The third stage, unlike the other two, was both simple and daunting at the same time. Simple because it didn't have anything too complicated, like learning to tie yourself up or getting free from tight bindings. It wasn't even a real challenge, but it was still daunting because its contents were stressful and humiliating, leaving the three ladies confused and reluctant. When Alex had said exposing your inner self, they hadn't known what he planned. But when he put them on stage, with nothing but their collars on them and told them to spend the following two days touching themselves regularly, it left their hearts pounding. Even though the only members of the audience were Alex and Gwen, to do something like that on stage was a significant shock, to say the least.
Still, having come so far, they persevered. Alex and Gwen were above them, sitting on Alex's throne while Gwen's throne was left empty as usual, since she chose Alex's lap as her throne. His hands were far from idle, one of them between Gwen's legs, massaging her nub as she swayed her hips, making his cock stir her insides. His other hand was on her chest, holding her close as he massaged her boobs and fiddled with her chain and piercings. Of course, despite enjoying themselves, both of them were paying attention to the stage.
Feeling a little awkward and hesitant, the three women continued standing in their spots under Alex and Gwen's watchful gazes.
"I'll suggest getting some magic wands from the toy closet," Gwen said, trying to keep her voice flat but failing. "Also, use the creams before you start. They will help with endurance. I know from experience."
With her words, the three women swallowed their hesitation and started moving. Within a minute, they were sitting on the massive mattress at the front part of the stage—it had already been extended out for this event. Spreading their legs, they started by massaging the nameless cream all over their crotches and chest before bringing the device between their legs.
As the three started masturbating, Gwen turned her head to glance at Alex.
"What?" He asked.
"That cream," she said with a whisper. "Is it something that you're planning to release here?"
"Eventually," he nodded. "It's already available in Gaia now. Alongside the age-pausing serum. But before I release it here, I need to make Gaia Bracelets commonplace while keeping the existing industries in mind. Only then will I be able to implement a new currency system and streamline things here. Only then will it be beneficial for me to release the commercialized products like that cream and the age serum thing."
"You can keep your secondary bonds immortal without the need for external means, right?"
"Right, but it doesn't work for tertiary bonds. They will still need that serum to halt aging. I do have a thought, though. I could add a module to the pool's filtration system that mixes the cream directly into the water. Just swimming in the pool regularly will be very beneficial to the body and skin."
"These things probably cost a lot, huh?"
"In a way, yes, but with my current production, not really. A single dose of the age serum requires five units of Bioenergy. The cream, on the other hand, is not expensive to make. A single unit of Bienergy can produce a hundred thousand of those hundred-milliliter tubes. Even if I go to a new planet, I could simply establish myself as a businessman."
"Dictator, superhero, sleezy businessman… is there anything you can't be, Alex?"
"You forgot to say your lover," he said, leaning forward and kissing her lips. "I think I can be the best at that."
"Hey now, come on. My three best friends are giving you such a show," she whispered with a pleased smile. "Don't ignore them completely. You'll break their hearts."
"I'm sure two of them already have hearts for each other," Alex said with a light laugh. "They do look like they are enjoying each other, no?"
"You aren't going to try and help them out for a mini-show?"
"At the conclusion tomorrow night," he said. "After constant masturbation by their own hands, there will be an hour-long forced orgasm session that every initiate has to go through. Later, it won't necessarily be at the conclusion, because this only lasts a week and I can't pay attention to all initiates without showing more than I want to."
"Sounds hot…" Gwen said.
"I could give those three a preview if you're down for it," he said.
"You know what? Sure. This last week has gotten me in the mood for some of that stuff. Make me cum so much that I go crazy."
"Whatever my lady wishes." Alex kissed her cheek before gently holding her thighs and raising her, freeing his cock from her warm embrace. "Let's go."
The stairs seemed to automatically appear as Alex held Gwen in his arms like a princess and descended toward the three masturbating women on the stage.
"Having fun?" Alex asked the three, who were clearly going through many mixed emotions. Somehow, their current state was more embarrassing than a threesome with Alex and Gwen.
Still, they were far enough gone that none of them moved their wands away despite realizing Alex's gaze toward them.
"By the time we're done with this, I'll give you three a special reward for getting so far," Alex said. "Allow me to give you a preview of that."
The three women slowed the movements of their wands, but kept the vibration at the same level as their eyes darted toward Alex as he put Gwen down on the floor. With a clanking sound, a chain fell from the ceiling behind them, stopping just at the height of Gwen's head. They noticed a rope in Alex's hands that they hadn't seen before, which he tied around Gwen's wrists before he strung her up on the chain, attaching her wrists to a link high up, making her stand on her toes.
"You see, ladies, I have what my Gwenny likes to call magic fingers."
"Alex…" Gwen trailed off threateningly at his address for her.
"All right, all right," he kissed her cheek. "My magic fingers can make you cum more intensely than any toy ever could. Tomorrow evening, I will spend an hour with all three of you exactly like this, forcing orgasms out of you by the minute, to the point that you will feel like you are both in heaven and hell at the same time from being overstimulated."
"Hey now," Mary Jane giggled with a moan as the vibrator in her hand hovered over her clit. "Don't play yourself up too much, Mr. Chancellor. I know you're good, but hold back a little."
"You'll believe me soon enough," Alex said before turning to Gwen, kissing her. One of his hands trailed down her body to her pussy while the other stayed at her breasts to play with her chain and nipples.
A loud, muffled squeal escaped Gwen's lips the moment his fingers entered her as her throat literally vibrated from the response. The three women heard her as their expressions turned from amusement to intrigue.
As seconds passed, Gwen's muffled moans, blocked by Alex's mouth, continued growing louder and louder as her legs twitched. Her arms grew taut as she let out a loud moan and pulled herself off her feet. Alex's fingers never left her pussy as a shover of her juices was released, drenching his palm and the floor entirely.
From their previous intrigue, their expressions were now filled with surprise after seeing how he'd made Gwen squirt almost violently within minutes. Not only that, but he didn't even stop and continued kissing her as his hand moved at the same pace inside her while his thumb constantly rubbed her clit.
In the next half hour, their expressions had grown from surprise to intense arousal—to which they even came once— to genuine horror as they saw Gwen being brought to continuous orgasms every minute, and without breaks. They had stopped keeping count after twenty, after Gwen's moans grew weaker and the only signs of her orgasms were the involuntary twitching in her legs.
It was at this point that Alex finally pulled his fingers out of Gwen's swollen and hypersensitive entrance, which had gone from its previous pink to a visible red now.
"Did you like the show?" Alex asked as he gently let Gwen down from the chains and, before she dropped to the ground, picked her up in his arms, making her rest her head on his shoulder.
"Dude, you're a monster…" Mary Jane said, sounding almost horrified. "After that kind of experience, I don't think I'd want even air brushing against my vagina. You want to put every new pledge through that?!"
"You aren't wrong. That's why I'll give everyone a safeword to call out to get me to stop," he said. "If I actually put someone through this for an hour, she might even die of dehydration…" Alex glanced down at the floor at the massive puddle that Gwen had formed entirely from liquids that came from inside her.
"Would it be fine if I call you daddy and beg you to stop?" Mary Jane asked innocently, really pushing the vibrator against her entrance. "What do you say, Daddy Alex?"
"If you do that, I'll feel compelled to let you down from the chains, shove your face in the same wet floor covered in your release, and fuck your ass so hard that you feel the aftereffects for a week after," Alex's words seemed to be the perfect trigger for Mary Jane to bring herself to another orgasm.
"Fuck, I'll look forward to that… just instead of my ass, take my pussy instead. I'm not really interested in anal sex."
"I suggest you develop that interest," Alex said. "That goes for all three of you. There will eventually come events that may be entirely based on anal stuff. Consider this a heads up. One thing I can promise you, it's going to be pleasurable. I will never force anyone into anything that they won't like. Period."
The three women were silent as they nodded weakly, continuing what they were doing.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an unconscious and very overstimulated girlfriend to take care of. There's a camera on my throne recording you, so don't stop for too long, lest I find out and punish you at lunchtime," Alex said as he started walking away. "I'll make all three of you experience the same thing later tomorrow."
