Overlord's New Word.
Chapter 1: New world, new start.
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A monumental event occurred. Impossibly powerful forces clashed in battle and tore apart the fabric of space and time, wiping out the entire dimension in the process. In the aftermath a new dimension with new worlds was created. Worlds that were a fusion of many other worlds spanning countless dimensions. One world in particular looked like an anime, yet functioned like a video game. Creatures could be killed, their carcasses could be picked clean, yet they'd still respawn in no time. Smashing random objects would sometimes yield small amounts of money, the broken pieces would disappear, and then they'd come back later as good as new. As well as many other things akin to video games, such as treasure chests, the so-called magic satchel way of carrying and storing things, even if the individual had nothing to put them in, a one size fits all power held by clothing and weapons, and in some cases a levelling up system.
The technological advancements of this new world were primarily at a medieval level, using swords and sorcery, but occasionally some pirate age advancements such as large ships, guns that fired one single shot at a time and others showed up. There were even rumours of steampunk style machines, but they were so rarely seen that many thought they were just a fantasy, and everyone else thought it'd be many years before anything useful would come of it.
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Darkblade arrived in this world with nothing more than his gauntlet. Even his weapons and armour were lost. He was the new Overlord and was well on his way to victory. He had gained the title of overlord, assembled the minion tribes, crushed entire armies, gotten a pair of sexy mistresses, and had begun enslaving and destroying every town he could find in a path of destruction that would've made his ancestors proud, if not jealous. Now he had nothing and was forced to start all over. And unless the minions showed up he'd probably fail.
Darkblade was descended from a previous Overlord and shared his rather unsettling appearance. He was over seven feet tall, had dark blue skin with markings that were glowing red, glowing yellow eyes, and was incredibly muscular. But unlike all the previous overlords he was fast and agile. While all the rest were slow-moving powerhouses whose maximum speed was a brisk walk, he was a fast-moving high-flyer, even with his armour on. The nightmarish way he could move struck fear into the hearts of his enemies. Or at least it used to before he started suffering injuries that impeded his mobility. And if that wasn't enough, the new weapon he had acquired wasn't anything special and the armour was terrible. He had hoped it would be powerful, but it turned out to just be heavy. It weighed a ton thus slowing him down further, and it was some of the weakest armour he ever had. It wasn't worthy of a true Overlord by a long shot.
After travelling on horseback for weeks, he realized his odds of success might not be as low as he first thought. Everyone was scared and they needed a leader. Some were already using this to take control of certain areas. With his strength he'd be able to rise to power and take over.
But first thing's first. He needed a base of operations. But all the places he came across so far weren't worthy of an overlord. He needed a tower, a castle, or something along those lines. At this point he'd settle for a small mansion.
At last he found a castle. It was rundown, overgrown with plants, and half of it had already been knocked down. But now wasn't the time to be picky, and he could get it rebuilt and restored after he found his minions.
Once he was through the gate he saw that the old castle was a dungeon. A place where monsters lived in large numbers. He'd have to wipe them out to take control.
Darkblade started with the courtyard. There were giant spiders, Shadow beasts from LOZ Twilight Princess and velociraptors from Jurassic Park. (Or any of the video games, movies or shows that included the velociraptors from Jurassic Park without even checking to see if they were actually velociraptors. Which they weren't and the use of them has basically been a domino effect of stupidity. I mean come on! Hasn't any of the guys making those things ever looked them up in a book, or watched the Discovery Channel? There's a lot more cool dinos than just the inaccurate Jurassic Park ones if you ever bother to look them up! Utah raptors and deinonychus looked just like them without being inaccurate, so why everyone keeps going for fake velociraptors is beyond me.) A few short seconds after he walked in Darkblade was spotted by a raptor. It charged at him while screeching and moved with blinding speed. Luckily he had his mace ready. As the raptor neared him, he drove it into it's chest, sending him tumbling back while coughing up blood.
The first raptor was seriously injured, but it wasn't dead. The other raptors charged in. He hit one in the skull and killed it, but the second one pounced on him, knocking him down. It sank it's teeth and claws in, but his armour held strong. Darkblade threw the dinosaur off of him and got up, just in time to strike down another raptor as it was attacking. The injured raptor tried again, but he struck it down as well. That left four of them.
The dinosaurs circled him, looking for a weakness. Some way to bring him down. But he was keeping his guard up, readying for attacks from any angle. Then they struck. The first came from behind, but he ducked under it and sent it flying. He smashed the skull of the second one, but the third got a hold of his mace as the fourth pounced on him.
They had successfully stolen his weapon and knocked him down. Now they were trying hard to tear apart his armour. It was too strong for animals to get through, but it wouldn't last too long against their relentless attacks. He powered out and threw them off. Then he fought them off using his incredible physical power and fighting skills.
