Chapter 7 - Battle

Peter heads to the mountains by forming a portal near the entrances. He could sense the Yoki from within having copied the Codex of Yoma and Awakened Beings allowing him to recreate it rather easily. His cell manipulation had grown significantly that it was better than Knull who simply used it to darken the cosmos. The symbiote he creates would be superior to normal Klyntar even made his own personal domain that was the Symbiote Hivemind.

He can enter the Metaphysical realm of the Hivemind where the defeated Yoma that hosted symbiotes resided having stripped their consciousness and rewritten to become his slave. Peter made the entire Hivemind have a palace and a throne that was made of the viscous reddish goo. If it was his personal world that he can manipulate and control in any way he wants. The place transcends space and time.

"Guess Ophelia is going to convince Leah to be part of my Harem huh?" Peter felt his connection to her and knew exactly what she was doing. Venom appeared giggling responding to his words.

[ You deserve countless women to breed and form large families. An entire empire even. Is this what you want? Time and space wouldn't be an issue as we have innumerable years aheads of us. ] Venom convinced Peter that his action wasn't to be worried.

"True and like an old saying goes 'As the universe infinitely expands, so does the harem.' By Sun Tzu or something." Peter jokingly said as he arrived at a ruined castle and within a tunnel were pulsating rods that had Yoki energy in them. He simply walked through and find rubbles blocking the other side sensing battle going inside as he simply turned into a mass of black goo then slipped through the crack and was in the ceiling finding himself watching the scene before him.

There sat a young girl in the rubble with medium length brown hair which surpassed her shoulders and reached her upper torso wearing a sundress. She watched a large monster that was encased in some kind of carapace-like armor. He was humanoid, but hunched over in a semi-quadrupedal stance and apparently missing a hand. He recognizes the young girl to be one of the Abyssal One, Witch of the West, Riful and her "Consort" Dauf that was more of servant than actual consort.

In front of them were the defeated bodies of three women, One had long, straight, flowing blonde hair with silver eyes pinned to the ground, impaled by one of the blue guy's rods. She was dressed in a white cloth tunic and trousers with apparently steel spaulders, vambraces, sabatons and a fauld. Peter recognizes her as number 3 and God-Eye, Galatea.

'Jeez, what's the point of their armor when they expose so many areas? Do they expect their enemy to attack in those pieces?' Peter thought to himself trying to find an answer and only thought was purely for aesthetics. The cape doesn't do anything besides being used to being grabbed by their enemies.

He shook his head and Saw another blonde with short hair and silver eyes shot up from the stone floor with sword in hand and garbed in naught but a leather cape. This woman was younger looking, though not by much, with the eyes of a seasoned veteran. She was on the ground and had similar situations as the first one. The woman is known as number 9 and Drill Sword, Jean.

And finally a young woman with slightly longer blonde hair and the same eye color hopped to her side. She was garbed in mostly brown and gray. Her clothing was thick and she was lightly armored and armed with a near-identical, two-handed sword. The only difference was the symbol near the base of its blade. Lastly and the main protagonist was Number 47, Claire.

He could see that she was barely standing, heavily exhausted and wounded that she would likely push herself to the brink of turning into an Awakened being. Peter plopped into the ground surprising everyone when a blob of black goo simply appeared. Claire confused what it was seeing the black blob moving as if it was alive and the other claymore also wondered what it was.

Riful noticed it as well and was interested then everyone was taken aback when it suddenly shot up and impaled Dauf who roared in anger then tried to break it apart but it suddenly sprouted a spike destroying it's hand.

"If only it was a full moon then I could quote alucard." A voice resounded as their eyes widened even more witnessing the blob expanding, turning into humanoid shape until they saw a handsome young man with short brown hair and clothes that were rightly attached to his body that had spider emblems that spread like web. Behind him were sharp spider legs and held a sword that seemed to be alive.

"That hurts!! You'll pay for that!!" Dauf roared, created rods and shot it towards but Peter simply evaded all the attack and used his other appendages to slice through them as Dauf tried slamming his arms against him but Peter smirked then his arms vibrated, surprising Claire recognizing the technique. In an instant slice through its massive arms turning into cubes.

"That was Ophelia technique!" Claire exclaimed, always wondering what happened to her and was fortunate she didn't encounter her. Now she has a clue to where she was and likely was with the man before them. They wondered if he was a claymore of the past yet dismissed the idea as they couldn't sense a Yoki.

'He doesn't have Yoki yet, how is this man…' Galatea has a sensitive sense in tracking Yoki and flow of it but couldn't find traces of it from the man who was able to fight an enemy that all three of them struggle with.

'He's strong....if I could recruit him then letting Dauf as price would be worth it.' Riful thought having a goal of defeating an enemy that she knew was impossible to win. She decided to join the fray and created sharp appendages akin to ribbons towards Peter saw this simply let Venom handle it appearing from behind him then slice through the ribbon blades that shocked Riful.

"I cannot let you harm my darling~" She roared, taking his symbiote form rather than a human form, surprising everyone.

"Who or rather What are you and why come here?" Riful asked, pulling her ribbon blades curiously looking at them.

"You are certainly human because I can't seem to sense an ounce of Yoki." She added watching as Venom bare her fangs ready to slaughter for Peter who simply gave a friendly smile.

"Me? You can call me Peter and this is my dear, Venom. The reason the We are here is simply because of a request from a woman named Leah." Peter gave half truth seeing he was also there to meet her and the other cast of characters. He guessed that in terms of powers an Abyssal one could be quite a threat for street level heroes and equal or surpass base venom with Eddie host. Jean's eyes widened and remembered one of her allies was able to escape.

