"Okay, guy-whose-I-still-don't-know, is it better to be a small team of mercs or an army?" I asked the demon.
"Mercenaries have to have at least 40 people otherwise they're adventurers but you can have a small combat team. Also my name's Marodon." Marodon said.
"Okay, get the names and expertise of all the slaves, wait just the expertise I'm not remembering 50 names." I told him and then he ran off, probably hoping to improve his standing with me.
"Have any of you checked your stats?"
"No, not yet."
"Okay check then. Status."
"Welp... partially useful... maybe. I don't fucking know." I didn't lie in that statement maybe.
"Samuel this is the part where you say that you probably forgot something and that'll show up later.... No? Or do you want to keep the image of always being right even though I created you and made you a very bad helper so that anything I forgot was easily explainable."
"Heath, what are you going on about?" Christian asked.
"Samuel forgetting important info." I replied.
"Such as?" He said rolling his arms in a motion meaning continue.
"I don't know I just know he'll have forgotten something, guarantee it."
"Fair enough."
"...Anyone checked the store yet?" I asked.
"No." Was the short response I recieved.
"Okay. Store."
"Bllodline."
"Okay back, Armour."
"Okay, back, weapons." I said as a very sci-fi looking set of armour complete with the best shield there is a.k.a a tower shield and then the armour went to the most primitive looking set of armour it could be whilst still protecting the entire body though the white and black theme it's got is pretty good.
"Heath, how much did that cost?" Locky asked, already trying to undermine me as a 2 meter long hand-and-a-half sword appeared in the armour sets hand or guantlet.
"0 DP." I said casually.
"Really, because that's some high quality stuff there." He continued.
"It is The Mortal God's armour and sword just in a lower grade. If you don't believe me ask Samuel." I said still in a casually tone.
"Samuel is what he's said so far true?" He asked Samuel and after 2 seconds of reading his face went blank.
"Even Samuel supports me."
"It costs...5...5...500000000 DP." He said most likely lying.
"No it was for free I've still got my 5025 DP." I said before the others started to rage.
"Fine then, don't believe your friend. What do we need for our journey to the nearest dungeon." I asked impatiently.
"Heath, why a dungeon? Also you spent a fair bit of DP on ONE armour set and ONE weapon." Locky said pissing me off.
"Because infinite resources, more DP and prestige. Do I need to go on?" I said in a aggitated tone.
"No." Locky replied in a short direct manner.
"Okay, where's Marodon..." I said more to myself before spotting him, "MARODON! GET OVER HERE!" He quickly ran over to us which I now just realised was avoided by the ex-slaves.
"Here. We have 10 warriors, 5 mages of various expertise, 2 alchemists, 3 smithies and 30 unskilled people. What do you want to do with them?" He seems to have some experience with reporting.
"Marodon get the warriors armed, the mages prepared for battle and whatever else they'll need and everyone else can pack up the camp and go... wait, where's the neearest unclaimed, conquered or watever dungeon and what'll we need to get there." I just noticed how much I chuck on Marodon.
"North-east about..... 1000km. There's a fair few villages along the way so we should be good for materials and equipment from them so we can go now if you want."
"Okay yeah, we'll go now."
3 Months Later...
I learnt that you should never try to march through forests and that villages have a bad habit of trying to scam you, which leads me to my next point... we're now wanted in about 15 different kingdoms, 1 empire and 2 underworlds, simply because we sluaghtered 50 different villages that happened to be trade villages that just happened to have a shit ton of connections to a couple thousand highup-ish people. My only saving grace is the fact that the 15 kingdoms which have about 10 towns each, are to scared to come into the empire's territory and the empire is currently at war with about 15 other empire's... really tell's you how powerful they are. The two underworlds... well.... there at war with eachother but on the bright-ish side we're at our intended destination.
"Heath just because we've got a 5 level three warrior's and 5 level two warrior's and 5 level two mages, DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN JUST BRUTE FORCE OUR WAY THROUGH!" Obviously Locky is the only one who'd dare try to undermine me in such a blantant way, he's gotten worse after we destroyed those villages.
"Locky, do you want to FUCKING DIE!!!? DO YOU!!!? NO, well then shut up and stop trying to undermine me." In response to this all 30 warriors turned on my and 20 summons of locky's surronded me.
