Harem Assassins : King Sekton's Harem Planet, Book 2: A Space Opera Harem Adventure Baron Sord (good books to read for adults .txt) 📖

“I’ll do the other two,” I said, vectoring them off the ground to my hand and charged them similarly.

“You’re quite useful, aren’t you?” Theia said with an amused laugh.

“I’m happy to help,” I chuckled. “Where’s the bomb, by the way?”

“Strapped to my back.” She nodded at the backpack bomb. It had two shoulder straps, was a stretched hexagon that tapered toward the bottom and resembled a coffin — fitting for a bomb you wore on your back — and was about 15 centimeters thick.

“The back of it is camouflaged,” I observed. “It matches the castle stones perfectly.”

“Like our armor, it has a reactive plate on the back.”

The six sides of the bomb were black and easy to spot, but the entire plane of the rear surface looked like green stone.

I said, “Can we—”

BRAAAAAP!

Theia suddenly fired at another demon trying to sneak a shot at us from overhead on the keep’s wall. Instead of falling down on us, he fell backward and out of view.

“You were saying, my king?”

“Can we attach the bomb to the wall? Between its camouflage and my ability to create stonework to match, we can leave it in plain view and no one will ever see it, assuming they don’t see us planting it.”

“That’s an excellent idea, my king.”

“Question is, is this bomb big enough to blow this entire asteroid?”

“If we put it in the center of it, yes. Out here? Doubtful, my king. This appears to be solid stone earthworks. Much of the blast force would be deflected away from the inner workings.”

“We have to go inside the keep, don’t we?” I asked grimly.

“We might be able to blow the—” Theia suddenly twisted and—

BRAAAAAP!

Took out another approaching space demon skulking toward us on the ground level. It dropped to the green paving stones, dead.

Theia said, “We might be able to destroy the barrel of the gate projector, but that might be easily repaired. If we want to shut this gate down permanently, we need to destroy this entire asteroid from the inside.”

“Agreed. That means we have to fight our way in past any gates and guards, plant the bomb, and get out without getting trapped.”

“Yes, my king.”

“We can do that easy,” I chuckled doubtfully.

“Or you could leave me here to do it myself, my king.”

“No. We’re both leaving this place alive. That’s an order.”

“Tell that to these demons,” she grunted and spun to fire another burst.

BRAAAAAAP!

—: Chapter 41 :—

“We better move quick before the rest of the demons get here,” I said over comms.

Theia replied, “I think there’s an iron gate entrance to the keep around the other side. If you cover me with this rifle, perhaps I can get inside with the bomb.”

“You keep trying to find excuses to sacrifice yourself, don’t you?”

“It’s not an excuse, my king. It’s my duty.”

“I say we go inside right here.”

“Where, my king?” Theia glanced behind her at the solid green stone wall.

“Here,” I said and turned to the wall and placed my hands on it.

I started extracting MASS.

With my hands touching the stone, the rate of extraction was insanely fast. Effectively instantly, a 2 meter diameter circular shaft appeared in the wall, drilled horizontally to a depth of 2 meters.

“Get in,” I said over comms.

“After you, my king.”

“Fine,” I snorted, stepped in, and waved a hand at Theia.

BRAAAAP!

She fired a burst at another approaching demon before hopping inside.

I sealed the opening with a solid meter of granite, leaving us squeezed together inside the keep wall in complete darkness. No, correction. There was a faint green glow from the stones, but it was very dim.

Blazing lights lit up on Theia’s helmet.

I saw in my visor HUD a virtual button for lights and focused on it until it blinked and my own helmet lights blazed on. Glancing around, we were in the “fill” area of keep wall. The tightly packed gravel and dirt over our heads was already starting to crumble and rain down dustily on our heads and shoulders. To avoid a cave-in, I applied an array of upward POSITION vectors shaped like an arch to support the fill gravel.

“How did you…” Captain Theia marveled over comms. “Did you do this with your ring?”

“Yeah, how else? Let me guess. The last king never did anything like this?”

“Never,” Theia snorted. “You are very clever, my king.” Her face appeared smiling in a small comms window inside my visor. As always, her kryptonite green eyes glowed from her gorgeous face.

“Thanks. Now let’s see if we can plant this bomb and get out of here without either of us dying.”

“If you can do this…” she motioned at our cramped, circular compartment, “…you can do near anything, my king.”

“We’ll see about that,” I snorted. “Now I need to scan the innards of this castle and figure out where we can put the bomb.”

“Here? The stone is too thick.”

“Not here.”

“Then where?”

“We’ll tunnel our way to the center like a couple of industrious moles,” I said with a wink and a grin. “Wait, you have moles on Zalaxia, right?”

“Moles, my king?”

“Very small animal versions of us,” I offered another wink, “but with fur, huge hands with digging claws, and beady little eyes so small you barely notice them.”

“Oh, you mean diggers. Cutest little things. Very industrious, like you said.”

“Yeah, those,” I chuckled, suddenly happy I was here with Theia, despite the danger.

Ring, I thought, show me the entire structure of this asteroid as a 3D diagram in my HUD.

I placed my gauntlets against the stone around us in case connectivity increased the reach of my scan.

Seconds later, the diagram appeared floating before my eyes.

The asteroid’s architecture reminded me of a 3D castle-dungeon map from a Dungeons & Dragons module. Every room and passage led deeper toward the center of the asteroid. Of course, the fact that it was built as if each individual face of the pyramid had its own gravity made it nothing like a D&D dungeon. But hey, this wasn’t D&D.

At the center of the structure was