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That day the sky broke. Storms surrounded the entire globe. The world was coming down like a divine caprice. It was then that a cataclysm swept the earth so hard that even Nazarick shuddered.
Ainz looked over the horizon. Strange energies covered the sky which unleashed wild and chaotic magic. The earth was cracking and he would even swear that he saw the ground approaching him, who used flying magic to observe what was happening.
"Why is this happening?" He asked himself. His suppressor of emotions was working as much as possible, but it was not enough to alleviate the fear he felt. It was like a switch that went on and off. The sensations came and went, exhausting his mind even more.
He could not communicate. He had already tried it several times, but the [ message ] spell didn't work. Most likely this storm was causing interference. He tried to teleport, but could not get where he wanted, there was a big margin of error, even for [ greater teleportation ] ended up in different places that he did not recognize and had no idea how that could be possible.
Ainz would have liked to use [portal] but the storm was too much. If he teleported to Nazarick and fell by mistake on a critical site, it could be really bad, then it was better to head to Nazarick in a hurry.
He had been in E-rantel for the time the anomaly manifested. Several of its citizens ran horrified to witness the end of times. He wondered if this was really the end, if he would never be able to find his comrades and he would be left alone with his legacy.
He got rid of those thoughts. He still had the NPCs, the children of his allies. In them lived his precious friends, they could not be allowed to suffer any damage.
Finally after several minutes of flight, he could see Nazarick. When he came down, he realized that Albedo, along with a cohort of high-level servants, was waiting for him at the entrance.
"Ainz-sama!" She cried in a tone that bordered on despair. "What happened? I could not contact you and this damned storm is wreaking havoc everywhere. "
"I cannot answer that. But we must enter, being here could be dangerous." Ainz went to the entrance and down the stairs, Albedo followed him closely, trying to follow his hasty step.
"Has Demiurge returned? What about Cocytus? Make sure to list all of Nazarick's servants. "Ainz said as he hurriedly made his way to the throne room. He moved his ring hoping it would work. And fortunately, it was. Albedo came to the throne room seconds later.
"Demiurge has already returned a few minutes ago. Cocytus was already here. Only Sebas and Tsurae are still in E-rantel. "
Ainz took note of Sebas. He knew he could be able to take care of himself, but facing something like this… he was not sure how it would turn out.
"Send a shadow demon for him. Contact all the guardians, assemble in the throne room." And with those words Ainz retired teleporting to the conference hall. There he took the staff of Ainz Ooal Gown and prepared for the worst.
[X]
Ten days passed until the storm stopped. By the time they left the grave, they found a familiar place. Apparently the storm had not caused as much havoc as he had anticipated. However, the crust had broken and high mountains could be seen in the distance.
Ainz sent some servants to investigate. By the time they returned they had brought news that he would never have expected to hear.
"A town with vehicles that move without using animals?" Ainz asked in great surprise. The wagons could be imbued with magic and leave the need to use horses, but both in the Baharut empire and in the Re-estize kingdom, this was a tremendously rare magic. In addition to that, when the ginzo described in detail those vehicles could not help but realize something.
These were vehicles that he would have found on earth, in his previous world.
"Tell me what else you saw." He ordered the Ginzo who was kneeling in front of him.
"My lord. We saw fields that extend as far as the eye can see. We saw large, lizard-like animals grazing on endless plains. Humans live in towns of more than a thousand inhabitants each. Their houses are made of rock and metal that we have never ever seen in any other kingdom. We saw a human kill what looked like a wolf with a strange weapon. This weapon fired a ruby ray that split the wolf in two, which was more than two hundred meters away. We saw no sign of swords or spears, most of those humans use those weapons while watching their cattle. "
Ainz took a hand at his jaw and leaned back on his throne. He could barely believe what was happening. The possibility was high, but that did not mean something good. That weapon, that rifle, was something that would have found on earth, more by the description, it was something more powerful, it was an energy rifle. Something that could unlevel a battle to such an extent that it would be unfair. The firearms had displaced the swords, and with these, the skilled warriors of antiquity. Anyone could use a rifle with a little practice and kill the enemy's best warrior.
Creating this kind of technology had been in his plans, but he knew only a few things and hoped to get some gifted person capable of creating them and thus strengthen Nazarick. He had already started with help of the dwarfs. But that would take years, maybe centuries. With the magic existing in this world, the need for this technology will be still postponed much longer. Demiurge was a genius, but even he could not describe something he did not know.
"I see," Ainz said. "Thank you for your work. You can retire. "
The ginzo gave his praises and disappeared behind the doors. Only the three most intelligent guardians of all Nazarick stayed.
Ainz right now was sure that if he had skin, he would be sweating a whole river. He had no idea what to say or do. This was unprecedented. From what they had told him, a long mountain range had surrounded all the terrain known until now, including the sacred kingdom, the draconic kingdom , the alliance of city-states and even the Slane theocracy .
A U-shaped mountain range that went out to Re-estize sea now it seemed to have separated them from the world they knew and had left them elsewhere. If humans beyond the mountains could cultivate and raise cattle on such a large scale, it meant that the nation they served was powerful, but until that extent, he was not sure.
And there was one thing that worried him more. They had not seen any semi-humans or hetereomorphic beings beyond the mountains. Everything the scouts had described was only humans and cattle. And if there was no presence of magic was another issue to deal with.
"Demiurge. What do you think of all this? "Ainz Asked trying to find an idea in the words of his subordinate as he had done so many times. He hoped one day he could just tell them that he was not a genius and that was only acting.
