Author's notes:
Before you read this, I do want to state that this was a experimental piece of work. I tried to make a
shameless crossover with the Classical RTS franchise, Red Alert CQC and Generals, along with most of its well known mods, mixed WITH a RPG themed anime Overlord… to see what I can get out of it.
I also apologize for the inevitable grammar mistakes present in this work, as English is not my mother language and I cannot find a proof reader at the moment
so I wrote one million plus word all by myself, But still , all feedbacks are welcomed, but constructive feedbacks are greatly appreciated!
Disclaimer : I don't own Overlord, Red Alert, Generals, or any of the Command and Conquer mods mentioned. OC owned by me.
Ep I, Virtual Reality
.*World Socialist Alliance*.
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Burnt Balkans 23.45, 19XX
Hands crossed, chest forward, He walked up to the grand stage to his podium with his black leather trenchcoat billowing behind him like a cape. The Red star pinned his black peaked cap shone brightly , reflecting glimmers of red shining on it`s smooth charcoal surface.
Above him, the crimson flag of the Red Faction flew strong with pride, flying the golden symbol of the Hammer and sickle with utmost glory as under it was none other than Grand Soviet Commander Groza Lararev , ready to give a war speech to his legion of a million strong men , tanks and Armoured Airships from all the different nations of the Red Faction that fought with him under all for one goal, one cause.
To Fight under the glorious Red Banner of Marxism against the Blue Allied Capitalist Cancer, the White Fascist hordes of the Empire of the Rising Sun, and the Yellow Terrorist Barbarians of the Global "Liberation" Army that had dared to challenge the might of the united working class.
"Comrades!"
The infantrymen, Conscripts and Red Guards stomped the ground in thunderous chorus then stood in attention in their commander`s voice. While in the air, the Soviet Kirov Airships and Chinese Propaganda Airships steered their hull towards their leader, the crewmen poked their heads out of the windows or rushed to the decks in respect for their commander`s speech. In the Armoured Column, stood in their Commander Cupolas, the tank Commanders of the Overlord and Soviet Apocalypse Heavy Tanks turned their heads towards to their leader while their large calibered twin barrels of their respective tanks was steered at the enemy's direction. Beyond the red fortified gates and walls. Ready to fire at their Grand Commander`s order.
"Greetings to you all! My comrades from China, Romania, Korea, Cuba, and to my countrymen from the Great Soviet Motherland, along with all the other brothers and sisters from the glorious World Socialist Alliance. As your present Supreme Commander of the Red Army, I welcome you to the Balkans, where we will finally drive the Western imperialist in the Southern European Region away once and for all!"
The crowd below him roared, cheered and raised their rifle or fist up in the air in support of their leader.
Groza paused and he eyed to the left a bit, where the North Korean Commandos had arrived from the left flank and even some Non-humans, such the Heteromorphics like the Vampires from the Transylvanian Securitate and Demihumans like the Bearmen Artillerymen had arrived into the scene as well, joining the Commissars and Chinese Hackers in the Special Forces Column of the formation. A diverse army with a diverse arsenal, a Grotesque Chimera army that will be unsightly to many of the Union's prejudicial enemies.
But here under the Red Banner, as far as everybody present in the Red Square concern. There were no heteromorphics, demihumans or humans today, there is only the Proletariat, and the army of the Proletariat. All men and woman who was willing to fight for the Union and in the frontline here were as equal and respected, no one is more equal than another. A difference from the Japanese fascists from the Empire and the religious fanatics of the Global Liberation Army.
A strength that made him swell with pride and an evidence of the strength of the Socialist Ideology. Sadly the smile on his face have to wavered as he hardened his expressions for the next phrase of his speech.
"The Imperialists never learn comrades. Even after two World Wars, after the horrors our people and their people witnessed.
We thought that like us, the Americans and their Allied Forces should also learnt from this tragedy, and would work together to build a better world for everybody, peasants, workers, and farmers alike to live in. Where our Children can play without the fear of being bombed, our sons and daughters who can work hard and steadfastly for his nation and his family instead of gripping a gun and charge only to return in coffins.
And now it was already 1989, And indeed, decades ago they seemed to have learn the meaning of peace. Even made peace conferences on humanitarian issues, and made charity organisations and alliances that all claimed to have the goal of world peace, kindness, freedom, and of course, for their favourite word :
'Democracy'..."
Groza hissed the word "Democracy" with much distaste and hate with a pause, before continuing with his speech.
"But what lies hide behind these bright slogans?
Those Western Charity Organisation had multiple evidence of embezzlement, those Allied runned Peace Conferences only made outrageous treaties that benefits their own selfish "sphere of influence" and those International Security Organisations… invaded other countries when it seemed fit to exploit their people and resources to exert their Imperialism and profit. My Korean, Latin, Iraqi and Syrian Brothers present here understand this more than I do.
Millions of Children have their homes bombed. Our Middle Eastern allies enslaved, replaced by kleptocratic puppet regimes set by the Imperialists and their corporations to assert their control and oppression. Men and women once again forced by their Presidents and CEOs to grip their M16 assault rifles just to march into the battlefield and return back in coffins, and all for what? Spreading their "Democracy"? Or spreading their cancer like what Colonists did, like what the fascist, the dreadful Hitlerites did back in our Great Patriotic War?
But unlike the Western cowards in the 1920s, We will not show weakness like Chamberlain or the French, and we shall stand our ground and take action before their darkness can reach our Motherland. We will kick those imperialists like how we kicked the fascists back to the hole where they came from! We will not allow them to push into our borders like what Hitler did and we will participate in this sacred war for our nations!
They call it World War III, but we will call it the Second Great Patriotic War!"
The Soviet Conscripts cheered at the words "Great Patriotic War." Groza raised a hand and the square was silent again, a grim expression were crept to his face.
"But be warned comrades, this war isn't simply a easy as the previous two, let's not forget the side effects of what their Imperialism had created. Out of the ashes the laid by the American`s plunder in the middle east. Out come the treacherous GLA, Global Liberation Army, the terrorist scum who had butchered the whole of Middle East and Africa while infecting their barbaric cultic ways to our lands, currently tearing through the Allied defenses in Turkey and Greece while causing multiple terrorist attacks in our homefront… such as the terrible nuclear genocide they committed in Beijing.
While in the East, an old enemy had went back to their back stabbing ways. Motivated by the imperialism the West had performed, the Empire of the Rising Sun too had decided to exercise blatant fascism! Plunging their daggers into our Eastern territories while oppressing , raping and torturing our Chinese and Korean Comrades for the sake of their imperialism and their precious Emperor. Do not forget the humiliation in Nanjing! Do not forget evil of Unit 731!
But also, do not forget our victories, the glorious 100 Regiment War, the Long March, and do not forget the complete repellation of the Japanese fascist off the Chinese shores in 1956! "
Cheers erupted from the crowd, most of those came from the Red Guards and the Overlord Tanks. With a smile Groza raised a palm, and crowd calmed down, and slowly the palm curled inward, clenching into a fist.
"And most importantly,
Do not forget… now our chance is within our grasp. With our enemies tearing each other apart, the West finally found their kleptocracy in disarray. While the Japanese Fascists and the Western Capitalists wasted their own people's life for the little rocks in the Pacific and in the Middle East they can barely keep their control due to their desperate dogfight for scraps with the GLA mutts. We have defended our people well and resisted! We, the Resistance, with minimal losses of our people, had reorganised and became a strengthened Union compared to those rotten dogs in a mess! WE, now have the upperhand! HENCE,"
Raising his loaded PPSH-41 Submachine gun up in the air like his treasured sword, louder this time he cried.
"...we had enough stalling and defense, now we strike back! Now we go offensive and charge for our People, break that Blue wall the Allies had built to surround us, and then liberate the proletariat of the world in the great name of Socialism! "
He pointing the tip of the barrel to the direction of the setting sun, to the West.
"STARTING WITH THE BALKANS! WE CHARGE! URRAAHH!"
A resounding "URAH!" or other red battle cries in other language roared from the masses below. Some Cuban"Viva la revolución!" can be heard crying here and there. The Bearman Artillerymen roared when they raised their handheld artillery piece up high like their rifles. Soviet Mig Fighter Jets swooshed over Groza`s head accompany a swarm of Twinblade attack Copters following its lead.
"Get to your vehicles! We go to war!" Groza cried, immense pride swelled his heart as he watched his men charge into their vehicles and tanks, flagbearers amongst them, fluttering Red Banners and their respective nation's flag flew high as they charged. Displaying the full might of...
"∼Chen-san ∼ you got a call! ∼Chen-san∼ you got a call!" a young girl's childish voice blasted out of nowhere, the rest of the Red Army seemed oblivious to such curious and unnatural occurrence, but Groza on the other hand...
"Ugh, Just when things was about to get awesome..."
