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–Whack–
"Aura? What are you doing? Get your head in the game." Thor was puzzled. Since Eden's arrival Aurora has been, from what he can tell, purposely making mistakes in training and complying with her punishments.
The silly smile and flushed cheeks afterwards made it click for him. At first he thought that Aurora and Alter had switched for the punishment as he knew of Alter's degeneracy, but he could tell it was Aurora clear as day.
'Does she feel threatened?' On the day of Su and Eden's return it came out that Thor was Eden's teacher and had been teaching her for a while prior to the eruption.
Yeah it shocked them, Kevin also only just realised that it was Eden who was there, he was too invested in Thighland at the time to notice. The moment he did, it was like a flip was switched, from exhausted and relaxing to hyperactive fanboy.
Aurora looked up at Thor eyes eager for a rewa–punishment. Punishment.
'I should consult Elysia about this.' A harem or him having multiple partners in general wasn't something he really put any thought into. In the past it was more, get stronger, fight, train, protect and spend time with family, get stronger, repeat.
Right now however, since he came to this world, it's been pretty chill, he can definitely see enemies being as strong if not stronger than some of those eldritch beings, but not for a while at least.
So in time, he and Elysia became a thing. Thor knew Elysia was trying to play matchmaker between him and Vill. The amount of 'I've got a patrol to do' or 'Moby-Chan has a session arranged for me' she has used as an excuse only when it was him, Vill and Elysia would make anyone suspicious.
'Fuck it. I'll talk to Elysia, then go from there. However, right now I have a "Punishment" to dish out.' As he wandered towards her Aurora gulped, her throat ran dry, eyes glistening.
That day rumors started spreading on whether the training grounds were haunted with all of the moans coming from there.
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"Haaa~ ohh~ ahhh~" Himeko was in heaven, she had just finished all her current paperwork for the move of institute 1 to Shenzhou and was now receiving bliss from those hands.
"Uhh, Hime. You good? Your moans are a bit… erotic to say the least." Thor wasn't complaining, to have a beautiful woman writhing like this under his touch, would feed one's ego.
Hearing no reply he looks down at her face. Almost as red as her hair, she was looking around erratically, her lips parting for a second before closing again.
'She didn't even realise, did she?' He gave a warm smile to that. He then gave a cheeky smile before resuming her massage, but not before putting a sound isolation barrier around the room, the rumors from Aurora's punishment were a reminder to him.
"Ahhhh~ T-Th– Ohhh~ R-right Mmmm~ T-t-there."
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"Are you sure about this?" Mei's hand was hovering over a panel. She stared at Thor in the open pod shirtless, waiting for the procedure to start.
"Mei…" Kevin held her shoulder from behind, nearly everyone was here for this. The only exception being Eden, Himeko and Su, who was meant to be here for the procedure but something about some orphanage he oversaw kept him away. Nevermind that even little Hua was here to watch.
"I know! I know Kevin, but what if it doesn't work. What happened with Aurora's sword could be a one off. What if–" A voice called out to her mid–sentence
"Mei! Calm down, I'll be fine. We did the calculations, you even made sure to look them over for days before allowing this." Thor, from inside the pod, gave Mei a casual smile and 'ok'.
He trusted her. He trusted her abilities, and most of all her judgement. At first Mobius was impatient and frustrated with Mei's over the top safety here. Mei's rebuttal? "Look at what happened to you, when you disregarded safety measures, an incomplete fusion." That got Mobius to back off and even reflect a little.
She didn't apologise obviously, but she was more lenient with Mei from then on.
"Arggh, Just move, I'll do it." Mobius pushed Mei away and glanced at Thor, both nodding before she pushed the button.
The pod's door sealed, fluid started to fill the pod, mechanical limbs attached to tubes filled with soulium with needles lined up around him.
The green-haired scientist licked her lips. 'This will be the moment.' Her hand was shaking just above the final push.
