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

you bring out the beast in me and in a good way. You remind me to be present in the moment.”

      He let his own words sink in for a bit and then said, “What the hell, no promises.” Then he grabbed her and shut his door with a quick kinetic push.

      What followed was a redefining moment for Jay but also for the future of evolved humans. Passion and desire met with compatibility and need. They desired each other but certainly not just in a physical way. Jay had just had his fill of that and more for some thirty hours. There was a point at which another trip to the buffet line was nothing more than gluttony.

      This was more natural. It was like in the early days. Responsibilities were there. He could never forget that. He certainly hadn’t been able to forget it in the early days. In fact, he had often taken on himself more than was his responsibility. But in this moment, he was able to relax and forget anything but the person across from him.

      His power was great, but he couldn’t make her into a human. It turned out however that wasn’t the basis for fusion. Fusion was two minds meeting together and combining their strength. He could force a fusion by merging cores, but this was purer.

      The effects of this fusion were different though. Parts of Eesa’s predator mindset fused onto Jay and all the other parts of himself in the fusion. In turn, Eesa’s body became a receptacle for PSI. She might not be able to generate the power, but she could now hold as much as he could. That meant that she now contained more PSI than all the Tamoori starfighters put together.

      At first it seemed like Jay had gotten the short end of a fusion for once, but then he saw that his brain had been altered to accommodate aspects of Tamoori thinking. His adaptation pushed all of his physical skills to their max. Maybe he was not approaching true superman levels of strength and speed.

His peak speed was now 29,699 miles per second, assuming that he was traveling in a straight light. He might not be able to travel at the speed of light, but it was just boggling that he could now say that his speed was only just shy of 16% of the speed of light.

      As for strength, he could now bench press over nine hundred thousand tons, if it were somehow possible to create a scenario where that much weight could be brought to bear while he was pressing up with his arms. He chuckled, it still wasn’t anywhere near what the peaks were for Hulk or Superman, but skyscrapers or aircraft carriers would be light weights to him now.

      He looked at his status sheet one last time and then determined not to worry about it. He noted that the powers he had received had been mostly fused into other powers. His partitioned mind was getting good at combining things.

M1789

Level: Unregistered

Awareness: 903,971

              Long Range Sensory Precision Mastery: 84,292

      Organic and Cybernetic Telepathic Mastery: 46,891 

Durability: 838,844 (1,006,612-crown)

Augmented Body Mastery: 838,844  

Astral Vector Step Mastery: 109,023 

Kinesis: 874,493

              Energy Generation and Absorption Mastery:83,130 

      Genesis Modification Mastery: 59,283

      Metalmancy: 62,512

      Summon Object: 19,012  

             

Metabolism:742,458 (891,033-crown)

      Primal Speed and Adaptation Mastery: 742,458

      Duplicate: 80

      

Formation: 797,404

              Psionic Construct: 127674 

              Evolved Temporal Sensory Manipulation: 75765

      Evolved Veil of Illusion:12690       

Psi Pts: 124,657,7200 (134,145,432 -crown)

Chapter 30- The Battle to End all Battles

 

Despite the short time left, Jay knew down into the core of his being that he needed some sleep. His body had just undergone changes on a scale beyond anything he had experienced before. For all the comparison to superheroes, he knew this was no joke. He held great power and he was about to be called upon to use it.

      The fifteen thousand Forlorn ships were out there waiting a tenth of a light year away. Yet they hadn’t moved in more than a day. The enemy wasn’t as fast as their ships with spatial jump drives, but they could still cross that distance in nothing flat. Yet they held off. To Jay that suggested that they were going to wait for reinforcements.

      So, he decided to trust in his senses and instincts. Maybe it was Eesa’s influence, but he knew that what would be would be. It didn’t mean he wouldn’t prepare and fight, but simply that if he was going to be effective, he needed to allow himself time to adapt to this. With that in mind and knowing that each of the fuses had also undergone tremendous changes too. They were still only a fraction as powerful as he was, but they were all likely equal to what he had been before this latest round of fusions.

That meant they were demi-goddesses in their own right. Of course, they had always been that to him. Now they just had the power to match their beauty. Jay grinned, thinking he was funnier than he was, but soon he drifted off to sleep while trusting in the non-fuses to watch for them.

      Six hours later, Jay woke up alone in his bed. It was an all too rare occurrence in the last year or decades if you factor time dilation. He reached out with his mind and felt all of his fuses. They were all either waking up or already up, all forty-eight of them.

      He didn’t waste any time but teleported to the science lab. Seeing Huong surged over to her, kissed her and then said, “Status report.”

      “You know you can just take it out of my mind,” she replied.

      “Yes, but that is a line I won’t cross. Besides, maybe I like hearing your voice.”

      “Oh, I’m sure there are all kinds of sounds that you like