Descend- Seeing Stars by Sean Oswald (the ebook reader .TXT) 📕

bed. Use their lives wisely, that is all a warrior can ask of a huntmaster,” she replied.

      Jay nodded and then continued, “Beyond the starfighters please work on as many smaller charges as possible. Use create dense clusters of PSI crystals and I can use those to explode ships from the inside out. If I can get them past the shields, it won’t require nearly the same payload.”

      Then as everyone was getting up, he called Trudi and Ava over. “I have one other project for you. Please create a pocket dimension device in my nanium armor and fill it with as much nanium as we can spare.”

      Ava said, “Yes, Master.”

      But Trudi raised an eyebrow and asked, “What do you have in mind?”

      “Just another surprise,” he said with a wink for her.

      Then he was alone as they all went to do his bidding. Jay sat down. He was resigned to this, but that didn’t mean the weight wasn’t still heavy on him. He had fought expanding the fusion too far. It was already far beyond what he had ever expected, but he had seen it. He was powerful. He doubted any one Forlorn ship could stop him. He now had some sense of how powerful their big guns were and knew that he could hold up against them for at least a while.

      What he knew down to his core was that he wasn’t strong enough or fast enough to protect those he loved. It didn’t matter if he survived but lost all of them. Soon though he was lost in grim thoughts. He connected through his implant to the leviathan’s long-range sensors. From what he could tell the major battle at the A’snkarnt home world was over.

      The only Forlorn ships that he could be sure were headed in their direction were the fifteen thousand or so that had survived what he was calling the prismatic bomb. He had definitely been a rainbow of effects and colors. The danger was that the enemy was already adapting. Their ships were far more spread out. No single bomb even as powerful as the prismatic bomb was going to be able to take out the rest of these ships.

      Jay’s approach to fighting one ship at a time was simply too slow. He might be able to take them all out but even at his speed, it would take hours. Hours during which they would have been firing on the leviathan and certainly at least some of Team Jay and their allies would have died.

      He was roused from his thoughts by Huong. She was speaking to him telepathically. “So, we got fifteen who would agree. They will start showing up at your room every two hours. I know it doesn’t take that long but I also know that you will want to make each of them feel welcome and truly part of us. That and the fusions have been taking more and more out of all of us since each one adds an even bigger jump in stats than the one before it.”

      “Thanks, no man could ask for a better Madame,” Jay replied trying to keep it light.

      “Some of them will be well known to you, but there were a couple that you won’t know very well as they are part of the new clusters. There will also be one that I hope is a pleasant surprise to you. I know you have a thing for Rosa and when she heard the situation it must have pushed her off the fence because she decided she is ready. I think part of the holdup honestly was that she wanted to be a wife, but there won’t be time for that now. Sorry, you are just gonna have to work them, fuse them, and move on to the next one,” Huong said.

      “Yes, Madame,” Jay said laughing.

      Huong had of course even made a list of them in an order that would most benefit those who were willing in terms of stats, so he just had to go to his room and be the universe’s most important lecher. All he could do was shrug his shoulders and teleport to his room.

      The first girl was named Bethany. She was a newcomer yet like all the women around him she was a beauty. He had slept with her once after he initially refined her, but she wasn’t combat oriented, so he had to wonder why she was willing to do this. She convinced him that she just wanted to do her part to save humanity.

      Bethany might not ever end up being the love of his life, but this was a good test to his commitment right out of the chute. He had to be willing to do this for power not because he wanted to be permanently one with her. And he had to accept that she felt the same way, well maybe for security rather than power. Besides, she had a useful power that would benefit him.

Long Range Viewing allowed her to see things a great deal away, but her skill level and Awareness stat was barely over one hundred. With his skill and power, he might be able to spy on the enemy fleet from far away. Either way, it wasn’t like he was about to get his teeth pulled. He was just going to make love to a beautiful woman and get stronger for doing so. He laughed; this was what they called a first world problem if ever there was one.

      Fusing with Bethany produced more change than that in him though. He passed the last threshold and his level now showed as Unregistered. He also got the perk of PSI and Stamina Generator. He now gained thirty PSI for every stat point and his regeneration rate had gone from empty to full in five