Hello
This is my first fanfic so feel free to comment and criticize
The first chapter is probably going to be boring so pls bear with it, it is only the setting
There is going to be an op OC in the story though
(Takes place after vol 12 and Ainz gets back to the tomb)
I do not own Overlord,(オーバーロード) (Ōbārōdo) by Maruyama Kugane
Story is probably for adults only because of gore
Momonga, guildmaster of Ainz Ooal Gown, King of the sorcerous kingdom lied face down on his king sized bed on the 10th floor of the great tomb of Nazarick. He was mentally exhausted from his trip to the holy empire. Demiurge's plan was complex and showed his expertise in manipulating human nature.
Ainz had gone to the holy kingdom in the place of the raven black hero, Momon to repel the beastman invasion led by the demon king Jaldabaoth. The plan worked great. The holy kingdom was wary of Ainz being an elder lich and he was despised by the paladins and priests of the kingdom.
However, after he removed the organised demihumans from the kingdom's land, that hatred dissipated and he was treated as a hero by the citizens. The trade between the Sorcerous Kingdom and the Holy Kingdom was already established.
In other words, the plan worked great.
The plan took its tolls on poor Ainz and he was resting in his bed, free from paperwork for the day of his own request.
"Well, I basically took over the holy kingdom. They might even propose to be vassalized like the Baharuth Empire. Well, I can't be sure though."
Ainz sighs
"I really need a vacation don't I?"
Suddenly, there is a knock in the supreme being's door and Ainz signs again.
"I just can't catch a break can't I?" Ainz murmured
"Come in."
A woman in a maid uniform enters Ainz's chamber. It was Yuri Alpha, one of the Pleiades Battle Maids. The situation must have been important for the second in command of the pleiades to alert him. The look of urgency in the four-eyes maid assured the playerr of this fact.
Yuri suddenly suddenly stated, with urgency in her voice " Ainz-sama, an unknown structure has been discovered in the middle of the Katze Plains, the place is radiating massive amount of strange, dark energy!"
Ainz frowned with his non-existent brows and thought, "Why would something like that appear now? I wonder what it is. I need information before I can do anything hasty."
"What does the structure look like and has it done anything to the citizens?"
For all Ainz knew, the structure might be the home of powerful beings or even players. There were a lot of guilds in YGGDRASIL and they each had their own guild halls. Maybe another player has been transported to this world like him.
Yuri Alpha replied with a troubled tone, "Well, we don't actually know what the structure looks like."
:"WHAT!"
"Ainz sama, the structure has some sort of anti detection enchantment placed on it so if we use mirror of remote viewing or other items like it our vision will be blocked there."
"Then how do you know that it's emitting dark energy?"
"A team of adventurers were traveling across the Katze plains and when they approached the structure, it emitted a strange miasma that drove all the nearby adventurers insane. Apparently their hair turned white instantly and they keep muttering something like 'the shadow is coming'"
The effects sounded pretty similar to [Despair Aura] tier IV, Insanity. Ainz was troubled by this because none of the people he encountered in this world could do something like that. Could this be the power of one of their Dragon Lords or Demon Gods?
"What is the name of the adventurer group and are there any members unaffected by the madness?"
"The team was called Rainbow I believe. There was one member unaffected by the insanity."
Ainz mentally facepalmed.
"Great, the one group of adventurers I worked hard to inspire has been reduced to mumbling buffoons. All my hard work is down the drain," Ainz thought while mentally signing.
The elder lich did not feel remorse for the loss of the adventurer team, he felt like an investor that had their money swallowed by the bank.
"Bring the survivor and prepare a room I can interrogate him in."
"At once Ainz-sama." Yuri said while bowing.
Scene change: Interrogation chamber on the 10th floor of Nazarick
Crawl Remington entered the room where the supreme being awaited him. (Don't judge. I'm horrible at naming. There is literally a character named Climb in the light novel so what's wrong with crawl?) Sweat poured down his face in the form of small beads while he nervously gulped every 3 seconds.
The nervous man entered the room through the door in front of him. The door was made of some sort of sturdy wood that felt stronger than Adamantite. It opened and didn't make a sound. Most doors in the Kingdom make a creaking sound when they opened, even some doors in palaces creaked. Crawl did not hear of any door that did not make the annoying sound.
Crawl entered the room nervously, awaiting the conversation that he was going to have with the Sorcerer King, a being that could kill 70,000 people with a single spell. The elder lich that saughtered tens of thousands of men without batting an eye, not that he could.
After his team had been driven insane by the strange structure they found on their way to pick herbs at the request of a healer, Moknak and the others went near it but when he walked a certain distance towards the building, his hair suddenly turned white and he started laughing hysterically and mumbling something about some sort of shadow.
Because of the fact that Crawl was the ranger of the group, he was tasked with covering his teammates if they were attacked. After his team went mad, he requested aid from the sorcerer kingdom with his message phone.
The message phone was a device standardly issued to new adventurers of the sorcerous kingdom that allowed them to request reinforcements from an elder lich receiver would answer their call and send a group of death knights to help.
A group of adventurers from the sorceror kingdom had been killed by monsters on one of their missions. They did not have the numbers to take them on. Therefore Ainz ordered the message phone to be standardly issued to adventurers so the incident did not repeat itself.
Of course, if a team was all the way in the Holy Kingdom for example, the message phone would be useless. It could only contact one of the elder lich receptionists in the Sorceror Kingdom's reception towers, and if they were that far away, it would be useless. However, only teams that were gold or above were allowed go so far away. Therefore the adventurers should have no problems.
Crawl called an elder lich and requested immediate aid.
