That was fine; I assumed this orange light meant we were at Xeno, but orange was a weird color. It didn't mean danger, but it also didn't mean it was safe. I grabbed a towel and then left the room; outside, Alex and Alterion were both stand and waiting for me. I was a bit surprised to see them in the...hologram…
"So, Orange, what does that mean?"
"Cation."
"He means to us right now! Do you always have to be so stiff? The orange means there is something in the way of us getting to the planet. Thirty dreadnought whales and three Behomoth classed squid things!"
"Aahh, definitely seems like an orange moment. Listen, guys, I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say that Cernel Prime here signaled the warned and then blocked you from changing it, right Alta?"
"Affirmative."
"So, Alex, are you going out there to fight them?"
"No, you will with your pup and my mobile fortress with absorb into you, that should be more than enough. I just sit here and let everyone know where you are and how long you will be."
"How do you know how long it's going to take?"
"Well, since that about thirty minutes away from being in firing range, I will count from there."
Ugh, Alexander was getting his smart ass personality back that my memories told me was always there.
"Fine, but wake me up sooner next time!"
"You looked like you were comfortable; I calculated the best possible time to wake you up and us having at least a fifteen percent chance of surviving if you hurry."
I turned and ran, stupid asshat, I didn't doubt his calculation for a minute, but he didn't know everything.
Mom, can I have that skill point?
//Activating first SSP, Skill choice activated
{+3 Level to current System Level}{Stat Boost each level with current System}{+1 Skill Point or Skill each level with current System}
{+3 Level to current System Level}
"Star Strider? What is going on with you?"
I was lit up! The veins were burning Starfire, all the colors of fire at once, and I was tuned. My body moved like I was wearing a Diamond right now; I felt unstoppable. I turned back to Alex and smiled.
"I think you can adjust our percentage of surviving this."
Then I turned back and walked to Diamond, who was already open and waiting for me to enter. I turned and stepped inside, letting the suit close around me, but then I started to move for the airlock.
I could feel Diamond itching to change because of my new crazy boost, so I popped the lock as soon as the hatch sealed. I was jettisoned out into open space, and I could see and blue ball in the distance, but there were a lot of glowing green lights heading my way. Those are the bad guys, I thought to myself with a laugh as I let Diamond change.
It was hard to notice the difference except for when I almost bumped into the ship I just got out of with my hip. WOAH, I was big! I could literally pick up the ship with my hand, but I digress; Mom, you and Alta take care of the fancy thing, and we will do the rest.
//WREXALIA DETECTED, ACTIVATING LIFE DYNAM
//DIAMOND PLATING ACTIVATED
//SHIFTING ASSASSIN ACTIVATED
//FLASH DRIVE ACTIVATED
//STARFIRE NAGINATA ACTIVATED
//EQUIPING MOBILE FORTRESS
//CANNONS 1-8 ARE NOW ONLINE AND LOCKING ONTO TARGETS
The rush of messages made it hard to see what was going on as I was wrapped by a golden yellow spider. The mobile fortress settled around me and the legs started to fire massive pulses of blue energy into the on-coming Unlife. The effect was epic.
As the globs of blue energy hammered into the fleet of sickly glowing monsters, they set off a series of explosions, catch the others trying to feel. Thirty Dreadnaughts and one Behemoth disappeared from my radar, leaving only the two remaining squid things. One was in terrible shape, part of the ship was already missing from the explosions, but the other still looked like it could do some damage.
//RELEASING MOBILE FORTRESS
I broke away from the spider and disappeared into space, and in less than two heartbeats, I had pulled out my Naginata handle and charge it, and now I was standing thousand of kilometers behind the two giant space squid. I turned to watch them each get glowing lines in the centers and then explosions blossoming around the lights, causing a massive explosion.
As I watched the things explode, I had trouble figuring out what just happened. I could even see the ship anymore; hell, I was almost to Xeno, but then that distracted me, and I decided to do a little sightseeing before everyone else arrived. I was pretty sure I would be sufficient for re-entry in Diamond.
//Yes, you will be fine, Diamond will change the form, and Alta and I will assist you in landing safely -Tequila.
Mom, was that you that made that attack?
//I was Alta, Diamond, and myself, but now you are the captain, Star Strider, so we will take care of most simple tasks, like fighting. You need to take care of the important ones, like seducing the queen of the Wraiths
Seduce? Hey! I am just supposed to convince her to come...oh...visions of the Wraith came back into my vision, but then I shook my head. Nope, I would do this and get it done. After that, I would save this damn planet, kick the Unlife in the balls, and get to my next game!
Chapter 160: Wrai-Spire
//Reducing size and deploying re-entry rockets and shielding, I will also tell the crew that you are going to speak to the Queen on your own -Alta.
