Chapter 1: A new adventure
BOLD FOR SPELLS AND ITEMS
****before and after thoughts***** with italics
( and ) usually as extra info
(please note i made an outline for the entire story before posting and i didn't even finish chapter 2 before deviating from it. So story pacing may be a bit hectic. Considering the outline i got for this, the character doesn't stay in one place for too long so i'm not going to focus much -if at all- on character development except Kane, maybe idk)
Prologue:A few minutes before shutdown...
Kane dodges yet another "CALL GREATER THUNDER" only to get hit in the back by a strange class this attacker is using... It was probably an assassin or rogue type class for sure but had the appearance of an angel.
He turns and swings at the literal back-stabber, who, in-turn just BLINK's away immediately after slashing him so he only hits air in the swing.
*Hmmm, how annoying, what are those other bastards doing? To think such a lazy time flying around in the sky in the last minutes before final shutdown would turn into a final attempt to "PK" me...ha!*
He sees the mage conjuring some kind of SUPER TIER MAGIC now after missing with that last attack.
Kane doesn't take any chances, besides if the wizard uses a CASH-SHOP-ITEM to undo the casting time, it'll probably take him out at this point in the fight. So he "BLINK's as far as he's able to and immediately casts multiple defensive type magic to help minimize any damage he might still end up taking.
Good thing too, even if the SUPER-TIER didn't hit him the Archer-class attacker seemed to have fired some kind of powerful class-based arrow at him.
Said attacker seems to have gone into hiding in the clouds again...
*Great, ever since i took out their tank-class and necromancer-class they keep themselves away or hiddin till they attack, it's a good strategy but it's becoming really annoying!*
*That dirty back-stabber should be about to attack me again...*
"BURST!"
Kane releases a blast of energy outward from himself, hitting and surprising the incognito angel in mid swing, as the would-be attacker is thrown backward.
Immediatley after this, Kane fires his highest level "RAILGUN", saying "here's your tip!"
(he inserts a smiley emoti above his head with a thumbs-up).
"NOVA-BOMB!" Kane shouts as he launches a swirling mass of energy at the clouds, hoping the AOE attack will buy some more time from being attacked by the pesky archer...
*Now for the surviving mage who tried to use a SUPER-TIER spell on me!*
"BLACK-HOLE!"!
He shouts as soon as he BLINK's within range of the caster, launching an all-consuming void at'em... ...right as his vision goes black...
"Darn it! I wasn't finished with them yet!" he yells.
Chapter 1:
A soft breeze caresses his skin carrying a putrid scent with it...
"Huh!?"
He opens his eyes and realizes he's not in the same place he was before...smell and touch are new sensations and in a new place...
"Ok, i'm confused"
"Just what the hell happened?"
Looking around he sees a massive wall that stretches across the entire horizon, past the tree's from the clearing he's in...
"Heh heh, this puts to shame the old 'great wall' of China pictures from years ago..."
There's nothing but hills in the opposite direction so he decides to head towards the wall.
"Okay, so new game version or 'game became reality' scenario"
"CALL GM"...nothing...no console either...
"Sooo...'real-life' it is then, huh?"
"Does this mean i get all my character's attributes?"
*I wonder how strong i am compared to whatever else might be here...*
But as Kane continued walking towards the distant wall... "But, what the hell is that god-awful stench!"?
There's smoke in the distance but he doubts that's it for some reason... He starts running, but stops shortly after, "Wow, i dunno how i'd explain this feeling, but i'm pretty sure i could out-run someone driving a car!"
"Mwahahaha! This is awesome!"
"Except for the smell, i think its gotten worse..."
Clearing the last of the tree's he see's a large army by the base of the wall, smashing at it with battering rams and, presumably, other things...
After a minute or so of observing; "They're obviously not human. Especially the furry and hoofed variants."
*Beastmen or some kind of Chimera huh?*
Looking to his left he see's a patrol for the back lines where there's a catapult...
