Personally Investigate the Nearest Community Outside His Initial Control

With the initial orders out of the way, ZHM checks his inventory to see he has a basic adventuring bundle. That suits him just fine, especially since one of the abilities unlocked for him is the ability to corrupt and alter the power in any artifact he touches, he didn’t yet have the ability to manufacture artifacts, so he would have to rely on finding one.

Using his powers that were unlocked, ZHM used his power to be perceived as the kind of people of the nearby village, Human, to investigate the area on his own to get the details on them since he had yet to acquire a spymaster, he never made one because he didn’t have one yet because he had just accumulated enough resources to begin production of that particular advisor before all this happened, but hadn’t yet started the advisor production process to make them yet; he prioritized Domestic, Military, and Spiritual affairs higher than having someone to help him better gather intel, but this situation made such an oversight potentially problematic. He was able to use his powers to masquerade as a member of the populace outside his domain, but anyone with the appropriate build or ability could see through it pretty easily, so it was only good for situations like this. As he wandered through the village, playing the part of a lost traveler, he noticed an idol’s shrine near the center of town, it was just a little smaller than the houses in the area.

There seemed to be a woman praying inside. She appeared to be middle-aged and modestly dressed. The design of the attire told him it did a decent job of hiding her true figure a bit. The attire itself was earthy greens and blues.

When he approaches the idol’s place he is able to see within the shrine the image of rabbit woman with well-developed assets, she but he can't quit make out her attire, they could rival the assets of the advisors he had made for himself. As he approached, the villager praying in the shrine greeted him.

“Greetings,” she said as he approached, all she saw was a tall redheaded human (a form that was basically ZHM’s idealized original form), “I am the mayor of this village, you can call me Belmisa. What can I do for you stranger?”

“Hello,” said ZHM, “you can call me Jay, if you want, I’m just a traveler that got bit turned around without realizing it, I suppose that happens when you wander aimlessly for too long. Who would that figure in the shrine be?”

“Our patron goddess,” says Belmisa, “we have trouble agreeing on her name, she’s seen as a newer deity to the outside world, and we never bothered to give her a name, the gods don’t like it when mortals label them that way. She reigns over Knowledge, Fertility, and Community. We call those the three great virtues.”

“I see,” said ZHM with interest, “am I permitted to touch her vestige? I merely wish to know what material it is made from so that if it were ever be stolen or damaged, I could help find a way to rectify the situation.”

“Well, you are a sweet young man,” says Belmisa, “of course, but you should be careful since it is quite old. Truth be told, it’s older than this village, and was brought by our ancestors from the land they left for reasons unknown to us.”

“I doubt any crafting I know could do her justice anyway,” said ZHM as he approached the idol and carefully picked it up, subtly infusing his corruption into it as he inspected it for thirty seconds or so before setting it back in its place with carefully returning it to its place. As he left the shrine, he suddenly got a notice that he had completed the secret quest to unlock “Corruptive Transformation” and all the points on the build tree required to its unlocking, along with a noticed the effects were now activating. Not once had even ever encountered such a scenario in the game. Suddenly, all the people in the village began transforming into anthropomorphic rabbit people, with Belmisa herself transforming before his eyes with her figure even having her assets enhanced, especially in the chest and leg areas.

A moment later, ZHM felt something new coming from the idol, his disguise already made obsolete and thus removed when the town transformed into rabbit people. Turning his attention to the idol, he found in its place within the hut was a blue-furred rabbit woman with nearly the exact features he had estimated for her chest and butt but a bit more for her thighs than he had thought to anticipate was standing before him wearing a moon-themed outfit that complimented her figure and even let her bosom hang free. Her chest was easily a 37 MM-Cup, at the smallest, by ZHM's estimates, and her fluffy ass was almost as big, her hips were actually the ideal Birthing Hip size for her frame and figure, her waist was well-defined as well, this all added up to give her the ideal hourglass figure; which was complimented well by her thick, yet shapely thighs, and well-defined legs. Just seeing her figure wanted to make ZHM admire her more, and it was at this moment he came to a decision.

“Greetings, great lord,” said the Rabbit woman, “I am the long-forgotten god of these people, your power has renewed me in ways I have not thought possible, they for forgot my association with the moon along with my name. It is on you to give me a new name, seeing as am now your subordinate, but it looks like both of us have had our powers diminished.”

“Of course,” says ZHM after shaking out of his surprise and contemplation, “I suppose Tsuki will do for now, we will have the village operate a bit differently, my civic advisor will be taking care of that,” he raised a hand and a bird landed on his hand without fear, he sent a series of energy pulses through the bird and it took off, “not quite a divine messenger, but a worthy substitute for the time being, it will deliver the appropriate message to the appropriate parties. Now then, Tsuki, you will be playing the part of my Academic from this point forwards, with your proper designation at my citadel, you will gain the appropriate powers, and all the powers you possess that fall under the purview of my other advisors will be passed on to them. Let us head to the citadel so you can properly meet your sisters in duty. Then we’ll have a welcoming ceremony that will solidify your connection to me.”

“It is an honor, my lord,” she turns attention to the figure that was once Belmisa and instructed her to bring the town together to announce the change of power then await news of how they are to properly celebrate, to which Belmisa eagerly bows to and bounds off, shedding her attire as she does so. "We're going to need to do something about the attire for the populace here."

"Not to worry," says ZHM, "my Civic advisor should have that all squared away in next to no time. That said, we will require a means of keeping ourselves hidden from potentially hostile forces, that includes making this community look as if nothing of signifigance happened here. But for now, we'll return to the Citadel and matters of the appropriate rituals."

"Of course, my lord," said Tsuki with a sensual lick of her lips as she followed him back into the forest.