Devils & Artefacts c99 (Patreon)

(Gu Yuena Lemon included)

Gu Yuena pulled Marcus into the bed. She laid him on it while she was on the top.

The silver-haired dragoness licked her lips as she was rearing to go.

“What now?” the inventor asked in a teasing voice. He wanted to see how far she would go before he needed to take over.

“...You will see.” 

As she said that, she leaned forward and started with a simple kiss.

This kiss slowly escalated as she realised that she wanted to explore more than just his lips. 

Slowly, she made his mouth open as her tongue slipped in, and slowly, a wrestling battle between tongues started.

This escalation had an effect on her as she realised that her body started to heat up.

The beauty began to rub herself into him. Especially her crouch into the slowly raising tent.

After a while, the kiss ended as she pulled her head away. A gasp escaped from her mouth as her purple eyes looked glassy.

“...Ugh… so good! I want more~~~” As she said that, she rubbed herself more into him.

“Then we shouldn’t hold back.” As he said that, he snapped his fingers, and both of their clothes ceased to exist.

Gu Yuena trembled when she felt his scalding cock touch her pussy lips out of nowhere!

Some sweat appeared on her forehead as she realised that her beloved Emperor was not playing around.

“I won't ~” As she said that, she moved her hips forward and back, stimulating his rod with her wet pussy lips. 

Just from doing that, she felt small eruptions of pleasure coursing through her body.

“Hmmnnn~~~,” the dragoness softly moaned as she felt his pole at full mast, hard and ready for her.

Her hand went on his cock as she lifted herself and positioned herself for insertion. There were eyes of expectations in her eyes as she felt how his tool started to slip into her tight hole.

The moment it started to spread her cave, she softly gasped.

Not to look ‘weak’, she moved herself down on his cock, ignoring the growing pain.

With a hard push, his whole pole was fully inside of her.

“Hhnnnn…” A haggard grunt escaped from her lips.

At that moment, Marcus sat down and wrapped his hands around her waist, pulling her into a hug and then a kiss. 

The dragoness, at that moment behaved more like a cat as she wanted to lick and kiss him while trying to overcome that pain.

As the pair started another make-out session, the inventor’s hands wandered to her rear as he started to squeeze and pull her exquisite bum.

Gu Yuena started to feel it on several fronts. Her body trembled, and the heat became unbearable. Without even knowing it, she started to move her waist.

Slowly, the pain subsided as her movement got faster. Marcus assisted her along the way as he helped her to move on his rod.

Before they even knew it, a wet-smacking sound of coupling started to spread through the room.

With a hard smack, the dragoness’ body trembled as she felt a small climax wash over her whole body.

She stopped her kiss and instead released a mouthful moan.

“Ohhhnnn~~ soo good~~~” The silver-haired beauty moaned as she looked at the ceiling with distant eyes.

As she wanted more pleasure, she wrapped her legs around his waist as she pulled herself deeper into his cook. She wants it deeper.

“Hehehe, make more love to me~~~,” The beauty said with a lustful smile as she grind herself into him. 

Marcus simply smiled as he stood up and walked over to a wall and leaned her into it.

He pressed into her as he started to thrust into her pussy without any delay.

Gu Yuena’s eyes slightly widened as she felt more intense pleasure erupt from the connection she had.

Her lustful smile swiftly changed into a silly grin as she couldn’t take the pleasure anymore. 

She didn’t realise yet, but Marcus knew all of her sensitive spots.

It didn’t take her long before she started climaxing one after another. 

As he was picking up speed, eventually, it was time for him to mark her properly.

With a powerful smack, he released his first load into the awaiting womb of his dragoness.

“Ohhhhh!!! YES!!! Flood me with your seeeed~~~!” The silver-haired beauty howled at the top of her lungs as her back arched from pleasure.

After several more strokes, he took her back to the bed, and he laid her on her back.

Gu Yuena smiled lewdly as she quickly realised that it was going to be a long day.

The best part is that she knows that he created her to take ‘punishment’. 

