“Oh my god this is the real person! God i have lived for this day! Please an autograph and maybe an upgrade on my standard field medic gun as well!” Joce said to Pelodius with an excitement like a fan meeting her idol.
He looked at her and then at Leah, “You actually found a fan of mine?” He asked.
“Coincidence.” Leah said wryly.
After Joce was picked up the crew flew back to Rokita and waited almost a day and a half for Pelodius to return and that left Joce on edge when she found out when he was going to arrive and it lead to this. Now she was circling him like a little puppy around her master wanting to be pet.
Leah giggles and introduces her, “Anyway, this is Joce Yanagi. She is our Field Medic and overall medic on the ship. She was in the military and she is younger than you and she went to school when you were there as well and also received military standard field medic magic guns.” Leah introduced the girl.
“Oh that explains it.” he said understanding something and turned to her and pulled out a pen and looked around the weapon before finding a place that wouldn’t wear off and wrote his signature and gave it back to the girl.
“For an upgrade it will take a while, if you can prepare the preliminary scans and send it to my ship i will see what i can prepare. Since i have my own field medic in the crew i will also be doing that for them.” he sad.
As for Joce, she looked like she was on cloud nine while holding her gun in a daze.
“As for the others, this is Victor, he is our mechanic and seems to get along well enough with Tony, you may or may not have been informed since Tony is in your left breast pocket.” Leah said pointing to the young man with the robotic parts in his hand.
“Yes i was informed, i took a look at the schematics, not bad your model. For someone so young.” Pelodius said rather casually.
“Oh it’s a pleasure, to get complimented by a genius like the best of weapon development is an honor in of itself.” Victor said.
“And this is Crystal, Nelim’s sister she is our farmer.”
“Ah so now there are two Naiads on the ship. At least there is someone responsible there now. Please take care of my sister.” Pelodius said. “As for my crew, this is the Elite Shining Shield Guardian Order.” He said pointing behind him.
From his pocket and from Leah’s shoulder the two Tony Nanites simultaneously laughed.
The leader of the group walked forward. The woman was tanned and looked a veteran but was also youthful. She low weight armor and currently covering her eyes were a pair of transparent glasses but you could see things passing over them the glass like a computer screen.
“I am Lorelei Trivkovic, the leader of this group and were hired into your fleet. We will be in your care but… i did not expect the commander of this flee to be so young.” She said.
“I got lucky in a lottery while brother had his own money. Since he doesn’t like the commanding role and i am captain as well so i was left as the commander.” Leah replied.
The woman understood the reasoning and turned, “This is Tris Golbin my vice and our Mage Healer.” The woman was wearing a robe and held a staff but her sky blue hair flowed naturally through the wind and her smile was kind. “This is Rose Wells, she is a magic archer.” She pointed to the The next is the Blonde haired young woman dressed in heavy armor. “That is Bozes Palesti she is our little meat shield.” The captain laughed.
“Captain, could you not say it like that!” Bozes said pouting.
“But Bozes, you have those two air bags, what else would others think.” Rose said and smiled at her.
“It’s better than being a cutting board like you.” She replied as sparks flew.
Lorelei walked between them and pushed them back away from each other, “Alright alright! Jokes aside she is our vanguard and quite good at what she does. Next is our little scout, Juniper Akiba.”
The ‘little’ scout appeared and made Rose look a bit more pitiful. The scarlet haired girl was small, smaller than most actually and instead of looking 16 she looked at least 12 but she had a very vague aura that seemed like it was fading as they looked at her. Also her breasts were actually matching her size and, although not big, for her size they stood out more pronounced.
“The Tech Warrior beside her is her older sister Jasmine Akiba.” Lorelei pointed to a mechanic looking woman but on her back was a large machine rifle and on her legs were small bags with tools. On her waist were more tools and there were some machines hanging on her side.
“The last on is our only male member, Momo.” Lorelei said.
“Boss please call me properly!” he complained, “My name is Morris Haruno, I’m a monster trainer and i have a number of monster but they never let me train them to fight.” he sighed.
The girls from Leah’s crew looked at him in surprise and the two Tony nanite robot's flew over and slowly circled him for a while before floating up near Lorelei.
“Is he really a boy? Its gotta be a lie right? He is even more girly than the scout!” Tony blurted out.
