Concepts with Psionics

"Hmm, why would I reveal everything all of a sudden?" Marcus frowned at Kiana. It was far too quick. He wanted to keep the mystery going as much as possible.

He loves it when his girls are guessing and end up coming up with a bunch of ideas.

"It's not fair. You know everything, but I know barely anything!" The white-haired Valkyrie puffed her cheeks at this injustice.

"True, but this is your job. You need to figure out your hubby's identity and all that stuff. Otherwise, what else would you do?" He asked with a shrug.

Kiana frowned. Internally, she thought that her job would be to save as many people as possible when he invaded all sorts of worlds.

But then again, she realised that she needed to be close enough first for him to take her with him on his invasions. In other words, she needs to play an active role in these relationships… regardless of how big the empire is in the future.

"Fair enough." She gave up before returning to the previous stuff they did, her clothes.

"You said there is one more set of clothes you want me to try." 

"Indeed." With a snap of his fingers, her clothes changed. The girl realised that these clothes were quite revealing. Her legs were barren, and most of her arms were, too.

She was dressed in greyish, almost white clothes with a few pieces of purple.

"Herrscher of Finality, your most powerful form." 

"...Space? And something else…" For now, Kiana ignored her clothes and instead tried to understand her powers.

"Well, you are Honkai Goddess in this form."

"...A Goddess!?" 

"Yep, chained to the moon, most of the time and stuck in time." He said with a shrug. He kinda stopped playing after that, so… he doesn't have the faintest idea if she returned to being normal at some point.

But he is doubtful.

"...Oh…"

At that moment, Kiana realised that she most likely sacrificed herself to keep Honkai in check; that is something she would do.

"...Yep, instead, this time you will have to deal with being mine instead of chained to a Moon." He smirked at her as he walked over, inspecting her from different angles.

"...Hmm, I gladly accept such a change in responsibilities." She pretended to think before smiling at him.

"Good to hear."

Kiana smiled at his nod before doing a spin for him in her new clothes. She noticed that she had some strange wings floating around her and a small sash around her waist. She realised that her clothes were a bit sexy.

"So… what is your favourite part of this? I assume my legs and… armpits?" She still struggles with this… but can see this stuff with other Valkyries. Mei's burst… Rita's maid uniform… and Durandal… well, she is that heroic girl? 

All of them had their kink… even Bronya… she is like that… what was it… Kuudere? Right!

Thankfully, Kiana read enough material to understand the culture, but she never compared it to her world. Being realities away makes her turn back and look at it from a different angle.

"Yep, Finality opened new 'doors'." He chuckled as he ended up looking at her from different angles.

"...Right…" Kiana deadpanned for a second before crossing her arms.

"So? Was it good enough?" The white-haired girl asked him. Seeing that he was liking what he was seeing.

"There was never the question that you would look bad in these clothes."

"That's not my point! The point is if I clear the needed requirement!" Kiana complained to him.

"You want to be my fiance?" He asked curiously.

"Precisely!" She swiftly nodded at his words.

"I guess since you are that eager and have a valid point about Sirin being a one-half of one being. However, you do realise what comes with such a role?" He smirked as she recalled vivid images of what he does to Sirin when they are alone.

"I-I know…" She looked away for a second before gazing directly into his eyes. Her purple star-shaped pupils are quite cute, especially when she is blushing like that.

"And you still want it?" 

"Yes."

Marcus chuckled for a second. He didn't expect that she would cave in this quickly. But then again… she is the heroic type willing to sacrifice herself quite easily.

He both likes and is annoyed with these types. One of the reasons why he wants to tease and test her is that the girl stroked his sadistic tendencies… all the time.

"In that case, tonight—" moved closer and whispered into her ear.

"I will test your dedication to being a wife; the most important part is to see how compatible we are." 

Kiana saw a couple more images of what would happen to her.

"A-And what about the other two? Bronya and Kallen?" She didn't mind, but at the same time, she was baffled that he would do this with two more girls in the same room! This is…just…

"Relax~ they could assist you in your quest to become my fiance."

