Testing

I was really relaxed as I strolled into the vast main hall of the guild.  Every part of me was relaxed, my cock had worked hard and was now hanging down pleasantly across the front of my thighs. I liked the feel of it like that as well as the way it drew attention.  Normally, the earrings made me practically invisible but with my clothes off-to a certain degree of the population- I was anything but.  That was nice, especially when that attention was invariably positive.  It really buoyed my self-esteem- really made my day.

Of course there was a drawback.  Chafing. As several of my ladies had seen fit to point out, my balls were larger than the average by a significant degree.  The light sting from below kept this on my mind as I made my way gingerly across the really very large room to the bar where I'd spied my girlfriend.

I was loudly grumbling as I walked up to Lucy, Mira, and Erza.  "-the big dick-great.  No drawback there. But what's the point of big nuts- I mean- really- what is the point?!"

"They feel nice smacking the clit and the bottom both, depending on the position.  Lesser scrotum hit with less ****." Erza told me, turning on her stool to face me.

I blinked.  Not at all expecting anyone to react to me, let alone such a frank response from Erza of all people.  Mira, who had an arm around Lucy's waist affectionately, made a noise of agreement as she nodded.  "Plus I imagine they have something to do with how high your libido is and maybe why you can cum so many times and still get hard over and over again.  So long as you like sex-that's definitely an advantage, I'd say."

Lucy giggled, adding, "and Najato likes sex.  Oh does he ever."

I grinned and closed in on her for a kiss, "Yea just like someone else I know."

Without thinking about it one of my hands slid along Lucy's hip while the other caressed Mira's stomach and squeezed her waist.  As I pulled away from my girlfriend's soft lips, it just felt natural to shift a bit and kiss Mirajane as well.  She kissed me back without hesitating as my hand cupped one big tit through her dress.  I hefted it a bit as I palmed Lucy's large boob as well.  Mira's tongue pushed into my mouth a bit and I kissed her harder in response.  Not wanting to get sidetracked from my plan for magic item testing I managed to break away, stumbling slightly backwards as I did so.

I found myself within Erza's personal space as I found my footing and I quickly noticed a particular look in her eyes as she leaned towards me a bit, her lips slightly parted.  It probably wasn't the case but in that moment it seemed obvious to me what she expected.  It was normal for me to kiss the other girls, right?  So, I kissed her.  My wandering hands were stymied by her armor so they grasped at her hips and butt instead as I made out with her.

When we were done a few seconds later, she gave me a faint smile and promptly turned back to the others like nothing of particular note had just happened, "As I was saying the Assembly is finally going to make some laws on indentured servitude…”

My mind quickly wandered as the girls started talking about politics.  I knew myself well enough to know this meant I’d soon be thinking about doing sexual stuff with them so I quickly moved away.  I busied myself looking for someone to help me test out my purchases.  The hall was sparsely populated this time of day but there were still plenty of people for me to choose from.  My first instincts were various attractive women but I realized that would be a bad idea if I wanted to actually accomplish anything.  So I eventually settled on Alzack.  He was a friendly guy and rather laid back, so he was easy to approach and ask.  His Guns magic was also pretty ideal for testing out defensive items I figured.

The training hall was even more sparsely populated than the main hall.  It was just me, Alzack, Gray, Laki Olietta, and a couple of others.   Gray was almost as nude as me as he performed some slow motion martial arts while creating ice sculptures all around him.  Laki was a cute petite girl with purple hair and glasses.   I think I’d fondled her butt a couple of times but that was it.  She didn’t really ever seem to be around when I was having sex at the guild.  She was sitting in the furthest corner from Gray as she made wooden walls erupt casually from the floor and the ceiling.  The others were having some sort of duel or perhaps playing a game, firing beams of light from their hands at each other.

Alzack stood about twenty feet from me, waiting patiently as I pulled the large white and black admiral’s cap from my bag.  I felt a bit silly putting it on but that was how the magical item was activated.  I did not have to wait long for something to happen and I felt the distinctive sensation of my meager magic power being drawn upon.

"Fighter Squadron Complete.  Point defense mission engaged."  I jerked at the pleasant female voice speaking like it was coming from inside my own head.

