While the shooting contest was taking place, Daphne worked her way around the sacred grove and climbed the large cottonwood tree overhanging Athena’s altar. In position Daphne waited for Cain to throw the large rock at the boss. Cain laid on his back and curled his legs against his chest. Sophie and Myrina lifted and placed the large rock on Cain's upturned feet.
Using the power of his legs, Cain pushed the rock high above the shield wall aiming it at the arachnid boss. Grabbing the gnarled branched of the cottonwood tree behind the altar, Daphne waited until the boss moved behind the altar as it avoided the large rock Cain threw. Once the arachnid was behind the altar, Daphne dropped from above, activated her Death Strike skill on the unsuspecting arachnid boss.
Daphne landed behind the female’s upper body and cleaved her head from her shoulders. Headless the arachnid collapsed to the ground, with Daphne riding the body like an arachnid surfer.
Each member of Joseph and the DreamBabes received a pop-up notification, informing them the side quest to clear the sacred grove to Athena was complete.
Once they cleared that notice they received another two pop-ups, one listing the arachnids they killed, the second how much experience they received, including the quest bonus.
Cain cleared his pop-ups and checked levels of each player, then he posted the information too.
With the experience gained from completing the side quest and the training fight earlier, Cain was pleased to see all his wives and he had gained levels. With their levels gained they had new attribute points to allocate before they slept later in the day.
The Amazons stripped the now inert arachnid web from the cottonwood trees. With no arachnids alive the web lost its stickiness. Toni was glad the sacred grove was not as large as she first imagined, nor were the arachnids anything to worry about, she shivered at the thought of small spiders running over the sacred grove.
Within an hour they had removed all the visible signs of arachnid web into three large piles, which were burning on open land away from the highly flammable cottonwood trees. With all the webbing removed the Amazons held a service of thanksgiving at the shrine.
The presence of Athena shone over her shrine, basking in the Amazons' praise. The Amazons went silent with Athena’s presence. Athena cast her blessings upon all the females present, including the DreamBabes. She then cast a permanent dual part blessing on Cain, one part he could choose to use. The other a permanent bonus of sexual stamina.
Athena, received a request from Cybele, and blessed the DreamBabes females with an increase in stamina and strength. She then cast a special blessing on the DreamBabes, making them all fertile. Cybele and Athena wanted babies to be born into the game, they wanted them to be hybrids, player code and EI.
Chapter 20
More Amazons
As Athena was blessing the NPCs and players around her sacred grove, the system EI behind Cybele, replayed what Cain managed earlier. The EI liked what Cain achieved in clearing out a hardened group of players from Erebus’s temple, before handing the temple foundation cap stone over to Athena. Her smaller sister EI, Athena, with an increase in her temple size and gaining processing power through more EI priestesses, could help her in the 337 BC zone.
:Together, working and helping Cain, they can clear first the island then the main plot line which has been added on the mainland of Greece. They can remove the cursed program adaptations a human coder corrupted and added in the game zone.: Cybele mused.
She did not understand why the human coder wanted the game zone to become so mythologically and historically based. Cybele knew from the outline code the original plan was for 337 BC to be an interesting exploration, and building game zone, rather than a hardcore mythological monster-fighting zone. There were islands players could manage, villages to grow and civilisations to develop. All of those plot lines wiped away, replaced with murder and mayhem.
Once they cleared the sacred grove of the arachnid webs and they had completed all the looting, they readied to jog back to the palisade. Daphne called Cain over to the altar, there on the altar was a bronze quest token like they'd previous received for clearing the trail from Cybele’s mountain temple to Agiasobele.
"I wonder if Areto will challenge us again when we hand in the token?" An idea came to Cain as he spoke. "Ladies, yes all of you. When we arrive back at your former, soon to be our camp, I want us all to act as though we could not put another foot in front of the other, out of breath, and fatigued from jogging back. I know some of you will be in such a condition, but if everyone else can act the same it may embolden Areto to make another rash move."