The promise had its own allure to all three of them, and just thinking about it brought them closer to their next climax.
***
By the time the next day, Saturday ended, Alex kept his promise.
The three women had spent their entire two days masturbating in the empty theatre with only Alex and Gwen watching. At some point, it seemed to trigger something in them, making them a lot more open about their own desires and feelings, as they showed no hesitation or negative emotions when indulging in their carnal desires. Since Alex's purpose to get them to accept their carnal sides was accomplished, it was time for the reward, which came in the form of a very intense and overstimulating forced orgasm session for each of them.
Deciding to start with Mary Jane, he grabbed the redhead just as she was recovering from a post-orgasm haze at around ten in the night and strung her up in the same way that he did for Gwen.
His actions left both Gloria and Elizabeth confused for a few seconds before they remembered the events of the previous day.
Strung up with her hands high above her head such that her toes barely touched the floor, Mary Jane felt both vulnerable and conscious, gulping as Alex stood in front of her, looking with a soul-stripping gaze into her eyes that made her feel that she had no secrets in front of him. Still, after the experience of the previous week, she was much more open about her desires and had significantly solidified her sense of self.
"H-hey, Mr. Chancellor…" She said with an inviting smile, shoving away the nervousness in her heart. "You've strung me up all helpless like this… What are you going to do to me?"
"Things that you might not be able to survive without a safeword," Alex said. "What is it?"
"Blueberry Pie… It's the first thing that came to my mind."
"Good, that's what should happen with a safeword. A complex or hard-to-remember safeword is useless if you are hyperventilating and panicking or barely conscious," Alex said. "I won't be kissing you, naturally. My girlfriend is right there, after all."
Mary Jane's gaze went to Gwen, who was sitting on Alex's throne—unwilling to use her separate throne under any circumstance. She had one leg crossed over the other, looking nothing like the limp and helpless woman from yesterday. An innate leader-like aura seemed to emanate from her as she got into the role of Chapter President.
"Let's start, okay?" Alex whispered, stepping closer and putting his palm on her pelvis, putting a little pressure with his fingers to stimulate her before his fingers reached her already drenched entrance. Unceremoniously, he pushed his two fingers inside her, making her gasp when she felt a jolt of pleasure go through her body.
"Suck," she didn't completely register the word before his other fingers entered her mouth to toy with her tongue. Normally, she would refuse him teasingly and pull away, but right now, in her current state, she couldn't think of anything beyond raw, thoughtless obedience. She sucked his fingers, letting out embarrassing moans—none of which she had released when cumming by herself. Under the overwhelming assault of his fingers, it barely took a few minutes before her eyes rolled in the back of her head and left her twitching with an almost violent orgasm.
Not giving her any respite, Alex's fingers kept moving with the same pace, getting all her most sensitive spots with every thrust of his two fingers. Within another minute, she had reached another climax as the stimulation made her even more sensitive.
She had crossed the double digits by the time five minutes passed, and by the twenty-minute mark, she couldn't take it anymore, falling entirely unconscious after barely whispering her safeword. Alex praised her endurance while untying her and gently carried her to the stage bed, letting her curl up under one of the flaps to rest.
One thing to keep note of was that while Gwen's thirty minutes might have seemed less, it was only a little preview of what the ladies were going to get. Alex didn't want to scare them. After all, Gwen had experienced multiple different bonding processes with him, with each one lasting hours while also being far more intense.
Same as Mary Jane, Alex gave both Elizabeth and Gloria the same experience, letting both ladies experience what could only be considered heaven. Unlike Mary Jane, Elizabeth only lasted fifteen minutes, but it was Gloria who took the ball home with her unreal endurance, going for a full thirty minutes, the same as Gwen. Alex suspected that either she was just that much of a freak or that she wanted to compete with Gwen and at least get the same result as her.
Either way, with that, the third phase of the pledge was over, leaving only the fourth and final stage.
…
With the first three stages concluded, on Sunday morning, the three pledges were to go up to the third floor for their final trial. Gwen had already introduced the place to them in their free time and instructed them about what needed to be done.
Come morning, the three women woke up, still a little sore between their legs, but otherwise energetic and excited. Looking at the time, they freshened up and quickly made their way to the third floor. Not seeing Alex or Gwen, they quickly stripped and got to work, tying themselves in the same manner as they did during their Oaths while waiting in the living room. At sharp nine, Alex and Gwen emerged from the bedroom, both of them had matching black robes draped on their bodies, with slightly damp hair, as they greeted the three women.
"Good morning, girls," Gwen said with a smile. "With such punctuality, it seems that you are excited for what's in store, huh?"
"Can I ask you something, Mr. Chancellor?" Mary Jane said, kneeling obediently on the floor with her knees spread apart and her arms tied behind her back as she looked up at him with an innocent look in her eyes. "Are you going to do this fourth stage for every new pledge? Calling them up to your bedroom for a romp with you and our Chapter President?"
"No," Alex shook his head. "The fourth stage taking place up here is only for you three. For the actual pledge, it's going to be a free-for-all party downstairs that will last the whole night. The new pledges will still tie themselves up and offer themselves up to have me fuck them, but it won't be nearly as intense as what you three are going to go through."
"So, the final step to joining this society is to get fucked by the Chancellor?" Mary Jane asked with a smirk. "Doesn't that mean we've already become full-on members?"
"Somewhat, yes," he nodded. "Now open your mouth wide, I'll start with you."
Before she could try to tease him further, Alex's erection had already risen through the middle of the robe and was hovering in front of her face. She instinctively parted her lips as he grabbed her head and pulled her closer to his crotch, directly shoving his entire cock inside her throat. Her body immediately stiffened in her restraints as she let out a muffled groan, struggling to handle his size. Still, already having experienced this multiple times before, she only needed a few seconds to adjust and enthusiastically blow Alex.
"Gwen, if you don't mind, could you take Elizabeth and Gloria to the room?" Alex said. "Get both of them in the right positions, will you? I'll bring MJ there soon."
Gwen gave Alex a side-eyed glance, wordlessly warning him before grabbing one of the ropes on Elizabeth's body. "Jump," Gwen said flatly, making her shiver as the body harness was tugged, compressing her entire body. As for Gloria, she directly grabbed the ropes tying her arms and legs in a hogtie and used the unit as a handle to pick her up like a suitcase. She let out a muffled groan through her ball-gag as her body was stretched further back, straining her spine.
"Man, I don't think I could ever, in my life, ask for a better girlfriend than Gwen," Alex praised. "She's awesome, don't you think, MJ?"
The redhead was in no state to actually respond, and her eyes were half closed, dazed and helpless as Alex moved her head back and forth.
Since this was just the start, Alex didn't go for too long and stopped fucking her face after five minutes and freed her head, pulling his cock out of her mouth. Her expression was dazed and lost as she instinctively leaned forward, despite huffing to catch her breath, and pressed her lips against his cock. Her actions were enough to test Alex's control, tempting him to continue and continue fucking her face until his release. Unfortunately, she wasn't Gwen and didn't have her superhuman endurance, which meant he had to keep things in the realm of normalcy.
Giving her a few seconds to recover, Alex directly put his arm under her crotch and picked her up, letting her wet pussy drip its juices on his arm as she grunted and started rubbing herself again.
"More~" She whispered, arching her back a little and grabbing Alex's hand with her hands that were tied behind her back, trying to get him to cup her ass.
"Soon enough, I'll give you so much that you'll be begging me to stop," Alex said, spanking her ass with his free hand as he took her to the room that he'd prepared with Gwen for today.
***
The room that Alex brought Mary Jane to was exactly what she had expected to see when she had walked into the theatre when she first came to the Epsilon Sigma Upsilon house. A fully furnished sex dungeon with an array of restraints and toys hanging from the walls that, under the dim lighting, gave anyone who entered the room an unspeakable feeling. As if merely entering this place was taboo. She had recovered from the intense blowjob by the time Alex brought her inside, just in time to be affected by the room's aura, feeling her hair rise on end as arousal, anticipation, dread, and many more feelings swirled through her head. At the same time, her stomach had a churning sensation, making her feel so aroused that she felt as if she'd just ingested an aphrodisiac.
