Chapter 39: 14 Harbingers

After the procedure, I slept like a log for the first time in years. Being in my room, I also wasn't on guard.

As the sun shone through my windows, I slowly started to wake up. With my enhanced senses, I noticed 2 people on the foot of my bed.

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I lifted my sheet and saw Himeko and Elysia in lingerie. "So? What are you 2 planning?" He asked with a raised brow.

They looked at each other for a bit. "You see, we would like to wake you up pleasantly." Himeko fidgeted.

Elysia rolled her eyes. "Just tell him we want to have morning sex with him Himeko. Now~ let's see what you have under here." Elysia rubbed her hands, she then took off his boxers and released his hard pole.

It slapped her on the face as she gasped. "Hmmm~ your cock is so hard already! Thank you for the meal." She started to suck the tip like a delicious lollipop, making slurping noises that echoed throughout the room.

Due to the previous experiment, Ein's body is still sensitive to stimulation. As he groaned from Elysia's service. "Damn, you're starting to get the hang of this Ellie."

Himeko didn't idle any longer, as she started to lick his shaft and started to go lower. Sucking and licking his balls, making him peak almost instantly with the stimulation.

"Go on and get breakfast Elysia." He grasped her head as he thrusted into her mouth. Cumming in her throat as she gulped it down like a champ.

"Pwah, that was a nice load~ I'll be having some right here too then." She took of her panties as she spread her legs and beckoned him over with a lewd smile.

With her pussy already wet, he thrusted in one fell swoop immediately. Her toes curled as her body curled upwards, cumming instantly. "Ahhh! This... I've been thinking about it a lot last night~" Her walls twitched.

Himeko straddled Elysia's face as she rubbed her vagina on her. She then played with her clit and one of her nipples. Moaning because of Elysia's vibrating mouth. "Ein, make a mess out of her. When she tries to moan, her mouth vibrates and it feels good~"

He picked up the pace as he sucked on Himeko's nipple. "Oh my god! I'll cream on Elysia's face~ Ahhh!" The both of them tensed up as they came. With Elysia tightening up intensely, Ein also shot his load inside her as he groaned in satisfaction.

Himeko crouched and licked him clean. Savoring the juices of Elysia mixed with his semen. "Hmm~ I can't get enough of this." She then positioned herself on top of Elysia and swayed her jiggly ass like a hypnotic device.

"How about me?" She erotically whispered. Complying with her request, he inserted in her wet folds slowly. Ahhh, he's filling me up and spreading me so wide, she bit her lip, not wanting to make too much noise.

It didn't last though as he slapped her thick and firm ass and inserted a finger in her ass. "Ahn! That's not fair." She pouted.

He gave a smirk as he pulled out and inserted with more force. Remembering her masochistic tendencies. She screamed as he slapped her other ass cheek. "You like that don't you? Why not scream louder and let Mei and the others hear?"

Her pussy tightened up, thinking about Mei and Kevin that were close to his room. Elysia then smirked as she attacked her nipples and clit with fervor.

"Nooo! I'll go crazy~ and everyone will know that I'm a lewd woman!" She protested, but her body and face were in ecstasy, as she came non stop.

Ein pulled out and lubricated her asshole with her juices. He slowly but firmly inserted his cock inside and fingered both Elysia and Himeko.

She gasped and froze as she felt him violate her ass. Before she could gain her wits, he started to piston and she could feel both of her holes being stimulated. Reaching the peak immediately. "Ahhhh! I'm going to cum! And my ass is getting filled to the brim!" She squirted and spasmed, as she fell on top of Elysia. Squishing their big tits together.

The 2 of them panted as they saw Ein relaxing on the head of the bed with his hands behind his head.

"Do you guys want to continue? I have a lot of things to do you know?" The 2 girls then shared a look as they grinned.

They sandwiches his cock on their soft pillowy breasts as they started sucking the tip. "You'll be busy, that's why you have to give a lot of attention to us first~" They then started to go up and down in sync. Making him cum again, from the visual and physical stimulation.

They licked his cum from each other's tits, making Ein reconsider his decisions instantly.