"Heath, you have no morals, you slughtered 50 villages and you don't feel a thing for those dead. Now, your going to die." I'm going to wipe the grin off his face.
Cutting both my wrist's slightly and slitting my throat, more like running the blade along my throat causing a small cut, I said in quiet, pure fury, "Warrior's Rage."
In 5 seconds the level three warrior's were dead with either no head or a split skull. The summons started casting magic which I promptly interupted at just the right moment to kill them all along with the remaining warriors and the mages that had just revealed themselves. I then moved on to fight Locky.
He started to cast fireball, which had rougly a 30 second cast time he then activated TMG Barrier, which could only hold up against 1000 Damage but would last long enough for the fireball to be fired. Still I had to destroy it, so swing my sword back and forth, hacking and slashing I took it down 5 seconds after what I'd say is a thousand or so degree fireball impacted upon my helmet lowering my health by a fair chunk. Still he was exposed now and was soon missing his head, limbs and a fair portion of his chest. I then past the rest of my rage beating trees and rocks.
It took about a minute after my rage subsided for Christian, Jaxx, Seb and Joe to show up.
"HEATH! What did you do?" Christian asked me probably fearing for his life.
"I killed the guy that would've killed me, the corspes of those warrior's are a testament to that. Get our remainig people to create a coffin that'll contain and kill Locky when he revives. Burn the rest of the corpses." They believed me fortunatly.
"I'll go conquer the dungeon." I thought it'd be better for them and myself for me to at least accomplish something good.
I walked back into our still large camp and then continued to the dungeon. The dungeon was very unasssuming, just a cave mouth with nothing wanting to kill me, we'd already explored the first floor and found nothing most likely an intelligent dungeon. Fun. So I walked all the way to the end of the first floor and found the staircase to the second floor. Summoning my armour and sword, I walked cautiously down it.
The second floor was like a greenhouse, thousands of plants, indicating that this was either a plant based dungeon or this was a sentient dungeon. If it was sentient I might be able to strike a deal with it or it might use underhanded tricks to kill me. So, even more on guard now I walked down what might've been a path at one stage that was now overrun with massive trees and flowers, leading me to be on guard for a dryad or dryad's.
Eventually after dodging the few plants trying to kill me, the twenty thousand vines that wanted to kill me, the 7 dryads wanting to kill me, you get the picture, I arrived at the core room. The room only had the assumed dungeon core so in my infinite wisdom I said, "Status."
"Shit, activate Divine Potential."
"????" I think it took me five or so minutes to figure out what happened but I'm not to sure.
"Well... journey to godhood it is. Now then dungeon core thing, surrender to me or I'll crush you." I need an intimidation skill.
"NEVER!!!!!" They boomed out to scare me. I did flinch due to the volume at which they spoke but it really wasn't that scary.
"CAN YOU KEEP THE VOLOUME DOWN. My fucking ears. FUCK!" The pain.
"Leave... now and never return?" The dungeon at least didn't shout this time.
"No, surrender to me and we'll be good. Still partial deaf though." I said the last part more to myself than to the dungeon.
"Beat the boss and then I'll surrender to you." As soon as he said that a corridor opened up to my right which I followed after a prompt from the dungeon.
The corridor was pretty long and full of terrible traps, terrible as in they can't do their job, a couple arrows fly towards me every now and again but they can't get through my tower shield that I'd move in front of me. A few minutes later I arrived into a large, very large, circular room with , what I assume is, a dryad, you know generally beautiful women who controls plants and tries to kill people or have *** with people (usually male). This dryad was bigger than usual 'bout 5 times as big wielding a plant sword and vines all along the ground ready to shoot up and make a wall or impale me if I walk over them so, all seeing comes in handy here.
So combat began as usual, single combat that is. We circled each other for a minute or so then I got bored and spammed warrior summons and then charged at the giant fucking dryad. Why do I say fucking, because the bastard spammed down it's own minions that almost made my own minions pointless. Also the vines became vine walls blocking my path stopping my charge.
Many minutes later...
I killed the dryad! Is what I want to say but you know, THE BASTARD'S STILL THERE! There also out of vines,vine walls, minions and they have no weaposn bar their hands.