She can take it no matter how much he is pumping into her!

~~~~~~Later~~~~~~

After awakening Gu Yuena to lust, the Dragoness tried to move into Marcus' bedroom. At that moment, she forgot that other beauties were prowling the perimeter.

She was quickly introduced by Quinella to something called the ‘schedule’.

It was a schedule for ladies who were sleeping in his bed next to him each day.

Though…  

“Why one by one?” The silver-haired beauty complained as she saw the schedule on her HUD.

“...Thats…” 

“Our Emperor sleeps in a King sized bed, not to mention he loves to cuddle.” The dragoness reasoned with the Assistant.

“...Well, it doesn’t matter. Since this ‘schedule’ is not approved by him I don’t need to bother with it.” Gu Yuena quite arrogantly dismissed the schedule without care.

“...You…”

“What? Are you going to complain to him?” She ‘smiled’ at her.

“...Don’t be ridiculous,” Quinella replied with twitchy eyebrows and lips. She is barely controlling her rage.

“...Then I will be the one who shares his other side of the bed. That’s, of course, if he wants it~” The Dragoness said with a smug smirk.

“...Fine. In the end, it’s what Marcus wants. We were created to please him and assist with everything he wants.” The Assistant agreed in the end. She can’t deny it. After all, no matter how proud or arrogant she is… her duty takes priority.

As the girls considered the changes to the bed arrangements, Marcus looked at the centrepiece of his new exploration suit.

When he originally thought of making a simple suit to protect the biology of different time periods, he wanted to make sure he had perfect material, and from that, he created nanomachines.

But in the end, he went all out and reworked his Diamond Cores.

Since he was expanding his range into small things, he created small diamond cores, the so-called Triangle Diamond Core, which he used in his Freedom suits.

But this is different. In fact he was even baffled by what he created.

“...What is this?” A girl’s voice asked him.

Marcus snapped out of his thoughts as he saw a trolley with food arrive.

His nose immediately perked up as his stomach rumbled. 

“You know… even though my body has the ability to adapt, your food still makes me feel hungry.” Marcus is impressed by Erina’s ability to make him hungry no matter what.

One could say that she is winning him over through food alone!

“I am pleased to hear that.” Erina smiled, hearing that, as she proceeded to give him his dinner. The beautiful chef girl has adjusted her food to things he loves. Though she would prefer French food in their looks, this is fine as well. As she is expanding her repetuar to less known cultures.

After placing all of the food, she looked at what he was doing. 

What she was looking at was no longer technology in her eyes.

No, it was more like… Arcane…

“To answer your question it’s the reactor to the suits I am building.”

Her eyes perked up when she heard that.

“...But wasn’t your previous technology sufficient?” She asked with a small frown. What he had before was already perpetual motion technology.

“Diamond Heart Reactor is something I came up with by chance as I recalled something from Marvel comics.” He said with a sigh.

“I never said to anyone that I was thinking of making a Perpetual motion reactor. Only after doing all the calculations, I realised that it was an actual chance to make infinite energy.” He said to her as he prepared to eat it.

“...In other words, it was a new branch of tech. Once it was running, I started reinventing it to perfect it and improve it each time I got a chance.

Eventually, I got a breakthrough, and that was waves and resonance.” 

With a hand motion, he zoomed out…

Erina’s eyes bulged out as what she saw were gears… of diamonds placed inside a triangle structure.

“Beautiful, isn’t it? All of those pieces move and generate energy from friction. Because how many of them are even in passive mode, they generate enough power to keep the suit operating for basic necessities. But the moment it enters battle mode, the gear will spin faster, and the output will increase.

Theoretically, the output can go beyond anything needed on Earth.”

After explaining to her, he took the first bite.

“...Ohhh~~ man… I get positive goosebumps just from taking a bite!”

Erina snapped out as she looked at him for a second. She smiled as she liked that he still likes her food after eating it for two weeks now.

“So you built this because of output?” She understood that by this point, even if he has perpetual motion technology, what he ends up lacking is sheer energy and control over it.

The chef girl can assume that this new reactor is the answer to it.

“...Indeed. Though this is a new platform I can work later on.” He smiled at her as he continued to eat his food with a huge smile.

Funny how Erina didn’t realise, but she is the reason why Marcus is having so much fun in creating a literal Deus Machina.

Each time she brings dinner to him, Marcus is motivated to create bigger, better, more insane stuff! 

After all, the literal term of working with a full stomach works even for him!

And just like that Marcus created Diamond Heart Engine. The most advanced and most broken thing to date.

Something that even his Automated Assembly Lines will have a hard time creating as it’s an engine stuffed into a fist-size triangle.

Used the latest material technology, the Nanites and his Diamond Heart Reactor knowledge.

By all means, this is no longer technology but Arcane—magic! As he manipulated everything, even atoms were placed in specific patterns.

“...So… does this mean all of the suits will have this technology?” Erina asked him after he finished his food and proceeded to drink his tea.

“...Sadly…” 

He looked embarrassed for a second.

“...The rest of my technomancy is lacking.” He motioned with a finger to show the Diamond Heart Engine.

“It's made from four sections.” He proceeded to show the centre of the triangle, where the blue-white ‘sun’ was surrounded by three structures of diamond gears.

“The centre is the control centre of the engine. The north is where energy is generated, to the left is where nanomachines are stored and fixed and self-replicated, and lastly, on the right is where material is created for the suit.” 

“...Wait… hold it… this triangle is… the suit itself!?” Erina blinked at him! She was in disbelief!

“Yes. You see… when I create something new, I wait for a bit and allow a new tech to spread through my faction.

Think of it like reaching a new plateau, and allowing it to spread out. But with our current circumstances, I can’t spread out.

So, I simply went two huge steps forward.

That means that my Automated Assembly lines can’t make this.” He sighed loudly when he said the last part.

“We need to arrive at our destination so that I can retrofit my assembly lines to produce this.” He pointed at the suit’s triangle engine.

“In the meantime, I will make them by hand. It's not like I need to make hundreds.” He took a sip of his tea after explaining to her.

“...I see. Then I will leave you to your work.” After taking all the dishes the chef girl left him to his work.

‘When they said that he doesn’t work on something for more than a few days, I never imagined technology so advanced that it looks like magic.’

As Erina thought to herself, she pulled the trolley back to the kitchen. One thing for sure is that what she saw was like another world inside that triangle. 

