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

and asked that she try to pass on her duplication ability to him. What caused him to pause was he wasn’t sure if he should ask her to pass it on to the other fuses. He had a vision of combined bliss and nightmare as he pondered the idea of multiple Jays running around with multiple versions of each of his fuses. He was just torn about it. So, he defaulted to not making a decision about it.

      Then he asked her, “So can you make duplicates of yourself now?”

      “Probably only one. It takes me quite a while to recover from the process. It is about more than PSI or even more than the necessary nutrients in my body. There is an emotional toll on me, but I am stronger after that refining thing you did to us, so I will try to make two if you want,” Scarlett answered.

      “Yes, please,” Jay said perhaps a bit too eagerly.

      As he watched, Scarlett started to strain. Her body trembled from obvious effort and then her back seemed to become almost fluid. She was wearing a halter top and the skin he could see seemed to bubble. A full minute later another version of her was standing there, except she was completely naked.

      The first Scarlett had already pulled out a matching set of clothes. Which she immediately handed to her duplicate. It was so bizarre to see Scarlett one say, “Here you go, Scarlett,” and then second Scarlett looked over at Jay and said, “Thanks, Scarlett, but do I really need to put these on if I’m just gonna take it off in a minute?”

      They giggled and first Scarlett ate a snack, drank some water, and then began the process all over again. It was clearly much harder this time and she began to cry with the strain. He had watched what she did last time and saw how she used Stamina and PSI to build the body, but she was right, it did produce a strain on the resources in her body.

      This however touched on a subject that he was starting to believe. Jay thought that if they evolved and refined far enough, they would reach a point where they subsisted solely on PSI. Of course, that brought him back to that same confusing question. What was the source of PSI? It seemed to be created in their cores; he still wasn’t able to determine what his body drew upon to create PSI.

      That was a question for another day. For now, Jay felt he could help Scarlettt out. He quickly scanned both her bodies and found them to be identical. Then he fed PSI into Scarlett one and used it to produce nutrients and raw materials inside her body.

Suddenly the process of creating the duplicate changed entirely. Whereas before it had taken a minute and this second time had been taking much longer, it was now completed in seconds.

      A couple minutes later he was trying to decide where to look as he saw three identical versions of Scarlett. It was odd and intoxicating at the same time.

      As their passion reached its pinnacle, Jay saw the tendrils of PSI that connected him to all three duplicates and equally bands of connection between them. He felt the rush of the fusion, but it exploded in his head as he simultaneously merged with not one but three different girls.

      Sure, they were all the same, but in the fusion, in his mind they were all unique individuals. His power pushed into them and they each received the full four thousand seventy-five of his Metabolism score. Hers had only been seventy-eight so he received back three thousand nine hundred ninety-seven stats split between his other four stats.

      What caused him to lose consciousness though was that he didn’t receive it once, but three times. When he woke a bit later, he was staggered by the changes. His power had ballooned again, and he had even gained three levels from each of them. Most interestingly was that on his shared status sheet it listed each of the girls as their own individuals.

 

Chapter 14- One Man’s Stand

      When Jay woke up, the girls were all still out but by checking his chronometer he realized he had been out for over an hour. It must have been a huge shock to his system to fuse with three girls at the same time. On the other hand, the stat increases were an incredible payoff.

      Even though he had his room set at the same pace of time dilation as the training room, he still was gonna be late getting back so he was forced to increase the time dilation slightly. If the shock had been that bad to him, he didn’t want to push them too hard. They ended up being out more than another hour but were all excited when they woke up.

      As his overall power had increased along with his skill, so too did the skill levels that he passed on start out higher. He granted all of the duplicates Evolved Strength Forged Body at level one thousand and Primal Speed and Adaptation Mastery at level eighteen hundred.

      Those levels were far beyond what any of the other fuses had and because they got more advanced forms of the skills, they had a good chance to become much stronger. Besides their duplicate skill which they passed onto Jay they only had one other skill which was vaguely interesting, a Kinesis skill called Telekinetic Juggling.

      Now that Jay was fused with them, he knew the skill was only good for manipulating objects under five pounds but could handle five objects at their skill. It was of course distinctly possible that as the skill increased that they would be able to juggle significantly more objects.