Charging up to it for the 75th time it backhanded me and I block it with my shield and then I threw my sword at it hacking off an arm and then some. So the dryad had its left arm left, yay pun, the majority of it's chest oblierated and it was still fucking up my day. At least my physical strength was high enough to do a fair bit of damage to the beast. The dungeon still hadn't resorted to underhanded tricks so either it had faith the dryad would kill me or it didn't have the resources to send anything at me. I then remeber that I possessed two more swords and quickly summoned and then threw them at the dryad's legs forcing it to the ground.
Charging for the 76th time I smashed the dryad's face, and what little remained of it's chest, in killing it because Samuel my favourite AI sent me this.
Pretty good acheivements.
"Dungeon create an arena and a battleground on two seperate floors." I ordered the dungeon, pretty obvious I'd say.
"I don't have enough mana. I need two thousand more."
"Give me a bit."
A Bit Later...
"Jaxx, give the dungeon 2 thousand mana please."
"Sure Heath." He responded and then a blue stream appeared from Jaxx's outstretched hand to the dungeon core.
"Arena has been built....... battleground has been built....... monsters added to arena. What terrain do you want for the battlegrounds also what monsters, bosses do you want for both?"
"Arena monsters.... anything that's good individually. Terrain I'd like to be able to switch between terrain types in the battlegrounds but the arena can just have a desert terrrain. Monsters for the battlegrounds though...hhmmm.... anything good in numbers also some humanoids armed and armoured preferable. Bosses for the arena just something indivdually good but the battlegrounds needs multiple that are good commanders and just good individually. Can you work with that."
"Does your friend have 25,000 mana?" The Dungeon asked somewhat sarcastically.
"I got 50k generating 10% of that every second." Jaxx answered.
"Okay while you do that imma gonna do system shit."
"God store."
"Auction selling."
"Jaxx and dungeon. You done?"
"Yeah."
"Yes.''
"Jaxx how much mana do you have?"
"Right now... 26k." He answered after a breif hesitation.
"Auction 26 thousand mana at 27 thousand DP."
"Notify me when it's been sold."
"Heath what was that?" Jaxx asked in confusion.
"I just put your mana on auction for 27 thousand DP we should get higher though." I told him.
"That's a LOT of DP." He said in shock.
"I have over 60 million DP that ain't much to me." I replied.
"Hey God store, domains please."
"I'll buy all the domains with DP. Hey jaxx I sold your 26k Mana for 32 billion DP, 70 followers and 52 faith. Can I get the mana pleaze."
"Here." He said somewhat out of touch as a stream of blue connected me to him.
"Here's the mana."
"Thank fuck." I was a bit worried it'd need it all at once but I guess it doesn't.
"Sure why not."
Oh shit.
"Dungeon I'm going to bring in a small force of 'bout 100 can you house them in here?"
"I can house them on the first floor."
"Good enough. JAXX! Go get our troops set up in the first floor and tell them to get ready for a battle."
"YESSIR." And he chucked a cadet salute which I appluaded him for.
"I'm going to be down in the arena for a while."
5 days later...
"Status."
"Well at least my HP matches up with my feelings. Practically dead." I said exhausted after 4 days of fighting bosses in the arena straight at least I was now in the somewhat powerful at level 8. Still not enough to survive a war with the empire though. Oh also for the past day I've been commanding my merc army in the battlegrounds across ALL kinds of battle fields. Plains, the easiest, swampy forest was by far the hardest, desert was about a medium difficulty, forest caused a few injuries and swamp, well that bastard child nearly killed 10 of my men. Still the swampy forest that I've just finished nearly killed me, Jaxx, Seb and Christian. A lot of physically focussed bosses, uprooting and throwing trees.*shudder*.
"Sir! The empire's arrived. They request your presence." Ahh, my favourite lieutenant, he's called john now.
"Thanks John actually can I get a healing potion, Joe still doesn't know any other healing spells."
"Here sir." He says as he chucks it up to me, I caught it though and quickly chugged the contents of the red liquid.
"Okay get the men ready for combat. Health Status."
"Good." Now for the God persona.
A bit later...
