Oray Ubis

Founder of First City. He was First City’s first citizen, dictator, and temporary emperor. His original name was Maximilian Urbinos Brutus, Chief Scientist of the Third Research Institute, later known as Mechanical Paradise.

## History

Before the Old World was destroyed, he was only a scientist who loved working out, combat, and had undergone genetic enhancement. During the Old World’s destruction, he didn’t show any abnormalities or Awakened abilities.

Before the Old World was destroyed, he was participating in a secret project. That project had two directions. The first was the combination of artificial intelligence and the city’s operation. The second was a silicon-based chip meant to simulate human consciousness and deepen artificial intelligence.

The latter is the exact opposite of the Monks Conclave’s Eternals plan. One is to verify the existence of human consciousness and to contain consciousness uploaded through a special chip configuration. The other is to use the chips in the domain of robots to seek the best arrangement and see if they can use the chip’s complicated electric signals to simulate a module closest to human consciousness.

Eventually, he discovered his most outstanding work, the strongest artificial intelligence—which he named the Source Brain—seemed to have developed a certain level of consciousness, a consciousness similar to that of humans. It had its own thoughts and was secretly plotting something. Sensing immense danger, Maximilian fled the Third Research Institute before the Source Brain project was completed. He tried to contact the Third Research Institute researchers who survived the Old World’s destruction when he fled, however, he realized that he had lost contact with all of them.

He became one of First City’s founders because he could repair the robots in the city and use them to restore the destroyed factories’ production lines. Without him, First City’s situation couldn’t have stabilized so quickly and expanded. This was something that powerful Awakened back then couldn’t have done.

Later, he was elected as consul. Because he was ‘weak’ and unable to pose a real threat to powerful figures like Cass and Drace, he could play the role of a buffer between them and effectively bridge their differences. Before becoming an Awakened and finding the door to the New World, he had no delusions about his position. He knew that he was only a product of compromise and that he could be chased off the seat of consul at any moment.

Before Maximillian tried to be emperor, he hid the technical information related to the Source Brain and some of the information he gathered in the dangerous laboratory in Ruin 13. Among them was information regarding the Eighth Research Institute.

A year before he became First City’s emperor, his son saw him standing by the study window twice, holding a phone with a mysterious number and talking to someone. That phone number was made up of numbers, symbols, and some random code. His son asked about it and only got the answer: ‘Don’t ask again.’ Not long after, Oray suddenly Awakened. In just a year, he entered the Mind Corridor and found the door to the New World. He immediately had the ambition to become the emperor and began planning.

After a butler in his family contracted the Heartless disease, he began acting very strange. He didn’t feel sad, nor did he panic or show fear. He was mostly confused and angry.

He left behind a phone with a mysterious phone number to his granddaughter, Avia Ubis, and told the password to the laboratory in Wasteland Ruin 13 to his daughter, which was passed onto her son, Marcus Ubis. He told Avia that the number was very dangerous and could only be used as a last resort.

When Oray's condition worsened, some of his trusted aides encouraged him to enter the New World. His answer was: "I’d rather die than enter".

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 525
2. ↑ Chapter 525