He joked even more as her cheeks got even rosier. The girl was at her limit, as she had no idea what to say and was getting self-conscious far too much!

Without saying anything, she dashed out of the balcony. Midway, the nanites left her. She ended up stumbling for a second, but then she quickly recovered and ended up moving next to confused Kallen.

~~~~~~Meanwhile~~~~~~

Dr MEI was intrigued to see a legitimate maid like this. This was not an acting job, but a most legitimate thing! It was… something else!

"...So you are a real maid?" Elysia asked curiously. She had pretended to be one a while back, but this was different.

From the looks of it, this was not a given job… but something more to this girl.

"I am. My name is Belfast. I am a ship girl. My classification is a light cruiser. On a battlefield, I serve as one of the ship girls, a one-man army, and when I am off-war duty, I am a full-time maid." The silver-haired maid explained in a professional tone.

"...I don't understand… What is a ship girl?" Dr Mei was confused. She understood that she was a creation of some sort…

"Hmm, think of it this way: a while ago, around 60 years ago, there was a global war. In that war, there were big metal ships that battled, and some of them sank to the depths of oceans and seas.

When my Master and Creator found these sunken ships, he collected them, bringing them back to his base, he fixed them and then gave them… souls."

The trio had a look of realisation! At that moment, they felt they were standing in front of something huge made from metal!

They were talking to a soul of a warship! 

'That guy! He even has such beings in his army!' Sakura's hand trembled as she realised that this was worse than those towering spiders that destroyed everything in the cities, worse than those predator chickens that chased her through the alleys!

"So I see that you understand. However, don't think too much…" Belfast placed her index finger on her lips.

"I am just a light cruiser. There are battleships and Carriers bigger than my ship." She winked at them for a second before showing them their living quarters.

"For now, we are issuing regular rooms with all the necessities. As of this moment, the maids are going through a restructuring, and new uniforms are being designed." Belfast opened the doors, showing a room that easily passes as a mid-to-high-class flat. There is a living room connected to the kitchen, and there should be a bedroom somewhere as well.

'This has to be a joke… even maids get such treatment. The more this goes on, the more I realise that Technocracy is far better than anything the previous society can offer.'

To Sakura, the only thing she needs is to get her sister back, and she is ready to sell her soul to the Supreme Commander after seeing what kind of place she could be living for the remainder of her life.

This was the best solution for an Assassin who was hiding her job and trying to put bread on the table after her parents died.

"...Hmm, these are quite nice~." Elysia hummed in satisfaction after seeing one. She then looked at the corridor, which was expanding quite a bit. There could be tens, if not fifty, maids living here.

But this is only one corridor; there are more… like much more, from the way she understood how this T-shaped structure is built.

"But what we will be doing?" Since they are the first, Elysia wants to establish her territory quickly, and so are the other two.

"You will see, for now, choose your rooms, and then I will show you the schedule." Belfast smiled at them.

The girls quickly went to the adjacent rooms while Sakura took the one Belfast showed.

The girls quickly saw holograms manifest before them.

Since they knew what this was, the trio quickly realised that these were personal computer terminals they could use!

The girls quickly took to the whole consoles like fish to water and quickly found out about the maids in the Technocracy.

'Belfast is second in command. There is a Head Maid that is in the Base outside time… 

But these girls…'

Dr MEI realised that being a maid… was a bad position! Her competition is legitimate Goddesses, a Devil, and a dragon that took human form!?

How is she supposed to outperform them!?

'No-No! I need to change my position! Immediately!'

The nerd version of Raiden Mei looked at Elysia, who was thinking a similar thing. She looked at the command structure. It turns out that the living soul of a warship was the least of her worries.

After a swift check, she returned to stand next to Belfast. The silver-haired maid already saw through the nervous-looking scientist.

She saw what kind of windows they looked at in the console.

"...Since there is a structure of command, I can assume that people can be promoted. Is it merit-based?" Dr MEI asked, pretending to do so casually.

"Not quite." Belfast shook her head, giving the purple-haired scientist a growing despair.