"WHO WANTED ME!!?" I boomed out as intimidatingly as possible.
"The Isladaharan empire." The messanger shouted back.
"WHY DO THEY WANT ME?" I boomed back again.
"Because you killed 50 Villages. That's why bitch!" He got really pationate there.
Finally exiting the cave mouth and stepping into the light, I saw 2 thousand fully armed and armoured spear men there 'bouts. They all had faces of anguish, rage or just blank. So to demoralise them I said, "Do any of you woship the Demon God, Darkness God, Void God or Afterlife God?"
"Half our empire worships the darkness and void Gods and no one doesn't worship the Afterlife God. Why do you ask?"
Whispering to myself, "Samuel does owning a domain make me the God of that domain? You know what I mean."
Shouting now, "Because I AM THE GODS THAT YOU WORSHIP!"
"Bullshit! You said Gods and there's only one of you."
"A God can have multiple domains also I know The Mortal God pretty fucking well cunt so do you still want to fight me?"
"Get him to appear before us otherwise we'll have to kill you due to the fact that you claim to know the creator."
"Samuel could you get TMG over here?"
"Samuel says yes." Well a 5 metre tall, 4 armed, winged humanoid with a dragon head with white and black scales appeared before us all.
"WHO ARE YOU!" The messanger looked pretty well confused.
"The Mortal God bitch you know the guy who made this ENTIRE dimension and before you ask no your NOT the only sentients in the universe and yeah a God can have multiple do ains I have two the God of Mortals and The God of Demons." He then disappeared.
"..................The.........The...........The Empire calls peace with you mercenaries. Soldiers ATTACK!!!" He was either really out of it or just a bitch.
The soldiers after a brief hesitation charged at me and then I summoned a small part of the void and consummed a couple hundred speamen, then summoned a couple Demond lords big red bastards with hirns and wings and claws and ooohhh shit holy magic is NOT good for demons. I then summoned some ancient hero's from the after life and well..... *Blink**Blink**Blink**Blink* Well I desummoned the dead heros and looked at the carnage they'd wrought in much less than half a second. Corpses were left strewn across the land those in the most whole condition were split into four others had small chunks of meat or just skeletons left.
"You summoned the dead, now you must pay the price 500 souls per summoned." A voice that was both creepy and friendly said.
"Who the fuck are you?" I asked as I turned around seeing a wall of constantly darkness.
"I'm Death, the actually God of Death the one that participated in the war of the Gods. I know you're the god of the afterlife probably new as well. Pay up the souls or your own." He then changed into a pale man tall with a black coat and clothes also coloured black leaving only his face exposed.
"Does The Mortal God mean anything to you?" I asked now very worried for my health.
"Yes it does. Why do you ask." Okay the voice is now very menacing.
"Can you stop with the intimidation tactics please." I pleaded there.
"Fine but answer the question." Okay his voice was now very monotone.
"I know him and I am possibly an alternative version of him." He stared at me and then pushed a button that he drew from his cloak.
"What do want Death." TMG asked the very scary man.
"This guy claims to know you and be an alternative version of you." He said gesturing to me.
"He does know me but uuummmm, well, as every good story starts, he's actually younger version of me from the home world who I accidentally killed because I'm bored and used my God powers to stop it from fucking up the space-time continum." He said somewhat sheepishly.
"Fair enough. Can you hurry up and get stronger than The God of Gods so that we can bring back *(@&##(@)) The Ruler of Space and Time." He looked and sounded pissed but not that suprised.
"Tell me where the Coward is and it'll be done." TMG shot back.
"DImension YSBAJSJ57574957845487. Locked it down for you." TMG then disappeared.
"Okay my friend you can summon heroes and whatnot as much as you like but rember, Never Ever Mention The Mortal God to ANYONE ELSE or you'll be killed and here's a button in case that does happen. I can only bring you tenacious bastards back from the dead without the price being paid once until you become powerful enough." He said the last part really quietly he also seemed really pationate about this topic.
"Thanks Death." I said midly confused.
"The shit I do and the rules and laws I break and bend for your own bloody entertainment. Actually you can't summon Hero's and whatnot until you or older you becomes more powerful than The God of Gods." And with that he went back to the land of the dead or whatever it's called.