"An unprecedented situation for sure." Demiurge replied. "So few humans and such a large capacity for cultivation is illogical. We know that humans are weak, if those humans had golems or undead for serving them with labor I could understand it. But if they are only a few thousand I fear that I do not know the reason. "
Ainz nodded and turned to see the guardian supervisor. "Albedo."
"My deepest apologies." She said. "But like Demiurge, I can only speculate. They have tools that we have never seen, they may use them. But such a large amount of food... I can only imagine that they must supply many countries. Or maybe just one that encompasses a large area that surpasses the Kingdom of Re-estize enormously. "
Ainz nodded again and looked at the third and last . Personally, he would not have wanted to bring him here, but the need caused it.
"My creator!" Said the Doppleganger in exaggerated way. "Such humans with items like these must belong to some faction that can equal us in power. However, I think it is too early to give a verdict. "
"It seems the solution is the same after all," Ainz said. "We must explore that place to make sure they are not a danger. Demiurge, did you planted that marker I asked for? "
"Yes, Ainz-sama. It has been placed on the border of the Baharut Empire as you ordered it. Leads to the nearest village spotted to that nation. "
"Umu . In a week I will go to that place. I will decide those who will go with me. That is an order."
Both guardians were silent after hearing the order. The words of the overlord were law and had to be obeyed.
Ainz retired to his room. Meanwhile he kept thinking for himself. 'Maybe one of my comrades is beyond those mountains after all.'
[X]
When he casted the magic [ gate ] in the throne room of Nazarick Ainz hoped to be able to reach that place right away. It was a 10th level spell. he could go anywhere he knew.
But what happened was something Ainz definitely did not expect.
Something came out of that portal. Three demons like he had never seen before. They radiated an evil and a thirst for blood that he had never witnessed, even an undead as he could feel a little of that need to kill everything it knew. They were red as blood and their skins looked like sores that spread all over their bodies. His eyes were fiery and his swords radiated lethal energy.
"Blood for the blood god!" One of them Shouted.
"Skulls for the skull throne!" Shouted another. The three rushed to Ainz seeking to attack them with their swords. Ainz launched his magic [time stop] and was ready to time stop to catching the demons that attacked him.
But something happened, and he felt the sword dig into his body.
The time control magic had not stopped them. Ainz felt his magic flicker away, lie if something had pierced his very soul. The sensation of pain was very real, like some kind of foul curse that marked his spirit. The blood letters didn't stop and tried to attack again.
"Ainz-sama!" Shouted albedo who materialized her huge battle ax and furiously moved it against the demon that had attacked Ainz. The high-level ax should have cut the demon in two, but only throw it several meters leaving a deep wound in the torso for which it did not seem unfazed. It attacked again, aiming at Albedo, but she managed to stay on her feet thanks to her mastery in defense. Even though the attacks of the demon's sword damaged her gear, she managed to get enough time to find the opening she needed. With a twist of her ax, she managed to decapitate the demon, but after taking its foul life, her battle ax was considerably damaged in the blade.
Cocytus released his cold aura as he charged the demons. His divine level sword managed to create considerable damage on one of the demons. But another achievement avoided the damage of his halberd by deflecting it as a master of combat. He slunk down the side and threw a thrust at Cocytus cutting his hard exoskeleton armor.
[ gravity maelstrom ] Ainz cast a level nine spell which managed to hit the demon that faced Cocytus. However, the spell that should destroy any being below level sixty disappeared after hitting the demon which had only been affected a bit. This one directed its attention to Ainz but before attacking it was crossed by a spear. Shalltear held her spuit lance while trying to sink it deeper into the demon. However, that infernal being had not died. Even with Shalltear's spear stuck in its chest, it still struggled to try to shake her off. It was a blow with all the strength of Cocytus that managed to split the head of the demon in two. The being disappeared into the air as if it were made of dust.
The other demon who had been wounded by the guardian on the fifth floor was still standing. However it had a serious injury that teared its sternum in two. But this did not seem to matter. It was as if it did not feel pain. But it was not fighting anymore. It just looked at Ainz who was trying to discover what kind of demon it was or if it even came from Yggdrassil .
"You... you're not necron ..."
To everyone's surprise, this demon had spoken.
"You can use that disgusting magic... I see that your servants are strong. No doubt the lord of wrath will be more than pleased to want to battle with you. "
"Who are you!?" shouted Albedo who was ready to behead the demon.
"You do not belong here... but the will of destiny has called you. Go then, I want to see how long you will survive here. My material body can be destroyed, but I will never die. My true form resides in the realm of chaos."
The daemon of chaos began to laugh as the blood in its throat piled up. "The blood god will claim your skull as a trophy..."
Shalltear's spear pierced the demon's head. It threw a spasm and his body dissolved into nothingness.
"No God is bigger than Ainz-sama" said Shalltear in disgust as he pulled her spear.
The portal was closed, or rather, Ainz didn't take long to close it in case some other undesirable guest could make its way to this place.
Ainz went to the throne and as a man of several years he dropped down, clearly exhausted, not physically, but he needed to calm his mind.
He did not wonder how it was that he had arrived here. But rather Why? It was a new world, one which was very different from the previous one he knew. In that world he was the most powerful being, the one they considered a god, or at least that way they had taken it.
But here ... he was not sure.
Those daemons were a reason. They did not look like any demons in Yggdrassil. They were more than two meters high and could ignore magic up the ninth tier. His strength was not so great, because the guards could dispatch them without serious damage. But the daemons' combat experience skills outweighed those of their guardians.
It felt like fighting against level 70 players.