As the door closed behind him, Alex, with Mary Jane still straddling his right arm as she continued moving her hips and rubbing her wet pussy on his forearm, looked at Gwen on his left. She had her arms crossed and was looking at the two women she had strung up with a satisfied expression on her face.
"What do you think?" She asked.
"You've gotten so good at this stuff after all the times I tied you up," Alex said proudly as he looked at Gwen's handiwork with the two ladies. "I couldn't be prouder."
Elizabeth had her arms pulled up and tied to the ceiling, forcing her to bend over, putting immense pressure on her shoulders as she tried her best to keep herself from losing balance. Her entire body was taut, especially her legs, as she tried her best to keep her feet planted on the ground while they were still tied together. As a bonus, there was a ball gag firmly stuck between her lips, leaving her in the same state as Gloria, unable to speak clearly. As for her companion, she was helplessly dangling in the air, with her arms and legs still tied together in a strict hogtie. Her current predicament left her entire body much more stressed than before as the ropes dug into her skin and pulled her limbs taut. The two of them were needily looking at Alex, letting out enticing moans through the gag while giving him needy looks.
"Don't say another word, Alex, I'm warning you." Gwen looked at him threateningly, showing him her fist.
"What? I was just about to say that I almost feel like a father who—" Gwen suddenly jabbed her finger into his waist, making him wince in pain.
"Not. Another. Word."
Alex smiled helplessly before leaning toward her ear. "The more you refuse, the more I want to hear it from you, honey," he whispered. "And I'm going to get you to concede. One way or another."
"Whatever," Gwen waved her arm, glancing at Mary Jane. "You wanna get this show on the road? Our slutty redhead here can't seem to hold on any longer."
"Yeah," Alex glanced at Mary Jane, who, after the rough blowjob, seemed to have lost all inhibitions in front of Alex as she grinded on his arm while giving him sultry looks.
Stepping forward, Alex brought the redhead up to a golden metal grill with flat metal bars criss-crossing to form a grid. Abruptly, the ropes on her arms loosened, freeing them. He let her lean against the metal rack, immediately eliciting a gasp from her lips as she felt the cold metal pressing against her bare back skin. Not giving her a moment to adapt, he grabbed belts from the side and used his free hand to wrap them around her freed arm before pulling it high up and restraining it to the rack. Repeating the action for her other arm, he left her to hang from the rack as she squirmed from the cold metal.
"Come on, Mr. Chancellor~" She called out needily. "I need your cock."
"When the time comes," Alex said with a smile, pushing a thumb through her lips as she immediately started licking it.
He grabbed three longer belts from the side, and one went around her waist, while the other two went above and below her breasts as he wrapped them around the rack, forcing her to press her back flush against the metal. He left her legs free since they were already tied by the ropes and stepped back to look at her.
"Please…" she gasped, pleading. Her hips seemed to move with their own mind as her folded legs flailed, trying to stimulate herself.
"Patience will reward you, okay? That goes for the two of you as well," Alex said as Gwen handed him a ball gag. Quickly, Mary Jane lost her ability to communicate verbally, leaving her even more of a squirming mess as she let out sexy moans. That was when Alex turned back to Gwen.
"Come," Alex said, grabbing Gwen's hand and leading her to the bed that was just out of sight from the three women, leaving them staring at the door. "Your friends can enjoy your moans for now. I'll pay attention to them when the time comes."
"The bond?" Gwen whispered curiously.
"Yeah," he nodded. "Your friends can serve as the backdrop while we do it."
Hearing his words, the three women's moans grew louder, but were promptly ignored by him as he disappeared from their sight, leaving them to look at the remaining room while being left to imagine the things Alex and Gwen were going to do.
"You're a freak, you know that?" Gwen mumbled.
"And you love me for it. Get rid of that robe," he said. "It's time."
Wordlessly, Gwen nodded and allowed the robe to slip off her shoulders, revealing her sculpted body to Alex. Her breasts had easily gone up by a size or two since she bonded with Alex, giving her a much more feminine figure while still retaining the full mobility that was needed by someone with her physical abilities. The chain was still dangling from her pierced nipples, inviting Alex to tug on it.
"I think this was the best decision we made," he said, gently tugging on the chain. "Are you sure you don't want me to pierce your clit like I did for Cindy? She loves the way it stimulates her all the time."
"My nipples have been through enough to know that this is a trap to give you even more leverage to mess around with me," Gwen said, trying to keep her responses to a minimum as Alex continued toying with the chain. "I can already imagine you connecting my clit to this chain, and I gotta say, not a fan of how helpless that will leave me."
"Worth a try," Alex said. "I'm going to bond with your brain today. Your entire nervous system will become an extension of me. After this…Even I don't know what comes after this, Gwen. Because after this, your physical body will be equivalent to an extension of me. We will achieve a state of oneness that honestly terrifies me. I don't know exactly what's on the other side, but if you are willing to go with me on that path…"
"Enough mushy stuff, Alex," Gwen said as she put her finger on his lips. "It doesn't work when you are playing with my piercings like that. Put your cock inside me and do your thing. I want it."
"Whatever my lady wishes." Seeing Gwen's eyes filled with desire and excitement, Alex couldn't hold himself back from grabbing her thighs and throwing her on the bed. She yelped, stabilizing herself as Alex grabbed her ass and raised her. "You want this?" He asked, rubbing his cock on her wet entrance.
"Fuck me, Alex," she called out. "Make me yours."
Her words left him unable to hold back as he entered her already dripping pussy, pushing himself all the way in as Gwen's back naturally arched, earning him a prolonged moan. He didn't pause and wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her toward himself while pulling back and thrusting his hips forward, fully entering her again. His hands found her breasts and started playing with them as he began roughly fucking her. Tilting his head a little, he brought his lips to her neck and added another factor of attack that immediately made Gwen weak and trembling in his arms as she moaned loudly, shaking her hips in tandem with his thrusts.
As he felt her drawing closer to an orgasm, he pushed an almost obscene amount of Bioenergy into her body, consuming thousands of units within seconds as they entered her body through his connection to her skin, flesh, blood, bones, and more. It was at this point that he began to deepen his bond with her. Immediately, her eyes turned completely black, like a void. For once, this wasn't something he was controlling; the moment his body started wrapping around her nerves on a cellular level, her eyes seemed to pull a part of him out to showcase it.
Still, neither of them stopped their actions as Gwen's hips continued moving in tandem with Alex's thrusts as if they had a mind of their own. Even with almost ten thousand units of Bioenergy coursing through her system, she was conscious enough to respond to his actions with moans and grunts. He continued teasing her tits and sucking on her neck while constantly fucking her, hitting the deepest parts of her pussy with each thrust.
As minutes passed, Gwen's moans only grew louder as more and more of Alex's material enveloped her nerves and brain, turning everything black on a microscopic scale. Before long, Gwen reached an orgasm from the constant stimulation all over her body as her insides heated up. The sudden rush seemed to light up her nerves and brain, allowing Alex to merge with her nerves. Immediately, he experienced the very pleasure that was coursing through Gwen's body that made her tremble and twitch as he fucked her. The stimulation assaulted his body with such force that he barely held himself back from filling Gwen's insides. Still, that control was slowly slipping as he continued deepening the bond with her nerves. Before long, Gwen's second orgasm lit up her nervous system, transmitting the sensation to Alex as it became impossible for him to hold back any further, and he filled her insides with his release.
His sudden orgasm triggered a cascading effect as Alex flooded her body with a nigh-endless stream of Bioenergy to support the process. The two of them lost all track of time, and even the needy moans from the three restrained women seemed to fade away, leaving only the two of them.
Hours passed by in a blur as Alex, for once, felt a noticeable empowerment in his soul as his bond with Gwen deepened. The process of deepening the bond with her took all his attention, not giving him the opportunity to explore the improvements further, but he was certain that this bond would provide him with a far more significant boost. Of course, Gwen's improvements went without saying.
