This Is a Non-Canon story
Sorry for any grammar mistake because English is not my mother tongue
Review and critics will be appreciated.
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Overlord and any of its character Credits to the creator.
Enjoy the story
Niflheim deep forest
A figure crouching under the bush. One can say that this is not a human from far away. It has 4 arms, red skin or what appear to be exposed muscles. Gapping mouth can be found all over this creature body. This creature race is called as gibbering mouther. This creature name is Bellriver.
As a gibbering mouther their race usually has higher strength. But, Bellriver not focusing all his attribute to pure strength build instead he split the attribute with magic and become a magic swordsman. Since he have an all-rounded attribute he is become jack of all trades but master of none. He is the wildcard of the team but usually became the second pick since he is not as powerful as a specialized build player. Even so he is skilled gamer that quite smart in overcome his weakness.
Bellriver wears purple armor with yellow spike and using red sword. It was [Brimesteel Armor] the wearer will reflect 20% of the enemy attack. The weapon is called [ Brimesteel Sword] it have effect that will reduce the enemy armor and give lingering acid damage to the enemy.
"Hey Bagon, Punitto said that there are a human party will pass nearby. It's been too long" said Bellriver through skill {message}.
"Patience Bellriver, you really bad at holding up yourself. They should be come about now" said another figure across Bellriver.
This one is seems to be a bipedal wolf with black fur and grey fur just around his neck. This guy that Bellriver called as Bagon appears to be a wolf beastman. But, he is actually a werewolf race.
With his race he has 2 forms there are human form and the beast form. The human form is quite weak but it allows him to cast more magic spells and have bigger mana pool. The beast form will increase almost every status he have. But his mana will decrease and have limited magic spells to cast.
He is wearing black leather armor with black hood covering his head and using a dagger as the weapon.
The armor is called {Nightingale Armor].the wearer will be given invisibility after stay in the dark or out of sight for 3 second. The invisibility will break if attacking enemy and will deal bonus damage. The dagger is called [The Black Dagger of Withered]. When attacking enemy 35% of the damage is ignoring the armor and reduce the enemy armor. The armor reduction is stacked when attacking the same enemy in a row.
Few seconds later a group of 5 people is seen walking closer to them.
The group is composed of 2 warriors, an archer, a scout, and a magic caster. The warrior seems to be a tank and DPS type. The tank is in front with the DPS, the middle is the archer and magic caster and the back is the scout.
"Ho these guys is quite tough i think they're about level 90 based from the equipment"
"Remember Bell we here just as bait you need to hold until the others coming"
"Yeah, Yeah no need to keep reminding me that"
"I know it just fun to keep remind you until you pissed hehe. Ok here i go"
The Wolf starts moving. Slowly approach their Magic caster try not to alert their Scout or Archer. He hopes they don't have skills or item that can reveal invisibility. When they reach into his range he use [pounce] to the magic caster.
The Archer noticed that there is someone approaching their team. But, it's is already too late to warn their team. Just as the archer about to shout the magic caster got snatched from the group.
"Shit, it's an ambush" the archer yelled to this team.
With the Scout and the DPS Warrior turn to save their Magic caster, Bellriver jump out to the front
"You are not going anywhere! {Torque Slash}"
With 1 spinning horizontal slash that spread the further it goes. It hit the entire remaining member. The human party starts to split their team with the Tank and the Archer against Bellriver and the rest to help their Magic caster.
Bagon with the Magic caster being hold in his hand is stabbing as quickly as he can. Since Bagon have a very high agility the magic caster health is dropping quickly. Bagon is try to kill the Magic Caster as he will be a problem later.
"you think you can kill me! {Flare}" yelled the Magic caster
A transparent red bubble covers the Magic caster body. With Bagon is still trying to stab the bubble. The bubble blasts everything around knocking back the wolf pretty far from the magic caster.
"Ah shit. I shouldn't have done that" the wolf muttering
Bagon try to get into attack position once more when the other Scout comes to help the magic caster.
"This is bad, why they took so long to get here. Alright i need to buy more time {Slash Mist}"
With the skill activated black mist emerges from the wolf covering the area. The mist is not very thick. But, the black color of the mist is enough to block the vision. With them being inside the mist Bagon start to attack.
The mist will make the user invisible and every attack made by the user will be applied to the enemy inside the mist. But every attack will break the invisibility that's why he need use the hit and run tactics to evade the enemy attack.
