Study groups

Kim grabbed John by his right arm to maintain balance after the collision, gently dragging him to her side of the hallway corner. John realized that he felt being pulled forward, despite trying to stay motionless. There was a lot of grace in the girl's moves, and he hoped that she would still be interested in sparring and training with him on occasion.

"John? Have you seen something strange around school? Some students are acting oddly... I think that something is afoot, but I don't really feel any magic at play," she asked him once she noticed it was him. She was looking good; her hair and blooming chest were only enhancing her athletic silhouette, and her usually stern expression had changed: she had a half smile on her face while talking to him.

"Hi, Kim. No, I didn't notice anything strange with the other students, but I wasn't really paying attention to them. The only thing I noticed is that the place is disgusting. Do you think that you would have some time to come train with me on Sunday? I'd like to improve my fighting, and you know a lot about martial arts," he explained.

"Sunday? Maybe... I mean, if nothing happens... Yes, surely... I'll call you when I know if I can. I didn't know that you wanted to study martial arts, I thought that you just wanted to spar. I'll try to come up with a few ideas to help you improve. I'll call you to tell you when I’ll come," she replied. John held back a remark on her last sentence, her attitude with him had truly changed since her libido finally awoke, but the joke wasn't worth the beating he'd receive in return.

"Sure, see you later! I have to meet someone to work on a project." They parted ways, and John continued to walk toward the secluded spot he often used to get to and from his kingdom at school. On his last stride, he was stopped once again. A small group of 6 students was standing in front of the exit, with a familiar ginger, bespectacled Etan in their midst.

"Hey, my buddy! We're going to study for the test, want to come study with us? You're never too ready!" asked Etan. John looked at the group, but he didn't recognize the other students with his friend; they all looked very tired, having probably studied all night long.

"Ahh, sorry, mate! I already studied for the economics test, and I have to meet someone to work on a biology project in the free period. I mean, we had a week to prepare for it, one more hour won't help much. You guys should have rested a bit, pulling an all-nighter before a test is not a good idea. I'll see you later, Etan, and good luck on the test!" he replied, trying to walk around the group to get out. At first the sleepy students were not letting him through, but suddenly the whole group started advancing in the hallway towards the library.

"Yes, of course. Good luck on it too, friend," added Etan as his study group followed him.

John shrugged and continued outside to the blind spot where he would be able to disappear. Tricia was there, waiting for him. When she saw him approaching, she came to him and hugged him, taking her social experimentation further with public displays of affection.

"How are you doing, Tricia?" he asked.

"I'm doing perfectly well. I've been really excited to learn that the lab was finished, you also unlocked new things, right? I can't wait to see it," she told him as she released her hold on him. He would bet that she had disabled some of her limiters; she seemed really cheerful, which was strange in comparison to her usually serious and composed behavior. "Is Anna coming with us?"

"June wanted to see something with her. Besides, it's safer if non-powered people don't wander around alone in the kingdom for now. Until I have time to evaluate the situation with the thing that got loose."

He grabbed her hand and blinked them to his kingdom; on arrival Tricia blinked without a word and released a miniature drone from her school bag.

"This is wonderful, I like what you have done with the place, but there is something wrong with your walls," she told him.

"Really? I actually was a bit curious about that. This is a cosmetic upgrade to the kingdom, it looks and feels like this, but is still made from the initial materials so that I can't **** it by reselling it for parts. What is it about the walls that is strange?"

"That's clever. Well it's not technically an illusion... More like a transformation, but with strict parameters. For now this wall is white marble, but if I were to chip a bit of it, I would get some dark grey stone instead. It gives strange readings to my suit and drones. Should I remove my uniform?" She looked at him with a smile. He had explained that being naked or close was the norm more than the exception around here, and even with the time lost before getting there, they had almost one and a half hour here before getting back to school.

"Like I told you before, do what is the most comfortable for you; I often do it to avoid staining or damaging my uniform in ways that I could not explain back in school or at home, at least before I informed my mom." To prove his point he removed his whole school uniform, only keeping his boxers and magic boots.

"You're right, lab work can be messy," she said starting to remove her clothes. "What about this thing that escaped the box? Any trace of it?" she asked, putting the last of her clothes on her school bag next to the pedestal; she had elected to be totally naked, which made John think that lab work might not be the only thing on her mind.

They started climbing the stairs to the lab, and she looked appreciatively at the set-up. Thanks to the cosmetic upgrade and John's work, the place looked really good.

"Whatever it is, it is trapped in the Maze, and I sealed it off as good as I could. I still don't know what it is. What do you think of the lab?"

"It's wonderful! Is it finished?"

"I was waiting for you. This is a part of how we will cure Algernon and his people."