While Nazarick had previously managed to repel an attack of 1500 players and high level NPC. They had achieved it with the barriers on each floor until they reached the eighth. But this time it was different. The enemy had materialized within Nazarick's heart. If they could do this, it meant that it was not safe anymore. And for worst, he could not teleport in that way anymore. They had lost mobility.
"My lord..." Albedo said as she approached the throne with a clear worried face. Ainz did not move or seem to have heard her. His mind went to everything he could, trying to know what was happening.
'What were those demons? I never saw one of those in Yggdrassil. The demons of yggdrassil are usually diverse. But these were... wild... terrifying. I never saw any demon that was so resistant to magic, even tier 9 magic had not done much effect ... if I had to give them a level... it would be 70-80. '
"Ainz-sama..." the words of his servants brought him back from the inside of his mind. Everyone looked for orders, Ainz knew, that everyone saw him as a genius without equal and that it was obvious that in this situation everyone would try to find his supposed wisdom.
The problem was, he was not a genius.
Demiurge was the smartest in Nazarick. Ainz had always been confident that as long as he made him draw plans from a supposed confidence that he already knew, he could get out of trouble with just pretending to be a king.
But seeing that even Demiurge was seeking advice, It leave him with no hope of understanding all this. But after a few minutes that felt as long as hours, Ainz spoke.
"That all the servants of Nazarick do not leave this place until new order. Only two guardians will have permission to leave and will be selected by me. Raise security to the fullest... and Albedo..."
She looked at him, in her eyes she seemed to guess what he was about to say.
"... Start with the activation of Rubedo ."
[X]
Ten days had passed since the storms were over.
And in ten days it seemed that the world was going to come down.
Evileye pressed with all her strength to her cane trying to keep the mental doors in her head, trying to prevent them from breaking and letting those voices run. Those damned voices that filled her with impossible promises and desires. More gold than you could ever imagine, the best gear for her, the greatest pleasures you could ever imagine, the possibility of being human... No, she should not think about that. The temptations were irresistible. One wrong step and it would scorch those voices and end like the magic throwers he had seen.
She had seen many undesirable things while going on adventures with her companions. Many unpleasant things that would give nightmares to a normal human.
But this, this was beyond her.
The magicians tore their eyes screaming all kinds of inconsistencies. They ripped off their skin and drank the blood of the people they had killed. Several adventurers who had sworn to protect humanity now pointed their weapons at the innocent victims. They killed and destroyed everything they could. They enjoyed the flames of war, betrayal and carnal excess. Killing entire families to gloat over their suffering, singing filthy names while offering skulls to heaven that burned on their hands and then disappeared without even leaving ashes. Several people suffered the scourge of traitors and were reduced to grinded meat just for the pleasure of seeing it.
However, some still remained faithful to humanity. A few of Gold level and beyond maintained, or at least tried to cope with the beasts in which their companions had now become.
An adventurer killed a magic caster as he scratched his throat and spine bone. They always went first for the magic casters, always, before they became those things. Those monstrosities whose vileness left in decay everything they touched.
"Evileye! We need support!" Gagaran Shouted while was fighting against a mutant who had previously been a magic caster. The monster had superhuman strength and could cast powerful beams of unknown energy that were able to destroy adamantite in seconds.
"I cannot! I cannot. Every time I use magic it comes back... As if it wanted to get out of my head... it screams at me that it wants to get out... that it wants to change it... It wants to become those things!" She screamed and just threw herself to the ground trying to hug herself, using her cape like a veil with which she tried to hide from the hell that surrounded her.
"Gagaran, leave her alone. This is something that is affecting the magic casters. She must be supporting it in some way." Spoke Lakyus who cut down another adventurer who was trying to take his head.
"Where are Tia and Tina?"
"Supporting Brain and Climb to evacuate the royal family. There are guards who went crazy. "
"What the hell is going on? Right after that storm ended was when all this chaos began. "
More mutants fell at her feets. They had killed too many they had forgotten how many. But still they knew that they could not continue for long. For every moment it appeared more and more .
"We must retire." Gagaran shouted. "We cannot contain them anymore. Our magic caster is disabled and I'm running out of items. "
"Agreed. Take Evileye. We will go to the palace. I just hope we can stand there. "
Gagaran picked up Evileye. It was not difficult to raise the chick with the body of a little girl. She placed her on her shoulders and the three of them headed for the castle while the sea of chaos spread everywhere.
There were guards at the entrance. Adventurers too. They tried to keep away all the mutants that were approaching. When they saw Blue Rose, they rushed to open the way to let them in. They were Adamantitr's adventurers, they could not leave someone like them outside.
Lakyus was coming. But suddenly she noticed that Gagaran was not with her. When she turned around, she saw her, but she did not move. She threw Evileye towards her, Lakyus caught her without much effort, but when she was about to ask Gagaran why she had stopped, saw how a pincer went through her chest. And behind her, was a fearsome and horrendous being. Like a centaur. Its tongue was so long that she was sure it could wrap it around her. Tweezers like those of an insect and eight eyes full of filthy purple light.
The Being, or rather, a daemon. Moved its claws with such speed and precision that Lakyus would have been impressed by such control. But at this moment, only despair occupied her mind. For she saw how her partner was dismembered from top to bottom by those clamps that cut down her orichalcum armor as if it were made of paper.
The remains of her comrade scattered on the ground. Entrails and flesh stained the earth next to the face of Gagaran full of agony.
Lakyus wanted to scream, but her scream was drowned when the creature pounced. But it was not against her, no, she went straight to the palace.
