17 Unlocked

[We would like for you to select two of the domains and subdomains, as in two total, you already have some influence over and we will unlock them for you. We don't want you to feel constrained and stuck in the tutorial, and we also don't want to make every decision for you.] The system explained, after giving me the best news I had heard so far in my short life.

I stopped to consider which domains and subdomains I ought to pick. I only took a second though. I knew which two I wanted to unlock the most.

I wanted to unlock the domains of magic and knowledge. Magic was an innate domain that was inherently mine to control as a god, and knowledge was one that was mine by my own virtue. I wanted to unlock them all, but those were the two that most resonated within me.

"Please unlock the domains of knowledge and magic." I told the system. I heard a soft chuckle come from within my mind and grinned.

[Understood. Unlocking them now. Remember that when the tutorial is over you'll gain even more abilities, spells, and divine powers than you currently possess, including from already unlocked domains and subdomains.] The system told me, speaking softly. I felt a wellspring of power flare to life within me and sighed as I felt my mind expand.

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[Alert: Being in tutorial mode grants the system the ability to lock and unlock portions of your power away. Currently, the system has ruled that it decides when you gain access to powers that would otherwise be under your control. The system has seen fit to unlock access to two of your domains: the domains of knowledge and of magic. We will now explain the powers that come with those domains.

The domain of knowledge, passive powers:

Appraisal: This power allows you to learn the properties and basic information about objects you see scattered throughout the world. To use it just select an object and focus on the power. This can also be used on people, where it identifies their species, class (if they possess any), level, and alignment.

Detect Magic: This is a synergistic power that is the result of a fusion between the domains of magic and knowledge. It allows you to see the ambient power that magical creatures radiate, as well as the color of the magic that most resonates with their souls.

Knowledge domain, active power:

Peruse the Past: This once a week power allows you to learn key details of an object's past. This is a potent power that will be upgraded as you gain more power, and as you increase the amount of influence you can exert over the domain of knowledge you can increase the amount of knowledge you gain through this power.

Details about the domain of knowledge:

This domain dictates things like truth, history, research, and more. Truth is a subdomain of this domain, and history is but one facet of it.

This domain is a greater domain, which means that it is a key domain for acquiring greater divine power overall. There are several greater domains, like magic, knowledge, life, death, stars, physics, and a handful of others.

Domain of knowledge blessing and curse details:

Blessing someone with a focus on the domain of knowledge boosts their ability to recall facts and increases the likelihood of a notification that grants them key knowledge at a moment they may need it the most.

Cursing someone with this domain as the focus causes them to forget small details of intricate plans which may ultimately add up to something ruinous for them. This curse could be potentially horrific for magic users or for guards and at its current level of potency there's little more its good for than that.

Domain of magic, passive powers:

Magic Granting: You can grant spells to mortals. Granting spells to mortals allows them to cast the spells once a day, for now, without it costing them any magical power. You can only grant them spells from schools of magic you possess a single tier or more of influence over, so, for now, you can only grant healing spells to mortals.

This power is considered a staple power of godhood and is one of the things that only deities can do. Even in this godless age tales of the gods of the past remember that. Granting spells to creatures is one of the ways you can prove your divinity.

Magic Sensing: This skill allows you to sense what sort of magic resonates with someone's soul. That is to say, what sort of magic they'd most excel at and be best able to build experience in. If you use this skill on them and then grant them spells from that school even non-magical creatures can begin to steadily build magical power and become actual spell-casters if they practice and hone their skills.

Domain of magic, active power:

Magic Drain: This extremely powerful skill drains a magic-user of their ability to use magic for an entire day. It drains away their connections to their magical energy and revokes any other sources of their magic for an entire twenty-four hour period. As a consequence of the extreme power of this ability, it can only be used once a week, for now.

Details about the domain of magic:

This domain dictates and regulates the usage of magic by mortals. It has never had an overgod, the title given to when a deity is the supreme deity of a domain, but if it were to get one then that deity would be able to decide who has magic and who doesn't, being able to permanently tear magic away from entire species of creatures or even entire universes if it chose to do so.

This domain's subdomains are the schools of magic. There are twenty. Ten of them are basic schools, two of them are intermediate schools, three of them are advanced schools, and two are expert schools. To gain access to the next tier of influence over the magic domain you will need to steadily accumulate influence over the basic schools.

Domain of magic blessing and curse details:

Blessing someone using the domain of magic causes their next low-level spell to not cast any magical energy at all. It's a rare sort of blessing in that it is powerful and short-lived off the bat. That said, as you gain more influence over the domain of magic this blessing increases in power and longevity.

Cursing someone using this domain as a focal point for the curse causes someone's next spell to cast 125% of its normal cost in terms of magical energy, and also causes the spell itself to be 10% less effective.]

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"Whoa..." I muttered to myself, as I read through the new powers at my disposal. I inhaled and exhaled, and even the very air itself tasted different. When it entered my lungs I was surprised to feel my brain begin to truly activate and begin to assess the air itself.

I knew this because an annoying notification flitted into view, and I had to will the thing away. Not before I read it of course, but still it was intrusive and not what I was hoping to gain through the knowledge domain. A part of me wondered if this was to be expected from the knowledge domain, and as I wondered that the system began to laugh in my mind.

"This is still a lot of power though." I muttered, knowing that over the course of the last few minutes I had just gained an incredible amount of power compared to what I previously had. And it was at that moment, with my reptilian friend still close by, that the system spoke once more.

[And now it's time for us to do one more thing we promised to do: undo our restrictions on your "Sovereign of the Swarm" title. This will be a fun one.] My mental companion told me, and I could hear the sardonic grin in the thing's smug voice.

The arrogant voice proceeded to do what it had promised to do, and I was able to notice the emergence of a new icon in my mind's eye. The icon itself was an image of an ant's head. It made me smile.

[New Icon Earned: The swarm symbol.

Tapping this allows you to learn about your swarm.

It also allows you to exert your influence over the swarm creatures under your control. Currently, this amounts to the ants who've eaten the fruits you've created and placed near their ant-hills. You can increase the number of swarm-creatures under your control or at least under your influence by taking over more insects and by caring for the ones you can already influence.]

I read through the notification and smiled as it vanished. "Nice." I said to myself, a wide grin planted on my face as I spoke to myself.

"This is a nice little toy to have under my control." I muttered to myself, a grin on my face. I could already imagine the perks of having swarms of insectoid servants under my control.