"This is Crawl Remington of "Rainbow." I need reinforcements
"What is the situation?" asked the receiver elder lich
"My team members went mad! Their hair turned white and they're mumbling something about shadows and I need help!"
This kind of occasion was not unusual. There was often monsters, magic items, or artifacts left by the ancients that could cause symptoms like this. Therefore the elder lich did not doubt thee adventurer's words.
"Understood, Sir Crawl"
1 hour later, 5 death knights arrived riding soul eaters a few to spare for each adventurer. Considering the size of the soul eaters, each could carry 3 people. The Death Knights, with the help of Crawl, placed the adventurers onto the backs of the undead horses. The soul eaters moved slowly and carefully because they did not want the adventurers to fall off. They were given explicit orders against it.
The trip back to E-Rantel was slow and painful for Crawl. The scenes of his friends suddenly turning into crazed, mindless, buffoons haunted the ranger's mind.
Present time
Ainz was not guarded by the floor guardians nor the battle maids. He did not want his guest to be too intimidated or even killed. He knew his friends' creations too well. One disrespectful act towards him and the only source of information he has about the unknown structure will be terminated.
The guardians probably wouldn't kill him, but anyone was vulnerable to outbursts of anger. Ainz was afraid that he wouldn't be able to stop them in time.
"Hello Crawl Remington of Rainbow."
Why the adventurer's name resembled an outdated shotgun from Suzuki Satoru's world Ainz would never know, so he put it out of his mind.
"Yes your majesty"
"I don't want to waste my time on formalities so let's just get to the point."
"What happened during your trip to the katze plains?"
Ainz had his despair aura disabled so he would not intimidate his guest too badly, however, his skeletal face and penetrating red eyes did that just as well.
"W-well, w-we, we w-were"
Ainz put a skeletal hand with a ring on each of his fingers on crawl's shoulder.
"Calm down, I know that the events there was traumatizing for you, but the structure could prove to be a threat to N- I mean the sorcerer Kingdom."
Crawl calmed down, it was if the overlord before him radiated charisma. While under the Sorcerer King's steely grasp it felt like he was invincible, immune to harm.
"Yes your majesty" Crawl said, strengthening himself.
"We moved out to gather herbs from the request of Linda Windsay, a herbalist from E-Rantel. She promised to pay us handsomely if we found some soulweed that only grew in the desert of the Katze Plains."
"When we arrived, we saw a large, black structure that we couldn't see clearly because it radiated a black mist. Randolph, our cleric, sensed something wrong about the place but still moved towards it with Moknak and the others."
"When I asked Moknak why he would even go near it he said, 'His majesty was right about the adventurers, we exist to explore the unknown and that structure needs some exploration.'"
Crawl was on the verge of tears as he told his story.
"He said that I should stay back and cover them if they were attacked and I said yes."
"My team walked to a certain point, then their hair turned white and they went insane, mumbling about some shadow that was coming."
Ainz nodded while jotting down certain aspects of the story to his memory.
"After they went insane, I called for reinforcements to take us back to E-Rantel."
"That is everything that happened."
"Hmm, I see. I am sorry for your loss." Ainz said this using a tone that indicated that he was not sorry in the slightest.
"Rest assured, Crawl Remington, I shall avenge your friends."
"You may leave now."
Crawl bowed and turned to walk out the door, meeting the maid that would teleport him back to E-Rantel. He pondered over what the Sorcerer king would do while mourning his friends.
Scene change: Throne Room
Ainz Ooal Gown sat in his throne like a true ruler, Albedo at his side. All the NPCs of Nazarick before him, at his beck and call.
"As you have all heard, a mysterious structure has appeared at the Katze Plains"
Demiurge replied, "Yes we have all heard Ainz-sama."
His gentleman's smile turned sinister when he spoke again.
"We shall destroy any offensive creatures in the structure that dared to attack citizens of the Sorcerer Kingdom."
"Good, that is why I have a list of NPCs I want to explore the fortress."
Ainz began calling out the names of the people who would join the expedition
"CZ2128 Delta, Yuri Alpha, Naberal Gamma, Entoma Vasilissa Zeta. You shall explore the mysterious structure and try to negotiate with whatever being resides there if there is any."
Ainz had chosen these members because the floor guardians were busy working. Demiurge had to take the role of Jaldabaoth and lead the remnants of the demihuman alliance, Cocytus ruled the lizardmen and listened to their needs, Albedo basically ran Nazarick, etc.
The 4 battle maids were resistant to insanity. Shizu was a robot so that was self explanatory Yuri was a dullahan and could not fall to madness, (Don't ask me why) Naberal could change her appearance to resist insanity, and Entoma had talismans that protected her from such things.
"You 4 are to take a world item each, and a hearthstone each." Hearthstones allowed one to teleport to their guild hall instantly. They were extremely rare to get, however, and Ainz spent quite a lot of money to get them. (Great, now I'm ripping off Warcraft) They were reusable too and only a few things could nullify the teleportation.
The item was disabled during raids and pvp of course. (If it wasn't then it would be too op) However, Ainz tested them in his spare time and even had cocytus attack him while using one. The insectoid warrior protested but soon understood that it was for the good of Nazarick and complied. The item worked in combat no problem. (In YGGDRASIL the hearthstone was disabled during battles with NPCs too)
This was necessary because players in YGGDRASIL could tear through the pleiades like tissue paper so Ainz gave them a means to escape. If there was a max level player there the maids would retreat and Ainz would send the floor guardians.
Ainz thought this little assault squad was enough as he relaxed on his throne.
Inside the mysterious structure, a man laughed.
"I wonder when they'll arrive."
That's all for ch1
If it's boring I'm sorry
Like I said it's just the setting
Big thanks to Oblivion 2991 and UndeadLord22
They inspired me to write this story