*Might as well see what these things are like in combat and how i compare because, why not? I feel pretty dang powerful*.
Sprinting towards the 'beastmen', Kane unleashes his unrestrained might upon the unsuspecting and hapless creatures. With an upper-cut swing, directed at the middle-lead individual, he knocks the entire group backwards and up into the air with a vortex of inward rushing wind, into the sky.
(the force of the swing does this, there was no resistance when his weapon met the individual either it seemed like).
(Kane starts laughing maniacally) *Hmmm, lets try this...*
Kane takes a swing towards the catapult and its crew looking at their comrades flying into the sky, the force of the strike hits, utterly obliterating everything into pieces and sent flying.
"Just the swing!"
"I don't even need to use a spell or make contact with something in order to hit it!?"
"This new world's great!"
Kane's attacks didn't go unnoticed however, and the army began turning their attentions' from the wall to this new threat emerging from the tree's though they see no obvious army or threat. Just a smiling, laughing, human-looking (food-looking)individual wearing immaculate armor and wielding a sword (called 'HEOSPHOROS'), albeit a shortish one.
(a rainbow-colored katana depending on how the light hits it-decides its color, mostly greens and blues, has glowing stars on its blade. I got a small sword like this -stars)
(the stars are 'Runes' now in the new-world) Also an Air-element type weapon allowing "FLY" and related magics. Search google for the sword name given-its the size of a machete and the 'rainbow' like effect is just me adding one of my personnel swords' looks into it)
It was a strange sight to see 'food' acting like this in their midst but, as the only apparent cause for the destruction, they prepared to fight. (much good it'll do them...)
"Oh, they've finally seen me..."
Kane watches as, literally, an army of thousands begins to advance towards him.
"Hmmm...heh heh, 'hammer-time'!"
Kane summons his trusty MJOLNIR ,"Glad my favorite item still works!"
(Said hammer now has the same-ish properties of the fabled weapon of the same name)
Launching into the horde, he begins his one-man assault on the beastman army...
Meanwhile, up on the wall:
Captain Mala of the kingdom of Roble was going over the latest logistics reports of their most recent resupply delivery...
"Captain! Something has attacked the rear of the beastman army!"
"What?" The captain says looking up from the reports on her desk filled with tactical and logistics reports. The lieutenant is both happy and fearful at the same time...
"Explain yourself" says the captain with squinted eyes.
"Yes, ummm, well it looked like a tornado of sorts appeared right on top of one of their catapults, then disappeared, then seemed to reform in an almost buble-like shaped dome(of death), that began sweeping through the beastman lines!" -the subordinate replies, ecstatic.
"Huh?" The captain replies doubtfully as she starts to doubt the mans sanity, from both his behavior and description of events, she just couldn't believe him...
*Well, he wouldn't be the first i suppose...*-thought Mala
"Please, captain, just go outside and look down at the enemy army!"
Sigh, *i guess i could humor him at least before relieving the poor kid of duty...*
After stepping out of the guard tower, turned command post, she see's mostly what the young man was talking about...
Although it looked more like a blueish-white, electrical, storm-like sphere was sweeping through the enemy.
"Is it some form of magic? Who's causing it i wonder...?" the captain ponders
"I don't know, but i like what its doing to the enemy" He says as he smiles down at the carnage unfolding below.
Kane is a swirling mass of death.
He feels like he's just dancing with fire lightning amungst a garbage pile. Thankfully the weapon currently being used seemed to be ionizing the air around him, cutting the smell down. (insert pun)
"Smell improved somewhat, but dang...there's a lot of these things aren't there?" He says to himself.
"Okay, time to change things up a lil i guess"
Kane decides to try using an ability stored within the 'Warhammer'.
During a spin, he activates the de-buff ability before activating the aoe ability, creating a small SHOCKWAVE. Then-still spinning, brings it down on the ground.
(to create a small crater: used to cause imbalancing or stumbling effect/de-buff in the game to increase critical-hits).
