AN: It's been a little while since the last chapter. Enjoy.
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The hidden dwarven base contained a lot of written documents, but there were no maps aside from those about the area around the base and the town. Most other documents books and papers of scientific content: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etherium and etheris, and most likely records about all the experiments they made.
Tony and Uranus spent quite a lot of time scanning them. The translation program was running non-stop day and night. The dwarven alphabet was a bit similar to a mix of runic german and celtic alphabet. However, not a single letter was the same as one from Tony's original world.
As for the spoken dwarven language, it sounded like a mix of swedish and russian. Tony was a bit worried the similarities would lead to mistranslations, so, with Robynn he made a subprogram that wouldn't take them into consideration.
As for the beastmen, their spoken language was like a mix of italian, arabic, and bantoues tongues. However, the ones residing in the base didn't seem to know their own written language. Or maybe, there wasn't a proper written language.
Also, just like the dwarves didn't have the skin colors we expected from them, the beastmen also had a different skin color that what was shown in the entertainment industry. Their skin tint goes from orange to brown, hybrid eyes between human and anials, and their hairs are closer to animal ones.
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The place also had a few weapons, mainly sledge hammers, big heavy crossbows and high caliber hunting rifles, 10 of each. The dwarves were all both fighters and researchers, and they regulary spent some time in the training room. Tony and Proteo had calculated that, with their physical strenght and the power of their weapons they wouldn't inflict serious damage to their armors.
Except if they aimed for the head. And then again the damages wouldn't be critical, if they didn't get more than 1 clean hit with their sledghammers, which was the most damaging weapons they had against armors. These burly guys had thick and powerful muscles after all. With proper equipment they would be dangerous in melee battle. And Tony and his servants were faster.
Proteo did have a sparing session with a few of them, unarmed and without armor. They did have explosive power, their strenght was about the same as Proteo, but he was much faster than them. After him, Tony challenged them as well. He didn't know any martial arts in his previous world, and in the game he was supported by the system, less than for scientific activities, but there was still support. He wanted to see how he would fare against them in hnd-to-hand combat.
It was a landslide victory for him. In the game, he had reached level 11 in martial arts. He had started with Muai thai, brazilian jiu-jitsu, taekwendo and bartitsu. He had raised each one of them separatedly until they merged into martial arts when he got them to level 10. So he was supposed to be quite good in each of them. He naturally remebered the training he went through and tried to apply it without the aid of the system.
It was a success. He had assimilated the fighting skills he learned in the game as if it was real life. He overwhelmed and overpowered his dwarven opponents one after the other. Tony had forgotten that he was one of the strongest player in the game, and that in his group, he was the strongest. Because he had designed Proteo to be tall, well built, and sort of the tank of the group, he tended to think of him as the strongest. With that sparring session, he was reminded about his own battle ability and the level difference beween him and his subordinates.
It also made the dwarves realise that the people who took control of their place not only had incredible equipment, but were also very strong. It was clear for Tony and Proteo that it was a big blow to their pride nd self-confidence. Robynn, however also noticed a growing respect from them toward her 2 teammates. She got really proud of her beloved master and little brother and stayed in a really good mood for the rest of the day.
Uranus was more than a little proud. Since she had little fighting ability she rarely had the occasion to see Tony in action. The few times she could see him, he was using his guns, either strolling in a place with weak enemies or using high firepower against a wild beast. It was her first time seeing him fight others warriors.
He was only in training shorts, with his upper body naked. Seeing him gracefully dealing with the dwarves made her heart beat faster and her body hotter. She almost had sparkling eyes. At the end of the sparring session, she decided to give him a massge. But it was more for her than for him. She got the urge to touch him and caress him, and hid it under the pretense of a massage.
Tony noticed the furious blush and the quick breathing rythm she had during the whole massage, and got a good idea about the state she was in. It was a good thing she started with the front, because when she took care of his back, Tony got a hard on thinking about how she must have been between her legs, and remembering the last time she danced for him. And her massaging his butt didn't help. Thankfully, by the end he had managed to calm down and his dragon went back to sleep.
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One evening, while the 4 humans where resting in the living room (which they had converted into their private quarters), Robynn talked about something she noticed.
“Hey, little Proteo, you're quite the lady killer aren't you?”
“What are you talking about?”
“There is a certain beastgirl who seem to be interested in you.”
“Yes. I've noticed that the fox kin often look at you when you are in the area. She looks at you much more than the other.” added Uranus.
“Is that so? I didn't notice...”
“The fox girl? She is the one who is used in the experiments. It must be because you're the one healing her when she is hurt.”