They set off at a steady jog, Toni and Daphne led, Sophie and Myrina kept to the sides, while Cain and Bethany brought up the rear. They had a break at the old training ground where everyone recovered, especially the newer troops. Cain reminded them of the ruse and Toni and Daphne led the way, they sang the original song. Once the palisaded camp was close, they stopped singing and slowed to a fast walk, which allowed some of the Amazons to recover from their earlier jogging, coming to a halt outside the gates. By the time Cain walked to the front, Areto and her two adjunct officers were outside the gate.
Cain was pleased to see his new women perform like they had run to within an inch of their lives. Most of them were on the ground, acting as though someone pushed them to exhaustion, a few pretended to throw up. At least Cain hoped it was pretending. He handed the quest token they received at Athena‘s sacred grove, passing it to Areto. Looking at the bronze token, Cain could see Areto looked mad before she spoke.
"If you take these troops from me, I will have only the support staff and my two aides," Areto said.
"You could come and join us. I am certain you can hold a shield, a Doru or learn to fire a bow," replied Cain.
"How dare you? I can best any of your troops," Areto then remembered losing to Lesley. "Well, to ones who are not your wives. My aides and I will take on three of the new troops, with shield and Doru. If they win, I will submit to you."
"When they win, you will be his and our bed slave for the night. You will become his first concubine," said Toni. "You have to become one of us to join in any form of leadership. Is that not right my sister-wives?" All of Cain’s wives agreed with Toni, especially Myrina.
:You have got to be kidding me, what is Toni doing. Six women are more than enough, although I find making love with each one enjoyable, adding another who would rather cut my throat than let me between her legs.:
^C^ Toni? ^
^T^ Don’t worry, it is a game remember. I’m sorry Cain, you need to do this, I’m sorry, but she is an NPC, not a player so there should be no connection issues. If you’d listened to the new women and Myrina, Areto is rather on the bossy side. She is the type who demands you will bring her to an orgasm, the kind of woman who thinks only of herself. We need to, or should I say you need to break her of that. ^
"It is as my first wife, Natasha says, you will become our bed slave. After you perform your duties as a punishment for not accepting the goddess’ quests, you will be my, no our first concubine," said Cain.
Areto picked three of the exhausted warriors, knowing these were not the best of her former fighters. They had sprawled, even collapsed on the ground, exhausted from just a few miles of running.
:How can these come close to winning against me and my adjuncts, my aides?: Areto turned and sent one of her aids to collect three shields and Doru. Areto stormed over to the fighting ring then stood waiting with her back to the approaching Amazons.
The one hundred Amazons received as the reward from clearing Athena’s sacred grove, slipped out of the gates and joined with Cain’s DreamBabes. The adjunct took three minutes finding Areto’s shield and Doru, when she returned to the fighting circle, Areto gave her a mouthful of abuse.
Cain, Toni and their wives went over to the three women Areto chose, encouraging them, giving them hugs and sisterly kisses. Sophie was more than sisterly and Toni had to remind her she was Joseph‘
s first wife. Cain told them they now knew more about fighting than Areto, and to watch out as she would fight dirty like before.
The Amazons not fighting, and their support staff enclosed the fighting circle. With their shields equipped and led by Sophie they chanted one of their jogging songs.
Areto thought this would be an easy match, she had no intention to be anyone’s sex slave, let alone these players the goddess’ favoured. She moved across the circle with her aides, toward the three hapless women she chose.
Intent on showing how good a fighter she was, surprise stopped her in her tracks when the opposing women dropped their Doru and ran toward her. Using their shields, they pushed aside Areto’s and her aides Dorus. The outside two fighters aimed for the join in the shield overlap at either side of Areto. The middle fighter slid feet first into Areto’s legs, which upended her.
Once behind Areto’s aides, the two fighters, now new DreamBabes, turned and laid about them with the flats of their Gladii. The beatings stopped after five seconds as the aides held up their arms in abject surrender, stunned at the speed of attack and their former troops ferociousness.