~~~

After finishing the design, Marcus summoned the parts needed to make the Diamond Heart Engine. He used the Assembly Line to make the smallest possible items.

Like a diamond the size of a pinky finger, which is too big. That is right; his Assembly lines can’t make smaller items.

So, in the next upgrade, he should improve that.

As he pondered on that, his eyes widened as he immediately found a solution!

“...Stupid…”

He smacked his head as he realised that he was being slow!

“Aurora, raise me the schematics for the nanobots.” 

[Certainly, sir.]

Seconds later, a hologram of a bug popped in front of him.

“Assembly Lines work because I have Aurora bots to maintain them and improve.

All I need to do is create nano-size Aurora bots and nano-size Assembly lines. It's ridiculous how easy the solution was.” Marcus sighed as he massaged his forehead.

[Sir, you are permitted to have small moments of ‘slumber’.]

“I guess. I suppose this because I am cramped in a single place.” He sighed before starting to alter the design for the construction nanobot.

Once these nanites are done, he will revolutionise construction forever. 

He came up with this at a crucial time, as he has a lot of stuff to build in space and in general.

After finding the solution, he swiftly went to redesign how the nanobots would look.

He designed to go with ants as they are the best constructors around the ‘block’.

Without even realising, he was done in a couple of hours and it was time to create them.

Just like before, what he was looking at was a grey ‘sand’. 

It was quite simple, as he only needed to create one nanobot. With one created, that one will create another one and then those two will create another two, and then those four will make another four.

In just a few minutes, he had a small pile of ‘sand’ visible with his naked eyes. He didn’t need to use his psionic energy to see the micro world where the nanobots were.

Regardless, he quickly got enough of them to start working on Diamond Heart Engines. 

Though he quickly realised that these small buggers would take their time in making these. It's like building a world from scratch.

No matter what, it takes time.

‘Well, it's fine. We still have around a week to finish their construction and a week to power them.’ 

Marcus realised that his new ‘toy’ takes around a week to power itself up.

While he does need to send an initial pulse of energy to kick start initial gear, the rest he can’t interfere as it would shatter the balance inside the ‘world’ of the Diamond Heart Engine.

Regardless, with the suit issue solved, Marcus returned to make more gear for exploring prehistoric and ancient Earth.

