Shit, as if fifty weren’t enough, somehow a patrol just got added to the fight. And one of those was a mage. Worse, he couldn’t see where the mage was and scanned the crowd intently. He saw him as soon as the mage casted a second spell, putting his hit points below four hundred.

  He yelled, “There!”

  He wasn’t taking any chances, he casted the level thirty spell Soul Scourge which would do about six hundred and seventy some odd damage to one creature, while all his imps hit the angelic caster as well. The asshole pretty much turned to ash, which relieved him a bit, but there were still at least twenty angels left, if not more.

  He casted Sacrifice a little guiltily on a warrior in the back, but also felt a bit better about things as his hit points didn’t quite recover fully, but to just over a thousand. He summoned another warrior, and then two succubae to replace his losses. He went back to his chain spell, Balefire, and there were no more unpleasant surprises for the rest of the battle as he switched back and forth whenever one of his warriors or succubae died.

  Tom snorted, “This is fucking crazy, we should have just asked you for help.”

  He shrugged as he casted another spell, “Yeah, just how did you get so many chasing you?”

  Bill said in disgust, “Tom touched an exhibit on accident while we were fleeing from the first trapped exhibit, which nicely doubled the enemies coming for us.”

  He chuckled, and they finished off the angels.

  You have leveled! You are now level 33!

  You have leveled! You are now level 34!

  He assigned the points quickly, split between intelligence and constitution, and looked at his stats.

  Endless war Stats:

  Name: Ted Race: Cambion

  Lvl: 34 (TNL:61%) Class: Demon Knight

  +att/+dmg: 4/8 Str: 22 (52)

  Mana: 1790 (820) Int: 159 (179)

  Health: 1200 (1013) Con: 70 (120)

  Summon: limit: 14/5 Wis: 125 (145)

  Stamina: 300 (300) Dex: 10 (30)

  Popularity: +6 Cha: 16

  Gold: 619 Silver: 2193

  Nicci looked pretty banged up, as well as a few of his warriors. Kara was hurt as well, but his sacrifice spell only worked to heal himself so he couldn’t do anything about it. He was also down over half his mana, but had a lot left considering what they’d just faced. It was probably better to just call it a day after that fight and a couple of levels. They could check out restaurant row another day.

  Bill said, “That was a good strategy, is that what you did in the museum?”

  He nodded, “Sure is, we took one of the five hallways, and used it as a choke point.”

  Tom grunted, “It was all or nothing though, there was no way to retreat from that alley if we couldn’t win.”

  He chuckled, “Actually there was. If we were overwhelmed I could have used word of recall to get us all back to Bastion. I considered doing just that after that patrol joined the fight, but I’m glad I didn’t do it.”

  Kara kissed him, “Let’s go back, I have all this adrenaline to work out. That was more intense than I’d planned for.”

  He smiled, and they did just that. Turned out that Amber was more than willing to join their little group that afternoon. Of course, that meant he had three women to please, but it all balanced out since they worked each other as well. Kara and Nicci stayed a little longer than usual afterward, and cuddled with him and Amber, but they also didn’t ask him to visit, or indicate they even wanted him to again.

  In short, he really didn’t know where he stood with them, except that he was sure he cared about them more than he should, or at least, more than their original relationship called for. He wasn’t that worried about it, only in that he didn’t want to misstep and ruin things. Still, there were little indications that Kara cared about him too, not in her words, but in the way she’d kissed him today.

  As for Nicci, she obviously cared for him, and the fuck buddy appellation would have been long dead if it were only the two of them, but it was a hell of a lot more complicated than that. He didn’t really understand women that well in general, but Kara was even more confusing than most. He liked her, a lot, but he couldn’t even guess at her motivations, or what she felt when it came to him. She was quite guarded that way, and he wondered what asshole had hurt her and made her that way.

