The hivemind is conquering for me?

I was pacing back and forth in the room while Nerissa watched my form curiously. For the past hour, she kept on dropping very juicy snippets of information, that not only were fascinating, but inadvertently could help me grow stronger when the time comes and I needed time to process.
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Not long later I turned to ask her. "So you and your 'kin.' You are all stronger than almost all human Psionic wielders correct?" So why do you still serve what is basically your gods de-evolved children? What do you get out of this ordeal?"

Nerissa took no time to answer, like she had already prepared the answer. "Simple, Our directives. Since we are created from emotions and energy, we are usually given directives to follow. Apollo was a powerful healer and enjoyed a simpler life compared to most of the others of the Olympian council, When I manifested In her Garden, She was in the midst of composing a song as she liked to do in her free time."

Nerissa smiled as she remembered her first moment. "She seemed startled by my presence for a moment, before a radiant smile bloomed on her face. 'Oh, Hello there.' She said. 'I did not realise I was expelling my energy. Please you are free to do as you like, I have no need for servants here.' And so my directive was given. I was free to do as I wished."

Nerissa looked back at me just as I was about to say something and continued. " I decided I wanted to serve the being that gave me life, intentionally or not, anyway and did so happily for beyond centuries and after..." Nerissa started twitching as something was right on the tip of her tongue, but she could not say. "-The incident, My fellow Nymphs and I decided with our leaders strength gone, it was up to us to guide the next generations to uphold the legacy they once had."

Just more and more questions with each answer. It was seriously frustrating, but also fun as I was learning new things. "You keep mentioning this 'incident' over the last hour, and in you explanations, you get quite strange around the subject. Now I know you won't outright tell me what it was, but could I possibly get a hint? A nudge in the right direction so to speak and then I will leave you alone for a while?"

Nerissa pondered a moment as she tried to word what she wanted to say correctly before responding with a question of her own. "This galaxy, like all galaxies has countless black hole dotted around its space, but why would there be another supermassive blackhole so close to Spartari, when Spartari is nowhere near the centre of this galaxy? And why you might wonder, Is that blackhole not seeming to expand at all?"

"Psionic bullshit..." I muttered under my breath, guessing the answer. Spartari founders, gods, strange co-universal connections. I began to wonder if all the galaxies in this universe are strange, or If I was just reincarnated into the weirdest one.

Speaking of Spartari founders, my mind suddenly wandered to a founder I knew that survived. " I wonder if Ares knew about the black hole secret? I doubt it, I wonder how long his energy was inside that temple before this 'incident' occurred?"

Not realising I was still mumbling, I only became aware of the fact when a sword With glowing Psionically charged edges materialised into her hand. "Where did you hear that name Apollo? As intriguing as I find you, if you do not give me a satisfying answer, you will need to be eliminated, if you are an agent of that Savage mechanist, you can not be allowed to live." Nerissa threatened.

*Sigh* "Me and my fucking thinking out loud." I cursed myself before I began to tell Nerissa about my time on the neutral planet with the Ares temple and the Deimos and Phobos troops. Since she had been honest with me about her past, I also told her about Ares giving me some of his soul energy before dissipating.

A brief pause followed my story before Nerissa spoke. "Intriguing. So you are the one who made is possible for me to wield my new rifle? The universe can be a small place sometimes. I appreciate you telling me of what had become of Ares's energy, it has built up the trust between us once more."

Nerissa then sat down on the end of the bed, causing it to creak due to her heavy armour. "Though the prospect of his splintered Psionic existence returning to his original body, if he is still alive, is worrying to me."

Following her body language, I too sat on the end of the bed next to her causing it to creak once more. "If it is any consolation, Ares seemed rather laid back when I spoke to him. I think he tried something he thought was right and when he failed, he accepted the outcome and moved on. Besides, If he actually cared and was still out there, wouldn't he have come back by now?"

Nerissa smiled as she looked at me. "Thank you Apollo. For someone so young and powerful, I cannot help admire your mindset and the way in which you think. Being surrounded by the same dogma for so long has worn me out without me realising, I think I will enjoy following you around." She said as she put her helmet back on.

I was about to reply with something witty and suggest we go get something to eat as my appetite came back, but before a could, the bed creaked loudly and suddenly. *Bang* collapsed under our respective weights.

We both fell at an awkward angle, and as I tried to stand balance myself up, I realised Nerissa was directly below me, staring up at me silently though her eye slits. I smiled to myself upon realising the position I was in. 'Huh, that was really cliché, the only thing that would make this moment more so would be if...'

The door to the bedroom burst open and Kathrine began speaking. "Apollo, we are back! Hailey has decided to dock her ship in the hanger and mummy decided to come check on my work. They are in the lounge right now, are you feeling any... better?" It was at that moment when Kathrine noticed me on top of the Praetorian, on a broken bed, still in my dishevelled clothes.

She was speechless for a moment before a smile crept upon her face. "My my handsome, you work fast huh? I did not know Praetorians could be swayed into lovemaking. Now are you two just wanting some alone time, or would you like a spectator? Look there is even a little chair here for me to use." She said as she pointed to the corner.

Looking to where Kathrine was pointing, there was in fact a chair there which was weird, as I did not remember a chair being there earlier...

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"Apollo slow down, you are going to choke if you continue to eat like that, you can have as much as you want so take it easy." Kathrine said concerned. We were in the dining area of the ship, inside of Valerica's exclusive suite.

After taking a sip of my drink to re lubricate my eating hole, I replied. "You get stuck inside a beam that literally creates a paradox of your existence and makes you feel the most incomprehensible pain you could ever think of and after that, spend hours fixing the damage it caused after miraculously surviving becoming a paradoxical existence, then you get to grill me about eating fast."

Valerica smiled at my reply as she brushed my hair with a motherly affection. "Yes kitten, let the man eat. None of us mind after all? Right Hailey?" Hailey was currently eating with proper etiquette with her back up straight and all her other postures immaculate, One would think she would mind, however. " I have been around soldiers my entire adult life, Apollo's current eating manners are still just that, manners. You should see how those animals we call the Phalanx eat." She said as she shivered picturing it.

"Why am I being singled out? I am just worried about him." Kathrine pouted and began to poke her food with her fork.

After they had finished eating, I was onto another plate of food that Nerissa was kind enough to get for me as she could not fit in the table with the armour she was wearing. As she placed the food down and moved off to the side to observe, Hailey had a question.

"So Apollo, what do you have planned now that you have a praetorian at your beck and call? With her around, you technically have unlimited clearance to anywhere in Spartari." She asked causing me to think a moment.

"Well nothing really, I am only in the core worlds for another week till I go home. With the amplification of my Psionic decay thanks to that shitty anti Psionic beam, I only have a couple of months top to live now before the decay offs me, so I need to go and deal with that." I said casually with a shrug before I bit into a fried something.

I did not realise that what I said was actually shocking news to others that were not living in my Mindspace and or my eternal mate until the collective women in my presence screamed.

"Wait What!"