‘I should start adding nanites in everything I do otherwise, I will look like an idiot again. Thankfully, none of my girls were here to see me at such an embarrassing moment.’

The inventor looked slightly embarrassed as he swiftly started designing specific drones for planetside exploration. 

Stuff like this will be crucial in future alien world explorations.

~~~~~~Over a Week and Half Later~~~~~~

[Entering Phase Three] 

Marcus perked his head when he heard that.

“...Oh, finally!” he exclaimed as he stood up and stretched himself. He had been tinkering for a while.

“For the next two days, I won’t be doing shit!” He said out loud as he walked out from his workshop and went right to the window. He could see that Confiscator had stopped and now repositioning to enter the flow of time.

He looked at how the vessel once again proceeded to accelerate into the ‘nebula’, which was the time.

“Call everyone. It's time to talk about what we will do in Carboniferous Earth,” the inventor said with a grin as he got excited.

He can’t wait to hear girls scream ‘murder’ because Carboniferous is full of bugs and critters, and it’s Earth from when it was full of rainforests and swamps.

Unlike the Permian lush world or the Triassic’s desert world.

It's like exploring different planets together—a desert world, a swamp world, a jungle world, and so on.

Hell, he doesn’t even need to look for other alien worlds! Just visit Earth at different time periods!

A few minutes later, they went to the meeting room, which was just a floor below his workshop.

It was quite a large room with enough seats for his whole crew.

When Marcus entered it, he saw that everyone was waiting for him.

“Good, everyone is here.”

The inventor walked to the front. Soon enough, a screen appeared behind him. For now it was showing Technocracy’s flag and symbol.

“In two days, we will be entering Earth during the Carboniferous period.” 

“...did you just say Carboniferous?” Athena exclaimed with disbelief before she grimaced as she realised what kind of Earth they were entering.

When everyone saw her reaction, they looked concerned. Many of them realised that they should have studied those periods in detail.

“...I thought we going to Triassic.” Atalanta raised her hand. She has studied the three Dinosaur eras in detail.

“...But now that you mentioned Triassic started around 252 million years ago, not 320 you mentioned.” The lion girl realised that they were off by 70 million years.

‘...No matter how you look at this…they are talking about millions of years like its most normal thing to do.’ Erina thought to herself with a sweaty forehead.

One wrong move and they are stranded… in the super distant past.

“Precisely, Carboniferous is a period where amphibians came out from the oceans to live on land. We are going to confirm this.”

Marcus explained them as behind him a map appeared. 

It was Earth at Carboniferous.

“...Is this after Pangea?” Erina asked with confusion. She should have studied this more!

“Wrong. This is right before the Super Pangea Continent, the Permian Period.” Athena explained with one hand on her glasses.

“We are going to a period when primitive amphibians finally started living on land. The era before is called the Devonian, also known as the ‘Age of Fishes’.

I assume we didn’t visit the Devonian period because we don’t have the means to carry lots of water to keep living specimens?” The Goddess asked her Fiance.

“Precisely, Carboniferous is enough to collect some very primitive crocodilians.” He said with a shrug.

“Regardless, now let’s talk about a game we will be playing.” 

His words perked everyone's attention even more.

With a hand motion, the Earth’s map changed into an evolutionary tree of all lifeforms, some of which were highlighted in different colours.

“As you all might know, we are here to collect samples and confirm a bunch of theories about extinction events like the ‘Great Dying’.

To do that, we need to explore Earth a bunch of times over.” 

He pointed at the animals highlighted in green.

“The ones in green are animals which are completely extinct on our Earth. Like the trilobite, it's a marine arthropod, in other words, a very distant ancestor to crabs.” He showed an image of a fossilised exoskeleton of a trilobite.

“The reason why I am interested in these is that they are one of most successful animal existence in Earth’s history. 270 million years and 22 thousand species. In the Carboniferous, only one branch of them remains.

That is why I want one in my aquarium.” 

“...”

“...”

The girls looked at each other. For a second, they thought the reason was something serious. But he only wanted to diversify his aquarium, which he had in school. 

“Regardless of the aquarium, the trilobite’s collection, its genetic makeup collection, and the full scan, one of you will get 40 points.

The same can be said about the collection of other genes, like the proto-mammals and other amphibians which live in Carboniferous.”

He highlighted other animals, like the proto-crocodilians and some other critter-looking creatures. 

“All of them will give you all points. Depending on the position on the evolution tree.”

