Star Force: Newbslayer (SF64) Read Free

embarrassment, and if she did
that would have been a sign that she had something to work on.
    Jenna also knew that an enemy wouldn’t hold to a no-go
zone anyway, so if she was really serious about learning how to defend herself
she had to get hit in every which way during training, holding nothing back.
    It was awkward at first, because since becoming an
Archon she hadn’t really dealt with that part of her in any significant way. It
was always riding in the background, but it was things like that that could be
used against you, so she welcomed the challenge…and that fact that Levi’s
mental prodding felt really good.
    But therein was the trick of it, because if she let
herself enjoy it her defenses would lapse and he could gain further access to
her mind and circumvent her blocks. The Farchor especially could be partially
disabled if she went into ‘pleasure’ mode, which was why Levi hit her with that
attack often, because it had offered him the most success in the past.
    And that was the way it worked with Archons. Sexual
pleasure wasn’t a bad thing, but pleasure for pleasure sake without a purpose
was the sign of a junkie-style loser. If you wanted to reproduce it served a
purpose. Archons didn’t and therefore sex had no purpose. The rest of the Human
population still didn’t seem to understand that simple principle, thinking that
the Archons were emotionless monks or just downright crazy. After all, what
would it hurt to have a little fun during downtime?
    Except that Archons never had downtime in that way.
Everything they did, including sleep, had a purpose, as did this mental
training. Orgasm for the sake of fun was stupid. Orgasm for the sake of
training…just an added bonus.
    Jenna knew that was sound thinking, and prided herself
on being a step ahead of a lot of the others in that regard, for her mind would
be a bit more shielded in the aftermath of the training than theirs would be.
The ironic thing, in this case, was that she was resisting the pleasure rather
than embracing it, and only when she failed royally did she end up in a state
of euphoria.
    At which point Levi would just stare at her with a
‘you are weak’ look of victory on his face. She hated that smirk, but even more
so the fact that he was right. She shouldn’t have a part of herself that she
couldn’t control, and it goaded her into working even harder to put some armor
over that vulnerability.
    Which was why now when Levi tried that tactic he
didn’t get far. Resisting pain was a unique skill, but resisting pleasure was
wholly different…and it was a skill that Jenna was proud to have learned, for
now Levi couldn’t get her awash with that type of distraction anymore, but he
could still throw it her way for a momentary quiver, during which he’d try and
penetrate somewhere else before she could fully react.
    Like her Tier 2 Snu ability,
which offered an immunity to Fornax, an opponent could no longer disable her
with it…with the difference being that this wasn’t a skill she’d unlocked, but
rather one she’d constructed herself. And the more little advantages like this
that she could create, measureable or not, the more powerful she’d become.
    And the more powerful she became, the bigger the
difference she could make when a time of crisis came, which was
the motivation driving her every waking moment.

 
 
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    The sexual ‘prods’ were only one tactic that Levi was
using, knowing that he had to hit his master from different angles and keep up the
frequency of rotation. His Ikrid skills had advanced to the point where he
could manage two or three different avenues simultaneously, but if he wanted a
blunt force attack he could only focus on one area. That wasn’t going to work
with Jenna, for her mental strength was far beyond his, but if he wasn’t going
for a break and just a distraction it could still be useful.
    Which is what he hit her with after getting her a bit
loopy with a bit of euphoria. He