Disclaimer: I don't own Overlord or it's characters except my OC, which needs to be modified lately… or not.
Also part of this chapter was used from original story (you'll know which one if read original Overlord).
Faceless Chapter 1-1
A gigantic table carved of gleaming black stone sat in the center of the room, surrounded by 42 luxurious chairs.
However, most of those seats were empty.
Once, every single place had been filled, but now only two were occupied.
One of the seated people was clothed in a magnificent black academic robe, edged in violet and gold. The collar seemed excessively gaudy, but somehow it fit the overall design.
However, the exposed head was a bare skull. Points of dark red light glowed in its large orbits, and behind the skull glowed a halo of black radiance.
The being in the other seat was not human either, merely a mass of a black, sticky substance. Its tar-like surface roiled and writhe continuously, never staying in one shape for more than a second.
The former was an Overlord — the highest-ranked of those magic casters who had become undead in order to learn the most potent spells. The latter was an Elder Black Ooze, which boasted the most powerful corrosive ability of the slime families.
However, they were not game monsters, but players.
In YGGDRASIL, players could choose their character races from three broad groups; humanoid, demihuman and heteromorphic.
"It's really been a while, Herohero-san. Although this is the last day of YGGDRASIL, I didn't expect you to show up."
"Indeed it has, Momonga-san."
The two of them spoke with the voices of grown men, but compared to the voice of the former, the latter's words lacked force, or perhaps it could be said that they lacked energy.
"You stopped coming online after you changed your job IRL, so how long has it been... about 2 years?"
"Ah — seems about right — wah, it's been so long… This is bad. I've been doing so much overtime recently that my sense of time is starting to go weird."
While HeroHero complained on his life in the room, bright light suddenly appeared and from it emerged hulking creature, around 3 meters in height, covered in plate mail with smile painted on its helmet. With high timbre which was not suited to its massive frame it shouted.
"JACK IS BACK!"
From the table he heard slight chuckle
"Always with theatrics…"
Now with normal voice he said.
"You know me man, games were made to have fun. Even if it means spoiling fun for others."
Changing shape to his favorite he continued.
"Glad to see you too Hero Mk2. Did you get some break from your work."
Now figure was close to 2 meters and clad in suit of leather armor while having smiling mask on face, sat on one of the empty seats.
"No, as I said to Momonga, I just managed to come for the last time to the guild."
"Wanna stay till the end?"
"Sorry, I got overworked and now I am barely conscious."
Slime waved his 'hand' opening menu.
"I'm having trouble staying awake so I think I'll log off first. I'm glad I could meet you two at the end. Goodnight."
{Player HeroHero Logged Out}
"Hey Leader, will you logout?"
"I wanted to stay until shutdown of the servers."
Mentioning to the guild weapon Jack said.
"Ok. Grab the staff and let's go!"
Momonga extended a hand to the staff, but stopped halfway. This was because at this moment — in the last few minutes before YGGDRASIL shut down for good, he realized that soon the glorious memories he had made with his comrades would be lost forever, like tears in rain. The confusion he felt over this made him hesitate as he struggled to come to a decision.
"Oh come on, I know you want it…"
"Voice of mischief as usual. When will you grow up?"
As he said it, Momonga took staff.
"I have the youthful flames still burning in my soul! Until they are extinguished I will not age!"
"Which means never."
"Heh it's true as I'm will be young forever…"
"But to other matters, where will you go now?"
"Eh… It's last day so… Command oh Great Leader."
"Then let's go to the throne room. I wanted to meet the end of Yggdrasil in there if no one showed up."
So they set out to the throne room. While they passed through long corridors they met few maids which bowed to them. Though they were not humans, but Homunculi, with total racial and job level of 1.
Near their destination they met group of maids and a butler. While butler were not conspicuous, maids were. It's true that no maid had the same outfit but the basics of it's form, still these took the cake. First was strict beauty with heavily spiked gauntlets, second by the look of her face was quite mischievous, third had plated maid outfit and face of indifferent person, fourth had camouflaged clothes, eye patch, scarf and rifle strapped to the back, fifth had revealing outfit with no visible weapons, while the last was quite short and had small antennas on her head. They were Pleiades battle maids one of the last line of defenses, however (besides butler) they had not much chances against invaders that passed to the ninth floor as their levels were in upper fiftieth.
"What was that command again? [Follow]"
Near the entrance to the throne room Jack asked.
