Time ticked slowly and Akor sent out more imps to scout. During the remaining time there were just some tiny groups compared to the first waves that came.

Because they were small in number, the army directly surged out and eradicated them all leaving none to escape like the final big wave.

When the clock finally struck 6 hours, the entire temple shined and a beam of light surged into the air.

Then a loud rumbling spread throughout the ground and the altar near the lord's house release a powerful light beam as well. Lastly, from far off three more lights were seen.

After they all appeared, they stayed for several seconds before the altar lights surged down and burst into the ground and a direct glowing blue line formed from the altar to the temple.

The first one connected quickly but it took a few minutes for three more lights to pass through the ground and connect as well. When it finally did so a powerful, warm light surged outwards covering all of the town before fading.

Ding!

God Quest: Complete

Proof of Faith

You have build a temple for your patron god and proven your faith by making the god enter a half awake state.

Reward:

10% increase in god’s faith for God quest

Improved god blessing

Opens nation pantheon

You have completed a temple with Pyarus, Demon God of Education as the primary god. The effort to make this temple has generated 10% of the faith needed to awaken Pyarus and has pushed him beyond 50% officially making him enter a half sleep state. He can now exert more force with his abilities.

Because this god is now in a half awake state, you can only obtain a stronger blessing produced by his restoring power.

Because this temple is your territory’s first temple and it is located in the capital. It has automatically been set as the central temple of your nation where all the faith of your territories gods.

Blessing of the God of Education

You and your people are blessed by Pyarus.

+2.0% improvement in learning any skill from a proper skill trainer.

+2.0% improvement in leveling skills of any type as long as there is a master or teacher instructing.

+5.0% improvement to all demon race residents ability of learning new things.

+5.0% improvement to all demon race residents abilities if they learned from a proper school or center of education.

Due to entering a half sleep state. Pyarus is now more conscious of the demons current potential, habits and abilities as well as basic society knowledge.

Through Pyarus, you can now learn common knowledge through priests of his faith who possess a high enough intelligence and affinity to connect with him.

You can now establish a religious order in Pyarus’s name. You can also build his special building, [Religious School], to give a location demons can learn basic knowledge and skills as well as train their intelligence.

The string of messages came after the light show finished and all of the world seemed to go silent. The clouds had parted because of the lights showing the evening sky. Soon the demons cheered at the success.

Akor sighed because he was mentally exhausted from the tense fighting. Although it didn’t last long, he knew it was only a prelude to the troubles he will face. To find a Dark lord was the biggest surprise really.

With the berserk skill though, it could really be a good skill to use in a tough situation especially in the hands of the right units.

He still kept it stored though, it would need a research scroll and all that and he wasn’t ready to start it yet. He first needed to check out some information.

For one, he was confused about the central temple and another is the religious organization and school he saw in the message.

He returned to his home and called for Valring, Adok, Morrath and Everrath.

He shared the information of the success and the information he gained.

Valring laughed madly after she heard the news. “My lord, this is fantastic! I have heard legends of the demon priests but never expected to see them!” she exclaimed

“Legends? Aren’t there many demon gods awake and equally numerous religions for them?” Akor asked.

“Alright, let’s clear that up first. For demons religions is by nation. This ties in with the central temple you mentioned. The central temple is a building that houses all 3 main gods and 7 minor gods of each nation. By choosing and merging their teachings is how you build a religion among demons. Humans are more single god powers so each religion ties to a single god by itself but they are more powerful because of this.” Valring explained.

“Why have demons not done this and is there a reason?” he asked.

“There is, first off, this is a world system, demons need the temple full to make a religion because it gathers their ideas to form the teachings. As for why they are not powerful, well it is because the faith gathered is split among the gods.” she explained.

He suddenly understood. It had a strange unity among demons yet with the current demon race it feels very strange.

He tried to pull up the information and found it when he called it out.

Central Temple

The central temple can also be called the Pantheon Temple. Within these walls, the territories Patron gods are worshipped.

The Temple can generate faith up to 20% of the city population per day. Faith is generated by prayers and offerings made to the Gods within the Temple. Religious ceremonies can also reward faith that does not count toward this daily limit.

“Alright so what about the religious school?” he asked.

