227 God Of Might & Magic (1/2)
Eldritch Domain: Create a nation made up and led by eldritch abominations, or help your followers in destroying a nation made up of mortals.
Poison Subdomain: Utilize poison or acid to inflict massive damage during a key battle.
Art Subdomain: Have a follower create a masterpiece entirely unaided by your powers.
Creation Domain: Have a follower create something that has never existed and dedicate it, publicly, to you.
Physics Domain: Utilize your powers over physics to cause devastation such as by making two planets collide with each other.
Spore Subdomain: Transform over 10,000 of your parasitized spore servants into true spore-monsters.
Disease Domain: Have your followers create a new disease.
Time Domain: Discover and begin to utilize an artifact related to time.
Truth Subdomain: Have a vestige recognize an eldritch truth about your particular nature as a deity.
Light Domain: Illuminate an entirely darkened area, the size of a new moon.
Trickery Domain: Convince a vestige of something about you that isn't true.
Corruption Subdomain: Become a demon lord or an arch-devil of one of the seven deadly sins.
Lies Domain: Convince an entire nation to believe in something entirely untrue.
Evil Domain: Become both a demon-lord and an arch-devil.]
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I stepped through the portal and went from a peaceful, newly established city, into another city that was currently being beseiged. That said, I had never been more powerful than I was at this exact moment, and so I was beyond fear or hesitation.
The instant I stepped through the portal I closed it behind me and began to smile. I had brought myself to a battlefield, one where I could freely test my powers. I was still as I studied my surroundings.
I stood atop a building that was slowly sinking into a stinking swampland. In front of me a small group of demons were panickedly trying to plan how to deflect a fleet of drones that were speeding towards my current location. This strange, sinking city was under attack by my mechanical legions. I chuckled, using my powers over sound to render the noise inaudible and began to walk towards the demons. They stood a fair distance away from me and were focused on figuring out a viable strategy to defeat the odd airborne machines.
As I walked towards them I gripped my artifact-staff tighter than I ever had. The staff was stronger than it had ever been. And I was sure I'd get the chance to utilize it to it's full potential today.
The demon cried out a command, determined to strike down at least some of the drones that were approaching the beseiged city. Its companions were still frightened, but nevertheless they obeyed their stronger-willed companion and placed hands on its shoulders. I sensed them begin to transfer magical energy into their companion and I couldn't help but smile at that. It was almost cute.
The demonic ”commander” or rather the demon who was the strongest of the group of five felt mystical power flow into him. I heard the soft sound of his eyelids closing as he attempted to cast a spell that he felt might just take out a drone or two. I approached him slowly, still undetected by his allies.
When the demon lifted a finger and pointed it in the direction of the drones I felt the magical energy he had gathered within himself begin to race towards his finger. I chuckled. The second it left his body it took on the rough shape of a spear of sickly looking green flames.
”Nope.” I whispered, nearly silently, as I rose my staff and commanded the spell to stop. The magic that had managed to depart from the demon suddenly froze in mid-air, causing the demon to gasp in shock. That brought a smile to my face.
With that I quietly activated the true power of my new artifact-staff. It began to take hold almost immediately, and the spell that the demon had cast began to scream.
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The demon felt a variety of emotions wash over him at once. But the most primal of the emotions he felt as the magical energy that stirred within him began to not obey him was fear.
The demon had just been paralyzed by shock when the flaming magical energy he had intended to unleash failed to obey him properly. That was one thing, as demons were creatures of chaos and thus their mastery over the chaotic powers of magic were impressive but sometimes their chaotic natures mixing with the chaotic nature of magic caused mishaps like this. However, the demon was not ready for what happened next.
The demon sensed something strange a split second before something strange began to happen. The sickly green flaming spear expanded in size, and began to exude a heat hot enough that the demon began to sweat. And then it began to scream, the sound identical to that a grown human being tortured would make.
For a moment even the demon felt fear. This was beyond anything he had ever experienced. And then it got worse. The spear of sickly green fire began to shift and change before the demon's very eyes. A scowling mouth and set of harsh blue eyes began to appear on the portion of the spear furthest from the demon.
It was at this point that the demons next to the demonic commander froze up. This was something none of them had ever seen. And that was before the eldritch spell began to emit a blood-curdling scream.
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[Artifact Information:
Name: Staff of the Life-Bringer
Artifact Type: Personal, True
Wielder: Althos
Creator: Althos
Staff Abilities:
Parasitic: Capable of absorbing properties from other artifacts. Also capable of preventing artifacts from vanishing upon the slaying of vestiges, thus allowing its wielder to acquire artifacts.
Vita: Can bring things to life. Can also create life.
Amorphous: Possesses an ability to endure shape-changing without a loss of power.
Magic-Commanding: Can warp or corrupt magic, as well as undo it or replicate its effects as per the ”Custom-effect” power.
Chaotic: This staff can be edited by its creator. Only by its creator.]
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I grinned as the demons froze up. I wasn't exactly the sort to empathize with my enemies, but I could understand their confusion at this moment. Chaos never failed to spice up life, but even chaos wasn't likely to bring a spell itself to life in the same way that I just had. I studied the scene before me, before targeting the demons once more.
Demons possessed an enviable set of resistances and immunities to all sorts of sources of harm. But that was nothing before me, and my ability to strip creatures of immunities or resistances. Without a moment's hesitation I stripped the demons of their resistance to fire, and then I looked at the sickly, grotesque, living flame. I gave it a single command.