Eyes rolling, Groza waved a hand and all his charging men , flying jets freezed midair and the world suddenly turned into a icy blue haze, as if time have frozen itself. Floating boxes like clock, menu, options and settings materialised around him. But his eyes were focusing on the vibrating phone icon on his bottom left hand corner.
"Incoming Call : Peroroncino".
"Great, just in the middle where I was making a kickass trailer that took hours to prepare and rehearse, *sigh*, what could Kazeumi's little brother want in a time like this?" He grumbled.
Waving his hand, he deactivated the invisible cameras that recorded his front and back, the menu for audio enhancers and etc. Including a hidden script floating right before him. All the tools he needed for the kickstarter trailer of his game, set up by himself and himself only. It was fun really, dressed in a oversized overcoat, wearing a military cap and acting a role as a Grand Soviet Commander of his own great army, the aura of power and authority was indeed fun. Something you cannot have outside the beautiful virtual world of the DMMO system, and something he know will surely suck in real life due the responsibility that comes behind it.
He pressed the answer button on the box, and the annoying ringtone that the mischievous Kazeumi set for him stopped abruptly.
A few flickers and static a screen appeared before him, in the screen was a bespectacled young man wearing a white t-shirt with a anime girl picture printed on it.
"Ah Chen-san hello! Uhh, there's something I would want to talk to you about ...woah." Peroroncino tilted his head and peeked over Groza`s shoulders.
Groza, or better known as Chen Tse Jun, chuckled as he turned towards the war scene of the warplanes , tanks and Infantrymen with either guns or war banners charging to battle.
"Yeah I know, took a day or more to set all this up, impressive eh?"
"I mean, what have you done to the Vampire Brides? I mean damn, I never thought undead chicks would look so hot in Military Outfits!"
And there goes Chen`s pride, falling to the ground with a loud plang as he turned behind him.
Turning to the Vampires from the Transylvanian Securitate, who were the Romanian secret police equivalent of the Soviet KGB, infamous for their deadly efficiency and their way of doing things. They are the Special Units Chen made for Romania SSR's arsenal. Which in reality were actually a revamped version of Vampire Brides. But instead of dressing in ghastly white dresses and using primitive claws and fangs as their weapons, these undead elite units were dressed black military trenchcoats with red armbands, and a peaked officer's cap that had a red star insignia with a skull on them.
On their gloved hands were armed with a bayoneted scoped AK47 rifles, assault rifles modified into deadly sniper rifles perfect for assassination missions. Despite their heavy trenchcoats, due the belt tightening around their waist the curveness of their two "assets" were emphasised.
While they might be a reskin and all, one have no idea how much effort it took to revamp these vampires. Chen and his partner and story advisor, Vladim, suffered a lot while writing a entire backstory about these units. Such as doing painful research on Eastern European Vampire folklore and then reading on a entire history about Communist Romania or Romania SSR back in the Cold War before writing their lore.
Then, Chen have to reorganize all their stats from scratch, deciding to give them what weapons to give them , what passives to remove. Such as the tier 4 Charm spell that had been deemed too overpowered by Chen, removed along with other unfair mind control spells and instant kill spells that he detested during his time in Yggdrasil. And during that date for some weird reasons, Kazuko said his feeling unwell and thus unavailable for the project. Chen have to do all the art for the Vampires himself, under his unwell colleague's radar.
The same thing goes for the Bearmen Artillerymen, Undead Conscripts and the Undead Flaktroopers (Revamped Versions of Death Knights).
"And now these girls gave him a boner?" Chen thought. He had almost forgotten that one of the main reason why Kazuko agreed to be a part of this project was because he was bribed by his sister with vintage hentai adult comics dated back in the golden 21st century.
He looked at one of the Transylvanian Securitate who was charging with her bayoneted rifle with a fierce expression on her face, her mouth opened up as she was screaming a battlecry. Perfect opportunity to see the sharp fangs in her mouth. But her face do look youthful and beautiful through.
"Ugh, do not get distracted Chen!" He internally scolded himself.
"So uh Kazuko, is there anything else you want to talk about?" He said in a friendly smile.
"Oh heh heh sorry, I want to see how's Shalltear doing under your care while you know… I handed her to you for your experiment?"
"Of course, Shalltear right? But first, let me do something."
Chen raised finger and unpaused the game, his troops unfreezed and continued their charge. The battlecries and charges resumed in a instant..
Summoning a holographic map from his hand, he called out : "Return back to formation : garrison for trailer clip 1."
The running troops' expression initially were that of fierce and war-hungry, had immediately relaxed at their puppeteer's order.
A chorus of "Da Comrade Commander!" can be heard from the Conscripts as they marched back.
"Yes Tovaras!" The Vampire Bri - Securitates responded.
"Orders received, Commander Tong Zhi." the Red Guards said as they turned back to return back to base.
The same goes for other units Chen summoned for this trailer or short clip he intend to make for kickstarter of this game.
Like marionettes pulled by their programming, the soldiers who rushed outside or was about to rush out of the base walked back into the red square, the tanks and armoured vehicles rolled slowly behind them. The Jets did a lazy U-turn before flying back to their Level 3 Hangars, while the Airships and the Twinblades just simply turn a 180 degree turn and flew back their original positions. Soon all the the units were back, lined up neatly in their formations like before, a sea of soldiers and tanks and airships were displayed once again before Chen's eyes, but it was a fresh sight for Peroroncino, or Kazuko himself.
"Woah." he said again.
"So, now with all that tidied up, I bring you to Shalltear?" Chen asked, snapping Kazuko out of his daze, gesturing behind him.
"Of course Chen San, lead the way." Kazuko looked and gulped as he found himself looking at a gigantic Structure right behind Chen's back.
The Level 3 Command Center, the center of the Soviet base.
It took the shape of a red towering gigantic structure that bore an uncanny resemblance to the Kremlin Palace of Russia, but just modified with weird sci-fi tesla coils, steampunk stuff, radars and military decorations, and lots and lots of red flags installed on the tips of the ice cream shaped tips of the palace-like structure. The tips of the flag poles impaling the storm clouds like lightning rods. The Center was just meters away from the Red Square where his current army was now waiting at, with Chen's position right in between the two places. The Level 3 building is the heart of the base, and in there houses Chen's Generals, powerful boss-like Characters that can be either be used as hero-units of a RTS game, or can be played as a playable character, and Shalltear was one of them.
Still, the height of the Command Center took Kazuko's breath away for the third time. So much that he hasn't notice that Chen had dragged Kazuko's floating screen with him and already walked halfway up the stairs to the reinforced towering double gates of the palace, a hammer and sickle insignia was carved onto each of them.
"So, Shalltear are in there right?"
"Yes. Third floor, the General's hangar." He answered.
"Umm Can't you teleport up there with Console Commands and whatsoever?"
Chen paused his footsteps, and slowly wheezed out a dry laughter.
"But I like to enjoy watch the scenery very much, don't you Kazuko?" He said softly with a smile on his face, low and quiet, hands crossed on his back as he walked.
Kazuko gulped.
It was then he noticed that Chen still in his Groza persona, he bore the portrait of a Commander. That posture, that gravelly tone was unnerving. He now wonder how other people saw Ulbert when he tried to roleplay as the big evil bad guy to every other players who tried to invade Nazarick during those days back in Yggdrasil, he wondered how he look like or sound like when he was Peroroncino.
"Kazuko brother? Are you still with me?"
"Oh yea sorry, just spaced out with some...uh random thoughts bothering my head currently. Just went back from work, you get a little tired, such things will happen quite often, ha ha."
"Yeah, I can relate, but ~" Chen said, waving his mechanical left arm over the doors, the hammer and sickle insignias on both handles glowed deeply in red, before a loud metallic 'clank' can be heard.
And the two doors slowly slide open, revealing what that was concealed behind them.
" ~ it was just that for three years, you, your sister, me and Vladim had put in so much into making this thing into a reality. So I think we should take pride of our fruits of labour and enjoy this scenery, our scenery that is." Chen said with a bright smile on his face.
The foyer of the place were gigantic, big enough to fit a ICBM missile in the center of the area. Furnished with 20th century Eastern European Architecture. A bronze statue of Lenin was placed at the center, looking up high up at the ceiling with steely eyes. Where up above, dozens and dozens of feets and stories above ground was a gigantic circle with a iron red star was built on the ceiling.
On those stories, red flags with either Red slogans in different languages or hammer and sickles sigils draped from each and every window, two curved marble staircases leading to the walkway of the second floor, carpeted.
Kazuko, through his floating screen, noticed that guarding the entrance was a Conscript and a Red Guard, both units were the main infantry backbone of their own respective military. Both armed with a intimidating Kalashnikov rifles, the Red Guard`s one was bayoneted with a spike.
This time Kazuko didn't utter a "Woah" , he just left his jaw hanging wide.
