A Solitary God In A Dark Multiverse 92 Swarms And Hordes

Families:

Santiagos: The Santiagos are a family of humans and nephilims living in Puerto Rico and on the mainland of the Reconquista empire. There are over 150 members of this family, of which about a third of nephilim. The majority of the family live on the mainland of the Reconquista empire.

Your hard work has led to over 50 of them wors.h.i.+pping you. 10 of your wors.h.i.+pers from this family are nephilim.

The nephilim who've been brought to your side are especially reverential wors.h.i.+pers who entreat you for aid in your capacity as a deity of shapes.h.i.+fting, trickery, and lies. Your 50 wors.h.i.+pers from this family are working to persuade the rest of their family to become your wors.h.i.+pers.

This family knows you by a unique t.i.tle: the kind deceiver. Some of them wors.h.i.+p you as a G.o.d of positive change, healing, and trickery. Others wors.h.i.+p you as a G.o.d of progress, shapes.h.i.+fting, and nature.

Mondragons: A human family that lives in Puerto Rico. Made up of the relatives of Alma, Gustavo, Marlena, and Sophia Mondrago, numbers about 25 total people. 12 of them wors.h.i.+p you as your alter-ego the serene spirit of healing, agriculture, and prosperity named Cosecha.

Silverstones: The elder council of the Silverstone family have all become Althonians after witnessing the powers of their leader, Lilith, who herself has become one of your witches. Lilith herself, a power-hungry enchantress is your faithful servant for she recognizes the reality of your power and hopes to ascend to even higher lengths with it.

There are over 500 dark-elves who possess the Silverstone family name. Only twenty of them wors.h.i.+p you.

Dragonspears: Drow Dragonspear is a templar in your service. He has seized command of his family, a militaristic family, and turned them to your wors.h.i.+p.

Their wors.h.i.+p of you is pretty rare because they wors.h.i.+p you as a G.o.d of conquest and of war. Only they and the reptilefolk you conquered wors.h.i.+p you in such a fas.h.i.+on.

When you intend to take the city of Aronms, they will fight alongside your forces. Drow has turned them fully to your wors.h.i.+p, through displays of the power you have granted him, and thus they are your most fanatical dark-elven wors.h.i.+pers.

Sects, cults, and churches:

Cosechians: The term 'Cosechian' applies to a wors.h.i.+pper of Cosecha. Cosechians are typically either neutral or good and wors.h.i.+p you without knowing that they wors.h.i.+p you.

The majority of Cosechians are farmers. And the majority of them can be found within the Reconquista empire, especially but not exclusively within Puerto Rico.

Althonians: The term 'Althonian' applies to one of your wors.h.i.+pers who wors.h.i.+ps you as you.

Some of them believe you to be a G.o.d of goodness and freedom, such as the people of Libertad and the inhabitants of the Rodan forest. Some believe you to be a G.o.d of necromancers and necromancy like the reptilefolks of the encampment. And some believe you to be somewhere in the middle like the people of Oscuridad, the settlement next to your tower.

The two beefiest bodies of faithful that you possess are the swarm, whom number over several billion, and your undead horde. Your swarm, composed solely of ants and the simplest undead, is a gigantic, potentially world-changing force. It is more than large enough and more than dangerous enough to combat at least a minor country without your help.

Your swarm wors.h.i.+ps you as an omnipotent deity. They sense your influence in all things and believe you to be the decider of the fate of the world.

Your horde wors.h.i.+ps you as a patient enemy of life and awaits your next commands, eagerly hoping to feed on an entire community next time.

Other Althonians wors.h.i.+p you in specific ways, such as a small cabal of women in the kingdom of Atlantis who wors.h.i.+p you as a G.o.d of abundance, life, and healing.]

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I chuckled as I read through the entry. In total, I possessed a few billion wors.h.i.+pers, and I was about to go ahead and increase that number further thanks to a few new abilities I possessed.

I closed my eyes and allowed my familiar not-so-mini-map to consume my vision. The sight that greeted me when I did was my mini-map, and also more. I was greeted by a positively enormous map that showed me the area that surrounded me in real-time.

My not-so-mini-map had undergone one final upgrade when I gained access to the liquid subdomain. This caused the thing's range to dramatically, allow me to see life in water, and also see things in real-time.

My divine perception wasn't just limited to Puerto-Rico anymore. Now I could fully explore the sea around me, and even perceive entire kilometers of Iredale in real-time. And that opened up a world of possibilities for me.

