Child of Iron

by MalcolmTent6730

Anthony Taylor's mother was his entire world, so when she died, he was lost and alone in the world. But when he starts getting new skills and items from an incomprehensible force called the Celestial Forge he sees a chance to turn things around, and in the process maybe even surpass the father that was never in his life. Tony Stark will never see him coming. Jumpchain story.

8. Chapter 7

You wake up in bed, not remembering how you got there. You weren't sure you'd made it during the sex and you were damn sure you hadn't been naked. Both things were explained by the equally naked women on either side of you. Felicia was sleeping on top of the blanket with her juicy thoroughly whipped ass out, and looking close you thought you saw a few more marks than when you passed out so you guessed your girls decided to have some more fun. Looking down at Ruby curled up on your chest smiling contentedly you cant help but feel warm inside. Or maybe that was the forge. No, you felt warm inside, the forge was close to triggering but it hadn't happened quite yet. Felicia looked just as happy, you could see her smiling through her silver blonde hair. And there was the forge.

Celestial forge accessed: Alchemical Foundry | Mythic Forge | Dust Refinery | Arcane Smelter (Endless Legend) (400CP) Insufficient CP: Banked 100 CP. Total banked CP: 100.

You shrugged at that, today seemed to be a day to wind down anyway. Though thinking it through. You came to a decision. You would be honest with Ruby. She was part of your lives now and deserved to know. You slipped out down to the kitchen to make some eggs and bacon for your girls to wake up to and due to artisan managed to get them done in a few minutes. Fun thing about cooking, at a high enough skill level you could make everything at max heat and compensate for the increased difficulty with technique. You made it back upstairs just as the girls were waking up and presented them with their breakfast with a flourish, which caused much giggling as you were wearing just underwear and a "kiss the engineer" apron you would swear you hadn't actually bought.

As you sat down in bed to eat, with your ladies cuddled up to either side you smiled contentedly and started to talk. "So Ruby. I had something I wanted to tell you about. It's kind of hard to explain but-" Ruby reached up and pinched your lips closed, shaking her head. She looked...nervous, but determined. Like she had something to get off her chest. Which seemed unlikely considering her perfectly shaped breasts were totally bare. Also gorgeous. Seriously Felicia had huge tits but Rubys were just flawless...and you were getting distracted.

Rubys normally confident and sunny face was clouded over with worry and fear. She took a deep breath and finally spit out. "I was sent by Hydra to get close to you." Your blood ran cold but she didnt release your lips and kept talking. "The stuff I told you about my mom and home life were true and this is my first mission and I really like you guys and I dont want to betray you so I wanted to tell you before you let me in on any secrets or anything so you could decide whether to trust me and-" She cut off to gasp in a breath through her silently flowing tears as she nearly hyperventilated in fear.

So many things started to make sense in retrospect, and so many things about Ruby clicked into place as you put some of her odd behavior and reactions into context. Your artisans body reading skills hadn't failed you, you had just interpreted them as you wanted to see things. You was confident the reads I'd gotten off Ruby were all accurate, just not for the reasons you'd thought. That said you understood what she was feeling probably better than she did. This announcement was her way of showing loyalty and you didnt even need to be a master cold reader to know she was going against alot of programming here. You suspected your artisan abilities had helped you make friends and connect to her in a way other people probably hadnt ever been capable of doing.

Felicia was watching on in...well you were having trouble picking out her reaction, but she didn't seem as angry as you expected. You weren't stupid, you had noticed how Felicia tended to avoid mentioning any details about her father despite talking about him constantly, and cheerleader or not no one your age should be that flexible or graceful. Come to think of it Ruby was unbelievable light on her feet too, you had just become so used to interacting with Felicia and moving that way yourself you hadn't even noticed. Stupid mistake. The point was you got the impression Felicia wasn't going to hold an unnecessary grudge. That said all this didn't exactly help you decide how to handle things.

You stared at Ruby hard, seeing the tears in here eyes and the guilt on her face. She looked so torn up, and your artisan body language skills told you this was genuine. Felicia looked torn for a second, and then with her face softening folded Ruby up in her arms and pulled her into a hug. Rubys quiet tears broke into wrenching sobs as she collapsed against Felicia and it struck you how hard it must be to turn your back on years of conditioning and the only family you had ever known.

