SSV 4 Chapter 28 (Patreon)

Getting out of the manor proved harder than I’d been expecting.

Kim had clung to me, throwing everything she had at me to get me to stay. The desperate super was very unlike the director that I’d come to know.

In the end, I hadn’t brought anyone from Point City to help in the hunt for Roach. If he started to realize that Point City BSH and the gods of New Haven were working together, I feared it would spook him and we’d never find him if he hid himself in the wilds.

But I’d held my ground, and our group was now flying back to New Haven. I waited for the city to show up on the horizon.

Stella was satisfied and had brought some board games from home to play with Vaash and Pollen while we traveled. The entire group consisted of Stella, Melody, Vaash, Pollen and Skel.

We needed to keep everything to the normal patterns. Anything else might raise red flags, and I was looking to stay under the radar.

I took the chance while we were moving to exercise my mental power a bit more. I created like crazy, my power far bigger than it had ever been before.

I began experimenting with my void arm. I liked it as it was, but I wanted to see if I could make it indistinguishable from my normal arm, playing with what light it reflected and the softness of flesh.

“That has some interesting applications.” Melody watched.

Especially when we talk about separating your consciousness from your body. Mona added with a smirk, feeling smug that she knew more than the other ladies.

Mona, I’m still getting a handle on this mind. It’s like suddenly driving a race car when all you’ve ever driven before was a dinky old sedan. I need to relearn how to use the gas even with you helping.

She still had a smug smile on her face; I knew that even from a long distance away.

“Think this one looks real?” I held up my latest attempt at a human looking arm. The difficulty was all the texture and the hair on my arm to make it pass for a real arm.

“If I didn’t see the seam here,” Melody pointed to my shoulder where my toga was pulled up. “Then I’d have never guessed.”

Mona, lock this one in. I told the woman living in my head.

I could feel her pluck the idea of the arm and shift it somewhere into her nest in my mind, like she was making a mannequin of me.

Leg next, I think I can help you mirror both of those. The head and torso will be harder, but I think your penis will be easy. I know that one by heart.

The idea of having an absolutely unusably large dick brushed against my mind.

Mona, I warned.

She scoffed, and I knew she was throwing her hands up and rolling her eyes.

“Mona having fun?” Melody asked. “Sometimes it’s weird to be out of that conversation.”

“She’s saving the arm parameters in my mind.” I tried to explain.

“Like some sort of saved file on a computer?” Melody asked. She frowned, but I could tell she was genuinely trying to understand.

I grasped for a better analogy. “Sort of, but more like going in and setting something in a computer’s bios so that when it boots up it associates ‘my arm’ with what I just made.” Shaking out my arm, I returned it to a void limb. I sort of liked the dark limb, but I knew I couldn’t have an entire void body when my plan was complete. I needed something more human, even if I was attempting to transcend humanity to an extent.

God. Mona interjected into my thoughts.

Saying that myself sounded far too arrogant, but if I was honest with myself, it was an appropriate term for what I was hoping to achieve.

“Interesting.” Melody then changed the subject. “Any news from Wells on the samples that Angelina provided? She said the testing would be quick, but she didn’t have anything before we left.”

Mona was on the case as soon as Melody’s words reminded her.

“We’ll find out soon. Mona is on it. If her results show that my Y chromosome is powered, what will you do?”

Melody licked her lips. “I might just go all in with Stella on project Fertility God. Or at the very least get someone to take out my birth control.”

Stella perked up from her game with Vaash. “Huh? Birth control?”

“I asked Mona if she’d check on Wells’ results.” Melody clarified.

Stella started bouncing in place. “Well, what are they?”

Mona clawed her way back into my mind. My fated, The Doctor has confirmed. Your semen is altered. Though she says the X is still slightly advantageous because the power there is that much stronger, it is about 55% odds you have a girl, 45% you have a boy. According to her.

I swallowed and Melody watched me with excited eyes, trying to interpret what Mona had told me.

“You look like you just swallowed a frog. Ha, you are going to have so many kids now.” Melody burst into laughter.