I quickly and quietly selected every single ant, wasp, and bee in the area on the not-so-mini-map. Before I did anything else, I cast a single and very familiar spell: "Create food". I smiled as I felt an ocean of magical energy pour out of me and felt enough food to feed entire communities be created in other parts of Puerto Rico, and along the coast and plains of the edges of Iredale.

I twitched a mental muscle and turned the minds of the creatures I had targeted towards the food. They were surprised by the food's sudden appearance and for a moment were frozen.

And a heartbeat later I felt trillions of tiny feet dash towards the food at once, countless legs, wings, and other appendages move towards the food, and began to consume it. And for the first time in several days, I was pleasantly overwhelmed by notifications.

Though I didn't actually need to feed them, I was just doing it for fun.

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Ten minutes pa.s.sed by the time I had finished sorting through the tidal wave of notifications I had received. The information I had sorted through brought a smile to my face. As had how I pa.s.sed the time in addition to reading.

My ever-constant mind began experimenting with the creatures who fell under my influence and in doing so dominated them. This was because I possessed a fun new toy to play with: the ability to awaken and dominate members of the Hymenoptera order outright the instant I make contact with them. That was one of the five new powers I had recently earned related to the Hymenoptera order.

The second ability I had earned was the power to cause unevolved members of the Hymenoptera order to evolve at will. I hadn't used that power yet, but I planned to change that today.

My third new power was the ability to take a hit and then cause my body to dissolve into swarms of flying ants, wasps, or bees that attack my attacker. My fourth new power was the ability to generate insectoid wings and vibrate them to confuse my enemies. And my fifth new power, an especially brutal one, allowed me to attack enemies and implant Hymenoptera eggs into them.

That said, I didn't intend to use those three powers today.

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"What should I do with these new babies?" I asked myself, lovingly referring to the insects I had newly acquired and added to my swarm as "babies".

"Should I make them evolve?" I wondered, in the safety of my mind. I knew what sort of creatures ants, wasps, and bees evolved into.

Ants evolved into variations of bigger, beefier ants or myrmekes. Bees evolved into larger, fiercer bees or into Thriaes, which were enterprising bee-people who supposedly built city-sized colonies above and below ground. Wasps evolved into ma.s.sive variants of their more youthful forms and if left to their own devices create sprawling hives that can be measured in kilometers.

Of course, all of the aforementioned insects can be evolved into other, more unique forms as well thanks to my unusual and alien mixture of powers, domains, and subdomains. And there was a part of me that wanted to experiment with that.

"If I make them evolve I inch closer to acquiring the next quest, I gain powerful new servants, and I expand my empire into the relatively uninhabited coast of Iredale." I muttered to myself.

The truth was that I was hesitating. I had a reason to hesitate, and I felt that the reason I had was a good one. My reason was that I didn't want to waste the potential of the swarm. The swarm was probably my most valuable force. It was a positively enormous force of slavishly loyal insects, and with it, I didn't doubt that I could change the world.

That said, so far I had kept them on the back-burner, despite them being my first minions. A part of me knew that needed to change. And that with the swarm I could practice active expansion of my territory into the largely uninhabited coastal territory of Iredale's coasts.

And so, I decided that that was precisely what I would do. I started off by giving my newest servants their first command.

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Throughout Puerto Rico and the southern-most coast of Iredale alike countless ants, bees, and wasps were going about their business until a G.o.d intervened. G.o.ds tended to do that.

They had been living simple, largely unambitious lives, and were quite successful at it. But that changed, as things often did, when a G.o.d got involved.

The G.o.d was kind to them. He started off by feeding them. It was an easy act for him to do after all. But then he spoke to them. And he asked that they change.

"Evolve. Serve. Build. Wors.h.i.+p." He commanded them, whispering in their minds and commanding entire hives to transform not just overnight, but unbelievably he was asking them to evolve instantly. And what was even less believable than that was that they could and that they did.

Ants and wasps were teleported out of their colonies, bees were booted out of their hives, and members of all three species began to change. They all began to glow a radiant light and their bodies underwent dramatic changes.

Ants and bees in many but not all cases took on entirely new forms. Their new forms were eerie ones, ones resembling winged humanoids or in the case of the ants, centaur-like humanoids but with a bug's details rather than those of a horse.

Wasps, on the other hand, grew to horrifying proportions. They grew to be larger than horses, or even carriages in the cases of the queens.

Their transformation only took a few minutes, but by the end of it, there was a swarm of an unfathomable size that was ready to be unleashed on an unsuspecting countryside. And in obeying their new lord, members of all three species formed a quiet and united front and embarked on a ma.s.sive quest to do as their lord commanded: serve, build, and wors.h.i.+p.