And then I considered how to best inform it as to what I was. The fact that I was less sure than ever as to what I was didn"t help me out here. After thinking for a few moments I just sighed and told the demon what I had considered myself my whole life.

"Well, I am a G.o.d. I am a G.o.d of chaos and of l.u.s.t." I told the demon. It went still when I said this, genuinely shocked at what I told it. I couldn"t help but chuckle, because before now the thing had been active, milling about atop the pile of soil it had been forced onto.

"Are you being serious?" The thing asked, its mental voice calm now but also filled with a quiet fear. I smiled at it and nodded.

"I am a four-day-old G.o.d. I am chaotic neutral, and among other things, I possess the ability to control l.u.s.t and cause chaos. And here"s the thing... I don"t need to destroy or even banish you. I do have things I need, but we needn"t be enemies." I told the demon.

I silently activated my "Religious fervor" power, generating a soft blue tint that quickly spread throughout the lonely room we occupied. I felt the demon stiffen as it waited for me to speak more. And so I obliged it.

"I am not a bad guy. I am also not a good guy. I don"t want to be just bad or good. I want to be neutral. And part of that means having good and evil servants. So here"s what I propose. I propose you answer any questions I have and serve me, and I don"t banish you. And here"s the thing... you"re gonna tell me what I want to know, one way or another." I told the demon, speaking confidently. The demon responded to me, after taking a few seconds to think about what to say.

"You really are a G.o.d aren"t you? That would explain why you were able to cure Troix"s disease and how you effectively trapped me in his body, leaving me powerless, for days..." The demon exclaimed, despair sneaking into its voice as it did so.

I grinned at it, not feeling bad about the fact that my first enemy was now experiencing despair because it now knew the truth about me. The creature had possessed and terrified Troik at least once, and now it was my prisoner. I felt powerful at this moment, and that was a nice feeling.

"I really am a G.o.d. And now the time has come for you to make your choice. How do you want to tell me what I want to know?" I asked the thing.

"Do you want to do it willingly, maybe even pleasantly, or will you stubbornly resist and allow me to have the fun that comes with tearing what I want to know out of you?" I wondered. I was telling a light lie, as I didn"t want to torture the creature, but I didn"t tell it that. I was happy to allow it to be afraid.

I watched any courage the creature possessed melt away in that instant. The puddle of darkness seemed to deflate, and I knew at that moment that the thing was going to surrender and submit to me. For a moment I wondered about how to truly cement its loss. And a wicked idea came to my mind.

Opening the list of corruption powers I possessed took me but a second. And as I did, I wondered about which of my abilities would be the best to use against the demon to ensure it surrendered all of its secrets to me.

[Corruption subdomain pa.s.sive powers:

Heart of corruption: This pa.s.sive power allows you to detect a creature"s personal vice, the gateway sin that most resonates with someone"s soul. Usage of the powers related to the personal vice of a target makes a creature far easier to thoroughly corrupt.

Corruption infusion: This power allows you to infuse corrupt energy into food. If creatures eat corrupted food they are not physically harmed, but they become less resistant to temptations.

l.u.s.tful aura: This is an aura that affects anyone attracted to males independent of their species and makes them either less hostile or more friendly towards you. You can also use it to invade the minds of those in range and discover what they desire, not just sensually but also in general.

Any neutral creatures affected by this aura view are easier to persuade to become your friends and find any propositions made by you difficult to resist. Any hostile creatures who are affected by the aura are easier to calm down and persuade to cease fighting. Becoming a greater G.o.d and gaining greater influence over the subdomain increase the range of your aura and its potency.

Velvet voice: This power makes your voice, even your mental one, a luxurious and sensual weapon and a useful tool in your a.r.s.enal. Creatures who hear your voice, be it physically, mentally, or even in their dreams, feel it on their skin and it lingers in their minds. Weak-willed creatures, and unintelligent creatures, can become charmed or even dominated by the sound of your voice.

Addiction and fetish infliction and curing: You can cause someone to become addicted to something. Addictions are psychological compulsions that if ignored cause people to experience withdrawal. Some examples of this include: you can make someone addicted to a certain behavior, to a certain sensation, food, drug, and other things. You can also cure someone of an addiction.