"Enjoy it Kazuko? This is our hardwork Comrade, our scenery. Now it's almost complete and ready launch, just like a warhead."
"I only saw the sketches and stuff, but I never thought that it would look this great in DMMO, and you did this all by yourself."
"Oh please Kazuko, you did most of the art while I just merely rearrange it into this. Regardless, these are the fruits our labour, and without you, it cannot bear!" Chen said this with a bright smile on his face.
"Yeah, that's great but -" Kazuko pursed his lips and sighed. "but I have a question."
"Yes Kazuko?"
"Ok, so uh I am thinking. We spent three years making this thing … real. And this thing is truly cool! I mean, look at the army outside, this place, wow! And not to mention those Vampire Brides and Death knights that you revamped outside, also wow! It just felt like Yggdrasil, but with a little favour added into it heh heh … heh."
Kazuko`s smile start to grew uneasy. He let out a sigh before speaking his next sentence.
"So, Just imagine how much we could earn from this."
"Kazuko, we all agreed that this is a non-profit project."
"Come on Chen! We worked for it! What's wrong with just earning from the fruits of our labour? You said it yourself, "fruits of our labour" man. Look, I really need the money."
"But we agreed, this is a non-profit project. We promised our donors and sponsors that we must not misuse our funds." Chen repeated. This time, Kazuko lost his temper.
"Misuse?! I am on my way to the slums right now and how is paying my rent and food misusing money! Please Chen, I just got cast out of my job as a digital artist two days ago because my boss don't need me anymore. And do you know what happen to a jobless Japanese man in Neo-Kyoto?"
Chen watched deadpanned as Kazuko just broke down behind the holographic screen before him.
"Neo Kyoto is a place where there is no poor, why? The poor gets kicked out of the city by those damned Yakuzas because they are unsightly and can't pay the protection fee! Where they will be given no food and starve and nobody will give a shit about them. Outside the walls of Tokyo, there was corpses of jobless men lying on the cold concrete , most of them died of starvation or diseases. While inside, it was a whole different story."
Kazuko started panting, Chen can see his eyes were dilating as he spoke.
"I don't want to be one of those corpses, I don't want to. All I need was just some money that can allow me to survive for one year before I find another job. That's all I asked."
"Does your sister know about this?"
"I don't want to worry onee-san and I don't want to rely on her. Look Chen, the thing is that my sis is a famous a voice actor, and … What was that man's name from Neo-Soviet Russia again?"
"Antonov Vladim." Chen answered
"Right, he is a high ranking KGB officer working in the People's Commissariat of Propaganda and you work in the Cyber Department of the People's Liberation Army, and I don't want to be plain old Kazuko-san suffering in debt! How will my sister think of me if she found out about this? Please understand this."
Chen was speechless, his avatar put a palm over his face and rubbed his temple.
"I am sorry Kazuko. In the People's Republic of China, there is zero tolerance to corruption. Misusing funds is an act of corruption regardless of any reasons, and you will be sent to Forced labour camp for such acts against the State. It will be worse if you are a Party Member or someone working for the Government like me, you will face the Red Tape before meeting the Firing Squad.
When I asked the People's Ministry of Art to sponsor me in this community project, one of the things I agreed on my contract is that it was a non profit project. If I go against that and tried to help you through this project, I will face the Red Tape."
Kazuko stared at Chen with a defeated look, before eventually collapsing and burying his face in his palm and started weeping.
"My God." He whimpered.
"Kazuko…"
"No, I understand. I am sorry that I don't understand your situation. I will think of something myself. Our world sucks doesn't it? Either there is no law like Japan and the rest of Conglomerate Europe or, there is a law like China, Soviet Russia and Fascist America, but … eh you know.
But hey, At least I still have my vintage-eros right? Perhaps I can sell them for a living till I find another job. Perhaps..."
Kazuko sighed as he tried to regain composure. Tear stains still glistening on his cheeks as he forced a enthusiastic smile.
"Ugh, nevermind, sorry for bothering you Chen-san, see you sometime." He bowed as he prepared to disconnect from the chat.
"Kazuko Wait!" Chen cried and Kazuko immediately turned back with a surprised look.
Head lowered, Chen`s avatar straightened his cap before looking back at his friend`s brother again. When his eyes caught sight of the desperate eyes on his friend's face, he can thought of was the piles of corpses outside the walls of Tokyo with Kazuko being amongst them. And his Sister's sweet smiling face, and how it would change when She heard about her brother`s predicament.
He shook his head, he will not allow that.
"I may have a way to help you."
Kazuko immediately leaned forward.
" I am going to write you a cheque of a few million dollars, and hopefully that will get you out of your situation."
"What?! Chen-san, I cannot just take your money like that! Taking other people's money for your own situation is shameful!"
"It's either that or Kazeumi would have to know. To survive, you have set aside your pride sometimes. Plus, this cheque is only between you and me, your sister and other outsiders wouldn't need to know."
"B...but I can't guarantee me returning the cash on time, I don't want be a scam…"
"Don't worry brother, we can discuss the return date any time when you solved your problem. As long as you are willing to return what you borrowed, there will be no problem and there will be no shame. I put friends over cash, and knowing you and your sister. I think I can trust you. So what do you say?"
Kazuko hesitated, but eventually nodded.
"Good, tomorrow I will go to the Municipal Building and have my paperworks and state permissions done before sending this cheque overseas to Japan. All you need to do is to send me some of your personal particulars."
"Wait? you need my personal particulars and State permissions to write one fricking cheque?" Kazuko exclaimed.
"Well, after 2120s, the Communist Party had been quite bruta … I mean strict, about corruption and Corporatocracy. The General Secretary doesn't want his officials to send and conceal funds to Arcologies or Conglomerate States or even to the Fascist States overseas, so the Party decided to keep tabs on overseas transactions.
Another reason was to catch Traitorous spies working with either Corporative entities, or the American Fascists."
Kazuko stared blankly at Chen, before snapping out of his trance and sighed.
"Anyways, thank you for helping me out, people like you are rare in a world like this. I think I owe you one after this."
"Don't mention it friend. But other than that, I still have one small condition." Chen said in a serious tone.
Kazuko raised a eyebrow.
"Which is…?"
Chen heaved his shoulders and let out a smile.
"Say hi to your sister for me. "
Kazuko rolls his eyes and Chen chuckled.
"So, with that settled, do you want to see Shalltear Bloodfallen now?"'
"Of course , why not?"
Sighing, he put his hands the pockets of his trenchcoat and strolled to the center of the foyer, right at the heart of the Red star painted on the marble ground. And looked up.
At the third floor.
"Console Command : Teleport me and Guest_01 to Third Floor." Chen ordered.
With a shimmer, Chen`s avatar and Kazuko`s screen glowed a bit before teleporting to the third floor in a flash. Stepping into the area, they both looked around. As this was already an regular sight for him, Chen gazed it with inspecting eyes but for Kazuko.
He said "Woah…" for the umpteenth time.
War plans, more red flags, a shelf with ammunitions of different calibers, rifles , machine guns and other sorts of small arms were organized neatly before him. In the center was a steel table, where the war map of the Burnt Balkans was placed with small standards and mini figurines of opposing colours on top of it.
And surrounding the table, were all four of his generals.
Lei Feng the Infantry General. Voice-acted and made by Chen himself, the first general ever created in this mod. In standby with his Flapped-down Ushanka that bore the symbol of the People's Liberation Army, and armed with his big enthusiastic smile along with his PPSH-41 Submachine gun.
Sekri T.D the Armoured General, made by Kazeumi or better known as Bukubukuchagama, when testing the game. A result of her speciality with Defensive Specialized Tank characters, as well as her obsession with lolis. A short little girl wearing a Soviet Tanker Helmet that covered most of her spikey short blond hair poking out of the it, and she wore a ribbed tankmen's uniform that modelled after WW2 Soviet Tank operators. Despite her short stature, she was not to be underestimated, but to be feared. When she looked at Chen with her chrome coloured eyes and smiled wide, she revealed her rows of sharp metal teeth casted from Steel, as if someone put an beartrap into her mouth. A massive DSHK-Tank machine gun and a 122mm tank gun both greater than her size, both capable of annihilating a single infantry or armour company with ease, was slung on her back intimidatingly.
Vladimir Moskvin the Nuclear General, Antonov Vladim`s own creation, and also a symbol representing his obsession for nukes. Like his real life self, Moskvin was a bearded man with a bear-sized body built, however he was twice the size of his creator and due to nuclear radiation as mentioned in his lore, he had been mutated to a ghoulish hulk with rotten blue skin, rotten teeth and white milky eyes that shown fierceness and wisdom at the same time. He wears a suit that was a hybrid of a Hazmat suit and a trenchcoat, he also donned a Ushanka that had a insignia that depicted a Nuclear Symbol within a Red Star.
