Author's note:
1. I'm not a native English speaker. I'm sorry in advance for the grammatical mistakes.
2. I'm not a writer either.I have no idea where I'm going to take this story. I just write when I have an inspiration or an idea.
3. I'm not too concerned if some parts of my story is not the same with the canon. So if you don't like that sort of stuff then maybe this story isn't for you.
4. I just want to have fun with my characters.
Disclaimer:
I don't own Overlord.
Wind rushing through my face, my whole body.
I'm falling.
Falling.
And then suddenly nothing.
I open my eyes. There's a vast forest coming at me at an incredible speed.
"wh- what's going on?"
I don't understand I should be in my room right now. The forest is coming closer. I flail my arms and legs around trying to grab something. This must be a dream.
A panic sets in. I slap myself. "Wake up" I screamed in my head. I slap myself again but nothing happens. That means I'm awake. The reality finally hit me. I really am falling.
I must have gotten the timing wrong. I' m still in the game. As the view of the forest fills my field of vision I tried to do a somersault. I messed it up. A branch of a tree hits my leg and I go tumbling down the dense forest breaking branches, hitting tree trunks and then mercifully I finally hit the forest floor.
"Ouch"
Falling damage must be on. Well that took a chunk of my HP. I shouldn't have taken off my set or disabled my passive skills. What a stupid idea jumping off a cliff so that when the game ends I'll still be in the air. Rapid Healing will heal me in a second. As I lay in the ground I scan the forest. This is a pretty dense forest. I can hardly see the night sky. I just wanted to escape for a minute. My parents just died a week ago. They were the best of parents.
There was an accident 5 years ago. We went out to celebrate their 30th anniversary. I was using my vacation days to spend some time with them. It wasn't the best time for me that time. I just got dumped, I heard some rumors that the firm is going under and I was going to get laid off. So I got drunk for the first time in years. So my dad had to drive because I was drunk. I fell asleep to the voices of my parents saying sweet things to each other. I remember thinking what an awesome couple. I woke up to the pain of my abdomen. Apparently my dad swerved avoiding another car. Thankfully my parents seemed to be okay. They kept looking at me and saying things like "don't worry Jake everything's going to be alright." and "Jacob stay awake as long as you can okay honey?". I woke up at the hospital after that. My lower body paralyzed. After that I quit my job, moved back to my parents. I was depressed for a while but my parents helped me through that too. I guess they were feeling guilty about the accident but I wasn't angry at them. I knew it wasn't their fault. I have a few thousand dollars saved up and my parents are a bit wealthy so accommodating me wasn't a big problem. It was fun having someone to talk to again afte- a strange thought stopped my melancholic memory.
Did I just feel pain? That would be ridiculous because if I feel pain then that means there's contact of my body to the solid ground of the forest and that must mean that. I'm. Not. In. YGGDRASIL. Anymore.
"Well…shit"
YGGDRASIL is a DMMO-RPG that uses virtual reality. You can fight monsters, defend your base, and travel through exotic lands in your own room. Of course a basic in all RPGs that you have an hp bar. It would be ridiculous if you can feel pain if you get damaged. The slashing pain of a sword, the piercing pain of an arrow, and the blunt pain of a club - all this things would be unbearable. That's just the weapons. There are all sorts of magic. There are all sorts of status effects. So if you can feel pain while playing you would probably black out or worse.
So either I'm in the game. Or I've become insane. Well between the two choices I would prefer the former because here I can move my legs. VRs are great because even though you have a physical disability it would not affect your character and your gaming experience. A lot of people whose whole body are paralyzed use VR to talk to their families and friends.
So I'm in a game or something. somewhere? whatever.
I get up and look around me. It's a beautiful forest but it feels like there's something wrong. It's quiet, too quiet. I look around me but I don't see anything. I don't feel any presence either. In YGGDRASIL I chose an elf hunter character. The elves have racial skills that make them marvelous hunters, especially at night. Dark vision, Hunter's senses (helps to see better and farther, and also adds a keen hearing ability), life sense, agile body other passive skills that help them to become excellent hunters.
Before I do anything else I need to test a few things. After a couple of minutes I found out my inventory turned into a pocket dimension and I can access it by reaching into the air and concentrating a little bit. I can also use my skills by concentrating on them. In YGGDRASIL you have to click an icon to use it in battle. This makes the flow of battle in YGGDRASIL a bit slow. Looks like the battles here are going to be smoother and faster.
I continue surveying the forest around me. I need to be careful because for all I know the enemies here exceeds level 100. I might be level 100 but if I'm not careful I might die and there's nobody around that I can trust to resurrect me.
