Messengers
For the first time in this game, I was truly stomped. Seating lotus style on the clouds I just stared.
The messengers were meant to be our aid in the mortal realm. Helping and guiding each god's followers. But there was an obvious problem here. One was that the messengers could not be powered by divinity. The templates rejected it with an error message.
Probably due to the inability of divine power to descend into the mortal realms. The more I thought about it the more confused I got.
With a sigh, I logged out.
I was quick to get myself refreshed and then sit down at my desk. Soon I was reading through several sites and searching for different things.
The religions of the old times were something that still existed up till now but to a lesser degree. With only a few groups here and there.
Still, there were old teachings and knowledge of their religions. First, I scrutinized the Catholics' belief in the angels' description. Pouring through site after site I found just a few things that gave me ideas. Next was the nordic religion. My attention was mostly on their Valkyrie. The concept of an all-women squad appealed to me but felt wrong at the same time.
Finally was the Greek. I had my eyes on the Furies. I just loved their description. But still, it didn't clear up my major concern.
I stayed offline scrolling through a lot of things before I finally had a bit of an idea but I had to confirm before I could do anything.
I spent an hour just lazing around while goings-on the kitchen to my room smiling at my sad who kept giving me the berth since he wasn't sure of anything for now.
I didn't try to test anything either especially since my mum wasn't home. Wouldn't do to trigger a panic attack without her here to comfort me.
For some reason, I felt like a panic attack wouldn't affect me much if I did walk up to my father.
Logging in again after the little snack I had, I stretched out my body before sitting up. I took a minute to admire the game once more and the beauty of everything in the cloud realm before I exhaled and pulled out the messenger template. My plan was simple. I began with a description for each template.
As I described everything and created the messengers within each of the templates I kept three points in mind.
Messengers inherited their God and domain perks. They were none divine and most importantly needed as energy conduits.
In short, messengers needed to be powered up and have no ounce of divinity within them. As such, they needed a substitute, at least a spark of sorts to grant them life just like the mortals and then a way to keep that life going.
I focused on applying all three points as I worked on the templates. Slowly I completed them one by one. At times I would return to another template to fix something because the current template ruined a point for the other templates.
Soon enough I was done.
"That should do it". I admired the designed templates and looked over all their descriptions before picking the first template to activate.
[DIVINE MESSENGER TEMPLATE]
[DIVINUM SENTINEL]
An automated sentient entity connected to Dylaeria and its rings. An organic battery source forged from the aether, divine ichor, flesh, and God metal. Made primarily for holding and sending out the faith used as a life spark for messengers. A hive brain and battery.
FAITH SPARK - 100 F/day
Tier - 1 - [0/2000]
Faith limit - 0/10,000F/day
Faith Outage - 10,000F/day
Messenger unit - 0/10
[Messenger Perks]
[Faith Feelers]
Detect, receive, and hold faith released in the mortals. Used to feed faith to the messengers. Only faith from god followers is usable.
[Production point]
Serves as respawn and production center for the messengers. With enough energy and the automated template fed to it, slain messengers can be respawned at the cost paid by the messengers. New messengers are formed with each increase in the tier of the Divinum Sentinel.
[Emergency pool]
A pool of faith kept aside for emergencies. Both spawning defensive units, resurrection, and powering up current units or core meltdown.
"That solves the energy conduit issue." I smiled. Faith unit was the amount of energy it needed to stay active actively or in mortal terms live. Faith outage was how much energy it could spend a day. It could not spawn more of its kind though, those would have to be made directly by me.
I pulled out three things from my inventory. A Dare molv husk, milthril, and adamantium metals lying them on the cloud I stood on.
"This feels like a demon sacrifice for power". A lightbulb moment went up in my head as I quickly activated my record feature.
I made sure the bird hovered directly above me while it recorded. I paused as I realized that I had no blade in this incarnate form of mine. Hesitating just a moment I bit my finger and watched as the broken skin released a few drops of lifeblood. The moment it touched the carcass and metals I applied the template.
I watched as the Divinum sentinel forged out of nothing. As usual, I sneezed releasing the aether that coagulated. Divine flesh was drained from the Dare molv leaving nothing but golden bones. The flesh crept unto the metals and I watched, disgusted no doubt as a scene that looked eldritch played out before me.
" Definitely like a sacrifice" I muttered lowly.
The adamantium stood ramrod straight at arm's length, the dare molv flesh covered it while writhing like it was full of worms. The skin pulsed as my blood was absorbed while radiating white light.
"Hmm, white"
The milthril melted like liquid and flowed into the pulsing tumor of metal and flesh. Like a band, it held the flesh. The flesh weaved itself till it rose and covered the adamantium rod. Slowly it grew. It pulsed and bubbled like a mass of frothing liquid.
Gray sickening flesh grew while hidden by the white of the glowing light. Once it got to 3ft it stopped. The wriggling within it stopped and the flesh hardened. The light dimmed before it dropped into my palms.