And finally, Kazuko`s prized creation during his time in Yggdrasil as Peroroncino. Now reskinned by Chen and given a new life as a Special Secret Police General.
Commissar Shalltear Bloodfallen stood firm amongst the four Generals under his command…
Kazuko's screen floated towards his creation gingerly And like the rest of the NPCS, she stared back at him with a unchanging default look on her face.
Just eight or a few years ago, he still remembered how once was. Pale skin with two small fangs peeping from her lips mischievously, indicators of her race being a true vampire. Dressed in a heavy purple evening dress that doesn't reveal much skin, rather conservative in style. A short stature and bears a appearance of a fourteen year old girl. But despite that, she was a true beauty. Her skin although dead and pale, there were as smooth as silk, alluring ruby eyes, and the perfect facial features with a expression and a tongue of a seductive geisha, and not to mention that buxom chest of hers. Hence it was no big surprise that she became a subject of perversion for Peroroncino, a young Kazuko during his Yggdrasil days.
However, it was all because of Shalltear that cause the young him to gave up all his expensive items to his Guild Leader, quit Yggdrasil, and deleted that game from his DMMO System forever. As a undead loli was too much of an reminder of the usual underage girls roles her sister voice acted as in the H-games she was involved in.
Now, it has already been eight years, and those years had brought changes. Kazuko had already grown up from Peroroncino to a fully adult man. And before him, Shalltear had also grown.
No longer she was wearing that purple evening dress nor sporting that seducing expression of hers. But now donned in blacked peaked officer's cap with red star with skull pin on it. The same insignia that The Transylvanian Vampire Securitate outside used. She was dressed in a heavy vested officer's jacket of matching colours with her left sleeve was bandaged with a red armband and shiny military medals sported on her chest. And not caring much for trivial fashion, it had been removed of it's fake chest pads and had been flattened as a boy's.
She seemed to have grown taller too, a inch higher than when Peroroncino had last seen her, perhaps this was due to the heavy black military boots she was wearing now. Her ruby eyes and the same fine facial features still remained, but her expression had changed. From a seductive geisha with arrogant smile and a bratty look on her eyes, to a stern and determined look of a true military officer.
"It was like she had all grown up." Kazuko said with an nostalgic smile. Chen nodded in response.
"So...you worked on her all by yourself that day?"
He nodded again.
"No Vladim?"
"No Vladim, I completed Commissar Shalltear all by myself just for fun, her lore and her build. Plus I need to test out if that function of accepting old Yggdrasil assets works or not."
"And Vladim still haven't heard of this?"
"Mhhmm."
"I wonder what he would say when he saw this. A Vampiric Communist officer girl with the flattest chest I have ever seen."
"Knowing him, he would probably say 'Anime is gay.' "
Kazuko chuckled a bit, and soon his screen retracted away from Shalltear and turned to Chen's direction.
"Welp, it's been such a long time since I last saw her face. I remember years ago, I put so much hard work into making her nice this, then a month later I immediately just left her and all my items to Momonga just like that. And now I can't say that I did not regret such decision, and the cost of those items can surely feed me for two or more months..."
He sighed at the thought, before recovering and putting on that dry smile again.
"But anyways, after you launch this game, the first thing I want to do is set Shalltear as my avatar and maybe, I won't commit the same mistakes ever again. I wish you good luck on your work and farewell and thanks… for everything."
"No problem Kazuko, it's my pleasure." Chen said with a genuine smile on his face.
Kazuko smiled back in farewell, then his screen flickered and warped before disappearing in a flash. Leaving Chen alone once again in his little virtual world with his generals. After three or more seconds, he pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed as he reflected at what happened for the past few minutes.
Silently, Chen walked towards the table with the war map and look at it with tired look in his eyes. On the map was a 3D model of the landscape of the Burnt Balkans, which consisted mostly of swamps, open fields or mountainous or hilly areas all around the area. At the north of the map, there was a minitarized model of his base along with markers and translucent figurines of tanks and vehicles in red representing his army. While at the far west was blue figurines and buildings that represented the AI controlled base of the Allied Forces, while at the far east was a miniature base of the Empire of the Rising Sun in white. At the far South-East of the map, was nothing but a spot of darkness. Representing the last unexplored area on the map.
"Grid A1948, the last unexplored area in the entire game." Chen mumbled.
And with this area checked, and Chen's work will finally be complete. A final error check before logging out of the DMMO system and getting a wholesome goodnight sleep after all these years of hardwork.
"Console Command: Teleport me to Grid A1948."
Chen closed his eyes and opened then again.
"Hmm?"
He was still in his War room, with his generals staring blankly at him.
"Console Command I repeat, teleport me to Grid A1948 ."
No response again.
Must be a bug, a freaking bug in a time like this. Chen frowned as that indicates that more patching work awaits him after he logged out. But still, Grid A1948 first, then he check what's wrong with the game after the one hundred and eleventh scan he made.
"Console Command I repeat! … Teleport -"
This time, with a soft sizzling noise interrupted him. He turned around in confusion, before noticing a small strand of electric spark was dancing the palm of his mechanical left hand. A small dancing violet string of twirling spark, thinner than that of a baby earthworm.
"What?"
Curiouser, he moved his palm closer to his eye, inspecting the suspicious little lightning on his palm. As now the spark was inches away from his cheeks, licking the air between them, the incessant sizzling noise grew louder. He remembered that he did not add any lightning effect to his character, nor was such decal present in the old Soviet Commander build in Red Alert. So why is there a…
The spark`s snapped into a crack, and it grew from a spark to a lighting bolt in a instant before snaking around his arm without warning. Ensnaring the grand commander as he was taken by surprise as he fumbled backwards and tried to shake it off, or spun it off. Lumbering around the area like a headless chicken, bumping to several shelves tables as he gave his best attempts against the lighting continue spreading over his body.
While unironically, the generals around him stood like statues while staring at him blankly. Not even lending a helping hand.
"Console, log me out now!" He screamed to his faulty system. Now the bolts flew around him like a bubble of electric aura. Which more furiously than ever, threatening to consume Chen's entire being.
And unlike before, the system responded,
But instead of logging him back to the main menu interface, a deafening boom of thunder knocked his ears out cold, while his whole vision blinded into a bleached white. remembering that the last thing he saw was Shalltear's two brilliant red orbs, staring at him as he flashed into a white oblivion.
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"Please..." A female's voice echoed through the whiteness, sounding both desperate and hollow.
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"Hello, Who's there?" Chen cried as he panicked.
Like the mysterious voice earlier, his voice echoed into the whiteness. Repeating the words "Hello, Who's there?" into the other side.
"Please… stop … him " The voice repeated, but didn't answered his question.
"Stop who?" He cried out once again .
"Before it's too late..."
The voice started to fade.
"Wait!"
Chen turned to the direction of the voice and dashed after it. And he stopped after five steps.
The surroundings had changed, he was no longer standing in a empty whiteness, but in some sort of crypt.
Skeletons, half rottened corpses and coffins laid scattered all around the cobblestone floor that now Chen stood on. Medieval styled flags and unlit caged torches were installed alongside the ceiling.
.
A dungeon.
Where was he?
where had he teleported to?
Perhaps to another world?
A bead of sweat rolled down his cheek. He immediately summoned his holographic map and … he was still in the Burnt Balkans. And he was standing right at the centre of Grid A1948, still inside a virtual reality built inside his DMMO engine.
Eyes rolling, Chen sighed and left out a sigh of relief, and disappointment.
Just like he expected, this was all fake, probably some data cache that he forgot to clear. He must have somehow triggered a cutscene when he teleported to this dungeon, so perhaps that's why it was a bit glitchy when he tried to teleport to here via console command.
Like as if anything extraordinary would happen in his boring life.
He strolled to a coffin closest to a wall, and sat on it with melancholy. Reflecting at what happened just now when he almost thought that cutscene was real, he wondered, what would happened if it was real, but most importantly, does he want it real? If it was, escaping reality and being on a hero teleported to some other universe to defeat stop some big evil Overlord sounds fun, at least less it was less boring than his office life as a Operator or military hacker working at the headquarters of the PLA Cyber Department, where everyday was either facing a computer screen doing whatever your Officer instructed you to, or worse, sorting paperwork on thursday.
Sadly, that was still fantasy which was what the DMMO is for, getting yourself immersed into a fake virtual world where you can be someone cool and important, but you bore the knowledge that all of it fake. Nevertheless, he will choose to be transported to another world to fight some super evil baddie over his dull boring life as a white collar human being. It was not like he have nothing to leave behind here…
But no,
How can he say that, how can he say that when he was here, right inside Red Alert Yggdrasil, where Kazeumi, Vladim and Kazuko awaits him to launch this work so that all their efforts won't go to waste. And Kazuko, how can he leave when he literally made a promise to help him tomorrow so that he will not end up like a corpse like the skeleton inside the coffin he was sitting on right now! How can he leave all of them behind? Furthermore, he is a proud member of the PLA Cyberforce, a force that allowed China to be how it is today, one of the last few proud nations in planet earth that haven't fallen into Corpocracy unlike all the other East Asian Nations around them and it was his duty, as member of the CCP and the PLA, to make sure his homeland stays that way. This is a sacred duty of patriotism that he cannot leave that behind!
