Path of the Stars- Chapter 19 (Patreon)

Loud clashes rang out as Talon's light saber clashed against my own, with us both grinning as we were a furious blur across the loading bay as Talon did her level best to 'kill' me with her own light saber.

Not once had she swung at my brain matter which I had warned her was something I didn't want to try to heal. But everything else? Over the last couple week's I had taken... Literally hundreds of lethal wounds.

I had lost my arms, hands, legs, and had been cut open with my guts falling out countless times. Over this two-week period of all no holds barred for Talon at least. Both of us had grown greatly in lightsaber combat skills.

Was I the match of Obi-Wan Kenobi? Mace Windu, or the real legends in Yoda/Count Dookuu? Hell no, I was not anywhere near the level of the true grandmasters in terms of lightsaber combat skill and experience.

But... I still had time to fix that. And no matter what, even Count Dooky would be punched in the face by my seared off stump after he did some fancy move to cut off my hand, even at this point.

Doesn't matter if they cut off my hands if I still break their fucking noses and I regrow my hands after a minute. Let alone just re-attaching the thing.

Talon came in with a wide sweep of her lightsaber, and I blocked with both of mine with her throwing her hand at me to throw me back with a blast of Force Kinetic energy.

I held my ground with the ground rumbling as I anchored myself with the force and then as the wave of kinetic energy passed. I slashed at her again and as she caught both of my light saber's with her own.

I stuck a couple of fingers out and she backstepped with a hiss as a weaker pulse of force lightning arc to her form and made her stiffen.

And as she continued to backstep. I knew she was done with this sparring match. As we were only a couple of days from Hyperkarn, we couldn't push ourselves too hard at this point.

Talon exhaled softly to reset herself. The glow of dark side energy in her eyes faded and returned from the caustic yellow to the softer gold in her eyes.

And then Talon stretched slightly as she closed the power system to her lightsaber and it closed.

'Always nice to see a big titty hot alien stretching in tight leather.' I thought with a grin as I put away my own lightsaber.

"Hmm, will you be joining me in the sonic shower, Jake?" Talon asked with a light smile as she gazed at me.

But I shook my head and said helplessly. "Nah, I need to actually wash down. I just don't feel right unless my body get's wet with real water, even if that sonic nonsense can truly kill all the bacteria on me as well as knock all the sweat and stuff aside.'

While even on Tatooine, I could use the ship's shower system with actual water to get clean and comfy. But on a two-week cruise? Even if all the water used in the system was heavily filtered... No one liked recycled water.

Plus, Talon may not mind it at all because she was a Sith who liked to be choked out as a casual fetish. But I didn't enjoy lovemaking when it feels like a very low-grade taser was aimed at your body at all angles.

So I happily went and washed up by summoning several plants that would release a stream of rather chilly water before I went and THEN snuggled up with Talon, who laid out across my lap in the couch set in the cock pit.

And there was no better stress toy for idle thinking than a nice set of tits to play with. "Hmm... I still haven't considered a name for the ship we are going to take over." I muttered thoughtfully.

Talon was quiet for a moment, and then she said with a slightly breathy tone. "Maybe a name that means something to you. A story from your homeworld, maybe even my name, hmm?" 

A transformed colony ship turned into an Xianzhou vessel called the Talon? Honestly, that wasn't a bad idea. But... Once I took over the ship, before I tried to bring the ship to life like that.

I wanted to try something. I wanted to see if I could touch upon the Path of the Trailblaze and turn the colony ship into the Astral Express. After all, the Astral Express was the 'divine' manifestation of the Path of Trailblaze. 

Something that was capable of traversing an entire universe with ease. But even capable of laying down conceptual tracks behind it that allowed others to follow.

Because if I stuck with the hyperdrives of the Star Wars technology base. I woudn't be able to go to the Halo or Warhammer galaxies. Because Hyperspace needed to be mapped to be safely flown through.

Large gravity sources like gas giants and black holes could destroy the ship while flying through hyperspace before we could react.

That's why colony ships were giant flying fortresses. Not at all because they were built to stop pirates and raiders. That was a bonus, but no, the reason they had a dozen layers of shields was that while flying through unmapped hyperspace.

They NEEDED the extra shield layers to have any chance of survival.

A soft exhale left me before a loud blip rang out, and I wore a slight frown as speak of the devil. But the hyperspace data port got updated in our sector for a slight deviation to our course due to a random solar collapse.

Talon, meanwhile took my moment of distraction to take my idle hand that wasn't firmly placed on her boobage. To then very firmly get attention on her by lightly biting on the tip of my thumb of all things.

"Why bite my finger?" I said with amused exasperation.

And Talon said a rather teasing tone. "I prefer bites to get your attention, and sucking to keep your attention for much longer, more enjoyable times." 

My gaze fell within Talon's, and the shared gaze only lasted a couple of moments before she let out an unusual giggle. Then she turned her head slightly in my lap to pull my already stiff manhood out of my shorts and slip the tip into her mouth as she raised her head.

My hand that she previously bit and wasn't busy still playing with her tits went to her head. 'Getting a blowjob from a female with no hair is... Always something interesting.' I thought as I mentally compared when I got head from Oola/Talon and when I got a blowy from Shmi.

The feeling of your hand intertwining with their hair, to direct their head, or likewise feeling their leeku offered very different feelings.