“Yes he is, when he first joined he was 16 and there were fewer members and i also thought he was a girl and i dragged him to the bath.” She said without blushing.
“Oh my!” a few of the people present said.
“Please don’t bring that back up boss.” he said sighing.
“Well besides them there is Pristine White, our ship doctor.” Pelodius said pointing to a young woman in her mid twenty. “Rick Quinn Wreck our mechanic…” He pointed to an older man he nodded which everyone returned. “And finally our farmer, John Slow.” He pointed to a young man.
He he waved and fiddled with his communicator for a moment before a screen appeared. “Greetings.” it said.
“Do not mind John, he told me about his situation. He is born mute and his body rejects any kind of replacement that is surgically implanted so he is forced to type but that made him quite skilled in typing. Besides farming he is quite good on a computer.” Pelodius said.
After that a tiny bit of small talk happened before Lorelei came over, “So Leah, what exactly are your objectives?”
“I… don’t really have any. I always wanted to explore space as a Space Cadet. Go to strange new worlds and explore the universe.” She replied.
“Well do you have any short term goals?” she asked.
Leah thought for awhile and shook her head, “Well i did want to visit Helionova’s three moons. I have seen them from afar but i was always curious about them close up.” She said.
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“That works as a short term goal. Simply travelling casually is also good.” Lorelei said with a gentle smile on her face.
“What do you plan to do at the moment?” She asked.
“For now we need to start doing intensive dungeon diving to gather mana and properly build our ship. We just got our second expansion and now need a lot of mana to make many of the important ship systems to go into space. I know brother will probably ask you to help him in that regard so we may or may not stay in the same city and there is a chance he will go someplace to get research material for his experiments.” Leah said.
“You're not staying together?” She asked.
“He said he would follow us as we travel but when on planetside having two ships would allow us to do different things more freely.” Leah explained.
“Ah i see.” Lorelei muttered nodding. She turned and walked off into Pelodius’s ship in thought and Leah didn’t really understand much of what was up with her so she let it be.
Leah turned to her brother and walked over. “So what do you plan?” Leah asked.
“I was thinking to go to a simpler dungeon then Rokita so that i can obtain the first expansion, i still have not begun to expand the ship and i require the two basic expansions as well as start to see what i can make with Adal.” he said.
“Are you going to leave immediately?” Leah asked.
“I still need to see the security team in action so probably not today.” He said.
Leah brightened up, “Great!” She said and happily skipped off leaving her brother confused by her strange actions.
Each crew returned to their ships and went about their own work.
In Leah’s ship she gathered Mirella and Nelim quietly and muttered her idea leaving the two shocked before they chuckled.
“I am not sure he will be happy about this.” Mirella said.
“Yeah, Leah. He might become resentful.” Nelim said.
“Doesn’t matter, since my brother left the Biswal for me, i will pay him back by giving his magical talent back. We already checked with Adal when she said he spoke about his supposed talent. His mana channels should be flexible enough.” Leah said.
“What about your own? Didn’t you have blocked channels? Did you open them yet?” Mirella said.
“Their hard to open so i will do brother before i focus on myself.” Leah said.
“This will end badly.” Mirella said.
“We already tried out several of the stronger technique on the imps so what is the worry?” Leah said.
The two signed and nodded before going about their daily routine. With the 1st generation of the imps coming being born recently without the genetic defects as planned by Pelodius, they were perfectly healthy and going into the room, Leah took her time to use Adal’s techniques to open their mana channels and so that they would grow quickly.
The parent imps were still useful since they could breed the healthy ones while the new ones were left to grow up after having their infant and malleable mana channels opened.
When night came, Leah had Adals nanite body watch Pelodius until he was completely asleep and far into the night.
Soon, Leah, Nelim and Mirella snuck out of the ship and walked across to Pelodius’ ship where Leah’s own command as commander of the Fleet allowed her to enter undisturbed and they quickly go to the captains floor. Since the ship was new unlike what her own ship had been and was several times better, the elevator was also very silent and sound isolating made it impossible for others to hear the sound of the elevator.
The three quietly get off and Adal was waiting in front of his door.
Putting their finger over their lips, Leah signaled to remain quiet and they quietly opened the door and slowly crept to his bed.
Mirella was charged with holding his arms while Nelim was to secure his feet.
On the count of three, signaled by Leah’s fingers, they jumped on him and they grabbed him causing him to shout and wake up.