“Really, Master?! It worked?!” Stella jumped over the game with Vaash and Pollen, knocking everything over as she pressed my face into her chest. “Oh my gosh, master! Let’s do it now. Couldn’t hurt to just let you pump it into me again.”

Melody was laughing hysterically.

“This isn’t that funny.” I managed to get out between Stella’s bouncing bosom in my face. “But yes, Wells put my odds at 55% girl, 45% male.”

“Not perfect, but Miles. You realize your balls are holding the fate of the human race, right?” Skel said.

Pollen was looking around confused. “I don’t get it?”

“The high skew towards female births has caused a continuous shift towards fewer and fewer men, while women become far too numerous. In another few generations, only one in a hundred people would be male. Likely before then, society will crumble.” Skel explained.

I had to remember Pollen was raised homeless; she likely had far greater concerns than the news. “If men become too scarce, the population will cliff. The number of men in a population will keep shrinking until there aren’t enough to produce children to replace the elderly. It sounds a little cold and calculating, but population changes drive much of our society.”

“Society was heading towards collapse.” Stella said simply. “But now Master’s baby batter can save the world. How fitting for the god of fertility.” She bounced her brows. “Now you just need to make sure you get lots of worshipers to satisfy.”

I smiled at her. “Or we could spread this new monster fruit far and wide and solve the issue.”

“No fun.” Stella crossed her arms. “Master, if you really want humanity to start to compete with titans, you should spread your super seed. Powers aren’t inherited, but S grade supers usually have S grade children. So you really are the best one to repopulate the earth.” Stella was nodding vigorously by the end.

I sighed. Fighting her on the current topic was pointless. And I had a plan. I’d work with Skel and Wells to distribute the monster fruit. “You can make a lot more of this, right?” I asked Skel.

She nodded. “However, the tree, if you would call it that, is immature. It can only produce maybe one or two fruits a day. If we let it mature without taxing it to produce fruits, it could produce as many as five a day later on.” She paused. “We still need testing for the general population as well. This was made specifically for you.”

I grunted, disappointed that we couldn’t immediately start spreading the monster fruit.

Stella just grinned.

“Don’t let Stella anywhere near your lab.” I coached Skel.

“Hey. I wouldn’t do that.” She pouted as if her plans were ruined.

“Of course you wouldn’t. My favorite succubus is going to be too busy to do something that would upset me that much.” I kissed her and noticed New Haven coming into view. “Oh look, we are almost there.” The city approached rapidly with how quickly we were going.

“Master, you don’t get out of it that easily. You have a higher purpose now.” Stella grabbed my face and put her forehead to mine.

I made the carriage invisible and shot over the city, slowing down so that I wasn’t breaking the sound barrier as I placed it down in front of the temple.

Stella scowled at me but let the topic go. “You got out of it this time, master.”

As soon as I appeared, the maidens scrambled.

“Daeva is looking for you, god king.” One maiden I didn’t recognize shot forward a little too eager.

Stella grinned wide at her. “You are cute! Are you new?”

“Uh.” The woman hesitated before another familiar maiden nodded. “The temple has become quite popular, and many women are eager to join now that it is expanding.” She watched me out of the corner of her eye.

“That’s good.” Stella nodded. “You see, the God King of Fertility can give people baby boys, unlike other men.”

I gagged her with my power. “Ignore her. Where is Daeva?” I focused on the more important part of the conversation.

“Basement.” The maiden had wide eyes as she looked up at me. “Is what she said true?”

Stella wiggled in her invisible bindings with a giant grin on her face. I knew she was going to spread the rumor far and wide. The best I could do is modify it.

“I work with several mad scientists, and they’ve figured out a way to help fix all men. I’m just the first test subject because of how durable I am. So, yes, I have a second power on my Y chromosome now. Soon though, the solution will be spread to as many men as we can get to take the treatment.”

The maiden nodded dumbly, at a loss for words.

“God King, this way please.” Another maiden gestured for me to follow her.

