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“It's Henry!” many ran around Henry, they had thought he died after the scream followed up by loud noises in the forest. The search party had also not been able to find him, so they declared him dead.
“Henry, are you carrying Gina?” A tall questioned Henry.
“Oh so that's her name, really should have got it before the life threatening battle.” he laughed.
After noticing Gina the group that came up to Henry looked down to their surprise, Many gasps came from the crowd.
“Are those monsters, like the red demon monster?” Someone asked.
“Much, much weaker, but yes” Henry replied. “And I believe we should eat them, we haven't eaten meat in days. The only creatures in this world seem to be ones that possess immense power.”
After Henry dropped the apes the began to inspect them, noticing the silver back seemed much stronger than the rest. The crowd began to stare at Henry with himself being the only one to return conscious; they assumed he was the killer of both apes. And, with the silver back into question that would make him one of their strongest fighters.
“Wait you want us to eat that thing, its its monkey meat”
***
After a few hours Henry saw Gina stir as she woke up.
She opened her eyes and noticed there was a pile of leaves under her, slightly touched, she decided to forgive Henry for putting them in that dangerous position. Even though she reaped the most benefits.
“Here, eat this” Henry stuck out a piece of meat.
“What is it” She asked.
“The spoils of our battle.” Henry replied nonchalantly.
She made a face as if she was going to puke but decided to push that feeling down knowing she had to eat. But, after remembering that battle she covered her face as she began to blush.
“Haha, this world really does bring out the weird in some people” Henry laughed, not meaning to say it out loud.
He could tell she was slightly offended but quickly changed the subject asking if he could see her ability page. He had been curious about the true nature of her ability whether it was just sword creation or if she could create anything.
Gina unexpectedly not knowing she could only show her abilities shows Henry her entire page
Main character: Gina
Desire: To see blood and feel it
Power: the power to control blood
* The power to absorb blood
* The power to change the dens
Race: Human
Traits:
* Blood dominance
Title: Blood Baron candidate
Lineage Desire: Vlad the Impaler
Current Quest:
Blood Baron Candidate: Absorb the blood of powerful targets to gain further qualifications
Abilities:
* Blood Armoury (enhancing ability of blood dominance) Low
Allies:
Learned Abilities:
Level: 4
Reading her page Henry was shocked, he could understand that her blood dominance let her use blood in any way shape or form, and now understood why she could create such masterful swords.
But what could she create once that ability upgrades to high, or even something past that. He thought as he kept reading.
Hmm level 4, I'm still yet to understand what these levels mean, but I haven't checked mine in a while.
“Wait… what is this Lineage Desire and such a grotesque figure at that.” Henry asked her.
“Haha well you see when I first came to this world, I got the message A Strong Desire has been found in your bloodline that matches yours Then after a minute it told me Calculation complete your desire shall grow even faster the more blood you absorb young baroness. Make sure to fight for your spot.”
“Odd, it's almost like someone was talking through the system,” Henry said with a questioning look. Whenever he got messages they were always robotic in tone and nature very clearly pre programmed.
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Afterwards Henry walked around the camp looking at all of the people around him, they were the ones who had survived for so long. Clearly their desires were strong and at least a few of them most likely had some type of broken features like Gina.
And I wonder who that other conqueror is. This thought kept coming back to Henry, the person who it was clearly showed no interest in revealing himself unlike Henry screaming I claim you every now and then.
** The next day **
As the day started Henry walked around the camp asking people if they wanted to join a camp meeting to decide the future of what they would do.
To Henrie's surprise most of them had said no, he thought more people would be interested in their own future.
After asking most of the people at the camp they sat down around a fire and forgetting he had asked them just sat there.
Looking up he saw all 30 pairs of eyes staring at him, waiting for an answer, some type of guidance or maybe even for him to slip up.
This sight suddenly put a lot of pressure on him.
Wait why did I decide I was designated to lead.
Especially this group of 30 and in total 350.
All of these thoughts began to rush through Henry's head.
Wait, wasn't I just the same as those people earlier who just wanted to put their heads down earlier. In my previous life, I was nothing and I was happy about it. All I wanted was to follow my routine. He remembered he had even rarely laughed but in this new world for some reason he had started laughing more even though their situation was more precarious.