By the time the bonding process concluded, it was already evening as Alex finally extricated himself from Gwen, pulling out of her and immediately plugging her pussy up with what looked like a black cover for her labia, keeping everything he released inside her. At the same time, two of his fingers went inside her ass, stirring her other hole.
"Sooner or later, I'm fucking your ass, okay?"
Hearing his words, Gwen responded with a weak, half-hearted grunt, barely responding as he formed a butt plug inside her ass. Still, he didn't go any further and let her rest on the bed, covering her up with the blanket as the newly formed bond stabilized and solidified her improvements. The experience was both physically and mentally taxing for her, and she needed some rest, even with his ability to keep her at her peak state at all times.
On the other hand, he was feeling full of energy both mentally and physically. Which made him turn to the three restrained women, whose loud moans from the start had now weakened to needy mewls.
"I did say that their patience would be rewarded," he said, standing up and walking to them.
-x-X-x-
The first day of the new semester had a very interesting start for Gwen and her three friends. While most students were on their way to their respective classes, the four women were in a massive bed, crowding around a single man. To be exact, three women—Mary Jane, Elizabeth, and Gloria were lying all over and around Alex while Gwen slept at the side. She'd been completely unconscious after Alex bonded with her nervous system. At that point, he spent the rest of the evening and the entire night with the three women.
Naturally, they couldn't have survived the experience without some support from him. This led to the presence of the permanent chokers on their throats as Alex formed tertiary bonds with all three of them. It wasn't something he'd come up with on the fly, and instead was already planned when he decided to work out the whole investing in existing educational institutions by means of sororities sponsored by his companies. The top four members of the leadership would all have a tertiary bond with him, giving them a direct line to Gaia's AI so that they could effectively work under his instructions. He'd even made modifications to the baser system of tertiary bonds to allow him to easily switch between hosts. That way, only the leaders of each sorority would have tertiary bonds at any given time. When the term and leaders changed, the chokers would be passed on to the successors as a ceremony, consequently passing on the bond as well.
"All right, wake up, ladies," Alex spanked Mary Jane, making her stir in sleep as she hugged him even tighter, burying her face in his neck.
"Later…you even fucked my ass. I deserve some extra rest…" She mumbled.
Alex chuckled as his hand shifted a little, grasping the plug inside her ass and tugging it. Immediately, she tightened up, letting out a weak moan in his neck.
"Get up," he repeated. "You'll be late."
He quickly woke the three women up and sent them downstairs back to their rooms to wash up and get ready.
When he entered the sex dungeon slash bedroom again, Gwen was already awake, lying on her side and facing the door with an amused expression on her face.
Alex froze in place, making her chuckle.
"You look like a guilty husband sending away the escorts that he called when his wife was asleep," she said. "You even sent them away while keeping all hushed and quiet."
"How do you feel?" Alex forcefully changed the subject.
"How was the anal? I saw the plugs in their asses. Did you have fun?" She asked, her smile growing wider.
Alex sighed. "Considering you passed out the moment the active part of the bond was finalized, I had to find a different outlet for my unfulfilled desires. Your friends are just the right amount of freaky for me to have thoroughly enjoyed myself."
"Enough that you let me sleep on the side, cold and without even a blanket?" She asked.
"We fell asleep ten minutes before I woke MJ," Alex said. "All to make them think that they got some sleep and not realize that I'm an alien slime monster."
"All right, all right, I'll stop messing with you before you decide to not play along with me," Gwen said, sitting up and raising her arms to stretch herself. "I feel much stronger after last night."
"Of course," he nodded, his eyes glued to her chest and her swaying boobs. "You are the first host I have bonded with this deeply. And the benefits are nothing to be scoffed at."
He finally glanced at the status that Gwen possessed after the bonding process.
{ «Status- Host #1»
«Name: Gwen Stacy (Ghost Spider) (Earth-65)»
«Bonding Rate: 70% -> 75%»
«Bonding Level: 7»
«Powers: Cosmic Physique— Spider Sense— Wall Crawling— Bio-Electricity— Camouflage— Blood Berserker III— Overload»
}
‹Blood Berserker III›:: When the symbiote forms a Level 7 bond, the entire body can be brought to work with the burning blood to provide an even greater enhancement. With precise control and monitoring of neural receptors, the body can preemptively prevent any harm or negative effects due to the burning blood. Augmentation— 2x at Lvl 4, 3x at Lvl 5, 6x at Level 6, 8x at Level 7. Cooldown: 24 Hrs at Lvl 4, 18 Hrs at Lvl 5, 12 Hrs at Lvl 6, 6 Hrs at Lvl 7
‹Overload›:: Requires the host to be in the state of ‹True Merge› with the symbiote to allow it to take control of the synaptic receptors all over the body. Provides a temporary, comprehensive boost to all abilities, greatly increasing their power.
‹Blood Berserker III› went without saying. It was a comprehensive enhancement to the ability and allowed Alex to burn Gwen's blood to achieve an even greater enhancement to her physical stats. From its previous six-fold boost, it now gave a comprehensive eight-fold boost to all physical stats, and the cooldown had gone down to six hours from the previous twelve. Now that he had an extremely deep bond with Gwen's entire body, he was able to comprehensively improve the ability instead of just improving the enhancement factor.
The other ability that came with this nervous system bond was ‹Overload›, and that one was pretty interesting. He'd been working on it for a while to make a comprehensive enhancement technique that would boost everything for a short period of time. While it worked on a similar principle as ‹Blood Berserker III›, ‹Overload› was qualitatively different. The former only improved the physique for a short period of time, but Overload directly boosted everything by a significant margin. Alex didn't yet have the numbers, but he expected at least a fivefold boost. For example, Gwen's Bioelectricity could potentially possess even greater potency than Thor's lightning under the overload state. Similarly, her Spider-Sense would also receive a far greater boost, almost giving her the equivalent of precognition for a short period of time with Overload.
This new ability tackled the issue of Alex being unable to directly enhance the abilities that his hosts possessed. Both his passive enhancement and abilities always affected the physique and rarely the actual abilities that his hosts possessed. The only way for him to actually enhance those abilities was by augmenting them with his own versions of such abilities. Such as augmenting Gwen's Bioelectricity with his Lightning Manipulation to achieve the overpowered effects.
As for his own improvements, they were mostly subtle enhancements to things he already had, with no qualitative leaps to speak of.
Alex directly transmitted information regarding the benefits to Gwen's brain, going beyond telepathy and approaching the depth of connection he had with his hosts in the ‹True Merge› state. Since he was literally bonded with her brain, such a trick was no longer complicated to perform.
"Okay, that was…" Gwen trailed off as she processed the information that Alex gave her. "…pretty cool, being able to transmit information so seamlessly is much more efficient than even telepathy."
"Come on, it's time we contacted the recruits that signed up over the winter break," he said.
"I have a morning class, Alex," Gwen said. "We'll do it after…
"Fine," he nodded. "Bend over first. It's going to be beads this time."
"Do you have to? Can't you just do the same for me like you did for those three? Having my ass trained is so much more embarrassing than just having anal sex," she said.
"That's what makes it enjoyable and meaningful," he said, stepping closer and extending his arm to her.
Gwen instinctively closed her eyes instead of looking at him, fully expecting him to play with the chain connecting her nipples instead.
Her expression left him speechless, and he yanked the chain with a scowl on his face.
"Ouch!" Gwen yelped and glared at him, putting both hands on her nipples with an aggrieved look on her face.
"Stop playing non-existent misunderstandings with me and turn around."
"Ugh, fine," she said. "I did think for a moment there that you would tug on the chain, you know."
"Whatever you say," Alex said, crossing his arms as Gwen turned around and raised her ass invitingly.
"You know, a polite boyfriend would at least give his lady some good dick before shoving random things up her ass," she said, only to be granted a spank on her ass that forced a cute squeak out of her mouth.