Boom!
A mass of dirt is launched into the air like a small earthen-tidal wave emanating from a now goodly-sized crater.
"Wow, i gotta find out if all abilities got upgraded or just certain ones later!"
Instead of a small, spider-webbed cracked depression in the ground he got this.
"Let's do that again!"
Pow!
Activating SHOCKWAVE again and subsequently brought it down again.
Boom!
(think of it as a low to mid level EARTHQUAKE spell basically: wide area low-damage)
A dome of earth and beastmen are launched into the air once again, but without the tidal wave effect.
"Huh, i guess that wave-effect was from me spinning...?"
"Still, way cooler than the original effect!"
Looking around at his handy-work and the weary remainder of the army. (most of it 60%+)
"Who wants to be next in the meat-grinding machine that i am?"
The nearby beastmen look at each other, then turn and flee into the ranks behind, causing some in-fighting among the ranks between those trying to get to the front battle lines and those being 'cowards' running away.
Seeing this Kane can't help but give a small chuckle as he waits for any brave, (but dumb) 'weaklings' to come near...
*Wait a sec...shouldn't i care more about this? How can i be soo care-free to just slaughter these, apparently, some-what intelligent creatures?*-Kane suddenly thought. He silently debated his morality, or rather, his lack of morals and ethics.
After about 5 minutes of waiting a large, wolf-like beastman approaches with a two-handed broad sword, "you strong" it growls out in gutteral form.
"So you're next wolf-man?" Kane asks, taking a stance.
Growling is it's reply before launching itself towards Kane...
The beastman general activates "ABILITY BOOST", "GREATER ABILITY BOOST", before attacking the human... (the -growls- from before)
To Kane's pov: it just leaned forward and starting running at him in slow-motion, as if moving through water or quick-sand. He smirked at it.
When it gets near and raises its man-sized sword, Kane smashes its two arms to oblivion with MJOLNIR, while following his body's spin- pivoting, kicks back the now arm-less beastman general.
As the beastman's back hits the ground, Kane kicks its sword at it, pinning the beastman to the ground with his own weapon...
"Next!" Kane says, feeling totally bad-ass.
The surrounding beastmen turn and flee.
"Oh well, hmmm, i wonder why they were attacking this massive wall... "Time to see whats on the other side"
*and to see just how high i can jump*
Kane launches himself into the air, leaving a tiny crater in his wake from the sheer force of the jump...a small 'pow' is heard...
Captain- "Wow, this is unreal, just who or what is this guy? The man had just finished off an overly large beastman in a humiliating defeat and now the rest of the beastmen were retreating.
"We really aught to thank this person for their help...send a squad out to speak with this stranger!"
"No need, i think, captain he is looking up here at us..." the lieutenant says seeing a crater form under the individual, as said individual gets bigger in their field of view...
Kane sees people, humans on the wall, as he nears the top...and keeps going...
"Hi ya!" He says landing on his way back down on the top of the wall, surrounded by speechless, surprised, and unbelieving people around him... ...
"WHAT!"
"The hell!?"
"Holy crap!"
"Wow"
"No way!"
"This guy even human?!"
Numerous people begin exclaiming his feat of jumping over 40 feet into the air, fully encased within a suit of armor, as well as continuing exclamations of his battle-prowess of the battle recently finished...except the captain, who, after witnessing the 'fighting' below...
"Friend or foe?" the captain asks, quieting the rest of the soldiers who realize that this 'being' of destruction could just as easily destroy them as well if he so chose. Nervous gulping can be heard...
"C'mon captain! He's obviously on our side!"
All the while Kane just stares at the only female, the...captain, in this group of soldiers.
Kane asks her; "did ya like my dancing down there?"
The men go "whaaaa?"
"that was dancing?"
"he's kidding right?"
"He's making a joke?"