So he thought, why seek an fake fantasy when reality have lots to offer despite its flaws?
"No, I shall take that wish back. Let's just get this place checked out so I can finally launch it, log out to the real world, so I can fulfill my promise to Kazeumi, Vladim and most importantly, to Kazuko, and then continue to serve my nation with pride." He said to himself.
He got up from the coffin and straightened his coat.
"And now, I shall go to work."
He summoned his holographic map of this area on his palm as he scanned this area with his eyes. From it seemed to Chen it looked like some sort of Boss`s arena, and with it`s cryptic settings. Chen guessed that this boss must be a heteromorphic boss with some sort of dark necromantic power to him or her, or even it. Afterall, the Burnt Balkans was a revamped version of the world Helheim.
Still, it would be a shame that Chen wipe this place clean, for the dungeons of Helheim were famous for being amazing wonders of art and this one was such example of that. It's massive interior, its details like the cobblestone walls, the gothic coffins and the 41 flags with beautiful golden embroidery draping down the ceiling. Each one of them was not a lazy duplicate to another and possessed it's own unique sigil… sigils that seemed way too familiar.
"Something is wrong." Chen muttered.
Chen furrowed his eyebrows and quickly moved to one of the flags, and his eyes widened at the flags.
The one with that depicted a being that looked like a rotated S-shape with scorpion tips. He recognized that one symbol.
Chen summoned his menu and selected the contract list, then he scrolled down where he found the same symbol … on Bukubuchagama's profile picture, a perfect match.
He eyes shifted to the flag next to it, a sigil that shown a symbol of a pair of spike tipped phoenix wings, and he almost lost his breath when he shifted back to his contact list.
"That's Kazuko's flag!"
And there's only one dungeon in the whole of Helheim that bears the flags of Kazeumi and Kazuko. And Chen opened his mouth in awe at the revelation. He been to this place before, this was where that happened.
He is standing in the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
But why, why was he here? It doesn't make sense! The Great Tomb of Nazarick couldn't possibly be in the far Southeast of the map! In fact he checked the whole map once, he couldn't possibly missed such a monumental place. It was like as if it was teleported here by some random supernatural force!
But then, all thought process was lost when Chen sense heard something coming him, footsteps, three of them... Slowly turning behind him, Chen widened his eyes in shock once he saw the source of the noise.
Shalltear Bloodfallen, in her classical purple evening dress and bonnet, umbrella at one hand while accompanied by two vampire brides. A arrogant bratty smile plastered on her face while both of her collaborates wore unsettling emotionless expressions.
"Ah, what do we have here? A bug who thought he could sneak into our Great Tomb of Nazarick unscathed? Pathetic."
Chen''s face paled at the Vampire as he stared at her with confusion and blankness. He pressed a button awkwardly on his wrist as a bead of sweat rolled down his forehead.
Shalltear threw away her umbrella which had disintegrated in the dark butterflies as she did so.
"Still, knowing you might quickly die but ~ I think it would be best if I introduce myself before that happen, so the last thing you will ever think of before I suck you dry would be my name ringing in your head."
She bend her knee while holding on her dress, a curtsy to her prey before their demise.
"I am Shalltear Bloodfallen, Floor Guardian of the first, second and third floors of…"
Then she stopped when she noticed that Chen wasn't even playing a single bit of attention to her, but pressing some sort of red holographic interface before him without even batting her a eye. Offending the Vampire in every way possible.
"Pest. Can you at least show some respect when I am talking to you?" She growled.
But her adversary still paid no attention to her, her ice-thin patience with this weird stranger was cracking.
Then the final straw break when this trash chanted a word that drove her into a fit of anger.
"Peroroncino, Peroroncino, Peroro…" Chen said as he scrolled down his contract list on his interface.
Shalltear eyes widen in shock upon hearing the words, as this… nobody having the audacity the even word out her Supreme Being's name! Red aura flared out of the Vampire as her predatory eyes burnt at the direction of the stranger who offended her with his ignorance and disrespect.
Meanwhile, Chen was scrolling down his contact list to find Kazuko's profile.
"And found him!" Chen thought, elated to find that his friend was still online.
"Y-Yo, Kazuko I wanna ask you something." He said out loud with uneasy smiles as he typed the message into his keyboard.
It doesn't take long before Kazuko respond.
"Yes Chen-San?" Kazuko's text message popped out on his interface.
"Did you happen to insert any cutscene for Shalltear when she was in a boss fight mode?"
Three second passed, and Chen anticipated for his answer.
"No, I did not."
"Oh yeah? Phew heh...heh that's good. I think the voice acting for Shalltear is top notch! And how you…wait you did not?"
"Yeah, I did not, why you ask?"
"You… did not?"
"Uhh… I did not? Chen-san are you alright?"
"Oh shit…"
Chen put down his keyboard and his face grew pale, then before he knew it the two Vampire brides were already inches on his face. Their sharp fangs and claws blaring, closing in for their prey.
Instinctively, Chen immediately sidestepped and raised his left wrist, causing the first Vampire bit into the hard Soviet steel that made her teeth to shatter painfully as she recoiled back, While the other Bride managed land a scratch on his cheek. A ribbon of his blood flew up in the air before splattering back onto the cold stone floor.
He put his right hand on his cheek before looking at his palm… the moisture, the red on his hand, and the stinging on his face as he touched his scar. It felt so real. But most importantly...
"But how on earth did I do that." Chen murmured in awe.
Staring at the Vampire Bride who lost her fangs before, covering her mouth with her palm as blood leak out. The other bride however, seeing her sister being caused so much pain, her emotionless face had distorted into a extreme hatred in a instant.
"Vinnia ! Y...You WILL PAY FOR HURTING HER!" The other Vampire cried, lashing out at her fangs and claws at her adversary.
Only to found the blunt gunbarrel of Chen`s PPSH rammed into her abdomen… before cracking into life and blowing her back with several shrapnels embedded in her stomach.
One vampire bride unconscious, but bleeding on the ground still alive. While Vinnia, her fangless sister who had been knocked out earlier recovered her initial shock, her face immediately distort into a fervent hatred as charge forward at him with her claws.
Causing Chen to pulled up his holstered Bolt pistol with his free hand and then there was a blinding flash, before revealing Vinnia flying backwards with a bloody bullet hole on her left shoulder as she dropped back onto the ground, joining her unconscious sister. Only one vampire left.
Chen on the other hand, were completely flabbergasted he tried process what happened a minutes ago. Teleported miraculously to the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Shalltear and the other NPCs saying lines that she weren't programmed to say, and he really bled when a Vampire scratched him at the face, something that shouldn't be felt inside a DMMO game, and then finally he broke a vampire's teeth with a unnatural reaction speed and ram a barrel of a PPSH submachine gun to another then filled her stomach with lead!
He may have some basic PLA firearm training as part of his recruitment module when he joined the cyber force branch, but what he did earlier was Special-Force level stunts and moves which he had never ever have any experience in before yet he did it as if he had be training since birth!
Then he looked back at Shalltear, who was looking still smiling at him evilly, causing him to point his bolt pistol at her with an shaking hand.
"Firstly, the only people I saw who ever wield those type of weapons is Delta and secondly, I have to admit you are stronger than I think, or is it that my Brides were too weak? It doesn't matter, because now I have so many things I would want to find out about you, who you are, why you are here, and how, did you even know the name of my Supreme One." She snarled at the last part. Causing the whole crypt to shook a bit in her voice.
Chen remained unfazed , he just gave her a confused look.
"Supreme one?"
"My dear Peroroncino-sama, second only to my great Ainz-Sama ~ so a bug like you have no right to even word out his name! Then again, how did you learnt about his name in the first place? Surrender now and answer my questions and perhaps I can promise you a less painful fate."
Chen cringed at how the Vampire spoke, did Kazuko really programmed her to be this malicious?
"Screw this, I am getting out of here" he thought to himself.
With swift movement, he summoned his interface menu again and swapped to voice command, when a mic icon appear. He did not wait to scream.
"CONSOLE LOG ME OUT RIGHT NOW!"
Nothing happened.
"Goddamnit, Console Command : Log me out right now!" He screamed again.
And he was greeted by the same results, alongside with a taunting laugh that came from the vampire standing before him.
