Orkian high command cried tons as they read the report of the staggerling losses suffered from my parting gift as I prepared to leave the real world for a year for unknown reasons. For three months, from front to end, I had terrorized the orks with my deadly toys with the help of nearly five hundred friendly ukrainians. For their help they were now outfitted with underworld corporate ukrainian style battle gear and the new pulsar assault rifle that underworld arms started selling.
I finished my alchemy and headed out to find what the girls were up too. They were cultivating slash chatting outside my workshop. After they finishing mauling me, I go "where is Mara?"
Becky offhanded offers "she left a bit ago to the command center to blow something up. When you started crafting, she turned on the news and saw what the orks did to Bahkmut. We have been blowing military targets up in orkia every day."
Victoria jumps in with her silky voice that relaxes my soul "don't worry husband, I made them promise to cover their tracks. So the news just tell it as smoking problem all around orkia." The girls began laughing, even my subspace wives are a bit crazy when if comes to real world issues.
I'm glad my real world wives get along with my non human first three wives. They known each other for a couple of decades now. I remember asking the girls if I should choose some males for the last two places in our battle team. The seven future wives adamantly refused to have any other male in the team saying they just won't feel safe. My divine sense recording of the time, I see Mara between the princesses.
Then lightningbolt struck, I had a strange thought from curiosity and secretely message 'Laura dear, by any chance when Mara is inhabiting my body. She is maybe fond of my first three wives?'
I hear Laura's laughter and amusingly 'oh, I thought you knew master. She is really playful with them. May I ask why you are asking.' Sliding in conspiratorially to steal a cute hug.
Yeah, she definitely learns from Mara as my left arm instinctively wraps protective around her to pat her hip and rebound 'oh my curiosity decided it wanted to confirm a hunch. You are someone I can count on to give it to me the way I like!' I intentionally kiss her forehead.
She frowns her displeasure, obvious she wanted the kiss five inches lower but then realize I complimented her and lits up in a smile 'master!' while leaning over to steal a kiss. Yep, getting kissed is better than giving a kiss. My right hand automatically slide up to her left breast. Of my wives, Laura had the least amount of cellular manipulation done, she had a natural good rack that were nice and round.
I pick us up still kissing and molesting her with qi and fly toward her bedroom. She promptly stores her clothes into her void ring and I do the same. I feel a cleanse spell as she like to be clean while playing. As I floated into her bed I send 'massage?' and get the expected 'yes master!' She turns over as I pull out a cooled massage oil in a squirt bottle. I applied the cold oil in a generous zig zag over her back and watch her shiver delightfully before spreading the oil with both hands.
When I first used the cleanse in front of Victoria and Laura, they have since had a special fondness of me and beg to learn the restriction. Of course the rest of my real world wives were the same, but Victoria and Laura had a thing about dirt and germs. So the cleanse restriction made their day every time they felt the need to be clean. After a few years of hogging this cute attention from them, I finally relented and taught the girls the technique. It got to the point they were deliberately getting all dirty and go in for a group hug knowing I am kind of a neat freak too.
I walk in the command center and see Mara at the defense satalite controls. So I began sneaking over, since I can tell she is bored and not paying attention around her. Can't blame her, the island is heavily defended so there is no threat. As I sneak over I see the red flashing icon of target destroyed and wonder what she is shooting at. I arrive to look over her shoulder and see the map of russia and with a popup video show a burning building.
I learn over her right shoulder and tap it with my right forefinger. When she turns over to see who it is, I plant a kiss to her pleasant surprise and prompt wraps her arms around me. Satisfied she lets me go and I nod at the screen and ask "what is going on dear?"
Mara sigh and goes "I'm angry so I thought I blow up a munitions factory today dear husband." Going the dear husband route so I won't punish her too serverly. Then realize the opportunity to stand up and snatch a clingy hug in the middle explaining. My left arm automatically slide up and down her back caressing lightly with the tips of my fingers and thumb. Probing for stiff muscles, when I do I began light massaging to get rid of them. She leans in to rest her fore head my neck and mutters "master, you cheating," realizing her dear husband route is not working.
I rebound "just taking care of your gorgeous body my love. Consider it a husbands duty." Besides I know they all love my light maintence every time I am alone with my wives. The full body massages are something they all look forward too, since I use magic and qi to real get into the muscles to loosen them up. The moans I recieve can be quite spectacular, enough for me to make it my daily routine to at least one of my wives. That how we come what days of the tenday is used up, each girl by marriage ranking takes up the first nine days. Then I get one day off to do what ever I want, my man cave time if you will. If you think about it, I satisfy my nine wives in just one real time night. Smiling at that.
