After waking up, we salvaged the 2x1 wood shack and continued up the mountain towards the steadily nearing volcano. The volcano itself was smoking. It was definitely active.
I wondered after last night if I should make every single one of my tribe mates into soul slaves, there would be an advantage if I did. I could make descendants from all the women, and with the men, I could make them work and collect resources for me. They would never be able to betray me that way, even in death.
Those were the pluses, but I liked company. I would wait to see how my son behaved and how the others would react to him. If they disliked him, I would kick them from the tribe and take their souls as my own.
As I walked, I split my attention between the two soul slaves back at the base for a moment. I looked through their eyes.
Tee seemed to be hitting a tree with a hatchet, while Hos was hitting a shining metal node with his pickaxe. In the distance, I could see the others also gathering materials and bringing them back to the base. They seemed to all be doing rightly fine.
I dampened my subconscious connection between them and focused on walking again as I turned towards Ige. I walked up to Ige, and she smiled at me. "Ige, you can speak normally again. You don't have to restrain your speech. Tell me how you feel."
Her lips turned into a frown. "Master, I have your child. This isn't something that I ever expected to happen. Will you take care of me?"
"I will treat you as you are. My slave. If you die, that will be regrettable, but I won't make promises."
She scowled. "Fucking asshole, I will kill you."
I shrugged. "Now, smile whenever you see me and don't annoy me. Also, don't harm our son."
I walked away from her towards Tizi.
As I caught up to Tizi, she turned her head to the side towards me. "So Seti, do you like me?"
"I think you're hot and you have skills. You said yourself that you hate slackers, well so do I. Also though, I hate clingy women. Don't become one."
She shrugged. "That makes sense. I have had one or two flings like this, but I never allowed someone to stay in my life, I guess I can keep doing that. "
I nodded. "Yeah, just know that I'm a jealous man. Don't mess around with anyone else and I will protect you. Mess around and I won't care what happens to you."
She smiled. "Okay."
We crested a portion of the mountain that led all the way up towards the volcano. There was an enormous cave in front of us. The mouth of the cave looked to be about twenty feet high. I decided that I wanted to explore it.
As we entered the cave, it instantly got colder. Ige advanced first with a torch in her hand. As we delved deeper and deeper into the cave, there was something strange. There was a flickering orange light, far ahead of our torch. I realized what it was.
I turned to Ide and whispered. "Ige, kill the light. Follow my nametag."
There was light ahead from several campfires. There was a tribe in the cave. My plan was to get close enough that I could send strands of mana to make them all souls slaves.
As we slowly and carefully approached them, I heard voices. "We need to find more sulfur! We barely had enough ammo to fend off that last attack."
Another voice cut in, It sounded like the voice of a woman. "The only place we know to get it is too far away! We would risk running into another pack."
A slower and more reasonable voice cut in. "Listen, even if we die, we only lose our gear and can respawn back here with our gear. I say we send about two or three of our number. That way, even if we fail, we aren't set back too much."
I had heard enough, I mentally blocked their voices and focused more on my surroundings. There was a curve in the cave and beyond that wall was where they all were. I slowly peaked my head out from the wall. I saw nine survivors. There were three women and eight men.
I brought my head back around the wall and brought nine strands of mana out from my soulstone. I was going to see if I could conquer them all at once. With my recent points in mana control it would be doable, but still a challenge.
I sent the nine strands of mana out like bullets, as all my other senses faded. Almost all at once, I sought entrance to their bodies. The nine stands of mana flew up into their noses and flew through their body towards their heart.
When I reached their hearts, I quickly wrapped the strand of mana around their soulstones and began my attacks on their souls. Four of them didn't even resist as I conquered their souls while four were pretty easy and it only took me a couple seconds longer. There was one woman who had a lot of mana control and was fighting my takeover with all her might.
A minute passed and then two. Images of weapons, tanks, animals, and everything of that sort passed between my attacking ideas and her mental wall. There was one last thing I could try. It was my special weapon. A mental image of my enormous dick. With that image, her resolve crumbled and I imprinted my seal upon her soul.
After I imprinted commands upon them, I reverted my consciousness back to my body. There was sweat running down my face. The two women beside me had become anxious, but I ignored them. There was a blue window which appeared in front of me.
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*Congratulations, tribe (Hellscape's Angels) has been destroyed because your tribe has eliminated all of their members. You have received ownership of all of their structures.*
You have made subject 7568 (level 14), subject 3983 (level 20), subject 3823 (level 12), subject 9827 (level 15), subject 3903 (level 17), subject 3901 (level 13), subject 6838 (level 14), subject 9034 (level 16), and subject 4765 (level 17) submit to you.
Note, a conquered subject's stats are wiped back to base settings. You can apply all of their levels. There are nine subjects that need to be leveled in the vicinity, will you level them? [YES][NO]
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I quickly put their new stats into weight and stamina. I could find more soul slaves later, but at this moment, I needed a labor force to build a massive castle.
As I finished adding the stats, another blue window popped up, but it wasn't anything I was expecting.
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**ANNOUNCEMENT**
^Optional Quest: Find and kill subject 6535. He has made at least 10 soul slaves. He is threatening the sanctity of the human soul and the balance of this world. If you kill him, you will be greatly rewarded. Reward → Transcendent sigil.^
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As awed as I was at being the target of a quest, it also made me realize that I would have to trust my tribemates even less. Perhaps my plan to make them into Soul saves would come sooner than expected.
As I was thinking, ANOTHER window popped up.
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^You are the subject of a quest. In 48 hours, everyone will be transmitted your location on their magic maps.^
***UNDERSTAND → The god who oversees death has taken pity upon you. He is giving you a skill. → Transcendent Skill: Murder Maniac's Soul Almanac***
Note, when a god gives you a gift, he expends a portion of his being. A unique skill given cannot be taken back and is a great boon.
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My eyes widened even further. The two girls around me probably thought I was insane. My first thought was to learn the skill, but I wasn't greedy. I needed to take care of the situation I had gotten myself in first.