Deathcreator Book One: A Flesh Golem's Ascension Read online

  "No! Just no! I will call you Eva." I said with unrestrained frustration.

  There was only one Lina, and I thought I was being original when I named her.

  "I don't like Eva, it reminds me of someone I despise. How about my middle name Lireathia, Lirea for short." She replied.

  "What the hell is wrong with you? No, are you just messing with me? That's too similar someone I love." I stated.

  She seemed to be taken aback by this. She said. "Okay" She hesitated for a moment before continuing "My last name is Nexializ."

  I cut her off. "No! You are definitely trying to get a rise out of me now!" I stuck my fingers in my ears and started humming.

  "Liz for short!" She yelled.

  I took my fingers out of my ears. "Oh, okay. I can get agree to that." I said as I breathed out in relief.

  She smiled brightly at me, again tucking her hair behind her ears.

  "That's quite a name you have there. Evangelina Lireathia Nexializ, is it your family name?" I asked.

  "No, my mother abandoned me when I was a baby. The Roserethian orphanage took me in because of my ears. The followers of Rosereth hold elves in high regard. My name in fact comes from one of the early gospels. They were closed down when I was twelve and I had to leave." She told me as her eyes seemed to be searching the ground.

  "How did you come to learn magic?" I asked trying to change the subject to something less depressing.

  I was curious about how I could maybe acquire a few spells without killing people or at the very least get Leera some much needed tutelage.

  "I have a high affinity for water magic. When they saw me manifesting small dorplets of water they gave me a book to study. When my efforts didn't yield any results they took it back." She said as she seemed to getting gradually more depressed.

  Well, that had the opposite effect. Unfortunately for her I had no time to waste. I needed to know her motivations.

  "Why is it that you want to come with me, even though I warned you about the danger?" I asked.

  She seemed to hesitate for a moment still looking at the ground.

  "If you come I won't coddle or protect you, you will find yourself in the midst of people that only want you dead." I told her blatantly.

  She raised her head to look me in the eyes before responding. "I've lived with that for half my life! I couldn't even get a job to earn coin for food. I had to steal and scavenge. I was eating scraps from the trash before I took the Duke's son's offer." Her face had turned red in anger as she continued to speak. "You gave me life once more! You gave me back everything they had taken from me, and asked nothing for it. You gave me the power I always wanted and now you reject me!" I could see tears starting to form in her eyes as her face contorted is sadness.

  After a few moments of silence she spoke again. "I have no where else to go. I have nothing else to do. When I showed you my ears you smiled genuinely, you seemed happy. You even touched them. You took joy in something that I have been condemned for my whole life, and now you're pushing me away. You're basically telling me to what, just go back to starving in the streets? To hateful glares and snide comments? I was even raped and beaten, no one did anything about it. Until you, you even made me a maiden again." Tears were now streaking down her face as she glared at me.

  "I noticed it when you were in the tent. I noticed your other gift too." She dropped her pants and raised her shirt showing me her thighs. Blood was dripping down her legs.

  "You knew! It was like you knew what I had been through. You made me this way to protect me! But you didn't take me. You fought against your satyr side and resisted." She pulled her pants back up.

  "Do you even know why there aren't that many satyrs anymore? They were known to go berserk when a woman was present and violate them. They were hunted to the very brink of their existence and you still didn't lay a hand on me, not on any of us. Not until someone was willing. Just what the void are you? That's not how things work here." She said as she weeped quietly, her fists held tightly to her staff as she shook in rage.

  "You even gave me this." She held up her staff. "A modern warmage with top of the line military gear could only manage three normal sized Ice spears at best. I can now make seven giant ones and you did it as if on a whim." She said as she drove her staff into the ground and started to walk away now audibly crying.

  I rushed up to her hugging her from behind. I rested my head on her shoulder and spoke quietly into her ear. "I wasn't trying to hurt you and I wasn't rejecting you. I just didn't want you to get hurt. I didn't save you, just to have you die again hours later."

  Her hands reached up to mine as she hugged my arms.

  I spoke again. "If you want to come with me I won't stop you, but I'm not a hero. In all likelihood I will the end of this world someday. Coming with me is the same as throwing away your humanity."

  Her body stiffened as my breath touched her ears. I used fleshcrafting to mend her wounds and she shuddered.

  She replied. "I've seen enough of humanity."

  I felt her tears falling on my arms. I looked around and saw the girls watching our spectacle. She released my arms and turned around. She kissed me briefly before bringing her mouth to my ear I felt her hot breath as she spoke. "I don't care what you turn me into. I could be an ogre or a hellhound as long as I can stay with you it will be worth it." I felt her pressing her bony body into mine.

  She hugged me for several seconds as I ran my hands along her protruding spine. I could feel each vertebrae prominently. I wondered about just what kind of life she could have led. I felt my heart grow heavy. No wonder she was mad at me. I had basically shown her a world of possibility, then told her to go back to dying slowly of hunger in some gutter somewhere.

  I looked at the other girls. Some of them had sad expressions, some looked confused.