You reached down and took Rubys hand, pulling her out of Felicias lap, your other girlfriend standing to follow as you pulled a confused Ruby toward the closet. Without any hesitation you pulled Ruby and Felicia through the archway, and right into your workshop. Ruby looked stunned and confused, Felicia nodded and smiled and you both pulled her between you in a group hug to show support. "This is my workshop. It's part of my power. I get information and knowledge on different types of magic and technology involved in crafting and it all gets made here. I get new knowledge out of nowhere and cant really predict it by more than a minute or two."

You pulled her over to the chair and pushed the glasses into her hand. "These are a virtual reality simulator I made, it should give you some idea of how nice some of the things I can make are. If you put it on itll put you into a sleep state and connect the game directly to your brain. Give it a try." You see Ruby stare back at you in awe and happiness that you decided to trust her, and with a soft smile she returned the favor. Even as her head slumped back you felt yet another connection to the forge, and enjoying the timing you pulled your still very naked cheerleader girlfriend against you as you felt the connection wash over you.

Celestial forge accessed: Enchanter's Forge (Nexus 2.0) (600CP) Insufficient CP: 100 CP banked. Total Banked CP 200.

You pulled Felicia off to the side and down onto a stool you had laying around pulling her into your lap. Vigorous sex with Ruby or not your bombshell girlfriends fat ass in your lap had you getting hard quickly, but you ignored the need to shove her over a table in favor of holding her close, though you might have palmed one of those massive tits, no reason not to have some extra fun cuddling. Felicia giggled and rolled her eyes as she leaned into you and finally decided to speak. "I know it can be hard to be stuck on the other side of the law from your parents. Ruby was being honest when she told us all that stuff about her mom, she trusted us and needs us. Also the fact that she's gorgeous and her pussy tastes like candy doesnt hurt either."

You returned her wicked grin and slipped two fingers into her own pussy "Lucky me, I have two girlfriends with sweet little cunts." She gasped and rolled her hips, smiling as you used your artisan powers on her once again. As with everything you did fingering your girlfriend was an art you improved easily as you practiced, and you could tell she loved it though you didn't try to knock her out or looked into your girlfriends eyes as you played with her pussy nice and slow, leaning into kiss her before resting your forehead against hers " You are the sweetest person in the world, and Ruby and I are both lucky to have you." You leaned down to whisper in hear ear as you added " And this pussy is still my favorite dessert."

Felicia keened in joy and appreciation as she wriggled in your lap nestling your dick between her big jiggly ass cheeks. Removing your hand you adjusted her so she was settled dead center on your lap and used your hands to push her ass cheeks together trapping your cock between them like a tit job with her thick bouncy ass. Felicia whined at the loss of your fingers before you started moving your hips, fucking her ass cheeks but not actually penetrating her. "You're so mean" she said with an exaggerated pout "Leaving my poor pussy alone so you can use my big fat ass for your own pleasure. Did Ruby make you all jealous when she spent so much time on my booty baby?" She giggled as she felt my dick flinch between her cheeks.

Her ass cheeks felt like fucking velvet marshmellows and you leaned down to gently bite her shoulder. "This is my ass. Ruby marked it up with the belt but I'm covering it in my cum before she wakes up. You can touch your pussy but I'm using these fat slutty ass cheeks." You felt Felicia start panting and rocking her hips on your dick "But I wouldnt be against stuffing one of your holes, just not the one I was playing with before. Is that what you want? Are you so desperate to get my dick in you you'll let me use your asshole with no lube or prep?" Normally you wouldnt ask but your masochistic little kitten seemed to enjoy that kind of thing, plus artisan level assfucking meant you would be able to make sure she had fun.

Felicia shoved her ass further back on your lap "Stuff my butthole baby, I know how much I tease with this big fat ass. Break it in for me or I might let our bad little mistress get a strap on between these big juicy cheeks first, shes just as obsessed as you are." With an adjustment of your hips and a flare of artisan you slide perfectly into her asshole, you had expected artisan to make sure it didnt hurt, but judging by the joy filled scream it had just made sure it hurt the right way. The exact right way apparently since as soon as you bottomed out in her ass Felicias pussy exploded spraying her juices almost three feet as she squealed her orgasm on your lap. "FUCK baby thats the spot thats just where I need it, god you always do me so good, you always know just how to give it to me baby I love you so much."

