"On whether you consider..."
"...Vengeance as the oldest form of Justice."
About an hour later, I am helping Theresa and Evelyn as they are packing what belongings they have up after I told them my exact plan for punishing Isaac, Vladmir, Shaw, Leonardo, Johanne, and any of their allies for what they have done, as well as how I plan to punish Isabella, Aisha, Eina, Eliza, and Anastasia for their parts in aiding and abetting their husband's criminal acts. The two were a little hesitant at first, before they remembered just how much these five bitches had gotten away with as well as how many lives they personally ruined just for the sake of their own vanities and egos.
Since they decided to help me, even if it means losing the life they built, they didn't mind. After all, once we tie up all the loose ends here, we won't even be living in this world anymore. I stored their luggage into my inventory and proceeded to give them Secondary Access to my HubSpace. Specifically, I gave them the second-highest authority level just behind my own. This will allow them to come and go from my HubSpace as they wish and even assist in the next stage of the plan I have for us to see those scumbag pieces of shit face the consequences of their crimes once and for all.
I revealed a few more tidbits about what I can and cannot do within the HubSpace as we make our way to the mansion and get their own room set up. Of course, the two would pick the same room. They're a package deal, and want me to fuck them both silly and give both them any other women I invite here as many babies as I can put in their bellies. One particular point however got their attention about one of the features of this HubSpace, and they would not let it go.
"So let me get this straight. You basically got video game powers now. As in, you're basically a video game character in real life now?" Evelyn asks in growing incredulity of what I said.
"Yep." Was my rather casual response as I popped the 'p' with a lazy drawl.
"And among the supertech that got shoved into your body, was an inter-dimensional multiversal traveling guide." She continued for clarification.
"That's right."
"Along with two different kinds of game systems. Both VR, but one actually allowed you to gain special rewards in reality by completely virtual dungeons based on a specific franchise's setting?"
"Mmhmm."
"And among the perks you got from these things integrating into you, you can also bring others into them, letting them gain the benefits or even the powers from said franchises for completely said dungeon runs alongside you as well?"
"So long as you don't die trying to bite off more than you can chew and survive to the end of said dungeon, yes."
"..." Evelyn goes quiet for so long I actually stopped trying to help her unpack and set up her net-runner rig to look at her, worried I may have accidentally scared her, only to see her massively blushing as she spoke with a very interested look in her half-lidded eyes behind her goggles. "...does that include...sexual rewards?"
I completely froze at that question as I mentally short-circuited at the heavy implications of what she asked, my mouth opening to speak before clicking shut as I suddenly think about that. Her very interested smile and insistent look on her face made her unspoken request very clear. My silence was an answer enough for her apparently. I guess it's true what they say. It's always the quiet ones you must be most wary of.
"M-maybe some other time. Although the HubSpace operates on a time dilation, I'd rather not waste too much of it trying to finish preparing for punishing Isaac, Isabella, and all their cronies." Shaking my head to clear that very distracting thought. And temptingly fun as it might be to try out.
Evelyn simply smiles as she walks towards the door, a very blatant swaying in her hips as she does so to make her request damned near impossible for me to resist. "I'll expect you to take us in one after we do. The most risque, explicit, and erotic one you can, Isä." I shuddered in barely restrained arousal at her Finnish pet-name for me. She calls me 'Daddy'. The reminder of the life now growing in both her and Theresa's wombs by my own doing making a primal desire to fulfill an instinctive urge to do more and have a harem of perpetually pregnant lovers attending to and bearing my children. I suddenly felt my shafts begin to harden and had to fight myself not to grab the sexy blind Finnish-Frenchwoman and take her to Poundtown. Again. For an anal-vaginal DP double-stuffing.
My balls were already bloating something fierce with a primal need for relief, but I must be patient. Part of the plan requires me to be at full sperm-tank, so I can't do so right now.
Doesn't mean she and Theresa are not making it utter hell for me right now for my mandatory blue-balling myself for the sake of revenge.
As we made our way back to meet Theresa, she was in the training room looking at the set-up for what we were going to do next. This part of the plan was crucial to complete under the time-dilation effect of my HubSpace to complete our preparations in time. We only have one day to start the first stage of the plan. Meeting up with Theresa, the two minxes were not making it easy for me as we started the first stage of our plan.