"Shit i can't find him"
"You're the Scout you should be the one to find him" Yelled the warrior.
"My skill can find him but the mist is blocking my vision. It's no use we need to get out from the mist"
"Let me clear the way {wind toss}" the magic caster start to cast his spell.
With the skill casted the wind reveals the path to get out from the mist
"Over here!" the ranger yells to his teammate.
With the ranger leading they finally got out first from the mist a single slash cut through the ranger. The ranger fall to his knee before disintegrates into tiny particle.
"Finally, took you guys long enough" said the Wolf from the mist.
"Sorry, but at least the bait is serve the purpose" it was Punitto Moe standing behind a paladin in silver white armor.
"Time for these guys to pay for what they've done" said the paladin in white armor. It was touch-me.
"Let's just finish this shall we" said the wolf with a grin
Meanwhile
"At least I'm only to fight 2 people here" said Bellriver while prepare for the incoming attack
Bellriver is magic swordsman. His attribute allow him to switching role as he needed. But he never become a specialist fighter like Touch-me or Takemikazuchi.
2 vs 1 is really bad. Even for a level 100 player against 2 level 90 players will not guarantee Bellriver to win. The fight forced Bellriver to defend. He may be able to defeat the tank. But every time he attacks the archer is keep shooting at him preventing him from attack or casting spell.
While he desperately defending the attack from both human, a voice is heard from behind the human players
"{Grasp heart}"
The spell is targeted to the Archer making him stagger and cannot move. Seeing an opening Bellriver cut the head of the panicking Tank dealing critical damage the human disintegrate into dust. The archer is already recovered from the stager try to run away from those two.
"I need to get out from here. {Wind run}" the Archer is running so fast that he is gone within seconds
From distance a flying figure with bow is aiming at the running human.
"Good luck run from this" he said as the arrow released chasing the human
While trying to run away an arrow is chasing the running human. The arrow hit the back of the human and the arrow exploded leaving small carter in its place.
"Did you two just wait for me to be killed or just late?" Bellriver said with a sigh
The 2 new figures is a skeleton with purple robe and the other is what to be seen as a birdman wearing yellow gold armor. This two was Momonga and Peroroncino another guild members of Ainz oal gown with Momonga as the leader
"I'm sorry Bell we just got a bit problem in our way" said Momonga
"I think we just get in time just before you got your ass kicked haha" the Birdman chuckled as he collects the item drop from the human player
"At least this time we don't have much problem like before. Let's group up with the others" said Momonga with them moving to the meeting point
As they all gathered they share the loot with each other. After that they all back to their guild base.
"Fuahh I'm so sleepy now i think i have to log out early today" Bagon said while making yawning sound.
"yeah me too i have to get early for work tomorrow" added Bellriver
"Okay then we see you guys again tomorrow" Momonga said as Bagon and Bellriver start to log out.
In real world
A guy is got up from his dive device. He stretches a bit from the cramp for not moving his body.
He has black hair and average looking body.
"At least i have enough sleep for now" as he look at the clock and move to his bed
This guy name is Kota Rukiyo or as his friend called him in game as Bagon. He lives alone in a cheap apartment and work as a janitor staff at megacorporation. As a 22 years old guy he have so many things he want to do. Instead, he got trapped in an endless cycle of work with ygdrassil become the only get place where he can do and become anything that he want.
He awake at 5:00 am as gets himself ready to go to work. The road to his work is felt gloomy with people faces that he sees seems to show lifeless eyes and moving like a robot or zombie. The sky is quite dark even when this is already morning. Even so, the atmosphere is not affecting his mood as he already used to this.
He walks to the subway along with the crowd of people. While waiting for the train someone slap his head from behind. Revealing what seems to be a man that looks like in his thirties with his thin mustache and thin beard but actually he still 27.
"I see you're still sleepy. So did it to make sure you awake now" he said with a smirk on his face.
This is Tetsuya Akiro or known as Bellriver. He also works at megacorporation in software division. Even if his position is higher than me he consider me as his friend as equal. He is the first person that i become friend with in this company. We met in ygdrassil 2 years ago with me struggling to get away from being PK-ed. After that he invites me to join his guild meeting a lot of new friends. The best one i ever have
"I hate when you keep doing that" Kota said
"Really? Maybe next time a punch to the face will work"
"Yeah right. I'm surprised someone like you still work in there"
"You know it's really hard to find job with decent money like that. I guess i don't really have much choice. Same like you right?" Tetsuya said while smirking at Kota.
