by David Burke
Meikiyo only managed to count to 22 before Amelia was shuddering in the throes of an intense orgasm. The clenching of her pussy around Jay was almost more than he could handle. Still, he wouldn’t give in this quickly. He wanted to make them work for it.
He activated Sensual Projection to level one and all the girls moaned as all the sensory input they were receiving from him was doubled. Then he slid into Huong again and she trembled instantly. Feeling him enter her at the same time that she felt how her pussy made him feel almost pushed her over the edge in one stroke.
Underneath all the passion though she felt something more. She could sense the way that Jay cared for her. It made her feel protected in a way she had never experienced before. His words weren’t saying that he loved her but she just knew it in the vibes that rolled off of him. The psychic and emotional bond that was forged left no doubt.
That didn’t stop her from crying out, “God no. Give it to me,” as he pulled out when she orgasmed again. Jay just looked over at Meikiyo as he switched sides again. She was caught up in her own pleasure but seemed engrossed in watching what he was doing to them, especially since she could feel so much of what he felt.
The next few minutes consisted of Jay switching up between them as he continually increased the levels of Sensual Projection. The fourth level had them all twitching in orgasms till their abs ached from tensing up so much. Even workouts in the jungle weren’t half as intense as this.
The only thing that was keeping Jay from exploding was the delight he was getting in driving them crazy. He had to use body hardening on himself to dull the sensitivity just so he could last longer, while still being careful not to hurt them.
Finally though he came to the end of his rope. Sweat was running down his back as he held Amelia’s hips driving her to what must have been her tenth orgasm. This time though she wouldn’t let him go. She slid her knees off the bench and hooked her ankles around the back of his thighs.
Counting on Jay to hold her up so she didn’t smother Huong, she was able to hold him up just enough that with one final squeeze she made it impossible for him to hold back. He thrust in with as much strength as he dared use and gushed into her.
It was the most intensely satisfying experience of his life, not just because of the physical buildup. The buildup was intense but the emotions that he felt for these three women were bared for them to experience. He had messed up, but he convinced himself that he would never do that again.
He would always be there for them. He wasn’t ready for the ‘L’ word but his heart still expressed itself to them. He still ached and yearned to make them safe.
It would be a hard road. He knew they were worthy partners, but he knew there were some things he might be the only one equipped to handle. In that moment he determined to be open and honest with them, even if that meant telling them he had to do something for them.
Then he collapsed to his knees, completely spent. Even watching Huong dutifully cleaning up the deposit he had made in Amelia wasn’t enough to get him off the floor.
They were all so spent that when the reset came, they were still lying strewn around the room. The three girls woke to Jay screaming as he crossed into the next threshold, his body once again literally tearing itself apart and reforming.
System settings that he had no idea about had been upgraded and his body was pushed harder, forced to endure more changes as D’varn’s extra 20% came into play. Crossing a threshold was always going to be painful but even more now as the changes would now come faster.
Jay was experiencing that firsthand as the implant and chemicals within him worked to accelerate changes that his progeny would have had the potential to develop over millennia. What he had no idea about was how the technology within him was pushing those changes to happen now. Ignorance of the process however proved to be no shield against the pain of the changes.
He screamed for what felt like an eternity to him but was in actuality only a couple of minutes. His DNA was rewritten and his body was reformed. Bones were lengthened and their composition was altered slightly to make them both stronger and more flexible. His tissue was optimized from improved efficiency in his heart and lungs to expanded neural pathways.
The beauty of the test protocols was that it didn’t force specific changes but only encouraged the natural chaotic mutations within the human race to manifest more rapidly. The results were unpredictable, but that was the objective all along. Jay was being shaped into a weapon of chaos against the forces of a type of order which regulated all it came into contact with.
The screaming stopped as the worst of the changes ended and Jay faded off to blissful oblivion. The girls had experienced their own awakenings, but theirs ended much more quickly because they hadn’t passed another threshold. Still, as much as they wanted to help Jay they knew they couldn’t so long as he was glowing.
Eventually it all ended though and Jay sat up. Fortunately he had been naked when the process started otherwise his clothing would have all been ruined. He had grown another four inches and was just over 6’6” now with increased body mass to match it.
Whereas before he had a light tan from living outside so much, his skin now had a rich bronzed hue like a perfect suntan. His already-muscular frame added further mass to keep up with his height increase but more significantly more definition. From an outward perspective the threshold change made him a better version of himself in every way.
“Are you okay? You scared us, Jay,” Huong asked when he sat up.