"Golems won't attack us… right?"
"If they attack I'll be quite disappointed in Lucifer"
"Still that time it was fun and we tested that it'll be quite inconvenient for our enemies."
72 demons of Solomon, which was the inspiration to make the golems, but only 67 were created leaving 5 empty spots.
"That was golden age of our gild…"
With these words skeleton opened the gates to the throne room. Almost immediately after that he heard.
"Incoming!"
Dodging out of danger, or as he thought, Momonga found that no golems activated, while his companion was laughing.
"I wish I could see your face at that moment!"
"WHAT IF IT WAS TRUE?!"
"Don't worry I checked it before…"
And so they proceeded to the throne, near which was… Succubus in white dress with strange wand in her hands.
"Oh… Tabula got her another World Item."
Said Jack pointing at the wand.
"It's the end of the game so it's understandable, still why hasn't he come?"
"Maybe he…"
"Oh it doesn't matter."
While saying it Jack kneeled in front of the throne while Momonga sat there.
"So the greatest king sat on the throne while waiting for the end of time, which would commence in about fifteen minutes… As your royal advisor I would suggest to make the best out of it."
Momonga opened the Albedo's status.
"Want to read what Tabula had written there?"
"Sure… Why did he write so much anyway?"
Scrolling the text down to the bottom he read aloud.
"Overseer of the Guardians, blah-blah… Slut?"
"Where?"
"End of the text."
Momonga then noticed and thought about it.
"Isn't such backstory a bit too much?"
Looking at the staff he asked.
"How about we change it a bit?"
{Administrator rights granted}
"So let's delete it."
"Momonga…"
"What?"
"Tyrant… Using position of guild master to overwrite the setting of NPC… I APPROVE!"
"Now I feel guilty"
"Then enter something to be in peace."
"Like what?"
"Nympho…"
"That isn't better"
*pout*
"All right…"
"Momo-jiji what did you write?"
Scrolling the text there was new sentence.
"She's in love with… Momonga? Peroronchino had too much influence on you… Still it is the end of time so your secret is safe with me… more or less."
"No silly joke?"
"Why? It's still better than gap-moe lover entry. Five minutes."
Said Jack and summoned his carpet.
"What do you want to do with it?"
Placing carpet near throne he replied.
"I want to sit and as I can't create things in this form I summoned carpet from storage."
As he said it he sat down.
"Kneel before Us!"
And so NPCs in throne room kneeled.
"Seriously there were such command?"
"You forgot?"
"…Yeah…"
Momonga watched the clock on his hud and said.
"Less than a minute left."
"It was fun Peachman*."
"Let's meet up in the next Yggdrasil. Whenever it might be"
"Sure I'll have the same name as here if it happens. Start the countdown."
""10""
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""0""
"Ehm… -1?"
"Strange… Maybe they decided to postpone the shutdown?.. Menu is not working? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!"
From nearby they heard
"My Lords? What happened?"
""What?!""
End of chapter 1-1
Momo=peach (sort of)*
Character Sheet (main OC)
Name: Jack-0-Face
Doppelganger
Racial: Doppelganger 15; Mimic 10; Greater Doppelganger 10; Greater Mimic 5; Devourer 5; Faceless 5; total 50;
Job: Actor 15; Rogue 15; Assassin 10; Ninja 5; Shadow Lord 5;total 50;
Status: HP 75 adaptable; MP 70 adaptable; PHY ATK 45 adaptable; PHY DEF 55 adaptable; AGI 95 adaptable; MAG ATK 40 adaptable; MAG DEF 65 adaptable; Resistance 85 adaptable; Special 100 adaptable;
Dragon Lord Form
Racial: Hatchling 15; Dragon 15; Dragon of Twilight 5; Dragon of Darkness 10; Dragon of Light 10; total racial 55
Job: Shifter 5; Monk 10; Illusionist 15; Grand Illusionist 10; Creator 5; total job 45
Status: HP 100; MP 100; PHY ATK 85; PHY DEF 95; AGI 70; MAG ATK 75; MAG DEF 100; Resistance 100; Special 100; In this form Jack has the size of bus.
Chaos (Demon)
Racial: Imp 10; Demon 10; Devil 10; Arch Devil 5; Chaosborn 5; total 40.
Job: Warrior 15; Elemental mage (fire) 15; Armored Mage 10; Battle Mage 10; Unholy Champion 5; Shapeshifter 5; total 60.
