Chapter 11 - Under My Command

"Hi, Selene, It's very nice to finally officially meet you also."

Damien said with a smile.

Selene returned a warm smile back to him. This is the first time she's done so so since she's met him. Despite all she has been through Selene felt as though she could trust this mage. He didn't carry the air of arrogance that the few mages that have passed through her village displayed.

"So, Sir mage what now?" She asked.

"Well I was actually on a search to find civilization. I have been alone lost in the forest for weeks and was looking to find a place that I could call home for a while. I have an important mission to accomplish so that I can return home." He responded.

"A place to call home? And where is your home? Now, that I'm not running for my life, I haven't had a chance to think about where you could be possibly coming from. I couldn't believe anyone else was even out here. Nothing is in this directions except the wilds. I wasn't expecting to survive."

"It's hasn't been too bad as he took out more of the fruit from his 'pouch' but really his inventory."

Selene looked at Damien in shock but didn't probe further. The wilds were infamously dangerous. How could he talk about this hellhole like it was a still in a natural trail?

"Well my tiny village, Alto, is the last known human village furthest to the West of the Algarian Empire. In fact, we are so far to the East, that the Kingdom of Algaria does not even claim Alto as one of its own. Which is also the reason for our plight that we have had in recent years." Selene said as her voice trailed off and with a distant look in her eyes.

Damien took this time to think before responding. He hadn't thought of these questions beforehand and he was lucky these questions were being asked now and not in front of a royal court of a Kingdom or somewhere else more important. How could he explain anything that has happened to him to anyone?

Any sane person would think he was crazy and most likely he'd be thrown in a prison of some kind. Then again if anyone would have told me I'd be training in magic, hunting monsters with a water blasts, and throwing boulders that are hundreds of pounds in weight for fun I would have laughed them right out of a room. That's not even to mention being a Harbinger to a god and also could be potentially worshipped myself to gather points for a system given to me by a god. My heads hurting just thinking about the absurdity of it all. Yet, by ignoring just how absurd this whole thing was, that strangely helps me to cope and not go completely bat sh** crazy. Damien felt like he had to give the woman some kind of answer and ignorance seems like the way to go.

"I really don't remember where I'm from. I was in a battle with a powerful mage in the east of here, and all that I can remember is waking up without any memory of my home or where I am from. I even forgot many of my spells so I'm on a mission to see if I can relearn as much as possible so that my memory can hopefully be jogged again. Your village sounds like the perfect place to go to try to help me deal with my amnesia. Why don't we start there?"

Selenes face lit up at the mention of her going home, but the look faded away just as quickly as it had come. "My village isn't a safe haven any longer it is hell now. The men you have seen chasing me were part of a large bandit group who have been conducting raids on nearby villages taking what they want and ravaging the lands uncontested.

Our plea for help from the nobles of the empire has gone unheard. None of the nobles from the Duke down to the Baron will sacrifice men to a small back water village that the king does not even claim.

Anyone who would have fought back is either already dead or too afraid to do anything. I don't think we can save my village as we are now. The bandit camp has hundreds of men who will do anything Marcus tells them to do, no matter how vile. I am afraid my village is already lost." At this, Selene last few sentences were said with tear swelling up in her eyes and was on the verge of breaking.

Damien had already made up his mind he was going to head towards the village of Alto it was just finding the place from here.

"Take me to your village from here?" Damien told her.

"I had run straight into the wilds when I had escaped from the bandit's camp, I do not know. I know that my village is to the east of the bandit's camp." She responded.

"Okay, we'll start there. I have to make preparations for us before we travel. Please stay here while I go to collect some….companions that I have met along the way. Just rest for now and I'll return by tomorrow." Damien smiled and turned around to make the place more comfortable for Selene.

He created a sand bed as he had come to call them, a water basin and reheated the makeshift bathtub after replacing the water. He then made a door leading out to an open roof squared area that was had a large fire pit in the middle with a rotating spit over the top. He took out 4 of the skinned rabbits and laid them down on a makeshift table surounded by stone benches. Then he willed roots from the earth to come out of the center of the fire pit. With his fire magic, he willed a stream of fire to light the middle of the pit so that she could cook the rabbits.

Selene in awe at what she saw just nodded. When Damien finished speaking, she didn't look convinced at what was said about the companions but, before she could respond Damien willed a hole to the outside of the dome and walked out before closing it shut.

