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

In this particular instance he lacked confidence about how these skills should work together. It was like he was trying to fit a key into a lock during the middle of winter and his hands were shaking. The key and the lock would fit just fine but he needed to warm his hands first.

      Jay breathed deeply and let the feeling of the rightness inherent in what he was doing flow over him. He knew this was a shortcut, but it was also a logical step in improving his abilities’ functionality. As he relaxed, the abilities just naturally meshed together, resulting in a new notification. He now had a new skill called Primal Speed and Adaptation Mastery with a combined skill level of three thousand six hundred and six.

      He felt great joy at the victory and after dancing a little dance that was probably best none of his wives had seen him doing, he sat back down and focused again trying to find more skills to combine.

Once again, none of the skills looked like they could be merged properly. Jay tried looking at it every which way but there were just not any logical combinations that followed. Awareness, Precognition, and Iron Will just didn’t mesh, at least not in any way that he saw.

Then another wild idea struck him. Did the combined skills all have to come from one stat group? He just couldn’t remember if any of his evolutions in the past had involved skills from more than one stat. Once he stopped limiting himself to looking at skills within a singular stat, he immediately saw one that looked promising, natural even. But it involved two of his most important skills, so he wanted to try this with something else first.

      Iron Will was still important but he was more willing to test the theory with this, so he tried to combine Iron Will with Samantha’s skill Judgment. He calmed his mind and tried to believe that this should work. Since neither skill was already involved, he didn’t get a mastery skill but instead got Evolved Imposing Will as a Kinesis. Now not only could his will protect him but he could also impose it almost like a debuff on others. The skill level was only at twelve hundred and nine but that was mostly because he had not had any occasion to use Judgment up to this point.

      Because it worked so well, he went to town on trying combinations. The next he created was Evolved Temporal Sensory Manipulation with a level of seventeen hundred ninety-five. It gave him 75% of both his Temporal Manipulation and Precognition and put it into formation.

      Jay’s proficiency with the combinations was growing with each success and he became so confident that he worked to combine skills from three stat groups. Body Modification, Extreme Structural Adaptation, and Evolved Genesis were all skills that affected the body, either his or someone else.  What was healing but a form of body modification and the same for the extreme adaptation that he got from Bong-Cha, it was just regeneration on steroids.

Because the one was already an evolved skill, he ended up with Genesis Modification Mastery at a level of twenty-two hundred eighty-three. That more than doubled his Body Modification skill, but most impressive it was a huge jump for his healing skill that had been under two hundred.

      After completing that skill evolution, he felt a wave of extreme exhaustion flow over him. It had been a long time since he had been this tired. He was having trouble keeping his eyes open and instead soon was lying on the ground snoring away.

      He only woke up when Amelia was poking him. He startled awake and was shocked to find that he was surrounded by at least half of his fuses. They all had worried looks on their faces. “What’s wrong” was all that he managed to get out. He didn’t know how they had managed to make it into his Tempus Fugit field. He should have had days to train.

      “What’s wrong he asks,” Amelia said, throwing her hands up into the air.

Mia was standing over him and said, “We were waiting when your training time was supposed to be over. You were lying there with your body twitching. According to your status sheet you leveled up twice during that training session and passed the ninth threshold.”

      Jessie said, “What she is leaving out is that whatever pain or struggle you went through was so bad that we could catch bits of it even though you were in a different time flow. It was crazy, I can’t imagine how bad it must have been for you.”

      Jay was starting to feel more alert and looked over at Amelia. “Love you, wife, but you should take lessons from CeeCee on how to wake me up.” Then he popped up and playfully moved to use Ava as a shield between him and Amelia.

      “Whatever, I was just worried,” Amelia said. Then she softened her tone. “We are just glad you are back but now you need new clothes again.”

      Jay chuckled. He had grown another two inches and was now a full eight feet four inches tall. “Okay, well I think it is time for some quiet time. I’m gonna have a meal and play with my kids, after I change of course. All of my fuses are invited, and we need to have a conversation about some things that I discovered today.”

 

Chapter 10- Family Time

      Once Jay got himself cleaned up and into new clothes that actually fit, he was grateful to find his wives and other fuses all in one of the larger dining rooms. They had even gone so far as to invite Rosa, Martina, Veronica, Oma, Simone, Harper, and Grace to dinner as well. They weren’t wives or fuses,