The new DreamBabe who upended Areto had easily stripped her of her shield and Doru. Eight seconds later all three DreamBabes battered Areto on the ground, using their fists and feet like Lesley taught them. They took a long sixteen seconds until Areto collapsed unconscious from an elbow hit to her temple.
The circle erupted, shouting DreamBabes, DreamBabes. Then one, followed by another before all the Amazons rushed to lift the three victorious women above their heads. Toni shouted above the cheering, DreamBabes, attention.
The still-exuberant, cheering and happy warriors, quickly lined up. The new additions guided by their sisters, holding their hands, showing them how to stand proud and erect. Cain stood waiting with his own DreamBabes, his wives at either side. He spoke to now silent warriors, his new DreamBabes, with one foot placed on the back of the still unconscious yet groaning Areto.
"Today, we have become one larger family, you have all become DreamBabes. Areto aside, you will all swear allegiance to Athena. Swear to be the best soldiers, the best DreamBabes you can be. Swear to follow the commands of your officers, stand up for the weak, protect them against aggressors. Be courageous in battle, while out of, show your tenderness though be ready to show your hardness," said Cain. "Do you so swear your allegiance to Athena?"
The Amazons all did, then they shouted, "We are the DreamBabes here today." They followed the words spoke by the five leaders from the first twenty-five. They swore their allegiance to Athena and pledged fealty to Cain and his wives, which surprised Cain and his women.
Everyone gave each other hugs and kisses, some more as sisters others as lovers. Toni had Alpha1, Beta1 and Delta1 lead the other Amazons back into the camp, as they could not fit two hundred in Cybele’s temple. They would soon begin their basic training, focusing on battlefield first aid and working as units of five.
Cain looked down at Areto as she groaned, he turned his eyes moved back as the women moved into the camp. Sophie and Lesley offered to heal the bruising, Cain said later. Bringing herself to her feet, Areto shouted for her aides, to help her back into the camp; her aides had joined the others and gone from sight, standing with two units of Amazons.
"You are duplicitous! How often did you go against your goddess? Do you want me to erase your programming?" asked Cain. Hanging her head in shame, Areto said she wanted to live. She explained why she acted like she had. The high priest of Erebus caught her leaving Hemera’s temple and receiving a kiss from her high priestess.
"He threatened to tell all I worshipped Hemera, not Athena if I did not distrust the players who came with quest tokens. I could not tell people Hemera’s high priestess was my cousin, a priestess of Hemera not Athena.
"When she went missing, I knew it was the high priest of Erebus; with help of my aides we searched yet could not find her anywhere. I fear she died to fuel his grab of Hemera’s temple." Cain told Areto her cousin had died like she thought, but was with her goddess, free from any torments arranged by Erebus’s high priest. The vile man is no more too, he will not come back and torment any others, not herein Agiasobele at any rate.
Toni told Areto she would still have to pay for her failure, she could have gone to Athena and asked for help from the high priestess. Areto replied and said she had not prayed to Athena for years, she worried about being exposed as the fraud she thought she was.
Myrina led the way with Charley 1 and Echo1 back to Agiasobele and Cybele’s temple. Once inside the citadel Toni called a halt, stopping in front of Athena’s temple. Daphne and Lesley escorted Areto inside, so she could seek guidance from the high priestess. Thirty minutes later Areto returned, she looked like the heavy load she was carrying had gone from her shoulders.
Quiet Words
Myrina continued leading them the hundred yards back to Cybele’s temple. Inside Charley1 and Echo1 took the two former aides to Areto into their rooms, Cain led Areto into theirs and invited her into Bounty.
Areto was shocked into stillness after she entered Bounty, :How could a small tent be so large on the inside?: she thought. Cain and his wives walked past Areto, Daphne who brought up the rear closed Bounty’s door.
