Descend- Seeing Stars, Sean Oswald [best e books to read .txt] 📗

      Leader Board:

M: 9

F: 286

C: 215

Cluster 1- Jay: Level 218 (M2, F150, C44)

Cluster 2- Shu: Level 71 (M2, F38, C54)

Cluster 3- Michael: Level 70 (M2, F27, C30)

Cluster 4- Aroon: Level 60 (M1, F23, C30)

Cluster 5- Jeff: Level: 59 (M1, F27, C28)

Cluster 6- Lars: Level 55 (M1, F21, C29)

Current Threshold %

3rd- M- 0, F- 115 (Your Cluster: 0/25)

4th- M- 7, F- 109 (Your Cluster: 0/63)

5th- M- 0, F- 44 (Your Cluster: 0/44)

6th- M- 1, F- 16 (Your Cluster: 1/16)

7th- M- 0, F- 2 (Your Cluster: 0/2)

8th- M- 1, F- 0 (Your Cluster: 1/0)

      Just as he had expected, according to the A’snkarnt system there were now only six clusters. His was bloated now to two men, one hundred and fifty women, and forty-four children. In fact, looking at the numbers told him that Cluster 1 was actually now more than half the remaining adults and all of the most powerful members.

      There were only nine men left, not including children and of those nine, seven of them were between level fifty and level seventy-five or past the 4th threshold. Another eighty-one women were in that group of which thirty-five were now part of his cluster. Those all had to be women that came with Cecelia and Trudi. It was a respectable accomplishment without having access to his body modification skill or fusion.

      The limited information that he had gained about the other clusters showed that a few of them had found limited ways to strengthen their bodies but none had mastered refinement of their channels in the way that Jay had. The unique set of skills that he had developed or his mindset or something had led him to thinking of refinement as a cultivation exercise. Apparently reading all those nerd books had paid off in the end.

      Of course, that reminded him that however many of the sixty he accepted into Team Jay he was going to be obligated to help refine them. And of course, he would be obligated to them for other things. He couldn’t help but shake his head. If anyone had ever told him on a Friday night gaming with his buddies back in college that someday he would have too many women wanting to sleep with him, he would have laughed.

      On top of that, if any of his buddies from back then heard that he had nearly sixty women at his beck and call with another sixty that would like to sign up, they would have wanted to strangle him. When he told them it was too much, they would have insisted on slapping him silly. Those were simpler days though when the entire fate of the human race didn’t rest on his shoulders.

      He looked at the numbers once more. Twenty-five of the newcomers were only past the third threshold, meaning between level thirty and fifty. They were going to require a great deal of work to bring them up to snuff.

      The sixty women on Team Jay were all at least past the fifth threshold or between level seventy-six and one hundred and five. Even two of the women from Team Miguel had made it there while the rest were past the fourth threshold. Of course, Jay had only provided minimal refining to the girls of Team Miguel. He had wanted them to be capable but had to draw a clear line between his team and Miguel’s.

      As for his fuses, sixteen of them were past the sixth threshold which was where Miguel was although all of them were higher level than he was. The fuses were all between level one hundred twenty-five and one hundred forty.

      Well, all except the last two. Amelia and Trina seemed to be having a race with one another. The competition was pushing them. Meikiyo and a few of the others had tried to race as well, at least until Higen was taken. At that point, his Japanese fire goddess gave up on caring about that. The others had simply fallen behind.

      There was no doubt that both Amelia and Trina had a drive for power, but neither seemed greedy about it. Their feelings were an open book to him on this issue even when they tried to hide it. They both feared being left behind by him and wanted to try their best to keep up with him. Last time he had checked the shared status sheet they were both at level one hundred and fifty-nine. It was definitely impressive and had granted them both access to using a fifth level of boost for skills.

      He really had to come up with a plan for this and he needed to do so soon. The sixty women deserved answers. More than that though, holding over twenty-one million PSI had made him come to a hard conclusion. Instead of feeling invincible it made him feel vulnerable. He didn’t know how much further he needed to push to reach the level at which he could protect his wives, children, and team. But it worried him. He had to decide just what he was willing to do to reach those heights.

      The time for a decision at least on some of the issues was upon him. He reached the room where the rest of cluster one was waiting for him. He could hear a storm of thoughts coming from the room which had been a cargo hold converted into a large-scale meeting room. Another project from the science department. Amelia and Trina might have the greatest drive to level but some of the science girls, especially Ava, had every bit as much drive as them, just in a different way.

      Before he could walk into the room, two beautiful women walked out of the room, as opposite in appearance as they were in personality. One was a relatively petite blonde with just the best