Your eyes widened and you were lucky artisan took over as you yanked her up and shoved her over the table, putting one foot up next to hear to shift your hips and slamming down into her ass. As you sodomized your girlfriend from above like a power hammer and she creamed and wiggled under you in joy you thought about what she'd just said and your hips slammed down faster. You stared in awe ate her huge ass cheeks rolling with her hips and jiggling like a bowl of jello at every impact. Felt her asshole clench down on you as you slammed in and then promptly realized you barely cared. This was fucking perfect sex and you didn't care a bit about it after that revelation. You yanked her head back by her hair and kissed her fiercely. "I love you too kitten."

Acknowledging that brought you back to the present, to the fat ass you'd been drooling over since your first day in class and the girl who you were now inside of, and you came inside her screaming as she exploded all over again. You pulled out and slapped her ass, eliciting an adorable squeak before grabbing her and pulling her close. Basking in the afterglow. Which of course was when the forge triggered again.

Celestial forge accessed: A World Is A Living Thing (Warhammer 40K - Craftworld Eldar Jumpchain) (400CP) Insufficient CP: 100 CP banked. Total banked CP: 300.

You were interrupted by clapping, and spun around to see a very naked and obviously aroused Ruby with her fingers in her pussy as she watched us. "God that was really hot guys." She winked at me "And dont worry daddy, I'm not jealous you got in that fat booty first. I'll make sure to use it the best I can but after that dicking you gave me last night I dont even have it in me to pretend you dont fuck us better than anyone else could. Maybe you can break in my cute little ass sometime too. I know you stare." You could see some slight uncertainty behind her teasing, like she still wasn't sure she fit in and was trying to push past the awkwardness, which you were fine with.

You smiled at her and gestured her over, shifting so each of your girls was perched on a thigh as they cuddled against you. "I do love your ass. But I fucked your lower body into bruised meat last night so I'm not going to be doing it again until you heal." You briefly consider giving her the cure all but honestly using something that can cure any ill to recover from rough sex seems like a tactically unsound choice. You notice her wilt a little and realize it probably came across like you rejecting her, so you decide to play with her a bit, maybe relive some of the guilt and have some fun with her too. "No you've been a bad girl. You're going to have to earn your fucking rights back." Rather than seem upset you detected some relief at that, her submissive streak mixing with her guilt.

You expected her to play if off all cool and disaffected but she looked eager to please "Anything daddy, I promise I'll make the lying up to you, what do you want me to do?" You felt her get wet against your thigh and had to stifle a grin, this kind of punishment worked for you. She was excited to play around and if you got to help her enjoy herself and get past her guilt at the same time who were you to argue. Ruby needed an outlet for her feelings, and a little domination would help her feel more comfortable with you.

You stroked her hair "Well princess" you settled on using the nickname you;d used your first time hanging out to reassure her you still cared "Felicia went and made a mess all over the floor when I took her ass. i want you to clean it up." You could tell she was disappointed by the request, having hoped for something more sexual, but as she got up to get a towel you caught her wrist to stop her. "You misunderstand. I want you to clean it up with your tongue. You're lucky to be allowed to taste Felicias pussy when you're on punishment. Lick it up for me, and no touching yourself." You felt her shudder as she slowly got to her knees to lick Felicias orgasm off the metal floor. Your workshop was sterile and you never wore shoes in here so you weren't worried too much about it.

Rubys eyes were lidded with joy as she slowly licked up every drop, Felicia biting her lip in pleasure as she watched the smaller girls tight little bubble ass wave back and forth as she humiliated herself for us. When Ruby got back up and turned to look up at you submissively you ALMOST decided to fuck her anyway. But punishment aside you had been crazy rough last night and she needed a break. You leaned down to kiss her softly, letting her melt against you and desperately try to claim your mouth before pulling away and placing a finger to her lips. Felicia stepped in smiling, knowing you didnt want to go to far before Ruby recovered. "That was wonderful mistress, you made Anthony so happy, but we need to wait to do more." She remained deferential to the smaller girl as she steered the conversation. "As unpleasant as it is maybe we should talk more about Hydra."

