Blessed by Night

Chapter 135  Super Squad!

Malachi awoke to the sensation of soft and gentle hands on his face. Even if he couldn't hear the soft humming coming from beside him, he would still know the culprit behind this gentle assault. "Oh, seems like you woke up first, honey."

Malachi opened his eyes and found Sei lying on the bed beside him, a clearly pleased smile on her face. "I could feel it when you started to wake up, a-and I can even tell how long it'll take for the others to wake up too!"

To prove her point, Sei excitedly pointed to the foot of the bed and waited for around three seconds. At exactly at that interval, Serana popped up from the ground, clearly delirious with her pink hair strewn all over her face. Her eyes were still half closed, and it was clear that she had no recollection of how she'd gotten here. "Momma? Mal...? Why am I on the floor?"

"...You were sleep walking."

"And broke our door down doing it." Serana followed Mal's finger all the way to the destroyed door on the left side of the room that she had so casually ran through. "That... doesn't seem like something I'd do."

Serana followed Mal's finger all the way to the destroyed door on the left side of the room that she had so casually ran through. "That... doesn't seem like something I'd do."

""Yes it does.""

"Argh, whatever!"

Serana finally picked herself off the ground and proudly put her hands on her hips.

"I've got powers now, and soon I'm going to be even more famous than you, Mal!"

As a way to demonstrate her new powers, Serana held out her hands and lifted up the blanket covering everyone with her mind. Although, she quickly realized that she would have been better off showcasing her powers in a different manner. "Oh con?! Why're you always naked!?"

"This tis on you, man. Nobody told you to cin here and rip the blanket offlike that." Mal defended. Serana rolled her eyes as she put the blanket back on top of the bodies lying in bed. However, the three sleeping girls had finally stirred awake from all the noise. "Hey, wait a damn minute! Why do all of you guys look more hot than usual?"

"Blessing stuff." Anna said sleepily as she crawled over to Malachi. "Wait, so I wasn't he only one to get blessed last night?! Mom and Anna did too?!"

"And Aubrey." Sei added. "Although, she seems to be rather special like Mal so she received more than we did."

Usually Serana would have let something like that dim her mood a bit, but as of right now she was far too excited. "Whatever, that's even better! Now we can all make our debut and we can be like a super squad!"

Bianca fully woke up at the sound of that, and she grabbed both her glasses and phone off the nightstand. "W-We can be like a special division of Immortal Moon! We should get T-Shirts!"

"Wanna hoodie..." Anna demanded sleepily. "Anna will get a hoodie." Bianca agreed. Malachi was glad that the girls were so happy, but there was something that he wanted to discuss with them before they got their hopes too far up. "Not gonna lie, I think you should wait a bit before you make you debut."

"Why!?"

"Why's that honey?"

"Okay..."

Malachi's eyes took on a distant look and it seemed like he was thinking about something very deeply. "That Arias guy... he's shifted the balance of the world. The way that humans will start to look at Blessed is going to change real soon, I can feel it."

Malachi didn't know why he felt like this, he just did. Human nature compels us to attack or control that which we are afraid of.

And now that there was a group advocating for blessed supremacy, he knew that there was bound to be sfallout. The worship and idolization that the blessed had grown so accustomed to was undoubtedly going to trickle away, and when that happened the blessed who had yet to pick a side will feel slighted. In turn, more and more of them would join Arias' cause, increasing the threat he posed and public fear, into one big vicious cycle. Sure there would be a few blessed who would not have an interest in joining Arias, but they were truly far and few between. And the way that the governments of the world would deal with them... it was truly anyone's guess. "If you don't mind, I think you should give it a few weeks to really see the fallout... but these are your lives. I'll support you no matter what you want to do."

Sei: "Alright honey, I'll trust you. "

Serana: "I wanna be famous! I'll worry about all that other shit later!"

Anna: "Zzzzz...."

Malachi got the three reactions that he just about expected. He was only making a suggestion, but if Serana wanted to do the opposite then that was her choice. He would protect her regardless anyways. "Mei, is there an open training room at this time?"