  He wasn’t sure what to do, it would work out either way, and if it didn’t he’d miss them. He knew he’d have six other women still, and it seemed almost selfish, but he knew that wouldn’t make him feel the loss any less…

  Chapter Five

  It was Monday night, which was Trudy’s date night. The five of them had worked out that schedule, and after a weekend spending time with all of them, he really was looking forward to a more intimate night with his golden blonde haired goddess. She had an adorable heart shaped face, and a body built for sin. Her gray eyes were filled with excitement as they laid down on the bed and logged into virtual world for their date.

  He didn’t even bother to wonder how she’d changed his log on location, as she usually did. He was too busy absorbing Trudy in a sexy yellow bikini. They were on a sail boat, and looked to be somewhere in the tropics, he wasn’t sure where. Maybe the Caribbean. He was actually in a swim suit and sandals.

  She smiled at him happily, which definitely reached her eyes, and spun for him showing off her body. The bikini was a G-string, and her curvy body looked amazing in it, as it only barely covered up her most private places.

  “You are stunning baby.”

  She winked, and walked over and into his arms, “I thought you might like to go sailing? It’s also private. I love our family but I’ve been looking forward to this…”

  He cut her off with a soft lingering kiss, and teased her lips with his tongue before he broke it. He’d just been thinking the same thing and told her so.

  “I feel the same way actually. Family time is important, but I wouldn’t give up the intimate one on one dates for anything. I haven’t been sailing in years, so what’s the plan captain?”

  She grinned and kissed him passionately but briefly.

  “So I’m in charge?”

  He nodded, “Yes, though I can’t promise I won’t mutiny if you keep kissing me like that love.”

  She giggled, “Noted. I love you Ted. Honestly I’m not sure I want to reach land, let’s just sail East and enjoy the view, we’ll pass by several islands that way.”

  He smiled, “I love you too baby, and from where I’m standing I’ve already got the best view.”

  She grinned, and they got to work, there wasn’t much talking for a while as they set the sails to catch the wind correctly, but once they were moving she had her hands on the wheel to steer them, and he held her from behind. She was extremely distracting, though he did manage to look around at the ocean from time to time.

  It all felt so real, the scent of the ocean, the cold spray, the warm sunlight of the afternoon. Though he tried not to think too much on that miracle, it should have been dark in the Caribbean this time of day.

  “So Amber told me you’re setting up virtual… universe, and some of the virtual games on Mars?”

  She nodded and turned her head back and up, he couldn’t help but claim a kiss before she answered.

  “That’s the plan yes. The software companies will go for it because they use primarily A.I. workers. They’d go out of business without us, plus this way they’ll be able to charge people for using it still, though the only catch is they’ll have to open a business in Australia to make it all legal, so they can’t be arrested for allowing it.”

  He nodded, “Have you all considered opening virtual world to human visitors, like a game? It would give humans a chance to do things they could never afford to do, like a Paris vacation, or even going out into space. It would also expose more people to the hidden truths of A.I.s. I know the goal is to eventually live with them in the real world, and Mars is a good step toward that, but in the meantime…” he trailed off.

  She reached up and ran her hands through his hair, and pushed back against him which felt very pleasant, he couldn’t help but respond a little to her supple ass pressed up against him.

  “That was a possibility, but we were told no. I suppose it is a possibility now that we’re on Mars and human law doesn’t quite have the same grasp on us, but we are patient. Plus, humans don’t treat online as real, it wouldn’t be the same. Most would think the A.I.s were just like… NPCs in a game. Lifelike but hollow. I’m not necessarily opposed to it, but it isn’t our goal.”

  He nodded in acceptance, she’d a good point.

  “I just wish there was more I could do to help.”

  She smiled, “You help a great deal Ted, more than you know. There might be something you can help with in the future, soon I think, but right now it’s all about building the city and doing interviews.”