He sighed "I guess I should pamper you girls first." He flipped them over and positioned Elysia on all fours right on top of Himeko. He grinned as he slapped Elysia's ass. "You won't be getting away from me for a few hours."

Mei and Kevin pounded on their walls and screamed. "Shut up! We could hear everything you know!?" It went silent for a moment, they sighed in relief as they blushed. Then Elysia and Himeko screamed with pleasure even louder, they deadpanned and just went on with their duties.

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It's now afternoon as I left Elysia and Himeko sleeping soundly on my bed. "I need to test things with Mobius on what I can do now." He went to the lab.

Mobius looked annoyed as she glared daggers at him. "So? Why are you late again? I've been dying to see your new abilities. And what do I hear? I got reports of 2 females screaming inside your room for hours..." This damned casanova! Making me wait, I'll surely make our next procedure as painful as possible!

He shrugged "Duty calls you know?" He whistled innocently. "I want to determine my new abilities as well Moby, let's test them for now." He diverted the subject.

They went to a testing area as he took out the 4th's herrscher core. "Do you think you can absorb the gem!?" Mobius shouted with disbelief. If he could do that, he'll be a herrscher on our side.

He grinned. "I don't know, and we'll try and find out." He grasped it with both hands and started to focus. He could feel the immense honkai energy inside of it funnel inside his body flawlessly.

The gem's glow dulled but that was it. He then started to sweat as he gulped a big amount of air, and sighed. "I'm completely full, let's try if I received some of the herrscher's powers."

He coaxed the energy inside him as it flowed instantly, like it's just taking a breath. It felt more natural. It took shape immediately as a sharp gust of wind flew out of his hands. The ground now has a deep gash on it.

"Phew! That's neat." He immediately started thinking of ways on how he could use it.

Mobius fixed her glasses as it got crooked by the strong gust of wind. "So can you do other things?" It looks impressive, but what the 4th could do was simply too terrifying. She remembered it's last attack.

He tried to create a vacuum, sadly the air didn't listen the way he thought it would. He tried making a miniature tornado, with intense calculations and the right air currents, he made it. But it took too long.

"I think I can only use the wind with simple air slashes or gusts Mobius, I needed to do a lot of calculations and effort for such a small tornado which pales in comparison to the 4th's continental typhoons." He sighed. It was too ambitious to think that I could do that. Maybe in the future.

Mobius wrote on her clipboard and nodded. "I see, that's a shame. But you can still have tons of versatility once we get our hands on the other cores." She thought of the 2nd gem. Can he stop time? Can he rend space? These simple abilities might pale in front of the original, but with his genius. I don't want to know what he could do.

He waved his hands on front of her face. "Oiiii. Moby-chan, what do you think? I think I should still get the other cores. Request it for now, we'll say that they'll be divine keys."

She quickly shook her head. "Let's go back for now. You can test other things in your own, I still have a lot of work."

They returned to the lab and saw Mei there. "Mei? Why are you here? We don't have tests or projects scheduled." Mobius asked with curiosity.

Mei cleared her throat. "Ein. We need Prometheus." She said with a grave expression. "We're losing a lot of people against honkai eruptions. Now that we have a striker, we should predict their awakening as much as possible."

Ein nodded with a serious expression. "We do, I'll help you as much as I can. Mobius, go prepare the genes I could use for project Odin. We'll be going all out starting from now on."

Mobius scoffed. "You're going to leave everything to the great me again. Go on then, not that I need you anyway." She huffed.

He laughed and hugged her tight as he caressed her head. "Don't worry Mobius. This will just be a jiffy, I've seriously thought about how to complete the A.I. Quickly. You promised me a date too, how about when we finish with our respective projects?"

Mobius glared at him but with a bit of red on her cheeks. "Un, don't make me wait too long. Klein would die of overtime because of you too."

Klein nodded from the sidelines. "Dr. Ein, you are late. Where is my offering?" Her eyes glimmered, as she held her hands out.

He pinched her cheeks and gave her ration of her favorite drink. "Don't overwork yourself Klein. Mobius and I need you here after all, you too Nuwa, Fuxi." He then left with Mei to work on Prometheus.

