East

In the end, you choose to go east, because why wouldn't you? No real difference since all you could see from your small clearing was trees. Anyway, you keep walking for what you innately know to be about forty-five minutes, before you start smelling smoke, a campfire!

You begin moving much slower and much more quietly, lowering yourself to the ground hoping to be obscured by the bushes and shrubs that surround you. As you get closer, you hear voices, female voices. They are speaking a language you don't quite understand...oh...wait a second, maybe you do. About halfway through a sentence, you start understanding the language as if it were English.

"...and I can't believe those cowards from the Mountain Clan! They completed bailed on the raid! There's a village just begging us to fuck it up and they decided it's 'too close to a main road' and were worried about the army. As soon as they bailed all the other Clans did too, and now there's...what? Like six of us? We can't raid a village!"

"Yeah, you're right, and what are we supposed to do know, huh!? We left our tribe to set this raid up against our chieftess's wishes, we can't just go home. She would not be happy with us."

Three other female voices rose up in agreement, all sounding very concerned about their futures, which seemed to hinge on some kind of raid.

Huh, weird though they said there were six of them but you only hear five. Suddenly you feel someone roughly grab the back of your neck, you can't even turn to look at them. "Oh, shit..." you mumble as you are tossed into the camp.

You land with a thud, hearing the five women in the camp jump at your sudden intrusion as they all stand. You look up just in time to see the sixth join them, and you are surprised to see they are not human women you're looking at. Thanks to your new and improved body, you're about six and a half feet tall. So you were just an inch or so taller than them, which wasn't the weird part.

They all had silver hair and either red, violet or golden eyes. They were all just as athletic and toned as you, but you could tell they were definitely built with more muscle, and their skin was red. Not like tanned or reddish, bright appleish red. Each of them also had a horn either on the left side of their head, or the right, and whichever side of their head had the horn, they obviously kept shaved. As you laid eyes on them you immediately knew what species they were. Oni. Raiders and pillagers a race entirely made of women that procreate by 'taking' men from other races. You also noted how each of them was holding a long, spiked, metal club. Though you also noted they weren't wearing much...you may be clubbed to death but at least the scenery was absolutely amazing.https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/333052020908883968/384930114254929920/Rani_C.png

"What the hell is this?" asked what you assume is their leader, the first one you heard speaking. She had red eyes and a left horn.

The one who threw you, the most muscular of the group with violet eyes and a right horn, spoke up next. Gesturing at you with her club. "I was coming back from my watch and saw this weird pervert in the bushes. Seeing as how he's nearly naked, I can guess why he was watching us..."

The others groaned in disgust as you slowly stood up "Now wait just a second, I'm not some weird pervert!" As soon as you said that, you regretted it. You had just shouted at them. They are all armed and you are oh so very vulnerable. Maybe this assertiveness came with whatever magic brought you to this world but it was not helping you right now.

Before you could say anything the leader stepped forward and raised up her club "Learn your place, human!" She swung down at you, just before it hit you managed to raise your hands and shout at them.

"Wait, STOP!" When you said stop, it echoed and reverberated around you and they all stopped and seemed like they couldn't move a muscle.

"What is going on?" "Are you some kind of mage!?" "Let us go human!" They all started yelling and berating you to let them go, but you were barely paying attention, the power...that was amazing! But how did it work?

It worked because that is your gift.

An odd voice said suddenly as if to explain. You have been gifted the power of dark magics. To control those beings who have a connection to the darkness, to corrupt those with a connection to the light, and even to cause great destruction and harm in time. Your powers will grow, but you need time, a place of power, and minions. So you have five free uses of the 'Bend Will' ability, your first was just used. These Oni will become your loyal servants if you just say the word, as will members of other dark species. After four more uses you won't be able to use it again until you relearn it, it works on any dark being in earshot, so perhaps try and use it on larger groups next time? You will hear from me again, in some time.

The voice stopped as soon as it began, and before you were six, frozen helpless Oni. You smirked wide and nodded "I knew it, I fucking knew it! I am special..." You looked the six of them over and laughed for a moment before shouting "My name is Seth O'Conner, and all six of you are mine now! Bow to your new Dark Lord!"

The six Oni immediately kneel down, their leader quickly speaks "I am sorry, Dark Lord, we didn't realize it was you. We never believed the legends, that a new Dark Lord would be born...especially not a human. What would command of us, Master?"