For a time, only darkness remained. My body floated in what seemed like water. Deprived of my sight, hearing, and smell, all I could do is to foy sense of toubsp;

  It was then did I realize it:

  It’s not water.

  “Space…”

  It is more appropriate to call this a zero-gravity space. My body must have been floating around aimlessly.

  “Huh…”

  The darkness did not st for long. A star shone brightly. I could not ‘see’, but I ‘know’ it was there. Its color itently ged between white and crimson.

  Then, its brilliance came closer until it touched my fiips.

  The st thing I saw was its brilliance creeping up towards me.

  *****

  The first thing I did was to stare at the ceiling.

  ‘Great Sage. What is the time now?’

  {Result: It is now 9:37 AM.}

  Ever since Great Sage awakened, my life became ten times easier. She is the best assistant I could ever think of.

  Currently, she is w on the ‘Magic System’ I fed to her—mainly, the utilization of energies to substitute for Psions. These things are the ‘magical energy’ of that world.

  Just like the Magic Calcution Area and the likes, it is not present in this world.

  What was avaible, however, was the substitutes.

  For example, Pushions. They are described as a ‘thought particle’ simir to Psions. They are emitted by any rational beings, which was theo fuel something known as ‘supernatural abilities’ (i.e., Espers).

  It souremely familiar… since cursed energy does just that.

  These simirities are being analyzed by Great Sage to be able to use Magic.

  All of my distrag thoughts halted. I looked at the girl beside me.

  Kurumi’s back is fag towards me. I lifted my head for a bit and saw she was still sleeping. Her soft breaths touched my right arm that was underh her neck.

  I couldn’t help but recall the huge mess st night… no, two ho.

  From seven thirty in the evening up until seven forty-five in the m, all we did was to turn the bed upside down.

  Kurumi had anticipated the huge mess that she stored several bed sheets inside her shadow ste. She, along with two of her es, took turns to drain my cum.

  Their rotation turned everything into a one-versus-otle. Every time I fucked one of them, the other two get to rest.

  My biggest mistake was to treat all three of them with my Reversed Curse Teique. The moment they recovered, they ‘attacked’ me all at the same time.

  If it weren’t for my recovery, which shocked even me, I would’ve been taken down.

  “She’s calm…”

  Her current appearance was in sharp trast to what she showed st night.

  ‘ht…’

  I looked down and saw my dick was still inside of her. These nasty thoughts made it twitch several times, prompting Kurumi's io tighten.

  ‘I should wait for her to…’

  My thoughts halted when I felt her butt grind against me. It wasn't as intense as st night's, but her movements were enough to make my dick even harder.

  Kurumi's movements, followed by the irregur tightening of her pussy, made me cum after a while.

  A warm and numbing feeling crept to my dick. I looked at her fad saw she was still sleeping. Her breathing became uneven, however. A tinge of red flowed to her face.

  ‘I…’

  Faced with this strange stimution, I tinued our battle st night.

  *****

  Sed Institute.

  It ce that wasn’t as united as the third; nor as focused as the fourth. The two aforementioned institutes have different cultures that allowed them to ‘uogether agaiernal influence.

  The opposite could be said to the first, fourth, and fifth institutes.

  The first institute was the institute with the most support from the cilors. Their study of honkai energy’s nature enpassed numerous fields.

  The fifth institute was the biological treasure house. Despite Mobius’ genius being uilized in the eyes of others, her findings during the past few years were enough to advahe study of the human body.

  Out of them all, the sed institute was tightly grasped the most. They are responsible for creating all sorts of ing from ventional ons down to honkai ons.

  Before Mobius finished her Project Soldier, the deterrence brought by ons took prece.

  It served to reason that the sed institute had way too many ‘spies’ sent by numerous cilors. heless, it was mostly Vill-V’s prefereo work alone.

  The only person she worked with was her than Aleph.

  “Hm..?”

  She looked towards the opened door. She was currently in a new workshop. The previous ohat got wrecked was still in repair.

  There wasn’t anything wrong with Aleph. He was the same as usual. His tall stature coupled with proper fashion made him eye-catg no matter where he went. It pyed a part as to why he became famous that quickly.

  ‘Something’s wrong..?’

  Vill-V felt something uling.

  ‘His stature. He’s more fident… no, happy?’

  ‘His eyes are locked at one pce. He must be in a daze.’

  One by one, she pared Aleph’s small gestures to him yesterday.

  “How was it?”

  She snapped out of it when she heard his voice.

  “It’s ready.”

  Vill-V pointed out to the spherical metal coating that ed the Herrscher Core i was her than soulium, the nanomaes desigo inhibit honkai energy. Soulium was a synthesized metal. Its position sisted of numerous ‘mutated minerals’ that were exposed to honkai energy for a period of time—that, and several minerals previously found in the periodic table.

  Its greatest use as of now was to struct Divine Keys.

  While Aleph read the papers she handed him over, she fell to a deeper line of thought. Her previous liveliness seemed to be a facade—a plete carbon copy of Vill-V’s persona.

  Engrossed with the ‘phantom warmth’ on his arms as well as the papers, he did not notice Vill–V’s slight abnormality.

  “Void Prison… Well, it's easier to repurpose the Herrscher Core by this design…”

  Soon, the two began doing today’s work.