I woke up to the feeling of being in water, but felt like I didn't even have a body. After a dash of worry a transparent black panel with a red outline appeared in my 'mind'.
[Welcome transmigrate, you currently are in the gestation stage and cannot do anything, I am Character Creator V-5942096∆^H. You are about to customize your body and features.] The panel changed to a character creator you'd see in Zims or CyberShit 2077 with sliders and all.
I first turned all the sliders up or down due to instinct but I ended up with a cronenberg monster. Resetting the sliders, I began to think long term...ah yes, why didn't I realize this earlier, what's really important in life isn't power or money... what's REALLY important... is maidens.
I started with the face, a chin that could cut adamantine, eye brows like swords with masculine lips and nose. I also wanted my eyes to strike fear in people, so I made them orange and black, like a smoldering fire. I then moved to the body and gave it the basic Greek God bod but gave myself the fabled 9 pack, and of course my dong was something godlike too, a real beast. For some reason however my height was locked at 9ft, I can only assume that it's race based.{can change body size later, shapshifting stuff}
9 months Later
[Your Character has been finalized, birth commencing, goodbye]
Suddenly I felt as if my head was being crushed. The walls surrounding my body clenched and squeezed me out until eventually I could feel the cold air on my skin, hands holding my back and head up. My first breath coming with pain in my lungs as they expand and contract for the first time. My sight blurry and sound muffled to my new senses as a sudden assault of noise come at me.
"Rhe-.. I will not-... give me the boy, NOW!" The muffled and blurry voices suddenly became clear as my body adjusted to it. I couldn't move my head so I couldn't see, but It appears that Kronos is here to eat me already. After a few futile protests from who I assume is Rhea, my mother, Im snatched from her arms and come face to face with Cronus. He's about 12 ft tall with muscle on every part of his body, a white bushy beard, and hair with grey eyes. He's wearing a white toga with embroidery of wheat fields and hourglasses all over it, holding a deadly looking sickle in his hand.
'His power is growing already, it seems the prophecy is true.' Cronus won't allow a threat to his rule live so for some unknown, asinine reason, instead of killing him normally he decides to eat him instead.
He just opens his mouth as his body grows to a giant height, his skin turning into something similar to stone, his hair turning to sand as it flows behind him, his eyes glowing a brilliant wheat color as he activated his godly transformation becoming the imitation of All-Consuming Time.
He brings me to his mouth and simply drops me in, almost like a grape. As he lets go and I fall his mouth closes, leaving me in total darkness, though I hardly notice. Falling through darkness for what I feels to be hours,
I noticed that my body began to age at an accelerated rate until I looked exactly like I did in the character creator. After endless falling the area finally opens up allowing me to see what looks like an ocean.
It was not an ocean.
Immediately after entering the 'ocean' all the hair on my body instantly evaporated and I was engulfed in pain similar to boiling alive. I immediately started to think of a way out my situation.
Thinking about all the anime and cartoons I watched and how every powerful being can fly, it was the first thing I tried.
Immediately after thinking of going up I blasted through the stomach acid with no sign of stopping. Quickly approaching the ceiling with no sign of slowing down, I quickly start thinking of slowing down.
"nononono, stop!" and I stopped instantly. Now floating in the air calmly I begin to get a feel for it. Flying is almost like pushing your entire body off of the air, nothing like the expected weightlessness. After doing some simple movements like moving in all directions and spinning I noticed that I wasn't even thinking about it anymore. Maybe it was something easy?
I continued floating for a few moments feeling nothing in the process, no weakness, fatigue, dizziness, nothing, I guess flying is just that basic, it doesn't require any energy.
[Tutorial activated via Tutor V-28576777∆^H]
Thank Rob, I really wasn't looking forward to finding out how all these normal and basic powers work by myself.
A black panel appeared Infront of my face with diagrams and animations all over it.
[BASICS-
As you may notice transmigratee, as a god you possess certain powers related to your domain. Flying and teleportation, however, are domainless and therefore every respectable god can use them. I am aware that you have mostly figured this out, so we will skip that part of the tutorial.
