Mind Demon's Path of Domination

"What is your plan then, tell me."

Mark mused for a short moment. "I plan to learn about the enemies first, then, I will make my move. And I can do that with a simple move."

In the Hunter World, he had gone in to attack Shiden and his gang without prior information about them. He had learned his lesson now, before moving, he had to prepare for his enemies. This mission, of killing hundreds of savages of different ranks, needed him to be cautious.

Reol’ran pondered. "So you are going to Dream Gamble."

"Exactly," Mark said. "From what I have seen, the savages abduct children from all over the place and bring them to the savage city. They turn these children themselves into savages. So, if I Dream Gamble with one of the children they are going to abduct, I can go into the savage city and become one of them."

Out of habit, Mark pulled out his system screen.

[Dream Gambler’s Mortal Puppet:

You can manipulate the World Wills of any World and make it link your Destiny to that of the Destiny of a Mortal (a person without any supernatural powers), and then challenge the Mortal into a Dream Gamble. A gamble with a dreamer regarding whether you can achieve their dreams if you were in their shoes.]

[Upon activation of the ability, the Mortal’s body you Gamble with will become your puppet.]

[As long as you win the Gamble, you can ask for one thing that they have (except for their life and non-material things like feelings), and you will get it as your own. If you fail to achieve their dream, they can ask for one thing that you have (except for your life and non-material things like feelings), and you can’t deny them whatever they ask of you.]

[Doesn’t work on the same World twice.]

[Only works on Mortals.]

[If the Puppet dies while the Dream Gamble is on, the Puppet Master will also die.]

[You can win either by accomplishing the Dream of the Puppet or by destroying the wish to achieve that Dream entirely.]

[Cannot use any demonic trick of the main body using the puppet.]

Frowning, Reol’ran bit her thumb gently. "I get that you are going to Dream Gamble with a mortal. Then, you would invade the savages using the Mortal Puppet. But while that is happening, what are you going to do?"

Mark grinned. "Of course, I am not going to sit idly while the Mortal Puppet works. I also have an idea." 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

The woman frowned for a second before her brows eased. "Ah, I get what you are planning."

"Then, we can move as soon as Yuri tells me what she found out. And I want to interrogate the savage who’s still alive."

...

While Yuri was researching, Mark jumped out of the hut’s roof and began walking around the village. Now, there were more or less 600 or so villagers in his World Space, all looking somewhat gloomy.

Inside his World Space, he had a more human-looking body (soul), but his horns and golden eyes still made it easy to distinguish that he was Mark. The villagers soon took notice of him and began to walk out of their huts.

Soon, Yasna also came out and faced him. Two old men walked behind her back respectfully. Being Mark’s woman, Yasna had become the most important person from both villages Mark had taken in—she was now a local celebrity.

"Hey," Yasna said, somewhat awkward but bristling with energy.

"I thought you were tired and going to sleep."

"I did go to sleep, but that woman in white coats gave me a glass of... black liquid, and my tiredness all but vanished. So, I came here and organized all the villagers. They were all panicking anyways."

"Good." Mark ran his eyes over everyone in his sight.

600 was not a small crowd.

"You must be wondering why I brought you here. The answer is simple. This is a world and I want to build a working community here. This island, which I shall call the Savage Island, will be your home from now on and I want you all to improve it for yourself."

The crowd started a hushed discussion between themselves.

Mark jumped and stood mightily over a boulder, looking down at all of them with his golden eyes. "This is an opportunity. A chance. If you use it well, you can build your own paradise here and I can assure you one thing. As long as you are here, no one will die of disease, nor will a savage dare come here and hurt you. There is only one thing taboo, I do not like freeloaders, I want you all to do your own fair share of work."

Yasna came forward and met his eyes.

"Your lord," she said, speaking on behalf of the villagers.

Mark teleported her to sit beside him. Stunned for only a second, she continued brutishly, "Does the sun not rise in this world? Is it night all the time?"

Mark sighed inwardly. Indeed, there was no sun or moon in his World Space—it had 9 stars, though. And those nine stars, tiny dots in the sky, were his demonic tricks.

"There is no sun in the world, not yet. But don’t worry, soon enough, I shall arrange a way to light the world."

He would have to build a huge bulb of some kind.

"My lord," Yasna still spoke on behalf of the villagers. "What about... food? Without sunlight, we can’t grow crops, and there is no forest for us to hunt. The sea surrounding the Savage Island doesn’t contain any fish either."

"I will expand the Savage Island a bit more, bring some forest around. Then, you will have a place to hunt for a while."

And he can make it rain Black Water here once in a while to keep the trees from rotting away due to receiving no sunlight. When he went back to the Demon World, he would have to expand the Black Water pond in his World Space to a Black Water River, Mark realized.

"Any more questions?"

Yasna blinked. "I don’t have any more questions."

One of the old men who had been walking behind Yasna kowtowed on the ground. "Your lordship, may we know what our work here exactly is?"

He had been saying not to freeload and work, but what work should they do?

Mark smiled. "I just want you to build a united, working community here. A small place where I can get anything I want. If any of my women order you to do something, do that, too. Otherwise, I just want you to thrive here."

The old man gawked up and then kowtowed even lower.

Mark stood up. "I would’ve guided you people more but I do not have too much time. From now on, Yasna, I name you the queen of the Savage Island. Anybody who goes against you shall be dealt with by me personally."

Yasna stared at him for a moment, then took a deep breath in.

Mark winked covertly at her and said softly: "It’s not much of a responsibility. Just enjoy the benefits of ruling around and lead the community to thrive."

With that, Mark looked down at the villagers one last time and vanished.

They all kowtowed.

From the skies, Mark looked down at the Savage Island. It was surrounded by an ocean and just some distance away from it was another island—the island where Yuri was. It was on that island that his family lived, and it was under that island that the Violet Mirror was situated.

Reol’ran looked up at him from the ground and he grinned at her.

"Get to work, don’t look around aimlessly," she said and he vanished once more.