Ancient God in the Modern World

After eating all that he bought, he checked his watch as he had decided to take missions. He chose the mission where he needed to hunt for a phantom bat.

The phantom bat is a bat-type beast that has incredible speed, coupled with its ability to camouflage, it was very hard to hunt this type of beast. But Allen did not think it was a problem, after all, he is unlike everybody else.

Allen headed to the wilderness for hunting. He thought that was fine for him to stay in the wilderness for the night since he did not have any class tomorrow since today is Saturday. 

Sunday is their off day. They are allowed to do what they want to do. The camp won't mind them. 

Although their location is still monitored, there is no deed for them to go back to the camp. But on second thought it was very dangerous for the trainees to stay in the wilderness at night. Most of the beasts are more aggressive at night.

In the middle of the wilderness, Allen stopped.

"You've been following me for a while now. When will you attack?" Allen said and looked in a certain direction.

When he walked out of the cafeteria, Allen had already sensed them following him. But he did not mind them. In his eyes, they were puny, especially not that he has more divine energy than from before.

"How sharp of you to sense us following you." 

Three men walked out from the shadows of the trees. One of them is a familiar one-eyed man. This was the same one-eyed man that tried to rob him and Willems of their Military Credits.

He looked at the one-eyed man and said, "didn't I beat you before?"

The one-eyed glared at Allen when he heard what Allen said but he did not retort. He was indeed beaten before but he did not think he would be beaten now.

The one-eyed man thought it was a good idea to attack Allen with their combination. He brought a man that can hide in the shadows and someone that has the ability to manipulate the trees.

The man that can hide in the shadow would be best for escape while he and the man that manipulates the trees would help him attack Allen. While the one-eyed man has the ability to shoot laser beams from his lone eye.

Allen smiled as he thought of a good idea.

He released a wave of divine energy and created an isolation barrier around them. Then, he summoned the beasts nearby to surround them. There were about twenty beasts surrounding them.

Allen has the over authority of life and death, which is somehow related to the soul. He created a mark that can control the souls of the beasts. As long as he targeted the beast, the beast would only have two outcomes, they would either be controlled, or they would receive damage. 

But most of the time, the weak beast would rather submit to him because they did not have a chance to withstood Allen's divine energy. 

But if they did, they would never gain freedom. Their soul would forever be in Allen's control never to be freed again.

Allen snapped his fingers and the beasts started attacking.

The man that can hide in the shadows did not hesitate to hide along with the others. 

He created a shadowy space in the shadow of a big tree and brought the other two inside. Then, he manipulated the shadowy space that he created to jump out of the barrier. 

But contrary to his expectation, the barrier lit up and destroyed the shadowy space.

The barrier blocked their attempt to escape.

Allen was expecting that they would try to escape so he enhanced the isolation barrier.

"HA HA HA!"

Allen laughed out loud and said, "Do you think you can escape? Hehe, all that's been waiting for you is death."

The three looked at Allen as if he was the most vicious beast.

"Well, I can let you live, if…" Allen paused as he eyed them intently. "…if you become my follower."

The three hurriedly nodded. It was better to become a servant than to die. But they were not planning to become loyal to Allen, they only wanted to survive. They thought that Allen would release them as long as they say yes. Then after that, they are no longer planning to show themselves to Allen.

Allen waved his hand and created three divine marks, one for each of them. Then, he shot it towards them and said, "that is my mark."

The three of them paled. They had heard of an ability that can enslave humans. There were rumors of this ability but the military is in control of this ability. They made sure that this ability will not be used wrongly.

The three mistakenly thought that Allen's ability was 'Slavery.' They thought that this must be what he did to the beasts. 

Never did they know that Allen did not have that ability, or rather, he did not need an ability. As long as he has a divine power he can do anything that he wants.

Allen planted the divine mark into their inner body and waited for a while before he poured divine energy into the divine marks. 

When the divine mark received the divine energy, it released light particles that nourished the soul of the three. This was the same process as what happened to Plague Master.

Allen can place a divine mark on anyone, on the premise that they agree that they will become his follower or if they were loyal to him. 

If not, their inner body would subconsciously reject the divine mark. Although the divine mark is 'divine,' it has laws to follow.

For the divine mark to germinate into the soul, it needs to be of the same level as the owner of the soul. Or else, the soul would be damaged. Moreover, it cannot also be too weak, or else the soul will dominate it and will cause a backlash to the divine spirit.

When the divine marks finished the same process that the Plague Master had, Allen, used forbidden methods of the divine spirits. This method is the brainwashing method. 

In ancient times, brainwashing was forbidden. Once the other followers found it, they would find other divine spirits to follow. 

Also, the other divine spirit will also take advantage of it and will steal their followers. But right now, this forbidden technique is not forbidden. 

Aside from Allen, there were no other divine spirits or if there were, Allen did not think that they could take advantage of what he did. 

Allen used his divine energy to alter their soul and memory so they would praise them for all they are. This method can be easily discovered by other divine spirits or any other beings with high-level souls.

With that Allen's followers increased. The three did not resist in any way.. They just accepted their fate, which made the process easy and successful.