"Are you two ready?" I asked them. This part of our preparations was both the easiest and the most dangerous. Easy in the sense we only need to complete a few dungeons to get what we need. Dangerous in the sense that the dungeons in question may not be so easy to beat if we aren't smart or careful enough to do so. Theresa pulls her trench coat aside, giving a view of her various weapons and preparations for her specific dungeon runs. Specifically, she wanted a pair of combat-type dungeons of the Normal++ settings to get what she needs and wants. Specifically, she wants a dungeon reward for the enhanced physiology in the form of both a super-soldier physique and perfect compatibility with Cyber and Bioware enhancements. Nothing too extreme with the former, but basically above peak human and low-tier superhuman capabilities.
The two dungeons she'll need to clear shouldn't be too difficult. One is apparently for a dungeon based on a video game that's apparently not much different from our original world called Cyberpunk 2077. If she manages to clear that dungeon, she'll gain something that was considered a miracle a few centuries back before they discovered a method to safely do it with reduced risks of rejection. Perfect Cyber-compatibility. This basically makes it so no matter how much she chromes up, her body will automatically accept it without problem, and is potentially inheritable, as it's a rare genetic trait.
The other is apparently something of a military-style dungeon from some obscure series called 'Wolfenstein'. Apparently, that's a dungeon based on an older era from an alternate version of the First and Second World Wars. Apparently the idea was if the Nazi's won the war instead of the Allied Forces, and it snowballed from there. The protagonist of that series was basically a low-key super soldier who was defying the new regime. A rebel of a fallen nation following the ideals it was founded upon, fighting the brainwashing of the very enemy nation that had conquered his homeland.
Somehow, that seemed to match with Theresa all too well, given what happened with her Father's people, the Navajo tribe. I think that's why she chose that particular dungeon. The similarities between the backstory resonated with her a little too well. As for the Cyberpunk one, apparently, the protagonist was someone called 'V', who was a dying mercenary, suffering from a job gone bad, their entire crew dead, and their fixer for the job getting offed after backstabbing them to save his own sorry ass. The very Cyberware they stole on that job was the only thing keeping them alive, yet was also the very thing slowly killing them.
Both of those resonate with Theresa a lot. She only survived getting attacked by those Chrome-Bloods back then thanks to us saving her from what was supposed to be a simple job gone horribly wrong, and her father's tribe, the Navajo, were massacred because of their refusal to give up their land to some greedy bastards because rare and precious materials for crafting Cyber and Bioware was found on it. So her picking them certainly won't be too surprising that she'll take them seriously. Her reason for picking them was as simple as it was direct; Theresa prefers to face her opponents herself. She views herself as a protector and warrior, and these would help her out for now as back-up to either me or Evelyn if we need it.
As for Evelyn, she chose three non-combative dungeons, the maximum limit that can be undertaken in one day. The Worldforge Console originally could only do one a day, but after merging with the Metaverse Controller and other VR and video game supertech, the temporal capabilities of the Meteverse Controller's fixed time-dilation ability combined with the VR, console, and Worldforge's 24 hour cooldown to increase the limit to three. This is both a hard safety limit and a tech one. I don't have the ability or the knowledge to tamper with that, and honestly, I don't think I want to. Messing with time can be pretty dangerous. Messing with temporal tech without knowing what you're doing or having the right tools to properly do so? 'Quantum Break' shows just how badly that can end for you if you're not careful.
The three dungeons she picked are also of the Normal++ difficulty setting. All three are of the puzzle or coding variety. Specifically, they're from 'TRON', and something called 'The Matrix' and 'Deus Ex' franchises. 'TRON' I've at least heard of. The other two? Not so much. 'The Matrix' is apparently some movie trilogy about how the world is taken over by AI machine overlords, and humanity was enslaved into a virtual world, believing that world to be real without realizing they were actually trapped within a virtual space, and the protagonist was someone with the power to rewrite this virtual reality, and even manipulate it in a limited extent in reality.
