*(mood song: "The Trammps - Disco Inferno")

After the ceremony, the elders and some of the older guards still alive, told some stories from the past to inspire the younger generation, mostly from the queen and the enormous fields they used to have, or the guards talking about the queen and guards coming back dragging enormous beasts from their hunts, the meat being then served in enormous public banquets for all the population, with everyone wearing their best clothes.

As it all ended Erik went back to his base, with Inky, Anhuka, and a sleepy Crabina in his arms.

Crabina rubbed her eyes as she sleepily drooled on Erik's shoulder "daddy... I'm sleepy..."

Erik caressed her back as he carried her to her room "almost there sweety, almost there" finally arriving and leaving her in her bathtub.

As he was standing up though, Crabina grabbed his hand "bedtime story daddy..." but fell asleep midsentence.

Erik kneeled next to her bathtub and kissed her forehead "next time sweety, now rest"

On the door, both Inky and Anhuka observed him with a smile.

Erik: [just checking but, is everything alright?]

Rose: [yep, just perfect, the king has almost been beaten and raped to death though, and... someone ate one of his pincers, but that's fine right?]

Erik: [yeah, we let him live after all, at least he's being used for something, by the way, did you scan the library scrolls?]

Rose: [I'm on it, but it will take a while, I've deciphered their writing though and translated some parts, for them the octopeople were enormous demons, everything bad happening was attributed to them instead of them stealing one tribe from the other, these stories are just nonsense for the most part]

Erik: [...tell me one then?]

Rose: [alright, there's here a dumb story: "The darkness encompasses the future of the shadow claw tribe, the seventh princess has been impregnated mysteriously by one of those tentacled demons, their devious tactics shaming our honor, even being confined in the royal palace with no visitors except myself, my sister was not safe from them, but we will one day have our revenge!" - speech by the fourth prince]

Erik: [...so naive... it's clearly incest between royals...]

Rose: [most likely (´_ゝ`)]

Erik: [sigh, and they all just believed it how could anyone believe that someone can get magically pregnant... I feel less and less motivated to save them... well, let's talk later]

Rose: [okay, also... you owe me a game of cards ('▀ω▀')]

Erik: [yeah, I didn't forget]

His mental conversations with Rose happened almost instantly as they communicated brain to brain, so he had barely stood up and walked to the door.

Inky smiled fondly at him "you will be a great mother"

Erik was about to correct her but sighed 'who cares about names' and instead lightly kissed Inky and said with a smile "I'm sure you will be a great mother too" while inside thinking 'or maybe not... but I will be there so it will be fine' he then looked at Anhuka and said "let's all three go to the lab to check on the babies"

Anhuka and Inky smiled as they followed after him.

--- genetics lab ---

Erik applied an algae lubricant fluid to his belly as he passed the scanner over it, seeing inside his body he saw the egg was now connected via an umbilical cord and the other humanoid fetus was now almost the size of a ping pong ball, thinking 'they seem healthy, but they are also growing faster than normal... interesting...'

He then scanned Inky, seeing 3 fertile eggs with umbilical cords inside her, smiling as he said "three healthy daughters my love" noticing they were growing faster than the two inside him too.

Inky smiled radiantly as she looked at the screen while she lovingly caressed her belly.

Erik then scanned Anhuka, his eyes slightly dilating, as he saw 8 fertile eggs inside her, seemingly the octopeople DNA being what had prevailed as there was no umbilical cord to the crab eggs "and you Anhuka will have 8 babies, not sure what gender though"

Anhuka smiled as she looked at Inky with a victorious smile.

Inky frowned "what?".

Anhuka shrugged "nothing, I just won".

Inky got angry at that "oh yeah? wait till they are all born, who knows if they will be even born at all".

Anhuka snapped getting up from the examination table "what did you say bitch?!".

Erik got in the middle of both "it's not a competition alright?" then turned to Inky "why don't you go grab some snacks from the kitchen?".

Inky: "...fine".

As she walked off, Erik turned seriously to Anhuka "what you said wasn't nice".

Anhuka became frantic seeing him so serious "b-but she said!-".