"We are maids of Supreme Commander. We have a single job, and that is to serve him and whatever he desires. He is the one who decides changes in the structure." The ship-girl maid clarified.

"Before your invasion, there was a lion girl whose only job was to be his pet. She would laze on his lap for hours and do nothing.

That is all she did before she messed up in one of the expeditions." 

Dr. MEI calmed down when she heard that. It appears to be quite lax. All she needs is an opportunity, and she could potentially leave the maids!

"I see, so it depends on Marcus." 

"Precisely, you must understand that everything is built around him. Technocracy IS Marcus. Something you should never forget regardless of how grand things are." 

"Isn't it… quite self-absorbed?" Elysia chipped in, wanting to understand the person she would serve.

"Hmm, one could say that. However, who decides when one man's work is no longer his but instead belongs to everyone?

Doesn't that sound quite arrogant and self-absorbed?" Belfast countered.

"...Well…" The pink girl had no answer to that. She is used to everyone fighting that one threat. It never came down to something like one man's faction…

"I thought sharing benefits like that with everyone is a way forward."

She tried to reason with the maid.

"You should ask Master such things. But he is picky about things like sharing his inventions."

"Let me guess, he doesn't mind sharing with a cute girl, right?" Elysia smiled while saying that.

"Indeed, after all, all the cute girls will be in his harem." Belfast smiled before expanding on that. " Instead of thinking of this as a faction of many people, you should rather think of this as a household, with Master being the head of this family." 

The trio pondered this as Sakura returned to the group, and she heard the whole thing.

"That does make things… less complex." Dr MEI pondered on her words. What she said made it less oppressive; she didn't need to worry about a faceless hierarchy separating her and Marcus.

Such a way of thinking helped her calm down.

"Indeed it does!" Elysia nodded multiple times in quick succession.

"Glad to hear that you understand." Belfast smiled before motioning to walk again with her.

The group quickly arrived at the changing rooms. MEI quickly found the iconic maid clothes, but then she saw… uniforms were hanging there, too.

"...What are these for?" 

"Oh, this is the next step. As technocracy expands, the role of maids also expands. Master's intentions are that upon conquering the world, interesting girls will be added to what will be known as 'Assistants'."

"Oh, like harems of ancient times?" Elysia chipped in, making MEI look at her. 'When did she learn all of that?'

Truth be told, Elysia studied most of her free time until they reached Marcus Assimilator. 

The chef girl was more than happy to show her how to access the console; she simply pretended when it popped up before her. But she is certain that AI already knows that.

"In a way, after all, as Klaxosaurians branded him God Emperor, there are thousands of girls who want to follow him. We are simply giving them a way to serve him."

'And in the process, It will make the rest aware of what happens if they mess up.' Sakura imagined that if someone messed up and were demoted to one of thousands of 'faceless' girls, it would be extremely hard to get back into his good graces without an opportunity.

It's a simple but effective way to get rid of nuisance without looking too villainous.

"Isn't it a bit too much?" Though Dr MEI can't comprehend how this could work… the ratio of male to female will be absurd. 

"How come? Weren't your experiments a bit too much? Thinking of injecting silicon-based lifeform genes into a human?"

"...that's completely different. We had no choice; we were losing against Honkai," the nerd version of Raiden Mei defended her actions.

"Depends on perspective, doesn't it?" 

She frowned when she heard such an answer. It's easy to say such a thing without being there!

"The situation is different, is it not? We were at war, but this is not war." Dr MEI rolled her eyes as she pushed her glasses up.

"True, when you are desperate, you will do anything. Humans do crazy things in such situations. Their preservation instincts are quite something else." Belfast said with a look as if she was on a memory trip recalling something.

Hearing her speak this way made them remember that even if she looked like a human, she was definitely not one…

"Organic life will do anything it can to self-preserve. Regardless, you didn't answer my question." Dr MEI pressured the ship's maid.

"If you are that interested in my Master's collecting personality, then ask yourself why he wants a harem. Don't ask me. I was not designed to answer your questions."

'So it's like that.'

The scientist girl had a pondering look before 'retreating'. 

"I understand. When I have a chance, I will ask him." 

"Do that." Belfast nodded before looking at the other two.

"Change into newer models of the uniforms." The silver-haired maid motioned to move on.