"Heavy. Heavy".
I stumbled on the clouds staring at the thing in my palm bewildered and missing my godly strength. Heaving it onto my shoulder I cursed before initiating a change into an Argonne.
My wings flapped taking me closer to Dylaeria. I flew past the rings ascending with difficulty, my destination the second ring.
I exhaled and slowly bent back trying to ease my back. I slowly walked through the second ring. It was a large space with various rooms and spaces. At the center of the second ring, I set it down. It looked like an egg, with grey skin and a silver band of milthril around its midsection in both a vertical and horizontal slant.
The moment I set it down I opened my interface.
[MIRACLES] - [57]
I wasn't interested in the miracles. But I did want the faith. Slowly I felt around within me. Prodding around for this faith I found it instantly. It was unlike will and divinity. While divinity felt pure and will intangible, faith was like smog. It felt like pulling unto a thin stick that was hard to see. I could feel it but it shimmered in and out like it was indecisive on existing or not.
Pulling the strand of faith I popped it into the Divinum sentinel and watched it hum to life.
A voice sounded out in my head. Dull and without emotion. It was like someone took the system and downgraded it to a robotic version.
{Faith energy received}
{Calibrating to Creator mind}
{Activating absorbers}
{Detecting ambient faith energy in environment}
{Energy sparse...}
{Faith energy not enough}
{Activate manually when faith energy is enough or set automatic activate}
I mentally set it to activate automatically.
{Faith energy insufficient for low activation]
{Calculating energy needed}
{10F for low power output}
{50F for mid-power output}
{100F for full power output}
I did the math before checking my faith counter
[MIRACLES] - [47]
The faith given would only last a day with low power output. I sighed. This would not grant the life the sentinel needed to awaken permanently. It seemed for the first time I had a resource I needed that I had to hunt for.
"This will be fun". I muttered.
"How much energy do I need to create one messenger?"
{Checking records}
{No messenger template detected. Submit template}
"Ah. Right. " I quickly put up the other templates and applied them all. A string of notifications appeared in my mind but I ignored it to focus on the Divinum sentinel.
{Templates accessed.}
{Fury Messenger - { - 50F production - 100F life power activation - Emergency power slot set - 50F/day}
{Gemini Messenger - FIFTH RING - 50F production - 100F life-power activation - Emergency power slot set - 50F/day}
{Solivert Messenger -FOURTH RING - 150F production - 200F life power activation - Emergency power slot set - 50F/day}
{Divina Messenger - THIRD RING - 300F production - 400F life-power activation - Emergency power slot set - 50F/day}
{Bravura Messenger - SECOND RING - 600F production - 800F life-power activation - Emergency power slot set - 50F/day}
I ignored the rest with a sigh. This was going to cost a lot. I would have to wander the world to gain a bit of faith energy here and there until there was a steady stream of it to power my messengers.
I exhaled and then just shrugged before mentally activating all my notifications to view.
[Advanced Messenger Template has correlated with a feature of Creator 79 - Fearghal]
[Fearghal - Those who say your name and who you choose shall receive the strength of a thousand men. Terms and conditions apply. These shall head for your halls to fight an eternal war on their Creator's side. ]
[Advanced Messenger Template upgraded to Divine Messenger Template] - [Template can't be set to sale]
I hurriedly pulled up the said template curious and confused to see what had happened. A look on it gave me an oh expression. I had described the template to be as close to the fearghal as possible wanting to have a team of messengers with the same effects I had seen on Daena. The system. had done me one better. It had just upgraded the template.
[DIVINE MESSENGER TEMPLATE]
[FEARGHAL SENTINELS]
Souls bound to the creator. Ripped from the eternal circle of reincarnation and forged into weapons of war. Many would call this an ascension event. Others a prize to be paid. I call it kidnapping.
(This template loses the Fearghal effect when activated by other divine.
Emergency power slot set unit - 100 F/Allocated per day
Tier - 1 - [0/2000]
Sol limit - 0/10,000S
Divine Battery - 2000D
Messenger unit - 0
[Messenger Perks]
[Retainer]
[Withholds all perks and skills from mortal life as well as uses new abilities granted from ascension](Fearghal)
[Leader]
Commander of the host of messengers.
[Ascension Boosts]
Upgrades all skills and perks. Grants perks aligned with domain and goddess.
[Emergency pool]
A pool of faith kept aside for emergency resurrection. Both spawning defensive units, powering up current units, or core meltdown
[Soul Purge]
[Sole right to seal or purge a soul from its mortal husk. Cannot kill a soul](Fearghal)
[Astral Wings]
[Wings are a physical vision of power. An illustration of purity. But the creator cut it off. In its place, she weaved aether. Powerful yet intangible](Fearghal)
I didn't bother reacting. I just applied the template and watched the divinum sentinel thrum as it received the new data before it stilled. Then I shut it down. First I had to get more of this faith. Then the messengers would come.