Ruby wilted again but you caught her chin as it dipped and forced her eyes up to meet yours. "We aren't mad princess. We just need to know whats coming so we can prepare. With all of us ready to face it together once we know whats coming we can handle whatever comes our way." Her eyes seemed to brighten, Ruby was emotionally fragile right now after so many changes, you would need to be careful about that. You led the girls back out into the room and to the bed where you pulled them under the blankets to snuggle as you talked. "Also as a side not Ruby, how did you like the game?"

You hadn't checked her readings but you'd be shocked if she wasn't incredibly suited for the Legion. It might be a good idea for you to train each other. Ruby could teach you some martial arts and you could teach her Legion combat. You did get more powerful the more Legion fighters you had. Ruby lit up at the question "It was amazing! The immersion was nuts and it felt like I was getting real training. I'd love to go back in later." Her smile faltered as she got back to the topic we came out here to discuss.

"For now though we should talk about Hydra. Theres alot to cover but for now the big thing is that they wont be coming for you yet. They recognize how brilliant you are, having found you through some of your old school achievements, they have people who look for talent especially orphans. That said most people dont rate a personal agent and the ones that do they tend to slow play. Honestly I'm way too high up for this, but mom wanted me to get some field experience so she got me a cush first gig to ease me in." She seemed to withdraw a bit as she mentioned her mother, something Felicia noticed and acted to correct by pulling her close in another hug. As she did you felt the forge fire again.

Celestial forge accessed: Modular Designs (Dead Space) (400CP) Sufficient CP: Purchased. 0 CP banked.

You felt your face stretch into a grin as you joined your girls in their cuddle puddle, comforting Ruby. This was a good place to start. With this last key piece, you could finally begin your real work. It was time to invent.

You laid there cuddling for about another hour before popping up and kissing the girls, telling them you had some work in the lab. You were blackmailed into promising to make dinner tonight but with the time compression the entire day you now had was even longer. However when you slipped into the closet you got dressed and slipped out, letting them know you would be doing your work elsewhere but promising to be back on time. You suspected Felicia would just call out again to cuddle and fuck Ruby all day, and wished you had bothered with security cameras when you did your room upgrade. At least the noise baffling had come in handy, your girls were screamers.

You headed downtown to the nearest scrap yard and making sure you weren't followed walked through your archway. The thing was damn useful and it occurred to you you had been underusing it. Since you were the only one who could get in you could toss things into the arch and into your lab to get later and to anyone else they would just disappear. Sure it wasnt exactly a hammer space since you would need to actually walk in and get it back but it would be useful for hiding things. Plus you could use it as a supply depot if you were ever trapped.

As you entered the arch you made a mental note to stock this place with a fridge and some necessities, though you'd need to keep an eye on expiration since time ran faster in here. Shaking off the odd thoughts you dropped into the chair at your bench. Now was work time. Your initial plan was simple. Your new perk had a salvaging robot unit in it called scavenger bots. One of the upsides to making Appolyon was some control over your artifacts as well. You couldn't make them happen still, but you could decide not to make one, which meant you were free to use multiple perks on these and not just create one really good one and then be forced to make a bunch of sub par original recipe versions with it.

Grinning to yourself, you started on the scavenger bots. First you used Artisan of course, stealth wasn't too big an issue in a scrapyard normally for scavenger bots, but since Artisan made them gorgeous you needed to hide them, luckily you were able to work in a holo projector to throw up a simple image of whatever was behind them. It wouldnt stand up to intense scrutiny but you doubted anyone would be intensely scrutinizing a junkyard in the morning anyway. Next up you used soft physics and Duct Tape master, there wasnt a spark thankfully, you could stop the artifact process but it was annoying and felt like a waste. With modular technology you knew you could always add more features later so after including a few sorting and storage tanks you finished up the first one.

You looked at the recliner sized machine and sent it off through the arch with instructions to come back after it gathered a set amount of every element it found. You made sure to create exceptions for basic stuff you had in the workshop. Then you cranked out five more and sent them out too before getting to work building containers for whatever they brought back. It took you most of four hours to finish the containment system (you used soft physics to make them bigger than they should be) and by that time the bots were back, though it had only been two hours outside. You let them in through the arch since you were the only person who could enter or allow entry and had them connect themselves to the containers.

