8 no politics

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the first time I met Malekith ,I was barely 200 years old. he had come to morathi regarding some ritual he wanted to compleat. morathi had never sustained any lover for longer that 10 years, considering I have been her favourite lover for about 175 years, put me in a step dad like position with our King, which he very much minded. when morathi asked my help with setting up the ritual, he almost exploded with anger thinking that his mother had been keeping a magic using male elf.

morathi explained to him that I can only give magic to my beast to perform magic, otherwise all I can do is channel magic for rituals for god's. she explained my closeness with cult of khain and how I do ritual work for the cult and my accomplishments. Malekith attacked me saying,"So, the cult wants to put forward another 'scourge', do they. allowing you to do openly perform magic.".

he is talking about the prophecy about incarnation of khain called the scourge of khain. he had declared himself the scourge when he learned of the prophecy. but a separate branch of cult of khain sponsered another dark elf as the scourge, in turn getting killed by his own basterd half brother, malus darkblade.i of course knew of this prophecy and through my actions up till now made sure that no one would have such an idea.

"I am but a worshipper my king. both you and your mother hold places of gods in my heart. what sort of scourge would I be when I don't delve in slaughter. all my actions try to make sure that I capture my enemy's alive for I belive slavehood worse than death, and I have no mercy for my enemy. I am a worshipper of God of murder and slaughter, not murder and slaughter itself. just like I'm a worshipper of you my king, scourge of khain, son of Anerion and goddess morathi."I reply kneeling down.

I have no fear of him. even if he kills me here, he only kills my body, I can easily escape to the hive mind if my angels, maybe will have to hijack one of their bodies of I want a new game+. sure it'll be a bother to change my gender and probably race again, but nothing out of my bounds. my hive network has grown throughout multiple races among this planet. if he kills me, he'll make an enemy for life, but he doesn't know that yet.

"and what of the magic you perform so openly on the battlefield. how does my mother let a male into the 'Convent of Sorceresses'. do you defy me about my role in the prophecy of demise ", he asked, this time less loudly.

"my king the prophecy talks of a great warrior cast from his home by a sorcerer, our race might be outcast through you, making you the subject of the prophecy, but I am not. I was born here, where I belong among the cruel and savage, I am no outcast among the only home I ever know. And that is exactly why I worship both you and your mother. you are responsible for us drukhi to be able to live and revel in sin,a life I love. I can barely imagin such a long lived life as a prude Asur", I grovell .

I continue,"as for the magic my king. any magic i do on battlefield is actually by familiar bat. I have through rituals imbued magic into it as we do on a magic item. fire ball cast through it is as if using a ring of fire ball to cast it. I have used ritual to help your mother with her dark pegasus in similar manner my Liege.", Malekith looks at his mother ,expecting her reply.

"it is true, I even had to cast the spell I needed imbued to my lovely sulephet. he just performed and calculated the ritual to imbue the spell. it is simple procedure but expensive in magic gems. my disciple, his mother was kind enough to gift enough of those gems for him to perform enough of those rituals on sulephet. to impress me with its talents. now sulephet can do magic in his own now, I can even channel my own magic to him to empower his magic and similarly take his magic to empower mine. he is not part of the covenant, just impressed by his gift, I have him administrative role in managing my lands. he had been pestering me about a gift he had been preparing for you for the past 50 years now, but you are too busy to see your poor old mother, so o could never help him ". morathi says in her ever seductive voice.

Malekith shows that he is annoyed by his mother. with a growl."what gift!". he asks me, looking positively feral."this is my familiar my lord,"I say as I unfurl bat's wings, and what looked like a coat turned into wings on my back, I had him detach himself and fly beside me for Malekith to be able to inspect it. "I have had him for almost all my life of 200 years but normally fell bats only live up to 40 years of age, even with magic imbued increasing its vitality, he could at most live to to 70 years. that is because my familiar is dead as the abominations of necromancer Nagash." I reveal.

" it still retains its instinct, nature and all the capabilities it had as a living, but it no longer breaths or eats for sustenance. it only needs to be fed magic, although in large amounts. it takes lives, of slavers and captured beast, to sustain it , whose magic he consumes , killing them and leaving their flesh to be consumed by other beast or slaves.".I say.

"and how is this punny thing a gift worthy of me ". he says pointing at bat.

"it is not worthy my king. but I know of the giant metal statue of a dragon in your city, one which encases the corpse 'Kaliphon', your dragon Mount from the Times of sundering. for any loyal beast, such extension of servitude is only something to revel in. I can make it so that your childhood friend and Mount, can be controlled by you as if you possess him, but all decisions you makes possessing him doesn't require thought, but instinct of the orignal beast whose corpse is reanimated . so using it as focus to cast spells might take thought, but breathing dragon fire, attaching, looting , plundering and hoarding will come naturally to it."