Erik: "didn't you provoke her first?".

Anhuka: "but she always makes fun of me! this ain't fair!".

Erik: "calm down, having my children isn't a competition alright? it's a proof of love, the same way I am carrying her children inside me, do you understand?".

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Anhuka: "...I understand...".

Erik: "good, eat some snacks with Inky and get on well, gotta work now".

Anhuka said "alright, I will try for you..." and walked out the door.

Erik walked to a cabinet and took out a bone box, opening it and finding inside a dimly glowing red mushroom barely 16cm tall and using a pair of steel tongs put it in a container with boiling water at 100°C the water quickly boiling even faster as it absorbed the water and expanded to 22cm "interesting, seems like they can survive out of the water but shrink a lot, loosing also most of their heat generating properties".

Rose: [the water seems to be evaporating fast though].

Erik: [yeah, will need to replace it but I need to test how hot it can get... maybe feeding it some white phosphorus...]

He went to the chemistry module and took a small bar from inside a jar with water inside a cabinet, then running back quickly so it didn't start burning in contact with the air, and dumped it in the small aquarium with the mushroom.

The white phosphorus stopped smoking inside the water as it sunk on the boiling water, then Erik observed as small white tentacles emerged from the base of the glowing red mushroom and slowly dragged the white bar to a mouth on its base, taking only a few moments before starting to heat up way faster, Erik quickly added more cold water but it wasn't enough, the water quickly evaporated as the cap of the mushroom inflated into an egg shape, only to deflate again once it had no more water.

Erik observed the now soaking wet module with steam all around and opened the door, letting some out so the base's life support systems could regulate the humidity again "I need a big body of water and a controlled environment..."

Rose: [what about the communal pool the octopeople use?]

Erik: [and then what? I call it sauna day?... wait... the onsen...]

With an objective clear he put the mushroom back in the bone box and taking a digital thermometer with himself as he went to the onsen.

--- second floor ---

The two scouts and hunters in charge of fishing were fucking loudly in the onsen as Erik barged in carrying a smoking bone box.

Erik: "out of the water! quickly!" they panickedly got out of the water as Erik dropped the box inside, and it sizzled as it sank to the bottom, soon bubbles coming out in the middle "damn it almost burned my hands..." he looked at the startled and embarrassed octopeople by the side "sorry, I need the onsen for an experiment, you can go fuck in the sauna"

hunter2: "well..." she looked at Erik's crotch "we wouldn't mind some company..."

Erik sighed "sorry, maybe at another time, you can call Inky to give you some cock if you are in need"

hunter1 was slightly taller and put a seductive face, her crest, side fins, and cock standing erect as she looked up at Erik "but we wanna taste yours..."

Erik: "...sigh, give me a second..." [Rose, can you keep track of the experiment?]

Rose: [the onsen is covered in nanobots so yeah, I can do that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯] cameras grew on the ceiling and proves and cameras inside the water [water temperature at 40°C and rising, mushroom seems to be... above 400°C and also rising]

The octopeople were surprised seeing the walls and room change shape, but they were soon greeted by a different sight as Erik's dive suit peeled off, revealing his strong abs, and plump curves, with a big pair of boobs, bubble but and what deeply attracted their eyes, a thick limp dick, and a pair of big smooth veiny balls.

Erik sat on a stone bench by the side with his legs open and said with a smile "well? what are you waiting for? start sucking~"

The four octopeople smiled lustfully as they quickly approached, the smaller scout1 going below his balls and sucking on his pussy as her slimy tongue sunk deeply, then scout2 bent over to the right and while fondling his balls started sucking on them, taking his left ball inside her mouth. All that while Hunter2 bent over and picked up Eriks plump cock, peeling it slowly and taking it into her mouth, enjoying the salty taste as she took it in to the base, taking it in and out of her throat as she moved her tongue around it, feeling it slowly expand and stretch her throat as 2 tubes at the base of her neck opened, allowing her to breathe without letting go. As for Hunter1 she directly started sucking on his plump right nipple, her tongue doing circles around it inside her mouth as her right hand caressed the left one, and her left hand came down his back and fingered his ass.