Damien walked outside to the smell of death and bodily excrement and frowned. Large, 2 headed dark purple buzzards like creatures were already feasting on the dead bodies and some even looked like look like they had been dragged into the woods. Damien was glad he had come out here first. Convincing Selene to come with him to the village after her seeing this would have been a taxing ordeal. He covered the remaining bodies with earth magic and willed them deeper into the earth so that they couldn' be dug up by animals. Not that he cared about the bodies, but he didn't want to attract any large beasts with strong noses.

Now it was time for Damien to have a talk with the system. He's not foolish enough to not realize that he has the skills to survive all on his own. He has just been extremely lucky up to this point and have almost died already within a few months on this planet and that was with starting out with all of this help. The system greatly downplayed the dangers of this planet. Twelve men made him bleed, what would fifty archers with a quiver of arrows have done to him? It's not like the arrows didn't penetrate his flesh. What if the arrows had poison on them? Yes, I do have divine touch but, with my mana core depleted as it was, I could have used it what, once or maybe twice?

My mana shield was falling apart by force was beyond a major drain and my mana was not recovering after it was too slow. I was completely vulnerable.

I know too little about magic to think I know anything at all. In my arrogance, I was a variable away from death. I need some assistance. "System, please display any spells that I have currently have on my status screen."

'Done.'

Okay, "Show me my Status screen".

'-STATUS-

Host: Damien Sorlen

Hero Rank: 2 (Up 1)

Level: Master Archmage (T: 1) R: 4 (RANK UP)

Divine points per day: 1
Divine Points: 4,723

Skills:
=Earth Magic (T: 4) / R: 3 (RANK UP)
=Air Magic (T: 4) R: 2 (RANK UP)
=Water (T: 4) R: 2 (RANK UP)
=Fire Magic (T: 3) R:1
=Life Magic (T:1) R:2
=Arcane Magic (T2) R1


*System Skills*
=Divine Touch (T: 7) R: 5 (RANK UP)

Combat:
ARCANE
=Mana Bolt
=Mana Shield
WIND
=Gust
=Wind Blast
=Wind Step
EARTH
=Soften Earth
=Earth Spiked Trap
=Stone Bolt
WATER
=Aua Drip
=Water Shot
FIRE
=Firebolt
=Fire Stream
=Fire Ball
LIFE
=Cleaning

Passive:
=Absorption (Max)
= Minor Regeneration
=Mana Recovery T:3/R:7 (RANK UP)
=Arcane Strengthening (Max)

Titles:
Archmage
-50% Reduction in all Elemental Damage.
+5% to all spell damage.

Boons:
Touched by the Arcane Divine: This Boon a gift from the great God for being summoned by divine means to the world and given a Divine System +10% to magical potency and +50% to learning speed and increased brain functions.

Wonderous Elemental Archmage: For mastering all branches of elemental magic (Earth, Fire, Air, Earth, and Metals) to become the first of your kind on this planet.
+20% to all elemental spell strength.]]

[[++Kingdom Building++Divine Shop++MAP++Inventory++Sentient and Creature Creation++]]

I have a decent groups of spells to work with.
System What would you recommend for my current situation? What does a higher hero rank grant me? I need knowledgeable and competent companions and well as skills that assist with traveling long distances with the points that I have.

'The host can purchase more advanced structures in the 'Kingdom Building' tab with a higher hero level. The higher hero level also affects what can be purchased in the 'Shop' tab option. At hero level 2 the Host can use build options to summon structures from up to the Middle Ages. The host cannot begin to use the 'Kingdom Building' tab until the Host had has at least one hundred followers or worshippers to the Hosts' cause.'

'The Host can also purchase system assisted skills that are powered by the Divine energy of the system and not with the Host's magic but there are system assisted skills that works in conjunction with the host's mana core. Due to the Host having a mana core and not a mana pool the Host will be able to accomplish more in a day with the latter.

The Host has added 2,000 DP from adding a new spell to the world, 2,000 DP for killing a Tier 7 Mythical Beast, and added 10 DP per bandit defeated in battle which has given the host 120 additional DP.'

