63 Sinister Shadows (1/2)
”You're smart! That's a good sign. You're gonna need that intelligence to get through the next few minutes.” I replied, speaking to the praereptor demon while staring at the steadily churning demonic puddle in front of me.
And then I considered how to best inform it as to what I was. The fact that I was less sure than ever as to what I was didn't help me out here. After thinking for a few moments I just sighed and told the demon what I had considered myself my whole life.
”Well, I am a god. I am a god of chaos and of lust.” I told the demon. It went still when I said this, genuinely shocked at what I told it. I couldn't help but chuckle, because before now the thing had been active, milling about atop the pile of soil it had been forced onto.
”Are you being serious?” The thing asked, its mental voice calm now but also filled with a quiet fear. I smiled at it and nodded.
”I am a four-day-old god. I am chaotic neutral, and among other things, I possess the ability to control lust and cause chaos. And here's the thing... I don't need to destroy or even banish you. I do have things I need, but we needn't be enemies.” I told the demon.
I silently activated my ”Religious fervor” power, generating a soft blue tint that quickly spread throughout the lonely room we occupied. I felt the demon stiffen as it waited for me to speak more. And so I obliged it.
”I am not a bad guy. I am also not a good guy. I don't want to be just bad or good. I want to be neutral. And part of that means having good and evil servants. So here's what I propose. I propose you answer any questions I have and serve me, and I don't banish you. And here's the thing... you're gonna tell me what I want to know, one way or another.” I told the demon, speaking confidently. The demon responded to me, after taking a few seconds to think about what to say.
”You really are a god aren't you? That would explain why you were able to cure Troix's disease and how you effectively trapped me in his body, leaving me powerless, for days...” The demon exclaimed, despair sneaking into its voice as it did so.
I grinned at it, not feeling bad about the fact that my first enemy was now experiencing despair because it now knew the truth about me. The creature had possessed and terrified Troik at least once, and now it was my prisoner. I felt powerful at this moment, and that was a nice feeling.
”I really am a god. And now the time has come for you to make your choice. How do you want to tell me what I want to know?” I asked the thing.
”Do you want to do it willingly, maybe even pleasantly, or will you stubbornly resist and allow me to have the fun that comes with tearing what I want to know out of you?” I wondered. I was telling a light lie, as I didn't want to torture the creature, but I didn't tell it that. I was happy to allow it to be afraid.
I watched any courage the creature possessed melt away in that instant. The puddle of darkness seemed to deflate, and I knew at that moment that the thing was going to surrender and submit to me. For a moment I wondered about how to truly cement its loss. And a wicked idea came to my mind.
Opening the list of corruption powers I possessed took me but a second. And as I did, I wondered about which of my abilities would be the best to use against the demon to ensure it surrendered all of its secrets to me.
[Corruption subdomain passive powers:
Heart of corruption: This passive power allows you to detect a creature's personal vice, the gateway sin that most resonates with someone's soul. Usage of the powers related to the personal vice of a target makes a creature far easier to thoroughly corrupt.
Corruption infusion: This power allows you to infuse corrupt energy into food. If creatures eat corrupted food they are not physically harmed, but they become less resistant to temptations.
Lustful aura: This is an aura that affects anyone attracted to males independent of their species and makes them either less hostile or more friendly towards you. You can also use it to invade the minds of those in range and discover what they desire, not just sensually but also in general.
Any neutral creatures affected by this aura view are easier to persuade to become your friends and find any propositions made by you difficult to resist. Any hostile creatures who are affected by the aura are easier to calm down and persuade to cease fighting. Becoming a greater god and gaining greater influence over the subdomain increase the range of your aura and its potency.
Velvet voice: This power makes your voice, even your mental one, a luxurious and sensual weapon and a useful tool in your arsenal. Creatures who hear your voice, be it physically, mentally, or even in their dreams, feel it on their skin and it lingers in their minds. Weak-willed creatures, and unintelligent creatures, can become charmed or even dominated by the sound of your voice.
Addiction and fetish infliction and curing: You can cause someone to become addicted to something. Addictions are psychological compulsions that if ignored cause people to experience withdrawal. Some examples of this include: you can make someone addicted to a certain behavior, to a certain sensation, food, drug, and other things. You can also cure someone of an addiction.
You can cause someone to have a particular fetish. Fetishes are a form of sexual desire in which gratification is linked to a certain fashion, behavior, part of the body, etc. As an example, you can cause someone to have a fetish for a specific species, a specific hair color, or a sexual dynamic. You can also cure someone of such a thing.
You gain knowledge of someone's fetishes and addictions at a glance.
Persistent desires: This power causes those you kiss and otherwise caress to fall under your influence. The more intense your sexual relations with the person, or otherwise more fulfilling it was the deeper they'll fall under your influence.
Incubi and succubi caress: You gain the seductive powers of succubi and incubi.
When you are kissed or embraced or you kiss or embrace someone they experience blissful, bodily and mental pleasure and are left drained of strength and will for it, their strength and will entering and empowering you instead. The drain is temporary and lasts for a day. That said, the power can affect someone more than once a day.
The sensation is addictive. This power can corrupt someone over time and it can also kill over time if you allow it to.
Vampiric desires: This synergistic power granted to you by the intersections of the subdomains of necromancy and corruption allows you to leech lifeforce from creatures you kiss or embrace. This power stacks with powers like your enhanced versions of the draining powers of incubi and succubi.
Diseased Doxy: This synergistic power is one you've been awarded due to your influence over the subdomain of corruption and the domain of disease. It allows the debilitating effects of your affections to persist even if you aren't there to reapply them.
When you first caress a target you can choose to subject them to a lingering desire to have another sexual encounter with you, and also be subjected to the effects of your caresses even days later. The maximum amount of time someone can be suffering from the effects, for now anyway, is three days.
Corruption subdomain active powers:
Gratifying gaze: This subdomain makes your body a powerful tool and this active power embodies that. Usage of this twice-per-half-hour power makes your gaze a trap and dominates those whose eyes meet yours. Dominated creatures serve you willingly and obey your commands, experiencing sexual fulfillment while doing so.