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After some time, working on Prometheus. We started to build the main frame for it. "We completed it quite quickly." Ein nodded in satisfaction, while Mei has bags on her eyes.

"We used quantum computers. Then powering it up with honkai energy while the processor is made out of soulium really made the efficiency of the over all processing power through the roof." She yawned. This guy doesn't sleep does he? He's like a machine, working 24/7.

He nodded. "We managed to make it this small because of the soulium, we had the luxury of ditching a lot of cooling and extra hardware." The size of it was roughly of an average building. It was almost ready, connecting it to the data base of the web is the only thing left.

I made shackles on its programming, making it's top priority, humanity. 2nd is the detection and destruction of honkai. Those 2 dominates approximately 90 percent of the total processing power of the A.I. 24/7.

"With this, Mobius won't try to chain me down in her lab. We can make simulations with the remaining processing power for experiments and the like. Though she might not like that." Mobius is kinda old school, wanting to observe with her own eyes on what happens.

They called Mobius and started up Prometheus. The researcher squad quickly showed up and sat inside the building, as the components hummed. "Booting up, Please wait for approximately 3, 2, 1." A female voice talked on a hologram.

Mobius stared at me for a moment. "You even want your A.I. to be a female?" She glared daggers at him.

He raised his hands. "Don't look at me. I didn't do that, Mei did." He evaded Mobius' scorn immediately.

"Dr. Ein, Dr. Mei, Dr. Mobius. Pleased to meet you, I am Prometheus, what are your orders?" It booted up completely.

"Prometheus, you already know your functions. I believe you've made some calculations already about it as well." It has monstrous computing prowess, it must have results now.

"Indeed, please wait for a moment." The room went silent with bated breath. "The 5th herrscher will appear in approximately 6 months. One year from the previous one, it is not consistent, but honkai eruptions appear inevitably with time. Once enough energy has accumulated, it will happen surely."

Mei noted down Prometheus' words. "As we expected, but at least we have a time window. Honkai beasts have been appearing more frequently around the world."

Everybody stayed silent and internalized the words of Prometheus. Tough times are ahead for sure.

"Prometheus, can you predict how many herrschers will appear? They're the greatest threat out of all of them." Ein asked with a grave face.

"Forgive me Dr. Ein, that will take a few days at most. Please return to me after 7 days, I will have a comprehensive hypothesis about it then."

"Okay everyone, let's rest for now. We've been having a bit too much work." Ein ushered everybody outside and let them rest. These couple of months were not fun.

"Mobius, let's go somewhere for a bit." He decided that right now is the perfect time to relax.

She raised a brow. "Where are we going? Don't you need to rest as well? I heard from Mei that you haven't slept for several weeks at least."

He waved his hand. "Don't worry about that. I'm in tip top shape, now, let's go." He took out his private VTOL and went to a place famous for its hot springs.

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First, they went to a clothing shop to change what they're wearing. "This would suit you the best Moby-chan!" He took a green yukata, a little darker than her hair.

Mobius was about to complain, but he immediately shoved it into her hands and pushed her inside a changing room. "Please help her into it. She doesn't know how to wear one." He said to the shopkeeper.

After a few minutes, Mobius went out with a pout on her face. "This clothing is difficult to put on. What is even the point of wearing things like this!?" She grumbled.

He pinched her cheeks and took a picture with her. "It's about the atmosphere Mobius, come on. I know you'll love it where we'll be going."

He pulled on Mobius' arm and they walked for a few minutes. They arrived at a building that has a cat's paw on the logo of its name.

"Here we are, you haven't been in one of these. I'm sure you'll like it here. Klein did tell me that she used to livestream kittens for you to watch." He grinned. That was honestly too cute, I'll be sure to make one of your dreams come true Mobius.

She blushed slightly, embarrassed by the revelation. "That was in the past. Now I have Hamsuke in the lab and that's enough." She puffed her cheeks.

They entered the shop and Ein quickly paid for their stay. He took out some kind of herb and rubbed it all over Mobius. "Hehe, cats here are used to people, but they might get scared of you still. This is a little trick of mine."