“I crossed another threshold. I’m sure you remember what that was like.”
“Yeah, not looking forward to that. It felt like I was being forced through a strainer and reassembled on the other side,” Amelia said.
“Well if anything this second threshold was worse.”
“Still a few levels away. I hit level nine with this awakening,” Amelia said as the other girls nodded saying that they had too.
Jay looked around the room and couldn’t help but feel like he was the luckiest man alive. Both Amelia and Huong were still sitting there naked as the day they were born and his little brain had definitely already noticed. Even Meikiyo who was wrapped up in a sheet was still showing off her very toned legs.
“I may hate myself later for saying this. I need to check my notifications but maybe you all could put on a little something otherwise, I’m not sure that we are gonna be leaving this bungalow all day,” Jay said with a grin.
“Hmm, that doesn’t sound like such a bad idea,” Amelia said.
Huong purred as she said, “Look who’s talking.”
Jay almost had a pained look on his face as he said, “Hey, I’m the guy. I’m not supposed to have to be the responsible one when it comes to stuff like this.”
His head spun as Amelia walked over to him and kneeled down over his thighs. “Says who? Why can’t we girls be the horny ones?”
“Uh… because I can’t say ‘no’ to you, when you act like this.”
She smiled from ear to ear, as she leaned in and lightly kissed his lips. “Thanks to your sensual projection skill we can all tell how you feel about us. It’s good for you to know that the sentiment is mutual. Now check your notifications before I lose control and just remember, today isn’t over yet.”
He closed his eyes, but could still smell her scent as she moved away from him. He needed to focus. This was fun, but it would all come to an end if they died because they weren’t ready for whatever new dangers were coming. Jay wasn’t going to allow that to happen.
Stuck in this hellish experiment, he had found the first true happiness he remembered since his early childhood. He wasn’t going to lose that. The creatures last night proved that they still didn’t have everything figured out. So he had to get stronger.
The first notification he got was another error message.
Error…. Searching parameters…..
Outside influence noted.
Trace failed.
Excess PSI distribut
ed as additional stat points
He hadn’t seen that message since the first time. It made him wonder if whoever was sending him the dreams was able to somehow influence the awakening process. Maybe that was the source of the temporal manipulation ability that he still couldn’t access.
It was cool to think that a future him was reaching back through time and throwing him aid. Sort of the ultimate power leveling, but he had no control over it. He wondered if he would remember having these thoughts now.
Then he realized that thinking about it was a rabbit hole that he couldn’t worry about going down. Right now he needed to secure their immediate future. He would just have to let future Jay take care of himself.
Next he got a notification about overstaying the time in the bungalow. The message said that he was being charged 20 credits per hour that he stayed in the bungalow. That was as good a reason as any to get out now.
The next notification explained some things.
Timeline for the experiment has been accelerated. Hence forth, unslain monsters from dungeon level two may exit the dungeon at night as well as those from level one. Safety will be even more of a premium.
Descend the dungeon and gain levels to prove your worth. Expect other changes.
It wasn’t exactly an open book, but it was at least a bit of information. Jay tucked it away since it didn’t really change his plans at all other than to say that if both floors weren’t cleared, then anyone outside at night was going to be vulnerable. It meant either more work or an end to his rendezvouses with Meikiyo under the stars.
That left only his status page.
M1789
Level: 16
Awareness: 19
Precognition: 13 - 17%
Sensual Projection: 11 - 99%
Life Sense: 11 - 6%
Iron Will: 9 - 54%
Telepathy: 2 - 63%
Assessment: 1 - 0%
Durability: 23
Hardened Body: 13 - 82%
Enhanced Strength: 12 - 11%
Kinesis: 19
Kinetic Bolt: 6 - 78%
Accelerate: 7 - 94%
Kinetic Dampening: 7 - 38%
Metabolism: 22
Regeneration: 14 - 22%
Enhanced Speed: 11 - 43%
Formation: 40
Body Modification: 5 - 49%
Psionic Construct: 7 - 65%
Temporal Manipulation: 40 - 0% LOCKED
PSI Pts: 780 Stamina: 450
Current Credits: 13060
He experienced significant jumps in all of his stats beyond even what the threshold jump explained. The extra power was evident in every movement. His body just felt like more, superhuman almost.
The biggest jump was in his formation skills followed by awareness. The physical skills in durability and metabolism remained very useful and were coming along nicely. He had however slacked off on developing his kinesis. He couldn’t stop that just because he was focused on formation skills.