Exclamations are heard all around. The captain gives a tight smile... *give'm what he wants or we may be next...?*
"Yes, although i wouldn't exactly call that dancing...by the way, could i hire you to fight for us perhaps?"
A new life and unwanted attention
"Hah, been in this world for a few hours and got offered a job, got my own little place, and decent food!"
The place was indeed small.
(Like a 15x20 little shack.)
It had a bed, a wood-stove, a bucket, and a small desk-chair he couldn't even fit in. "What the hell is the bucket for? Do they really expect me to 'go' in that?"
Shaking his head he decides to go out-and-about the small military base that had formed here because of the recent invasion. Small log buildings, like his, larger ones used as mess halls and sleeping bunks for the average soldiers, as well as all sizes of tent-like canvas structures...
People came and greeted him, others shy'd away, a mercenary hero is what he was now...that and everyone wanted to know if he was actually one of the 'Thirteen' heroes in disguise, whoever 'they' were... He was used to being a mercenary back in Yggdrasil so that wasn't too bad. It was the 'Hero' part he didn't care for. Heroes usually die young and generally don't get comparable recompense for their efforts. In addition, they almost never get time to be alone!
As a somewhat 'loner' type of person he didn't like all the attention he was getting from the people in camp. Sure the thanks was nice and all but after practically being told the same things and what not from hundreds of people he was getting rather tired of it.
Making his way to the mess hall for some grub he noticed the captain, approached her and asked, "Do ya mind if i take off for a bit to be alone for a while? I really don't like all this attention..."
She had mixed feelings about this, there were probably more reasons not to let him leave the camp than otherwise. But she knew she couldn't stop him in any case...
Giving the appearance of a few moments of thought while finishing her report to the higher-ups, with him being the majority of content, "I suppose i can as long as its not too far from camp...?"
"Nah, just far enough away to be alone with my thoughts, and, er ahem, away from my fans here..."
"Umm...okay...?, just be back by dark" She replies. "I'll have someone show you around later, or, tomorrow since you can't seem to read the signs posted"
Thinking back, Kane became a bit embarrassed, some of the canvas-type structures were uniform changing stations and separated since this human army had both sexes in the military...
"Right" is all he replied, a bit ashamed he couldn't read their language.
A few minutes after Kane left, the Captain ordered her best scouts to 'keep watch' on him so nothing bad happened. "He wants to be 'alone' so make sure your not seen!"
(Mala sighs)
"I really just don't want any trouble, so no need to be too close, and if your found out...just tell him i sent ya to make sure he's alone for a few hours or that i sent you to go find him, i don't care what the excuse is."
The scouts just nod and leave after this Gaidon Kane fellow...although, she would like to know why he only answers to his last name...shouldn't he have said that he's Kane Gaidon? Just seems that its backwards...
A few miles from camp and a couple hours later...Kane is testing his use of magic in the world, what can and cannot be done, also the changes that some magic has undergone.
(He's basically a specialized mage who primarily uses weapons for offense-A melee magic-caster if you will)
(irony right?)
Since he got pk'd a lot and ended up losing a lot of his good mage (spell/mana)-based equipment, he started focusing on melee only combat around lvl 30's, meh, it was a long time ago but it worked out well for him, in the end.
Discovering WEAPON MAGE class after lvl 60 was a save for sure.
(A WEAPON MAGE is able to craft magical weapons that have de-buffed stats compared to any other weapon of the same class)
This job class also allows the use of spells that are trait-related. Example: When he makes a sword by transferring all his mana,
(as well as the typical data crystals and materials required for anything above low-grade class)
using only a single type of elemental magic
(lets say, FIREBALL for fire-type magic)
repeatedly into a basic stock of iron (again this is basic/low-class example), and whala! A new Flame-based looking sword!
A lot more difficult but essentially, that was it to make a basic 'magical' weapon, in a WEAPON MAGE's weapon creation process.
This took waaaay longer and had its downsides compared to 'CREATE ITEM and GREATER CREATE ITEM".