But regardless of whether it was a human or Twi-Lek women, both races had the wonderful ability to properly give head... Not a fucking chance in hell I was going to try to romance the majority of races anyway.

Imagine trying to get a blowie from a Sangheili/Elite, a Grunt/Unggoy or a Warhammer Orc. To say nothing of anything remotely sexual with something as unconventional as a Hutt.

Yeahhhh, sadly for most 'normal' people even in this mixed universe of a hellhole. Most xeno/nonhuman races were very much on the fugly/furry scale. Because I most definitely also wasn't going to fuck a wookie or Brute/Jiralhanae either.

Talon's mouth descended further, and I let out a sigh of relaxation as using the talent of a force wielder with amazing control over her own body. Her gag reflex was just an afterthought.

After I had my release into her mouth, Talon and I shared some thoughts about our recent meditations as well as going over battle plans once we reached the Batarian slaver ship.

After that, I went back to my own deep meditations for the rest of my free time. As I wanted to TRY to touch upon the Path of Trailblaze.... Went as well as could be imagined.

One doesn't just sit on their ass and just embrace a Path after all. They have to be doing things related to that path and even then. The likelihood of an Aeon paying you any attention was slim at best.

It was only my cheat that made the Aeon's 'more' likely to pay note to me and allow me to walk their Paths much more easily. And for a Path whose Aeon had fallen? Yeah, that was going to be far, far harder to get synced up with.

"I can't... Unless I do something naturally worthy of gaining the title of an Emanator, I can't get the attention of a Path with a fallen Aeon." I muttered to myself with a helpless shrug.

But then, while in my deep meditation, my own personal combination of an angel and devil on my shoulder 'spoke' up. Yaoshi descended in the mix of the Path Space and the void of the deep Force Meditation I was in.

Though by Yaoshi descending, I meant that it was just a part of their presence and not their entire form, as appeared last time as they tried to bless me.

I didn't have long to wait as Yaoshi's ethereal and haunting voice of life filled my 'mental' ears.

"I managed to speak with The Erudition, and The Elation... Erudition is searching through the Path of Erudition for you to make a notable discovery, to then lock onto your universe. And the Elation... Is climbing to the peak of the Imaginary Tree, They are planning to swan dive off the tree, very specifically swan diving to find you."

I was silent for a long moment before I said helplessly. "Why does that tactical swan dive make me feel like that is a threat? Not so much a swan dive if it's a flying elbow from a cosmic being that could smash a galaxy to pieces?" 

In a flash, I 'saw' Yaoshi's androgynous expression turn into a frown before the sight faded away. And then Yaoshi spoke with certainty. "If the Elation destroys your galaxy, I will bring it back to life. I will bring you back to life and with your soul in my hands, I will be able to make you anew. Truly unable to die, unable to face pain, sickness, or any mortal suffering."

I shuddered at feeling the eldritch gaze of the Aeon of Abundance's countless eye's as they said with Finality. "I can fix you Jake if anything happens. No matter what happens to you, no matter what you do, my care for you will be unending, and you will suffer for naught."

'Yeah... That suffering for naught is the real fear. There are a number of ways to fucking be sealed even in this Star Wars and Mass Effect merged galaxy.' I thought with a chill.

As in reality, while the Warhammer Galaxy includes its Chaos Gods, Eldar Gods, C'Tan, and humanity's own Emperor of Humanity. This universe was NOT lacking in it's own gods.

The Force Gods in their natural habitat in the Force could probably lock hands with a Chaos God. And let's not even get into the horror show that was fucking Abbeloth.

As for the Halo Universe? I would honestly put a Grave Mind at the level of a lesser Chaos God. And seeing as there were multiple active and in endless war with the still active Forerunners and lesser races...

Yeah, this universe was fucked. Utterly fucked, and I wanted Uncle Nanook to come over and burn it all to ashes with his Destruction.

Still, while Nous was... Somewhat reliable 'Not really!' The aptly named Droidhead's code of conduct was most prone to blessing scientists and people who could explore the bounds of knowledge. 

As for myself. 'Uhhh I may not be a complete fool. But a member of the Genius Society, I very much doubt I am at the scientific level of.' I thought helplessly.

But then something struck me. I am not an idiot, so while I couldn't discover or innovate new fields of science entirely, I could look into and 'discover' technology that didn't innately belong to the Honkai Star Rail Universe in general!

'Actually who says I can't be a genius of hardwork... Yeah that's not how that shit goes but I can try at least.' I thought before I spoke honestly to Yaoshi who had been patiently waiting for me to sort through my thoughts.

"I might have a way to get Nous's attention. But it's still gonna take some time, I truly am NOT a true genius by your guy's local standards." I said bluntly.

Yaoshi somehow sent the feeling of patting my head. And I could feel the Aeon's clawed yet ever so soft hands that patted my head and made me flinch at the feeling, to say the least.

Then the Aeon of Abundance faded away. Having given me a new direction to get the blessings of other Aeons... And for better or worse, get their attention into this universe.

I looked out past the swirling blue lights of hyperspace and said quietly. "Whelp... Time to see if learning how a Hyperspace engine works will get the attention of an Aeon. If that won't work, then I will need to see if I can take apart and learn how a Mass Effect, Mass Relay works."