As he looked at the sheet he also realized that he had neglected to develop telepathy. That was another oversight that he intended to correct. He also wondered if the girls had gotten telepathy when they crossed the first threshold but none of them had mentioned it to him.
He put that away in back of his mind to discuss later though as he noticed a new skill. Under Awareness he now had the skill Assessment. It was only at level one with zero percent development. As was par for the course he wasn’t given any insight into how it worked.
This experiment seemed messed up. He was granted these special abilities but then had to fumble around learning how to use them. Whoever was doing this to them must like seeing them make asses of themselves.
With that though it was time to get going for the day. All the training stuff that he had to do really cut into his time and he intended to hit the second dungeon floor today. Those monsters had been worth a good amount of credits and so he hoped that there were new quests on the second floor.
Interlude 3- Lies in the Code
Ironically, it was another power surge which resulted in an error message and core-frame detecting a temporal anomaly which gave D’varn his first real lead. One temporal anomaly was an improbability outside of his expectation. Two occurring within a span of a few cycles was a statistical impossibility.
Or perhaps they weren’t. Core-frame had been able to identify at least part of the nexus for the anomalies. M1789 was somehow involved. Normal A’snkarnt protocol would call for the immediate destruction of such a nexus.
The general thinking in scientific circles of the higher races was that the fabric of time was too complex a pattern for finite beings to tamper with. It was deemed to be both infinitely powerful and ultimately fragile at the same time due to that complexity. So any attempts had been banned by the Supreme Council millennia ago.
The issue was that the other issues he had discovered led down paths he was completely terrified to pursue and caused him to not know who to trust. M1789 had already proved useful in dispatching the kin slayers who had been killing so many of his test subjects. Perhaps he could make use of him again. After all a slightly evolved hooman was nothing compared to the fears he had.
It was enough that he had found evidence that the chemical compound which was used to promote their genetic material had been altered from his original recipe. Then to realize that the information had been almost perfectly covered up. The formula had been made more unstable and undoubtedly had been affecting much of the behavior of the hoomans including their sexual urges.
Without more study though, he couldn’t be sure what the effects would be if he withdrew the substance or even if he was able to create a supply of the original compound to substitute in. So despite the high mortality rate he decided to stay the course. At least a handful of the subjects were showing increased results. Thus he stuck with his plan to increase the dosage by 20%.
It was perhaps the other piece of information that he discovered hidden within the systems of the leviathan that made him less worried about the effect on the hoomans. It shook him to his core, and he had no real response. Yet it was the only thing that fit. Someone had sent a signal directed at an enemy vessel. It was brief, but it was there.
Chapter 11- Exposing Level Two
He stood up and looked around. The girls were all dressed and waiting for him. Each of them had a slight gleam in their eyes when he noticed that they were staring at him. He was gonna have to get new clothing and new armor because the old stuff wouldn’t fit anymore.
Nothing for it but to bite the bullet. So he walked over to the mini terminal in the bungalow and tried to order up the clothing. Much to his frustration the terminal would not activate. He only got a message saying that it could only be activated during normal hours of operation.
“So we have a problem. I can’t fit into my clothes and the terminal in here isn’t active.”
“I doubt anyone will see a problem with that,” Amelia said laughing.
Jay looked at her with a pained look till she finally said, “Don’t worry I will cloak you on the way to the terminal. It wouldn’t do to have a stampede rushing on you before we decide who the next team member should be. I assume we are adding a member before we hit the second floor?”
“Are you all ready for it? Those creatures last night were no laughing matter,” Jay asked.
“If we work together, I’m sure we can handle it,” Huong said.
“Especially now that we know what we are facing,” Meikiyo added.
Jay grabbed a blanket to cover up and said, “Should we discuss who we think should be added to the team before we go outside?”
“I think that we have to give them all a chance to speak up. Otherwise everyone will be upset,” Meikiyo said.
“But we promised Jasmine that we would take a vote on letting her join the team,” Huong said, looking all around. Then she focused on Jay. “Besides if she joins the team that means you might be able to hook up with her. I’ve seen the way that you look
at her.”
“I don’t want her on the team. I don’t trust her,” Meikiyo responded.
“I have to agree with Meikiyo. She keeps using her power to manipulate people. As far as the other thing, I worry that if I ever formed any kind of emotional attachment to her that I would never be able to resist her. Heck, I can’t even say no to you all and you aren’t manipulating my emotions, or are you?”
Amelia laughed, “That is every woman’s birthright.”