“This is probably because of Pyarus himself. It is probably something special to him. But we should set up the religion by choosing the gods of the nation.” Valring suggested.

“Master!”

At that moment a shout from a short imp came from the door and he ran in and bowed.

“Master! Army come! Army come!” he shouted.

Everyone in the room frowned when they heard this and everyone quickly stood and ran out to the wall.

The front gate actually had the escaped army. It had appeared completely and there was a new figurehead. This one looked similar to the dark lord but it was much smaller and had female features but they were quite young and undeveloped. She also lacked the large number of horns that the dark lord had but there were two small horns sprouting on her head.

“Who are you?!” akor shouted.

“Great Demon lord who slew my father, i have come to submit!!” the demon kobold shouted.

Akor’s eyes raised and but the laughter of Valring came from the side. “This is great, tell her to come to the gate alone, my lord.” She said.

“What is going on?” he asked.

“My lord, you shall see.” she smiled.

After a moment, he nodded and turned to the army, “Then come to the gate alone.” He shouted.

After a few moments the figure began to walk calmly until she reached the gate. It slowly opened and she walked in. Akor and the others were waiting. The female demon kobold’s name appeared in front of their eyes.

[Demon Kobold Demon Princess Level 3 90/90]

The fact that she had no name wasn’t strange since a demon wouldn’t get a name before level 10 if left without.

“Demon princess?” Akor questioned his advisor.

“Demon princess are the daughters of dark lords but they are also a similar class to dark lord but it usually appears only for children of dark lords and demon lords.” Valring explained grinning and turned to the princess. “Bow to the lord and pledge your allegiance.” Valring said in a commanding tone.

The princess looked at Valring and sighed before walking to Akor and bowed down with her lizard like legs and dropped to one knee. “I pledge my allegiance and that of my minions and subjects to the great demon lord.” she said.

Ding!

A demon princess has pledged allegiance to you. Do you accept?

Yes

No

Akor looked at Valring who nodded.

He looked down again and nodded, “Alright, i accept.” he said.

You have accepted the loyalty of a demon princess. All her subordinates have become your subordinates and all towns and villages have become yours.

Do you wish to take her as one of your queens or a concubine?

“Huh? Is it asking me to marry her?” Akor suddenly asked Valring.

“Of course, my lord. This is the most common purpose of a princess. To marry a lord to improve his influence. That said depending on their abilities they get assigned to a lower or higher position. Truthfully, i had not expected my lord to get a princess so early.” She said.

“And a dark lord?” Akor asked fearful.

“They are turned into demon nobles.” she said without hesitation.

It dispelled Akor’s fears and he relaxed. The demon kobold was still bowed but her look was at Akor waiting for her future to be decided.

“So what is the difference between the two?” Akor asked.

Valring closed her eyes and thought a while, probably gathering the information. “Ah that was it.” She muttered and opened her eyes. “A queen has more power, obviously. She can command the minions but all movements pass through my lord and she can also be handed a territory to manage by the lord. She is also responsible for bearing heirs for my lord but for the most part, queens are the biggest figurehead for any kind of thing the lord requires.” She said.

“And concubine?” He asked.

“They are simply breeding vessels. They are without many influences but they are regarded as a minion. If you allow it, they can have their own business and build their own forces. Like queens you can give them territory to manage but they can’t move armies or anything. They are just there to make sure the territory is working as it should.” Valring explained. “I suggest my lord taker her as a queen. A demon queen of a demon lord produces a great deal of influence for my lord and it is a sign of success when you obtain a princess. It might even make many demons join your territory of their own choice.” She advised.

Even with what she said, Akor was definitely thinking hard, this was marriage, even if only in game, he had not heard of such thing happening before. Of course it is no secret that players play with NPC but for there to exist such a complicated nobility system is quite new to him.

“Alright, i will take her as a queen.” Akor said after pondering it a long time.

Ding!

You have accepted the Demon Princess as your wife. Her class has been upgraded to Demon Queen and has been granted the name ‘Idre’.

Due to accepting a demon queen, your influence among demons has increased. You will now attract weak demons to your territory and demon villages are more likely to submit without much intimidation.