The shaking stopped and she pushed it. Instantly the needles slowly pierced what was normally impossible. Thor watched in blanket curiosity, he didn't feel anything as he dampened his pain receptors sensitivity.
Watching the monitor the spectators saw his vitals being stable. Next the Soulium filled tubes began to decrease, the needles began injecting him with soulium all over.
'F–fuck t–that hurts… A lot.' He could feel it, even with the dampening, his body was changing, still human, but something different now. His bones were destroyed and replaced with soulium, his cells integrated with Soulium, his blood would no longer be just red and white, it now is predominantly gold with only hints of red and white mixed within.
It burned, it stabbed, it was as if something was ripping him apart from the inside out.
Outside of the pod Mobius watched, she watched his face, his body, his movements and everything.
Klein was monitoring his vitals and while they elevated a little, it was nothing to cause concern.
Mei however began to worry the moment she saw his face contort slightly in pain, his brows furrowed, his fist clenched.
Seconds turned into minutes and minutes into hours. Everyone else had left, seeing he was holding steady as many had their own commitments they needed to deal with, leaving just Mobius, Klein and Mei.
–Beep–
The procedure had finished, Thor's vitals were lower than normal, just right however for someone sleeping.
The pod had gone a murky black in that time.
Mobius tapped on the console a few times, then the pod's murky black liquid started to drain.
Once the liquid drained Thor was revealed. He looked a little bigger than normal, his arms seemed a fraction thicker. He even looked a little taller than before.
Mobius scanned his body over, once the results popped up she smirked looking at a certain part, 'Elysia will enjoy that.' Other than some minor changes he looked normal from the outside, inside however she won't know until he tells them.
"Uggghh." Thor stirred, his eyelids fluttering.
"Ouch, fuck that was a bitch" He disconnected himself from the platform. Stepping out of the pod his foot sunk into the ground. "Hmmm? I'm heavier."
He went to use a rune to make himself lighter, but then he froze.
He felt it. Something he has been trying to access for months.
Honkai Energy.
A quiet chuckle slipped out. He ignored it for now and would investigate it after checking his body. For now he made himself lighter.
"Dr/Thor?" The 3 called out to him at once.
His eyes darted to them and saw something he didn't expect.
He could see everything, anything from x-raying through their clothes down to the atoms that made them up. His head snapped to the side looking away from Mei. He remembers the bro code, it would be rude to look at Mei with his current vision.
Funny how he didn't mention Mobius or Klein in that.
"Thor?" A question mark appeared above Mei's head. Why did he look away after seeing her? She turned to the mirror next to her and saw nothing wrong with her looks – her hair was fine, clothes, face, nothing was wrong from what she saw.
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"Y-you can do that?!" Mei covered her body with her arms. Thor had just told them why he looked away and then it clicked.
Mei turned red. He saw her. While she was embarrassed she got over it quickly enough.
Mobius didn't care, Klein… She didn't even see the problem with it.
"What else has changed?" Notebook in hand, almost salivating Mobius gazed upon Thor as if he was a God.
"Well, my body is denser now, if it wasn't for the rune I have active, I would sink into the floor."
Mobius's eyes glistened, processing everything she could.
"Also I can do this now–" He raised his hand.
A purple orb appeared, causing all 3 of them to go wide eyed, even Klein sprang to life.
"W-was that."
"Honkai energy? Yep. Seems I have gained access to it through the soulium. Even now I'm constantly absorbing and pulling Honkai energy. Strangely it's like that of a herrscher just without the eruption part, as I can control the output fully. For now at least.
"Not ominous at all Thor." Mei deadpanned at the last bit.
"Hahaha, maybe, but it's the truth, Even now I've got more Honkai than Elysia and it's only been 20 minutes, do I have a limit I hope so, I'd rather not burst like a balloon, haha" He chuckled at the morbid thought. The other 3 agreed.
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A/N:
I've only realised now. I hate editing, I haven't edited a chapter before posting since chapter 13. I'm too lazy and its boring to.
Ciao
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