You were...very glad you had done that. Some of the elements they brought back werent exactly safe. You saw some uranium in there, and some Chitauri metal that was apparently contaminated with something or other. Luckily your new tech tree had plenty of engineering principles dedicated to safety and apparently alien contagions werent a new thing to them. You sent them out for several more runs filling up the containers almost completely. At that point however you had to stop. The scavengers were stealthed but they werent subtle. The remains of the electronics you salvaged were mostly neatly stacked in condensed cubes, which while far more pleasant to look at was decidedly easy to spot.

Slipping on Glory just in case, you pulled on a dark hoodie and walked casually out of the arch. People were starting to gather outside the scrapyard, but the whole out of focus thing your mask did meant if you moved reasonably quick most people wouldnt have time to register you. You were sure some of them noticed you anyway but they were mostly focused on the yard and once you were a few streets away you picked an alley with no cameras to hop back into the archway and de mask and lose the jacket. You came out the other side of the alley a normal ttren in cargo pants and a shirt and headed back to the orphanage in time to make dinner for the girls before you settled in to do a bit of real work.

You made them lasagna , which they loved, though they were fairly tired and Felicia was having trouble walking now too. Ruby was tough but seemed to heal at normally speed and both of them winced as they sat down. Ruby was clearly rough on our kitten today but you smiled and fed them giving them each a kiss on the forehead and a promise to be out before midnight so you would have time to cuddle tonight. Felicia had to head back to school tomorrow, though Ruby didn't because Hydra wanted her free to infiltrate your life so tomorrow it would just be you and your princess. As you headed to your closet to let yourself back into the lab you felt the forge trigger again.

Celestial forge accessed: OPTIMIZED (The Culture Minds) (600CP) Insufficient CP: 100 CP banked. Total banked CP: 100.

Shrugging at your newest miss because you still had plenty to do you sat down to focus on your work. Question was, what should your focus be?

You hadn't gotten a new perk but you did have new options from the last one. You mentally pulled up the schematics for the Viivifier and the Reanimator to look them over. The Elixir half of the vivifier was more than doable, spirit of camphor was a real thing you could get if you looked, and blood pills weren't exactly unheard of. No the big issue resource was was the unknown chemical compound. The recipe didnt have any sort of guide to making the stuff since it was unknown, but luckily Duct Tape master came through in the clutch. You checked through the containers of processed resources from the dump for a few minutes before you found what you needed.

The closest match to the compound you could find was a mixture of xenon, neon, and tritium. Luckily you had at least a bit of the third because that shit was rare, You used a pressurized canister to mix them all and then inject them into the decocting station, adding in the two other ingredients. From there the recipe was annoyingly complicated requiring sequential boiling and cooling periods of various timing and constant split second supervision. Honestly without artisan you didnt think making this stuff would even be possible, ingredients or not. You winced at the thought of whoever invented this process testing it over the span of probably decades or maybe centuries if they weren't human.

Finally after about three hours workshop time you had finished three batches. The strange citrine liquid seemed to almost glow in the vials, and you desperately wanted to test them out now, but you figured on the off chance they failed having your next project around would be necessary. The reanimator was slightly more complex, but in the same vein easier for you. It was a combination of chemicals and machine. You actually needed cure alls for the thing, but luckily some of the compounds in your storage were better suited to its creation than pepto and motor oil. Argon was not only a fantastic match to cure alls ingredients, the exchange rate was even a bit in your favor, you got more of the stuff out of a smaller amount of argon though god knows you werent sure how that even worked.

The capacitor portion was harder. The allot used was magical in nature in an intrinsic way. It counted as a magical metal and any regular metal would have needed metric fucktons of material to compensate. Luckily you had a few very rare metals in your stockpile to use, and a mixture of palladium, rhodium, and osmium got you a metal with a close enough exchange rate that soft physics was able to keep the devices dimensions with some help from steel to fill out the space a bit. Some of the things you made required their shape or form for more than just construction purposes. Mystical objects like the reanimator needed to have very precise dimensions. Soft physics was the only reason Duct Tape master allowed the creation of delicate things like this, given the additional amounts of materials you needed for conversion.