The white haired beauty checked her phone for a few minutes before nodding in confirmation. "You want to start already?" "Why not? No tlike the present."

Malachi sat up on the bed with Anna in his lap and smiled at the group of girls. "Alright ladies, you feel up for a field trip?"

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Serana: "I hate training!"

Sei: "This is actually kind of fun."

Anna: "My body's really sore... Babe, would it be too much to ask for a massage?"

Aubrey: "This magic thing is tricky..."

In a pristine white training room at Immortal Moon, four figures could be seen sprawled out across the floor. It was now eleven A.M, and the girls had been practicing with their new powers for around three hours. On the physical spectrum, they were all top quality recruits. Their physical strength, endurance, and speed were all in the S to A range. But their physical properties aside, their individual powers were what made them real monsters. As already shown, Sei had the ability to put beings to sleep. She could do this through her presence, actions or words, and as of now she did not seem to have a limit on the amount of beings she could do this to. On average, beings she knocks out stay unconscious for an hour or two unless she chooses to wake them ahead of schedule. In theory, she can put someone into a coma that they can never wake up from, but she described such a thing as incredibly taxing and mean spirited. Her daughter Serana was also rather special. She had been given the power of illusions. She could influence the minds of beings to make them see, hear, and even feel things that weren't there. In addition, she could secrete a pink mist from the pores on her body that she could manipulate into solid illusions. However, her constructs could easily be destroyed with a hard smack and she had trouble influencing stronger minds. Anna's blessing was also rather unique. Nemesis' blessing gave her the power of kinetic energy absorption. Every tshe received so much as a high-five, she absorbed the energy into her body and held it in her tattoos. Coincidentally, they had only discovered this because Mal smacked her on the butt once as she walked by. They were calling it a happy accident. When all of her tattoos were lit up brightly, she was fully charged and couldn't handle anymore energy without feeling like she'd eaten too much at a buffet. But once she had absorbed the energy, she could use it for multiple purposes. Energy projection, physical empowerment, and even imbuing it into other objects to create something like a bomb. Coincidentally, she could also do something similar to Malachi and judge a person's soul to find out if they were good or bad. She had only run into good people so far so there were no problems but she couldn't help but wonder about what would happen if she ran into someone bad. Even though the girls had strong showings, Aubrey had done the least and still seemed to be the most impressive. Due to her worries over Thanatos' blessing, she hadn't even tried to use it. Her blessing from Isis was amazing, but it was also difficult. She didn't know the first thing about using magic, or how to use it. The most she was able to do was use it to close up a small cut that Sei had gotten on her arm. But her blessing from Fujin was another story entirely. She seemed to be a natural with the power of the wind, and by trainings end she was even creating miniature tornadoes and sending them running all through the room. In addition, she could also summon a white and fluffy cloud to ride on just like the wind god himself. The highlight of her day was gathering up all of the girls and flying around the training room like a kind of mythological taxi service. After a fun and rigorous first day of training, the girls had all collapsed on the ground, equally sweaty and out of breath. On the wall, Luna, Bianca, Malachi, and Aisha had been watching their entire performance from start to finish without blinking even once. The guild master in particular was more shocked than anyone. So much talent in one room... the prestige of her guild could shoot up to an astronomical degree.

If they were not so concerned with hiding their new abilities, she would have already signed them all without waiting for a press release. "They're really incredible... I wasn't expecting them to have such talent with their powers."

"I wonder how much they'll be able to do once they've practiced a bit more and expanded their potential." said Bianca. The two girls noticed that their area was rather quiet and quickly looked to their left. They found Malachi and Aisha, standing side by side with their eyes glued to the bodies of their respective girlfriends. It wasn't there fault but really, when the woman you love is all sweaty and wearing tight gym clothes in front of you, how can you possibly be expected to focus on anything else??

"Are you two listening to us?" Luna asked exhaustedly. ""Sorry, did we miss something?""

"..."

At times like this, it was really easy to see how the two of them had becbest friends.