223 Life (2/2)
”I gained power when I created your kind, I want you to know that, but I created you first and foremost to help me in my real mission: gaining all knowledge.” I explained, lying to my creation but only a little bit. And before my eyes the creature's eyes widened and its body language changed.
The monster before me, the very first of its kind, gained confidence and assurance thanks to my words. I had filled it with a holy purpose, a true reason to exist. I also bestowed it with a holy and zealous appreciation of the gifts I had bestowed upon it. I felt the creature's overall attitude shift in a more positive, self-affirming direction. Before my eyes the creature all gained a class, a pair of them actually.
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The assorted crowd that watched the gigantic man-spider was taken aback when after several moments of eerie clicking, the creature who had been created by the king of parasites began to glow.
The creature looked human, for the moment anyway, but after hearing the parasite king's latest clicks it was still for many moments. As it did an unusual silence filled the air as creatures atop the hill glanced at each other, confused by the clicking sounds their creator was making and many other events that had happened in the past few minutes.
After a few moments, the strange human-like being who stood not far from the mosquito lord and creator began to glow. He radiated a faint silvery light for a few moments, before suddenly ceasing to radiate any light. When the light ceased radiating out of the creature, he was changed.
The creature who had the form of a human, for now anyway, stood taller than he had before. He had denser muscles than he had had a moment ago, he stood up straighter than before, and he had a certainty in his gaze that he had lacked before now. He was himself, but a more confident version of himself.
The creature's faith in his creator, kindled by his creator's words, had resulted in the creature gaining two classes spontaneously. The first class he had earned was that of a cleric, the most devoted and fanatical servants of the gods. The second class he had earned was that of a monk, devoted archivists and seekers of knowledge who served gods of strength, combat, discipline, and order.
The mixture of those two classes in particular also strengthened the soul of the creature. It felt the confidence that it now displayed physically well up from within its heart and proudly displayed that confidence. Althos himself studied the creature after the light stopped shining and chuckled. He did not hate the changed monster, indeed he was quite fond of its newfound faith and discipline.
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The spider-human-monster before me had the confidence of someone many years his senior. He had a purpose now, and he had some awareness of his abilities. He was far sharper than he had been before.
His two classes complimented each other quite well, and they would no doubt enable him to pursue his goals far more effectively than he would have been able too do without them.
The first few abilities of the monk class were related to physical improvements. They made those who received the class stronger, faster, and more skilled in hand to hand combat. The first few abilities of the cleric class made someone wiser and they gave them recovery abilities, such as the power to pray to their god and receive divine healing for minor wounds once per week.
I was about to issue my first command to my zealous servant when I received a surprising, but not unpleasant notification.
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[Notification:
Your ”God” class has just leveled up! Now you are a level 2 God.
As a level 2 God, you gain double usages of all of your cooldown abilities, and you gain the ability to create a second avatar. You also gain these two greater powers:
Spontaneous Miracles: Faith alone is now enough to cause miracles that will be attributed to you. If a creature has enough faith in you and either extremely desires something or is in desperate need, there's an incredibly small chance that their desires will be fulfilled in the form of an incredible miracle.
Rejection: When you gain the second tier of influence over something you may now look at a notification related to the thing you have the second tier of influence over and reject it. For instance if someone sought to heal an enemy of yours and you rejected it the attempt to heal them would fail. Normally this would require you to have more influence over something before you could utilize this ability, if you stayed at level one.]
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”Rejection? What an ability...” I thought to myself, in stunned silence as I read over it. It was a truly reality-shaking ability. I possessed the second tier of influence over several different domains and subdomains, and with this I could alter reality in galaxies on the far end of the cosmos or in dimensions I had yet to visit since my domain-sense power worked on a universal scale.
Indeed I had a chance to immediately utilize my rejection ability as someone was trying to heal Agustino. I wordlessly activated the ability, and thus changed the notification I had just received. I grinned when I read that the attempt had failed.
I could see how incredibly powerful this ability could become as I tried to wrap my mind around it. Someone with this ability and the second tier of influence over the technology subdomain could prevent an intergalactic empire from building something as simple as a music-player ever again, if they were vengeful and angry at the empire.
At the moment with this power if I wanted too I could permanently change the entire universe and only allow my worshippers to ever experience restful sleep. And with this power once I completed the quest to acquire the second tier of influence over the domain of magic I'd be able to shut magic down for anyone I disliked.
I could also interfere with attempts to archive knowledge thanks to this power. In this moment I felt incredibly powerful. It took me a second to calm down and recenter myself. I glanced at my servant and began to click again, speaking to my creation.
”Little one... From here on out your name is Espejo, and your mission is to archive all of the knowledge in this world. To do that more easily, accept this blessing.” I declared, speaking authoritatively, and raising my hand in the creature's direction. The creature smiled excitedly as I began to bless it.
I gave it a blessing of knowledge, boosted its intelligence and wisdom, and in doing so boosted the rate at which it processed knowledge, thoughts, memories, and secrets from its victims. As I did that the creature's eyes widened as it completed absorbing what it had taken from those it had eaten.
As I did that I turned my mind towards the perpetually increasing number of notifications that filled my mind. And as I did that, I exited the orc I had been possessing. I left him in a rather dramatic fashion and to my servants the next few seconds were filled with the sight of a mass of spiritual darkness rapidly exiting the orc I had been using as a vessel.
When I dramatically departed from the orc, I found myself or at least my astral body floating beside a collapsed, unconscious orc. He was sleeping on the grassy floor of the hill. I turned to my creation and I gave it a simple command.
”Collect the orc. There is one more gift I wish to give you.” I told the creature, who leaped to obey me. It effortlessly retrieved the orc, and a split second later I conjured a glowing blue portal right in front of us.
On the other side of the portal stood an awe-inspiring view: an incredibly beautiful red-rock canyon. I was taking my creations to yet another part of the world, but this time I was going to set up a base. One from which my minions could get used to life in this world. I wordlessly stepped through the portal. Once my astral form's feet stepped on the stones of the canyon I extended an arm through the portal and beckoned my creations to follow me.