The only feeling of true inner desire he could remember himself feeling was some type of sudden anger then a feeling as if he had to do something. Something he couldn't recall in the slightest.
Pushing away the pessimism he had already called everyone to this place, and he had a plan to propose.
But, to give himself the confidence he hadn't had he made himself act and resemble his alter ego. While he couldn't see his own face at that time, he could recreate speech and movements. Along with making the same faces he does, now Henry was able to imitate himself as a conqueror.
The people sitting around Henry suddenly gave him a different look, his face had changed from the man sitting in front of them lost in thought. To the one that had killed Nature and saved many of them, suddenly they were much more inclined to listen.
Henry looked at them only saying “We are going to attack the fuckers who decided to mess with us.”
A short distance away creation was looking at Henry, “You see that Victor he thinks he's faking, haha little conqueror”. Creation's face made a sudden slightly sinister expression“There's no faking it, he doesn't know you can't lie to yourself.”
…
Henry sat there in awkward silence, he put as much energy and aura into what he was saying, he was hoping this call to action would rouse them. Instead he felt as if he made them more timid than before.
Easing his energy he began to explain to everyone his sudden turn around from not wanting to fight earlier. “I think we have all come to understand that this world won't reward those who sit around, we must try and take everything, this is a world of desire!” This realization came to Henry when he saw Gina kill the silverback, she had suddenly grown very strong as her Desire was running rampant through her. As Henry's speech ramped up he could see some people began to get frightened at the prospect of going into battle. While others felt their adrenaline pumping itching to let out some steam.
With his adrenaline pumping he wanted to conclude the speech in a grand way, “Therefore in this world we shall desire everything it can give us!” He yelled.
…
Henry looked around, his concluding hoorah was met with very little emotion. I pushed it to far, Henry cringed to himself.
One of the people who felt frightened during the speech spoke up “Does that mean we need to kill people.”
Henry looked around, not just at the people around him but some had joined from around the camp to see what Henry wanted to talk about. Many had this same sentiment in their eyes, while they had been put into dangerous situations and life threatening battles. The idea of murder still felt alien to them a taboo subject many felt uncomfortable thinking about.
Henry then reassured them that he didnt believe murder would be necessary. A lie even Henry couldn't trick himself into believing.
After Henry's speech they decide it is best to wait a week for their revenge plan making sure they could prepare enough beforehand. They also knew time was on there hands as the enemy had believed them to be dead not thinking a threat was nearby.
As everyone gets ready to walk away, he remembers to suggest something, “Wait everyone I also believe we should create hunting parties at this time, recall what Creation had said to us about hunting.”
Everyone stared at Henry hunting was much lower a priority for them as they were fearful of encountering something like the red demon or the silverback ape.
Noticing their hesitation he mentioned that he felt some strength increases after killing the ape, mentioning the two might be related. This was in fact a half lie, as Henry at that time did feel a strength increase but he knew it was due to whatever feeling on his head and happened before he killed them. But, he did remember Creation's words of advice for them so he thought they must be true.
After the meeting the council of 30 people including Tom and Gina become the de facto leaders of the Camp with Tom staying silent for most of the meeting deciding to listen more than talk.
Henry returned to his small tent and decides to finally check his menu
Name: Henry
Desire: Conquer everything, put everything under him
Power: the power to claim
* The right of a conqueror to claim
* The power to use other peoples items and powers
* The power to claim knights
* The power to claim certain creatures traits
* The power to claim a god's attributes
Race: Human
Desire: Conquer
Traits:
* Red Demon skin
* Nature God's eyes
* Light foot of the hidden tree monkey
Title: Ametuear Gods avatar slayer
Current Quest:
* Map conqueror stage one: Explore and conquer the human territory
* Permanent Home: In progress 350/2000
* Become King: in progress 1/2000
* Novice god Avatar slayer: in progress 1/3
Abilities:
* Swing weapon (high speed swings of your weapon)
* Low nature control medium
Allies:
Learned Abilities:
Level: 4