*Ahn!* Erik moaned from all the sensation at once as he grabbed the head of Hunter2 over his dick and plunged deeply down her throat, proceeding to skull fuck her as the others kept teasing his body, he could see her stroking her cock as her slimy throat contracted around his cock, all the while his pussy, balls, and nipples were getting sucked, and also his ass fingered, making him quickly orgasm the first round after a while, holding Hunter2's head down as he pumped a big thick load down her throat, his veiny smooth balls contracting and pooping out of Scout2's mouth with a pop, while his pussy squirted inside Scout1's mouth.

Rose: [yeah, pump her full ლ(´ڡ`ლ)] one camera now also recording Hunter2's increasingly bulging stomach.

Erik: [just...ahn~ record... the mushroom...]

Rose: [I will do both~ (◉ω◉)]

Erik: [suit... yourself... fuck... hnnn~]

Finally taking Hunter2 off his cock as she slightly coughed cum but swallowed it back in and licked her lips seductively.

Erik: "good girl~ now turn around"

Hunter2 quickly turned around, presenting her dripping wet pussy to him, but Hunter1 complained "not fair~ I wanna fuck too~"

Erik looked at her short and plump cock and smiled "well, you have been fingering my ass all this time, just get in already~"

She giggled and quickly got behind him, her 6cm thick cock penetrating his ass, Scout1 then stopped sucking his pussy and said "then can I fuck your pussy?"

Erik put her head back in place though "no, you two are doing a wonderful job sucking...hnnn~ that's it" he then lined up his fist thick meat rod to Hunter2's slimy pussy and grabbing her hips hammered inside her in one go.

*AHN~* Hunter2 squealed with the insertion, the meat rod bigger than Inky's stretching her insides "give me a mome- AHN~"

Erik wasn't listening anymore though as he started fucking her deep, his powerful thrust quickly opening up her cervix as his big meat rod went hilt deep inside her, his dick now surrounded by slimy eggs all around, the sounds of wet flesh hitting each other resonating in the room as the other 3 adapted to his pace until finally, he came inside her, Hunter2's belly quickly inflating as he pumped his baby batter inside her, at the same time his ass also contracted, making Hunter1 accelerate as she finally came up his ass, slimy marble sized eggs of and sperm being pumped inside him.

Erik felt it pumping inside him and held Scout1's head against his pussy as he squirted again on her mouth.

Erik: "Well ladies, let's take turns in the one taking my cock in, plugging my ass, licking my pussy, and licking my balls to be fair"

They all agreed and started taking turns, though he barely felt the scouts dick on his ass, they came fast and in big loads of small eggs each.

--- hours later ---

The four octopeople laid on the ground with thick semen dripping out of their pussies as Erik still stood, dripping eggs out of his butt as he consciously released the knot on the base of his dick, allowing more blood to escape as his meat pole slowly went softer. He observed the scene in front of him and smiled as the dive suit covered his body again "seems like hunters and scouts can't keep up with me anymore".

Rose: [yes, it seems like the absence of much myostatin in your system is improving your musculature and overall resistance, and the seminal vesicles increased size allowed you to pump them full multiple times, quite the spectacle (･ิω･ิ) ]

Erik: [thanks, how is the mushroom doing?] turning to see the now boiling onsen.

Rose: [well, the top part seems to have an open slit, and its not only filtering minerals out of the water, I think it's preparing to desobate]

Erik: [so like barnacles then?]

Rose: [no alright? no, this organism doesn't have anything to do with anything on Earth, it seems the phosphorus bar you gave it was like a super meal to it, and that's why it started readying to lay eggs]

Erik: [interesting, what about the temperature?]

Rose: [just slightly above 600°C, the temperature of a wood bonfire]

Erik: [well, a bonfire underwater is amazing in itself, we will try raising them and eating them somehow]

Rose: [but the way they feed I believe their meat will contain lots of heavy metals though so I wouldn't recommend ingestion (´_ゝ`) ]

Erik: [indeed, those raised in the lab would be safe to eat in the future] he then went to the bath and finished pooping all the slimy eggs out of his ass.