I carefully draw my bow and retrieve an arrow from the Endless Quiver to ready myself. A few heartbeat passes. No presence. I climb a nearby tree to increase my vantage point. I jump branch to branch trying to find life. A few jumps and finally I sense something. Is that a pack of wolves? No their footsteps are louder. I jump a few more branches to get a good look at them. A few meters away in a small clear patch of land I finally spot them. There are 6 wolves. They're bigger than any wolves in YGGDRASIL I've ever seen.
I fire a lure arrow a few meters behind them towards the dense forest to distract them. As soon as the arrow hit the ground it released a scent that immediately took the attention of the wolves.
[Arrow rain I]
The single arrow that I released multiplies as it flies through the air. As the arc reaches its peak my single arrow turned into a few dozen arrows.
My priority is to gauge their strength so that's why I used my weakest Area of Effect attack. Arrow Rain only has 2/5th of a normal attack. I hit all of them but I didn't kill any and they scatter to avoid another volley of my arrows.
Suddenly behind me I detected a presence with murderous intent. I quickly jump down and suddenly there's a whoosh sound and another wolf appears.
It landed in front of the other wolves. It bares its fangs in a show of hostility. I carefully step forward bow half-drawn to observe the wolf. The pack of wolves I attacked before has a brown fur with a few sparsely white furs. The new wolf has also a brown fur but it's much richer in color. The new wolf is a bit bigger than the rest although the rest of the pack is already quiet big. This must be the alpha of the pact.
The wolf cronies bare their fangs and attempt to encircle me but the alpha wolf growls at them and they cower back.
"ooh you want a 1 on 1?"
Growl bark bark
"Is that a yes?"
bark bark
"I'm interested in you now. If I beat you you're going to be my pet"
The alpha wolf stands proudly and stares at me baring his sharp fangs.
"That's a pretty smile"
The alpha wolf howls, and his cronies howls with them.
"Then I guess that's that"
We stare at each other while trying to encircle one another. Suddenly the alpha charges me. He's fast but I'm faster. I roll out of his way as the alpha tries to bite me. As soon as I stop the roll I turn around and fire an arrow with a paralyzing effect. The alpha wolf evaded my arrow by turning left.
He charges me again and I feint to the left and he bought it. I side step him and I swung my bow to his body. I hit him across his left body and he yelps in pain. I blow him back a few feet and he slams into a near tree. He cries in pain once again but he doesn't stay down very long. He bares his teeth at me again and growls at me. Suddenly he started glowing, no wait that's not accurate. The alpha wolf is covered by a slim layer of blue light that looks like-
"Is that a buff?"
I smile. The alpha wolf can use skills. That means he is stronger than the average but I don't remember encountering any wolf that has that particular skill. I don't recognize the buff either. It means that that buff is a different skill that is in YGGDRASIL or that wolf is stronger than the wolves in YGGDRASIL. I'm getting absorbed into the fight. My bloodlust skill is slowly activating. Bloodlust adds power to my attacks but sacrifices my accuracy. It's helpful in a fight but not always.
The alpha wolf crouches and readies for attack. I change my weapons into a dual stiletto. The alpha wolf lunges incredibly fast at me. I thought he was going to use biting attacks but he didn't, instead he uses his claws to swipe at me. I parry 2 of his swipes but I don't attack him as he passes instead I want to observe him a little more. Crouch-lunge-swipe-land-turn. He repeats this kind of attack a few times.
"Is that all you got? Come one show me something more powerful"
He growls at my taunt. He rebuffs but this time there are 3 layers of light: blue, white, green. he lunges and disappears. I look around trying to feel his presence and then something tackles me. The alpha wolf is on top of me. He doesn't bite my neck though because I got my stilettos pointed at his neck.
"If you were faster than me then you would have killed me by now. Yield to me or die"
There's intensity to my voice that sort of surprised me. As I look into the eyes of the alpha I saw the anger that was there before turned fear and finally understanding. He got off of me and as I stood up to look at him I saw the pride was still there but there's more now. I see that he respects me now. He looks for his pack and spots them at the tree line to his left. They are wounded but not heavily. I walk to them and give them a few minor healing potions and the wounds starts to close up. I turn and look at the alpha.
"You can come with me if you want. I won't force you to. You can stay here. If you go with me though, you will know power like nothing you have ever known before."
I leave him alone to think it over. Besides I have some thinking over to do myself. So I'm in a new world. Am I stuck here? Can I go back? If I can go back would I? This body is an elf's body, my character at YGGDRASIL then what happens to my real body? Am I the only YGGDRASIL player here? I consider all of these questions. A few moments passes and I hear small footsteps coming toward me.
"You are coming with me then?"
As I look at my new companion I see determination. He lowers his head as a show of respect. I remember my old dog when I was young. I loved that dog. In his memory I will name this wolf:
"Okay. I will call you Buster mk. II"
He looks up at me and tilts his head to one side questioningly.
"Buster for short. Let's go. Now where's the nearest town?"
