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

      Even Jay realized that and pulled up his status sheet while running to clear his mind.

M1789

Level: 218

Awareness: 3043

              Precognition: 73 - 0% 

              Evolved Assessment: 301 - 0% 

              Iron Will: 148 - 0%

              Evolved Telepathy: 204 - 0%

              Evolved Projected Bond: 287 - 0%

      PSI Sight: 80 - 0%

      Hyper Accuracy: 80 - 0%

Durability: 2780 (3336-crown)

Evolved Strength Forged Body: 316 - 0% 

Phase Burst: 86 - 0%

Kinesis: 2888

              Evolved Kinetic Manipulation: 188 - 0% 

      Evolved Genesis: 101 - 0%

      Molecular Separation: 80 - 0%

      Psionic Teleportation: 80 - 0%

      Mass Control: 80 - 0%

      Judgment: 80 - 0%

Metabolism: 3226 (3871-crown)

              Evolved Adaptive Speed: 413 - 0%

Primal Power: 87 - 0%

Extreme Structure Reformation: 96 - 0%

      Chemical Creation: 80 - 0%

Necrotic Absorption: 80 - 0%

Formation: 3450

              Body Modification: 357- 0% 

              Psionic Construct: 269 - 0%

              Temporal Manipulation: 199 - 0%

Evolved Fire Form: 102 - 0%

      Matter Absorption: 80 - 0%

      Veil: 80 - 0%

Psi Pts: 307,740 (331,760-crown)

Fused:

Amelia

Huong

Meikiyo

Jessie

Mia

Ava

Trina

Bong-Cha

Alexis

Nalani

Sofia

Cadence

Maddy

Char

Esseme

Faith

Daphne

Samantha

With eighteen fuses, Jay felt both more full and more spread thin than he could have ever imagined. Every moment of every day, he was receiving input from each of them. Their varied moods, thoughts, and dreams filled so much of his time. It was a closeness he had never expected and yet to have it with so many people was odd. He wondered if this was what those sci-fi races with a group consciousness were supposed to be like.

Examining his status sheet though showed the real deficit. He had stats that were by any standard he could imagine, godlike. But his highest skills were barely ten percent of the stats. Back before all these fusions he had many skills that were nearly maxxed. To him this represented a real lack. Power was great but you needed to be able to handle the power for it to matter.

      As of yet he hadn’t agreed to fuse with any more of the girls. It seemed inevitable and he didn’t think he was putting it off other than just that he needed to catch his breath and adapt to being part of a single being that existed in nineteen bodies. Well, maybe it wasn’t quite like that but somedays it felt like that.

      Of course that wasn’t factoring the full fusion. Surprisingly, that had become the greatest bone of contention. Meikiyo and Trina had been repeatedly questioned by the other wives and then by the other fuses and even by the team as a whole. Everyone wanted to experience it. Jay got some colorful offers if he would only fuse fully with them for a little while so they could experience it.

      Huong was one of the more creative ones. She insisted on a daily basis that she needed to study it for science. Her grin would get particularly crooked when she suggested that she really wanted to be fused with Jay while he was being intimate with some of the other fuses. It was actually that idea which had most put Jay off of attempting any further full fusions.

      He only had vague memories of when he had become one with Meikiyo and Trina. It was clear from what they all remembered that it was something far beyond even the partial fusion that they all experienced now. It was the difference between complete unity and having a shared goal. The thing was that he didn’t remember what he had looked like during the fusion. He felt like he had been himself, but he had also been Meikiyo and just as equally he had been Trina.

      Jay had come to accept that he had a highly defined appreciation of the female form. He was no longer ashamed of that; truthfully, he was embracing it full on. That however didn’t mean that he wanted to be a woman or to have a female form himself. So, for now he was content to use the full fusion as a weapon of last resort.

      Already he could predict that he would be asked about it today. His time was split up too much. He had to work on refining everyone and spending other time with them. Jay hated to do it, but he was going to have to put his foot down. He needed to carve out some time for himself. He needed to train his skills.

      It felt a bit silly to complain about lack of time given the way that he could manipulate time, but that always seemed to have a cost to it. He was definitely tempted though to try a new way of manipulating time that he had thought of. Old Jay would have pined over it for a long time, but as he raced across the decks of the massive ship, Jay decided it was okay to try it. It wouldn’t hurt anyone, and if it worked, he would get a great deal more peace of mind. That thought brought a smile to his face.

      He hit the showers after his exercise and then called his wives together. It took them varying amounts of time to arrive, but each one’s appearance brought a smile to him. Jay really was a lucky man. He would have been blessed to have any one of these beauties as his wife, but to have seven of them…

      “Morning, wives, I thought we should meet and discuss something that I have in mind,” he said once they were all in the meeting room.

      “Morning, husband,” Amelia said before she leaned over the table and kissed him deeply upon his mouth. He wasn’t going to argue about it even if he knew that some of the others felt Amelia was intentionally trying to mark her dominance.

      Meikiyo, Mia, and Jessie didn’t move but the others all must have felt the need to prove their own place. Ava came and kneeled next to his seat. Trina leaned in and gave him her own kiss. Huong of course was the most flamboyant. She kissed