- Felix -
I gaze down and look at my new territory.
It's been a few days since the Walpurgis, Saeko, Raiden, and Kurumi were able to easily take control over Jistav, or rather Azeroth, I ended up renaming the kingdom to Azeroth seeing as I was a bit of a Warcraft fan in my first life.
It seems Clayman wasn't the best ruler as none of the Dark Elves seemed to truly mind the change in leadership.
There were some that didn't approve but Arcueid quickly took care of them, I don't really want to know how either.
The territory itself is quite well taken care of.
My new castle is surrounded by a bottomless yet lush wetlands. The wetlands act as an environmental barrier as well as a first line of defense.
The wetlands are inhabited by undead under the command of one of Clayman's former fingers, Adalman.
Adalman ended up deciding to serve me, apparently he is a former Cardinal of the Holy Church, quite impressive.
He was only a step away from becoming a Saint before he was apparently sabotaged by some higher ups of the church causing his death.
He was apparently resurrected as a Wight King by the former Demon Lord Kazarem, and has been serving as the first line of defense since.
Apparently Raiden ended up using some Holy Magic in their fight, though according to her she wasn't going all out against him, and she was only able to use a lesser form of Holy Magic. What she didn't expect was for him to request to meet me.
I didn't even know Raiden knew Holy Magic, apparently she tried some more advanced spells and was upset that they didn't work, she thought that maybe her faith was lacking which seemed to unnerve her.
Though I corrected her once Odin told me that wasn't the case.
I decided to help her since I knew what was wrong thanks to Odin. I also know it is possible for believers to call upon their gods power, basically it allows people to use the 'name' of their god as a medium to open a soul based channel between them, this can be used to help cast all kinds of magic, at the cost of Magic Power.
I made a pact with her with me as the 'God' in the relationship, and her as the 'Believer' which allows her to use more powerful Holy Magic while also allowing me to use Holy Magic to a higher level as well. I'm now capable of some extremely high tier Holy Magic, like 'Disintegration', the strongest offensive Holy Magic which causes spiritron decay within the target. Basically whatever is in the area of effect gets erased at the speed of light, this includes people's souls.
A very scary magic if used properly.
However as more people under me start to use Holy Magic, it will be harder for me to maintain as I can't assist so many people at once.
So I linked together and borrowed the cumulative calculation power of all the people that believe in me to help share the burden. Due to this the burden placed on the user for Holy Magic is low, the power of the Holy Magic is almost entirely dependent on how much 'Faith' the user has in their respective god. The stronger the 'Faith' the stronger the connection between 'God' and 'Believer' increasing the power of the Holy Magic.
I wouldn't have been able to do something like that without Odin's help though. I'm starting to sound like a broken record, but man Odin is such a cheat.
While I do not have a lot of believers, my subordinates see me as a sort of 'God' even if they do not treat me as such, this belief is enough to power the Holy Magic.
This is most likely the system that Luminous also uses, seeing as she has an absolutely massive amount of believers, there is no way she can power them all at once.
Now Raiden can call upon my name, and borrow a portion of my power.
Back to Adalmen, he ended up deciding to serve me as his god, so I've left it to him to continue his former duty while also making a pact with him.
However due to his nature as a being that relies on magicules to survive, his Holy Magic was harming him whenever he tried to use it.
Holy Magic can be divided into two categories, first is directly manipulating the spiritrons all around us. Spiritrons are the building blocks of spiritual matter like Magicules, Holy Power, and Aura. Spiritrons also don't have any sort of elemental affinity. The second way that Holy Magic is used is to directly eliminate magicules which is causing Adalman some trouble seeing as he is a being made up of magicules.
I ended up teaching both Adalman, and Raiden a spell that Odin developed that will help them both get used to manipulating spiritrons, and since the spell uses spiritrons, it allows for them to use the spell without difficulty. The spell involves firing small rotating spiritrons at high speeds capable of easily piercing opponents.
However it was rather difficult to perform as the user needed to have a high amount of 'faith' in me.
I did end up naming him, causing him to get a fairly decent power boost.
He has a Demon Lord Seed, but I still decided to name him regardless as I wasn't totally sure of his loyalty.
When you name someone you form a connection with them, Odin can use this connection to monitor all my subordinates if I wish for her to.
He currently has a bond with every undead in the wetlands allowing him complete control over the legions of undead there.
Only once you get past the wetlands can you gain access to my castle.
I've been working on redecorating the castle a bit, Clayman had a bunch of rare artifacts, expensive furniture, and paintings stored in his vault, along with whatever was already on display.
That fucker was rich as hell. He had about 5,000 Stellar Gold Coins, each worth 100 Gold Coins. And he also had about 25,000 Gold Coins. Not to mention all the other valuable items he has. Safe to say I'm rich!
Too bad all his riches went to me.
He has a massive wine cellar that contains wine that is centuries old.
They are all well maintained as well, I can't wait to give some of them a try.
I've even got a bunch of instruments, like a grand piano. Apparently Saeko had played an instrument when she was younger, and she seemed especially fond of the violin we discovered. I'm not sure why such an instrument exists in this world, but I'm not complaining.
With Saeko's personality I could never imagine her playing an instrument, but I was surprised. With some help from Odin I was able to recreate the music sheets from my past life and had taught Saeko how to read them seeing as I used to play the piano in my first life.
We ended up playing a bunch of songs, even some anime openings, that was a lot of fun.
Along with the instruments I also have so much gold that I don't think I'll ever run out if I was the only one using it. Though seeing as I have a country to run the gold probably won't last forever.
Thankfully I already have some plans on how to gain some more revenue, and hopefully attract some more residents to my country, seeing as currently there are only Dark Elves residing here, along with some other weak majin that live in villages,and towns around the country.
The population is quite large, multiple times that of Carrion's Domain, but there is still a lot of land waiting to be developed, as the citizens of my domain are mostly scattered around everywhere, with only some residing closer to my castle.
Each village/town had to pay a certain amount of tax each year, but other than that they were mostly left alone.
My new office is quite impressive as well, it has a beautiful lavender throne along with an exquisitely crafted desk with gold ornaments, and a crystal ball that allows me to observe basically anywhere in my territory with ease.
I also have a large window with a great view, along with a chandelier that hangs in the center of the room.
My favorite part however are the sealed painting as I've learned they are called. Basically they are paintings, though they are more like magic artifacts that were created by an incredibly talented artist named Bismarck.
These visually stunning masterpieces depict mythical beasts with incredible realism, to the point that they look like they are alive, they can even subtly shift their poses.
Thankfully Clayman had a bunch stored in his vault so I can switch them out from time to time.
My favorite ones are The Dragon, the Nine Tailed Fox, The Hydra, and The Basilisk.
I really regret not killing Clayman the first time I came here, I could have gotten all these goodies much sooner, and the events that transpired could have been avoided. But maybe it was for the best that it happened, someone like Clayman would have come along at some point either way, and they might have been more difficult to deal with.