  "If any of you don't wish to return home, just tell Bob and you can live with me. I don't expect anything in return and you can return home at any time." I didn't want to force them into a fate they didn't want. Nor did I want them to feel obligated towards me.

  They seemed to understand.

  "Alright Bob, it's time. Get them out of here." I said.

  Bob laid down and the girls mounted him, then before I knew it they were gone.

  "Are you going to mark her?" Nex said from beside me.

  I could feel Liz's skin heating up through my cheek.

  "Not yet." I replied teasingly.

  Liz pulled back from me suddenly. She bit her lower lip as she looked me in the eyes briefly before averting her gaze. I just smiled at her. She attempted to break out of our embrace but I held her tight. After saying all that did she really expect me to allow her to get away.

  She buried her head in my shoulder. I kissed all along her neck up her jawline until I was nibbling on her ear. I heard her make a cute whimper.

  "Are you ready to give up your humanity? As you are now, you're still too vulnerable. I will improve and modify you as I see fit. I will remake you again and again until I am satisfied." I said in a whisper.

  She shuddered again, then nodded.

  "Take off your clothes, I can't do this otherwise." I commanded.

  She separated from me and began undressing as the goblins watched. Her body was all skin and bones. She had no breasts or butt to speak of, her legs were thin and long. There was a thick shock of blonde hair and a gap between her thighs that existed even if her legs where together. She looked around as if feeling self conscious. This would be the first time I undertook so much on someone who was conscious and aware.

  I told her to lay down. She complied while still covering herself. I placed a hand over her eyes, giving her the life sense ability. I ran my hands along her ribs. I could feel each one under my fingers as I moved slowly along her skin. She opened her eyes watching me as my hands came to rest beneath her breasts. I granted her the windigo's fog capibilities. She inhaled suddenly, exhaling fog as she breathed out.

  Even though the twins showed
obvious interest, there was no way I could bring myself to mate with her yet. When I looked at her body all I could see was a life of sadness. She even had slight frown lines that I hadn't noticed before. I was worried that she was doing this out of desperation to stay with me, or obligation for saving her. It just didn't feel right to make a move on her right now. I would let her stay with me. I would see her fattened up and happy, smiling a natural smile. Only then would I take her as a mate. To stay with me however she needed strength.

  I thought about how to make her faster. I remembered the dear she had killed during her demonstration. After what I had done with Bob, I remembered how the sha'dwarg's muscles worked. I should be able to duplicate it on a smaller scale as long as there are four legs.

  If you duplicated the speed and strength with only two legs, you basically make someone exceptionally good at hopping in random uncontrolled directions. If everything wasn't timed just so, they could end up leaping into the enemy or flinging themselves into the nearest tree. A front heavy balance was required to maintain control, while the rear legs where for providing power.

  I stood up and walked over to the deer carcasses. They were a bit shredded. I combined them all together while condensing and blending them. I removed their heads as I layered the muscle on their back legs.

  I dragged it back over by her.

  "Lie on your side please." I told her as I dropped the carcass.

  She gave me a slightly worried look before rolling over.

  I placed the deer next to her as I melded her body from the waist down with it. I combined her long legs with the deer's front legs giving them power but making them narrow down gradually to hooves. I had her keep her womanhood between her front legs. The dear still had functional lungs and a heart.

  I gave its heart mana regeneration which I would guess was at about 4 or 5 per hour for it's size. I opened up two holes on the sides of the deer similar to Bob's setup allowing her to open and close them while also linking them to her normal lungs with a thick flexible two way line. Using some of the other nearby bodies I reinforced the rear legs giving them the qualities of both the monstrous bear and the sha'dwarg. I changed the deer's sex into human parts as I was fairly certain she didn't wish to mate with animals. I guess she's twice the woman now as she has two openings.

  "Mors, I'd like to give her a little more fat to even her out."

  I felt her take control of my body as she began pulling and distributing fat until you could no longer count her ribs by sight.

  "That's enough Mors."

  I didn't want her to think that I didn't find her attractive before. I would allow her to put on weight normally from here on out. I was just giving her a little head start.

  I looked down on my work.

  I kept her deer half small but powerful. Maybe just four feet from her waist to her butt. I still wanted her to be manueverable around other people and in small places.

  I looked at her front. Where her waist met deer I had it trail off in a V-shape having the fur and muscle from the deer covering where her hips used to be. Her front entrance and anus now faced forward ending at the bottom of the V as I knew there was now way she could cover herself if it was underneath.

  Her deer half was a beautiful mix of light brown with black stripes and white spots. I debated running the deer's fur up her back but decided against it as it would make wearing clothes itchy.

  I reached down to her ears. I grew the points back to the length the elves in my world had. I rimmed her ears in black fur with a white spot at the top similar to the deer's coloration.

  The windigo's capabilities had changed her eye color to a light brown. After debating for a while, I decided to change the color to a frosty light teal color similar to the color of the flames on her staff when her blue magic met with the green of the soul flame. I used blend and gave her fur mana gathering properties.

  I used blend then stopped fleshcrafting.

