Worsfold15
I'm glad you enjoyed reading my work. Its been quite an investment in time but well worth it.
A yes the Pan-Dimensional Marketplace I should have Overlord Gothic revisit that place.
Tylermech66
There will be no anime in this story as I don't watch anime.
Selias
Yes the Wizarding World will be mentioned in this chapter.
douchiesnacks
Willow is not in for a good time but it will be a quick end as this part of the story is nearly over.
Overlord Gothic. Book Four. Part Six.
Vampire Lair. Outside San Francisco.
The Queen of the Vampires slowly stood up showing me her naked body as she got out of the pool of water she used for a bath. Normally I wouldn't look twice at a Vampire what with them being blood sucking leeches and all but this Queen was something else. The breasts alone would make it worth dealing with her but nice boobs wouldn't mean much if she didn't swear allegiance to me by the end of this meeting.
"I was just about to send Rowan out to find you" informed the Vampire Queen " I intended for him to relay a message to you offering our loyalty and service".
I'd predicted that she would do that and had come here directly in order to save myself some time as while I was immortal I didn't have infinite amounts of time to do what needed to be done. I needed to gather an army to order to finally cleanse the Overlord world of the scum that plagued its surface.
Not only did I need a larger army for that task but I also needed to deal with last of my former Mistresses. With the removal of the Charmed Ones from the Wizarding World, Willow would now be aware that I was active again and while she no match me for in terms of power if she had to much time to prepare she might a way to defeat me.
Knowing this I'd sought out the Vampires of this world knowing that they could be useful to me. Unlike the Demons of this world the Vampires were capable of great loyalty to their leader so if I got their Queen to take a magical vow swearing loyalty to me this entire clan would be mine to command.
"I know" I told the Queen "I foresaw it and decided to cut out the middle man as it were. I also have an answer".
The Vampires seemed to tense as if expecting me to attack. They had no hope of beating me I could slaughter them all with ease but they need not of worried.
"There is a place for your kind in my service" I assured the Queen "swear an oath of loyalty to me and I will ensure that you have a place at my side. Perhaps even a seat on my new advisory council".
With my domain expanding I'd need people to help run my kingdom for me and these magical Vampires could be very useful in that regard as they could multiply quickly and were very hard to kill by Human standards.
They were also immune to the powers of Witches which would include the powers of several of my old Mistresses. Wand magic worked fine on them I learned that when Paige cast the Unbreakable Vow but her Witch powers had no effect them on. The Power of Three would easily destroy these Vampires and so could my powers so if any Vampire didn't betray me I could deal with them.
"Now I have a mission for you" I told the Vampire Queen "you will soon be leaving this world to act as my agents on another".
More relaxed now that the Queen dismissed her underlings and we spoke of what was to come.
"I have need of soldiers" I explained to the nest's leader "I want you turn as many as you can on this new world, the strongest will be trained as warriors to fight for me. The rest can act as spies and such".
Given how fast these guys could increase their numbers they would be able to supply me with all the troops I'd ever need. Vampires burned under the sun of their native world but that rule didn't always apply in other dimensions. Even if that rule did hold true for this type of Vampire it wouldn't matter as there were ways to protect from the sun light. Magical items could be enchanted to remove this weakness. Dawn had such a item in her jewellery box and it wouldn't be hard for Tala to replicate some of the abilities the ring bestowed upon its wearer.
I planned to use these creatures to attack the Wizarding World. I was unsure if Wizards were able to still use wands if turned into a Vampire but it didn't really matter as if they did lose that power then I'd just have to capture them and hand them over to the Dark Mistresses for conversion.
"In exchange you'll have my protection and a new home to live in. Serve me well and I'll reward you with riches and power".
The Queen seemed happy with this arrangement and after quickly discussing a few minor matters which involved a number of Demons being exposed as traitors I left the Vampire lair after creating a Netherworld Gate for them so they could enter the Netherworld and settle in their new home.
I would of liked to have stayed longer and gone over more details but building an army isn't an easy thing to do and I had lots of work ahead. But I knew it would be worth come the day when I had hundreds of thousands of evil Humans and creatures marching under my banner.
Until then I'd just have to keep expanding my power base and keep recruiting more creatures while destroying anything that stood in my way.
Hogwarts. Scotland. The Wizarding World.
In the office that had once belonged to Albus Dumbledore the true ruler of the Wizarding World Willow Rosenberg sat at her desk going over some paperwork while thinking about the future, and the past.
The last four or five years of her life had been even weirder than she could of imagined. She gone from a college student/witch to the Mistress of an Overlord which was a big change. Things had gotten ever stranger from there. She'd become a business woman, a lover to another woman and she'd even obtained immortality. She'd fought some powerful demons and helped to bring down Wolfram and Hart itself. She even been part of a spell to vanish the First Evil. And that was just some of the amazing things she done.
But as amazing as all that had been it didn't compare to what had happened over the last two years. Upon the death of the man she'd once called Master his control over her and the other Witches he'd enslaved had been broken.
Once the control was gone Willow had taken charge and led what was now called The Coven to the Wizarding World. Once settled in at a safe house that was protected by magical wards and charms from different worlds The Coven had for the first time in its existence had found itself free to chose their own course of action and while they were no longer controlled by a megalomaniac with the powers of a god the evil in The Coven hadn't died with him. A part of his dark will still remained within them all.
This desire to destroy or dominate had driven The Coven to attempt a take over of this world and with their combined power their attempts had been successful.
The way for this conquest had been opened by Dawn the Human vessel of the Key. Upon her death the Key had been freed from its mortal life and had become a being of pure energy once more. But something of Dawn had stayed with the Key giving the living energy a purpose it had never had before. Dawn had, despite being a minor goddess, been murdered by Voldemort and people don't tend to take it well when someone murders them.
