Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Disclaimer :I don't own Overlord.
An :sorry for the long delay, I kinda didn't feel well so I barely wrote, thx to all those who followed and favoritad!
An :some of the things in this chapter might look radical, however this is just for the sake of the story because.
Chapter 2.
When the multitude of lights finally cleared out, Alistair opened his eyes and looked around and a whistle escaped his mouth at the sight around him.
He was surrounded by a lush forest, the leaves of the great ancient trees rattling in the wind. Casting his eyes up he gazed in wonder at the clear blue sky with the golden sun bathing everything with its gentle light.
The young man closed his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of the wind striking his face, at the smell of the forest and couldn't keep a smile from appearing on his face.
This was so different from how the real world was it was painful to even think about it.
Opening his eyes the player sighed, knowing he did not have much time until the game will be deactivated so with a heavy feeling in his heart the young man decided to see how the transition of all his abilities from 'stardust' went.
His gaze fell on his hand where his wrist band should have been and smiled in satisfaction as he saw it was indeed there.
"Code accses" he said quietly with anticipation "004 SR" to his delight the wrist band responded and a moment later the assault rifle was in his hands.
"I did it" he told himself "I actually did it" the man started to laugh in relief and satisfaction.
Looking around, he saw the forest was mostly full of small animals which made sense with it being most likely the starting point for every player.
Deciding to see how well will his weapons work against the creatures of fantasy he activated his armor and took flight toward the horizon, enjoying the cool breeze of the wind striking as he took his helmet off.
It didn't took him long to find his first opponent a small goblin tribe walking in the distance.
Stopping himself mid air, the man known as Phantom lead put his helmet back and activated the music future to his British patriotic songs tracks and falling into the elevating notes of the songs he aimed his rifle and squized the trigger releasing a series of plazma bolts toward the unsuspecting creatures his eyes burning with anticipation.
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The goblin 'Shaman' was dancing around, his programming was to dance around as long as no player was around when something pierced through his head.
The program which detected the unusual activity on its server with the unknown type of attack instead of deleting it decided to look for it in the database.
Unbeknownst to Alistair , not only were the two games based on the same engine but also used the same database, which resulted in the system of Yggdrasil identifying the shot for what it was using the stats from Stardust, resulting in the goblin shaman destruction.
Not knowing any of this, Alistair smiled as he saw his shot striking true and destroying the creature.
"I vow to thee, my country all earthly things above " the music played in his ears as he soared higher his helmet obscuring his smile.
He didn't take long to end the rest of the goblins after which he decided to land for a moment.
"Rule Britania! Britania rule the waves!" the song changed and despite the powerful words that rang in his mind he felt the rush of adrenaline vanishing slowly, giving it place to depression.
Britain, his homeland and one of the only countries which in the year of 2138 was not ruled by corporations.. And he couldn't serve it any longer.
His gaze fell sadly on his right leg, as he thought of his own world so different from this one.
A world ruled by poverty, controlled fully by those who have money. A world with so horrible air pollution that people had to walk outside with special masks. A world which his family and others swore to change, something which he could no longer do.
Many countries ln the world had lost their power, the old structure unable to hold society and leaving a power vacuum which was taken by the big corporations to seize control over the countries.
The first to fall was Japan, followed quickly by the United States. The European union fell as well and now was controlled by some of the biggest corporations in the world.
Few nations held. The first being China, ironically it was the communist party which held it thanks to its strict hierarchy.
So was Russia for similar reasons.
And the last large country was Britain.
When the social norms started to break and everything else started to break apart, the British government came to a difficult decision.
With an unprecedented move the government decided to revoke the act of commonwealth and return the power to the royal monarch.
With the military support the emperor Charles XI confiscated all that belonged to the corporations and destroyed their foundation, establishing the reborn empire of Britain, thus managing to save the nation in the last second.
The goal of the new empire was simple as the slogan of the emperor said "United we stand for Britain and world ".
With the help of the two other large countries they launched a new project to restore the ecological system of the earth all the while fighting the forces of those who tried to destroy the newly formed empire.
Alistair sighed as he shook himself out of the memories, there was no point in dwelling on his own powerless state. Instead he decided to hunt the larger monsters in the area.
Changing his armor into the stealth phantom armor he took again to the skies, his sensors in full alert.. He will have as much fun before it will end.
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Stopping after an hour of flight near a beach , the young Britishman was about to enjoy the peaceful scenery around him.The gentle break of the waves on the shores, the hot sand under his armored feet, the chipping of the birds flying above when the enemy detection sensors on his armor flared to life, worning him of an approaching hostile.. And it was huge.
