137 Honing Ones Own Spore-Skills (2/2)

A second after their forms became truly visible they began to dance excitedly. I chuckled at the trio of creatures, who were displaying more energy than ever before. It was while I was chuckling that they first transmitted a mental message my way.

”Mushroom monarch! Thank you for this blessing! We can walk now... We can interact with the surface world now! This is all thanks to you and your kindness!” They excitedly thought. Their messages weren't exactly the same, but they all had the same attitude and talked about the same things.

”How may we serve you? Tell us about your objectives, my lord!” One of them mentally remarked, causing me to pause for a moment. It only took me a second to recall that I still had a quest for a second tier of influence over one of my domains. The domain of knowledge.

I smiled at my minions and started off by granting all three of them the monk class. They sighed in delight in unison as they felt the rush of power that accompanied such a deed. I chuckled as I proceeded to begin to do two things at once.

”Now for the monastery...” I muttered, a grin on my face as I did so. I activated my lone power over civilization and willed a single, small monastery made of dark stone to come into being a few meters away from where I and the mushroom mages were standing.

I kept the place very simple. I had the power to make decisions pertaining to the interior of the buildings I had constructed, and I didn't want it to be complex. I made it a building containing a single room: one with a stairwell that descended into the ground. I knew the complex would be largely underground anyway.

I effortlessly used made use of my earth powers to modify the earth underneath the building and to clear it out. In the span of a second I created a number of chambers. In the seconds following that, I ”decorated” the chambers. This was where the fun began.

Some were ”private” chambers for my servants to rest without being disturbed by the other, more monstrous inhabitants of the now conquered settlement. Some were chambers where I went ahead and created I filled with spores I generated and transported using my powers that would eventually grow into more mushrooms and thus more mushroom mages. I could have sped their evolution but I opted instead to let their growth proceed naturally. I was in no rush.

The main chamber I created was the one directly underneath the small monastery. It was a gigantic one that was a common space designed to serve as the main area the mushroom mages would spend time in. I didn't decorate it with anything, as while I was doing this I was beginning to mentally visualize the sort of monastic order I sought to create.

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The remainder of today, the fourteenth day of my life would be spent working on the monastery and the order I had created. I effortlessly evolved several other mushrooms and fungi into mushroom mages and made them monks. In doing so, along with creating the monastery, I completed the quest to gain the second tier of influence over the domain of knowledge.

I also organized the monks I had created into my first true organization: The Sporetarians. Before I returned home to Torus I would inform command the undead armies to return to the communities of abominations that they had come into Salifinos close to.

I also informed Luthor and his kin of the strange new order living in the town. I told the guys that the mushroom mages were my servants and were to be treated as friends and allies. It was only upon informing them of that that I teleported myself back home.

Upon returning home I immediately set out to send a message to any and all people in Torus who had yet to free their slaves, or even think about it. I utilized the same trick I had utilized on Salifinos with the wind, and then heaped numerous delibating diseases on slave-owners who refused to obey me.

I also summoned Ava to my side and had the strange dwarf accompany me in my tower. I wasn't sure what to do with her, so I opted to have her keep me company.

This was how I began a busy period that would last for almost a whole month. For the next twenty days I remained in my tower, idly sowing discord in some places, and helping to create peace in others through the very healthy mixing of my powers.

I harassed both slave-owners and any nobility who sought to create a war in Torus. I did this by mixing my powers, smoothly combining my powers over the dead, as well as my ability to steal years off of someone's life, to influence any war-mongering nobles into obeying me and to frighten slave-owners into releasing their slaves.

I acquired the worship of almost every dark elf in Aronms, and even established a few distinct cults in the city, dedicated to things like thievery, disease, and assassinations, all while finally practicing my skills myself.

I was disappointed to find that it was difficult to get the people of Comillas and the hyenoids to go to blows, despite the impact of almost three weeks of dreams, because I was trying to corrupt them and not just get them to attack each other.

And the world of Torus itself began to change in response to my actions. By the time I was a month old the world was different. Thanks to my actions.