"You the god of shitty titles too? At least we put effort into our god titles, 'darkness and death'? Why not something like 'God of the Shaded Crypts' or something like that? Just because your job is straightforward doesn't mean you can't be a bit creative with how you introduce yourself! Plus it makes for killer intimidation."
"Well when you are fighting a goddess of destruction that is trying to destroy the world with her demons and when you are a father and husband to 11 wonderful women you and I basically rule three races you don't really have time to come up with good names," I said.
"Actually making up a flashy title is one of the best things to do when facing other gods," Elnir spoke up. "Gods reside on a similar power scale, so it's rather difficult to gauge how powerful they are, having a creative and excessive title can add onto the confusion as well, from what I can tell, with her straightforward title it was easy to understand her ability types and intent, focused on destroying and making creatures to destroy. However, take my title 'The Will of Life', it's rather easy to assume that means I can control any living thing, however my abilities actually only reach to wildlife and plants, however I can control those aspects whether living or dead, so it throws my enemy off when they try to hide within a ruined forest or a castle which holds any form of wood."
"Well first she did not intentionally create the demons and I don't have time to make fancy titles I need every second to increase my power and my army if she escapes Tartarus," I said.
"No, but she does intend to destroy your world… though I guess a good start to increase your power is to build a church in your name, as a god, worship is a very effective supply of power, and is normally the factor that tilts any divine conflict in one's favor. A god must never rely on his aspect alone to gain strength as that can easily be taken away as the world changes, but faith and worship is much more resilient and can ensure a win. On another note, making a successful religion can garner a large mass of followers who believe in your word and cause, such willing to fight for you, while in your case you wouldn't want them as frontline soldiers, raising a convent of acolytes to assist in raising a much larger army of undead than you could do alone would be very advantageous." Olthok explained.
"First necromancy and darker magic corrupt anyone that uses them in my world except me so acolytes are out of the question and there are…" Before I could finish a nurse entered the room and her eyes wandered around the room but then they stopped on a window and she screamed and ran out.
"Uh what was up with her?" Eva asked then she looks out the same window the nurse looked out of then she fell to the ground in shock. "G-G-G-G-GIANT SNAKE!!!"
"Oh yeah almost forgot about her," I said.
"Riiiight…" Eric said. "And Olthok never said they'd be necromancers, they'd be more like extensions of you, bound to you so they gain a fraction of your power yet also your immunity through their faithful devotion."
"Before we continue let me introduce my friend here," I said as I opened the window and Anna shrunk down just enough to where she could slither through the window she was still giant but she could now fit in the room. "This is Anna before I was interrupted I was going to explain that I have people who worship me but I have not checked up on them yet but I meet them in my pocket dimension when I first found out how to make them I went to mine the first time I just left and I brought everyone with me including discord and he was unable to use his magic in my world and after we walked into a town we found it was filled with nothing but bones and death even the sun was no longer in the sky but when we were about to leave I heard screams that is when I found them." I said and I waited to see if they had any questions before I continue but no one said anything.
"They were only a few but they were being chased by demons and undead alike, I summoned an army that was going to hold them off so they could run for the portal but somehow I felt stronger and my undead matched them even the enemy's undead joined me in the fight and after a giant serpent made of pure magic emerged from the ground and I absorbed it that snake was Anna but first I was so full of magic that it nearly destroyed me and I unleashed everything I had at once and my undead took me out of the pocket dimension after that the survivors told me there were more and we went back in the next day and brought them out after that I meet Faust and became a god," I said finishing my story.
"You gained so much power because of all the death and dark magic there, even when you weren't a god, your affinity for it empowered you in that world." Elnir stated.
"Yes and no," Anna said. "He may have not been a god then but the entire world was made from his magic so when he was fighting it felt itself threatened and gave him and his undead power to protect itself and that magic turned into me and the people there knew of him and worshiped him as if he was a god." She explained.
Elnir gave a nod. "Either way, if you do have followers, you do gain worship from them, those that devote themselves to you should be given the offer to become acolytes, not necromancers but extensions of your power, not powered by corrupting darkness but by faith, with which they'd be blessed with your undead and dark powers along with the protection you have, they'd be able to summon larger armies, and if they came together, could make much more powerful constructs like Grave Golems or even Eidolons! Such a force would be integral to facing the goddess of destruction, as having such titans on your side would put you on even, if not greater footing than her own demon forces. And to top it off, having such worship close by would put you at a great advantage over Circe in a one-on-one."
"What are Grave Golems and Eidolons?" I asked.
Olthok decided to answer this. "Grave Golems are earth golems born of undead magic, formed from the graves, tombstones and even tombs themselves within cemeteries, these are both heavy frontline warriors as well as carriers of several undead soldiers that could leap out from their graves or act as archers from them to support the hulking creature. An Eidolon is in a sense, the revenant's big brother, it is a massive collection of skeletons all brought together by a single purpose, on their own that would be for revenge, but for a strong enough undead controller it would be for service, the bones all join together to make a much larger construct until you have a mountain of skeletal fury, cloaked in darkness like a titanic grim reaper, and even a formed bone scythe to fill out the package… as long as they have enough power given to them, this colossus can't be destroyed, it would just continue to reform over and over until its mission is complete."