Another three hours into this project and you finally had three more copies of it made. Grinning to yourself you stepped out of the closet to shake your girls awake and bring them into the lab so you could all try the vivifier together. This was a big day, you were finally going to be noticeably more than human. You had your Legion muscles of course and your Named status (though you hadnt discovered your Name yet so it was pretty muted in terms of benefit) but being sixteen and a fairly compact five nine there were bigger men who were stronger even with your mystical state. But this particular cocktail was going to put you at a higher level. Ten percent wasnt alot in an individual facet of your body, but a ten percent boost in endurance and strength and speed were multiplicative. You could swing harder and faster and hit with a more solid body.

Your girls looked exhausted as they dragged themselves into the lab, rubbing sleep from their eyes and glaring at you cutely, Felicia more than Ruby, but you just grinned back at them and waited for one of them to ask. Felicia, being impatient as hell was the first to demand "Well? What the hell made you think it was a good idea to wake us up out of a dead sleep? If this isnt an earthshaking emergency you're cut off for a month. And you wont be having sex with Ruby either." Ruby looked somewhat irritated at that statement but with a subtle glance down at Felicias ass she looked up and nodded in solidarity.

You rolled your eyes at her (you were pretty sure) empty threat, but in the end you were positive she would think it was worth the wake up. You held up the vials "These are vials of vivifier. I couldn't make the stuff until now because it requires some stupidly rare ingredients that dont technically exist on this planet, or even in this universe. But I was able to fudge some stuff after I built my scavenger bots and had them raid one of the New York dumps for me. The vivifier is an amazing formula, it permanently increases the physical and mental capabilities of anyone who ingests it by ten percent in all areas. Roughly. Trust me that ends up being much better than it sounds."

Both girls froze, and Ruby, who looked much more awake now, raised her hand in a parody of a student trying to get picked by the teacher "I'm sorry, but it kind of sounds like you're describing a super soldier serum. You cant make a super soldier serum can you? Because that would be absurd, people have been trying to recreate that formula for decades, and even Erskine needed some kind of weird radioactive tanning bed no one can recreate. It wasnt just a serum." Her eyes were sharp, and very hungry, and you could tell Ruby wanted to take the vivifier badly. During her little rant the forge fired and you mentally took a second to review the results.

Celestial forge accessed: Lathe of Heaven (Chrono Trigger) (400CP) Insufficient CP: 100 CP banked. Total banked CP:200.

Ignoring the failed roll you responded to Rubys question with a grin "That is in fact exactly what I'm saying. Cumulatively its around the same strength, though it affects factors the original didnt. Will power charisma and beauty to name a few. Dont ask me how it makes you more charismatic, honestly I have only a vague idea of the actual workings of the formula, half of it is described in the recipe as just 'unknown compound'." You decided not to mention the reanimator to them just yet. They seemed pretty blown away by just this, being able to resurrect the dead might make them straight up pass out from shock. You decided to just bull through and hope they could handle it "Now despite trusting my process completely this stuff is pretty dangerous so we're going to take it one at a time so we can use a healing potion if necessary."

You couldnt remember for the life of you if you actually gave your girls their cure alls, and checking your desk drawers it looked like you hadn't so you passed the vials to them with instructions to keep them safe. You'd clad the vials in a metal frame so they werent likely to break and they were small enough to hang on a chain on their necks. After that you finally handed them the vivifiers and informed them you were going first, before you took a deep breath and tossed it back. The vivifier tasted like...lemon battery acid. Sour and burning. That nearly electric buzz racedd own your throat hit your stomach and amplified, running through your whole body and building as it went. As it built the buzz became an electric hum, feeling like live electricity running through you, and you had to brace yourself against the table.

You felt your muscles stretch and then contract and then sort of twist, like they were looking for the right configuration, the strength boost warring with the speed and constitution increase until the finally evened out into a perfected form greater than the whole. You felt your face rearrange and your vocal chords subtle shift in your throat and even your eyes burned a bit as you felt them change somehow. Your skin tightened and softened the charisma and beauty boosts mixing with the physical upgrades to your body from the fine tuning and harmonizing to make your change in appearance even more pronounced. Like a virtuous cycle of improvement that overhauled your whole being. You were sweating too, a lot. Your skin clearing itself up of any minor acne or imperfection and your pores cleaning themselves as your system dumped any toxins, the massive reboot to your body causing a full purge.

