The god Who Oversees Death

I felt blackness all around me and all my senses had been taken from me, save one. I could feel the mana from my Soulstone and I could control it. There was a massive ocean of mana around me though. It writhed and curled, seemingly without rhyme or reason. 

I moved my strand of mana through it to see if I could find my bearings. The mana around me was incredibly strange. It was not made up of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, or violet strands as normal mana was, instead it was purely black. I moved through it, like a minute solitary light in the depths of hell.

The black Mana which had been moving aimlessly, suddenly convulsed and surrounded me. It pinned me in and sent a strand of mana to the core of my soul. That strand of hellish mana did not attempt to attack me, instead, it communicated with me. 

"You who have interrupted my deep slumber, what do you have to say for yourself?" 

The meaning from the communication was a simple wave of intent and a mere thought. I responded in kind with a much smaller wave of intent. "My name is Seti. I have used the skill book: Soul Flayer and have been brought to you after falling unconscious.

"So, you wish to learn my skill, for what reason do you seek this power."

"I am a very greedy man. I want to kill the one who has brought me back to life. Perhaps to kill a god. I want to save my son on Earth as well and raise him as my own. I don't care how many humans I have to kill. If your skill can help me reach those goals, I will do whatever you ask of me."

"Good, you need to have that much greed for me to even take note of you. I will let you have this simple skill, which I made when I was a mortal, but I will always be watching you and I will be closer than you might think."

"What is your name?" 

"You will come to know my name if your future actions please me."

"Fair enough, I will do as you say."

So suddenly that I could not react, the being attacked me. It injected a mere drop of mana into my own and I felt intense pain beyond anything I had ever felt before. 

Perhaps it was not an attack after all. With the drop of hyper condensed mana, I felt a surge of knowledge, mana, and understanding of mana itself. 

My mana returned to normal, and my eyes flicked open. I was back and lying in my bed. I looked around the cave. There was a fire in the corner, it was nighttime. Before going over to them, I looked at my system screen, which was urgently pulsating in a blinking blue light, visible only to me.

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***UNDERSTAND → You have caught the attention of the god who oversees death.***

*Your Soul stone has increased to medium size. Mana veins have automatically been created, so you can now use mana to reinforce your body and supplement attacks.* 

You have 1,000/150,000 experience needed for level 14.

Health → 101/110 (Regenerating). Stamina → 150/150. Speed → 100. Weight → 169.4/300. Strength → 250. Combat Sense → 80. Mana capacity → 25/25. Mana sense → 14.

Inventory: Soulstone, mana map, 4 bolas, combat knife, 1 Makeshift set, 1 laced arrow, medium Soulstone, compound bow, and 18 metal arrows.

Skills: Ascendant → Soul Flayer.

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My eyes widened. I turned around to Font, Isot, and Zint. I walked up to them. "Guys, how much time has passed?"

Isot looked up at me. "About five hours."

"You will not believe how much mana I got from that skill book! I got twenty mana capacity and ten mana sense!"

Isot scowled. "You lucky motherfucker. If I could kill you and take it, I would. Unfortunately the tribe contract we made cannot be broken without an oathstone."

I laughed. "Yeah, well the book is consumable, I doubt you would get it if you killed me. Oh also, I got stone structures when I leveled up earlier."

Zint eyes widened at that. "Oh, that's nice. We should put a stone wall at our entrance ASAP. I was afraid that group would burn it down today"

I nodded. "Yeah, let's do that tomorrow. You can count on our three captives to help gather resources. I will conquer all of their minds right now."

Isot nodded. "Show me."

I walked towards the dark far corner where they were huddled. The woman with brown hair who I had already conquered was still tied there. I guess they hadn't known whether to truly trust her or not.

I took the combat knife from my inventory and bent down to free her. She stood up slowly and smiled at me. "Thank you master."

I ignored her and grinned at the woman with blonde hair. "Your time has come."

I raised my hand towards her face. A thick string of mana shot from my hand towards her head. It flew through her nostril and down towards her heart. From there, I seized her soul and easily wrapped a knot around it. It was the same one that I had tied around the brown haired woman. I had done it all so fast that she had never been able to put a wall up against me for protection.

I walked over to her and cut her from the bonds that held her. I repeated the same words I had said to her comrade in the form of a command. "You will not ever glare at me. You will smile at me whenever you see me. You will answer me in a timely fashion. You will be helpful and go beyond what I ask of you. You will die before you let another have sex with you." 

She smiled nicely and nodded.

I grabbed her chin and tilted her head towards me. "You will do pushups until you run out of stamina and fall asleep."

She said, "Of course!" slightly muffled by my hand on her chin.

I let go of her and turned to the man. I sighed. I had a mind to kill him, but he would be more useful alive. I grinned as I sent a mana string down through his nose and down into his beating heart. I conquered him quickly. As I finished, I saw a system window pop up beside me.

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*Congratulations, tribe (Firestorm) has been destroyed because your tribe has eliminated all of their members. You have received ownership of all of their structures.*

You have made subject 6831 (level 10) and subject 3178 (level 12) submit to you. 

Note, a conquered subject's stats are wiped back to base settings. You can apply all of their levels. There are three subjects that need to be leveled in the vicinity, will you level them? [YES][NO]

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I tapped "YES." 6831 was the woman with blonde hair, 3178 was the man, and 8390 was the woman with brown hair. 

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Subject 6831: Available points → 9.

Health → [90/90]. [Stamina → 89/200]. [Speed → 100]. [Weight → 0/200]. [Strength → 180]. [Combat Sense → 60]. [Mana capacity → 0/0]. [Mana sense → 0].

Subject 3178: Available points → 11. 

[Health → 120/120]. [Stamina → 28/90]. [Speed → 70]. [Weight → 0/280]. [Strength → 220]. [Combat Sense → 70]. [Mana capacity → 0/0]. [Mana sense → 0].

Subject 8390: Available points → 9.

[Health → 100/100]. [Stamina → 65/120]. [Speed → 60]. [Weight → 0/400]. [Strength → 340]. [Combat Sense → 30]. [Mana capacity → 0/0]. [Mana sense → 0].

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I added all of their available points and then the screen changed.

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Subject 6831: Health → 90/90. Stamina → 89/200. Speed → 100. Weight → 0/380. Strength → 180. Combat Sense → 60. Mana capacity → 0/0. Mana sense → 0.

Subject 3178: Health → 120/120. Stamina → 28/200. Speed → 70. Weight → 0/280. Strength → 220. Combat Sense → 70. Mana capacity → 0/0. Mana sense → 0.

Subject 8390: Health → 100/100. Stamina → 65/210. Speed → 60. Weight → 0/400. Strength → 340. Combat Sense → 30. Mana capacity → 0/0. Mana sense → 0.

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I had only pumped the weight and stamina stat. They were going to be farming for us all day, every day, until they died.

I spoke to the man. "You will not ever glare at me. You will smile at me whenever you see me. You will answer me in a timely fashion. You will be helpful and go beyond what I ask of you. You will die before you have sex with anyone." 

I did not want to feel that in-between our bond. I smiled, things were going very nicely.