Gee, thanks, Alta, I thought as I watched the message disappear from my HUD. I was now staring down at pure blue everywhere I looked. I guess getting this over and down with the Wraith queen will be one more thorn out of my side, but if I seduce the Queen, won't that make her a Harem Member?
//Yes, before, you would not have that option, but The Harem System is linked with Reborn. It has access to all the females on the waiting list, so now you can pull them at random from the list and add them to your harem -Tequila.
The water was coming fast now, so I pulled out my normal naginata and cut down into the water, just before impact, allowing me to sink into the water. If I hadn't done that, I would have known for a brief moment what it was like to have my head and asshole fused together; no thanks. Hitting unbroken water at high speeds was like hitting the pavement, be nothing left but a grease spot at the speed I hit it.
/Okay then, Alta, set a course for where ever I am going and give me an ETA
//ETA is three hours and twenty-five minutes, without delays -Alta.
Ha, sneaky bastard slid that last part of the message in there; well, delays were a part of my daily bread. Okay, Mom, so if I have access to more members now, what will I do? Have fifteen to twenty girls with me at some points? You have to see where I'm coming from, right?
//Hehe, yes Dave, I do. The Harem System also allows me to make all the members of your current team into goddesses, and then you can choose from the list for each world you enter. This will be very important when facing the founders; you will have to set up teams fast on each world and then keep in contact with them so you can support them. If we aren't fast enough, they will try to escape, but in the new system that you haven't unlocked, there will be a way to set up a communications device for you to talk on, but that also blocks the founders from contacting each other -Tequila.
Oh, well, that changes things. So now I can let them all relax? Great! That will be really good, but it will be hard to pick certain girls, but maybe with The Harem System, they will get better at certain things, and it will be easier to pick people for specific tasks. This was good though, now I could start saving women faster, but I would need a lot of HMP to get everyone to levels that I could leave them alone in a game.
It wasn't that I was just scared that they might die or get hurt; Most of the girls went through traumatic experiences, and I didn't want any of them to relive something like that. I would hunt the ones like Kyrin to the ends of each world to prevent it. That's what I fucking needed, Asshole Sense
; I would max that baby out!
//WARNING MULTIPLE WRAITH TARGETS ON ROUTE TO INTECEPT -Alta.
Diamond, turn the damn flashing red lights off in my helmet! Ugh, maybe Alex might have been better to have; he was more calculating in my favor, where Alta was a helicopter parent. I could count fourteen Wraiths approaching, and when they got close, I sighed to myself. Man, they were worse, like a blue hammerhead shark with a mouth that stretched across their faces. They had mostly humanoid bodies, but I found it comical as I was surrounded.
Each drew out guns that look like water pistols, but the funny part was that each one held four guns, hahaha, one in each hand. God, you had to be here, and I tried to get myself under control as I had three of the four water guns shoved in my face in an awkward way that left his...small parts exposed...hehe, sure is cold.
"BWAHAHAHA...oops!"
My ridiculous laughter was projected into the water in a way that made it perfectly clear to understand. At a moment like this, it would have been nice for a little voice masking from the water, but that ship had sailed, and now there were lots of water guns pointed at me. Oh jeez, now they all held all four, and their peckers were hanging below, flapping in the water.
As they all yelled at me, the only thought that I was having was how a fish didn't come and nibble on them, hehe.
"Okay, I see we got off on the wrong foot, but if you keep waving those in my face, I will be carrying to all back in a bloody bag. All jokes aside, I am here to see your Queen, so put your fancy sword away. Let's go, or I will leave you behind."
"Who do you think…"
"Please, no questions, I'm not here to talk to you. I think Fiori knows I am coming so she won't be impressed if I'm late. Honestly, I have a map; I don't need an escort."
I wanted to be rid of tiny pecker and his cohort of over-sized belly buttons, but they all put their weapons on their back and, with some reluctance, led me deeper into the ocean. Diamond adjusted my view so I could see into the dark water without problem, but there wasn't much to see except for more black water. At this depth, it didn't look like much grew or swan here.
Suddenly, I was able to make out a group of tower-like structures ahead, and some purple lights were coming from them. Wrai-Spire, or that's what the map registered it as, looked like a bunch of those tall ant hills in Africa. Part of me wondered if they were formed naturally or if they had some way to create it.
Well, time to go make some sexy time with the Queen of the fishies!
Chapter 161: The Flasher Strikes Again!
Small Pecker led me into the underwater city, and it was kind of cool looking. I say, kind of only because they were tall underwater skyscraper tall dirt mound looking things with purple lights. After about fifteen minutes of this, I was bored, and I told my guide to pick up the pace.
Soon I reached the ground level, and there was a massive mound about fifteen meters tall in the center and surrounded but the tall mounds. Now that I was down on the ground, I could no longer see any of the tower's tops, just a sea of purple lights. I turned to focus on what was going on in front of me.
