165 Dragons And Demons (1/2)
Moments after the dragon was falsely resurrected, the beast submissively bowed before me. As it did, Sombra walked until she was beside me and quietly grabbed my hand. I allowed this, as I was more fascinated with the dragon than I was with opposing the tiny affections of my demonic servant.
Sombra and I walked up to the beast and she paid it little mind. She was far more fascinated with me than she could ever be with my new pet. I suppose that made sense, at the end of the day those who could tame dragons were often more interesting than the dragons they tamed. That said I had plans for this beast.
I reached out a single hand, the one that Sombra wasn't holding, and placed it on the dragon's face. The dragon's head was solid and frigid. I was touching ice-cold scales but it was still physical contact with a dragon, and I quietly activated one of my favorite powers that I hadn't yet had a chance to make use of: ”Magical disease infection”. I infected the dragon with ”Demonic Infection”, the potent and arcane disease that allowed for demonic possession.
The moment I infected the dragon with the disease the area that I was touching on his face momentarily glowed a sickly red color. It was pleasant to observe, and I enjoyed the pained sound that escaped Glacial's toothy maw. The red color that the dragon's face quietly glowed reminded me of dried blood but the glow faded almost instantly.
Sombra, though not particularly interested in Glacial, appeared to sense that the dragon was infected with one of her favorite diseases. She was quiet at first, but after a moment began to speak.
”Master... Do you plan for me to possess this dragon?” She asked, curiously. There was a note of annoyance in her voice, but I chuckled and ignored that. My response was one that I suspected she'd like.
”No. I plan to summon more of your kin, more praereptors, and have them share this body. For now.” I explained, cryptically. The truth was that I was largely winging this, but I could definitely have fun with the idea in my head. That said, my words caused the dragon to begin to stir, but I was faster and calmed it by placing a soft, incubus kiss on its cheek. The kiss was impossibly quick and the feelings it stirred, even in someone who wasn't sexually attracted to me were impossible for a mortal to resist.
The kiss calmed the beast and it ceased its stirrings. I felt some of the dragon's strength and willpower flow out of the beast and into me, and I grinned at the thing. I rarely made use of this power, but my succubi and incubi powers were potent and they were ones I actually quite liked. I just only rarely sated the lusts I felt, mostly because there weren't many creatures I was attracted too.
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Towards the beginning of my life, I had acquired powers over shadows and creatures composed of shadows. I didn't make use of this power particularly often, but one especially useful type of creature I had gained influence over as a result of this was the scout-type demon known as the praereptor. Sombra herself was in essence something new, perhaps an unofficial evolution of such demons, but originally she had been a bodiless praereptor.
Praereptor demons were masters at possession, and the creatures were supremely useful for that. That was why they were often utilized as scouts by greater demons, and in the mythic past, by the long-extinct demon-lords. That said, I could do a lot more with them than just use them as scouts.
As a god who could control shadows and creatures made of shadows, I could give the bodiless praereptors actual bodies and otherwise manipulate them. It was like I was a skilled artist and the shadowy souls and essences of praereptors were clay in my hands. This was how I had given Sombra a real body and not just the strange, shadowy form she once possessed.
Over the course of my life I hadn't really made contact with many praereptors, but I had made contact with enough that word was beginning to spread of me and my supreme powers over the race even in the Heart of Darkness. I had a fair number of praereptor worshipers in the darkened and chaotic realm, as most of the envious demons would do anything to acquire a body of their own and not have to live parasitically off of others.
My powers over conjuration allowed the ”call” I was making for praereptor demons to come to me to extend across the universe, reaching even into other dimensions like the Heart of Darkness. I was still aside from my lips curling in a cruel sneer as I felt countless demons begin to eagerly answer the call.
In answering the call, the demons were instantly transported to my hand, and Sombra gasped in shock as the shadowy creatures began to materialize insofar as their immaterial forms could materialize. Physically this resembled my hand suddenly darkening as the eager and shadowy demons began to latch onto me. I was enjoying this for a moment when I received a notification that made me chuckle.
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[Alert: Demons Making Mistakes
Though you possess powers over corruption, darkness, chaos, and evil, you don't yet possess enough power over darkness and you possess no power over envy, so you don't have total control over praereptors. Some of the eager demons were envious enough and ambitious enough to try and possess you.
Obviously this hasn't, and wouldn't ever, work. You are incapable of being possessed and their attempts to possess you have actually had a... peculiar effect on them. Gods possess a number of formidable defenses against possession. These defenses are actually based on the things that a god has influence over and your defenses are particularly nasty.
The praereptor demons who tried to possess you are now zealous, utterly insane worshippers of yours. The eldritch and faith domains utterly warped their minds, and have left them forever alerted as a result of that.
Five demons tried to possess you. Their names are Asmodeus, Abraxas, Forcas, Kore, and Daeva. These demons are now utterly unlike their kin. They seek little more than to serve you and to spread your worship far and wide.]
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I chuckled as I read through the notification, and I quietly selected one of the aforementioned demons, Asmodeus, and called the shadowy creature to materialize in my hand. The strange being did as I commanded, and a single line of darkness went from residing in my bicep to oozing its way across my arm. It stopped when it reached the center of my hand, and pooled into a single orb of darkness. I smiled at the obedient demon and began to act.
I quietly expelled the thing from my body and the darkened orb detached itself from me like a mosquito that had just finished sucking my blood. I grabbed the orb and began to seep my disease-based powers into it. I quietly infected the demon with ”Possession infection”, and I felt it moan in delight as its powers greatly increased.
”This little one is having fun.” I muttered as I studied the demon. The orb of darkness was beginning to convulse in my hand and I chuckled. I connected our minds in the same way that I connected Sombra's mind and mine, and then I tossed the orb at the dragon.
The orb made contact with the dragon's face and then, like the blood oozes I had created earlier began to spread across Glacial's face. Unlike the oozes though, the demon was looking for a way into the dragon, and when it found one, in the form of the dragon's nostrils, it immediately and eagerly oozed into them.