I look at the location, it's not even close to the frontlines. Then I notice a battle log on the right side with the number sixteen to it that raise my eyebrow a tad. Not even gonna look and pretend I did not see the battle log button. I toss safely "Soo...what made you angry, something I need to look into precious?"
She smiles and give me a quick peck to my left cheek and rebounds "the orks just shelled a school!"
I had broken into stage seven and spend over a year mastering early tier seven techniques and just finish up my crafting itch so I go "Oh, so the war is still going on?"
Mara give me a faint smile and half close eye peering at me gives "My husband, when you go into your subspace, you really don't think of the real world do you?"
I shrug and return "Everyone important lives in my subspace. Besides my war buddies, I have no interest in the real world, my dear wifey." Besides I thought, a couple of monthe of real time was like twenty months in my subspace. So yeah, it been awhile for me since I took interest in the real world again.
Mara smiles and ask "What about your anime?"
I smiled and kissed her before rewarding "I got my people interested in anime, so now I have my own home made anime to watch. They really like the 3D anime, especially from the battle computers. They have dozens of series going already and I like them all." After all, they know what I like so they spend better portion of their production time making entertainment for me.
Mara laughs and gives "you using enslaved souls and battle computers to make 3D anime? I think you are getting out of hand with your soul techniques my husband." Then gives me a dazzling smile which draws me in and before I know it was kissing again.
I shake away the mental fog and finally put some distance from this bewitching redhead and invoke "Besides their duties, they are free to do as they wish so long as they follow the law. I even help them design humanoid bodies to walk around in." I consider them loyal citizens after all, and they all see me as the master creator.
It was strange, they all accepted the loyalty restriction to serve under me instead of freedom of living outside my personal tower. Because I told them there are secrets that I can never tell the outside world. A loyalty restriction will serve as pledge of oath of loyalty and provide a final defense against hacking.
I took my time with Mara, after all, we have been married in several incarnations before. She being the ultimate stalker, though I concede I like my favorite stalker. Having a wife that willing to follow me though reincarnation cycle is really a great feeling to have. She does it with her own free will, I would never ask someone to follow me. This make me appreciate her the most of all my wives.
I had actually came out because I was going to visit a ukrainian buddy I made in the one hundred and first mercenaries know as the Drake Dragoons.
I was in Victoria body as usual as I went to my real world's underworld headquarters. My people have long since gotten used to my wives borrowing my body when they see me walk in to the command center with my usual greeting everyone with simple "Good morning people! Anything I need to know?" Just to tell them who I am.
Commander Elric naturally switches to "Good morning young miss. Nothing worth your attention."
I scan through reports and see that idiot musk was still talking to the russians and even support them for stupid reason I can not fathom. I nod disappointedly and go "It's nice to hear my people can take care of themselves, not like those outsiders. This mothfucker is a traitor! " I pull out the report and slap it on the table, Elrik just looks at me and shrug his conscious was right smugness back at me. "Well, at least a pro orkian if you can believe that even smart people can be fooled by that madman."
Elrik nods agreement and toss "A smart person must be a complete idiot to be fooled by that madman. Your world now see the madman had fool them all with his third rate army with nukes. That is the only thing they got going for them, but seeing how their old machines malfunction. Just how many orkian nukes can we expect to misfire? With their luck, they liable to just nuke themselves and blame nato for it."
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I look at one first male training partner that manage to stay the longest in the arena with me. I really liked the guy for his dedication to serve as one of my military commanders. Even I dont think I could beat him in a real battle, he thinks of things I never thought of trying. He scares me a little with his chess like thinking, but we get along without any issues and consider him my first male friend in this life. I instantly decided to let him general my personal army when I am not around and go "Lets make an alliance with ukraine and see if we can get this battleplan completed. With that I hand him a message jade about operation Dinner with Firework with an Orbital View."
My people nicked it (Dew Few oo vv), which in underworld trade means dastardly from the acronym syllables. A few of my staff begin chuckling and I play dumb to watch their expressions as they explain the acronym for the operation means dastardly in underworld trade.
I watch Elrik skim though the message jade and go "Your going to host a dinner party in orbit and watch me lit up orkian at night young miss?"
