"Jessica Mauve; do you sincerely wish to be received into the fold and help accomplish the wishes of our God?" Apostle Fausto stood before a woman in white robes, her chestnut hair free and loose compared to her more formal style of a bun.
"With all my heart I wish to keep our world clean and safe from all harm." The Prime Minister replied softly, she was truthful with her her words and spoke with reverence to their God making Niko feel proud as he oversaw the ceremony.
Apostle Fausto nodded towards Adam, who then proceeded to get the Holy solution given to them by Proslos, "Then let us begin with the Bestowal."
Adam held carefully a golden chalice, pure and undecorated, simple and rustic. Inside was a translucent liquid with a slightly gelatinous consistency.
Apostle Fausto then guided Jessica into a pool in the next room. It was tranquil and relaxing, massive opaque spheres with undulating veins stood still on the surface of the pool.
They were cocoons taking root, they were the new members awaiting to finally become their true selves. The Prime Minister took off her clothes and lathered the solution all over her body.
She then dove right in and took a fetal position, "As members of the Church we must experience how our Lord Proslos felt during his slumber. All the pain and suffering shall resurface from your subconscious and in the end you shall be reborn anew!"
It has only been 4 weeks since then and the first Church had already been built. Thanks to the Bestowal, productivity has never been better as powers have allowed them to accomplish things that humans could not do so before.
For example building an entire establishment within a week which would typically take months to do so.
Of course they had to rest, but with abilities like Super Strength, Speed, Endurance and hell, even the ability to have only an hour of sleep to be at optimal energy level was a thing.
[Host, is it just me or are these guys like way too adaptable?]. The System was quite surprised by how the humans of this world already accepted the changes in the first few days.
Then it started to creep them out after seeing the Church, Temples and Shrines of Proslos. Niko was also disturbed after seeing an entire Bible made by a fanatic that fabricated his life story from the tales he had told once.
One thing they had gotten right was; "And unto itself, the gate to the new world opened at last. For there are more than one worlds beyond mortal's sights and there, resided the deities whom Proslos envied, for they all shared in the luxuries of their ancestors whilst he had been born later, having nothing of his own to share and give to his descendants..."
"I feel like it was a bad idea to come here. Not only have they changed sides real quick, my followers seem to abhor injustice, crimes and whatever I deem is a 'sin' to the point they'd punish anyone who indulged in them personally, unless they're like under the legal age to be tried as an adult so they'll probably be more lenient on them. Thank god there's no brainwashing power." Niko laughed to himself at his own joke, and then realized that the System was quiet.
"Oh dear God, you're not serious are you?" Seeing that his System did not dare refute meant that the possibility of an ability to brainwash others or to control their minds was extremely high for them.
[The System took care of troublesome abilities such as Black Hole Creation and Death Inducement; but did not account for the ones that manipulated the brain and mind as a whole]. Hearing this Niko grunted in frustration, feeling that he had really f*cked up.
Telepathy and Memory Manipulation would not work on him due to the System. But Mind Control was different as it also relied on having to control the body, so even if his mind was safe the same could not be said for his body.
What if a follower discovered the truth? Even if he could punish them for using their powers for evil and strip it away from them, what if they were quicker than him and commanded him to do something?
[Updating the Genetic Editing Serum. Please standby]. Convinced that it would be a terrible scenario, the System complied with his wishes and started to take matters in its own hands.
Niko sighed, "Looks like I'll be coming here in a month or so. Time flows differently here so it'll be fine. On another note I got the rewards already so I'll just accept those later. And I got a free corpse to play with." The corpse he was referring to was the one Hunter had killed for interrupting him.
Niko then asked the System if he could preserve the body in mint condition before it entered into rigor mortis.
The reason being that he wanted to experiment on the body. As a self proclaimed scientist he wanted to do a lot of things that society could not do any more due to moral ethics.
But I have the System to protect me and erase any evidence afterwards. So why not indulge in my sociopathic nature and curiosity while I have this power? That was his logic.
"System I want to use the Operation Room and Laboratory once I get home." When Niko first obtained the System he found out that there were additional rooms to his house hidden underground installed after the System lodged itself in his mind.
Mainly the Workshop, The Forge, The Operation/ Surgery Room, The Laboratory, Hazardous Experimentation Room, Training Simulator, The Library, The Poisonous Pond and of course the Moonlit Pool. The last two were for entertainment and monster rearing purposes.
"Take me home." Light shrouded his body, which became a beam that shot through the sky surpassing space-time itself, eventually warping the fabric of space-time into a Einstein-Rosen bridge or in other words a wormhole.
Niko's head felt light, he could never stop feeling nauseous after a teleportation. "Ugh, my head." He complained to himself about how loopy the journey was but couldn't it say it out loud as he was very close to puking all over.
[Congratulations! Fourth Mission Objective Completed! Create a religion based around you and establish a peace treaty amongst all nations.
Rewards: Unique Item 1x, Persuasion based Ability of your choice, Eye Of Somnolence]. Niko then went ahead and accepted the rewards.
[Unique Item: Type- Support. Atmos Bubble Wand.
Description: A bubble wand that creates Atmospheric Breathing Bubbles that replicates the perfect environment for one to breathe in.
Prerequisite: It's a bubble wand, what the f*ck don't you get?
Remark: Ever been drowned or choked or even out in space gasping for air? Well say no more! Just one wave and you'll be breathing in no time!].
Atmos Bubble Wand? It's very useful, but it has a really weird name. Not only that the prerequisite and remark is truly strange. "Right, okay on to the list of abilities."
Unlike the random roulette before this time Niko had a choice of three abilities to choose from.
[Karenspeak: Anything you say will be held against you. Your words shall make everyone angry at the cost of becoming a complete fool. Anytime you try to argue, there is a high chance of there being someone there to record you.
Prerequisite: One has to find a nonsensical reason to argue about.
Risk: Change in temperament and a change in hairstyle. Laughing out of hilarity out of every use.
Remark: High Chance of incurring Aggro. +10 Taunt Skill. +10 Eye-rolling. +15 Fame].
He thought that the first one was strange, but seeing this, nothing could top this.