"I don't know what you are trying to do, but I can see that you are clearly failing, so why not save yourself the humiliation and give up while you still can? A lowly human like you couldn't possibly beat someone like me. "
Hearing this , something inside Chen clicked, something was triggered. Both of his eyes , the mechanical one and the human one glew bright red and the mechanism in of his left arm can be heard turning and grinding while exhausting furious fume rom the pipes like a raging bull before a Spanish Bullfight. His head boiled in a righteous fury when he heard this from his adversary.
A furious Red aura began to engulf him, he took a step forward and glared the vampire in the eye.
"A surrender to the enemy as an Officer of the Red Army is a blalant betrayal to the Motherland! Without Orders, no one steps back in the Red Army! All were expected to fight to their last breath and Resist to Death even in the face of a superior force! We will not yield! not to Allies, not to the bourgeois and especially not to fascistic supremacists like you! " He yelled in fervor through gritted teeth, even Shalltear widen both of her eyes in surprise of his mood swing all of sudden.
Then the lights in his eyes died down and his head cleared. All he can think off was : "What the hell did I just said."
Something is seriously wrong here, and Something is seriously wrong with Me.
Chen holstered his pistol and switched back to his PPSH as he readied his stance against the enemy. A mask of determination he wore as he prepared for the fight.
But behind it, it was full of panic. As someone who personally reworked Shalltear and tampered with her stats, he knew it two things. One, she was ridiculously powerful and two, he was unfairly under-equipped to fight her. He didn't bring his main army with him, he didn't equip his best weapons, and the only things he have now were the bolt-pistol, the PPSH, his character skills and that failsafe…
"Resist to the Death?" Shalltear murmured.
The Vampire started giggling.
"Resist to the Death despite in the presence of a Superior force?! AHAHAHAH, that was one of the most absurd sentiments I ever heard! A bug should always know it's place when it was about to be squas..."
"It was through that ideal, that rallied hundreds of people to a rage that almost brought Nazarick to its knees."
The smug expression on Shalltear`s face morph into that of surprise. She noticed again, her enemy's eyes was glowing red.
"What did you just say?"
Chen lowered his gun and stood straight, his expression steeled.
"And if it wasn't for Bukubuchagama`s goodwill of peace and her ingenuity in negotiation, the People's power would have striked Nazarick a second time and by then , there would be no more Nazarick."
Shalltear`s angry aura came back, her face distorted into a spiteful anger.
"What the hell do you mean? Bukubukuchagama-sama would never negotiate with sub-beings like you! And Nazarick on its knees? To hundreds of ants like you?! Hah, like that ever hap…"
The Vampire paused as a chilling realization crept into head.
"Unless…"
"Da, all it took to bring Nazarick to its knees was a hacker`s sacrifice and the glorious rage of a thousand and five hundred heroes followed after it. The Power of the masses, the sacred spirit of Resistance against the cancerous disease of the supremacists was not to underestimated!"
Shalltear took a step back, soon she saw it too. A red Aura flared from the Soviet Commander once again.
"And now I shall bring the Resistance to you, a defiance even in death!"
With a banshee shriek , Shalltear swooped in lashed out him with her claws.
Pulling a tesla grenade, he slammed the weapon down and a explosion of smoke and static electricity burst from the ground, when Shalltear threw herself into the smoke screen and found herself hitting nothing but air. Other than that, stinging waves of electricity coursed through her body, putting her in a slowing stasis effect.
"So you want to play tag? What happened to that brave bug who screamed about resistance and defiance? Now playing games with me? Ahahah, very well then, I shall play with you…"
"[Deploy] Conscripts!" Chen`s voice cut through the smoke screen to her ears.
Shalltear snapped to the direction of her enemy's voice , she dashed onto it. And then a crackle pierce through the air and shrapnels hit her from all of her sides. Causing her to fall onto the ground skiddling like an injured lion.
"What…?"
The smoke had cleared, revealing Chen with four Conscripts surrounding her, their Kalashnikovs pointing at her direction. The red star pins on their ushankas were shining bright.
"Comrade Commander are you alright?" One of the Conscript asked.
"Da, I am fine." Chen said, even when he used his final failsafe : a instant deploy of four Veteran-ranked Conscripts. He looked them then he looked back at Shalltear. Despite the numerical supremacy, he still realized he is the inferior force and chances making out of alive in the skirmish was barely possible.
"So, we are fighting a vampire lolita. That's something you don't get to do everyday." Another Conscript comment, the one with a auburn sideburn said.
"That's good news Comrade Sergey! That means we can get field promotion early!" chirped the skinnier Conscript.
"Careful Comrades, this may be one of the Strongest opponents we have ever faced. Do not treat her with arrogance." Chen warned.
"Actually we already know that." The Skinny Conscript said.
"But we soldiers of the Red Army were no strangers to such scenarios, we were always prepared for the date where we die in battle, fighting off a stronger enemy and sacrificing for Motherland." Sergey said.
"But we shall spit on their face, they may kill us but they will not kill our spirit and our love for our glorious nation!" The last Conscript, the one with the mustache cheered.
"So...you know your strength… yet you … still dare to show no fear and cower, and wear such a smile why?" A wounded but still very dangerous Shalltear wheezed as she got up.
"Because, we are soldiers of the Red Army, guards of the people! Red Armymen respond to the threats from the Enemy and Death with smiles and valiance, not with cowering and surrender!" The first Conscript responded.
"Comrades…" Chen said, touched by the courage of his soldiers. Something tells him that those weren't voicelines coded into their programmes, and these Conscript were no longer just AI set up by him, but real men that was his fellow comrades. That will not make it out alive with him… Chen's heart sank upon this realization.
"And who knows, If I am lucky I may get a field promotion in the undead corps." The Skinny Conscript joked.
The other three let out a brief chuckle as they reloaded their Kalashnikovs. Their Commander cleared his throat.
"Comrades, before we fight, can you all say out your names to me."
The four looked around and nodded.
"Romanov" the First Conscript said.
"Sergey," The one with auburn sideburns said.
"Petrovski" The Skinny Conscript said.
"Kaluga." The mustached Conscript answered.
"Alright, Spasibo to you four, it's nice knowing you all, and it's been an honour serving you as your Commander." Chen said, gun pointing at Shalltear who had gotten up with an unamused expression on her face, flicking her fingernails as she looked at the five men.
"Are you done? That's touching really, but it's sad "Commander" , that you will soon find yourself to be the only survivor while the bones of the other four will be used for making a throne for our Ainz-Sama!"
"Good to know that, now we fight without ado."
Shalltear merely flicked her fingers, and her silver pike and valkyrie armour god summoned, with a psychotic grin she charged.
"Conscripts! Use Molotovs!"" Chen shouted.
The four men pull out their their bottle grenades, lit it alight and tossed right at the charging vampire, and she was immediately disorientated by the fiery effect caused by the improvised firebombs, causing her to crash onto a wall instead of her enemies.
"9th tier spell, Nullify magic!" She screamed as she got up.
A big red cross with a bolded message appeared before her : "Ability not allowed"
"What?!" Shalltear screamed in rage, her entire being still burning.
"Thank god I nerfed some spells of Yggdrasil before this, in RTS games like Red Alert, they don't count damage by magic types but by armour tiers, soft attacks and hard attacks, and good thing the Conscripts' molotov Cocktails is effective to Shalltear's tier II armour." Chen thought to himself with a smirk, but his celebration was short.
"Comrade Commander here she come again!" Sergey screamed.
"Purifying Javelin!"
A bolt of holy magic formed on Shalltear hand as she tossed one at Petrovski, travelling towards the poor Conscript in a lightning speed, who stared at the bolt with eyes of terror.
But the bolt never hit him, Chen pushed him away before the tip of the spell can pierce through his soldier`s chest, causing it to hit him in the left shoulder instead.
"Commander!"
From where the bolt hit, reveal unsightly gash with wires , cables and machinery. But he can still stand Chen thought, with fifty percent less HP that was.
"Comrade Commander!" Petrovski and the other Conscripts rushed to cover their commander.
"I am alright, focus on the enemy Tovarisch." Chen ordered.
"BAHAHAHA, that… was one of the dumbest things I had ever seen in my entire life, sacrificing yourself for someone less than you? Oh well look at where that gotten you." Shalltear mocked, pointing her lance.
"Why you…" Sergey said through gritted teeth, firing his Kalashnikov at her.
Shalltear sidestepped to avoid the Conscript's wild sprays even through some bullets did pierced through her sides and chipped a few considerable digits off her HP, but in a blink of an eye she strafed before him , and rammed the tip of her lance into the stomach of the poor Conscript. Who fell back coughing out blood but still alive while Shalltear regain all her HP in one go through her pipette-lance.
"Sergey!"
Chen and the other remaining Conscripts fired back, the Vampire merely smirked and raised her palm.
"Wall of Stone!"
A literal wall of stone sprung from the ground and sponged the Soviet Shrapnels like water. Sergey weakly stood up with his rifle, never letting go of his Kalashnikov as he pointed the barrel back at his enemies through gritted teeth.
