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

things up today though. He didn’t agree to any recreational activities during their refining. Each time he simply told the girls that training time was gonna be for training. He still needed to readjust himself or he would be creating a bunch of babies.

      Just thinking of that he could feel how Mia had been humming to herself all morning. She was thrilled to become a mother. Even with their accelerated growth and shortened gestation periods, she wouldn’t be showing anything from last night’s encounters. That didn’t mean that she didn’t know.

      Part of being an evolved human with this level of refinement was how much more in tune with their bodies they all were. Jay felt through the fusion the way that she could feel the changes happening in her body and the eggs that were already fertilized. She just couldn’t tell if it was two or three yet. Either way it was much faster than peeing on a stick.

      At first, the hostile reactions from many of the girls about being denied today seemed likely to be his most unpopular decision of the day. Being in demand was great but he really did want to focus on training today. And it wasn’t like any of them would suffer from lack of sex now. The thing was that he soon learned he was wrong; he had even more unpopular decisions to make today.

      During the first training session, he pointed out that getting stronger bodies didn’t do anything for them unless they learned to use them. Only about sixty of the girls were willing to do combat training. Another eleven were willing to train for crowd control or tactical support roles. That left thirty-eight that wanted to be solely dedicated to the science team and two that wanted to be on permanent nursery duty.

      Today he opted to do a mass training session with all of the combat teams. He first set up invisible PSI construct walls. Then he made the girls run sprints. Saying the constructs were entirely invisible would be inaccurate but you couldn’t see them until the last possible second. This was because he had infused them with the veil power he had gotten from Daphne so that a person’s eyes tended to slide off the wall unless you knew it was there.

      Within minutes several of the girls had broken bones, concussions, or were plain unconscious. The healers and their natural regeneration took care of it but when Jay insisted that they get right back to running the sprints after being healed some of them tried to refuse. It didn’t help that he kept moving the walls around.

      “You think your enemy is going to care that you are a sorority girl and not a trained warrior. You think the Forlorn or A’snkarnt care?” he asked.

      No one answered but many eyes were now focused on the ground. Jay continued, “You have to increase your situational awareness. There is nothing about this power that makes it impossible for you to detect the walls with your normal vision, you just have to focus.”

      One of the newcomers cried out, “That is sorta hard when you are making us run as fast as we can.”

      “Of course it is, um… Sherlyn, right?”

      The girl nodded that he had correctly pronounced her name. So, he continued, “The enemy isn’t going to let you run at half speed or wait to attack. For some of you awareness and evasion may be the difference between life and death.”

      Another girl who had some kind of body hardening said, “It isn’t exactly a picnic even when your skin is as hard as stone.”

      “I know but that is also part of the exercise. I create more give in the constructs for those who are less durable,” Jay said with a chuckle. He had found that after passing the ninth threshold that it seemed to be easier to focus on multiple tasks or targets at the same time. Actually, the change was rather astounding. The ability he had gained was called Multi-Mental Focus and it definitely lived up to its name. He was thrilled to be able to handle a much more complex battlefield.

      In fact, that was part of why he had chosen to assimilate Mia’s Tactical Probability skill. It was working wonders or nightmares depending on if you looked at it from Jay’s point of view or that of the girls he was training.

      “I know this is hard, but we need to get back to it. None of you will suffer any lasting injury and I am not asking anything of you that I won’t do myself. In fact, after this you are going to get a chance to vent some of your frustration on me. But for now, I expect all of you to get back out there and start running the sprints.”

      Even the healers weren’t exempted so sixty sets of eyes looked back at him with anything other than joy but most of them got back to the start line. Only half a dozen looked at each other and then at him but didn’t budge towards the line. Jay stared at them and the aura from his crown was enough to make two more of them go and join the majority at the start line.

      That left four though who were staring at him. Three were newcomers but one was Ryleigh, a girl who had been with the team since the third floor. Jay did feel a bit sorry for her. One of her powers was Enhanced Speed. She didn’t however have any special sensory skills to make it easier for her to react to the walls. He had made sure to make her walls more pliable, but she had already suffered multiple broken bones.

      Sherlyn, Callie, and Greta were all standing next to Ryleigh and none of