  She had been watching me as best she could the entire time I was working and had remained silent. I reached my hand down and helped her to her hooves. She rose up shakily as if unsure of how to stand. She leaned on me for support.

  Now that she wasn't emaciated I could plainly see she was a beauty. She noticed that I was looking her over and her face began to redden slightly.

  She wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled me close while breathing heavy. She gave me a long lingering kiss before releasing me and standing on her own.

  I gave her, her shirt back. I somehow doubt that pants would work for her anymore. The shirt was long enough to cover her front to just below her knees.

  "Did you increase my mana again?" She asked in a sheepish voice.

  "Yes, you now have two hearts among other things." I replied while smirking.

  She gave me a confused look. I walked behind her and gently ran a hand between her rear legs. She gasped as the realization of what I said hit her. Her legs buckled momentarily before she regained her balance.

  She looked back at me in a half glare but her eyes showed something else entirely. Was it lust or curiosity?

  She examined her body in fascination as she maneuvered herself around to face me. She reached her hands up to her ears and her eyes went wide.

  "You actually made them more prominent?" She said as she ran a finger along the fur. "I know you have strange tastes but I didn't know they went this far. These have been a source of shame and ridicule my entire life and you make them stand out more?" She stammered as she seemed to be on the precipice of another tirade.

  I moved forward and began stroking them between my fingers. Her face melted from one of shock to one of bliss as she lost herself in the feeling. I may also have subconsciously added several nerves to them. Now that I think about it, all my mates have pointy ears. I guess I do have a type.

  "They aren't that bad are they?" I asked.

  A slight moan was all I got in reply. As I started to move my hands away she grabbed my wrists and moved my hands back to her ears. I continued rubbing her ears for some time before she regained herself.

  "No one has ever touched them like that and now you have done it twice in one day." She said finally breaking the silence.

  "I liked them then, and I like them now." I replied as her grip relented and I got my hands back.

  She looked at me warmly, a small smile slowly spreading across her face.

  As much as I loved doting on her I needed to get a move on.

  "You should try moving and running. The reason I have given you these legs is so that you can fire off a spell and change locations rapidly." I told her in an even tone.

  She nodded and began trotting towards her staff.

  I looked around. Nex and her father seemed to be drawing a map in the dirt. The oni had used collapsed tents and rope to make a sort of loin cloth to cover their nethers. The blue one was busy tying together a series of logs, and the red one was swinging an uprooted tree around as if practicing.

  I walked towards Nex and her father. I knelt down to examine their map. I saw several dots and lines.

  "So how's it going on finding a route?" I asked.

  "The problem is avoiding the main road. It stands between us and our village. It was where they captured us before. They have a garrison of archers lining it there and a fair amount of human traffic goes through regularly." The elder goblin said while pointing to a line that divided the map.

  "What if we head southwest and cut by it after it turns towards the human village?" Nex asked while pointing to a huge curve in the road.

  "We can't do that two of our gobs never returned from that direction leaving." He made an exaggerated trilling noise. "an orphan." the older goblin said while shaking his head.

  If I understood the way that Bob and I came correctly then my cave wasn't far from where the road trailed off. Oh, I think I have some explaining to do here.

  I told them about Leera and Lina, and my first experience after stepping out of the cave. I also told them about their
child coming to visit us, and how he was now apparently my disciple. I also told them my theory on the pulling sensation and our need for haste.

  The old gent had a tear in his eyes as he respond. "I see, it's good that they have found happiness."

  Nex looked at me with pride, her eyes glowing slightly as she leaned up to kiss me.

  She replied. "You saved them, like you saved us. Even after they tried to kill you. We're all still here because of you. It might not seem like it, but we gobs are all family, for a non-gob to treat us so kindly is unheard of."

  Nex ran off, leaving me alone with the old gent. I couldn't just keep calling him that.

  "Is it alright if I give you a name in my language?" I asked.

  "To a gob, earning a name is an honor. However names are usually only bestowed to family from a higher figure in the family. You have however taken my eldest daughter as your mate, so you are already in my family. Given what you have done for us, I will allow you this honor and appoint you the head of my clan." He said while bowing to me.

  Damn, I had no idea goblins where this sophisticated he almost sounded like a human noble. He was a gentleman and deserved a gentleman's name.

  "I am honored to have your daughter as a mate and as the head of our clan I name you Reginauld." I told him.

  He nodded as he spoke. "That's a fine masculine name, within it I sense a certain respect as well. I will gladly take it. Thank you chief."

  Wait, chief? Was he the chief? Does that mean that I marked and bedded the chief's daughter? I guess that makes her one of the stronger females in her village.

  Nex returned carrying a bundle of leather armor and boots. She placed them at my feet.

  "I found these among the bodies, I'm pretty sure I know your size now." she said as she again eyed me provocatively.

  I took off my harness and put on the leather armor. The arms of the chest piece wouldn't fit so I had to rip them off. The leather grieves slid over my normal pants just fine and the boots fit. I placed my harness back on and reattached my weapon. I felt a little more protected now.

  An idea sprang to my mind about making bone armor, but I didn't have time at the moment.