A bright light fell upon Idre and slowly her figure grew a bit more majestic, especially the horns, but nothing else happened after that but she did begin to feel some pain as her body grew a bit as she was accepted as a minion and received the demon lord's blessing.

Finished with the ceremony, Akor decided to call the demons from the army to check out their numbers. A total of almost 1,200 were counted after splitting into squads of 100 each.

Together with the original army, the npc army now numbered close to 2000.

“Valring, take these demons and go collect all the towns and villages that was under their control and bring them back to the territory. After you return we will decide how to use the army.” Akor said.

“Of course my lord.” Valring said cheerful and shouted at the demons to lead the way.

The army pulled back while Akor was followed by the others. “Now then, let’s go to the temple.” He said and headed directly there.

The temple was simple but grand. There was no excessive decorations, since it was still new, but it still had a great presence in it.

Inside the temple was very empty besides ten pedestals. The most center one was shining a faint while light while the others were dull.

These statues were the god statues.

Akor looked at the glowing statue which had no form and was just a big block and walked up and touched it.

Ding!

As the lord of the temple, you have produced the greatest amount of faith for this good until now. You can choose the basic appearance of the sleeping god who has lost his original form.

Seeing this was surprising but it was just another form of improving faith gathering. Akor began to imagine what the god could look like. He imaged a Red Demon, which was very human shaped and didn’t have excessive dangerous parts, he wore a scholarly robe and held a book and had a pair of glasses. His eyes would have an ancient feeling and within them would be an immense fountain of knowledge that few could handle as good as him.

When he finished the statue shined and took the shape of a scholarly looking red demon holding a book.

The glowing lights rushed into the statue like light being sucked into a black hole.

Ding!

Your primary god has been firmly imprinted into the territories mentality. Please pick the other 2 main gods.

The two block like statues next to Pyarus lit up this time. This was the process of building the pantheon. Touching the left statue, it opened the god system.

Welcome to the God System

Active

Sleeping

Sealed

Akor ignored the active and sealed gods because it was asking for trouble to choose either of them and they probably wouldn’t have the types of gods he wanted.

God System

Demon God Name

Nature

Blessing

Desire

Status

Adaldir

God Of Prosperity

Higher drop rate of coins and the land of your people will prosper with more vitality

To see a demon king revitalize the Hellish Badlands

Sleeping

Utia

Goddess Of Wisdom

Research speed increased

To see demons return to being a wise race

Sleeping

Regol

God of Honor

Warrior based classes get a blessing

To see great warrior’s Honor appear among demons

Sleeping

-

→

Since he had picked Pyarus the choice was removed. Also there were more gods compared to before meaning they were discovered during the last month. As he looked through them he found that all the gods which would bring progress and improve among the demons were sleeping. It really made him frown and wondered why no active god had any craft or anything. When he looked at the active gods he found only evil gods and most of them were cruel and bloodthirsty.

He didn’t think much else, he already had some thoughts about what he wanted and picked Adaldir and Utia as the two other main gods. The image of Adaldir was similar to Pyarus, starting with a strong bodied Red Demon and gave him a righteous aura while he wore full knight armor but no helmet to show his face while he held a large shield and a longsword.

Continuing with his ideas, Utia was similarly a Red Demon but this time female and was very beautiful with very well embowed female characteristics, generous breasts and wide hips, with a beautiful humanized face, long black hair that went down to her waist and her eyes radiated wisdom while her aura was similar to what one would feel from a sage.

When he finished each respective representation, they shined and the statues took the shape of his image but there were some parts that didn’t match. For one, the statue of Utia had smaller hips and breast but her muscles were more defined than what he had made which looked more motherly.

Adaldir on the other hand looked older like a veteran knight with a wild mustache and full head of hair.

Please choose 7 minor gods for your Pantheon.

After the three main gods was the minor ones. Still from the sleeping gods he picked the other seven.

Rinja, Demon Goddess Of Virtue and Marriage, Athos, Demon God Of Fertility and Harvest, Cigyn, Demon Goddess Of Animals, Thedione, Demon Goddess of Fire and Craft, Uvtia, Demon Goddess Of Governance, Oaos, Demon God of Battle and lastly Dyone, Goddess Of Earth.