“Thank you.” I let go of Stella’s bindings. She didn’t waste any time, laughing and throwing her new arm around the new maiden and waving her hand in the air like she was painting a picture.

The first temple maiden walked with me through the marble halls. “So, Stella is creating a few rumors. Are you okay with it?”

I shook my head. “Her heart is in the right place, and I do enjoy having a harem. It took her pushing for me to realize that, so I don’t stop her. But I do go a little slower than she might suggest.”

The temple maiden nodded in understanding. “Yes, that makes sense. You are human even if we call you a god. You have limited time and you want a connection with each woman.”

“Thank you for understanding.” I smiled at her as we reached the door for the basement.

“Oh no. I just wanted to understand the rules of the game.” She winked and spun quickly enough to make her toga flare out before she sashayed away.

I’m unsure if I am the luckiest guy alive or unluckiest.

Either way, life certainly hadn’t been boring since Stella bounced into my life. And I was far happier than I’d been before.

I walked down the steps to find Daeva and a bug muta trapped in a telekinetic box.

“You’re back. Good. I caught her this morning.” Daeva gestured at the muta.

“Who is she?” I summoned balls of light to get a better look.

The muta turned her head away from the light on reflex, but it might have also been from some urge to hide herself. She was unfortunate enough to get some sort of house fly mutation. Two giant and red eyes dominated her face and a pair of wings fluttered on her back, but she had nowhere to go. “Let me go. She’s keeping me prisoner for no reason.” The woman screamed at the top of her lungs.

I softened the noise coming from her. “What have you found?”

“That she’s clearly brainwashed.” Daeva crossed her arms. “I couldn’t find the last guard. She’s long gone.”

“You don’t understand.” The fly woman screamed. “He needs me. Let me go. He needs me.” She banged on invisible walls.

I raised a brow. “Fairly single minded. She just wants to get back to him?”

“That’s the gist.” Daeva squeezed her arms and pushed her chest up, catching my attention with a smile. “I got a few words out of her before she just started begging to get back to him. How did your trip go? Anything new you can do that you want to test?”

I smirked. “Her project was a success, but I never really wanted telepathy. It’s better not to know that everyone is looking at my ass when I walk through the office.”

Daeva snorted.

I smiled, shifting my attention to the fly woman as I pushed my power into her mind.

My mind was sharper and so were my memories. I had seen at least a few doctors office posters with a map of the brain. Using that and pairing it with some old highschool biology classes, I slowed and sped up parts of the brain. It was mostly trial and error, but I thought I had something.

“Where is Roach?” I asked the fly woman.

“Gone!” She shrieked. “He left me. I need to get back to him.”

Daeva perked up. “What did you just do?” She looked over at me.

“I’m just a little smarter than I used to be.” I avoided directly answering her question.

Speeding up and slowing down parts of the brain meant creating some slight electrical resistance and slowing down hundreds of chemical reactions. It would have been far too complex to control before I’d enhanced my brain. My mind was no longer operating off of physical limitations.

“Well, she’s doing a little more than begging to be out.” Daeva stopped trying to shove her breasts in my face and focused on the fly woman. “When did you last see Roach?”

“Two days ago.” The woman continued to sob. “He told me to be careful and that I’d never see him again if I was caught.”

“Why didn’t you leave with him?” I asked, curious why he wouldn’t just take his people and flee into the wilds if he was so good at surviving in them.

She let out a keening wail and threw herself against Daeva’s barrier hard.

I shut down part of her spine and she fell before I caught her and lifted her up. “You need to answer me. Why didn’t you leave with him?”

“I had to stay, to help with the mission.” She looked at me and even though her eyes were that of a fly’s, I could feel the despair in them. “I failed him.”

“What did you fail?” Daeva continued to press as I worked on her mind, trying to reduce whatever function was making her quite so obsessive.

She twitched. “He’s going to destroy New Haven. He’s scared of Daeva and Void, but he took care of Void.”

I didn’t correct her. There was already the chance that the information could creep back out, and there was no reason to flaunt it.