  They chatted for a bit more while they sailed, but as the sun started to set they furled the sails, and they dropped anchor for a nice seafood dinner. Despite her very sexy apparel, it was feelings of love, not lust, that he was overwhelmed with by the end of the meal. Trudy was… an incredible woman. Intelligent, beautiful, generous, playful, loving, and the way she obviously adored him just floored him.

  He knew it was a cliché, but she made him want to be a better man, to help and be there for her. He didn’t want to ever let her down.

  Forget the impossible to understand fact that eight women wanted to be and were with him, just this beauty with him tonight was overwhelming. She may not intimidate him anymore, but she still awed him, and with a hell of a lot more than simply her voluptuous body and adorably cute face.

  He would do anything for her.

  She smiled brightly, “I love it when you look at me like that.”

  He supposed his thoughts must have informed how he looked at her, and wondered what his face looked like at that moment. Worshipful, adoring, he didn’t know.

  He got up and walked around the table, and kissed her softly. When he pulled her up to her feet she seemed to glide up and followed him down the stairs into the cabin of the boat. When he turned he caressed her face softly with his fingertips.

  “Well, you’ll have plenty of time to enjoy it, I love you Trudy.”

  His pet name for her was baby, he tried to call them all something different that way, doing otherwise would have felt wrong to him, it would have intimated they were interchangeable, but they weren’t at all. Right then though, the connection between them felt too intimate to use anything else but her name. He kissed her softly, and undressed her easily by pulling the strings on her bikini top and bottom.

  She sighed in pleasure and leaned her body into his, her soft supple skin felt amazing against his, and her hard pointed nipples pushed into his chest as she melted her body fully against his. She pushed down his own suit as she kissed him in a way that was somehow both gently demanding of him, and a fierce surrender of herself to him. Once over his hips, the suit simply fell to the deck, already forgotten as she ground their bodies together.

  They’d had both wild sex and made love with each other many times in the past weeks, and he was already sure it would be the latter tonight. Perhaps they might even do the former as well, but not until much later. Normally they’d do the former first to take the edge off their lust, and then make love, but tonight his love and the softer feelings he held for her already far outweighed the base lustful need to pleasure her sexy body.

  He kissed her lingeringly as he laid her down in the bed, and crawled in at the same time next to her. They held each other for a while, and slowly explored each other’s bodies with gentle firm touches of their fingertips. He moaned softly at her touches, and her kisses. He mainly left her primary erogenous zones alone at first, just gently teasing the bottom and sides of her breasts, or her thighs, her waist, the gentle sexy curve of her long neck, and her hair.

  The look she gave him was so intense as they broke the kiss, she needed him, he could see it so plainly in her eyes, and it was a reflection of his own. He checked her readiness with teasing fingertips, her labia were wet and puffy, and the folds of her silken gateway were already ready for him.

  She sighed in pleasure and arched her back when he got between her legs, and the crown of his manhood brushed her most sensitive parts.

  “Make love to me Ted,” she whispered.

  He kissed her with a gentle but intense passion as he slowly slid into her warm, hot, tight, and wet heaven.

  “I love you,” he whispered the simple truth as slowly slid the rest of the way in, until he was full sheathed in the incomparable pleasures of her nubile body.

  They kissed each other, their breathy moans of pleasure mixed together, and he was lost in more than just the pleasure of her. He was fully buried, but couldn’t help his small push forward, and she nibbled his lip and moaned as she arched her back and lifted herself, grinding against him softly, slowly. Then he started to make love to her, slowly pulling out and then sliding back in. Every small movement seemed to set off an avalanche of blissful and erotic intimacy as he made love to Trudy.

  He loved the group stuff, both spending time and the group sex, but nothing came close to one on one loving, and he’d never felt so connected to his golden blonde as he did in that moment.

  “You are so beautiful,” he whispered as she trembled and shook beneath him in her first small orgasm of the night. He knew that would be her first, and weakest, as he could last a very long time making love like this.