The last one was the only non demon god as well as an active god. The reason is because it is an elemental god, or a god of magic, specifically of the earth. Of all 10 gods, it is the only active god.

As for why Akor picked a battle god as well, it is because it is a good god, it wished for just and fair battles between contestants.

Besides Dyone, Akor made an image for each of the gods, all of them based off the red demon because Akor became a red demon due to being a good demon in the first place so he felt it was good to represent the good demons through the red demon. Although Rinja did make Akor want to use the succubus but because he never saw how a Tier 2 or 3 Succubus looked like he decided not to do that.

You have created your Pantheon, God system analysing their desires, ideals and philosophy to create a religious book of teachings.

Lights slowly begin to rain down on the ten statues and slowly it begins to gather above Akor and after close to an hour the lights formed into a large ball and slowly condensed into a grey book. It was plain as any book you would see in a random bookshelf but it was very large. Close to 70 cm wide and 100 cm long with an unknown number of pages. It was very heavy in Akor’s hand, which showed how heavy it is since Akor had 25 strength and since 1 point is 5 kilos, Akor can carry 125 kilos. For him to feel the book was heavy meant it was very heavy.

He turned and put the book down and opened it there.

The letters shined hurting his eyes.

You have opened the book of god's, do you wish to change your class to Priest?

“No!” Akor instantly said.

You have rejected the class and are prohibited from reading the holy text.

Akor blinked and was flabbergasted that such a thing actually existed.

“I can’t read because i am not a priest.” Akor said frowning.

“Master…” Everrath suddenly called.

He looked at the blue imp.

“I request that master allow me to become a priest.” She said.

Akor was surprised but raising a brow he asked, “Why? Don’t you want to be a mage?” he asked.

“Mage or priest, both are magic users. Also i feel that the path of a priest in this religion will be a glorious one.” She said.

He tilted his head a bit before nodding, “Alright.” he nodded.

Everrath smiled slightly and walked forward and looked at the words. In front of her was the same text that had appeared in front of Akor.

“Yes.” she said.

Suddenly the book released a blinding light and light gathered from all the ten god statues and it rained down on Everrath. Everyone covered their eyes while the blinding light was shining but as it faded, everyone looked and what they saw was an amazing sight.

The blue imp had changed. Her body figure was very different but looked like a female version of Akor except with blue skin, in this case it was a Blue Demon while he was a red demon.

Your minion Everrath has been chosen by your pantheon as the Pope of the religion. Under their holy power she has matured.

Akor instantly pulled up her stats to confirm this.

Status

Name:

Everrath

Race:

Blue Demon

Class:

Pope (Priest)

Race Tier:

Tier 2

Level:

11

Exp:

0/8000

Hp:

300/300 hp

Mp:

370/370 Mp

HP regen

70 hp/m

Mp regen

105 mp/m

Stat points

0

Strength:

10 (3)

Wisdom:

23 (3)

Agility:

7 (3)

Intelligence:

15 (6)

Constitution:

11 (3)

Dexterity:

7 (3)

Charisma:

10

Looking at the stats, he confirmed that red demons are not the only type of demons. There might be other types of demons depending on affinity or class. Red seems to be close combat while blue is more mage but the buff for maturing did not seem much different from red demon.

“How much did you change?” Akor asked.

“I have gained several class skills for recruiting. This is not restricted to priest but also Clergymen to train into Paladins.” Everrath said respectfully.

For a moment, Akor was surprised but then he looked at the young Demon Queen and his eyes shined, “You will train as a Clergyman and aim to become a paladin. Like this you can support me through the religion.” Akor said.

“Yes, my lord.” She said simply.

There was no emotion between the two so she felt nothing at being commanded as a common minion would be.

Everrath does the ritual of accepting the queen and she gains a secondary class as Clergyman.

Secondary class are a separate class that can be obtained when two classes are different types and can only be gained ingame. In some cases it doesn’t even happen and classes have some synergy and merge like warrior princess and so on.

“Good, for now you each learn your skills properly and i will talk with you about what will happen when Valring comes back.” He said.

The two remained while Akor left for his house where he did the final thing he had been waiting for.

“Calculate experience points gained during the war.” Akor said.