You can cause someone to have a particular fetish. Fetishes are a form of s.e.xual desire in which gratification is linked to a certain fashion, behavior, part of the body, etc. As an example, you can cause someone to have a fetish for a specific species, a specific hair color, or a s.e.xual dynamic. You can also cure someone of such a thing.

You gain knowledge of someone"s fetishes and addictions at a glance.

Persistent desires: This power causes those you kiss and otherwise caress to fall under your influence. The more intense your s.e.xual relations with the person, or otherwise more fulfilling it was the deeper they"ll fall under your influence.

Incubi and succubi caress: You gain the seductive powers of succubi and incubi.

When you are kissed or embraced or you kiss or embrace someone they experience blissful, bodily and mental pleasure and are left drained of strength and will for it, their strength and will entering and empowering you instead. The drain is temporary and lasts for a day. That said, the power can affect someone more than once a day.

The sensation is addictive. This power can corrupt someone over time and it can also kill over time if you allow it to.

Vampiric desires: This synergistic power granted to you by the intersections of the subdomains of necromancy and corruption allows you to leech lifeforce from creatures you kiss or embrace. This power stacks with powers like your enhanced versions of the draining powers of incubi and succubi.

Diseased Doxy: This synergistic power is one you"ve been awarded due to your influence over the subdomain of corruption and the domain of disease. It allows the debilitating effects of your affections to persist even if you aren"t there to reapply them.

When you first caress a target you can choose to subject them to a lingering desire to have another s.e.xual encounter with you, and also be subjected to the effects of your caresses even days later. The maximum amount of time someone can be suffering from the effects, for now anyway, is three days.

Corruption subdomain active powers:

Gratifying gaze: This subdomain makes your body a powerful tool and this active power embodies that. Usage of this twice-per-half-hour power makes your gaze a trap and dominates those whose eyes meet yours. Dominated creatures serve you willingly and obey your commands, experiencing s.e.xual fulfillment while doing so.

Catatonic kiss: A synergistic active power granted to you due to your influence over both the domain of dreams and the subdomain of corruption. With this twice-per-twelve-hour power, you can kiss someone and cause them to fall unconscious. If you leave them alone in this state they"ll have intense, erotic dreams and sleep for twelve straight hours.

Whispers of corruption: This twice-per-half-hour power uses your velvet voice to corruptively whisper in the ears of a target. It whispers sinful and corrupt things into their minds and lessens their ability to resist corruption for three hours.

Inhibition remover: This twice-per-twelve-hour power temporarily destroys someone"s sense of inhibition. For an hour they are unlikely to say "no" to offers to experience new sensations and are more suggestible then they"d otherwise be.

l.u.s.t: This twice-per-half-hour power allows you to immediately learn something that someone desires.]

Reading through that list made me smile. And it filled my head with a wicked idea.

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"I don"t have to use my full power on this demon." I realized, as I considered how to best subjugate the frightened creature. I wanted the demon to spill its secrets to me, and I could tell that it wouldn"t be difficult for me.

"Besides... eventually I"ll have to practice with my powers. If I"m careful, and I just kiss it that should be enough to calm it down and dominate it." I a.s.sured myself, seeing in this an opportunity to safely practice my corruptive abilities, on an already thoroughly corrupt being. This was my best chance to see my corruption-powers in practice. And I might as well take it.

I walked over to the thing and shot my hand into the puddle of oil-like ooze. It felt gross around my hand, and I could feel the creature"s "body" coiling around my appendage but the monster didn"t dare attack me. I dug around the puddle, searching for something like a head.

It took about a minute of exploring the puddle before my hand grabbed something I could hold onto. I yanked it out of the rest of the darkness with a soft grunt and the application of a bit of force.

"Ahh!" The demon shouted, screaming in pain as I forcibly pulled what ended up being its actual, incorporeal head out of the inky darkness that comprised the rest of its body.

When I was done yanking its head out of its collapsed body, I immediately approached it and kissed its ethereal cheek. I smiled as I received and read a quick notification following my the peck I laid on the demon"s cheek.

[Influence over Sombra: .00001]

The demon immediately stopped yelling, as its mind was inundated with my power. I chuckled as I felt the demon"s mind try to shake off my influence, but I didn"t intend to let it do so so easily. Instead, I began to speak to the creature.