She witnessed how the guards were massacred just as a sickle cuts the wheat. In seconds all was reduced to pieces of bleeding flesh. It was incredibly fast and extremely lethal. She knew there were powerful beings out there, she had proven it a few years ago in the battle against Jaldabaoth. This creature was as strong as those demon servants of Jaldabaoth, or maybe even worse.
She did not know what to do. It was hell here. And with that demon inside the palace there were no places left to take refuge. She could only stay here to wait for her death.
The monsters who had been magic casters went after her. She had her sword ready; but fighting dozens of enemies at the same time meant a fearsome difficulty. Most likely one she would not survive.
It was when she saw how the mutants threw themselves to the ground between screams and spasms. They tore off their skin while their eyes burned melting along with their brains.
Lakyus saw a silhouette in the sky. When focused more she encountered a horrible being. A mixture of bird, dragon and other beings rose up in flight. She saw with horror.
That thing took off, straight into the desert. Direct to the south.
[X]
Villa Carne had changed a lot in these recent years. Not only had it prospered, now it was a fortress that was a great point of influence. Much of that were the dwarves that had been brought by the sorcerer king. They were not only great craftsmen. They had also created discoveries that would have seemed impossible. New items that created fire, ice or water. Weapons that fired heavy steel balls that seemed to render the armors useless. Runic weapons that surpassed several magical weapons that were sold at a very expensive price. In truth, it was going through its best days. So much that now it had become a city.
Or at least that's how it had been.
The storm had not only brought calamity. It had desolated the place, cutting off all communication with the capital and with lord Gown. For a time everyone thought it was the end of the world. However, the end of the storm came. Everyone expected to leave this and continue. But that would not be the case.
Nphirea Bareare woke up covered in sweat. That nightmare had consumed him and in a panic he had tried to hide himself. That surprised Enri Emmot who had tried to comfort him for days. Plus he asked her to stay away from him. He told her about the voices, of beings that spoke to him and whispered. After one morning trying in vain to calm him down, Enri asked one of the Goblin clerics to treat Nphirea . It had worked, but every now and then he would start again, as if looking for something that was not there.
Apparently, the goblins had also suffered similar effects with their magic casters. And the clerics had taken care of it. The problem was that they had to cast a spell a day to keep them from going crazy. That was a month before they received a letter written by lord Gown.
He said he would send a detachment of guards to protect the village. He had also ordered to stop all use of magic as well as the investigations of the dwarves and of Nphirea himself. This had generated more than one question.
As head of the town, and commander of the goblin forces, her duties were quite widespread. It was no longer about cooking, but nevertheless it would never have been able to keep up with all the goblins that had to be fed. But several villagers had given themselves to the task and therefore that problem had been solved. No, her duties now consisted in deciding how to command and distribute the goblin army and provide an accurate source of supplies in the event of a war. She had to prepare important plans, maps, ideas and decisions. Added to this her duties as head of the town, was a very large burden on his shoulders.
Enri had been sitting all morning in front of the wooden desk they had carved for her. She had been writing a thank-you letter now that she had finished with the day's directions. But now it had been interrupted by the noise of the emergency bells that were heard from several towers of the city.
She left the building and ran to where the goblin commanders were. Each of every division of the army. Jugem came out to meet her, while the goblin red beret followed Enri relentlessly.
"What's going on? Another attack? "She asked, it had been years since they had attacked the city. There had been some skirmishes, but only beasts of the forest that were too curious were chased away. In addition, with the reign of the sorcerer king, few animals remained in the forest. It was practically impossible for them to attack. Unless…
"Is there an army that is heading here?"
It was most likely, but she did not dare wonder who would have the courage and strength to attack the country. Maybe the Slane theocracy. But she still could not believe it.
"That is what we believe ..." commented Jugem. "But we have never seen anything like this. We sent three raiders, but one of them died and other was captured. The one who saw it said that a bluish flash reached him and hit him squarely in the chest. The beam not only vaporized the armor, the torso was completely undone. We do not know what magic they use, but that distance was terrifying. "
"How far was the shot?" I asked Enri clearly concerned for the fallen goblin.
"More than a thousand meters... not even the best of our archers could shoot at that distance. The surviving raider described metal cars that moved without the use of draft animals. It may be some magic. But it is the soldiers that worried us. According to the raider, there were no more than fifty, there were five of those vehicles that moved to the flanks with one more in the middle. The soldiers were equipped with armor we had never seen before. It did not look complete, but neither did they seem to carry spears, only short swords and daggers, their faces were covered by a terrifying mask and they wore thick vests over them. However, they carried weapons a little like the ones the dwarves had just created, but to my knowledge, the dwarves' weapons cannot fire at that distance. "
Enri tried to analyze all this. But it was too strange. She had never heard of an army like this. And if they were so dangerous, it would be best to prepare for the worst.
"Take civilians to hiding places and prepare the tunnels to escape. Tell the dwarves to prepare these new weapons and let all the goblins prepare. We will not attack first, we will try to talk.
"Hmm ..." Jugem looked worried. He looked towards his sword, he had a hunch, a bad feeling.
"Enri ... I think the best thing would be to escape. I have a bad feeling. If we flee now we can achieve it in time ..."
"We cannot..." Enri cut him off. "Lord Ainz has his research center here. We must protect it. At least until one of his servants returns."
"Enri ... this time I think it will be bad. Very bad."
Enri ignored and gave orders to her goblins. Later she would have realized the mistake of staying there.