I had been brought to what looked like the front entrance, but it was far from impressive. Nothing more than a hole in the side of the dirt mound, but it did have two angry guards wearing armor, and hey, look, I couldn't see their junk. This group I had stumbled into was just a bunch of cretins, to think walking around naked in...nevermind, no need to bash them for that.
Memories of the countless times I had already flashed even Alta streamed in, making me smile in my suite as Small Pecker argued with Big Pecker. I couldn't see Big Pecker's junk, but the fish-man had big hands and a surprisingly small head compared to the Small Pecker. He looked more like a shark-man than a science experiment gone wrong dipped in acid. Just then, Small pecker turned on my angrily, pulling out his guns.
"Tanaak says you don't have an appointment, so you lie..."
//SYSTEM OVERRIDE ACTIVATE, POWERX7, SPEEDX13
//SHIFTING ASSASIN ACTIVATED
I fucking told them! Six of the fourteen naked Wraiths that had drawn on me now clouded the waster with blue ink-like blood. I had split them from head to...there...oversized belly buttons. Now I stood in front of the guard about a meter away from him, with my weapon put away.
"So, this is how this will go. I will tell you my name and rank, and then you will take me to see your Queen. OR, I will use the map in my suite to figure it out, ALONE. I hope you understand what I mean. My name is Dave Star-Strider, Commander of The Universal Watch, and you seem to be disturbing the peace, so, lead on."
I was a Commander now? Look at me go!
Tanaak was a lot smarter than the two pieces of Small Pecker and led me inside without hesitation. It seemed he knew the royal family well, and he would take me to meet with His majesty, the Queen, but I would have to meet with the council at the same time. The same ones that were listing the Unlife's help; I wonder If they knew about what I had just done in space? That will be funny, hehe.
"Sure, boss. Lead the way and send someone ahead, so I don't have to wait, I have more members joining me soon, and I don't want to keep them waiting; this is only a small part of what I am doing here."
Tanaak sent someone ahead and then turned to stop me. We were alone now, and the giant shark looked troubled, so I waited patiently until he decided to speak. After a moment, the Shark-man guard let out a bubbly sigh.
"I am happy you have come; things are...strained. The old kings recently passed, but he only had one child, Fiori, so she naturally assumes the thrown, but the council have taken over and guide all her choice. They also, as I'm sure you know, have been dealing with the Wrexallian's on the planet. They have even infected some of our armies."
"Yeah, I know. So why are the council running the show right now? Fiori is the Queen, right?"
"Yes, but she is young, and she has a princess complex, so the council feeds into her whims to control her. Fiori is also one of the first Wraith to ever be able to breathe pure oxygen out of what like the Xenophin."
Oh? So she wasn't all scary shark woman, but a princess complex?
//Himedere: Tsundere with a desire to be pampered and treated like a royal princess whether she is one or not -Tequila.
Great, she already a Dere stat ready, oh boy. Well, if she could breathe air, that would make it a lot easier to do what I need to do. I could work with the Tsundere, I was starting to get good at dealing with them, but The Hime would have to go. Maybe I could figure out something to help with that, hehe.
"I'll figure it out; let's go."
Tanaak led me up a tunnel that I had to swim up, and soon I was led into a circular chamber that had a throne on it at the back, but it was in an area that had no water, like an air pocket holing it all back. Around the room in the water sat a bunch of old-looking hammerheads and some great white looking ones like Tanaak and even an old puckered up sand shark. The group didn't look happy to see me, but that would be expected; they knew I was here to talk to them, and they knew why.
I stepped into the waterless section, thanking Tanaak for guiding me before I did and he to a spot at the door. As I stepped into the arid area, I finally noticed the woman sitting on the throne. The through was huge, and this blue-skinned beauty was petite and cute looking with her bright green hair. I decided it would be best to introduce myself in the flesh rather than having a conversation from my suite.
I asked Diamond to let me out, and the plates started to slide back, and I could feel the warm air hit my bare skin across the entire front of my body. I looked at Fiori, who was now smiling with a mouth full of sharp teeth, and it was at that moment I realized what had just happened.
Dave, The Flasher strikes again!
Chapter 162: Bang, Bang, Uh Oh Double Mission!
"Well, this isn't how I wanted our talk to start."
"I think it's fine for a commoner such as yourself, I am used to seeing the lower Wraiths walk like you. Since you are nothing more, I can stand to
look upon you bodying without perverse thoughts."
I half-believed her, while she wasn't outright mean, she did just call me a commoner. Was I a commoner? I was the general of UW, that had to count for something right? Oh well, I'm not here to start some pissing match with her royal highness, but I couldn't just kill everyone can scoop up the princess, well, I could, but that won't solve anything.
"Dave Star Strider, General of The Watch, and I have some things I would like to speak to you about, alone."
"You make a request for me? Who do you think I am?"
"Listen, I just want to…"
"Silence! I will not speak to you until you have completed a task for me!"
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