It felt like both seconds and hours, and when you were done you realized you were half collapsed against the metal work table next to you. You looked up at the girls who were staring. You knew your artisan mixing had increased the potency of the vivifier, refining the process after you had practiced with the cure alls. This was exactly a ten percent bump not the one flat point you had expected. Which was much better, since you knew some of your stats as it were would be higher than average. The girls walked over and Ruby poked your face, causing you to flinch back "What the fuck Ruby? Who pokes a face?" She actually giggled at that, her sound in stereo with Felicias snickers as she squeezed your bicep.

Ruby was in awe "You were right. Also holy shit, we are going to be so fucking sexy after we take these. I mean we're already sexy, but an improvement like that?" She glanced over at Felicias curvy body and licked her lips " Well heres hoping it increases sex drive." She laughed a bit at her own comments and then her face got serious and she reached up to touch your face gently "But in all seriousness Anthony. This...you cant know what this means to me. Being a super soldier is all I've ever wanted, but I knew I couldnt have it. I was raised for this, born for it. You're giving me everything here." She leaned up to kiss you gently "Everything I am is yours now." She rached down and gently took her vial from the table, Felicia doing the same now that you knew it was safe and downing both.

Seeing them change was an odd experience. Artisans ability to read peoples body language harmonized perfectly with your increased intelligence and perception, massively amplifying your ability to understand what they felt. You saw the changes take place in real time, the muscles adjusting the eyes become brighter the skin tightening. The shifts to their faces were frankly awe inspiring, both girls having been world class beauties already but now becoming something...otherworldly. Ten percent wasnt enough to make them unrecognizable, or even obvious if you weren't watching it happen. But it added up and it was just... breathtaking.

As the changes washed over them, strengthening and improving ( You were pretty sure Felicias ass got bigger, and you were POSITIVE Ruby went up a cup size) you thanked you were all sixteen and changes could be explained away by growing. Felicia could just play it off as people not remembering how hot she was but Ruby was going to have to be careful not to check in in person for a while. Hydra would definitely notice this, luckily she was mostly on her own out here. A few weeks would make this seem like it could have been a natural change, plus people would forget what she looked like as time went by, the combination excusing the changes. You felt the forge fire again as waited for them to settle, grateful to take your mind off the Hydra mess.

Celestial forge accessed: Weird Science (Bleach) (200CP) Sufficient CP: Purchased. Remaining CP banked 100. Total banked CP: 100.

That one made you blink. Apparently you could make object that run off souls. You couldn't help but think about the soulsteel you had refused to make, and how that might synergize with these devices. That said they were pretty limited. Alot of the abilities seemed to rely on making "mod souls" which you couldnt do yet. Though you wondered if it would be possible to make mod souls into soul steel using Duct Tape master. As long as you did the research it should be feasible though as it stood the souls would feel pain which wasnt ok. Dismissing the thoughts for later you focused back on your girls as they both came out of their upgrade trance and grinned. They really had gotten sexier. And stronger. You had finally taken your first real step. This deserved some celebration.

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Perks:

Safety First (Cardcaptor Sakura) (200CP)

You can choose to be completely unaffected by your own magic when it suits you, including beings that were created by you or spells taught to others that you designed

Modular Designs (Dead Space) (400CP)

It's always easier to make better things from better materials, and your knowledge of far-future engineering is top-notch, meaning that all of the things you make are all that much better for it. Aside from being able to upgrade parts, tools, and weapons further, and make better base parts for tools and weapons, you can apply the bonuses of Infinitely Customizable to things other than tools and weapons, breaking anything down into classes of modular parts and swapping them around to your heart's content. This nearly obviates every part of the process of retro-fitting older creations with newer parts, aside from the actual manual labor and time.

Weird Science (Bleach) (200CP)

While the rest of the Soul Society resembles feudal Japan, the Shinigami R&D area is the exception. Like them you can create devices that run off of spiritual power, and can, in time create mod souls as well.