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“Gratitude toward a savior? I would buy it if it wasn't for the fact that noone of us tried to stop the experiments, we didn't even try to make them less painfull for her” said Robynn. “But she is clearly attracted, interested in you, and she respects you.”
“She is a pretty woman with nice curves. You can just take her once we are done with this place and make her your pet. Or a servant, like both a nurse and some kind of squire.” said Tony with a grin.
“That's right! Little Proteo is a guy, of course he need a girl to take care of him. And since she was used in experiments, having her with us for observations or more experiments would be good. Also, she is more familiar with this world than us.”
“Well, the idea of having a pretty servant is nice, but I will have to teach her too much from scratch. Rather than making my work easier, she will give me more.”
“Little Proteo, even if she gives you more work, she will also help you relieve stress at night. And on the long run, it's a win situation.”
“Besides, since she has basiclly been tortured, I'm worried about her state of mind. What if, at a certain time in the future she goes psycho?”
“Then just raise her well. Make her release whatever she is holding back early. It will also be good observation concerning slave beast girls psychology. I'm sure we will find many more in the future. And we have Robynn.”
“Thinking about it, what do you intend to do once we know enough? You don't want to attract attention, but the guys here know us and they've seen some of our equipment. Words will reach their superiors and we may have people after us. It will be hard to move.”
“He is right. If we keep them alive, news about us will certainly reach people with power, and they will try to get us. We will have to silence them... And the most secure way would be to kill them...”
“I know. I don't want to kill them, but I also don't want them to reveal anything about us. The only thing I can think of is erasing their memories through a surgical operation, targetting parts of the brain that react to certain stimulus. 'Intruders', 'strangers', 'advanced equipment', 'unknown technology'. Those 4 worlds together would make them think of us, and we target the areas of the brain that hold informations about us. We will have to do that to 24 people. There will be bad aftereffects for some of them, but it's better than death.”
“... I think I can do something like that. We have really good equipment, but nothing that good to deal with the brain. It will be rough, and it is certain that all of them will sufer from aftereffects. For some of them it will be severe. And with their medical knowledge, as far as I can tell, nobody will be able to provide proper treatment against those aftereffects. For some of them, the result may be similar to shattering the knee of a prof athlete. For some, dying might be better.”
“That will be sad for them. But there are 26 people here, why are you talking about 24 oprations. I understand you excluding the fox girl, but who is the second one? Do you also want one of those girls? You already have me and Uranus though. Aren't we enough? You're such a perv!”
“... I want to take one of the dwarves with us. He would certainly be more knowledgable about the world than a slave, who would have limited access to any source of informations. And I'm not interested in dog girls and rat girls. I want some feline girls, rabbit girls and cow girls.”
“Mmm... Master? I-I have a bunny outfit if you want... And... Hmm... I also have big breasts...”
Tony looked at Uranus, completly stunned, as if struck by lightning. Even though she had her head bowed, it was clear that she was furiously blushing. She was griping her maid skirt with both hands, her arms pressing her chest and enhancing her already captivating bossom. She was also slightly squirming. She looked both very cute with her beet red face, and sexy with her assets and modified maid outfit.
After the first second of surprise looking at Uranus, Proteo and Robynn turned their gaze toward Tony, who was still looking at Uranus while blushing. Proteo hid his mouth with a hand, thinking that his boss trapped himself, and Robynn started giggling.
“She is right Tony. Why looking for a feline girl when you have this lady that would put catwoman to shame near you?” She said while showing off her bust and turning to the size so he could have a look at her butt. She even put her foot on the chair to show off her leg as well, and finished seductively blowing a kiss his way. “Meoow!” she said in a sexy tone, and with the hand motion that goes along.
It was a critical hit. Robynn could feel Tony's arousal grow at a fast rate. Even though he was sitting at the table and it was out of view, she knew he was having a raging boner.
As for Tony, at this point he was in trouble. He knew that a rejection would hurt Uranus' feelings. But he also knew that if he cheered her up, considering the subject, it would be the sam as saying 'I will play with you', which he wanted to do. But he still felt akward and guilty for the girls. But the most important factor was probably his lack of experience with girls. Then he decided to stop thinking.
“You girls don't have to worry. You're gorgeous women and you will always be my favorites” he said while blushing and looking to the side at nothing in particular.
'Great opening!!' though Robynn.
She went around the table, warped her arms around his neck and sat sideway on his lap. Then she put her lips on his own, and he warped an arm around her waist by reflex. They stayed like this only for a few seconds, but for Tony it felt longer.
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AN: “Control, control!! The wall has been breached!! Retreating to the final defense line!”