"Yeah, yeah at least my job allow me to move around hehe"
"Yeah, whatever. Hey, Is it just me or ygdrassil is less crowded right now?"
"With that shitty devs still around I'm surprised that game can survive this long"
"And yet you still play it 'till now"
"What? At least because that game we all can escape and do something other than work"
"I guess you're right on that one"
At the office we part and start another same boring job we did every day.
It was 8:00 PM when Tetsuya was sitting in front of his computer alone in the office. He look around make sure there's no one there. After that he starts to access the company server. He tries to find something. An evident, He found something that is suspicious about this company. He was just goofing around when once he hack the company server and found some people profile and what to be seems as an experiment for it.
Right now he wants to make sure of it. He plugs his flash disk to the computer and that's when he found the file again. He copies all the files to his flash disk. He's not just stop there he keep searching deeper and that's when he found what seems to be a blueprint of a machine. But what make it strange is that the language is not written in words but some kind of rune and symbols. And then he saw some familiar symbols in it.
(Wait i saw this symbols in ygdrassil what are this symbol doing in here.)
He start to read some kind of test results
Test subject 39
Initiation : Success
Transfer : Success
Blood pressure : Normal
Anomaly : Negative
Brain activity : Negative
Result : Success
Note :
Even the transfer is success, the test subject still cannot be return nor revived after the transfer. After a few hours the subject will have multiple organ failure and kill the subject. Further research is needed to build the bridge.
_
What the heck is this! They making human experiment? This is bad really, really bad.
He is so focused on his computer and not realized that Kota is coming closer him.
"What are you doing?"
"HOOO SHIT" he yelled as he fall to his side then fall from the chair.
"Why you so shocked just with that? Are you opening porn in the office? "
"Ah you idiot. Don't you scare me like that again" Tetsuya said as he tried to get up again.
Kota leans to the computer and read what is written in it.
"What the hell is this!?" he yelled
"Shh lower your voice. I found it and it seems something bigger is happening in this company"
"What are you doing actually? You not supposed to access something like this"
"But I'm glad that i did. I collecting some evidence and try to figure what are they exactly doing especially when it does something with the ygdrassill"
"What the hell is this supposed to do with ygdrassil?"
"We need to get out from here first"
As he unplug the flash disk from computer, shut down the computer and pack his things up
"What is actually happening here?" Kota asked confused
"It's not safe in here we have to go now"
As they both get out from software department office Kota stop
"Wait i have to get my bag"
"Then hurry, take it"
As Kota return they move quickly away from the building
"Why are we in such a hurry?"
"Because I'm afraid they already know that I'm breach into the server"
"Wait who are they?"
As Kota finish his sentence Tetsuya look back and he saw 2 hooded men following them from the crowd.
"Ah shit they're here"
Tetsuya take the flash disk from his pocket and give it to Kota.
"Get away from here don't let them get this"
"Wait what am i supposed to do with this?"
"Just don't let them get it okay. We split our way from here okay. And don't go to your home it's not safe anymore"
"What?"
"We'll meet again later" said Tetsuya as he walks into a different direction.
Kota saw his back seeing those guys start to move faster toward them.
"Run!" Tetsuya yell as i got panic and running into the crowd.
"Sorry"
"Excuse me" Kota said as he slipped his body between people.
He runs quite far for now, He look back and the guy that chasing him is nowhere to be seen. He feels that the guy lost track of him. So, he took turn into an alley in front of him. He keeps walking through the alley in panic and confused state.
"What am i going to do now?"
"What is actually Tetsuya doing there?"
Just when his train of thought keep coming to him he felt something sting at the back of his neck.
"Ow, what's this? Oh no" as he reach his neck and found what seems to be a syringe.
At that time he felt his consciousness is start to fading. He fell on his knees with the flash disk in his hand. He heard someone approaching him as he lost his consciousness.
Kota body feels numb. It feels like he was in sit position. His vision is blurry but slowly can see his surroundings. He was in a chair and what seems to be dive device. The difference is his hand and feet are being tied. Then he saw someone in front of him. It was Tetsuya, he was beaten up swollen eye, bruises all over his body, and he got his fingers covered with blood.
"Oh god what happened to you?"