"Enough games, Summon HouseHold!"
From the stone wall, shadows of wolves, Elder Vampire bats and rats leap out of like a tsunami of shadows, before descending upon its terrified victims that stared at it blankly. Except for Chen, who immediately reached into his coat and reached something else, and flung onto at the stone wall which
… bounced back to the ground harmlessly.
"Comrade Commander?" Petrovski asked , as he pointed to the overwhelming horde of vampiric creatures from above , before crashing down upon them, threatening to wipe them clean with their numbers and fangs.
Behind her curtain of stone, she wickedly smiled as she heard the panicked screams of the Conscripts and their Commander. And in less than five minutes, the screaming stopped… all were silent.
With a satisfied smirk, she dropped the wall to watch her work, it was here when that smile was immediately morphed into that of a frustrated scowl.
The five men were still alive, but ragged and battle worn. Sergey , Romanov , Kaluga and Petrovski have their coats shredded and Ushanka messed up, while Chen looks battered and had more scars and scratches all over him. However what pissed her off most was all her familiars, her elder Vampire bats, rats and wolves lied on the cobblestone floor around their "prey" dead or twitching or even burning. Chen staggered forward with his PPSH and shot a Vampire Wolf in the head, causing it to immediately disintegrate into dust.
"Da that's right fascist! We are still alive and kicking, good enough to shoot you like how we shoot watermelons in training video!" Kaluga said with a smile even with his dishevelled mustache. Raising his rifle.
"Why won't you all just give up and DIE!?" She cried stepping forward, but then She looked down and found herself stepping on polygon device with neon blue light and red paint marks, and it exploded into a tornado of electricity that shocked her onto knees. A Magnetic Mine.
Shalltear tried to cast a spell, but terrified found that all her MP were locked and sabotaged. She can't even assess her Valkyrie armour .
"Now it's our chance!" Chen cried , pulling out a Sickle from his trenchcoat as he activated the Soviet Commander's Skill - Ura charge.
Soon a overwhelming rush of Patriotic pride swelled the hearts of the Conscripts as Chen and his men were engulfed in a bright Red Aura of Resistance. Sergey who was critically injured now stood up proud with his rifle , the other followed. Pointing the tip of his sickle at Shalltear, he cried the legendary battle cry.
"URAAAAHHH!"
"URAAAH!" The Conscript roared too as they charged with their commander, rifles barking and cracking as they dashed.
Shalltear screamed as her HP dropped significantly at the angry stampede of shrapnel caused by the morally and physically boosted Soviet troops. Who were inches before her while here was, helplessly on her knees. Her eyes widen in terror as she saw it.
"Is this… the might of the People's Rage?" She thought.
Chen screamed , swinging the edge of his sickle for Shalltear's throat.
"No… Not yet , I will not let a few bugs soil my name in front of Ainz Sama!"
She looked down, she still have one desperate trick up her sleeve! A sinister grin once again crept up her face.
When the blade of the Sickle was inches upon her throat, Shalltear opened her eyes and muttered.
"Time Acceleration…"
Everything slowed down, everything but Shalltear. She walked to a slow-motioned Sergey , and simply jabbed her Pike right into his throat. Then she did the same to Kaluga, Petrovski and Romanov, and then her ability was over. She sidestepped and dodge Chen like how a professional bullfighter evaded her bull.
But Chen`s men, with looks of horror on their faces, blood spurted out of their necks from where Shalltear's Lance punctured it, and they collapsed dead.
Leaving only Chen as the only man surviving.
Looking at the corpses of his four comrade, Chen`s face was filled with vengeful rage as he glared at the culprit in the eye. The Culprit , still panting, pointed her lance right at his heart.
"Hahaha… *pant*... Haha, I never faced … *pant* a human who lasted this long against me, maybe after this I can make you my slave ."
"Your arrogance had harmed you enough fascist, it gave you a distraction that allowed my magnetic mine to disable your MP and skills for more than one hour. You have nothing but your spear and your spiteful trashtalks."
"Ironic isn't it? The same thing applies for you, a mere human with a poor dress code who lost all his meatshields, all his tricks, and doesn't have any MP whatsoever. Ah, I pity you " Shalltear raised her lance and poised to strike.
"Those good men… are NOT MEATSHIELDS !" Chen roared and charged forward with his sickle , his submachine gun blazing.
Shalltear striked forward too, into her adversary's hail of bullets.
Ping! Ping! Ping!'
HP dropping drastically. But She still charged. Crying his warcry, Chen did the same.
Ping! Ping! Ping!
The red health bar had dropped to 20 percent, the two adversaries was inches.
Ping! Ping! Ping!
10 percent, 5 percent, 2 percent.
Pin∼
1 percent, the two adversaries stopped. Shalltear`s face to chest was covered in bullet wounds, leaking blood from forehand dripping down to her chin, but Chen found her lance piercing through his left shoulder, a fatal wound.
He clicked his PPSH - no ammo.
Shalltear smiled wildly as she panted, teeth blaring , eyes dilated from exhaustion. She won.
The two collapsed onto their knees, connected by the lance. They looked at each other in the eye. Shalltear grinned, opened her mouth and about to make a gloat and rub salt on her victim, but the narrative changed when she noticed something had been poking her abdomen. The barrel of Chen`s now unholstered bolt pistol.
Looking at the blackening shape of the pistol, Shalltear looked in terror, her vision shaking, before looking up at Chen, and laughed. She laughed maniacally.
"Congratulations Human, you were the second who managed to take my life beside Ainz-Sama. Me, Shalltear Bloodfallen…"
Soon the maniacal laughter had turned into sobbing.
"... Slain by a mere human, such disgrace, sorry Ainz-Sama. I failed you again."
Hearing these words from the Vampire almost loosen his grasp on his pistol. But then again, this was the condescending bitch that murdered four of his comrades with glee and spite, and was holding the lance that killed his said comrades and was piercing his shoulders right at this moment! But, she was also the beloved creation that Kazuko made, a friend's beloved misguided daughter...
"Well? What are you waiting for? Just finish your work disgusting human!" She spat.
A swoosh sound fluttered behind his back, he turned behind him and widened his eyes, rushing towards their direction was a giant blue humanoid beetle, a Succubus in White, two dark elves, a demon in a suit, few maids and a Butler, and behind them, a shadow of something dark and shadowy.
Then Chen looked the littered corpses of Kaluga, Petrovski, Sergey and Romanov. Then back to the wild, sinister look of the Vampire.
"I am sorry Kazuko." He said as life seeped away from his body.
He pulled back the hammer of the pistol with his thumb and glared at Shalltear with his eyes.
"Hope that we both can be better in another life."
Crack!
Chen fired the shot into Shalltear`s abdomen, and the Vampire collapsed on his shoulder dead like a ragdoll.
"NOOOOOO!" One of the elves screamed, the brother with the whip Chen supposed.
A auburn maid with the sniper rifle fired right into Chen`s chest, and he collapsed over Shalltear`s corpse.
He watched as the big shadowy figure closes in on him as his vision blurred, he saw was a big skeletal face with judgemental red dots as irises, and his left hand disintegrating into red pixels?
Turning to Shalltear, her body was too disintegrating into pixels, then he struggled to look up with his misty eyesight, but he was too weak… his head dropped flat on the cold pavement and he blacked out completely.
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"Gasp!"
Chen opened his eyes and breathed heavily, and he discovered that he buried his left cheek on his dull white cotton pillow. No Nazarick, no vampires, no cobblestone floors, anything.
"It was just a dream?"
It felt so real, the fighting , the adrenaline... his death, the death of his Comrades. The looks on Kaluga, Romanov, Petrovski and Sergey… the horror in their eyes.
Beep, beep, beep.
His eyes darted to his right, and a familiar soft beeping of a antique digital alarm soothing him awake, his accustomed white blanket. Yes, he was back in his boring life. His life as Chen Tse Zun the PLA military hacker, not as Groza Lararev the Grand Soviet Commander.
Chen smiled and let his eyelids dropped again.
His back… thank god his back. No more weird magic, no more conscripts, just his bed, his apartment, his roof and his job.
Thinking about such fake things hurts his head, he just need to get up, make breakfast, get a shower, and get over with it.
Whistling, he wave an arm and knocked the alarm clock placed on the desk beside him, and yawned.
Getting up from his bed with one hand, he yawned and stretched his shoulders. His scratched his messy wild hair with his left hand, and it felt cold and hard… Pulling his hand down slowly, he found himself looking at the red star painted his palm of a iron hand, Groza Lararev's Mecha Arm.
"Kakiye?" Chen said out in a thicker voice, a voice that was not his, in a language that was not his.