"Is that woman still alive!?" Jean asked hoping that she was and Claire vaguely guessed who that person might be about to answer but Peter was faster.

"In a way, she is. The young woman is currently with my companion back in the village." Peter explained walking towards Galatea who got a closer look of his face and couldn't deny that he was rather attractive compared to other men that she had seen before.

A pheromone seemingly secrete from his body that affected their minds as Peter gently kneels and removes the rod from her body by envilping it with his symbiote then breaking it down while helping her body.

"What are you doing?" Galatea asked, still tense being touched by a strange man that had foreign abilities that they haven't seen before. If they could sense a Yoki then it wouldn't be strange but after what they saw it was too otherworldly.

"Healing your wounds…I heard from my companion that most of you have a scar called stigmata and said to be impossible to regenerate despite your ability to heal." Peter proceeded to heal her stigmata much to everyone shocked and reformed every part of her body including awakening.

Galatea doesn't know what to feel when he mentioned their stigmata then realized what he was doing feeling the old wounds that couldn't be fixed were disappearing and felt a metamorphosis.

'Is he really removing my Stigmata!? Impossible!? But…if he did then…' She realized that her life was about to change and felt a connection suddenly click, sensing unknown familiarity as Galatea momentarily joined the Hive.

"How crude, whoever made you into a hybrid is quite sloppy in their job. Thankfully, I'm here and can help remove the flaws." He added as Galatea let him do as he pleased since her instinct told her fighting him was impossible. If they can't defeat Dauf then how do they expect to win against Peter? Not to mention the chance of becoming a mother again was too tempting to let it pass.

Meanwhile, Claire and Jean watched with great interest with Galatea having black goo enveloped her body before it slowly was reabsorbed by Peter noticing the sudden increase in quality of Yoki as well danger around her.

"Wow, he actually made her even stronger…" Riful felt that she became several times stronger than before and decided that he was worth having. Perhaps become his consort. Then everyone's attention turned when they saw Venom ripped apart Dauf and Riful simply watched and let him die, seeing she found a better companion.

"You…what have you done to my body?" Galatea asked, seeming her sense was overwhelmingly more powerful than she was able to sense people miles away and differentiate who they were. She noticed another Claymore and human man recognizing them as number 5, Rafaela and Rubel.

"I made you better. You should be completely human that can freely transform into an Awakened Being without the craving of human entrails." His words shook everyone, especially Riful, who always missed the taste of human food.

"What!? That's just ridiculous!? How can something like you exist? You're not human are you?" Galatea asked hoping to get an answer while Peter rubbed his chin.

"Well, in my heart I'm human and I was raised by a human family. Does that answer your question?" Peter answered, leaving her speechless. Who the hell's going to believe him!? Healing a stigmata, overpowering awakened beings and exuding no Yoki!?

"You two come here, let me heal you." Peter said, calling for the two as Jean and Claire looked at each other unsure if they should comply only for him to appear inches away without them noticing.

"We have no time. Here. The two of you are lucky to still be stable. I still need help from those below and revive them." He said infecting the two with his symbiote helped them metamorph where Peter was able to sense two souls attached to Claire namely her foster mother, Theresa and the person who gave her Right arm, Irene.

"Interesting, you have two people within you. Want me to revive them?" Peter asked while they were seemingly shocked as their power increased exponentially and felt that if they transformed into a Awakened being wouldn't change anything.

"Wait, you can revive the dead!?" Jean asked, remembering her comrade's corpse was below and hoped to save them.

"Sure can, Beautiful. But I need a piece of their body to bring them back to life." Peter can obviously use the mother box to rewrite reality and revive them without relying on Venom but prefers using the Symbiote. Jean seemed to blush from his compliment and confused how she became flustered when she had extreme control over her emotions. If the Claymore were too emotional then going over their limit would have been too easy.

"....Why are you helping us? What do you need from us?" Claire realizes that it's possible to bring back her foster mother and Irene. If it was true then she was willing to pay the price whatever that may be. The sole reason why she became a Claymore was because of her foster mother who was everything to her.

"I don't know but guess because I'm a hero that makes me compelled to help when I can. They did say that a hero often saves women from peril and if luck is by his side, gets his own harem." Peter smirk, seeing they weren't against the idea since he removed their stigmata and made them even stronger. Having someone like him as a lover doesn't sound like a bad deal. It was then a loud thump was heard and saw Dauf defeated while Riful shook her head seeing winning was impossible.

"I submit defeat. You have won and I'm at your mercy now. Feel free to kill if you want." Riful said knowing escaping was not her choice anymore and Peter walked over while watching as Venom kissed him passionately slowly merging into Peter. The sight strangely arouses them and this time they couldn't control themselves having the chance to let loose without becoming a mindless beast.

"I won't kill you. There isn't a rea-" Peter was close enough was tackled by the young girl that had petite body strip her pink sundress evilly smiling.

"Now that you've killed my consort, I need a new one." Riful said and straddle on top of him where Peter essentially decided to let go having been convinced by Ophelia and Venom that most Claymore would have sexually pent up need to be released and doesn't have the same concept of romance as his homeworld. He could always get to know them more as time he spent in the world anyway.

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If you want smut then just read Naruto's quest but that fic has Clone gangbang so be Warned. Just imagine they had an orgy.

Btw, I just Bs and romance is virtually absence here so fuck it and enjoy the wish fulfillment.