Six streamers of light lazily flew upwards past my face.  They were turquoise and aqua green with long trails of gold as they moved. When they came to a stop their golden tails retreated eventually vanishing leaving six blue green motes of magic hovering a foot above my head in a V formation within inches of each other.

"Um...I'm not sure how this works.  Maybe throw some magic at me but you know not AT me, just like near me..." I trailed off nervously as Alzack brandished his gun.

"Relax.  I won't hit you."  

It was hard not to close my eyes as he pointed his magic weapon at me but I needed to see how this defense magic worked.  The blue and green lights were moving now, getting a bit closer to the gunner seeming to be squaring themselves between me and him.  Huh. It looked like they'd noticed what Alzack was doing and were reacting to better protect me-

There was a loud crack and a red glowing bolt burst from the barrel of his gun.  Almost at the same time, steady streams of tiny gold lights erupted from each of my six defenders to intercept the magic bullet.  It all happened in the space of an instant and it took me a few moments to make sense of it.  One thing was clear: the bullet hadn't made it anywhere near me.

"Wow! That's great.  They react to attacks and protect me automatically!"

I watched them in complete fascination as two broke off from their fellows to streak towards Alzack, long trails of gold blazing in their wake.  Alzack started to aim his gun at them and they instantly reacted, diving low and cork-screwing around each other.  They shot upwards, splitting in two different directions as they began to fly around the mage in large erratic circles.  "Well, that's a bit ominous."  He remarked casually. He pointed his gun at one, causing it to furiously evade while its partner suddenly charged directly at his face.

He laughed as he swatted at it and stepped back, "Haha... you watch your partner's back, huh? I can appreciate that. Alright. Alright."  He lowered his gun and both magical motes returned to lazily circling him.

The other four maintained their position right in front of me and a bit above.  I stepped to the left.  Their golden trails shot out behind them as they moved to follow.  I stepped back.  They followed.  I squatted down.  They followed.  I jumped up.  They ignored me, maintaining their positions.  I walked across the width of the room and they followed, moving behind me to keep themselves between alzack and me.

I returned to my original spot and said, "Alright. Why don't you try a bunch of shots."

"You got it."

Alzack ignored the two motes suddenly shifting forward in reaction to his raised gun.  There was a quick succession of bangs and ruby flashes.  Once again streams of tiny golden lights burst into existence.  All of his shots were intercepted and that voice sounded in my head, "Ten resource units collected."

"Huh." I loudly expressed my confusion and I waited a moment for Alzack to ask me about it.

Which he didn't and that might be the earrings rather than him ignoring me on purpose.  You never know without asking,so I spoke up anyway, telling him about the voice and what it said.

"Resource units? Can't say I've got a clue 'bout that.  Hey, you want me to go all out, maybe try and take these guys out? I figure that's what an enemy mage would do pretty quick."

"Sure...just uh... don't shoot me, please."

He smirked and gave me an ‘A OK’ gesture.

His pistol spun in his hand and my two guardians around him juked back and forth in apparent confusion, though the rest of them remained steady.  Suddenly, Alzack flung the gun up into the air as a purple light suffused it.  

BLAM BLAM

The guardian duo exploded in a shower of glowing particles as the gun fired by itself and-

BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM

-another gun appeared in Alzack’s hands and I was showered with the remnants of the rest of my motes-

BLAM

“Aaand I got you.” remarked the gunslinging mage as both of his weapons vanished into the ether.

 Well that was depressingly easy.  After seeing how easily this magic had neutralized Alzack’s projectile attacks I’d been wondering if they could do anything to stop huge fireballs like Natsu routinely threw around.  But seeing as they couldn’t reliably stop a skilled projectile user I was now back to step one.  Maybe this magic wouldn’t really be much help, though I had to admit that a little bit was better than nothing-

“Fighter Squadron Complete.  Point defense mission engaged.  Warning: Resource Bank depleted.”

Six more ‘fighters’ came flying up from behind me.  They passed right in front of my face and I saw them in detail.  They weren’t just little glowing lights.  They were tiny sort of blocky rectangular shapes with triangular fins sticking out towards their rears, their fronts tapering down with a more slender tube sticking out slightly to one side.  I couldn’t really tell you what they looked like but for some reason they seemed like a car designed to fly rather than just some weird magical thingie.  The golden streams that burst out their rears made me think of fire as if they were propelled through the air rather like a rocket at a fireworks show.