"What are you doing? Do you want this to be unpleasant?" I asked it, infusing my voice with power and envisioning my "Velvet voice" power seeping into the demon"s mind. I grinned as I felt the creature"s resistance begin to weaken, as the creature began to consider what I was saying.

"I am a lord of l.u.s.t and I am offering you something I don"t often offer my enemies. A chance at a pleasant experience." I told it, shortly before activating a power I had never activated before: "A sensual lie". I watched as the demon considered my words, and felt a bit of its fear begin to dissipate as the demon fell for what it felt were the s.e.xual implications of my lie.

I let go of the demon"s head and stopped holding it in a contained sphere of holy light causing the room we were in to darken as darkness invaded and rea.s.serted its dominion.

The demonic puddle was still for a second, aside from the demon"s head slowly being pulled back into it. When the puddle was whole and uniform, it dripped onto the floor of the room and the demon"s form began to change. Over the course of the next few seconds, the demon ceased being a puddle of oil-like darkness and reshaped itself into the shape of a naked, and muscular humanoid.

I studied it as it did this, unafraid of the thing, and waited to see if it"d give itself some clear s.e.x organs. I was a bit surprised when it didn"t. I wasn"t disappointed though. It was an incorporeal demon, so I hadn"t really expected its gender to be clear at a glance. That said, when the thing was fully formed I spoke again.

"Hi there. For the next few minutes, you"re mine. How pleasantly you want to do this is really up to you, but let me a.s.sure you I get my way in the end." I told the demon, acting how I believe a G.o.d, an embodiment of power, should act in this situation. The demon looked at me, and there was a strange expression on its face. I studied it for a second.

The creature"s face was made of some sort of translucent, smoke-like darkness. I could clearly make out facial features, like colorless eyes, lips, a nose, and ears, but I could also see all the way through its head. It was a bizarre sight.

The rest of the demon"s body was made of the sort of darkness someone could find underground, a frightening sort of absolute darkness that absorbed all light. That darkness was modeled after the shape of a humanoid complete with a vague mimicry of human muscles, and the demon was evidently very fit.

The expression on the demon"s face was a dazed one. It was one of pleasant shock and antic.i.p.ation. I chuckled, aware that the demon was now having to deal with a number of powers and was almost certainly losing.

I opted to ensure that the thing lost. I took a few steps to draw close to it, and I put my hands on its face. The incorporeal shadow-stuff that made up its face solidified when I brought my hands close to it, and I was able to pull the demon towards me, until the thing was in my arms. I chuckled as I brought its face to mine and pulled its smokey lips to my own.

Our lips lightly touched and I felt the demon exhale, its breath entering my mouth. It was now in the middle of the process of surrendering to my power, having lost the fight to resist the will-eroding effects of my corruptive abilities. I grinned as we kissed, enjoying the sensation of the demon becoming mine as its strength and willpower flood into me.

"That"s it..." I whispered as I pulled back from the kiss, a smile on my lips. I received a number of notifications, but I didn"t let them distract me. I kept my eyes glued on the demon I was going to extract information from, and watched as the demon"s willpower faded from its eyes.

"Now for the real fun..." I whispered, my voice taking on a surprisingly seductive undertone. I hadn"t intended for that to happen, but it was to my benefit so I didn"t question it.

The demon even began to blush and a quick read of its mind revealed that it was filling with musings about the sort of pleasures that a G.o.d of l.u.s.t could cause it to feel. That made me laugh. It wasn"t the one who"d be having fun.

I lightly kissed it again, and immediately caused the thing to become addicted to my kisses. I ignored the unhappy sigh that the demon made when our lips parted. This was, after all, me beginning the process of permanently securing its servitude. And this cause the system to send me a message.

[Well, well... Is this the beginning of you walking towards becoming a demon lord? I don"t disapprove. This has caused the domain of evil to allow you to take its quest. It"ll be worth taking when you"re done here. Now have fun.] The system haughtily told me, smugness audible in its voice. I grinned and readied myself to learn the demon"s secrets.

The first thing I did to begin to do that? I quietly activated my knowledge-based powers and began to learn all about the creature in my arms.