Status: HP 100; MP 90; PHY ATK 100; PHY DEF 65; AGI 80; MAG ATK 95; MAG DEF 55; Resistance 50; Special 90; Form in which first emerged.
Smiley (Vampire)
Racial: Vampire 10; True Vampire 10; Vampire noble 5; Ancient Vampire 5; Ancestor (Tremer) 5; total 35
Job: Assassin 10; Blood Mage 10; Blood weaver 5; Mage 15; Wizard 10; Shifter 5; Stalker 10; total 65
Status: HP 60; MP 100; PHY ATK 75; PHY DEF 40; AGI100; MAG ATK 100; MAG DEF 75; Resistance 65; Special 100; Usual form (guy with mask).
Order (Angel)
Racial: Angel 10; Arch Angel 10; Dominion 5; Seraph 5; Heaven Lord 5; total 35
Job: Warrior 15; Cleric 10; Priest 10; Paladin 10; World Champion 5; Shifter 5; Templar (God of War) 5; Slayer 5; total 65.
Status: HP 100; MP 60; PHY ATK 80; PHY DEF 100; AGI 85; MAG ATK 40; MAG DEF 100; Resistance 60; Special 100;
Other quite a lot (crafters)
Faceless job allows user create a lot of characters in which said user can transform, however user will be limited in transforming, need xp to level new characters and complete quests/achievements in order to upgrade job level.
Special abilities in all forms: can temporarily change job shapeshifter to some other low-mid tier jobs while maintaining form has cooldown of 4 hours after which changed job can be reverted back to shapeshifter or changed to some other, in doppelganger form shapeshift ability is not available. Cooldown between form change 6 hours with 4 charges (can change 4 times but to gain charge need wait 6 hours) changing from any form to faceless and vice versa cost 1 charge, between forms 2 charges.
A/N
Hi I'm new on this site (still read here a few stories in past few months) as well as writing, and English is not my native language so there bound to be mistakes.
Here are explanations to some skills.
Devourer skill is used when fighting enemies in close combat, while enemy has organic matter(undead are also included, spirits are not affected at all)dealt damage will be used for regeneration of user hp and mp (half each) and give [Weakened] debuff to target, however while fighting inorganic entities (golems,mechs) each attack cost additional health and mana (spells are not included) and give stacked debuff [Decompose] which can be rid of by fire/lightning/acid/ice, however after killing said creature part of used hp & mp will be restored. Using this skill can bring hp & mp over regular parameters at the cost of food but not bigger than three times for health i.e max hp=50 over hp=150 and five times for mana i.e. max=50 over = 250 or half of over amount to both (75 and 125 for hp and mp). However using only on mana generates debuff known as twisted mind (can see what's not there) and when solely on health overeating(lowers agility after over/2 by percentage up to 50%). Creator skill can create all sorts of items and creatures for a limited time, but for enormous amount of mana they can be made permanent, for creatures however it doesn't mean that they will be friendly to caster. For them not running amok you need display your power (if you summoned creature while having low mana and made it permanent you'll lose control over it if you have less mana then needed for it's summoning after said summoning like you created goblin level 1 for summoning temporary you need 5 mana for permanent extra 25 after summon and extra 30 after it was made permanent). If you failed then it'll attack you or anything else in it's range of sight until you use that extra mana + 50% on it. Some creatures will not attack you even if you have insufficient mana(non-aggressive animals and the like), if you have someone of the same race but higher tier in your party you may summon them, however they will not be controlled by caster. i.e Summoning lesser vampire while you have ancient vampire in your party will force lesser vampire submit to ancient but not if it's the same rank even if level is higher. Job Unholy Champion is granted exclusively to Demon race which killed god, after which they will receive quest. If they are unsuccessful in it they will start at level 1 (later 20) demon and lose all their gear, which means not much players decided to pass it. Slayer granted to any race if they killed god without aid of summons/companions, however this job is weaker than unholy champion and forbids any magician jobs (except priest/cleric). Unholy Champion doesn't have such restriction.
Edited: changed log off to logout (thanks Don Orbit), World Savior to World Champion mistook job and item
Edit 2: Slayer job forbids any magic classes (except priest/holy type), however if you know spells you could use them for twice the price and half the power (divide by 2 or muliply by 2). Unholy champion weakens the power of healing/holy spells by 2, and incresases the cost of mana by 2 and spell power by 1.5.