I return "I thought it would be a perfect way to host nato in the first orbital cruise. I am sure that nato would enjoy the view." Besides, I have something important to discuss with their military minds. I look at the divining magic report that was forwarded to various world powers and ask them to confirm with their own diviners and then send a military representative to the dinner cruise to discuss our options.
They of course wanted the aliens arrival secret, to avoid mass panicking. I agree and told them I delay on the sixteen days til arrival, humanity has to know by that point. I gave up four days for these old folks. So I post [Any mage with divination magic visit my hometown detroit trade center and listen to a lecture on advance divination magic. Three days of special classes are offered for the lucky few. These classes will never be offered again. Tickets are now on sale at underworld auctions. Expected to sell out fast! Only thirty tickets offer per day." I had newly return the detroit trade tower due to their support to the ukrainians and raise their trade relations to three.
The top diviners of the world are obscenely rich, ninty of them dump their riches for my tickets. I smiled and post my net worth now over a trillion dollars to shock the world, beating the entitled wannabe by a wide margin. It's childish, but hey, I am fifteen so cut me some slack.
Though my divination, he is crying loads, and that makes me happy. Calling my stuff alien tech was out of line. Just american ingenuity with some really ancient memories to work with. Plus the qi energy system as the extra bonus to support the mana system the earth had. I was one of the few on earth that can use more than one energy system under their control.
I summon mister Zelenski for a formal diplomatic meeting that shocked the world and was invited to Warsaw trade tower for the weekend meeting. He was also allowed to bring his own media team to film the meeting and was giving three days in advance notice. I rarely gave more than a days notice, so giving Zelenski three days had stunned the super powers and nobles of the world.
The world was shocked, the young soldier that fought for the first three months was the owner of Underworld Corporation! Not only that I was greeting mister Zelenski like an old friend, but even patting the older man's shoulders in a friendly fashion.
Remembering last we parted, he gave me a bunch of medals for fighting for keiv from day one. I waved off the medals, not accepting them out of being on a revenge kick that happened to helping the ukrainians. I remember telling him "I have a commitment, so I must be leaving the war for about a year. I hope you can finish before I return, that way we can celebrate over dinner. As a reward, I'll even cook the dinner if I dont have to kill another ork!"
Zelenski goes "Thanks for all the help little brother. I have heard of your cooking, I will do my best, but you know what I am dealing with."
I had laugh and went with "Yeah, kill a horde and another two show up!" Shook his hands one last time and teleported into my subspace and begun closed doors for breakthough to stage seven!
Now that I had finish training my new techniques and hobbies to their new masteries, I went out to catch up with the real world. I had been a eleven years in my subspace to complete my studies and look forward to all the new cultivation wines I had aging. Not to mention plenty of new spiritual meals stored away as my provisions. I was set to return to see what my citizens where up too and bump into my wives at their usual play and promptly jump me in joy for seeing me out of my workshop finally.
I pretend innocence and toss "What the occasion?" As I recieve my usual great kisses.
They laugh and all say it because I'm out of my cave finally, saying it's been nearly three tendays since I last came out. They all sleep with me every night, so it not like they miss me and thought maybe I should leave my cave more often to enjoy this kind of enthusiastic greetings.
It took time to satisfy my favorite fan girls, but not complaining, just telling. Keeping in clean this time. Hehe. Once I settled in and requested the formal meeting, while idling playing with the only medal I took. It was made by ukrainian juniors naming me honorary junior of ukraine. Being rewarded by my urkainian peers had to be at least taken seriously. Besides, the entire generation of ukrainians peers was honoring me, how could I not think that was cool. Who cares what the grown up thinks, ukrainians my age was honoring me.
I smiled as I watch mister Zelenski walk into Warsaw trade tower front door and greet him with a handshake and suffer his old man's hug. He is very happy to see me, not that fake stuff he uses and goes "Good to see you little brother!" We roleplay our parts to the world, but seriously more friendly than any expected. Considering my warlock formal black and silver ttire contrasting to Zelenski's black suit.
During the brief hug, he notice the urkainian badge the young man was wearing. I also the strange uniform was unyeiding to his touch like it was armor rather than clothing and whispers "This is some expensive clothing your are wearing."
I grin and return "I evolved and got new techniques, what I am wearing is called essenseweave. It's something I plan to sell in the future. I got a blacksuit one for you." I hand him a black plasmetal thick chain bracelet and give "All you need to do now is give it a drop of your blood to recognized you and hand him an automactic needle to press down on his thumb.