“Finally we caught you!” Mirella said after securing Pelodius’ arms and legs.
“Leah… what are you doing in the dead of night?” He asked coldly. In his mind, rather inappropriate thoughts were happening.
“Brother, stop being stubborn, this is for your own good.” Leah said as she mounted him just above the waist.
“What are you going to do…?” he asked.
Leah started to remove his shirt and his face turned bright red.
“Leah! Siblings should not do this! No matter how much I love you, this is crossing the line!” He said.
“What are you talking about? We are going to unblock your mana channels. Stop with your vivid imagination.” Leah said blushing scarlet.
This obviously required him removing his shirt but because it was so sudden and he didn’t even notice the little wolf witch watching his every movement, he was seriously caught off guard and even his calm couldn’t keep his face from blushing bright red from embarressment.
“Stop this already! I said i don’t need magic!” He shouted.
“This isn’t about having magic or not! Mother and father took away something that was your and should have been from when we were born. I am giving it back as well as a lot of your health! Don’t think i don’t know you suffer from several health problems just like all our brothers and sisters.” Leah said as she placed her hand next to his heart where the human mana pool is.
Monsters have it either in their brain or lower belly area but humans and humanoids have it next to the heart.
Leah took out her cursed wand to not make her mana go out of control and began to flood it into his chest.
He felt a burning feeling in his chest making him shout out in pain as his compressed mana pool, that wasn’t completely closed, was slowly forced opened.
The mana pool that was closed to the size of a marble was slowly filled with Leah’s mana that was rotating inside him soon forced it to its natural size that was the size of his heart.
“Careful Leah, be very careful. The first channel is to his brain so be extra careful!” Adal said.
“S-Stop!” Pelodius said through the pain but it didn’t stop. Leah followed the main artery of mana channel going up and very slowly she unblocked only the main channel until it returned to his mana pool.
He was trembling in pain but it didn’t stop, left arm, right arm and legs, each one followed naturally along the flow until every main artery was opened.
“Good, now slowly begin to open his secondary artery.” She said.
Leah was sweating by now and took a breather and drank a potion. It had been over three hours to open the main channels. She got motivated after drinking Nelim’s energy drink and kept going, secondary were all opened by the time the sun began to rise and in the brain, Leah was carefully opening the capillary channels in the brain while the already too weak to move Pelodius wasn’t able to resist due to the pain.
This was the technique that Adal had suggested so that his physical condition would grow stronger. It was no wonder that he felt so much pain.
Nelim was helping with the legs while Mirella was just holding his arms.
As the two girls finished those places, they quickly finished off the arms and torso just before 8 am and finally let the poor researching go.
“Finally, Brother really did have flexible mana channels, his are much better than my own.” Leah said.
“It's because yours grew up open while his were undeveloped, that said, he might feel sore for awhile.” Adal said just a little worried.
“We should get back to the ship before the others worry.” Nelim said getting up and walking to the door.
“Yeah, it would be bad if the others overreact.” Mirella laughed.
“AI, lock the flood…” A cold voice said.
“Affirmative, flood lockdown complete.” the AI replied.
The three felt a shiver run down their spine. They slowly turn and look at Pelodius who was on the bed slowly get and twist his neck causing clear cracking sounds. “This isn’t going to end this soon.” He said, “AI, administer disciplinary action on the Dungeon core.” Pelodius said.
“Affirmative, administering disciplinary actions.” the AI replied.
“Aahhhhh!” Adal suddenly collapsed as her Nanite swarm undid itself and fell down like sand.
“You three, get over here! Let’s have a nice long chat!” He said coldly.
The three were trembling and suddenly Mirella tried to leave only to find the room door locked and tried to punch it but failed.
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
At that time, they all turned to look at him as his hair was flowing and his mana was flowing and his mana pool was thumping in a motion of the heartbeat but it was deafening to the girls.
At that moment, they were shocked as they saw this messy brown hair slow flow with the mysterious wind as it gained a purple hue that was no weaker than Leah’s.
He puts his hand into his coat and quickly shoots out a small item that hits the ground near the girls and suddenly the gravity around them intensifies and makes them drop to their knees, “Now girls, lets have a chat.” He said looking down at them.
The three were like leaves but couldn’t escape and their screams didn’t reach the lower floors.