John walked to an intricate device made of globes and tubes of fused quartz over the water filled tank and opened a valve at the top. He poured something into it, and the central sphère filled with a cloud of golden dust swirling and spiraling.

"Is that...?"

"Endless dust. It was in the required elements to turn the lab into an Ascension Lab; I think the option was even here because I already had it."

"It's extremely rare. I had forgotten that you acquired some through a deal with the Order. But it won't be enough alone; it's a good catalyst but not a cure in itself."

John showed her something else from his inventory, that he had picked up in his vault earlier, when he went to get the chrysalis: 24 vials of a dark red liquid.

"It's elf blood. Knowing the way things work and the fact that there is so little in each vial, it must be somehow concentrated in their essence. I figure that by mixing it into them we should be able to extend their longevity and make them even more humanoid," he explained.

"With the kind of rig you have set-up and enough power... Yeah that should be possible. This is some loot, right? The way you described it. Do I want to know why you have this?"

"When I rescued Sylvia and Vesta, before she took her new name, that night where you came to fix my hand. Well, let's just say that members of her tribe thought that they would kill a girl that I risked my life saving, in front of me and her sister. I saw things otherwise."

"Monsters, not a great loss. I'll send a drone to scan the basement for hints on what was unleashed here while we see what we can do."

They went to the machines and started testing the content of the vials and working out a solution to save the ratfolk from their short life span. They only stopped thirty minutes later, with mitigated results. Working on such a scientific and magical project with a naked girl pressed against his body and making repeated physical contact wasn't easy. John was grateful for the simple interface of her gear (and the magical effect of his boxers). He couldn't follow her all the way in the magical or scientific work, but he was starting to get a good enough grasp of it to understand her explanations on options and what was possible or not.

"It can work, but it's dodgy. You're right in saying that the content of these is not the same as if you drew blood from Cali for instance. Your loot system gives you very convenient, perfect, potent samples instead of the real thing. The issue is that you have three times more male blood vials than female. I don't think that one vial will be enough for one individual, we might manage it with two. But... They will grow, they will change... The ones who receive the procedure won't be able to breed with the rest and their fertility will go down, less babies, less often, with longer gestation. We won't be able to save them all, not that way." John looked at her with sadness. As their work progressed, he had come to the same conclusion. He could save Algernon and some of his people, making them more than they were now, the seeds of the first population of the kingdom, but there was no way he could do it for each of the hundreds of small rats or the dozens of bigger ones.

"It is not your fault, it's already a victory to be able to save some of them and their descendants. This situation is not ideal, but we will do our best. When can we start treating some of them?"

"After we come back from the shopping trip. I want to get a few parts that will help this gear handle the energy better and improve the results that we get."

"By the way, how are we going to go to New York?"

"Well, I thought that it would be a good idea to take advantage of your powers. There's an agency in town that can teleport you to other locations and back for a fee. It's a bit pricey, but since we only need you to go and bring us all there and back through the kingdom, I think it's worth it."

"Anything else you wanted to tell me?"

"No trace of whatever was in the box, or of what the hell it is, or even what the box is made of. The chrysalis is fine, and I think it should hatch in a few days. And... There's something else... You said that... Hell!" Without a warning, she got on the tips of her toes and put her right arm behind his neck as support to kiss him. She was running her left hand's fingers on the muscles of his chest, her mouth locked with his.

It took John by surprise, and he needed a few seconds to get to grasp with what was happening. He firmly grabbed her butt to help her stay high enough to kiss him, almost lifting her from the ground. As an invitation he also unequipped his boxers, showing to her the effects that she had on him.

She had now jumped and wrapped her legs around his waist, with both arms around his neck. Breaking their passionate kiss, she simply rested her head on his shoulder.

"Tricia, do you..."

"Yes! Yes! Yes! I want you, I want you to do these things with me. The things that you do with all the others. You promised me that you would... That I could ask..."

"Of course, but... Is it safe? With your condition. Will your limiters hold?" he asked her worriedly while walking down the stairs, still carrying her. She wasn't really heavy, but a few weeks ago, he would have been unable to carry her over two flights of stairs like that.

"I... prepared for this. It's not as bad as it sounds. The risks are overblown. I won't disable everything, and my suit means that we are not even technically in direct contact. I tweaked my suit to optimize it for this. All this needs is planning and common sense. Sorry for the lecture, I'm sure I'm killing the mood. I didn't want to...."

"Tricia! Appeasing my worries is not killing the mood, it's helping maintaining it. And to be honest, there are few things that could make this go down," he explained, nodding at his raging erection, brushing against her butt. The walk down to the bedroom had been as fast as it was safe to go; the door was opened by his powers, and his boots were removed as he rolled in the bed with Tricia still holding to him. John began to caress her body, even slipping a finger or two into her inviting slit. It was amazing to think that her whole body was encased in this, now, see-through film formed by billions of small nanites and yet remained so lifelike and natural to the touch, smell or even taste. She was twitching, her hips moving almost by themselves to get his fingers deeper; she looked almost out of breath, and he had not even started yet.