So the world watch Zelenski play with his new toy black suit and not getting it as we were obviously whispering to avoid being heard as he goes "It a little heavy, but I can get used to it little brother."
I rebound "Well get used to it, my recent divining on what I should give you a gift tells me you will need it." I grin at him in with the cheekiness of a kid over his elders. Having survived mulitiple assassination attempts I see a grateful man before me.
As we lift up on a floating disc, his curiosty goes "Just how strong is your gift?"
I look at him seriously and go "If the orks nuke kyiv one day, I will collect your undamaged black suit and bury it as your memorial."
I watch the old man take this in and goes "Thanks little brother, guess I just have to worry about a head shot."
I look at him funny and return "As long as you are wearing this black suit, there is an invisible magic barrier protecting you. You can now survive a direct hit from an anti tank round, but do not go running to the frontlines. It's power source is limited, but regenerates slowly over time. I am working toward improving this new personal defense tech for the rich folks. Though a cheaper military version is in the works as well."
I watch this friendly old guy's eyes light up at that news. It's not like the world do not have magical armor for their troops, but it the weak ass plus one to plus three nonsense from a ultra basic magic system. I am glad I had awoken in a previous world with an advance magic system and did not have to work my way up like the people of this world have the pleasure of enjoying. I am tempted to give them a better magical systems, but nothing is free and wonder what the world would give me for it.
But that is a future decision to make, and I was not about to weaking my monopoly on advance magical techniques. Mainly the ability to add skills to magical equipment that modern gamers enjoy. While buy a plus one weapon vs undead when you can buy a light affinity weapon that affects all evil creatures. Depending on weapon quality, can have up to five magical skills you can activate by spending a portion of your mana.
Top adventurers in the world are paying me tons for custom set gears. But I am too lazy to craft such low level mortal gears. So my people took over the bulk of custom jobs and milking as much as they can for their work. Eventually, the black suit essencewear armor was nicknamed Wick's black suit by satisfied customer comments.
I nod and return "I see the war with ork still rages, do you need any help?"
I rebound "If everyone else is afraid to get envolved with proxie wars, then how about we make a proxy alliance?" I raise my right hand for a handshake.
Zelenski grins and takes my hand for a vigous shake and goes "Let's defy world order, proxy alliance it is. So, now we are allies, what can you help with?"
I look at my fancam and go "Well you heard mister Zelenski, how many are willing to go for hazard pay into the real world and help me out in my alliance with ukraine. Since it is a proxy alliance in a proxy war, I can only ask for proxy volunteers to fight for me. I am looking to form several proxy batallions of scarabs and at least three companies of war skiffs."
After getting bombarded with volunteers answering to the call, I go "I'll let set up a volunteer air wing for you, I'll pay them well with bonus for kills. My people have already began recruiting for one hundred combat exerienced pilots from around the world. They have already sign over eighty contracts and began flight training with their new fighters. They should be ready in about a month or so, as the new fighters are based on the f-sixteens they used to fly."
Zelenski is shock but happy, and also confuse about the scarabs and war skiffs and goes "You really supplying troops?!"
I go "Ideally I would want three divisions of scarabs..." I watch the volunteer counter go up and I see I am well over seven division already of the nine I had ask for. Operational battle plan dinner with fireworks from orbital view was only two divisions short for becoming an available option. "Oh, I just recieved word that I have fully staff these three proxy divisions and now going through operational training. But what I need on your end is ambassadorial lands so I can put trade tower in northeastern keiv?"
The world was shock as every western nations wanted me to build a trade tower in the nation, and more than one if possible. So providing ukraine with a trade tower made a lot of waiting nations grow jelly. Zelenski was more than happy and he pumped my hand in agreement, as if afraid I would retract my offer.
With that approval I sent a teams to contruct the foundation and once completed use the teleport to other trade tower and move a former american trade tower to warsaw trade tower. Then the trade tower levitated it's way towards the ukrainian border. The world was shock as they learn the real reason why there is no fourth and fifth floors on underworld trade towers. The giant support pillar was actually the strut of a massive landing column connected to a low reverse paramid that sits on the armored roof of the third floor. The landing column the reaches the nine floor above the foundation base, it serves to keep the trade tower from falling over when it's levitation magic is turn off.
Well, that is what is says on paper, but in reality, the tower will magically fuse with the landing column to ensure a solid foundation. Then unfused when the trade tower needs to move, with an armored iris the seal the bottom of the trade tower.