"I'm considering shoving my dick right up your ass right now," he said. Before Gwen could respond, he ripped away the black cover he'd left on her entrance the previous night and slowly pushed his dick inside her. At the same time, he formed a set of six anal beads in his hand, with each bead being a little smaller than a table tennis ball. As Gwen's moans filled the room, he didn't hesitate to push one of the beads inside her, surprising her enough that she let out a broken squeal mixed with the moans.
Gwen's arms soon gave out, and she pressed her face against the bed, loudly moaning with each thrust as Alex continued fucking her while slowly teasing her ass. By the time he pushed the third bead inside her, Gwen climaxed, letting out a high-pitched squeal of pleasure. All of a sudden, Alex abruptly felt an intense pleasure from his connection with her that brought his body much closer to his orgasm than he'd expected, making him raise a brow in surprise.
"So that's what your game was, huh?" He said, smirking as he spanked her ass, stirring the beads and earning him a loud moan.
"No cheating…" She said with a gasp. "You can't cheat~"
"Fine," he said, feeling his orgasm drawing closer. He suppressed the instinct to use biological manipulation to hold back his body from cumming and instead sped up his actions in shoving the beads inside Gwen's ass, drawing her even closer to her second orgasm. With Gwen using their connection to sync the pleasure she felt with him, it didn't take long before he was almost on the brink of his own orgasm. At the same time as he shoved the final bead inside her ass, Gwen's insides tightened again, signaling her second orgasm. Alex found it impossible to suppress his orgasm. Leaning forward, he grabbed her and pulled her into his arms, tightly hugging her and squeezing her breasts as he filled her insides.
"Kiss…" Gwen mumbled, turning her head as Alex fulfilled her desire, capturing her lips with his own as the two lovers rode their orgasms out slowly.
***
Time passed by like a blur for both Alex and Gwen.
The first six months since the establishment of the sorority were a sort of testing phase to see how feasible his idea even was. It also allowed him to iron out the minor issues in the rules and the whole sorority system that he was planning to utilize. Ultimately, while the sorority in Empire State University served as an enjoyable outlet for Alex to enjoy himself in debauchery, while also further corrupting Gwen, its main purpose had been to serve as a dry run for his investment in education and development of people to manage his assets in the future.
With the start of the new term, Alex rolled out a university talent development plan through the Gaia Relief Fund and Stacy Industries, sponsoring sororities in the top hundred universities in the world under their brand. The benefits that were provided by the two companies were enough to easily poach multiple people from the leadership of other societies in every university. The initial buzz brought them a large number of applications from all one hundred universities to select the four leaders of the new sororities. Every single one of them was interviewed by Alex under different guises to allow him to simultaneously interview almost ten thousand applicants within a few days. He used Gaia's immense processing capabilities to identify the best possible candidates for all four leadership positions among the hundred universities.
What followed was the formation of a tertiary bond with every applicant, giving him four hundred newly bonded hosts. Naturally, considering the tens of thousands of tertiary hosts he had in the farm, four hundred more didn't change anything. He also took the opportunity to introduce Gaia to them as an assistive General Artificial Intelligence that would soon be released by Stacy Industries for the masses. Hearing Gaia's capabilities, they were all doubtlessly excited beyond measure, despite being aware that they were under constant monitoring by an artificial intelligence. They understood both the benefits and the drawbacks of such an item. As for the addition of their chokers for the tertiary bonds, he told them that it was a special creation that couldn't be removed without explicit approval from him or Gaia, which would be provided once every term, during the change of leadership.
With that, his plans to invest in future talents had officially commenced. Eventually, he was planning to establish an entirely centralized education system to develop talents for the future, but that was still a few steps down the road, especially for this planet, since it wasn't completely under his dictatorial rule and still had enough entities to resist him.
With his current strength, he could easily take over the entire planet and set up the same system as the other three planets in Gaia, but he didn't want that. What he wanted was a future-proof society. A forceful dictatorship, no matter how glamorous, still had risks and resistance. Even if he killed off all superpowered individuals on the planet, new ones would rise up given enough time. A new species of mutants might even emerge, given enough time and oppression. Even now, there were a few ticking time bombs on this planet, like Jean Grey, who had a direct line to the Phoenix Force. Even if he killed everybody else, he had his doubts about being able to kill her.
Still, with a gentle and gradual approach, he was slowly taking control over the most fundamental aspects of this planet's civilization.
As another year passed by, Alex and Gwen were in their final year of university, and things had drastically changed.
Ever since Stacy Industries released Gaia Bracelets and their accompanying assistive general artificial intelligence in the form of Gaia, the things had spread through the world like wildfire. Almost every major institution voluntarily adopted it for its respective purposes. Within a year, it started to phase out smartphones, making most major manufacturers scramble in a bid to catch up. Unfortunately, even with the technology, they could never compare to the level that Gaia had reached in terms of helpfulness.
Unlike how Alex forcefully suppressed everything on the other three planets, he instead chose to acquire some of the major companies through Stacy Industries, allowing him to quickly scale up production. Within the year, smartphones were already starting to be phased out as more than half the population shifted to the superior and more affordable Gaia Bracelet within the first year of its launch. Another thing was that Alex didn't target the Telecom just yet and chose to make the Gaia Bracelets rely on their existing frameworks without taking them over. This significantly lowered the resistance from the existing major corporations.
Ultimately, although the gentle approach was slower to be implemented and required more effort as opposed to a direct forceful approach, it would be beneficial in the long run, as the new aspects of Alex's administrative system became commonplace for everyone.
The pervasive use of Gaia and Gaia Bracelets and the creation of a hundred sororities were far from being the only things that Alex had done in the past year and a half. The other thing came in the form of benefits for both the Mutants and the Inhumans.
For the former, he almost forcefully cut off all military funding that went into defending against them. The discrimination against the Mutants and their treatment as nothing more than dangerous weapons was almost as consistent as Spider-Man's miserable life when it came to the flow of the Marvel Multiverse. Alex directly took action against this and used Gaia's spread to his benefit in locating most research facilities that were working on dealing with Mutants while also cutting off all funding for them. Within a year, hundreds of mutants had joined Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in Gwen's reality, and the number was only increasing as time passed. Alex even set up a long-range detector to directly find mutants all over the world, increasing the influx of new talent even further.
That led to a hefty investment in the existing school so that it would be able to accommodate the tens of thousands of potential recruits that were projected to transfer there within the next five years. Alex also took the opportunity to give Emma Frost, his trusted representative among the Mutants, a controlling stake in the school, such that in matters between her and Xavier, she would be able to exercise her authority to make an executive decision as long as Gaia agreed—after all, Gaia was an extension of Alex's own will.
With that, one thing led to another, and he suddenly found out how it felt to fuck a diamond woman. Of course, to make it possible in the first place required some fine-tuning from his ‹Biological Manipulation›. But the result of that effort was more than worth it. The sensations that he felt were entirely unique and resulted in her staying with him for almost an entire week, being sustained by nothing more than his cum enriched with Bioenergy, truly experiencing the joy of submitting to her symbiotic overlord. With that, the state of her Tertiary Bond became the same as most of the experienced widows under Yelena, where Alex would regularly fuck her out of her mind at night to keep her pleased and obedient to his commands.
On the other side were the Inhumans, who were granted the status of an official country, with any Inhuman emerging anywhere in the world being treated as if having diplomatic immunity and being quickly sent to them. With Luna Maximoff serving as his representative among the Inhumans, her status was quickly raised to a princess position where she would be trained as the next Queen of the Inhumans after Blackbolt.
For the time being, the only issue was that he couldn't find any suitable person to serve as his representative among the Sorcerers. They were the only major organization that he planned to bring under his direct control, leaving the other groups to their own as they integrated with his administration system naturally. The Sorcerers were an integral part of his current system, where he had an administrator stationed in every country. They made all sorts of logistical issues seem entirely non-existent with their use of both temporary and permanent portals. For now, he planned to continue the status quo, directly working with Doctor Strange to get things done. When the man started growing a little older, he would find a suitable replacement to serve as the Sorcerer Supreme among the mutants who were more talented in the Mystic Arts.