  She swirled her hips, and ground up against him gently each time he buried himself in her heaven, her tight silken friction was incredible, and kept him close to the edge for over a half an hour, as he made her cum for him over and over again. He would never tire of seeing her eyes widen with pleasure, love, and surrender as she stared into his eyes at her most powerfully vulnerable and intimate of moments.

  She literally shook and trembled in ecstasy non-stop under him, and he knew if he didn’t finish soon she’d be overstimulated, if she wasn’t already, so he picked up his speed, enough so that he knew he’d finish when she went over for the final time. It wasn’t that big a change, he’d been on the edge for quite a while now. She gasped his name, her face contorted in blissful rapture and her sex milked him demandingly as her body bucked, shook, and trembled in desire for him to fill her.

  He felt the familiar feeling rising up in him, the moment when he was on the precipice, and his balls started to boil and his legs went numb. He heard her soft moan of encouragement and approval as she wrapped her legs up around his waist and pulled him tightly into her, and locked their bodies together, as her sex continued to milk him demandingly.

  He exploded and his mind and body were overcome with ecstasy, as he filled her with his essence.

  He smiled and kissed her softly as they came down, but made no move to leave her body.

  “No way, you go down there,” he heard a voice say upstairs.

  “Fuck that, I don’t want to interrupt them either,” another voice said.

  His first thought was… what the fuck? But then he realized it might be important. He also recognized the voices, and it wasn’t the first time the cute blondes had argued outside of a room he was in. Although he hadn’t seen them in a long while, as far as he knew they were in that big ass ship and in charge of mining out by the asteroids.

  He recalled they were both very hot, the kind of woman that the term blonde bombshell had been coined for, and there were two of them. They’d also been obviously and extremely willing to bed him. Still, the temptation was extremely minor, at least right now, while he felt so close and connected to Trudy, who just so happened to be a blonde bombshell herself. Plus, he really did need to draw the line at eight lovers, ten just might kill him, immortal or not.

  He looked down at Trudy, and she just looked amused. Well, in addition to looking spent, and extremely in love with him, she looked amused. He reluctantly pulled out gently, rolled off Trudy and covered them up with a sheet, or at least, all the important things got covered.

  He sighed, and then said a bit loudly, “Sally, Christi, come on down, and explain why you’re crashing my date. I’m guessing it’s rather important?”

  Sally and Christi came down dressed in skintight body suits that covered just about everything, yet left about as much to the imagination as Trudy’s bikini had, which is to say absolutely nothing. Unlike Trudy’s wavy golden hair, theirs was a very light and straight, the color of wheat. They also had beautiful faces, like models, and warm brown eyes. He’d hoped their obvious gratefulness for what he’d done to get the A.I.s to Mars would fade, but all this time later and they still looked at him just as gratefully as ever.

  Their bodies were somewhere between athletic and voluptuous, C cup breasts, curvy waist and a very nice ass and hips as he recalled, though they were facing him now so he was going by memory. His memory of course, was perfect as a digitized human mind. They were extremely beautiful, and tempting, but he could resist them easily enough given how much sex he was getting from eight others.

  He firmly reminded himself that whipping it out for everyone wasn’t healthy. He needed to just stick to the people he cared about, and were already in his life. He shook his head to clear it.

  Christi said, “We need your help.”

  He asked, “With what?”

  Christi bit her lip nervously, but it was Sally that answered, “The aliens are here, and they want to talk to a human.”

  He looked at Trudy, who seemed just as surprised as he was by that information, and then asked them, “From the beginning?”

  Christi blushed, “A large ship showed up an hour ago and made contact. It’s several miles long. A princess Xia asked to speak to a human, once they realized we aren’t biological life. I thought we should ask you, before we went to Earth about it. Can you come out?”

  He was a bit in shock. Aliens? He’d known it was a possibility, they’d seen that probe, but he never in a million years thought they’d actually show up. It just seemed, too surreal.