"Huh? You awake I'm glad that you're fine. Don't worry about me, you should worry about yourself"
At that moment he knows both their life is in danger. He tries to calm himself. He knows calling for help will be useless as they are on unknown place. As he look around he realize that this place seems to be a lab but with stone walls and wooden door. It feels that they are in some kind of underground facility. There is a white board but it filled with equation that he cannot understand.
Just when he look around the wooden door is opened 2 persons coming in. This guy is the same guy in black hood that chasing him. But the other guy seems to be older than the hooded man looks a bit weird. The left eye is black the whole eye is black that it looks like a hole.
"Ah you awake, finally. Your friend here is pretty stubborn. You see we need to know who is he working for. Perhaps you know who it is, friend? "
"I don't know anything. I'm just a janitor. How can i know anything about it? All i know that he is just a regular person" Kota yelled in panic
The black eyed guy stares at Him in the eyes for quite a time
"It seems that you are telling the truth. How about this? "As he picks a knife and points it at Kota neck
"You know what will happen next for not answering? So, who...are you... working for...? "The black eyed said to Tetsuya as he press the knife into Kota neck and blood start fall from His neck
Kota is so scared that he doesn't feel the pain in his neck and just stare at his friend. He looks at him in the eyes there is not only fear in it but, also submit giving up. Kota knows that he will die at any moment but he let his friend decide.
It's not because Kota is suicidal or has a death wish but this guy is already save him. He is in depression before he already finished his school until college. After all of that work in the he is only accepted as a janitor. It is hard to have a job without help from the inside. He still try to be positive even such thing is really embarrassing him and his family. Until one day his family just left him. They abandon him alone. His family is just too ashamed for having their only son that reach high education to become a janitor. He try to keep himself together as nothing is wrong for being a janitor.
He tried to moving on by playing ygdrassil. Instead of having fun he keeps being PK-ed by people. He is so frustrated and being forced at his limit that it feels death is much less painful than being alive. Just when he is about to quit that's when he met with Tetsuya. By surprise they both are working on the same office. Kota is so grateful that there is still people like him exist in such world.
For that he gave up his life on his friend.
Time feel slower. Every second fells take like forever. Still Tetsuya is silent. He stay with his decision for not to tell this black eyed guy.
Kota knows what Tetsuya decision is. And so he close his eyes waiting for the knife take his life away.
He waits.
Nothing happened.
He opened his eyes
"It seems that this guy here is nothing for you huh? Okay then. At least nothing get out from here" as he finished he stab the knife into Kota right hand.
"AAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH SSSHHHITTTT" Kota screamed and panting heavily as he tries to hold back the pain.
"YOU PIECE OF SHIT. HE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS" Tetsuya is thrashing himself around but it's useless.
The black eyed guy goes to the back of Tetsuya seat. A clicking sound is heard as a gun pointed behind his head.
Tetsuya stopped moving.
He knew what's going to happened next.
"I'm sorry"
As he finished the gun shot through his head. Blood sprayed to Kota's body. He can feel the warm in that blood. Tetsuya body goes limp. His friend that he considers as his savior is now a lifeless body.
Kota in shocked. No voice coming from his mouth. He just stares at his friend body in front of him.
"Set him up for the test. He will be more useful for that" the black eyed guy voice break the silence as his assistant go to the computer to activate the device.
Kota don't care about it anymore. He already lost his life the moment he got caught. The pain in his hand felt less painful than seeing his own friend die in front of him.
"Rune is activated, link portal is on, device is ready to go" said the assistance as a sound like ringing and machine can be heard from somewhere.
"Glad to know you, friend. You make an excellent subject" as he finished everything go dark
Kota open his eyes found himself standing on red carpet.
"Huh, wait this is ygdrassill. Why am i here? Wait" as he tries to open the UI to check the friend list and it's opened.
He try to find his guild mates and he found that only Momonga is online.
Meanwhile
"Everything is normal. He is ready for the transfer test doc"
"Okay send him in"
"Initiating in 5 second"
In ygdrassil
[5]
"Come on answer me Momonga"
[4]
A beep sound is ringing
[3]
"oh Bagon, what happened?"
[2]
Kota don't know what to say to Momonga the he say the only thing that he can think of
[1]
"Watch out with ygdrassil"
[0]
With that the {message} connection to Bagon is disconnected
"Huh that was weird" Momonga said as he check his friend list
(Bagon has gone offline)