While all these things were going on, Gwen seemed blissfully unaware of everything and simply enjoyed her time with Alex, doing all the things she wanted to with him. That included risque encounters all over the campus, classy dates and cheesy matching outfits, letting loose in special orgy parties with Alex at their sorority house, and a lot more. She made sure that she got the most out of her university experience.
By the time their final term commenced, the entire university's system seemed to have changed as they incorporated Gaia Bracelets almost everywhere. Let alone replacing phones, Gaia Bracelets seemed to have replaced almost all access and communication measures all over the university. Anything that depended on an ID card was now dependent on Gaia Bracelets. Even exams had become dependent on the use of Gaia Bracelets to monitor the students. Even further, almost everything seemed to be shifting to the use of Gaia Bracelets. There were even rumors that, in time, these bracelets would be used as government identification, replacing the existing means.
***
The final term quickly passed by as Alex and Gwen eventually graduated. With the relatively slow spread of Gaia's tech throughout the planet, it didn't particularly impact anything major, only slowly bringing about changes to the system a little faster than before.
After graduation, The Mary Janes—Gwen's band—went on a year-long tour throughout the world. With the promised support that Stacy Industries was going to provide all sorority members after graduation, they freely pursued their passions, relying entirely on the company's funding. Alex didn't mind, after all, that was what he'd promised.
He didn't bother to prolong the tertiary bonds with the three of them and instead let them continue their normal lives, instead of getting embroiled with him and Gwen. With the benefits they had received from that bond in three years, it was easy for them to live for a hundred years without any issues. The only graduates he did prolong those bonds with were those who joined his follow-up management training program that was hosted by Stacy Industries. Once those women completed training, they would serve as his representatives all over the planet, replacing the current hypnotized or imitated clones of people that Alex was currently using for most management work all over this planet and Gaia.
Considering their status and position, it was natural that they would need to have a tertiary bond with him to keep things going.
Moving back to Gwen and her friends, it was a difficult decision, but Gwen finally officially broke off from the band after their tour was over, leaving her three friends with no one to play the drums. Unfortunately, that was something necessary. Alex's following plans involved going off-world, and she didn't expect to see those three for another half a decade or maybe more. So it was easier to cut things off rather than keep them strung along. Especially considering that they would continue to have a normal life with no immortalization stuff from Alex's side.
With all that taken care of, Gwen ended up back in New York at her old apartment, eating dinner with her father and Alex.
"Are you sure you want to completely withdraw from the band, Gwenny?" George asked with concern.
"Yeah, don't worry, Dad, it's going to be fine," Gwen said. "I'm planning to go off-world with Alex."
"O-off-world?" The man choked when he heard her words.
"Yeah, remember what I told you about Stacy Industries pushing to go to one of the other Earths? I'm going to join the expedition with Alex."
"Are you sure it's safe?" George asked with a frown, looking at Alex before turning back to Gwen.
"Perfectly. There are zero dangers to speak of. The only issue is that I'm probably going to be gone for a long time. At least half a decade. Could be more depending on the situation there."
"Half a…" The man had his eyes wide open at her words. "By the time you return, you'll probably only find some bones."
"Decade," Gwen emphasized. "If you end up dead at fifty, then aging is definitely not the problem we need to tackle."
"You know what I mean," he said. "You never know what might happen. I'm not asking you to stay, but at least give your old man the joy of walking his daughter down the aisle…"
This time, Gwen was the one choking and coughing almost violently, resulting in Alex patting her back comfortingly, sporting a monk-like expression, as if he had no part in the discussion.
"That goes for you, too, son," George said, looking at Alex, narrowing his eyes at the half-hearted attempt not to get involved. "I would hope that after almost four years together, you'd be ready for something serious."
"Dad," Gwen spoke up before Alex could fan the flames any further. "I'm barely twenty-three, I don't need to get married so early, do I?"
"I'm just saying, you never know what the future holds. Your old man might even drop dead by the time you return. Life can be dangerous, you know."
Gwen, speechless, turned to Alex with a pleading look, making him smile amusedly as he looked at her father.
"Do you mind if we talk separately, sir?" He asked politely.
George narrowed his eyes at Alex before nodding as he stood up, followed by Alex as the two went onto the balcony, leaving Gwen alone as she looked at them with a concerned frown.
"Speak," George said. "What is it? If you aren't serious about Gwen—"
"Please, I'll stop you right there, sir. I am every bit as serious about Gwen as possible. When it comes to marriage, she's just a little queasy about all the formalities and things like that. We aren't even officially engaged, after all. I will marry your daughter, I promise you that…with your blessing, of course. I don't want to make Gwen sad by going against her father's wishes. But right now, neither of us is in the place that we want to be. I want to give Gwen the most grand wedding possible, one that stretches through the stars. For that, however, I need time."
"How long?" George said, crossing his arms. "I have no interest in having you string my daughter along with these grand visions that may not be fulfilled even in a century."
Alex sighed thoughtfully, looking at George with a serious look. "I'm going to tell you something. It's up to you how you perceive that, but it's true nevertheless."
George frowned, confused as he felt an ominous premonition.
"When Gwen said that she'll be gone for five years, that was only for you. For her, those five years are going to be the same as a few days."
"What do you mean?"
"Exactly that. See the red barrier in the sky? That serves as both a protection mechanism and a time dilation mechanic. Gwen won't even feel a month go by, while thirty years might pass by on this planet."
The man in front of Alex seemed outraged at first, believing it to be a trick, but Alex's serious expression forced him to keep his calm.
"I will marry Gwen. When she's twenty-eight. Within five years, you will be there to walk your daughter down the aisle."
"By your logic, in five years, more than a thousand and five hundred years would have passed by on this planet..."
"That's why I'm giving you two options," Alex said. "Gaia has an anti-aging serum, the real deal. It directly extends your life by one year, pausing your biological clock. I'll give you as many doses as needed to keep you in this same state for the next millennium and a half. Or, I can let you experience the equivalent of cryogenic freezing. When you wake up, it will be when Gwen returns to this planet and is ready to get married."
George sighed as he looked at the serious expression on Alex's face. He stepped to the side and sat on a chair, pulling Alex down to sit beside him.
"It doesn't work that way, son," he said. "Say I agree to the cryogenic freezing. My wife isn't alive anymore, and I don't plan to find someone else. Gwen is all I have in my life, and I wouldn't mind sleeping for a thousand years if that means I get to see her at her happiest. But what about her family? Her cousins, uncles, aunts, friends…everyone. Are you going to freeze them all? If not, who will she have attending the wedding from her family beyond me? Tell me, do you want that for her?"
The words made Alex pause for a moment.
"No…" he sighed. "I get what you mean, it's just…Man, it's going to delay so many things I had planned. Fine. I'll get rid of the time dilation on this planet. In five years, I'll marry Gwen. She gets a normal wedding with the interstellar flair that I want, and you get things on your timeline. Would that be fine?"
"Get rid of the time dilation, he says…" George said under his breath, shaking his head. "I won't question you too much, but I can only ask that you keep my daughter safe and sound."
"With my life," Alex said. "You don't know how much she means to me."
"Come on, let's go back. I won't mention anything about grandkids then, I guess…"
Alex froze as George chuckled and walked back inside the house.
The rest of dinner passed by without much incident as George refrained from mentioning anything regarding the things Alex had told him. He decided to trust the man that his daughter had chosen and have faith that he would keep his promise.
Once they were finished, Alex and Gwen stayed up watching a movie while George went to sleep despite Gwen's invitation to join them for a bit.
"Are you really going to stop dilating the time on this planet now?" Gwen asked. "I wouldn't be surprised if you ended up actually cryogenically freezing all my family."
One thing that came with the level seven bond was the seamless information transfer. Even as George was speaking to Alex, Gwen was aware of what the contents of the conversation were, down to what Alex was feeling in that moment. Of course, it wasn't a permanent thing, and Alex could control what she saw and felt, which prevented her from being overloaded by information that came from all of his different bodies.