“...We can assume that something like a crocodile ancestor won’t give as much as trilobite?” Sirin asked with crossed arms.

The girl already understood how this game worked.

“Indeed.”

“...and the butterfly effect?” Athena asked, wanting to know how they work around that. If they can ‘play’ games, then they can go wild to a certain extent.

“Glad you asked!” Marcus snapped his fingers when he heard the question. 

“Let me show you girls the butterfly effect bar!” He said, and the screen shifted from the evolutionary tree to something that looked like a suit's HUD.

“This here is the Aurora HUD Time Explorer version. As you can see, it doesn’t look much different from the latest version, except for a single crucial difference: it is equipped with the newest Quantum Calculator.

In simple terms, it uses time-based calculations to determine if anything in front of you is relevant to the future.” 

As he said that on the screen a T-Rex walked.

“For example, a T-Rex walked over. As you can see around him, there is a coloured Aura, and he is highlighted by the HUD.

The bar next to it starts to fill up if the beast somehow is relevant to the future. 

“If the aura is extremely light blue and white, the beast has no relevance at all. You can do whatever you want with it.

But if it's extremely red and has a butterfly on top of it, it means the beast should not be interacted with at all. This extends to everything, even entire areas and trees.”

He showed several key areas through the Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurrasic, and Cretaceous, as he said.

“Avoid these areas, as if we interfere, we could cause a lack of oil, coal and natural gases in modern times.” 

“...Wait… that’s it? We just don’t walk there or interfere, and that is it?” Atalanta exclaimed with surprise.

“Precisely. Because of an array of extinction events, there is not much we can impact.” He shrugged before showing the bronze age.

“Though the same can’t be said about more recent times.”

He showed examples of modern times, which are much more dangerous, and they have to be more careful.

“For example, if we get spotted in the Bronze Age, we would need to perform memory wipes and erase any evidence we have left.” 

“...I see… now it makes sense.” The Lioness looked relaxed immediately. 

“That means we will be able to have fun for millions of years of Earth’s history.” Hippolyta was pleased as well. She wants some proper hunting action with prehistoric animals. 

“Precisely, we can go wild until 65 million years when the meteorite hits. Though even after that we can have fun. Almost all the way until around 20 to 30 million years ago, all we need to do is not visit Africa and touch any of the early mammals.

All of those Aurora will highlight for you.”

“...But isn’t there more to it? We shouldn’t even touch any of the ecosystems around Africa at all.” Athena frowned as she was concerned.

“That is why I have these.” Marcus pulled out dark grey grenades.

“These are time-fix grenades. They will reverse anything you have caused that could impact the timeline,” he explained to them.

“They are directly linked to the suits you will be wearing. Aurora and the suit will calculate what kind of reverse is needed in case the butterfly effect is triggered.” The inventor showed how it works.

The screen shifted to a HUD, where a person threw a grenade. Upon explosion, a green cloud consumed the whole area. It looked like the place had become disconnected from time.

Sure enough, the T-Rex saw the explorer, forgot about him, and walked to a different place. 

“...Interesting.” Gu Yuena’s eyes sparkled as she saw another way to use time powers—this time, it was in the form of an AOE bomb!

“Is this the only way to do it?” Artemis asked as she preferred a different method of erasing evidence.

“For now, it's the only way. But as I said before, this is our first rodeo on ancient Earth 320 million years ago. 

After we get the hang of this, I will introduce more means to manipulate our evidence,” he said with crossed arms, holding his chin with his left hand. 

“I am thinking arrow combos for archer girls and even main cannons of Confiscator at planetary scale in a worst case scenario.”

“...Hope we don’t need to use that,” Athena said with another grimace.

“Even if we fail, it's not truly our world, Athena. We might be on Earth, but this is not ‘our’ Earth. Hell, it would be interesting to see how this world's modern society changes with our machinations.” Marcus chuckled as he wondered if cavemen would draw Confiscator and the crews' suited-up forms in cave walls.

“Maybe no, it sounds dangerous.”

“...Then stop questioning if we can fail. It only challenges me to do something amusing.” Marcus, with an eye roll, told her that she should stop goading him.

“I already took an insane amount of precaution, even utilising Quantum Calculations to see how much can a rolling stone impact a timeline.” He got slightly snapping while saying that.

“Ok-Okay!” Athena raised her hands in defeat.

“Good, all you need to do is help me to collect the greatest collection in the entirety of Earth’s history. It should be so great that even palaeontologists would run out of things to discover.”

“...Fine.”