They had a different paint scheme from the previous group.  The majority of the little ships were bright red with blue stripes running down the sides and around the back.  In formation, they took their place a little bit ahead and above me.

“Huh.  Well, I guess they are still useful.  I was just expecting more with how much they cost.  Lulu-the shopkeeper- had made it out like this hat was a really rare and powerful magic item.”

“It certainly is.”  I spun around to face Erza who’d apparently snuck into the hall at some point to spy on me like a creepster, “This magic acts independently of its user, acting on its own to protect its user from threats.  Here-”  She signaled to Alzack past me and-

BLAM

I winced, expecting to feel a shot even though Alzack said he wouldn’t hit me.  Turning around I saw the new fighters acting as they had before, two splitting off to patrol around him while the others remained with me.  Clearly, they’d intercepted the bullet.

Erza continued, “There.  The magic even responds to attacks its user doesn’t realize are coming.  That is very high level magic indeed.  It also seems to absorb the magic of the offensive spell it neutralizes, no doubt to fuel its own constructs allowing it to create more even as some are lost.”

I stared at her for a long moment, realizing how cool that really was.  Having a magic that could watch my own back was kind of awesome.  And absorbing other mage’s magic sounded like exactly the sort of thing I needed, but…

“Well yea.  That is pretty nice but it’s only good against low powered spells and these guys are super fragile.  An enemy can just take them out and I’m done until some more are created.”

Erza smiled as a knowing expression came over her beautiful face, “Oh?”

She held out her hand and her intent was clear.  I was a bit **** to just hand over my hard earned item but you didn’t say no to Titania.  As I took off my hat, the fighters crumbled into particles and vanished.  Erza took the hat and placed it on her head.  It actually looked kind of good on her, right.  Like she should be commanding a navy.

All such thoughts abruptly vanished as a massive host of fighters flew out from behind her back.  They spread out into a huge halo and then further to encompass all of the space around her.  And that wasn’t all.  Other shapes zoomed into view, ships as big as my hand in twos and threes.  Then more.  Ships as long as my forearm and shaped vaguely like the barrel of a gun, but boxy and sort of triangular.  And still more.  There was a large variety of shapes and sizes and soon the air around Erza thirty feet in every direction was filled with them.  There were ones as long as I was tall and they looked menacing, their massive forms covered with protuberances that could only be guns like Alzack and Bisca wielded.

“Holy…...Shit.” I swore with feeling.

So yea…

Lulu’s Battle Fleet magic was freaking awesome.

The ships it created were magical constructs that would actively protect their ‘admiral’ from enemy spells.  And ONLY enemy spells.  The ships didn’t actually have any real mass and a person could walk right through them without harm.  Magic on the other hand could not simply pass right through them and the ship’s weapons would absorb and neutralize any magic directed towards their user.

Erza’s huge fleet had negated Alzack’s every bullet almost instantly, there were just so many ships firing.  Even when she told him to REALLY go all out, he was completely ineffective. He was doing amazing stuff like having his guns fire tornados and scattering lightning everywhere but it wasn’t enough.  Soon the armada started to simply destroy his guns as soon as he reequipped them.

Then Erza ordered Gray, Laki, and the others to do their best to penetrate her defenses and then things got interesting.   Gray’s enormously powerful ice attacks were the real winners, but between all of the mages attacking from different directions actual ships were destroyed in the battle.  This highlighted another awesome thing about the magic.  Each ship acted like an individual shield between the user and harm.  Each one acted independently and in unison to throw themselves bodily in the way of spells, sacrificing themselves.  And it turned out that for a while as each ship was taking damage it was actually absorbing magic to be used to manufacture still more ships!

Soon enough even their combined efforts weren’t really making a dent in Erza’s defenses.  Still it was a hugely entertaining battle to watch and all involved seemed to be enjoying themselves as the ships provided an endless variety of targets to practice their own magic with.

As entertaining as it was to watch, it reinforced my own mana deficiency. Sure, this would be effective for me, but it was far more powerful on someone else. Should I let someone else use this and see what else was in Lulu's bag?