"Yeah, it's fine," he said. "I'll have to modify certain plans I had, but it's nothing major. We can go meet Cindy tomorrow to finalize everything regarding your departure, and we'll leave tomorrow."
"You treat me so well," Gwen hugged him from the side. "At one word from my dad, you decided to change your plans regarding this entire planet. What will you do if I ask you to actually pluck a star or two from the sky for me?"
"Then I'll use the reality stone to compress the entire ball of flames into a tiny pendant and virtualize most of its mass to make it seem entirely normal," he said, slipping his arm under Gwen's shirt. "You would then be able to wear a star on this chain like a pendant."
Gwen blushed at his words, biting her lower lip as she felt him playing with the chain on her chest.
"You can't keep things strictly romantic without adding your perverted flair to them, can you?" She complained, shifting her position to straddle Alex, blocking his view of the TV.
"Never," he said, pulling off her top and capturing her lips in a passionate kiss.
***
The next day, Alex and Gwen were sitting in Cindy's office to discuss their departure.
Early in the morning, the sun shone through the top-floor corner office of Stacy Industries' skyscraper, which was tall enough to rival the Stark Tower. Inside the office, the official owner of the company stood in the center, with her hands held behind her head, without a scrap of clothing on her, as she faced her master and mistress. All she had on her body was her permanent choker that served as the symbol of her tertiary bond with Alex, and a three-part chain that connected her three piercings.
"You really don't have to do that every time we come by, Cindy," Gwen said with a sigh. "Displaying yourself in the middle of your office like this…"
"Nonsense," Alex interjected, stepping closer to Cindy. "This is how my beautiful slave expresses her obedience to us. To do this takes courage, and your words are equivalent to spitting on that courage. I'm very pleased by the fact that Cindy knows that she is to express her submission whenever we have official meetings. Good work, honey. You've made me very happy with your actions."
Cindy blushed and looked down with an embarrassed smile on her face. "Thank you, master…"
She almost shivered when Alex's hand came to her head, and his fingers ran through her long, silky hair. "Lower your hands," he said calmly. "Behind your back."
A black leather armband appeared on her arms as she lowered them, pulling them together such that they were held together in parallel.
"Good girl," he praised, lowering his hand and grabbing the chain hanging over her stomach. "Come on."
As her nipples and clit were tugged, Cindy suppressed her hiss and quickly walked behind Alex as he brought her to the couch and sat down, leading her down by the chain to kneel in front of him with the perfect posture, slightly pushing her chest and ass out while also making sure to keep her spine straight and her palms flat on her thighs that were spread apart.
Gwen was left standing at the door, speechless at the display, especially the plug inside Cindy's ass that became visible after she turned around.
"Good girl," Alex patted Cindy's head. "Come on, Gwen. This is how I am. I thought that two and a half years of seeing your friends submit to me would have gotten you used to such displays."
"This is a completely different situation. That was a booze-riddled time where everyone had their inhibitions lowered to the extreme…" Gwen said, pouting as she came up to the couch and sat down at some distance from Alex and Cindy.
Alex shook his head and turned back to Cindy, who had her eyes lowered to the floor.
"Come closer," he said, tugging her chain, making her wince as she moved closer to him and rested her head on his thigh under his guidance. "Gwen and I are going off-world for a while, okay? That leaves you completely in charge of everything in my absence. I will still be available to talk to you, but there will be no public appearances from my side for the next year at least. Maybe more depending on the situation."
She nodded understandingly. "Are you going to leave things here to me, master?"
"Yeah," Alex nodded. "From now on, you will be the highest authority here. You will have a greater authority with Gaia as well, which should allow you to issue commands to my tertiary hosts. Of course, I will still be available to you at all times. You can ask me if you are ever confused. But I won't be as present anymore as I am right now."
"I understand, master," she nodded.
"Since I won't be gone for too long, you don't need to worry about too many things; I only need you to make sure that the things that I have started here keep going at the same pace. You may need to deal with a hiccup or two, but that shouldn't be too difficult."
"Got it," Cindy nodded, suddenly biting her lower lip and looking down. Alex was still playing with her chain, constantly sending jolts of pleasure through her body, making it harder for her to focus as time went on.
"Good. Let's get to the fun part…"
Not giving Cindy any chance to respond, he grabbed her by her hair and pulled her up, pressing her face against the couch as she barely stood up on her legs.
Gwen looked speechless at the scene of Alex discarding the anal plug at the side and replacing it with his cock, fucking Cindy's ass right in front of her.
…
"All right, time to go," Alex said as he stood up, approaching the coat hanger. Cindy was powerlessly lying on the couch with her limbs splayed as a shiny new plug took its place inside her ass. "What?" He asked Gwen, who was silently looking at him with her arms crossed.
She narrowed her eyes at his nonchalant demeanor, observing him with a scrutinizing gaze as he put his blazer on. "I know what you're doing."
"Is it working?" He asked.
"What do you think?"
"I think you're desperately trying to make sure that it doesn't work," he said. "I'm not exactly sure what you want, but I'm sure that you are more than interested in anal by now. The only reason that I can think of for your refusal is that you want to maintain a sense of novelty in our relationship, where I have an unprecedentedly intimate connection with every single cell in your body."
"Let's go," she said, standing up without addressing his words. "I'm still not ready for anal. Let's just leave it at that. You can keep trying to entice me, but I'm not ready yet."
"Worth a try," he shrugged. "Plus, it really was a reward for Cindy. She's a lot tighter when she knows that you're watching. It makes her enjoy everything much more."
"A stalkerish obsession can do that to a person," Gwen said, glancing back at the woman in question. "I think she's long redeemed herself and then some, considering everything you put her through."
"Nonsense. She loves everything…most of everything," Alex said. "Doesn't matter, let's go."
Alex formed a mystic arts portal in front of Gwen.
"Can you already form mystic arts portals across such a distance?" Gwen looked surprised. "I totally thought we would be going there through the ‹Inventory›.
"It's fine," he said. "While it's not as efficient and requires a lot more energy, this is the better method."
"Why?" Gwen asked, frowning. "Is there something in your soul that you don't want to show me? Why don't you want me to enter your soul?"
"Damn your spider sense and this level seven bond," Alex cursed. "Why do you think? Because I'm not sure how you might react when inside my soul. Our bond is deep enough that any kind of interaction on the level of the soul is very effective. If you go inside, it might take me a lot of effort to get you out."
"Do you take me for someone with such low self-control? I've resisted your advances on my ass for over four years now."
"Humor me," Alex said flatly.
"All right," Gwen sighed, stepping forward, followed by Alex as the two went through the portal, their presences completely disappearing from Gwen's Earth along with the portal.
The moment they emerged, a massive shockwave struck Gwen, followed by the sound of such a loud blast that she felt as if her eardrums were about to rupture. Immediately, Gwen's Spider-Sense flared with the threat of death, and she instinctively grabbed Alex and overcharged herself with bioelectricity. With a burst of blue, she shot backward, dragging Alex with her. At the same time, a thick orange laser fell down on their previous position, releasing enough heat to make even her sweat despite her physique.
"What the hell!" Gwen screamed at Alex, preparing to jump again as the laser blast continued following them.
Alex stopped her, and a translucent barrier with a hint of red appeared around them, forming into a dome shape.
"Alex, where are we?" Gwen asked with wide eyes, looking around at the constant bombs and lasers being released by all sorts of different vehicles flying in the air.
"This is Zephyros, the fifth planet in the Sovereign belt of nine planets. The sixth to the ninth have already been destroyed in the initial attack of the High Evolutionary, and the remaining planets, aside from Sovereign Prime, have all become front-line battlefields that are protecting their home base. Our current mission is to kill the High Commander up there in the Mothership. He's the one leading the assault on this planet."
Looking up, Gwen saw a massive aircraft that could easily be equated to the size of a mountain. It directly blotted out a significant part of the sky.
"Alex… could you not have given me a heads-up? I thought we were first going to meet that golden-skinned queen that you've been fucking."
