The messiah
I looked down at the priest from my perch atop the cross.
"Yes I am. NOW TAKE ME TO MY PEOPLE!" I yelled
He smiled.
"Okay then lets go."
He took me off the cross and began to carry me in a baby carry.
"A little help please!" Yelled Joe
"Yes. Help do please do!" Yelled the tribesmen
I turned to the priest.
"Set them free you dolt!" I yelled
The priest scowled.
"Okay." He waved his hand. The shadowy tendrils around joe and the tribesmen vanished.
Joe jogged up to me with the tribesmen at his side.
"What happened. Why is that guy carrying you?" Asked Joe while guestering in my direction.
"Isn't it clear? He's carrying me because of my sheer splendor!!!"
The priest nodded.
"There's more to it than that but that's the gist of it." He said.
Joe's jaw dropped.
"This has never happened before. Why are things so different this time around?"
I looked at Joe in confusion. This time around? What is he some kind of time traveler? If so then he would be a very good resource to further my rule.
Ehhh. I'll bother him about it later. I have some basking to do!!
The priest brought me down to tribes people.
He held me up into the air and announced.
"THIS MAN'S THE MESSIAH!"
The tribesmen looked on in confusion.
People don't usually expect the messiah or what have you to actually show up. So of course there first response would be confusion when seeing me. THE GREATEST MAN ALIVE!
I gave them my charming smile and a wave.
"Hi. I'm the messiah. I hope you guys will enjoy doing what I say."
Again it was another great example of charm by yours truly!
The people began to cheer as my charm started to take effect.
"YAAAAAAAAA!"
*PAP PAP PAP*
With great heaving steps the chief began to walk towards me.
"Messiah?!?!?" He said in confusion.
One of the tribesmen looked up at him.
"Man is that over there man that is over there man that is messiah."
The chief nodded in comprehension. After all what that tribesmen had just said had clearly made total sense.
He walked towards me and fell on one knee.
"If you are messiah then you are messiah. I will do what you say."
I smiled with joy. He spoke such genius words. After all I was the one true messiah.
I definitely wasn't some ordinary dude like that stupid system said.
"PEOPLE! AS YOUR MESSIAH I HAVE BUT ONE THING TO SAY! WE NEED TO GET OFF THIS ISLAND AND WE MUST SEARCH FOR THE HOLY LAND!" I Turned to look at the priest who was holding me.
He had literally killed me.
"ALSO THIS MAN RIGHT HERE! HE'S A HERITIC! KILL HIM!" I screamed.
"YES!" They yelled.
They began to run towards the priest.
The priest froze in confusion for a moment. A look at utter shock at what I had just done appearing on his face.
But that shock didn't last for long.
The priest let me slide downwards and wrapped his arm around me. He then made a blade from shadow and pressed it against my neck.
"Stop or I will kill him!" he yelled
The tribesmen stopped.
The priest spent a brief moment in contemplation. Then he leaned over and whispered in my ear.
"You can't kill me. I still have your friend tzu locked in the darkness and I have your bag." He said
My face paled. He was right.
"GUY'S FORGET WHAT I JUST SAID! IT WAS A JOKE!" I yelled
They nodded and walked away to pack for the trip to the holy land.
"I'll let you live. But you have to get me tzu and the bag. Then leave me for good." I said,
The priest furrowed his brows.
"I can't do that. I spent years dedicated to my faith. I would die in the name of that spent time." He said
I sucked in a breath.
What could I do? This man has killed me. So I couldn't trust him. I couldn't be near him.
But he wouldn't leave and until he gave me what I needed I couldn't kill him.
I can assume that tzu and the bag were trapped in that dark hole. If that is the case then there was no way I would be able to easily find them. I would need to count on the priest for that.
At the moment I didn't have enough trustworthy individuals that were nonessential enough to just be use to monitor him 24/7. So he would be a constant risk.
Ugh. Any time I spend thinking about this problem is time waisted. I need to be focused on conquest. On expanding.
I'll just have to risk him betraying me.
"Okay. I won't kill you and I won't kick you out. With that being the case I need you to bring me tzu and the bag." I said
The priest squinted at me.
"How do i know you won't betray me?" He asked
"Becaues. I'm a man of my word."
He nodded.
"I guess I'll just have to accept that."
He placed me on the ground.
Then next thing I knew he wasn't there.
A few moment later he appeared again.
He held tzu in one hand and my bag in the other.
Tzu was bruised and covered in cuts and scraps. There was only red flesh where his finger nails should be and he had a haunted look on his face.
My bag on the other had looked completely unharmed.
"Tzu what did you do to get so beaten up?" I asked him
"I tried to kill these danm tribsmen." He said while looking at the ground dejectedly
I nodded
"Ah okay."
To put it more simply.
He was stupid. And he paid for it.
"Alright. Hand me my bag." I said
The priest nodded and handed my bag to me.
I really didn't want to let him live.
But as I said I was a man of my word. If I say I'm going to let someone live then I'll let them live.
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A group of about fifty tribesmen stood at the shore of the beach awkwardly. They all had bags over their shoulders and chatted up a storm about the pursuit of the new holy land.
"Okay everyone. We have to cross through this ocean. Somewhere here is a holy island. That is where we are trying to go." I said
They nodded.
I expected them to grab some rafts or something.
But instead me, the priest and all the other people that weren't tribesmen were thrown over their shoulders.
They turned to the beach. And they started running.
*BOOM!* With a sonic boom they sped atop the water.
I watched this with a giddy smile on my face. They were literally running on water.
They could serve as both a navy and a land force.
Taking over this continent is suddenly starting to look waaaaay easier.