~~~~~~Carboniferous Earth, Approximately 320 Years Ago~~~~~~

A few million miles away from Pheristoric Earth, a little piece of space rippled as a huge green magic circle appeared from it.

Behind it, there was a small ripple, but what came out on the other side was a futuristic, long exploration vessel. It was light grey with golden strokes, emitting light from those golden lines.

Unlike previous upgrades, this was mark 3 Confiscator. The hull and shape don’t remind of a brick and half placed on each other.

There were no more sharp and blocky curves; instead, it had futuristic curves to give the impression of a sci-fi vessel.

As the ship exited the Byfrost, the vessel slowly turned to face the planet below.

“...Wow… look! The moon is so close!” Hisako exclaimed as everyone was at the bridge experiencing the best views.

“Yes, but if this close… I can bet the flooding and ocean currents are extreme.” Artemis was perplexed to see her symbol of power so close to Earth.

She both loves and hates this scene.

“Yeah… but look at the ocean… is it just me, or are there sections of it that make the water look red?” Jeanne said with a curious look as she saw unfamiliar green continents concentrating around the south Hemisphere. Almost the entirety of the North Hemisphere is empty.

“Yeah, this will be the most preeminent in Jurassic and Triassic times when all the oceans were red.”

“...But none of the maps I seen had it in red…” The Maid Saintess was confused.

“That’s because it would confuse people, and we are simply not used to seeing water red.” Le Fay explained instead of Marcus.

“Regardless, let’s begin the descent.” The inventor ignored the maids and instead ordered his bridge crew.

“Roger, setting course for Pangea.”

“...I thought there was no Pangea here.” Erina nearly pouted when she heard the name of the continent.

“We are going to the continent of Pangea, not the supercontinent in Permian or Triassic.” 

“... It's twice as small as a Permian or Triassic one.”

“Fair enough. Though I don’t know if I want to leave the ship this time around.” The chef girl was hugging herself as she saw the data of the Carboniferous period!

It's full of bugs, including arm-sized dragonflies, human-sized centipedes, and children-sized scorpions, not to mention crocodilians with sword-like heads! It's simply a horror period for anyone who has a fear of bugs!

“Suit yourself. I will bring some examples from the Earth’s surface to you.” 

“...Y-You! Devil!” The girl, with nearly teary eyes, looked at him as if he were a criminal.

The girl knew that she would be exposed to big bugs or some other horrendous creatures from this Earth.

“Haha, relax…”

However, there was a selection of other girls who felt the same way.

Half of the maids don’t want to go with him.

“Sheesh…fine, if you girls are scared, then you don’t need to go.”

After saying that, Marcus grabbed his Diamond Heart Engine and proceeded to walk towards the lift.

By this point, all of the girls had tested out the new suits, and they were ready for action. However…

They had no idea what Carboniferous Earth was until they did their studies.

The girls had no idea that it was a bug world by all means and purposes.

So even if they had the most advanced and most arcane level suits for protection, they wouldn’t descend with Marcus to the planetside.

Except for a selected few.

“...Sirin?” 

The Herrscher huffed at him, after her was Quinella and his ship girls.

“We have fought in the depths of Hell; a bug-infested world means nothing to us, Admiral.” Enterprise smiled at him.

“Good to hear. Let’s go and capture some samples!”

Reinvigorated, the Inventor entered the lift, and his creations followed after him.

Honestly, the rest looked perplexed. It appears this is the greatest test they have experienced so far!

“...You do realise that if we don’t go with him, we won’t ever be respected by him again,” Atalanta said with a frown as she saw the alien world through the bridge windows.

It was truly… not the world she knows…

Nothing in this place looks like Earth. She knows nothing that could remind her of it!

It just shows that time changes everything.