"I want to test the limits of the enhancement that the level seven bond provides you, and especially the new ability that I came up with to enhance your powers. This takes precedence."
"God damn…" Gwen took a breath and got her game face on. At the same time, Alex melted into black slime that wrapped around Gwen, forming her black-themed spider-suit.
Gwen's figure stayed just as slender as usual, but a black and red suit covered her entire body from head to toe, raising her height by almost two feet, with the seam of her hood forming white teeth and the red color on the inside. At the same time, she felt her consciousness both blur and get amplified at the same time. Her sense of self grew muddy as she felt Alex's soul far more intimately intertwined with her than usual. As the reds of her suit gained a glowing hue and her eyes turned blue with bolts of lightning streaking through them, she felt herself becoming one with Alex.
At the same time, the moment the two of them appeared from the portal, the commander on the mothership was alerted.
The creature stood tall, at almost three meters high. It had a humanoid figure, but in place of its head was an octopus with eight large tentacles coming out of its head, inserted into eight individual terminals, made uniquely to work with the nature of the tentacles. Its two arms were working on a more traditional terminal, with a screen that it observed with its eyes. The creature was showcasing the limits of parallel processing by handling multiple completely different tasks simultaneously, without even needing a crew to help him command the battlefield. This was Alex's current target. One of the High Evolutionary's Commanders. The Harbinger.
This commander was the one who immediately shot down a laser at Gwen and Alex when they emerged, identifying them as reinforcements emerging from a spatial transportation method. That initial instinct to immediately attack was correct, but unfortunately, such weak firepower couldn't even make Alex flinch, even if it directly struck him.
It didn't show any outward response to the view of Gwen and Alex merging, but a somberness appeared in its beady eyes. At the same time, red words appeared on the terminal screen.
[Predatory Clades: Deploying…]
Back on the surface of the planet, Apex stood tall, looking at the sky as small ships flew all around. The ones on Sovereign's side were all gold, made for remote piloting with a consistent drone-like design throughout the fleet. On the other side, the Harbinger's ships were all varied in design, with all sorts of different creatures piloting them—the only common point between them was the OrgoCopr logo on their hulls. Looking closer, the fleet was being piloted by all sorts of creatures, humanoid or otherwise, all attacking the Sovereign's ships. There was a clear disparity between the two sides, with the fleet of the High Evolutionary constantly pushing back the Sovereign's defensive line.
More lasers shot out from the Mothership, aiming for Apex, but this time, they moved instantly, dodging the beam of red light and leaving a shockwave that cracked the ground. With arcs of electricity illuminating their path, Apex appeared on top of a ship and cleaved it in half with a wave of its arm that transformed into a sword. They also released ten thick bolts of lightning that accurately weaved between the ships of the Sovereign and struck ten other OrgoCorp ships, destroying their thrusters and electrical systems.
Leaping higher, Apex appeared on top of another OrgoCorp ship and released a crimson wave that warped reality itself and started melting the ships around him. Stabbing a spiked tentacle through the cockpit of the ship, Apex jumped off to another higher ship. As they continued their ascent toward the mothership without flying up directly to provide some support to the battlefield, a large hatch opened up on the bottom of the mothership, releasing large warheads that shot toward the surface of the planet. Apex didn't do anything and continued on its ascent as the forces of the sovereign released their defensive measures, shooting the warheads out of the sky with their ground turrets.
The immediate explosions destroyed a massive chunk of both fleets while also releasing a potent green gas that quickly started spreading through the atmosphere of the planet.
Apex noticed it and snarled, immediately calling upon the authority of the Reality Stone to prevent it, but paused before doing any of that and released a potent wave of Chaos Energy that permeated through their surroundings.
Why?
Gwen's consciousness was unhappy. Instead of using the Reality Stone, they went with the slower option that needlessly caused some of the gases to escape into the atmosphere.
Can't use the stones just yet.
The answer didn't particularly satisfy her, but she trusted Alex enough to know that he wouldn't needlessly hold himself back from using his full power without a valid reason.
Apex continued the ascent, and a massive dinosaur-esque machine got in their way. Its maw opened wide, and it released an intense sound wave that distorted the air itself in front of it and struck Apex head-on.
"What? Did you think sound was my weakness?" Apex's demonic voice had a hint of femininity to it, but it seemed to shake the mechanical entity in front of it into intensifying its efforts, directly causing smoke to rise from inside its maw as it overclocked the emitter. Completely unaffected, Apex wrapped a thick tentacle around the creature and crushed it into a pile of debris while using the flying creature's remaining momentum to thrust themselves upward, destroying any OrgoCorp ships that were encountered on the way and using them to propel themselves further higher.
As they drew closer to the mothership, more of those creatures started appearing in their path, releasing the same kind of attack in an attempt to probe. Of course, the sonic attacks did nothing more than mildly annoy them.
Suddenly, barely a few miles from the main ship, exactly a hundred glowing orbs appeared out of nowhere, surrounding Apex's slender figure. Feeling the presence of magic within them, Apex's white eyes under the hood narrowed, and they cast a Chaos Magic spell.
Feeling the drain on their Chaos Energy reserves without anything happening to the giant floating orbs, Apex smiled predatorily as their ascent weakened and, under the effects of gravity, they started falling. There were no other ships around them aside from the orbs.
A pair of black draconic wings emerged from their back, with lightning coursing through them and lighting up the sky as they floated in the center, surrounded by the orbs that were still sucking away their Chaos Energy.
"Our power comes from the Source of Chaos itself; your measly efforts are pulling drops from an ocean."
Their announcement was followed by a hundred tentacles bursting out simultaneously, intent on piercing through the hundred floating orbs. Before the tentacles reached them, the orbs teleported around, dodging every single one of the tentacles and spreading around to surround Apex further.
Gwen's side was once again tempted to pull upon the authority of the stones when the orbs dodged the attack, but Alex once again refused, continuing to shoot tentacles around as the orbs continued teleporting each time—their reaction time faster than even Apex's speed, which was a testament to the complexity and level of technology behind their creation.
Soon, the orbs had formed a sphere surrounding Apex, cutting them off from all directions. Every time they tried to get out of the encirclement, the sphere simply moved around, continuing to siphon their Chaos Energy to sustain the consumption.
Far from being annoyed, Apex crackled with mad laughter, seeming incredibly amused by the situation as they gathered lightning in the clouds.
"Let's try this on for size," they said, only for hundreds of bolts of lightning to strike down from the sky, completely enveloping the orbs in a blinding white glow for a moment. The discharge from the clouds overcharged the red lightning coursing through Apex's suit, intensifying it enough to sear one's eyes if one looked for too long. Unfortunately, the orbs seemed truly resilient to any form of energy-based attacks, going so far as to absorb even the lightning to power themselves.
Feeling mildly annoyed at the drones' resilience, Apex stopped playing around and disappeared. This wasn't Gwen's old camouflage ability that had been enhanced by Chaos Magic, no. It was something far stronger.
‹Intangibility›:: Going beyond just camouflage, manipulate the frequency at which one's molecules operate to become truly invisible and intangible. Requires Level 7 Bond.
This was Susan's ability to manipulate the frequency of her body using ambient cosmic energy, and Alex's undeniably superior biological control and processing power, allowing him to take her invisibility to the extreme. Since Gwen already possessed her own Camouflage ability, he was able to piggyback on it to create something far improved. The only limitation was that he had to be completely bonded with the host's body to use this ability to its full potential, since intangibility required him to have control of every single cell of the host's body. Luckily, he'd recently formed the level seven bond with Gwen.
After disappearing, that wasn't all Apex did; they called upon another of Susan's abilities. ‹Psionics Manifestation›. As the spheres completely lost their source of energy and started looking around, one of them exploded out of nowhere. Starting with the first, a cascading effect emerged as more and more of the floating spheres were destroyed without the slightest resistance. They couldn't detect anything, even until the point of being destroyed completely. Within seconds, the battlefield was clear, and Apex reappeared, looking up at the mothership with a sense of hunger as the wings on their back flapped, drawing them closer to their destination.
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