The host will need to cloth, feed, and equip items for his summoned beings due to them still being living beings. Sentients will still learn and grow in strength on their own, due to them being created with the system. Yet, they will never disobey or hurt the Host but, they will also not be able to contribute to DP due to them being created by the system to already worship the host.
The beings will also need skills to grow in strength. The system recommends the following spells:

Divine Transmutation-1,500 DP:
This system enhanced spell will help you to summon objects and animals by replacing one material with a different material to alter the genetic makeup of a material.

By replacing non-living objects with objects of the same or greater weight and size with non-living DNA the Host can transmute an object, other than objects created with hosts magic.

Creatures can be summoned by using other creature's DNA with the same or greater weight and size. Multiple creature's DNA can be used to create the desired creature.

Object Strength is dependant on the material used. For example, metals replaced with other metals are stronger and last longer than the object being replaced by weaker materials.

Divine Skill Imbue-1,500 DP
Mage is able to use the system to unlock innate attributes and skills that other sentients and creatures skills that are naturally in the being.

All beings have innate attributes and skills per hero level. If the Host has the unlocked attribute then, the host can grant skills based on the currently unlocked attribute. If the being only has 1 attribute then the being can be granted 3 skills rather than 2, (Can unlock 2 Skills and up to 2 Attribute currently).

In the 'Sentient and Creature Creation'
Basic Sentient Creator:

=Unarmored Hunters- 50 DP
*Basic Tracker and hunters. Best as Scouts.

=Unarmored Archer- 100 DP
*Basic ranged troop that are naturally gifted archers ranged weapons.

=Unarmored Advanced Bowmen-200 DP
*Most accurate of all ranged basic units from all ranges. Expert at scouting and moving undetected. Can train in ranged weapons and learning speed increased to 25% in the recruit.

=Unarmored Ranged Commander- 300 DP
*Natural leader of ranged units, ranged tactician, and can judge the accuracy and distances of all troops just from viewing the field. Are masters in daggers and short swords. Can learn and utilize any ranged weapon 100% faster.

=Unarmored Fighter- 50 DP
*Competent unarmed and armed unit. Specializes in one weapon the unit before being a knight.

=Unarmored Knight-100 DP
Specialize unit in one weapon. 25% Stronger when using a Mount.

=Unarmored Paladin-200 DP
*Can Master any short ranged weapon. 50% mounted strength. This troop can train others in mastered weapons and learning speed increased to 25% in the recruit.

=Unarmored Duel-Wield Commander-300 DP
* Strongest Mounted troop, strongest unarmed combat, strongest duel wielding master. Natural tactician of any battlefield. Can train anyone to be a fighter.

=Unequipped Novice- 200 DP
*Special in one magical attribute. 10% to Magical growth. Can teach only mastered spells.

=Unequipped Adept-400 DP
*Specialized in 2 Attributes. This Spells begins at Tier 5 of any random spell when created. Can teach only mastered spells.

=Unequipped Master- 1,000 DP
*Specialize in 3 attributes. His Spells begins at Tier 5 of any 2 random spell when created This troop can train other units in magic. Learning magic from this troop speeds up learning in a student by 50%. '

The two skills are complete game changers. With Divine Transmutation- There is literally no limit to what I can do at least up to the sizes of what I want. Just the strength could be stronger or weaker based on the material used and the skill imbue is amazing. It is essentially creation magic. That is how I'll explain it to the world. The only draw back is I have no control over the imbued attributes and I'm limited on the skills I can grant. It's all mostly innate. Either way, I'll have the most powerful civilization once I find a place to call my own. I still don't know how that works yet, but I'll cross that bridge whenever I get to it. If I ever learned anything from the religions from the earth, to get a population to worship me or a deity, perform a few miracles.

"I'm definitely taking the two spells."

'-3000 DP with 1,620 DP remaining.'

Okay, I want to recruit:
1 Unarmored Ranged Commander
1 Unarmored Duel wield Commander
2 Hunters
1 Archer
2 Fighters
1 Knight
1 Novice Mage

After Damien had chosen his new troops they began to appear in front of him every 5 minutes. They were all humans of different races and varied in body types. The only similarities were that all the men looked battle ready and were physically imposing.

The two biggest troops being the commanders. The ranged commander was named Dulan and the duel wield commander name was Bartus. The Novice mage would be under my personal command, his name Attis. With the nine new recruits finally summoned, it was time for Damien to get these men equipped with gear and mounts.