~~~~~~Meanwhile~~~~~~

"So you three are finally giving up?" Quinella looked at the haggard trio of ex-maids.

"W-We give up! Mercy! Oh, great, Quinella!" Jeanne slammed her head into the floor as she did dogeza, one of the classic Japanese means to beg for forgiveness.

"Amusing, and you two?" The Assistant looked at Hippolyta and Le Fay.

"W-We asked for leniency, but we realised that we were far too greedy." The blonde witch slowly bowed to the platinum-haired AI-turned-human.

"Fufufu, even if you ask for forgiveness, you shouldn't do that to me. As you three know, you didn't offend me, but our Master." 

"...I understand, but first, we must make amends with you before we can ask our Master's forgiveness." Le Fay spoke in a more diplomatic tone. By this point, she is willing to sell her soul to get as far away as possible from sauropods dung.

"I see. As expected from a witch." Quinella expected something like this from the witch.

"And you two?" 

"Yes, please forgive us!" Jeanne once again smacked her head into the floor while Hippolyta similarly was bowing her head.

"Hmm… well, I CAN remove you girls from dung duty. What do you think, Head Maid?" Quinella looked at the silver-haired devil standing next to her.

"As long as they are not maids, only Master can return them to their old positions," Grayfia said her part.

"Hmm, true. For now, you can be handy girls for the rangers who maintain Master's pets."

'Yes! Finally away from the shit!' Le Fay sighed in relief, and she nearly cried tears of joy! The past several days… or weeks… or something, were like torture! She would rather return to the medieval period where she was discriminated against than this!

It was so horrible that she couldn't distinguish how much time had passed. Working in a place where there is no sun, windows, or anything to distinguish the passage of time has messed with her perception of things.

"Good, now that is out of the way, you three can go." Quinella motioned for them to leave.

"O-of course!" The trio swiftly left the command centre of the base, leaving the Head Maid and the Assistant alone on the balcony overseeing all of time flow.

The pair turned away from the trio and looked at the huge hologram that was the map of their Empire.

"It would seem Master is invading something on his own." Grayfia noticed a new dot in the Honkai 'island'.

In some sort of frozen world, they can see that Assimilator's drydocks are operating at maximum speed and printing the warships as quickly as possible.

"Yes, he said nothing to us!" Quinella began to pout as she was feeling left out!

"He did request that we should send him an Assimilator. It should have been obvious that he is planning to go somewhere." The Head Maid reasoned with her.

"Yes, and he is clearly looking for more females to warm his bed." The Platinum Haired Assistant saw a new entry in at the top position no less! Another Fiance!

"What about females warming beds?" another voice said from the side. The pair turned to the side and saw a brown-haired woman with glasses walk in.

"I was gone for a bit, and we have an Empire that conquers timelines?" Athena walked over with crossed hands. She was only away for a bit, but things changed quickly!

"Oh, Goddess Athena, you are quite late." Quinella has completely forgotten that there was a Goddess aboard the Base.

"It took me a while to find this place. I am quite amazed at the speed of our growth." The Goddess looked around, seeing the sheer scale of things outside the base. 

There are rows of Assimilators and warships waiting for orders.

"It has been a considerable amount of time since we arrived here." The Assistant replied to the Goddess of Wisdom.

"I assume I was away for less than a year." Athena fixed her glasses for a second. "So it's not that long ago, and besides, there is no time flow here."

"We do have synchronised time flow. To make sense of it." Quinella replied.

"Oh, even so, it was not that long ago." The Goddess shrugged without caring about the lost time; instead, she focused on the present.

"Instead, tell me what is going on. What did I miss?" 

"Well, we have claimed the Mesozoic era. Master found sapient dinosaurs in the Cretaceous Period. They worshipped him like a god, and Sirin began her conquest in her birth reality while I was busy building infrastructure outside the flow of time." Quinella explained the whole thing in a couple of sentences.

"...Figures, we went to collect pets, but somehow we ended up conquering time itself." The Goddess sighed. This was just like the war in the underworld.

