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

      Jay just said, “Look at your status sheet. You can now see not only yourself but all of the fuses.” He grinned as she did exactly that and then her eyes got wide in shock.

Then he said, “I think you have some training in mind for us, Trina. Lead the way, I’m on your clock now.”

From there he followed Trina around as she had him set up tempus fugit fields in various training areas. Each one was set up for thirty minutes but with the 1750:1 ratio that was still going to be more than thirty-six days.

      Much of the training was focused on preparing the girls how to work together. He spent some time working with each of them individually, but Trina had wisely set them up into teams. There were five women working in the nursery and forty-one in the science lab, but the remaining women were broken up into groups of five. Actually, even those in the nursery eventually joined in and some went more than once.

      Jay thought it was a good idea for them to learn to work together. So, whether that was Olivia electrifying Trudi’s metalmancy creations or combining illusions with acid pools, they begin coming up with great ways to attack and defend together. Jay smiled when he saw them doing it without his effort. He appreciated that they got into it themselves.

      One part that most of them didn’t seem to appreciate from him was what he was calling conditioning training. He pushed them all to endure pain and learn to work through it. Each time he was careful to make sure that he didn’t push them more than their particular level allowed for but still they all ended up cursing at him at some point or another. It was worth it though if it kept them alive.

      Training with his fuses was even more significant. They could react to each other without even being told and their timing became flawless. Jay also had fun with several of the groups by using his new Assimilate ability. It would take a minute or so each time but none of the girls denied him and he ended up testing out what it was like to use Daphne’s amplification power, Trina’s necrotic bolts, and Esseme’s Psionic Crush.

 Double amplifying a power was almost just silly. It made Meikiyo’s flames so hot that they sludged the A’snkarnt metal instantly and liquified it in just seconds. The same with Trina’s necrotic bolts. She became her own Forlorn-type cannon capable of punching through most anything including PSI constructs far more quickly than he liked. It took all of the power that he wasn’t channeling into the amplification to hold a constructed wall for more than ten seconds against the power of her decaying blasts.

      During their debrief, that was just another great reminder that for all the power Jay had, dealing with blasts from ships the size of small cities was going to require even more power. It helped bring a renewed commitment to everyone. No matter how painful today had been, they still had a long way to go.

      Jay laughed when the tempus fugit field around the science lab came down, at least for a second. He felt the shock from Huong, Ava, Mia, Jessie, Nalani, Sofia, and Alexis as the new power surged into them. His mirth was turned to sympathy though as they all cried out when their bodies couldn’t handle the sudden influx and each one of them passed out.

      He rushed to them immediately but fortunately none of them had any lasting damage and they all woke up quickly. Then his amusement came back as he watched some of the girls who had been physically weaker like Ava and Alexis displaying incredible feats of strength. Even the weakest of them now had an unamplified bench press of thirty tons. Yet they all adapted to the newfound stats very quickly due to the fusion. Jay’s aptitude for dealing with his own increases in strength made it so they were able to do the same.

      Assimilate got utilized many times again and Jay ended up keeping Expanded Mind ability for when he started his own training. Most of the fuses ended up keeping Psionic Construct although some borrowed abilities from one another. He had to admit to being a bit worried when Huong asked to assimilate Body Modification from him.

He couldn’t deny her though, at least she and none of the others had asked him to give them time powers. It made him wonder if they felt his unwillingness to do so through the fusion. That was likely, he assumed.

      The next segment of the day was the fun time with each of the girls. He found that he actually needed to stretch the time dilation a bit more than what had been agreed upon. He took naps with each of the girls even if he wasn’t overly tired physically. There was something very emotional about falling asleep with a girl you had just been so intimate with in your arms. And Jay found it helped reset him for the next round.

      Huong kept the schedule and continually teased him about being her man whore, but he couldn’t say no to any of the girls who were putting their faith in him. It wasn’t like he suffered for it and well, a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do. A full ninety percent of the girls on Team Jay wanted time with him so it turned into a busy couple of hours magnified into more than three weeks before it was over thanks to Tempus Fugit.

      When it was Huong’s turn, he was half surprised to find her alone in her room waiting for him. That surprise threw him off enough that he almost didn’t notice the real surprise. A second glance at her revealed what