224 Power (1/2)

My newest power, this ”rejection” ability was beyond a doubt the single greatest power I had in my extensive arsenal. This power was the best reason I had to pursue the second tier of influence over every domain and subdomain that I could, even more so than my desire to reach the second tier of godhood.

I could only imagine how terrifyingly powerful this ability would become if I gained the second tier of influence over death. Would I be able to reject the death's of anyone I didn't want to die? Even now, with enough power over life to reject notifications related to it I could see how bafflingly powerful this was.

Life-based domain notifications alerted me to the moment of conception of new life, to the moment someone was born, as well as moments when they made life. Creation domain notifications covered an incredible breadth of things, and even agricultural notifications were startingly diverse. They covered not just the stages of the life-cycles of crops but also the births and deaths of animals that farmers across the universe used, as well as the sensations of hunger and thirst.

This newfound power motivated me to act decisively and quickly. I had the power to gain the second tier of influence over a few more domains and subdomains swiftly. I began by reaching out across the universe with my mind and targeting a single community with a combination of powerful abilities.

While I did that, I also harnessed my innate nature as a deity of earth and reached out and touched the canyon with another part of my mind. Doing so gave me great power over the canyon, total power over it in fact. And that power was power I fully intended to use to begin to build a real base of operations in this distant world. While I was scheming and gaining greater power over a few domains and subdomains, I began to enter the canyon itself and descend down a path that would lead me into the depths of the canyon, hundreds of meters below my current elevation.

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Thousands of light-years away from the planet the dreadful god's potent mind was currently occupying and experimenting in, there was a small community of humans who lived in the world of Salifinos. This was a war-torn world where the god was effectively a god of apocalypses and death, and it was a world in the solar system of his birth.

The god's first blow against the community awoke the sleepy town. It was late night in the part of the world where the community was located, and the overwhelming majority of its residents had been fast asleep when the god blasted the town with two potent abilities at once. The first power he used was his ability to blast minds. The second was his ability to inflict pain. By mixing the two, and especially by mixing them and aiming them at targets who had been asleep prior to the attack, he created a truly devastating attack that caused each of the town's residents incredible pain.

As one the town awoke, reeling from the agonizing power of the god. As a consequence of this he himself had just gained considerable power, his distant eyes flashing an eerie blue as a notification filled his vision. And he wasn't done either. The town was the perfect location for him to utilize another of his powers, which was also a power that he could use to gain further power in the exact same vein as he had gained greater power over pain just now.

The god silently transmitted a notification to the people of the town, demanding that they allow him to use his powers to change their appearance on them. If not, he promised to subject them to pain unending, and he was telling them the truth. The god tended towards honesty when it came to pain.

To their credit a few of the simple townspeople refused him. To his credit he was indeed honest about his threat. He immediately used some of his new powers on them, causing them to feel pain so intense that they couldn't think about anything else for a few moments.

He also stoked the hatred that their fellow townspeople felt, by utilizing his powers over emotions generally and hatred specifically. He kept causing those who were brave enough to reject him to experience agonizing pain beyond what they imagined possible for over a full minute. When the minute ended he repeated his question. This time they didn't refuse him. That was a smart choice.