Marcus wanted to help devils but ended up conquering the whole of Underworld and Afterlife.

Similar situation, but the scale…

'Ugh…'

"Something like that. I am simply following his orders, so don't question me." The Platinum-Haired Assistant shrugged.

"Right, anyway, what is next? What are we doing now?" Athena sighed as she brushed the issue aside.

"My objective is to finish assembling the fleet for the conquest of the Cenozoic. Once that is complete, we can focus on human periods and human eras, which is insignificant if I do say so." 

"...so we are almost done?" Athena realised that they didn't have much to do now.

"In a way, yes." Quinella looked at the multiverse's map.

The Goddess followed her gaze.

"Oh…"

"Yes, we might have conquered several Earth's timelines, but those are just our closest realities; there are billions of other Earths." 

"...yes, but do they hold some sort of value? These are not mines; we can mine them. We have to consider that we don't need resources." The Goddess reasoned.

"Precisely, by this point, for us, resources are unique people, their powers and interesting fundamental forces of other universes." The Platinum Haired Assistant looked at 'islands'. There were two dots on this special tree.

"...Makes sense, when we can join Marcus?" 

Quinella looked at all of the preparations.

"Soon, I am nearly done with the preparations." The beauty smiled. Her smile was… something else. What kind of sadist doesn't like unleashing an invasion on a bunch of timelines?

"Good, then tell me when we can leave. I am feeling…annoyed that I missed this much." 

Athena realised that she had returned to her old habits of hibernating in the Library. Thankfully, it was not some magical formula, as those can take years to digest. This time, it was simple data about evolution.

After reading all of that, she would want to slam the data into her father's face for claiming that his creation, Pandora, was superior to whatever Earth could produce.

"Sure, I also want to see him soon." 