The raptors delivered powerful kicks and slashes in their effort to bring him down, but he fought even harder. His skills at hand-to-hand combat were impressive. He may not have been the best in the world, but he was certainly no slouch. Add that to his size and power, and he was a bit much for these dinosaurs.
Darkblade threw one raptor into another, then drove his armoured body into them, knocking them both senseless. A powerful kick, followed by a beat down left the last one too stunned to do anything. That gave him enough time to get his mace. He wasted no time delivering death blows to each of them.
With the raptors defeated the spiders decided it was their turn. They all headed straight for him. Twenty of them were the size of cats and they came at him in swarms. They forced him into a fighting retreat, but luckily his mace was perfect for smashing them and they couldn't get through his armour. Eventually he overcame them.
The last two spiders had stayed out of the fight until now. They were even bigger than he was and attacked individually. The first one charged in and got knocked back. Then it jumped at him, but he dodged it and struck its legs. The spider lost three of its left legs and fell on its side. That left it open for Darkblade's attack.
The second spider tried to keep its distance, staying up out of his reach. It was waiting until his back was turned to strike. But he kept his eyes on it and his weapon raised. Then he nearly tripped over some pieces of a metal fence. They were shaped enough like spears to be used as such, so he hurled them at the spider until it fell dead.
Being the Overlord, he could collect the life force of the animals, monsters, etc that he's killed and put it to use. The ones he killed up until now died close enough for the life-force to be collected automatically, but now he had to walk over to the dead spider.
Finally he went to the Shadow beasts that were sticking to the one area. Once he entered it a wall formed behind him and they attacked.
There were three of them and by facing one at a time, he dispatched the first two with ease. Then the last one screeched and revived the others. Realizing he had to take the last two down at the same time, he struck down the furthest one, then used two of the metal fence parts to spear the other two at once. They fell and then shattered. The pieces went up, straight to the portal that was above them, making it useable. But not for him as only creatures of the twilight realm possessed the power needed to use it.
Once inside the castle, he learned it was what he was hoping for, a solid dungeon, which meant he could claim it once he beat it. He quickly found a map on the wall and just looking at it gave him one of his own. Using that he was able to easily traverse the place without getting lost.
While there weren't any more dinosaurs or shadow beasts, the spider infestation did get worse. But it became clear that the dominate force there was the pig-like moblins.
Darkblade had to use a torch to clear out some of the spider webs, as they blocked his path. As he entered one of the rooms, he saw it was a huge room covered in a thick layer of spider webs, and there were countless spiders in there. Far too many to fight. The second he stepped through the door one dropped down and attacked him from above. He fought it off, but dropped his torch in the process.
After the torch fell a number of shrieking, flaming spiders ran out in all directions, setting everything on fire and turning the room into an inferno. He got outta there as fast as he could and when he came back in, the fire had died down, the spiders were wiped out, and the webs were gone. The biggest nest of spiders he had ever seen was wiped out by accidentally dropping a torch. It may have seemed like a comical solution, but it worked. And given how flammable the webs were it made sense and he would've tried using fire anyway.
He'd been gathering up all the loot he could find and this room easily had the most. There were gold and silver coins, some jewels, valuable or collectable objects that were easy to fence, and a golden hammer. He couldn't believe it when he realized what it was. It was a fix-it hammer. A magical hammer that fixes anything by hitting it. They were rare and worth a fortune, but you could make a safe and easy living with one, or use it to restore old buildings, like this castle.
By the time he made it to the dungeon boss's room he had collected a lot more treasure and a bag of smoke bombs. To his surprise the boss turned out to be a giant orc warrior. He stood fifteen feet tall and wielded a giant axe with a hammer end.
In a head-to-head fight the orc was too much for even Darkblade. The giant could annihilate anything with that axe. But Darkblade soon realized that throwing the smoke bombs at him caused him to rush blindly until he crashed headfirst into something, which caused him to fall down stunned and vulnerable to attacks. Darkblade then charged in and beat him in the head until he got back up. The process was repeated until he died.
The monster exploded and released a heart container and whatever else he was carrying. Which included his weapon, several items and some treasure. He couldn't use the heart container, and the items were of good quality, but could be found anywhere, but the weapon was another story. It had a long metal shaft, an axe blade, a spiked hammer, and a sharp spike at the top. It shrunk down when he picked it up and he was able to use it. It had speed and power, things could be added to it to make it stronger, and it wasn't vulnerable to breaking. It was called the Demon Axe, and it was magnificent.
A portal opened up and when he got there a message came. He could either lay claim to the dungeon, or get a large amount of treasure or experience to level up, or a rare item. He of course chose what he came for. Moments later all the surviving monsters evacuated and a flag bearing his symbol was raised.
He had won. He had gained what he wanted on this trip and more. But that was just the start. He wanted his title as Overlord back and an entire kingdom to rule over, and he wouldn't stop until it was the greatest of them all.