As for 'Deus Ex', it's apparently like the Cyberpunk 2077 video game, but with a twist. The world wasn't a dystopia, but mega-corporations still controlled the world. Cyberware existed, but it was referred to as 'Human Enhancement Technology', and anyone who underwent augmentation surgery to receive it was referred to by the slang terms 'Aug', 'Hanzer', or similar names. However, unlike in our world, these technologies were often highly contested with extremist groups even going so far as to launch attacks on companies who create them. And the protagonist of those games was apparently a cybernetics-enhanced human who was forced to receive them to save his life and investigate the perpetrators behind the very attack, only to uncover a conspiracy and secret societies involved and masterminding the events of history for centuries: The Illuminati.
In our world, they're just an old conspiracy theory that was long proven as plain old bullshit. In that game, they were very much real, and they would stop at nothing to keep the secrets they've been hiding and the shadowy manipulation of the entire globe at their hands from being dragged into the light of day. The reason why Evelyn chose those three dungeons was for the programming and hacking skills she'd get from them. And since they'd only be puzzle-type dungeons instead of combat types, she'd be the one at the least risk of danger should anything go wrong.
The three rewards she'd get from them are also self-explanatory. A cybernetic implant for remotely hacking technology from the 'Deus Ex' series, the know-how on how to build and download skills and abilities directly into someone's brain from 'The Matrix', and the tech skills to create a method to enter and leave a digital state and enter cyberspace from 'TRON', even alter or modify said digital data making up the person's body. Her reason for choosing these three assists with our plans for dealing with Isabella and her sister bitch-wives. Suffice to say, and I feel the need to repeat the sentiment.
Beware of the quiet ones.
As for me, I picked my dungeons based on the tech trees or materials I'd get from them. The first dungeon I'd complete is the MIB dungeon for the MIB tech tree reward. I also picked the 'Deus Ex' dungeon like Evelyn, only I picked the combat one. As for what I'd get from it, I'd get the tech tree for it because of the various implants and such I noticed used by both Adam Jensen and others he encountered in the promo video trailers for the franchises in question as part of the background info for the dungeons we want to run. As for the final dungeon I picked? I had selected the 'Naruto' dungeon. It was for the ability to perform a particular form of ninja art listed among the possible rewards.
Fuinjustu, or Sealing Arts.
This one was actually a different one from the other two I picked, because instead of a pure combat dungeon, it was apparently a hybrid between a Puzzle and Combat dungeon. It was a combat dungeon because I had to defeat a specific number of enemies using stealth, ninja tactics, and ninja tools. But it was also a puzzle dungeon in the sense that it required me to replicate the seals for the exploding tags and fuinjutsu-based traps as the only ninja tools I was allowed to use to defeat said enemies. And I only get a limited number of chances before the challenge is considered failed and I cannot attempt to challenge it again for a full 24 hours. It was also the only Hard difficulty dungeon any of us were taking so far, simply due to the restrictions of how the dungeon needed to be completed.
As for how we were doing this, simple. Among the unique synergies of the supertech shoved into my body, the restriction of One dungeon a day was lifted in a limited extent, as we were allowed the option to marathon run multiple dungeons back-to-back, but only up to the three-dungeon daily limit. Theresa deliberately chose not to take a third dungeon today, though I had a sneaking suspicion as to why when I saw the suggestive glances they kept giving me.
Giving me a pair of mirrored nods of acknowledgement, and an enticingly synchronized 'yes Novie', I activated the three dungeon runs for all three of us. Although Theresa and Evelyn can pick and view what dungeons they can run, I have to be the one to actually authorize the selection. The moment I selected the authorization for all three of our dungeon runs, the three of us separated as reality itself folded downwards and then unfolded back into the space of our first dungeons.
In my case, the MIB dungeon first. A combat type. As the dungeon finishes loading right around me, I see a group of weapons and gadgets laying on the table in front of me. A bunch of animated alien cut-outs stand waiting at various distances from the table separating me from them. A window appears floating above the table, telling me the specific clear conditions for this dungeon. And oh boy...
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[1st Dungeon Phase: MIB Dungeon Stage 1/3 Initiated]
[Clear Conditions for Victory:
- Clear the hostile invading aliens forces [O]
- Avoid killing non-combatants [0/?] [O]
- Hidden Objective [0/?] [O]
Clear all Victory Conditions to complete First Dungeon]
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...well damn, I think I know what this dungeon's specific theme is, and if I'm right, I know what that hidden third objective is. Walking up to the table, I look over the proffered MIB weapons and gear and immediately get the sneaking feeling what gear I choose now will determine if I succeed or fail. Now for the important question...
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