion Reputation Point

All Internet Related Technologies until 2050 - 1 Billion Reputation Point

.....]

Andrew sucked a cold air into his mouth as the list was too shocking! All of the items showed in the mall was very tempting for him. Even if he could only pick one of the top items, his kingdom would immediately take off.

'System, how can I get this Reputation Point ?' Andrew asked seriously. His ambition was flared up at the moment by seeing the mall.

[It's very simple, the more people know Host, the more Reputation Point will increase. For how the Reputation Counted, one person can provide a maximum 1 Reputation Point each year.

For example, if a person has heard the name of Host, he will give you 0.1 Reputation Point. If he specially pays attention to you by the newspaper, he will provide you with 0.2 Reputation Point. The point is, the more the person concerned about Host, the more he will give the Reputation Point.

The maximum 1 Reputation means he is already your mad believer, and he will treat your word as you're a god, which basically impossible for most people, but well, you can try... Understand, Host ?] The System answered patiently.

Andrew nodded as it was pretty easy to understand. By his quick calculation, there should be 1.6 Billion people on Earth right now. If all of them could provide him by an average of 0.3 Reputation Point each year, then he would get around 480 Million Reputation Point each year.

'System, is there no other way to earn Reputation Value ?' James asked. Even after his most optimistic calculation, he would only get around 5 Billion RP after ten years. But compared to the many technologies in the System Mall, 5 Billion could only buy several of the technology.

Well, of course, Andrew could choose to buy only a part of the technology. All system technology was way ahead of this time up to 150 years. Every 10 years advanced was the watershed. For example, he needed 1 Billion Reputation Points (RP) to buy all internal combustion engine technology.

If Andrew didn't have enough RP, he could choose only to redeem technology 10 years ahead of his time. By the calculation, he only needed to pay 66 Million RP to get the related technology.

[Of course, there is another way, but do you want to accept it ?] The System mysteriously asked.

'Accept! As long it can give the Reputation Point' Andrew quickly answered. No more time could be wasted, World War I was near, he needed to grow his kingdom strong enough before it happened.

[Congratulations for Host to open another function, the Task!]

[Mainline Task 1 Released!

Become Earth strongest country by the national comprehensive strength before 21st Century

Reward: All the item in the First-Order Mall

Failure: System Unbound]

The task content looked very simple, but fuck! Became Earth strongest country looked very easy to achieve by all system technology in the mall. But.... that prerequisite, by national comprehensive strength?

The National Comprehensive Strength (NCS) was an indicator that showed a country strength. How to count it was very complicated. Military, Economic, Cultural, land occupied, total inhabitant and many other indicators totalled together to formed NCS.

What status the Nyasaland Kingdom now? It was a backward, weak, and small country with only a few people resided in. Although the kingdom establishment caused a shocking wave in Europe, it was only for a short time.

Many people didn't even know the kingdom existed. Even the United States, who already developed leaps and bound in recent years still had a long way before they could replace the British Empire as number one power.

The United States only replaced the British Empire as the number one world superpower by the end of World War 2. If not because of the two World War, the United States would have waited longer before they could replace the British Empire position and be the famous World Police in the future.

'System! Are you kidding me? You give me an impossible task to accomplish!' Andrew roared inside his mind.

[Please don't be too pessimistic, Host! With my help, the task is not an impossible matter. So please work hard!]

[Ding! The National Attribute Open!]

[Name: Nyasaland Kingdom

Grade: Kingdom

King: Albert Frederick Andrew Lewis

Queen: -

Concubine: -

Population: 10,673

Land Area: 114,375 sq km2

Comprehensive National Strength: 211,890

Global Ranking: 230/236

GDP: £0

Upgrade Condition:

Population: 10,673/100,000,000

Queen: 0/1 Concubine: 0/4

Comprehensive National Strength: 211,890/100,000,000,000,000

GDP: £0/£10,000,000,000,000]

Andrew felt better when he looked that his kingdom wasn't in the most bottom ranking. With this attribute panel, he could better understand how to develop his kingdom.

But when Andrew took a look at the upgrade condition, he immediately felt the despair. Moreover, there was a kind of weird condition that required him to had at least four concubines... Anyway, he had a whole 100 years to completed the mission.

According to System, rank 1 at the moment was the British Empire with 510 Billion CNS . And when Andrew compared it to his kingdom measly 211,890 CNS, he didn't even want to mourn. And the British Empire CNS wasn't static too, its rise up every day, and it would be only harder to catch up. Moreover, the rate of rise was very fast, at least a million every day.

Moreover, Andrew knew his main enemy in the future should be the United States and the not yet established Soviet Union. The British Empire was already in its twilight year in his eyes.