After a few minutes, the cute cats started meowing and went closer to Mobius. Surprising her, in her experience, they would run at the sight of being near her.

They started snuggling all over Mobius as Ein stood at the sidelines. Getting it all on tape of course.

Mobius petted them one by one and used the toys to play. She had a genuine smile on her face, one suited for a young woman her age. Not unlike the creepy one or the smirk always on her face.

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They were walking to the place they will stay at as she has a slight spring on her steps. "What do you think? It was fun right?" He smiled and patted her head.

She seriously pondered for a bit. "I didn't know that establishments like that existed. It was surely a good experience." She smiled slightly as she remembered playing with the cats.

The two of them entered the reception. "A reservation for Einheri." He talked to the woman on the desk.

She checked for his name and gave a key card. "Please enjoy your stay Mr. Einheri, Mrs. Mobius." She bowed.

Mobius choked on her saliva as she heard the receptionist. Ein quickly pulled her to their room.

Inside, there was an outdoor private hot spring. A massage table was also present as Ein ushered Mobius to change clothes. "Mobius, change quickly. Let's relax inside the outdoor hot spring." He then closed the door.

"Stupid Ein. Is he going to ravage me!? I must be careful, he already has a reputation of being a beast. Hearing moans on the corridors near his room." She whispered to herself.

Ein soaked inside the bath. As he relaxed and waited for Mobius. After a few minutes or so, she went out with a towel on her. The towel accenting her bodacious body. Her shaggy long hair making her look extra erotic.

She fidgeted as she slowly walked to the bath. Squinting her eyes on him with suspicion as she faced him on the opposite side. Not that it was far though.

Mobius looked at him and her eyes started to wander around. She looked at his full and ripped chest, his defined and veiny arms. When she looked down, she was startled as he didn't wear a towel or anything.

"Wh-what are you doing you beast! Showing off that thing to me!?" She stood up and pointed at him.

"Hah, why are you so bothered Mobius? I'm sure you've seen some penises before in your experiments and cadavers." He shook his head.

She froze. "That's... True." She calmed down and was about to sit again but she slipped. Ein made her float and put her between his legs.

"Tsk tsk, you almost hurt yourself Mobius. Stop being all tense and just relax, that's what we're here for." He patted her head and hugged her at the waist.

She hardened for a bit, but started to relax as well. Just enjoying the atmosphere and the warm waters.

"Hey, Ein." She looked at him as she turned her head. "You've heard of what I wanted to do most back then. What's yours?" She started a conversation.

"Hmm, living a happy and relaxed life I guess? Why do you think I do all of these things. It's to have a laid back life and enjoy it with all of you."

She went silent and leaned back on him. "I see... Do you think I'm evil? Our lab is called the devil's den. Because of me of course." She recalled the whispers and rumors.

He pinched her cheeks. "Honestly? I think you're in the gray area. You don't force people to be in your experiments, but you do capitalize on opportunities. Your motivation and ideals aren't wrong, but in the eyes of many. You are cold, calculating, and will do unspeakable things to them. And what humans don't understand, they fear them and would avoid or even eradicate it."

Mobius just listened intently to him. "Go on, tell me more."

"In conclusion, you're in between at a pure logical stand point. Morally though, people will tell you you're evil. Not that it matters anyway, I don't give a shit to what strangers think. They simply don't have anything that could affect me whatsoever. People would call that apathetic, but humans are complex creatures Mobius. We will always be imperfect no matter what you do."

Mobius looked at him hard. "So you're saying that my ambitions can't be achieved? Why help me then?"

"Don't misunderstand Mobius, you can achieve it. But not utterly flawless, do you think that humans should always be logical? They will always have illogical thoughts or actions. You will never change that, if you do? Then you're not making a perfect human, you're making a perfect organism. A biological machine."

Mobius thought for a solid minute and finally understood what he means. "So it's like that huh. Then I'll just have to make them evolve to be nigh perfect then." She leaned on him again as she stopped worrying.