You are a god of the dead, King of the Underworld, as such you are tasked with ensuring souls go where they belong and get what they deserve. You are blessed with many different abilities to aid you, your most useful however would be your fire and soul manipulation. You can use these abilities by simply willing it to happen.]
An image of a man holding a ball of fire in one hand, a soul in another appeared on the panel.
[By 'willing it to happen' we mean, saying a spell, imagining the outcome or simply thinking, all achieve the same result, the choice is up to you.]
The man shot the fire ball out and crushed the soul in his hand.
'Spells are stupid, imagining it might be 'difficult' and thinking of it is... well I guess that works.'
AN{I will try to add spell names to the magic he does for reader convenience, but I might run out of ideas so suggest some.}
[POWER-
At this point in the tutorial you must be wondering how this is accomplished, the answer is that every use of your godly powers will cost divine energy or DE. Have no worries as any you expend will be replenished naturally. One thing to take note of is that all normal gods have a limit to their capacity, but they can expand it by using the powers of faith, rituals, or you can use powerful artifacts to increase your power. The reach and diversity of godly powers is unlimited, from curses to blasts, from shape shifting to transmog, the avenues a god can take with his or her powers is entirely limited by only themselves. This is the basics on what godly powers are and how to use them. As you grow you will learn new things about yourself and your power, good or bad is up to you.]
[MISC-
In this world their are pantheons, groups of gods with similar ideologies or backgrounds. As you live you will encounter other beings like yourself, do not, I repeat, do not kill them. Killing a god does more than release their divinity, it shatters their hold on the laws of the world leaving chaos in it's wake. Be warned. Your actions have consequences.
Laws/divinity-
Each god has at least one law, each law is something that must be enforced, such as justice or death. A god with more laws is not necessarily more powerful than a god with only one, it all depends.
Influence-
As a god you have the ability to aquire faith, faith is a powerful but fickle type of energy. Faith for a god is not essential but it is necessary if you wish to glain more power. With the powers of faith you will be neigh omniscient within a certain radius of your believers though they must be at least of the 'Devoted' level.
An area of influence is sort of like your house, you have all the power and do what you want. This is limited by faith and is heavily dependent on the mortals appreciation/love of you.
Final Message R.O.B-
'With great power comes great responsibility'
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This guide will never appear again. Have a great rest of your life Sir.
{This was an automated tutorial, how was your experience on a scale of 1 to 5?}]
'Helpful, easy to understand, long... 4 stars.'
Anyways, after listening to that speech of info I want to walk on the ground after spending who knows how long in the air. I fly toward Cronus's stomach wall and try willing a flame to appear in my hand, not a second later and a blue and black flame appeared in my palm. It was warm and kind of soothing. Focusing on firing it toward the wall to burn a hole in his stomach, it works and a jet of fire speeds toward the wall of flesh creating a sizzling sound with awful smells following.
Unexpectedly it didn't regenerate, I had thought I would have to keep burning it or just be unable to burn it, it would seem not. I kept burning until I made a sizable hole similar to a cave, sort of.
Once I landed I immediately started to get familiar with my new body as I assume I would be in it a while. My build was similar to superman, with tight, but lean muscles covering just the right spots without any blemishes. My hair was black and I had a stubble for a beard, and did I mention I was naked, because I was naked, and I was hot as fuck.
After a little ego boost I began trying some of my powers. Starting with the most obvious, fire.
I began by imagining a fireball in my palm and a blue ball of flames just appeared with a fwosh. Although it felt hot, it felt good hot, like coming in from playing in the snow and sitting next to the heater. Feeling that I can do more than just make fire I began to try to change the shape, forming all types of shapes and figures each flowing smother than the last, I was getting the hang of it. After a few minutes of literally playing with fire, and feeling finished I clamped my hand shut, snuffing the flame out of existence.
I now sit in total darkness, alone.
I hope new siblings get here soon.