"and what would be the price to sustain such a beast". Malekith asks, intrigued

I reply, "most dragons hibernate long my lord, for such a thing would also be natural to it. in such a state it would behave as dead, not costing anything to sustain. whenever needed, I estimate at least a dozen slaves worth of sacrificial ritual would be need to rile it awake, at which point it would only answer to you through a bond that will form during its reanimation. further similar sacrifices would be needed to keep it up for each day, more if it is active, like in battle. but due to a recent discovery of mine, I think I can make it so that the enemies it kills or are killed around it would feed it magic like sacrifices would."

after collaborating on such ritual for a few years to reanimate his long dead dragon, I was able to make a good impression on him. I don't need to be beneath him, but I don't want to be the king. I hate politics and I would only want to be king to subjects I can be proud of. I love my life as a dark elf, but as a race, we are pretty flawed.

when I had gotten my hands on neferata's bastardised version of Nagash's orignal elixir, I knew I would live forever. although the thing was nowhere near what I needed, with what I learned from morathi and making cauldron of blood for the cult and my rituals and my magic,I could ,if not compleat and recover his formulae, maybe make my own formulae that achive same and more. after all he did learn most of his dark magic from dark elves. I know everything I need to to extrapolate it and with the hive mind, it was an easy task.

by drinking this with a ritual and blood from a whole adult dragon and the sacrifice of said dragon,I had already achieved immortality, and with orignal purpose of bastardised version to subjugate all created vampire's to Nagash's will, I was able to create similar ritual and potions for my angels, making their loyalty even more magic bound.

with hive mind, I plan to spend my immortality with entertainment from my angels. I've created an internet like space in hive mind, where angels can upload their experiences.

a lot of my angels, at least sentient ones, are encouraged to explore arts, music and drama, so as to make content to upload into hive mind, where I and other Angels would rate them. this content is even used to help new angels learn about their world faster. I'm setting all this up, because I have decided what path of godhood I want to take.

I want to be like collective human consciousness, like in type moon and in code geas, but with my control over the consciousness, the angels just acting as my advisor, and content providers for my entertainment. watching lives of my angels reminds me of the trope of gods that reincarnate people to watch their lives as entertainment.

personally, I had multiple ways to godhood. I could conquer this planet and have my angels inhabit it till we figure out proper and safe space travel, at which point become an invasive species, and Invade other worlds putting more angels there and continue the same. but I see too much value in having so many races and life beyond my control. I see value in conservation of all these races, so that my angels can infiltrate any of these species role play as them.

I want my hive mind to of infiltraters and symbiotic to coexistence and conservation of all, rather than be invader and parasitic. in most space based fictional universe there is almost always that insectoid alien species that work on hive mind and are parasitic, that's just not my vibe. all these Worlds will be like wild life sanctuaries to me, or like sand box rpg video games, since I can possess any angel any time and basically start a new play through.

this is why I'm not interested in challenging the local government. I've already infiltrated all such kingdoms and races. all their rulers need to appeas their subjects in at least some way, and my angels take positions of the most important subjects, due to their want to improve themselves to be more useful to me and then just to cover bases, even less important positions are taken to keep a good information flow.

only attachment I have to my body is my mother and surprisingly morathi. I won't say I love her, but I care for her more than I do most things in the world that are not my mother or me. once I'm dead, it's not like I have any intention of revealing hive mind. if someone does end up killing me, Revenge against them doesn't even need to be publicised as Revenge by me.

now that my angels don't need to breath or eat to stay alive, after undergoing my modified vampire ritual(modified as in it makes them immortal not undead), I can start investing in space travel. they still need magic for sustenance though, for which a space ship that had eco system that supports such thing will be needed. that's actually my plan for Shen (my dragon). through my modifications, I've made multiple compartments, completely liveable inside it's body. (think of those mythical tales of people living inside whales). insides are reserved for me and my angels, while shen's scale, size of a human by not, open up as Lotus would, reveling themselves to be resting pods for my harpies.

already I use shen as my sub-marine, under-ground burrowing and flying ship. when we fight under water, shen first opens his scales like lotus for harpies to pour out and give me compleat information of what we are dealing with. then I can use either harpies, shen itself or my angels to deal with enemy's however I want. shen is my waking, swimming, flying and burrowing mobile headquarters. it has roost for harpies in its scale and different compartments inside that cover size of a few buildings. my own personal hoard (like hoards I'm the game)