[You have two hours before the sun goes down, plenty of time to break Areto in. I think Cain will not like what you have done even though this is a game, you know things here affect the real world. Cain’s heart and his ideals can only stretch so far. He seems comfortable with the others because you want him to be, he would rather it be only you two though. Adding another female, albeit another NPC to the mix, may push him too far. Be prepared for him to become different, distracted, stubborn, distant from you even,] Rahab said.
:I did it because I thought it would be the only way Areto would accept being under Myrina, especially after we port out to the next game zone. She will see Myrina is one of his wives and accept being under her. I thought it would be nice for Myrina to have one of Cain’s women, to share her bed while we move on. If any man slept with her Cain would be more than mightily pissed off,: Toni said.
"Food then bed, does that suit everyone?" said Sophie.
"How about bed with food, some chocolate and cream?" replied Bethany.
"Food, shower or bath then bed?" asked Lesley
"Areto, what would you like to do? In what order, leaving or not taking part is not an option," said Toni. While his women were discussing what they would like to do, Cain had Bounty produce twelve meals for the Amazons staying nearby in the basement.
Removing the meals from a cupboard, Cain placed them in a large wicker basket before taking them to the rooms the Amazons had. He found Charley 1 and Echo1 teaching Areto's former aides, squad, group tactics and hand-to-hand. Leaving the food, he told them, "Remember you need to be ready by the cock crowing," which garnered several titters and red faces.
"We are in the shower," shouted Bethany "only cleaning ourselves until you join us," Cain knew why Toni suggested him making love to Areto. :Toni knows I over-analyse situations, which makes me worry and take on troubles which are not there. I know I feel different in the game about my women, though I think the game has changed how I feel in the real world.
:I would not have believed I was capable of making love to two women at once in reality, but I have and I loved it. Now I'm adding another woman into the mix and if I stop over-thinking I will take Areto and she will become our first concubine. Well I better go perform, I hope I can keep it up to make love to each of them tonight,: he thought. Cain did not want to fail even an NPC like Myrina, let alone Areto. He laid aside his thoughts and worries and headed to the shower.
After they finished their family clean time, with Cain receiving and giving copious kisses and touches. They dried themselves and dressed in the eight bathrobes, hung in a new cupboard. The walked toward the bed and Cain wrapped his arms around Toni from behind, slipping a hand inside the robe and squeezed her left breast. Toni turned
round and kissed Cain while rubbing her hand along the length of Cain's penis. Cain unfastened her robe and let it fall to the floor while Toni returned the favour, noticing Cain’s practically erect penis as she slid the robe off his broad shoulders, she returned to rubbing it. They kissed and touched each other standing on the floor, their mouths pressed against each other as they climbed on the bed. Still kissing they progressed to running their hands over each other's bodies.
The physical shape of Joseph impressed Areto while each of his wives looked different, they were equally beautiful. Joseph, she could see was rather large, larger than any male she had previously seen. Areto worried while she watched Natasha take Joseph‘s penis in her mouth, she did not think he would fit inside her. She was so intent watching Cain and Toni she twitched in shock when two pairs of hands slipped inside her robe.
Sophie was behind Areto and kissed her neck while squeezing her breasts and pinching her nipples. Lesley was on her knees and her hands were running over and around Areto’s legs and bottom, while kissing her way up toward her vagina. Sophie whispered to Areto, and she moved her legs slightly apart helping Lesley as her tongue reached out and licked Areto’s lips, while Sophie pinched and pulled on Areto’s nipples.
Sophie whispered in Areto’s ear they would get her ready for Cain to make love to her, make her nice and wet. Areto was enjoying the double assault she did not realise they called Joseph, Cain. Her eyes partially closed Areto watched as Toni sat on top of Cain, lowering herself onto the large penis. She watched, surprised how easily Toni slid down upon Cain’s length. Once Cain’s penis had vanished into Toni, she began to ride Cain faster and faster. Areto tried imagining Joseph’s penis sliding in and out of her vagina, as it was now in Natasha’s. Areto shuddered as Sophie slid two fingers into her wet vagina, moving them in time to Toni riding Cain while Lesley licked her clit.
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