Harem of Moms and Milkers

"You'll never get me alive!" Asdel roared as he traded blows with the Skylander teenagers.

Cracks spread over their skin, as if a shattered glass overlaid their body. Glowing dust trickled from the spiderwebs of fissure like leaking blood.

No one paid attention to the children's fistfight even though they were in the middle of the road. Granted they were far from the town center, but the natives of Hekal were a bit too accustomed to violence to worry about it. They'd rather join in and beat up both parties.

What made street fights so common was the fact that aura was the toughest protection. As long as it wasn't breached, the fighters' body would not be harmed easily.

So no one would help Asdel and Severine. They had to fight tooth and nail to defend themselves.

Normally, his exalted 'Cloudsplitting Ascent' was a weak, spammable move to generate ki by spending soul essence. But as a snotty unranked brat, Asdel could only perform a degraded version that dried his ki.

Exalting a skill was like a sprint, while performing its normal version was a light jog. And Asdel could only do a light jog in his current state.

'Even so, it's fine. I'm untouchable!' Asdel's overconfidence soared for a moment before he regretted it.

"Eat this!" A teenager lunged at him, slamming his shoulder guard into Asdel's guarded forearms.

'Exalted shoulder bash?' Asdel was hit by a wall of aura as if a truck ran him over. 'I forgot that even illiterates could learn and reverse engineer skills from equipment!'

His body rolled for a few meters as a painful migraine struck him. His aura completely vanished, allowing the ground to bruise his skin. In his shocked state, his hazy eyes could not register anything despite being wide open.

The angry Skylanders lifted him off his feet and punched him. "Finally, we got him!"

Without aura, Asdel was just a mundane brat asking for a beating.

"Asdel! What's the matter?!" Severine was jolted awake by the sight of his feet dangling limplessly.

Asdel’s ‘soul mind’ skill was canceled when he was pushed by the ‘shoulder charge’. As a result, he suffered from the backlash. The skill itself was designed for mages who didn’t move around in the battlefield. It was a trick to exploit a parallel mind by summoning an invisible brain made of raw mana. The mana brain itself had limited connection range and only moved at walk speed.

It was his mistake to dare using such a mage skill in a fistfight. But he wasn’t confident to fight without his adult mind.

"Did he faint? Maybe we hit him on the head too hard, haha!" A kid giggled as he punched Asdel's limp body.

Severine was filled with outrage and madness upon witnessing her partner getting ganged up by older kids.

It had only been for a moment, but Asdel had inspired fear and reverence in everyone when he instantly took out their leader in a single move. Severine admired it, but the other kids only felt a threat.

She didn't doubt that her cousins were swept in fear and would cripple Asdel at the first opportunity, because deep inside, they all knew that Asdel could utterly crush them after receiving his blessing.

Severine, who longed for power more than anyone, could not bear to see such talent go to waste.

Her trembling hand fished something out of her 'inventory', pulling a halberd out from a crack in space.

While fistfights were tolerated, taking out weapons was not lightly taken.

All the teenagers glared at Severine with a face full of bloodthirst and contempt. They took out their own weapons, determined to kill Asdel and Severine. “You really pointed a weapon at us? You know that it’s enough of a reason to take your life?”

She faltered, freezing like a prey caught in a pack of wolves. Even so, she found the determination to charge at the astonished bullies. "Screw your logic! You’re going to ruin my husband, so how is that different from killing us? Let him go!"

"Ungrateful bitch, you went crazy, huh? Weakling should just sit back!" The bullies easily parried her halberd swing and tripped her.

She leaned on her halberd to struggle once more, but instead of taking a stand, she only gawked at them.

“What, giving up?” The teenagers snorted, completely unaware of Asdel standing behind them with a creepy smile.

Asdel stumbled forward. His fogged mind was in a bestial trance, his body solely moved by his vicious instincts he honed with Luciella.

His martial art was based on energy wave packets.

First prerequisite - The body relaxed so that force traveled as a slow wave packet.

Asdel’s shoulders drooped and his hands dangled. His exhaustion didn’t allow any unnecessary stiffness.

Second prerequisite - The weapon was lighter than the user’s forearm to maximize speed.

Asdel had only his fists and the power of anime with him.

Attacks started with the feet, springing an impulse traveling up to the knee, pelvis, spine, shoulder and elbow, with the muscles and ki fueling the energy wave at each joint as the packet passed through.

In these conditions, it was possible to queue wave packets to chain actions. Thus, Asdel’s second and third moves started before the first wave packet even reached his fist.

… The only issue was the huge recoil upon missing. Asdel tore his own joints and took damage whenever he missed those strikes. But that was a small price to pay to slap the shit out of people!

He rushed through his enemies like a storm, striking the back of their ear.

It was only thanks to Severine that he had the opportunity to switch the skill equipped in his soul arsenal and recover his ki.

The teenagers collapsed, some ended up with light dizziness, while others were completely knocked out.

Severine stood up and looked down on a slightly disoriented Skylander. She exuded a murderous intent as she clenched her trembling halberd, as if she couldn’t wait to use it.

"Fuck you, Ass-del!" The Skylanders scampered with their hurt people and disappeared from the street, leaving some weapons on the ground.

Severine stored her halberd under the gazes and murmurs of the neighborhood. Words would spread and tarnish her family reputation. She would surely end with a heavy punishment but she was ready to go that far.

Asdel hugged her as soon as he came to his senses. "Waaaah, it hurts!" His tears and snot smeared all over Severine. The sight of the bawling kid buried in the arm of a big sister mellowed the audience.

Her visual inspection revealed no obvious bleeding. "You'll be fine… probably." She made a wry smile as she only knew how to bandage open wounds.

"No! I'm not fine, it hurts so bad." Asdel shook the hem of her clothes. His tantrum stopped her from carrying him back home. "Sniff… I hate everyone! They're so mean!" His big round teary eyes stared at Severine's like a plea for help.

’He’s a bit different…’ She brushed his bruise on his face and blew on it before giving it a kiss. “There, there, you’re alright.”

“Thanks… You fought for me.” His big eyes sparkled, showing a better mood as he felt safer.

Severine grinned. ’It feels nicer somehow.’ She was awkward with the usual Asdel, as she always felt lacking and frustrated. But this vulnerable Asdel felt rewarding to protect.

'Wait, did he turn into an idiot because they hurt his head?’ The dreadful idea chilled her spine. She couldn’t face Loreley anymore.

Regret and guilt bore her down. Feeling closer to Asdel, she resolved herself to commit everything to be at his side.

“Don’t worry Asdel! I will keep protecting you even if you hurt your head!” She tightly hugged Asdel, who wore a confused expression.

“... Hey, what’s that?!” Asdel shoved Severine aside like a toy that outlived his interest, and sprinted away from the road.

Severine watched bitterly, as her bratty fiance ditched her to chase after a slime.

She noticed a shiny item at the location where Asdel got beaten by her former partymates. She dusted it off, revealing a luxurious gold stamp.

She rammed it into her inventory. Something so precious shouldn’t appear in the hands of a weak girl in broad daylight.