158 Mental Prowess (2/2)
”Sombra and I on our way here.” I told her, speaking simply. This confused her and even as she continued to walk down the stairs leading towards me she tilted her head. I chuckled at her confusion, even as my face began to gradually form.
”This is a mind-form of mine. My physical body, in so far as gods have physical bodies, is with Sombra in my Cosechian form, and they are minutes away from arriving at the encampment. I want to exert more control over the cult so I am coming, and Sombra is... Well, Sombra's Sombra. She is my shadow.” I explained, speaking quite simply. This caused the dryad's eyes to open wide as she considered the ramification of my words on her life here.
”Creator, do you seek to gain more powers over nature?” She asked, speaking softly. I chuckled and nodded at her.
”Well Raiz... It's true that I seek more power over nature, but it's more complicated than that. I seek more power over everything.” I explained, speaking a bit cryptically. This confused her, but that was fine. I didn't feel like explaining myself to her. Not now. Instead I merely gave her one command. I did so gently, but my tone made it clear that I was giving her an order.
”Go outside and gather the goblins. I shall arrive soon. I wish to be greeted by my worshipers.” I told her, before vanishing from view.
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Reuniting my mind-form with my corporeal-form was simple. All I had to do was wish for the two to become one. And when I did I was instantly teleported back to my body, hundreds of meters away.
Sombra walked next to me and we could both plainly see the outskirts of the encampment. One of the skeletal guardians that I had given to the goblins as a gift a long time ago stood at the edge of the encampment and its skeletal, horned head was looking at us.
The creature was still, and eerily majestic in its own way. Its empty eye-sockets were clearly locked on us but there was no hostility in its gaze, though there was also no warmth either. It was a true undead being, one that despised life. That meant it had a contemptible fate: it was tasked with protecting living creatures, and that meant that it only rarely had chances to slake its anger.
As we began to close in on the edge of the encampment I turned my mind to my mental powers. I knew I'd need some of them in the interaction to come.
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[Mind domain passive powers:
Absorption: You can absorb mortal memories and process them instantly. This is a synergistic power that amplifies the effects of your other memory-based powers, allowing you to instantly be able to use memories you take or copy from mortals.
Astral projection: With this power, you can separate your mind from your body and use it to remotely interact with the world around you. At the moment this power's range is limited to what you can detect. This power is also known as ”Mind-form”.
Linguistic genesis: This synergistic power takes from the domains of knowledge and mind. It allows you to instantly create a language and teach it to anyone you wish. With this power, espionage becomes easier for you or for your followers, and you gain a handy tool for manipulating cultures.
Linguistic erasure: This synergistic power takes from the domains of knowledge, mind, and destruction. It is a targeted power with which you can cause a creature to forget a language they once knew. They can relearn this language, over time, but it'd take them a while to do so.
Mental blast: This is an offensive power that allows you to blast mental energy at anyone you wish as often as you wish. This power deals significant damage, though it isn't lethal unless you wish for it to be. The blast is incredibly painful.
Mental presence: Your mind is tied to your holy sites in a direct, physical way. You can manifest at them at will so long as your physical form isn't destroyed, and you can manifest at multiple holy sites at once. You can also sense and even interact with things and people up to a full four-hundred meters away from any holy site of yours at once.
Mental shatter: This power destroys the consciousness and sapience of affected mortals. It is a cruel power that decimates and ravages their minds.
Omni-communication: This power utilizes your powers over language and allows you to communicate with any sapient creature, even ones that lack a language. This isn't so much a power as it is a sort of filter that aids when you communicate with creatures that lack languages.
Projection: This synergistic power intersects the subdomain of enchantment and allows you to manifest illusions that show others what you are thinking and what others are thinking. It also allows for memories as one remembers them to be shown to others in a physical way.
Silence: With this power, you can deprive someone of their ability to speak for as long as you wish. It works on anyone who isn't a higher being.
Secret seer: You can detect a secret a creature is determined to hide. This is a power that is swept up with your identification abilities. It is a synergistic power that takes from the truth domain.
Mind domain active power:
Brainwave manipulation: This once an hour power is a handy one that allows you to target up to ten creatures and affect their sensory abilities and also their ability to react in time to things. You can induce confusion, sleep, paralysis, and a number of other statuses on victims of this power. You can also induce brain death in someone with this power.]
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By the time I was done mentally checking in on my mind-domain abilities Sombra and I were standing in front of the goblin tribe. Dozens of goblins, some of whom were only alive because of me, were bowing in front of us. They were muttering quiet prayers to me and I enjoyed the sounds of their pious voices.
I allowed this zealous display to continue for a few moments before I turned my full attention to the goblins and began to act.