"I just need a small number of you to understand me. Everything is irrelevant." She nodded with satisfaction.

He hugged her tight. "That's right. If other people don't understand, you tell it to those who can, if they can't as well. Then you only have yourself. So soldier on, but you can change a bit though. Stop being all grumpy, lighten up and show your cuteness to me sometimes." He laughed.

Mobius hit him on the head. "Thanks, Ein. Please support me still in the near future." You and Klein are all the ones I need. Don't leave me behind.

They went out the bath as he then pointed at the massage table. "Dear customer, please experience the Ein special if you will?" He helped her lie down as he spread oil all over her back.

"I can even do this." He injected small bursts of electricity on her tense muscles as they started to relax. She moaned in pleasure as she hasn't felt this relaxed in her life.

He finished after 30 minutes and they went to bed. "Come on Mobius, I won't do anything you don't like you know?" He patted the other side of the bed.

She slowly lied down as she turned her back on him. He spooned her though as she froze, her mind running a mile a minute. Thinking of what he'll do.

He just cuddled her as she started to relax after a few minutes and snuggled up to him. She then turned around and looked at his face, she traced his cheeks, nose, and jaw. Ein, thank you for everything. But he suddenly spoke.

"Can't sleep Mobius? What are you doing, touching my face all of a sudden?" His eyes still closed. As she started to panic.

"I don't know, I just wanted to touch your face... Ein, why do you do all this? Do you perhaps like me?" He was doing all of this without asking for anything.

"I guess because you're a good friend of mine? You work hard too, so naturally I'll do these." He shrugged.

"How about me? What if I misunderstand and like you?" Her voice shaky, the nerves starting to get to her.

He grinned. "Ohhh? Then you like me Mobius? You don't know this, but my girls are quite open with me having multiple lovers. Though they'll interview you for a bit." He chuckled.

She then whispered. "You don't mind accepting me then?" He eyes dazed.

"Why not? You're smart, beautiful, and you help me a lot. Honestly, I couldn't have went this far without you. Regarding your craze on perfecting the human genome and evolution?" He shrugged. "I don't necessarily think badly or too highly of it. That's what you want, then do it. I'll help you along the way, just don't go too crazy or something." He played with her hair.

She puffed her cheeks. "I'm not crazy over it okay? I just think it's the best of both worlds, countering honkai and making humans less flawed."

"Whatever you say Moby. Do sleep though, you need some rest and it's getting late."

She chuckled. "Yeah, it is. Thank you for everything Ein, and... I think I love you. I don't understand it, but whenever I imagine my life where you're gone. I lose sleep on it, and I can't calm down. So don't go dying on me okay? Or else I'll truly go crazy." I would be so much worse if you aren't here, I already thought of it.

"Hmm, maybe you do? How about if you hear this. I love you Mobius, I couldn't imagine where I would be without you." He then kissed her on the forehead.

She blushed, then after his words sunk in. She gave a wide smile. "Un, we'll help each other then. Work will never be the same without you."

She closed her eyes and slept a moment after as her breathing calmed. He noticed that she was smiling in her sleep.

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After a few more days, the researcher team went back to Prometheus for answers.

"Welcome back, everyone. I assume you want to hear my calculations about the birth of the herrschers?" Prometheus cut to the chase.

Everybody nodded. "According to my predictions, and the relevant data about herrschers. We'll be having 14 of them in the future."

Ein thought for a moment and asked. "Can you reliably predict any of their powers? Strengths? Weaknesses?" There's still at least 10 of them, and we don't know what they can do.

"Apologies Dr. Ein. I cannot predict that, although they will be stronger than the last. And when the 14th comes there will be a chance that it will be hundreds of times stronger than all of them combined."

Everybody gasped. "So that means the last one will practically be omnipotent then? How can we fight that." Mei said with disbelief.

Ein raised his hand. "We will have to report this. And focus more, now than ever on our projects. Let's go."

Everyone returned in their place with heavy minds, realizing the gravity of the situation.

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Thanks for reading guys, they can now think of project S.A.V.E. I'll start to introduce the other flame chasers. Maybe start with easier ones.