An entire three days passed and there was still no sign of a messenger being sent to me, to my temporary abode. It was odd, perhaps they were gathering their armies, their forces, and creating more warriors, perhaps they would be stronger than the one sent to clear out my forest. Although it was possible they weren't a true warrior but rather a prototype of one or something similar.
During those three days the mortals still in the city were constructing a state in my likeness, one massive enough to nearly rival my tower. The machines however were slow-going, which made sense since most of the materials and equipment available here were mostly for architecture and farming, not for weapons of war.
Perhaps I would need to go out and conquer a few more cities before it could make proper headway for right now though I needed to create a temporary army, something molded from my power and magic to conquer where I cannot go.
To take care of the weaker cities and villages and force my rule over them. So I touched the ground, allowing my essence to secrete off of me and spread all over the ground, allowing them to rise up and form humanoid bodies. They had red armor, black skin, and clawed hands. They had blank humanoid faces with only green eyes and a thin pure black lip that represented their mouth.
These would be my minions, my army until my machines could be completed anyway. Once they were completed I began to look for that warrior's body, or whatever remained of it after all this time. Perhaps I could use their corpse to create a powerful general, something to spread fear amongst his own kind.
I shuffled through the forest, at the average height of the humanoids so that I didn't squish on him accidentally. Honestly, I should've used one of the city's citizens, to make them look for their so-called hero or whatever they called it. It would've been entertaining to see the despair, the fear, and the anger towards me on their face.
I finally found their body, their crushed body that was already rotting away and several animals were eating it when I came. Then there were the bugs, they were still flying over it, far braver than the animals as I approached the body.
I grabbed the bugs in a gigantic net, they had four legs and gigantic translucent wings, a dark blue body, and four jaws with small curved spikes on them. They had four eyes and were buzzing around trying to escape. Studying them I had a wicked idea and I turned my other arm into a spike and stabbed the rotting corpse.
I began to pump my essence into it and formed a small separate tentacle that was hollow inside so I could force the bugs inside. They buzzed around in my little cage before I opened up a path for them and began to fly into the corpse combining with my being.
The body began to convulse and shake around, the bugs and my essence combing with this warrior's corpse. The armor they wore also began to heal, to change as four black bug wings grew out of his back, forcing their way out of their armor. Its fae began growing two extra eyes and regrow one lost one, and the four jaws the bugs had as well.
The warrior's body began to heal, to become as black as my own body and its skin began turning into an exoskeleton. they slowly got up, shaking as they did so its eyes glistening from the sunlight. I smiled as the former warrior now my first general on this planet stood before me ready to receive their name and first order.
"Rise my general, rise former warrior of this worthless species, and be named anew."
"Rise Jenoma, the first of my generals!"
"Rise and charge to any city and village, conquer them, and spread my essence, my minions, and being like a locust across this planet!"
They all roared out in unison alongside Jenoma my first general and marched west, towards whatever part of this world they wished. To conquer and destroy, to cause chaos and mayhem wherever they go, all the while my general wore the symbol of their god, of their warrior as he sliced and killed.
It could be possible that they had more warriors like him at their disposal, but not a great many based on the fact they only sent one to clear the forest I corrupted. It did not matter though, I had made Jenoma stronger and deadlier than before. I had given him power they could not dream of unless they obeyed me.
Perhaps if they freely did they would receive my power, and become part of something far greater than what they were now. They could become a part of a new intergalactic empire, an empire based on evil and darkness. One where the worst of the worst would rule, where machines would overtake nature.
It would be a paradise for me and those would obey me, no a paradise for all in this universe that came under my rule.
Walking to my tower, I could feel the eyes of both my minions and generals spotting something in the distance. It was an army, an army of these humanoid beings who tried to oppose me and failed. While not massive, it was enough to not think of them as a messenger but instead a liberation force.
I smiled as I walked towards my tower, my city knowing these mortals had given me new soldiers for my army.
While it was true my general would be the strongest, all he had was physical strength and some mystical power to it. No, my minions would act like zombies, infecting the dead with my essence turning their body and armor, their weapons into my own soldiers.
It would spread like wildfire across this world, to all those who would not obey me, and would spare those who do not oppose me.
"Yes my army, destroy them as you see fit all the while I wait in my soon-to-be kingdom for the other messengers, as I would hope not every city or nation on this rock would be as stupid as whoever sent that army.
"Although mortals are known to make stupid decisions."