[X]
Lord Solomon looked with his magnoculars and saw the fortress. He was sure that the greenskin had been hidden there. As an inquisitor of ordo malleus it was not his job to deal with Xenos, but he didn't wanted to bring more troubles to this world.
His fleet waited in orbit. A week ago one of his Astropaths had died after sending a message, or rather, a vision. He had told him to come to this world. Nathaniel III. For an exotic force that had never been seen in the galaxy was about to take root here.
When he came down to this world, accompanied by a platoon of tempestus scions, such was his surprise to find all kinds of unknown creatures, that were not supposed to be endemic to this world. When he arrived in the forest he found Ogryns-like beings, but much more ugly and unpleasant. He manage to purge them with laser bolts that eliminated them with great ease. There were other creatures, a kind of mutant wolf that seemed to use a chain. When he found it, he didn't hesitated to put an end to it with a bolter round that teared it up right away. Several creatures went for them, but ended in the same way..
However, then they find some kind of construction or fortress made of wood. Such was his surprise and repulsion at seeing the beings that were there that marked the place for an orbital bombardment. But he had to retire to avoid collateral damage. The creatures they had seen looked like servants of nurgle . But the strange thing is that there was no corruption or plagues surrounding them. They were considerably clean. Even so, they did not care. It was better to purge them from the planet before it was worse.
A snake-like xenos had tried to surprise him by using invisibility. But his warp vision, a talent born of his psychic power, had helped him to find it. Quickly he held it down on the ground with telekinesis and took out all the information it possessed before crushing it like a bag of meat against the ground.
'Ainz Ooal Gown, huh? For what he told me, he must be a wizard of chaos. Or an entity of the warp... or more either by the title of god of death probably a harbinger of Nurgle... either way it must be destroyed. '
"My lord. We have located a fort about five kilometers ahead." One of his interrogators interrupted his thoughts. Although he wanted to punish him, there were more urgent things at the moment.
"What kind of fort?"
"Of about two kilometers long. The wall is made of rock and what's more." A couple of scions brought with them a green-skinned being. It was hurt but still conscious. "This greenskin seems to be part of a scout patrol. After questioning it told us that there were humans, ogres, dwarves and goblins inhabiting that village. It said they live peacefully and without problems. "
The inquisitor almost wanted to laugh, he could hardly contain it. He wanted to think that it was a joke, but this interrogator was not known to make this kind of jokes.
"What kind of site taken out the warp could be like that? A world where they 'coexist peacefully '? a xeno could never be a human friend. They'll stab you in the back at the first opportunity."
"Humans and goblins can live together!" The green skin spoke to Solomon's surprise. "We have achieved great things together!"
The inquisitor observed the greenskin. He was clearly surprised for that thing being able to speak with such fluency, but he also disliked that being for being able to stain the low Gothic with its dirty tongue. However, he noticed that when speaking it did not use the words that would normally take the shape of the lips. Somehow they communicated clearly.
"Blasphemy, xeno." With a swipe of his finger and some of his psychic talent, the head of the greenskin burst into a thousand pieces. The scions threw the corpse down the road where it would be trampled by the cranes of the chimera. Solomon addressed his protége. "Tell everyone to advance towards that fort. We must purge it. But first we must discover what they know. "
[X]
It was on a hill where they saw this new enemy. Enri was now able to better appreciate what one of the explorers had described. It was a singular group, its small number hardly gave it the title of army. But she did not want to underestimate them. They did not seem to carry swords or spears, instead carrying blue armor not seen to be able to give much protection. But their staffs were extremely rare, they seemed to be made of iron and connected with a hose behind it. She doubted they were magic casters. They were something different, and something told her that much worse.
Fifteen of those men had gone ahead with a vehicle. Their steps were excessively disciplined, so much that they greatly exceeded the goblins of her army. When they were thirty meters from the walls they stopped. In front was a man, he was dressed differently. Of black clothes and lugubrious aspect. One of the soldiers in bluish armor reached for him a strange item that he held in front of his mouth.
"In the name of the holiest ordos. The imperial Inquisition has obtained proof that this place is guilty of heresy. Surrender now to accept your sentence."
The voice was loud and clear. A human could not speak so loudly. Maybe that object held by this man was some magical item. However, she put those ideas aside. From what he had said, they were now guilty of something they did not understand. She did not know what kind of heresy that man was talking about. Maybe he was from the Slane theocracy, who were well known for hating nonhumans.
"Enri , everyone is ready." Said one of the goblins who was ready to blow the horn and hurl the troops.
She wanted to avoid any conflict. These new visitors were few but she knew almost nothing about them.
"This... our king has ordered us to keep the doors closed. We cannot allow them to enter." She shouted at the man.
The man said nothing. He simply called one of the soldiers in blue and said something that Enri did not understand. Then both turned around and walked away. But nevertheless, that man turned again, this time aiming at Enri with a strange weapon.
She was trying to discern what that was. But then one of the goblins jumped in front of her. A whitish flash was all she saw as the goblin that had jumped in front of her was split in two by the impact of the laser fire. The goblin fell giving his live for she. She stumbled after seeing one of her friends die. This had been one of the very first goblins that had appeared when she blew the horn that Lord Ainz had given her. The other goblin beside her blew the horn. She would not have wanted it, but she had not stopped him either. Something in her moved, anger over the death of one of her own. That's why she had not denied the goblin blowing the horn.
The doors opened and more than three thousand fully armed goblin warriors came out in formation. Their armors was worth more than even the soldiers of the Baharuth empire. Their even more lethal weapons and their specializations surpassed with cress the heroes of the neighboring nations.