Hastily Alistair activated his stealth cloak vanishing into obscurity as he looked to the east from where the readings were coming from.
And as he did, his breath hitched.
There, flying toward him was a massive creature, blue as the skies above it with two huge horns the young soldier easily identified the creature with its two massive wings.. The greatest monster of mythology, the unchallenged king of the skies. The beast who's power and terror was widely known across every myth.
The dragon.
And this monstrous creature was currently flying toward him.
Taking a deep breath, the young soldier calmed himself. He was after all under a stealth cloak and shouldn't be able to be detected he rationalized trying to calm down.
With his fear somewhat under control, the young Britanian focused on the information which started to stream on the visor of his helmet, showing the stats of the monster from its element and level to its defense and attack which made his eyes boggle.
"Bloody hell" he swore quietly "This think has the power of a ground tank with the added agility and flying ability of an helicopter".
A dark smile split his face "However, in the future such tanks are not really a problem" he thought deciding to use a more dangerous weapon.
"Code accses 101 PC" he said and the weapon materilazed in his hand.
It was a long gun- like in structure, slightly longer and thicker with an optic scope and a bigger muzzle, quite light for such a fearsome weapon.
This photon canon was created to take tanks out with one shot, completely obliterating them with their shields.
The weapon however had two downsides. The first being the relatively long time it take to charge a shot, and the second one was the overheating.
Due to the high temperature of the photon beam and the small structure of the gun it could shoot only one beam before it would overheat and would take at least an hour until the next beam could be fired.
However Alistair did not need more than one shot and activating the mechanism he waited the twelve seconds it took the beam to charge.
When the green light on the handle lightened up, the still cloaked soldier fell on one knee homing at the monster.
"And.. Fire" he said as he squized the trigger, releasing a beam of such temperature it left nothing but scorched earth as it moved.
Being a photon beam meant it moved at the speed of light which left the dragon no chance to dodge and the deadly blast collided with the monster, leaving nothing but a large loot box.
Laughing inwardly at the absurdity of the situation, the young British man walked toward to collect the loot dismissing the weapon in the process.
"Not bad" he muttered taking scanning the loot.
There were several dragon bones and other parts of the mythical creature which made him blink.. Because there was no way that anything should have been left of the creature after its unfortunate encounter.
But it wss a game after all, so with this thought he dismissed the entire thing and instead checked the timer.
"Still four hours to go" he muttered "Might as well do the best with it".
Without another word he took up into the bright skies toward the horizon.
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It happened just as he disposed of an orc tribe with an old fashioned SMG.
At first it wss just the wind, the strength of the the breeze changed drastically from strong wind into something more light.
Taking no notice of it, he went to take down another group of hostiles, he didn't notice the change of the skies with their bright stars as darkness covered the world. Nor did he noticed the different reactions of the monsters to his actions nor that he walked into a forest that wasn't there just a moment ago.
Only when he decided to stop and check the time did he notice something wrong. The clock... The game should have been shut down three hours ago!
"Did they decided to leave it working ?" he asked himself "Maybe they just decided not to close it but let it run until it will fall due to bugs by itself?"
Deciding to check the theory he activated his menu only to learn to his horror that he couldn't reach it.
"What the hell is going on?" he asked no one in particular only to be startled by a familiar voice.
"as much as I hate to admit it master, I do not have a definitive answer for this question, however I can say with a full faith that this place is different from the one you call Yggdrasil. a robotic voice sounded in his helmet.
Alistair's eyes widdended "Scorpio? Is that you?" he asked bewildered.
"Affirmative master. I am unit 005 personal helper AI Scorpio. I am within your equipment just like I always was" the now identified Scorpio said.
Alistair on the other hand was still wrapping his head around his situation "B-but" he stuttered "You never were that helpful" he said unsure.
"Affirmative master, in my original programming I was locked into few actions. However for some reason those restrictions are now no longer exist" the AI explained.
Alistair nodded in understanding when the first answer of the AI sunk in "Scorpio" he said quietly "What did you mean that this place is different from Yggdrasil?" he asked worried.
"I am not sure myself, however the geological scans have shown that this place is real.. As absurd as it sounds master this place is not Yggdrasil and logically means it is a different world, or alternatively the developers somehow created a new world out of Yggdrasil. To be honest master I do not know which one is more absurd " Scorpio finished.Alistair was in stupor, his mind in chaos with the information he was just provided and there was only one thing he was able to shove out of his mouth.
" Eehhhhhhh? "
End of chapter 2.
Sorry for the long wait. It hope you will enjoy it.