“Yeah. Void is dead. Pratt dealt with him.”

Daeva frowned, putting together the Point City General with Roach.

I held up my hand to stop her from asking questions. “It hurts that I’m not considered a threat.”

“You are unknown to Roach. He’s collecting information on you.” She smiled with half of her face. The other half was static. My playing with her brain seemed to be causing issues. “You made him upset. He got information on you from the cities and it was all wrong.”

I smirked. “Good. Now, how is he going to attack New Haven?”

The woman pushed out a tongue that looked more like a black straw and started to push at her lip rather than answer.

“Hello?” Daeva asked and nudged the woman with her power, but the woman’s attention didn’t shift as she continued to play with her lip and tongue.

I checked her brain and my attempts at slowing things down had resulted in shutdowns of different regions. I essentially ended up giving her multiple strokes at the same time.

“Whoops. I think she’s done. Still new to this.” I scratched the back of my head.

Daeva shrugged. “She’d already become uncooperative by the time you got here. At least now we know what he wants to do. With both of us here, he can’t touch New Haven.”

I nodded. Roach might be crazy, but he had shown he was competent enough to build and hide an organization under Daeva’s nose and across multiple cities.

He’d be careful, and we needed to take him seriously as a major threat.

“Let’s try and dig up everything he has here in New Haven. I want to see if we can’t uncover more. I’ll be staying here until we can deal with whatever this is.” I checked the fly woman and her brain had started to collapse from the problems I caused.

I waved my hand, pasting her.

“Understood.” Daeva nodded. “So, what’s the new power?”

***

“And then it was like boooosh, pow, kablooie!” Stella knocked on the dinner table and rattled the plates as she told the story of my monster fruit. “Then, everything got real quiet and our God King rose up from that table a changed man. He’s transcended normal men; he can more reliably have baby boys. Just imagine holding one of his children on your arms.” Stella cradled her arms and pretended to coo at an imaginary baby.

The maidens had gathered, and even Daeva was leaning in with interest as Stella finished her story.

“Really?” Another maiden I didn’t recognize asked.

“He confirmed it himself, though he said that other men might undergo a similar procedure in the near future.” The maiden that had guided me to Daeva spoke up.

Melody quirked an eyebrow at me, seeming to wonder if I’d break it all up.

I shook my head. I wasn’t going to change Stella, and she was having fun. Watching her large gestures, relishing the attention made me smile.

The temple maidens chattered excitedly and those that had been with us were looking awfully smug.

“Master.” Stella’s head snapped to me. “Dinner is over. It is time for us to go test your newer, better self.”

“Haven’t we already tested this plenty? I seem to recall there was a time just after—“

Stella rolled her eyes and shook her head like I was being silly. “Master, you are the first test subject for this. It requires frequent and repeat testing to make sure everything stays good.” She got out of her chair and walked over to mine, patting me on the shoulder. “Come on. Let your goddess of lust take this burden and continue to check your body.”

The girls around the table began snickering loudly at Stella’s words.

“Oh, well if it is for a check up, then that makes sense.” I played along.

Stella grinned over eagerly and took my hand. “Then, let’s go do some testing, Master.”

“Daeva, after I’m done with my… testing… let’s go scout the city at night.” I stopped Stella from running away with me.

“At night?” Daeva frowned before she nodded. “We can certainly try.”

Stella was bouncing in place, eager to drag me back to the bedroom. “You two can have fun later. Daeva, don’t forget what I taught you.”

“I’d never, goddess of lust.” Daeva gave her a slight bow.

Stella was all smiles as she pulled me away. “She’s coming along nicely, but I think she’s going to be into some freaky shit. That whole popping back to life thing is so weird.”

“You’ve seen her power? When did you see her power?” My head started to spin. Had Daeva been dying while I was gone?

“Oh. She was curious about some rough stuff, and I think she took the choking a little too far.” Stella waved it away as if it were commonplace.

I wasn’t sure what to say in response as Stella pulled me into the bedroom.