All advanced in complete order. In the past, troops of Re-estize kingdom had attacked the city, however, this army of goblins had crushed them without suffering any loss. In truth, they would doubt that anyone besides the sorcerer king could face them.
That was what they thought before it happened.
It was as if the earth erupted. Arcs of fire rose through the air. When she realized that the attack was really coming from above. Already more than two thousand goblins had died.
And at the distance, inside the forest, a huge explosion arose leaving a huge cloud of fungus.
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The heavy weapons teams reloaded the mortars and fired. The mortar projectiles flew and hit the earth, killing the army of primitives who dared to attack them. He allowed the bombing for another ten minutes and after that he ordered the mortars to stop.
"All advance. Call two avengers and get them down in fifteen minutes. Order them to finish with any xeno within the walls. We'll go for what's left out and we'll take every possible prisoner." Solomon Bane said as he harangued his subordinates.
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Enri Emmot could not believe what she saw. Three thousand goblin warriors massacred in an instant. And the enemy had not even approached. It was terrifying, extremely frightening. She did not know what magic they used, but it was something only the sorcerer king could be capable of.
Jugem came after her. He was pale, even almost deaf from the explosions. He looked at Enri waiting for orders. Behind him was the entire squad she had originally called, except for two…
"Everyone... evacuate the city. Let everyone go. Let the rest of the army escort them. We must leave this place..."
"Boss, we can still make some time. If we hold them at the door... "
"That's not the case!" Enri shouted . "We cannot win. It does not matter if they stay. They will reach us. You saw it yourself, isn't it? If they could do that, nothing stops them from doing the same thing when we are fighting. We must run, and minimize casualties. "
"what about you? If you stay we will stay by your side. Our mission is to protect you..."
"Just do what I tell you!" She replied with disgust. Jugem ran to pass her orders and several villagers took what was necessary and ran to the other exit. The goblins helped evacuate. They took the elderly and the sick.
A deafening sound was heard coming from the sky. Two strange objects came down. Their wings were armed in a similar way to those that came from a distance.
In the come of that object. A cylinder began to turn. In seconds, it unleashed a storm of death while going for the goblins. Not just them, also the ogres who had been living with them all this time. All were massacred by that strange weapon. A projectile landed on the back of an ogre and this burst, shattering its entire torso.
In seconds the whole city was devastated. All the nonhumans died, even killing with them groups of humans that simply was in the way.
Carne disappeared from the world that day.
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A new group of ten lined up against the wall. Former inhabitants of carne. Men and women looked towards the group of Scions who aimed at them with the infernos lasguns. Ten discharges were heard and the ten civilians died vaporized by the super concentrated laser fire. New scions brought more civilians; again aligned them and the fire repeated itself one more time.
"My lord. The decimation is taking place as ordered. We have separated those who have some useful information. "
Solomon just nodded at the words of his agent and continued to look at the glass bottle containing a purple liquid in his hands. An elixir that could heal wounds that only the Magos Biologis could replicate. And these alchemists had achieved it.
"my lord. What about the children?"
Solomon separated his eyes from the flask and looked at his agent. "Take them with the civilians we set aside. They are too young and show no signs of corruption by demons. They will be taken to an agriworld where they will be assigned to a family to cultivate the land. But erase all their memories."
"There is also the issue of these... 'squats' we do not know if they are real descendants of them. But they have worked in that workshop. We have looted the place. And they use arcane technology weapons that we've never seen before. However, take the psyker and call for the black ships."
He said referring to the psyker they had found inside one of the houses. It surprised him that he was able to withstand the calls of chaos. Even if her could hardly be called a psyker of the zeta tier.
The scions obeyed and took the boy. Meanwhile, Solomon went to one of the living quarters that were common in this settlement.
There were two scions installed at the entrance. It was not as if a simple village girl could escape, but it was the procedure. Without hurry he opened the door. There, sitting behind a simple table, was Enri Emmot . The supposed head of this place.
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Enri said nothing. She didn't have the will to do it. Little was what she could reason to explain what had happened. It had only taken a few minutes, just that. And everything she knew, everything she loved, had collapsed.
Jugem, her friends, those goblins that had protected her for so long. Nphirea, who had shown her his true feelings. And Nemu, who was the only member left of her last family. She could still hear her screams when she was taken away with the other children. She prayed for they would not do anything to her, because she had seen how one of those men in armor had fired at one of the children who had tried to escape. That had made anyone think twice before even thinking about running.
She did not understand what was happening. But the trauma returned to her. The soldiers, killing and destroying everything. But they didn't tried to kill everyone. They had pushed people aside and had heard that they would be taken away. Even so, she feared it was a fate worse than death.
Their methods were clearly different. They avoided hand-to-hand combat, but their weapons were really lethal. Even so, if one of the goblins got too close, they used those long daggers attached to the barrels of their strange weapons. These daggers emanated whirling energy fields that were capable to cut the adamantite of the goblin's armors as if nothing was there. Those were clean, lethal cuts. And with such a fervent fanaticism to end their lives that it made them think that these were not human.
Then there were those weapons that spit fire. Nphirea had shown him the spell of [fireball ] where a ball of flame formed in the boy's hands and was fired. The flames enveloped the target easily causing a moderate explosion. But those flame throwers were very different. They spit endless flames of fire, a fire she had never seen before. As the water bathed its victims and the flames consumed the bodies with such rapidity that any [ fireball ] would be a small joke in front of these. So hot was the fire that even the metal melted after a few seconds. With a range of more than Fifty meters, those weapons were the goblins' worst nightmare.