"Don't... Tease... Me... Take me!" she encouraged him. He didn’t need to be told it twice. With the help of the bed, shifting itself to accommodate them, he soon had her over him, the tip of his long cock brushing against her wet pussy. After a few back and forth moves, he slipped it into her, slowly at first.

How much of it was natural, the fruit of her magic technology, or of his powers and various modifiers, it was hard to tell. But soon enough and with only a few gasps, the petite girl managed to take in his massive cock like any of the others would have. It was a tight fit, but the smile and expression on her face was worth it. The hardest part of it concluded, Tricia was feeling more in control, and it was her that began to slide his member in and out, bouncing on his lap with ecstasy. John decided to use his powers to remotely kiss and tease her.

He had interlocked his fingers with hers, giving her hands some support, but he had a plethora of other ones to summon to cup her tits, grab her butt, caress her and play with her nipples. Unbeknownst to him, though, Tricia, emboldened by her success had decided to get the best out of her situation and lowered her emotional limiters below what she had planned. It wasn't an issue until a pair of spectral lips suckling on her clitoris triggered a massive orgasm.

John felt her whole body tense up and her pussy clamp on his cock for a second. Her head had reared back in her moment of bliss, her eyes rolling back a bit, but when it leaned back towards him, there were three of them facing him. A large eye had opened up on her forehead, with a glowing, pink, sparkling iris, and John was now basking in some mauve colored light. It became more and more difficult to think about anything else than his desire to fuck her, to breed her...

He became ravenous; she was no longer joyfully bouncing on his dick; their two bodies were one, rolling around in the bed. He was vigorously thrusting into her, and her screams of pleasure filled the room. John had already filled her with his seed multiple times, but his powers were allowing him to continue, relentlessly. His many summoned body parts were busy stimulating as much of her body as his lustful mind could manage.

John didn't know when it stopped. He had managed to empty his mana bar in their feverish lovemaking. Tricia was still on the bed, turning her back to him. A quick check told John that he had about ten minutes to make it to his test before it began, but it was a lot more important to know what had happened. He could hear Tricia sob, and her body twitched as if to evade his touch.

"Tricia? Are you alright?" he asked her. She had managed to reign in her powers and to close her third eye, but the other two were filled with tears.

"I... I'm a monster! I ruined everything! You will hate me now!" John simply hugged her from behind and brushed his fingers through her hair.

"There, there. You are not a monster! I don't hate you. I just want to understand what happened. Why are you crying? Did I hurt you?" Tricia turned around and looked at him with disbelief.

"Hurt me? Hurt me? This was the most awesome thing I have ever felt in my entire life! But I **** you... I... It was the eye of fertility, filling you with lust for me and making you more... Fertile. So that you could breed me. I'm probably already pregnant from you. And if what I read about it is right, a baby could be born very fast... This is why I'm a monster!" John noticed her swollen belly and wondered what magic could have made it swell so fast. Until he remembered something.

"Tricia, please do something for me. Check! Make your suit run a diagnostic or something like that." He was smiling, looking at her puzzled expression. She zoned out for a second and looked even more intrigued.

"But how? You literally filled me with cum! Yet I'm not pregnant. The powers of the eye worked, it made me ovulate on the spot, we were both in a lustful trance! How? You should have..."

"My ring has a perk that allows me to switch my fertility on or off. And since I don't really want to be a dad anytime soon, it is set to off. Tricia, no need to blame yourself. I should have kept things slow enough for you to stay in control. It was a bit wild but nothing monstrous, not the wildest bout of sex to have happened in this place." Already the bed was at work, cleaning their bodies of the sweat and other bodily fluids covering them. A small tendril entered Tricia to pump out the the massive amount of cum that John had deposited there. During this grooming, John witnessed Tricia's attitude change radically. She realized that he was honest and truthful with her once again. He had meant everything he had said to her. Once sure that she had not ruined her relationship with him, she immediately sprung back to a very efficient mode of action. Her womb emptied, her body cleansed, and her tears dried (the red in her eyes masked by her suit for now), she got up and walked with John to the arrival room where she quickly put on her uniform. John was amazed at the speed and economy of movement that she showed here, probably aware like he was of how little time they had before having to be back at the academy. Now that her fears had dissipated, she only harbored a freshly fucked glow and a grin on her face.

They both transported themselves out of the kingdom, John having almost done so naked in his haste, only re-equipping his uniform a second before leaving the kingdom. Once back in the real world, all that was left for him was to run to the exam room while Tricia walked at a quick pace toward her next class.