Like not being something useful in the middle of a fight unless it was prepared/made before hand, typically long before any battle(days usually).
On the bright side, you could use any corresponding magic type spell associated with the weapon created. The magically created items however weren't all that strong compared to any equal-level equipment and would often break when used against any max level type weapon.
Soo, blocking attacks with these weapons just wasn't feasible at higher levels. The time invested into making the max level equivalent weapons was simply to costly.
(imagine using a sand-stone sword vs well, anything, lol).
Still, though, to be able to hack n slash your opponent with one hand and discharge magic with the other simultaneously was pretty fun...
OP? Maybe, but for the ability to do so you also suffered from weaker attacks...
(Such as his 10th-tier spells would now rate as 8th-tier in power. At least when he had armor and weapons equipped it was)
That penalty seemed to be missing in this world though, if anything it was buffed/amplified! Perhaps this was how he could've been like without all those de-buffs back in the game... Maybe it was his personalized lore that was affecting his ability and power now?
During a test with one of his best weapons, MJOLNIR he called it, his main battle hammer because of its neat 'telekenitic' like abilities...in this world though it really was like having the, god-Thor's hammer, MJOLNIR.
Having made the lore the same as the mythical version that was portrayed in stories and movies ended up becoming reality in this world, it had become truly powerful...perhaps nearly as powerful as a World-class item even-he mused.
Well he did model it after the one used by the mythical god Thor, (MJOLNIR) as a mythical-class weapon, after all.
(Custom-made weapon + custom-made lore + custom-made class? hea-ya, why not?)
Mythical being between Relic-class and Legendary-class in Overlord wiki, so its a meh or crap, or at best, decent weapon for max level players.
(making a whole new class of gear, i know...and i don't care, its not over-op and sounds cool. I'm gonna label it as low-durability, high-dps class...probably like assassin-class equipment?)
Throw Mjolnir and comes back to your open hand, call down thunder while using SILENT MAGIC (just say it in your head) And best defense of all his weapons...it had never broke surprisingly enough.
(only one to withstand hits from max level gear and survive, at least without a scratch on it)
He had checked its stats for some ability or, otherwise, function to see why it hadn't broke...But nothing except a blank spot was in its extra ability slot and all he got when trying to add an ability was an 'error'...
Checking it out now that he's in this new world an ability finally showed up...'Thor's Hammer, Mjolnir'.
Giving it all the abilities of the Nordic-legends' "Mjolnir"
(check wikipedia for stats but i'm not gonna have it be as powerful as a world-class weapon regardless of what stats say-for somewhat obvious reasons-*unlimited damage*for instance-, but shall be considered Divine-class at least in the new-world).
Exclaiming in his excitement he begins checking some other weapons with his favorite backgrounds/lore. (self-made or otherwise)
Unaware, and without much foresight to possible information-gathering magic, the scouts sent to watch him kept having to remember to close their mouths and breathe after witnessing so much this...stranger, has been doing for the past hour...or more.
Mythical class magic(8th-tier+), godly weapons, and just plain superhuman abilities.
He seemed to be using some kind of huge flaming (or glowing?)whip at the moment..
(you know, the whip that 'Durin's Bane'-a 'balrog'- uses in fight against 'Gandolf', from lord of the rings).
*Heh, that was as cool as i thought it'd be! Hmmm...(stomach grumbles) i forgot to grab some lunch!*-Kane thought as he looked up and guessed that it'd probably be dark soon.
"I guess i should head back now, before it gets dark anyways..."-Kane muttered aloud.
All of a sudden he makes that disappear too, then he launches up into the air trying to remember which way camp was at...
Incidentally, from his vantage point in the sky, the scouts' shocked hesitation before concealing themselves, Kane realized that he has Not been alone...
*"great, just frackin' great"*
Landing, he heads back knowing that this info on him can only mean more annoyances in the future... "
*was probably a good thing i didn't try changing forms at least*"