The fury of these so-called Imperials was already intimidating in itself. But it was when they saw the magic casters that the fury turned into rage, rage that they directed at the magic casters. Maybe it was added to the fact that they were not only demi-human, but they could use magic too. They carried the battle to such an extent that by the time they were finished, the remains of the goblins, completely torn to pieces and dismembered, were burned to the ground by liquid fire.
She wondered who they are. What kind of nation could be so advanced and present such hatred for other races? She immediately thought of the Slane theocracy. But it was the shouting, oaths, hate speech, and so on in the name of an emperor that made her wonder if they were really from the Baharuth empire. Or even the theocracy.
The door opened, letting in the one who seemed to be the leader of these. He was a terrifying being, not at the point of being a monster, but with a presence that oppressed everything in his path. His clothes were mostly black, only with his raincoat engraved in gold and symbols she had never seen. She noticed an intricate "I" with a skull in the center. His face, hard and sharp like steel. In place of his right eye, there was a red glass lens. A metal box covered part of his skull while enclosing the artificial eye that was connected with metal cables. The 'eye' seemed to scan her. Turning and focusing, as if trying to read her soul.
"Enri Emmot." He spoke. She didn't know what to feel, it was obvious that hate, but there was also fear and anguish. It was suffocating, as if some kind of aura prevented her from challenging him. And the man knew it, and he was willing to use that in his favor. "Twenty years... Terrans... married. head of this village and general of the army of 'goblins' stationed in this place."
She did not say anything. She just looked at him with empty eyes. She did not know what to say or do. She wondered what this guy had done to get that information.
"Normally." The man continued. "Someone like you would have executed for contacting with xenos and even be an accomplice in the use of sorcery. But this is an unprecedented case. While you are clearly heretics, you have also given information of coming from a place where the corruption of chaos is considerably less. Not only that, they have also mentioned 'miracles' that could only be attributed to the emperor. If there is such a place. Investigating is part of my job. "
Enri listened to what he said, but did not understand him. Corruption? Chaos? What was he talking about? What had they done to earn something like this? Weakness? she had seen it long ago. The strong consumed the weak, and humans were weak in this world. Then why? Why were those who were also human killing them in such a way?
"You will be sent to a place for extensive interrogation. The nature of the information is highly classified. I suggest you to forget what you heard here today if you want to avoid a fatal end."
"Who are you? Why are you attacking us? What have we done to you?"
Solomon studied her with his bionic eye. She did not seem defiant, was like someone trying to find answers. Like someone who was still in shock.
"Ignorance gives us a blessing. There are so many horrors in the galaxy and facing them is an endless task. At the same time, we find worlds with human settlements that have never known the light of the emperor. But your case is neither one nor the other. The warp storm caught your world and transported these lands to this agri world. You are not citizens of the Imperium of mankind, therefore, forgiveness cannot be applied to you.
You will be sent to a certain place. Where you will be judged and your destiny will be decided. The others will carry a similar destiny. We must avoid any possibility of corruption."
Two scions appeared behind her and toke her outside. She did not offer much resistance, it's not like she had a choice. She still couldn't understand what was happening. The name, Imperium of mankind was unknown to her. Were they from theocracy Slane then? She didn't know. She could only thought about her family, her little sister who was taken with the other children and transported in one of those things that rose through the air to get lost in the sky. Nphirea, what would become of him? Lizzie Bareare, killed with a shot in the head after trying to cast a spell at the enemy soldiers.
She was taken to the yard. Another of those things was already coming down. It openedits doors she knew she would be going to somewhere, to what destination? She did not know.
The inquisitor let his servants do their work. It was almost over, the firing squad was about to finish with the last inhabitants of this place. They had to leave, there were still questions to answer.
Suddenly he released his bolt pistol and pointed it towards a house. Shooting. The heavy round flew at supersonic speed and impacted. Not against one of the living quarters, it was towards something else. An invisible object was hit, the explosive charge let see blood escaping at the same time a sound of pain was heard. The scions prepared their weapons and also aimed, their augurs also captured what their lord had seen. Solomon removed the magazine from his bolt pistol and exchanged it for different ones.
That which was invisible was revealed. A dark-skinned maid. In one of her hands carried a huge mass in the shape of a cross. She held her bleeding belly. Clearly the bolter projectile had hurt her, but it was less than what would be expected. For some reason the round had not gone through but it had burst. Then he realized, the round had actually pierced her flesh and exploded inside her, although it was not the same caliber that an Astartes would use, the damage would be lethal. But her wound was regenerating at an alarming rate. That was why he had switched to hellfire rounds, he had to make sure to kill her if necessary. But a maid trying to spy on them. It was too much to simply kill her and let it pass.
"Who are you? Who sends you?" Solomon demanded, still aiming.
She finished regenerating her wounds and got up, she got ready to use her mass. But a super charged wall of las fire forced her to take cover with the size of her weapon. Shortly after she recited unknown words and a stone wall was formed in front of her avoiding the shots, although even so, the rock was being degraded by each shot, would fall very soon.
"Witch!" the inquisitor Exclaimed. After a short time, two of their bodies were thrown with such force that their bodies were diverted when almost all their bones broke. The maid had slipped away somehow. In her eyes there was sadistic anger, she saw the inquisitor, and after remembering the damage he had done to her, selected him as his next target. Solomon seeing the imminent attack released his sword and activated the disruptor field that enveloped the blade with a bluish tone.
