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

He worked on all of them but focused mostly on things that he might be able to use to attack a Forlorn vessel from space.

      Once inside of any of their ships he felt he would stand a good chance of being able to destroy them. That didn’t mean that he was discounting the possibility that they might have abilities he hadn’t already seen. He didn’t want arrogance to be his downfall, but he did feel confident that he could destroy a ship from the inside.

      There were just too many variables from the outside. He wasn’t sure what type of shielding they had. He wasn’t sure if that shielding would allow them to prevent him from teleporting onboard. He had to assume it would or at least that they would adapt if he started simply blowing up their ships from the inside.

      He also worried about how well he would hold up to fire from their main weapons. It was       one thing for his PSI constructs to resist small arms fire. He had managed that when his combined stats weren’t even five hundred combined. But weapons designed to blast through a leviathan were clearly something different.

      In the end, all he could do was work his skills as hard as he could, so he did that almost non-stop. He increased all of his skills other than Duplicate and Necrotic Absorption. The one because he was unwilling to try it out yet and the other because there were no necrotic weapons for him to test himself against.

      All of his other skills were now over one thousand and many gained far more than that. The two that he had spent the most time developing were Evolved Astral Step as he thought that movement would likely be key to fighting so many enemies and Molecular Separation because it was essentially disintegration and it seemed likely to be one of the best ways to destroy the enemy ships.

      He even managed to gain three levels over the six months which was incredible in and of itself. He had not gained any levels outside of a fusion for a long time. The focus and hard work paid off. When training Eesa was single minded in her devotion, which made sense. It had to have been difficult for a woman to rise to the top in such a strongly male oriented society.

      Now though this time was coming to an end. Jay looked forward to the shock the Tamoori would get when they saw Eesa. From their perspective only an hour would have passed, but for them it had been six months. He was less excited about the reaction he would get from his other wives when it was clear how much time he had spent with her. Oh well, it was just a cross he would have to bear.

Chapter 28- Snipe Hunt

 

As expected, the reaction to their six-month honeymoon was a great deal of unhappiness from the wives. The solution became rather simple. Another time dilation field was set up in the science lab and Eesa stayed with them for the sole purpose of trying to optimize the starfighter technology.

      Jay assured Eesa that they would still go hunting for Forlorn, but he wanted her to have the best ship possible. To that end he asked Trudi to work on helping to create a nanium ship. The other Tamoori might not be able to control such a vessel, but with the refinements he had made to Eesa, Jay believed she would be able to.

      Then he went and took honeymoons with each of the wives that wanted to. He focused on smaller areas and greater time dilation. Each of the fields including the science labs were all set to 1:25,920 turning ten minutes into a full six months. Meikiyo was the only one that didn’t want a honeymoon. She said she would wait till they had their son back, but she was surprisingly calm about him taking the time for each of the other wives. She seemed to have stabilized a bit and understood that preparations still had to be made to get them a chance at rescuing Higen. The very fact that they were planning an attack seemed to encourage her.

      The fuses and wives who were not on their honeymoon or couldn’t contribute to the science lab were constantly training and asked him to set up a third time dilation so they could get as much time as possible. Amelia, Trina, Meikiyo, Jessie and eleven others trained with great dedication, gaining levels, and raising their skills but also doing something that made him feel less comfortable.

      They were determined to perfect the complete fusions. It was a formidable weapon, but Jay knew that there were risks involved. The thing was this was an end of the world type scenario, so he didn’t feel that he could force them not to, so he just turned a blind eye to it.

      One of the things that shocked him was that three different women approached him asking him to spend six months with them in seclusion. Bong-cha, Maddy, and Char, were all fuses and all held special places in his heart for entirely different reasons. What hit him the hardest was how difficult it must have been for Bong-cha to actually ask. She was still all too defined by the loss of her family.

      Even more surprising was that his wives actually encouraged it. Huong had said, “It is only thirty more minutes. If you miss your kids too much you can visit them between time dilations, but we all know that you already feel love for them. Remember the fusion works both ways.”

      So despite the crunch to face an overwhelming enemy, Jay ended up married three more times and now had eleven wives. Apparently, that was significant to Eesa who said that the most