The following week passed in the blink of an eye without any issues. The archers of that state were fast learners, so alongside the basic training, they also learned some basic magic as well to enhance their arrows. Since she was also an amazing archer, Lily got popular, and her skills combined with magic left everyone astonished. Thus, they wanted to copy her. Unfortunately, they would need at least ten years of hard work to reach her level.
Around the time they had to begin to prepare to move to the next state, Billy also noticed that his kids had improved a lot. While he was looking away, his wives taught them many techniques. Christina could use Heal now, and Hector also could use fire and wind magic…
When Billy looked at his wives with reproachful eyes, they looked away and played dumb. He was supposed to be teaching them that… for his despair as well, Billy noticed that Helen was trying to copy Lily and Larah, and she was starting to learn how to use a bow. While he wasn't a newbie when it came to that kind of weapon, he certainly wasn't the best teacher, so he wasn't the best suited to teach her that.
"Everyone is leaving me behind…" Billy said and then sighed.
"Hahaha, so you act like that now and then to be spoiled by your wives?" Alessandro asked. "You sure have some weird quirks."
Billy decided to ignore that annoying moron who had the ladies' luck and focus on his job. Before the mission in that state ended, he managed to give his wives, his siblings, Lucyna, Meryl, Icarus, and his parents some copies of the armor. He was starting to think that making copies was a lot harder than developing them…
Unfortunately, Billy failed at gathering enough data about their performance because his wives suddenly looked sick… at first, Billy thought that Uvish was behind that. Still, then he realized that they had a new mana origin in their bodies… all of them was pregnant.
"I know that we fooled around a lot after defeating Zenis, but…" Billy said while blinking several times in disbelief.
"Don't say fooling around in the open and in the middle of the day," Kate said while frowning.
"It must have been because we haven't been training as hard as before… Billy said something like that in the past," Kate said.
"Yes, I also heard about that. Women that work too hard physically have hard times getting pregnant," Sarah explained.
"Anyway, congratulations, sisters!" Samara said. "Aren't you happy, big brother?"
"I am, but the timing is a bit…" Billy said with a complicated expression, and then he recovered and looked at his kids. "Anyway, you will have a bunch of new siblings soon enough, so let's work hard to become as cool as papa for them."
Helen didn't understand much of the situation. She was the youngest of the kids, after all. She probably will understand when her new siblings are born. Christina looked excited, she likes to help her mothers when they look after Helen, and she also likes to walk while holding her hand. Hector seemed a bit more confused. He probably couldn't understand how come he all of a sudden would have three more siblings. That was something he would have to learn in the future.
Worrying endlessly won't help Billy and his family in any way. He just needed to keep doing what he was already doing to prevent the worst-case scenario: keep preparing for all possible situations.
"It seems you all are on the second month of pregnancy," Billy said after using Check up on them. "For the time being, you can keep working, but perhaps you should stay at home when the third mission starts."
"You are worrying too much, and if it is just teaching, it will be fine if we week going for a while," Sarah said.
"If anything, it will only get worse if we get worried and restless at home," Kate added, and Natalie nodded several times.
They had a point… Lately, Billy's wives had been strangely good at convincing him of things. They probably learned that from him since, in the past, Billy did pretty much all he wanted and made his way out of several messes with his sweet talk.
"Well, let's speed things up then before things start to get a bit more delicate with your conditions," Billy said. "Still, it doesn't matter the situation, and it doesn't matter how much you guys want. None of you will fight in the next battles. Is that clear?"
"When you put the foot down like that while using logic and reason, it is hard to come up with an answer," Kate said. "We won't be unreasonable, and you can rest assured."
Despite Kate's words and Sarah and Natalie's agreement, Billy didn't know if they would obey that if things got dire in the next battles. The level of difficulty was rising incredibly fast, so even Billy didn't know if he would win all of them by himself… he truly needed to come up with ways to use his powers better and become stupidly stronger.
After a few days, the group began to move up North, and during that time, Billy decided to pay a visit to Jean and ask him if he could speed things up and visit the other states in the northern parts of the continent since his wives got pregnant, he said that it would be fine if he alerted the others by himself. He said that the other states wanted that to happen as soon as possible because they feared the losses of the battles.
"It isn't my business, but you should slow down on the recreational activities with your wives. They are strong, and you will need their support in the next battles," Jean said.
Billy could only nod at that, but it was hard to have that much self-control with such beauties in his bed…