That enormous mass must weigh hundreds of kilograms, and if she could move it with such ease she must have enormous physical strength. She rushed forward; seeking to hit him from above trying to crush him. But evaded her attack and lowering his sword he splited in two the arm of the maid who held the mass. The flesh, clothes and bones were split at molecular level and there was no resistance on the blade. Solomon raised his hand and 'caught' the witch with his telekinesis. He really wanted to want to crush her right there. However, he should interrogate her.
However, she was the first to speak. But her words showed such disgust for those around her.
"An insect like you should know its place. Something as weak as a human is incapable of having such power. "
Solomon pulled her over to her and severed her legs and arm. Then he nailed her with the sword against a wall while deactivating the disruptor field. She cried out in great pain as she writhed and dropped the hat that she wore over her head allowing to see a pair of ears similar to those of a wolf.
"The destiny of humanity is to rule the galaxy. Humans, the Imperium, possess more than a million worlds. How can you call us insects when you are now writhing like a worm?" Solomon said. He picked her up and held her close to her hand. This was surrounded by a field of warp energy that held the maid's skull. After doing so, her memories flowed into his brain and let him see what she knew. Memories of monsters, daemons and Xenos, something like a Necron. Such evidence would suggest an exterminatus on this world. But something told him that destroying this world would be a lost. After all, it should continue to supply food to the inexhaustible armies of the empire.
"Lupusregina Beta." The inquisitor spoke. "It seems that your mission will not be fulfilled. I know you will come back to life after this, but that is not a problem for me at this time. But I will give a message to your lord, the overlord of Nazarick, Ainz Ooal Gown. Tell him I'll go after him, tell him that if he wants to govern, he'll only do it on a pile of corpses and ruin."
Lupusregina was in shock, not because of her injuries, but because of what this man had taken from her. The information, what Ainz-sama valued the most, now would be used as a weapon by this man. And he was aiming for Nazarick. She was regenerating her wounds, in seconds she would recover her limbs and tear member by member to this lower life form that had insulted the Supreme Being.
But one shot did not allow it. The Inquisitor shot his weapon and the projectile went through her clothes. She knew it was a serious wound, more would recover, began to cast heal spell after heal spell. She would kill this insect, she would not forgive him.
However, something was not right. She was regenerating, but the wound did not heal, what was more, something inside her burned, as if there was fire inside her. It was then that she saw it, and such was her terror at seeing her flesh fall apart. The vial of mutagenic acid did its job and its body became a mass of melted flesh.
Lupusregina died with unbearable pain until only a puddle of dissolved organic fluids remained.
Solomon contemplated all this. After be sure she would not raise again, he turned towards his subordinate.
"Call for the rest of my fleet. Tell castellan Gregorius to be ready for the call. Prepare a Valkyrie, I want to take a look at this 'Baharut Empire'.
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Ainz sank into his thoughts at the same time that he reaffirmed on the study chair where he had locked himself. He had ordered nobody to enter.
After a few hours he had revived Lupusregina. It had been a lot of gold, but nothing that could surpass the value used in Shalltear. When he learned that one of the Pleiades had been killed, he immediately wanted revenge against those who had dared to hurt one of his children. But nevertheless, when Lupusregina described the inquisitor and had given him his words, Ainz left revenge at side, because there was no way to ignore what she had discovered.
More than one million worlds. The Galaxy. Energy weapons and projectiles that left horrible effects on the body. And worst of all, they were facing an incredibly advanced civilization and they had a lot of information of Nazarick.
It meant that the war tactics used in Yggdrassil and in the game were useless in the face of a military force with more mobile strategies and greater capabilities and options.
"Why in the world we arrived at this place?" He thought loudly. There was too much to do. But first he had to calm his guardians. It was obvious that they had become indignant at the inquisitor's message. But they did not know the seriousness of the situation. If they put aside their pride, they would realize that they were fighting a war that was already lost.
However, he still had to defend the place that his comrades had built with so much effort. If the enemy came he would make them fight on his own terms.
Nazarick would not fall.
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I bet many overlord fanboys are going to be upset. Surely they will try to give arguments to make Ainz win against the universe of 40k.
And I think the biggest argument will be Ainz with the ability to stop time and spell 'The goal of all life is death'. But guess what, the Imperium deals with that kind of thing. And they know very well how to deal with that magic.
I like overlord, but to say that it beats everyone is wrong. Just enough to see the amount of fanboys who think that Ainz is a god.
Bloodletters are really high skilled warriors that have fought for millennia. You need Astartes to be able to fight them at melee range. And astartes reacts in nanoseconds, a lot faster than shalltear.
Daemonic swords are powerful weapons able to not only ignore all kind of defenses. They can damage the soul and render the spirit. Even able to kill immortal beings such as Daemons.
Mutagenic acid is a material created to kill tyranids able to regenerate and adapt at crazy biological level. The acid will mutate and adapt at molecular level searching to melt any kind of resistance of every being. It doesn't matter if it is one of the Pleiades, the acid will adapt and grow its corrosive properties.
But I'm sure you will try to say bullets can't pierce Pleiades clothes made of high ranked materials. Well, bolter rounds are not bullets. It are mini rockets able to fly at a hypersonic speed and donned with an adamantium tip (witch is very different from overlord's adamantite. It is so hard even tech protected with this alloy can't be cut by the mechanicus and that says a lot since is futuristic tech) A deuterium ultra-dense core and a HE pack that can destroy tanks. And in the first place, were guns the ones that deleted the need of use swords and armor.
So, yeah. I wanted to do this since there are people who believe Ainz can defeat Big E. however, I'm planning to do something with Arche's sisters.