Quinella seriously nodded at the Goddess. There is something they can agree on without any hassle.

~~~~~~~Meanwhile, Back in Honkaiverse~~~~~~

After that tease, Kiana grabbed Kallen and went to explore the hotel. The white-haired Valkyrie decided that she needed to retreat and regroup.

That left Marcus and Bronya alone in the VIP suite.

"Those two are very interesting people. Are people outside Belobog like that?" She asked him after seeing the pair run away from the suite.

"In a way? Kiana and Kallen are Kaslana. Their ancestor was designed to fight their version of Stellaron. So, his descendants are unique, too.

You could say they are very stubborn, and their stubbornness develops uniquely."

Broyna slowly nodded as she realised Kiana's flippant behaviour was because she was designed that way.

"Though she looked like she knew me." The Ash-haired girl recalled how Kiana looked at her.

"That's because Bronya of her world is her teammate." 

"...Why you didn't say anything?" The girl pouted at him.

"Because she will ask something like that by herself, why should I do that?" His reply made her calm down.

"I suppose…" She sighed before realising that she had him all to herself!

The girl quickly walked over and took his hand.

"Since they left to explore, we should do so too!!" The Heiress exclaimed with a spirited tone. The girl realised how bad her situation could be with so many females around him. 

So she will use whatever opportunity she can with him! Like now.

"Of course~ let's go~" Marcus smiled, seeing her acting far more assertive after seeing what Kiana did.

The pair soon left the room and took the lift to the ground floor. Their first location was the restaurant that was closed.

"...It says that there are three times for food: breakfast, lunch and dinner." Bronya, read what is written in the post.

"Oh, so you can read this." Marcus noticed that the post is a hologram, so it adjusts to the language of the reader.

'She is quick to use my technocracy's achievements, ' the inventor thought to himself. He needs more girls who have their specific cup of tea, like Erina, who is in the food and hospitality sector.

He does have Dr. MEI, a scientist—a real scientist—while he is an inventor. The combination of those two can be terrifying in a proper setting.

'However, she needs to pass some of the tests first.'

Marcus is well aware of Dr MEI's achievements. Some of them are questionable, but that is because of the circumstances.

Because of that, he is willing to see how much of a genius she is and if she will be useful to him. There is a difference between being useful to Technocracy and being useful to him. 

If she is great, then he will keep her close. If she is not self aware, then she will delegate her to lower tiers, as he is planning to do with Fallen Angels.

But then again, he is willing to see how well those crows will perform.

'By this point, I have literal planets I can delegate to specific work.'

Marcus doesn't need to keep everyone close to him. 

'Well, we should keep all the cards close before playing any of them.' 

He hummed to himself before looking at Bronya.

"Yes, it is my letters. Can you read them?" She asked curiously.

Now she wonders if her letter and language are the same! 

'How are we talking to each other!?'

The girl's eyes bulged for a second. She is confused! 

"I am an esper. I pick up intent before using my psionic energy to converse with you." 

"...Esper? What is that?" She looked curious. This was a new thing to her. One could say that the longer she was with him, the more curious she became.

It is quite similar to other Bronyas.

"Let me show you instead." He faced her and placed both of his hands on her cheeks. Then he brough his face closer to hers.

The girl watched as his face got closer. She closed her eyes and expected a kiss, but what she got was his forehead touching hers.

That moment she got embarrassed! As she was expecting a different thing!

Still, she quickly forgot that as she began to experience things!

'I-Is that…' 

She saw a woman teaching her first words, then learning in some sort of school, then conversations… a lot of conversations… in this new language!

'H-He is teaching me…languages!?'

The girl quickly realised that she was skimming through experiences rapidly!

Not only that, but she saw different cities, places without snow, and lots of greenery…

Before she even realised it, she had given herself to these experiences.

…

…

…

"..."

Bronya's eyes refocused as she looked around…

"This the hotel… oh…" The girl mumbled before recalling where she was.

"...See… now we can speak properly." He smiled at her. 

"...Yes…" The Ash-silver-haired woman smiled at him. She was speaking the same tongue he was speaking, and it was coming naturally to her as if she had tens of years of experience.

"I can guess that you gave me memories related to languages, making me experience them." Bronya reasoned as she recalled.

"Indeed, what an esper is someone who can wield mind as a weapon, using energy generated by it to do things." For a second, he lifted her from the ground, then lowered the next second.

"It's the natural evolution of a human. Our minds are the most advanced. I simply unlocked the latent potential." He explained this to her, making her curious about it.

"Would that work on me?" She asked.

To her question, his hand went to her hair, and he elegantly got one of her strands.

"Aurora, if you would."

[Certainly, sir.]

A hologram projector was used to show the restaurant times changed. Instead, it became a hologram scanner.

The girl's hair was quickly scanned, showing the DNA strand to him.

His eyes scanned her for a second before checking the irregularities.

"Interesting composition. It would seem that Preservation impacts you not just mentally but also at the DNA level. You are far more durable than regular people." Marcus was curious about the irregularities.

"Aurora."

[Already analysing for possible mass production for our Knights.]

The inventor nodded at his AI before looking at his darling fiance.

"You could potentially have a unique combination of use with this."

"...You mean, some sort of mental fortitude?" Bronya asked with growing curiosity.

"Could be. I can predict that you could cast something akin to psionic walls." 

He lifted his hand, and a purple wall appeared on their side.

"Something like this, only on a grander scale and less effort. It's easy for me because it's me, but that could be your talent." He explained while Bronya touched the wall. It was solid! Like… stone or steel.

It appeared instantaneously! If what he is saying is true, then she could do something like that just by thinking!

"...I see… then… does it mean anyone from my city could perform similar things?" She asked, making Marcus shake his head in amusement.

"First, you, then we can discuss your city and its residents."

Bronya smiled slightly as she showed him her ring.

"In other words, should I use my privileges if I want something like that?" the girl smiled while rotating her ring around her finger.

"Indeed, however, this is not THE ring of Fiancee, yet." Marcus made her smile slightly falter. She quickly recalled that this was temporary. That memory was buried under an avalanche of new ones.

She feels far more adjusted to this new life thanks to these new memories.

"Then we should not waste any more time." Bronya smiled as she hugged his arm once again.

She is already thinking about how to seal the deal and be done with that phase.

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