He finally looked around, he was not in his bedroom in Guangzhou, and he wasn't even sleeping in a normal bed. He was sleeping man-sized capsule with a blanket and pillow within it, his cap was placed on the metal desk where the alarm clock formerly lied. All sorts advanced technology like monitors with healthbars and graphs strapped on top of it, along with red flags of the hammer and sickle draped on its sides. He was in a infirmary-like area, with capsules similar to his placed alongside him, this was when he realized he was at the Respawn Chamber of his Command base.
"Ah Commander Tong Zhi! You are alright thank god!." He heard his own voice said.
Turning to his right, he felt a bead of sweat rolling down his neck. He was looking at the NPC he voiced-acted as, the first General he made in this game … Lei Feng the Infantry General. Donned in a flapped down Ushanka with a red star pin on it, and dressed in a Korean-War era PLA uniform. A modified PPSH-41 with tesla coil dangles from his belt along with his ammo pouches.
A bright warm smile present on his face, while the expression on his own was that of confusion and fear.
"What…" Chen, now Groza tried to get up, only to find that every part of his body hurts, as if there were spikes inside his joints, causing him to almost to collapsed on the edge of his regeneration capsule. Seeing this, Lei immediately supported him back into a lying position with a concerned look in his eyes.
"No no no don't move so much Comrade Tong Zhi, you haven't fully recovered from that battle yet. Just get some rest first." Lei Feng said.
If this was all real, that means…
"What about Kaluga? What about Romanov!? What about…"
Lei Feng looked away with a sad look on his face.
"T'ey zidn't made it Tovaras Commander. Thy am sorry." A third voice sounded across the room, a voice that may changed in accent and tone, it may had its malice replaced with sympathy and concern, but still it was so dreadfully familiar.
That voice came from his right, from a similar regeneration capsule on his left. The only difference of that capsule from his was that instead of a red flag with the Hammer and Sickle, it was a red , yellow and blue flag of Romania SSR. Sitting on the bed was a pale young girl dressed in a simple while long sleeved shirt, with her back facing the Commander. Her long untied silver hair draped from her neck like a silky mane.
"No...no it can't be her!" Groza thought, his head in a chaos.
The figure put on her cap, a black-peaked officer's cap with the Red Star and Skull insignia.
"Ahh Commissar, your awake." Another voice sounded.
Groza looked behind Lei Feng, it was due to the Infantry General's tall frame, Chen haven't noticed that there was always a Vampire Securitate standing behind him. Dressed in her black leather trenchcoat with a red armband, her peaked officer's cap with the same Red Star and Skull insignia. Her expression of that of an excited loyal subordinate, happy upon her superior's recovery.
But her smile vapourized when she noticed something was off.
"Was there something wrong Tovaras Commander? " The Vampire Securitate asked as she noticed the gloomy expression in the room.
"Commissar Shalltear Bloodfallen?"
Commissar Shalltear turned her face towards Groza, a genuine sombre look present on her face. Who looked at her blankly, as he looked at the biggest irony before him.
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=Character Sheet=
Name : Grand Soviet Commander Groza Lararev
Affiliation : World Socialist Alliance, The Red Army, Soviet Union.
Level 98
Class levels : Infantry General (8), Air Expert (5), Propaganda General (9), Armoured Leader (6), Communist
Race : Human, Automaton (Cyborg)
Rank : Marshal / Grand Commander, Dictator / Premier (not yet realized)
General Skill - URA charge - Boost of Morale that strengthen troops into a frenzy battle charge.
Magnetic Satellite(Secret Protocol),
Mass Production.
Arsenal -
Units : Conscripts (Main Unit)
Combat Engineers - Red Alert 3
Bearman Artillerymen - inspired by Warbears from Red Alert 3.
Flaktroopers - Red Alert 3
Soviet Mig Fighters - Red Alert 3
Hammer Tanks - Red Alert 3
Sickle Fleas - Red Alert 3
Mortar Cycle - Red Alert 3 Uprising
Commissars - OCs from Red Alert Zero, Political Officers assigned to squads and division to maintain morale, organisation and discipline in the military. As well strengthen the political doctrine of the soldiers. Armed with a Speaker and a Bolt Pistol, these propagandists can riled up even the most basic militiamen into a frenzy mob.
Buildings: Battle Bunkers
Flak Cannons
Sentry gun
Soviet Magnetic Satetille Station - Soviet Satetille Station that allow General to use Secret Protocol Magnetic Satetille (Red Alert 3)
etc (Other basic buildings)
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Name : 1st Class Commissar Shalltear Bloodfallen, The Red Starred Valkyrie
Affiliation : World Socialist Alliance, The Romanian Securitate, Romania SSR.
Level 100
Class levels : Propaganda General (10) (Main role), Undead General (10), Infantry General (5), Air Expert (2), Armour Leader (1), Secret Police General (7) Communist (9).
Race : True Vampire, Heteromorphic race.
Rank: 1st Class Commissar
General Skill - Undying Communism , Summons the entire Undead Third Shock Army back to battle. Now strengthened with morale and improved physical damage for certain period of time. Dead Infantrymen under her Command will be revived temporarily as a Undead Conscript / Flaktrooper.
Misdirection - (Generals 2)
Arsenal -
Units : Vampire Securitate (Main Unit) - OC units, revamped version of Vampire Brides. Masters with their scoped Kalashnikov sniper rifles and armed with special intelligence agency training from SMERSH, the Securitate were well known for their ability in Espionage, Assassination, and interrogation. Based off the real life Romanian Securitate.
Undead Conscripts - Sentient Undead Conscripts who once fought in the Great Patriotic War (World War II), now risen from the dead to fight under the Red Flag once again.
Undead Flaktroopers - Artillerymen that sacrificed their lives during the Great Patriotic War. Even a bit deformed and mutated after death, their hearts unchanged. Still warriors of the Union in death. Revamped Versions of Death Knight.
T34 Medium tanks - Iconic ancient tanks piloted by the Undead Heroes from the Great Patriotic War. May be old, but numerous and still good enough to put a round into the dreaded enemy.
Combat Engineers
Chinese Propaganda Airships - Based off the CQC mod : Generals, Rise of the Reds. A variant based off the iconic Kirov Bomber Airship. But eventually modified by General Jin of the PLA Secret Police force, who noted the possible use of the airship as a means of urban pacification through propaganda, and soon afterward a small fleet of specially equipped airships would hover over troubled cities filling the sky with their overwhelming size and patriotic propaganda broadcasts. Some were inspired by the sight, many were terrified, most desisted whatever civil disobedience they were involved in.
Chinese Listening Posts - from General 1, the main Chinese scout and reconnaisse vehicle. When activated, the Vehicle will convert itself into a stationary radar post, perfect for surveillance of enemy. Two Chinese Tank Hunters were garrisoned inside, armed with deadly Rocket Launchers.
Chinese Hackers - Generals 1
Commissars
Buildings - Propaganda Tower.
Propaganda Center
Battle Mausoleum - Trains Undead Conscripts and Undead Flaktroopers, generates Negative Energy.
etc (Other basic buildings)
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Backstory:
In the mid 20th century, modernization in both ideals and technology had swept across the Globe through the countless Revolutions and Wars waged over the century. Hence, it was evident that the Court of Vampires in Transylvania, still stuck in its Dark age and surviving through an Feudalistic system and its constant preying for Blood from the Villages around its territory , will not be safe from such changes.
Shalltear Bloodfallen, being one of the few True Vampire breed who was supposed succeed a Vampire Count, was sent to the human world to infiltrate and collect information to ensure survival for their breed. However, instead of just only doing so. She read the Manifesto and did something no Vampire had ever done - attempting to rally the often looked-down Vampire Brides and the Villagers around the Court`s territory to start a revolution through the Marxist Ideals of equality and a united Socialist Romania ... which failed and led to her shameful exile to USSR, where she received training from the NKVD for five years, before returning to Transylvania with her fellow Vampire Revolutionaries as well as the support from the NKVD and the Romanian Securitate, to execute a successful Coup on the Court of the Vampires, that marked the end of the Court of Vampires of decades of darkness.
After the Coup, given her loyalty and background with the NKVD , Shalltear was assigned by the Central Romanian Government as a Commissar of the Transylvania Securitate to quell the dissent from remaining Vampire Supremacists and the remnants of the Courts through maximum prejudice and deadly efficiency.
When Spies from the Allied Forces and Agitators from the GLA came to threaten the region's social and physical security. The Young True Vampire was among the most zealous upholder of law and order, whenever her and her team of deadly Elite force of Vampire Secuiritates shown up, dissent was wiped out of existence while only the collective faith of an invincible people remained.
And Shalltear also learnt one thing from her time in Moscow, revolutionaries will eventually become enforcers of the revolution, and she will make sure she will be a damn good one.
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Note: I used the CQC General`s template to design the Character data Sheet instead of the Overlord RPG template since both games by nature, works differently.
May introduce Hero/Commandoes Units as well as other Generals of the World Socialist Alliance.
