224 Power (2/2)
The god utilized his powers over biology and alteration to begin to reshape and remake the human villagers. He wanted to do it all at once, which was why he wanted until he had all of the permission he needed to act. The transformation he inflicted on the mortals was initially going to be a lazy one, perhaps nothing more than the addition of a single finger to their hands but after he had to do a bit of work to be able to mutate and transform the mortals he decided that he should put a bit of effort into transforming them.
The god's powers washed over the mortals immediately. Mere seconds after the last of them acquiesced to the god's commands they began to transform. Prior to his interest in them they had been normal humans, ones whose mutations were simple things like eye colors. As his powers washed over them their mutations were dramatically and permanently altered.
Althos was transforming the humans into something that was clearly inhuman. The first and most dramatic aspect of their mutations and alterations was the sudden, collective, theft of their lungs. Their lungs were taken from them and replaced by gills. The rest of their bodies followed a similar and terrifying pattern of their features that were most suitable for life on land being taken from them and replaced with features that were suitable for life underwater. In a matter of moments they went from being ordinary humans to being creatures suited for life underwater, all while being above-water.
That said, the god had a plan for that as well. Even as their mutations overtook them and transformed them into humanoid, human-shaped fish-creatures, the ocean beside their village abruptly increased in size and overtook the village, flooding into houses, shops, barns, and more. And in doing so it saved lives by giving the newly transformed residents water to breathe. That said, Althos wasn't really done with Salifinos.
He momentarily turned his awareness towards a kingdom of elves that existed on the war-torn world. Without any hesitation he plunged the entire nation into darkness, spawning and spreading it throughout the entire nation. And in an act of quiet maliciousness he informed his abominal servants of what he had done, all while blessing them with dark vision and cursing the elven defenders of the kingdom and stealing away their ability to see in the dark.
The truth was that the god had plans for the world of Salifinos. He hadn't acted on them just yet, and for now he was more focused on completing his war against Agustino, defeating Technos, and avenging Ava, but he had legitimate plans for each of the worlds in the solar system of his birth. And Salifinos was the world he was the most interested in. Which was why it was the world where he had gained three total tiers of influence over some of the domains and subdomains he was highly intrigued by.
After he finished reading through the notification he had received in the wake of earning greater power over the biology domain he quietly inflicted maddening nightmares on a dwarven king who was locked in a war with a gug the god was fond of. He also infected the high-general of the king's forces with an extremely contagious and slow-acting disease that would inevitably kill the general, after he infected dozens of soldiers with it.
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During the time I had spent toying with lifeforms on Salifinos I was busy in the quiet and uninspiring world I had come too in astral form. I had fun remodelling the canyon before me while freely using my powers over earth.
As an earth deity I could command the earth, stone, and soil, quite easily. They moved as I willed them, and felt delighted to be ordered by an elemental overlord and by a god, and even more so by a creature that was both. My absolute empathy power was so incredibly potent now that I could sense the feelings of nature and the elements, and they were all delighted that a god was now freely wandering the world.
The earth itself was especially delighted that I was utilizing my powers over it, since I wasn't here in my physical body. I felt the planet delight in my commands and I chuckled as I stepped deeper and deeper into the canyon, each step leading me closer and closer to the location of a future base of Althonians.
It took me a few minutes of wandering to find a place I found suitable for transformation into my newest base. I smiled and began an impressive display of power in the form of transforming the cave I had settled on as a place to create a base and a new civilization. My powers washed over the cave I had selected and swiftly began to irrevocably transform it into a new home for Althonites.