So the Key with its power to rip reality itself apart had destroyed Voldemort and his entire army, including most of the Death Eaters. And since the Death Eaters were most Purebloods their demise had left the Wizarding World in the hands of Muggleborns and Half-bloods.
Had leader like Albus Dumbledore survived the battle then nothing much would of changed really but he hadn't and neither had most of the older light wizards for that matter. This had left Wizarding Britain in the hands of those who had never wielded much political power and they were unwilling to take that power.
It was at this point that The Coven had stepped in.
Willow had found it easy enough to seize power. She'd been part of this society for a while and had tons of cash. It wasn't hard to take over the ministry, using the Overlord's money she'd bribed a few people and sponsored a candidate who'd been made Minster of Magic. Her lover Amy Madison was the Senior Under-secretary to the puppet minister and she made sure the Minster stayed a puppet.
Sabrina Spellmen played her part well she'd gotten the Potter boy under a love spell far more effective than the potions used in this world. Turning him dark had been hard but everyone had their breaking point and once Potter was turned he swore his loyalty to Willow and was now head of Magical Law enforcement.
With his popularity higher than ever after killing Voldemort (which is what everyone thought to be true as no one other than The Coven knew about the Key's involvement due to a massive memory modifying spell) Harry Potter was the perfect tool for The Coven. Everyone listened to him and everyone loved him, very few questioned anything he did.
Winifred Burkle was running the Department of Mysteries ensuring that only The Coven had access to this nation's more exotic magic. There were many things in that department that The Coven made use of and they could never be allowed out of the department's grip. The ritual that disabled all electronics on this planet had been performed down there and keeping that ritual in effect required a lot of work.
With the Muggle world crippled for the most part due to having most of its technology disabled Willow had been able to enact the part of the master plan she was most involved in.
The plan involved turning Hogwarts into a different type of school. Since Willow had been on the board of governs she'd been able to take control of the school quite easily using a combination of treats, bribery and economics. Hogwarts was a school and they aren't cheap to run so once Willow started to pay for everything she started to control everything.
Most of the teachers had died in the final battle so Willow hired new ones who took vows of service to her personally. The school was expanded and reorganised so it could accommodate more students and those students were for the most part Muggleborn.
With the world of the mundane Humans collapsing there was nothing stopping Willow from going out into the world locating Muggleborn children, taking them away from their parents and then bringing them to this school.
Magical children could be found quite easily and the most powerful ones could be detected even as babies so now children of all ages were brought to Hogwarts in order to learn how to use their magic. They were also being slowly brainwashed by Willow in subtle ways that would led to them becoming her loyal subjects when they grew up.
With so many of the Purebloods dead there was plenty of space for Willow's Muggleborn subjects to grow into. Adults loyal to The Coven had been given what had once been belonged to the Purebloods and over the last two years some of her students had left school to take over roles in the magical community left vacant by now dead Purebloods.
The takeover was slow but The Coven was made up of immortals so there was no rush and within a matter of decades The Coven would control everything magical in Britain. Every ministry job would be held by one of Willow's student, every business would be run by a Hogwarts graduate and every home would be owned indirectly by the Coven.
And while this was happening magical Humans would also be destroying the non-magical Humans. Without access to electronics Humanity would be reduced to Victorian levels of technology and that would happen if they adapted to the changing circumstances. Likely they'd regress further back as few people actually knew how to build many of the devices that had been in common use before electronics. Such a society (assuming non-magical Humanity didn't collapsed into total anarchy) wouldn't be able to stop magical Humans from expanding as needed. The Coven controlled Wizards and Witches would be able to claim all the land they never needed and any resources they wished as well.
The plan had been progressing well right until Christmas when the Charmed Ones went missing. Hogwarts closed for the most part over the holidays most of the students went home and some of the Muggleborns had even been adopted by Magical familes but a lot of them stayed at the school and were cared for by the Charmed Ones who having young children of their own were ideally suited the job and aided by a small army of House Elves.
They'd been doing a great job of this right up until the point they vanished. They'd just disappeared along with their children the ones who all shared the same father, the Overlord. Willow had from the moment she'd fled the Dark City worried that her former lord would return from the dead and try to reclaim what was his.
The fact that the Charmed Ones and their offspring had been the only ones to disappear could mean that the four sisters had simply decided to leave The Coven. But that seemed unlikely as the eldest Sister Prue was Deputy Headmistress a job that required spending a lot of time with Willow and Prue had in Willow's opinion been quite happy with her job. No Willow suspected that there was fowl play involved.
"Mistress"
The voice didn't startle Willow as she'd been anticipating this call. She picked up hand sized mirror and spoke into it.
"Yes Hermione what is it?"
The mirror showed the face of seventeen year old Hermione Granger who was Willow's apprentice in name but in fact she was Willow's right hand woman. Granger had been broken in mind and spirit by Willow over a year ago using methods borrowed from the Dark Mistresses and since then Rosenberg had been having Granger do a lot of questionable things.
"As you commanded Mistress I have travelled to San Francisco to see if the Charmed Ones ventured here. I have found no trace of them and the manor house is unoccupied".
Willow had suspected that the Charmed Ones might head for this world's version of their family home despite the fact that it wasn't their home at all but that had proven a bust. It hadn't been likely in Willow's view as the Muggle world was I shambles but it had been worth checking out.
"Very well, Hermione return to Hogwarts" ordered Willow.
The mirror call ended and Willow slammed the hand sized object on the desk in frustration. She was now certain that it had been her former lord who had come and taken the Charmed Ones away. Any attempts to find them on this world had failed which meant they were on another world and for all her power opening portals to other worlds was impossible.
Well not impossible just dangerous as The Coven had no idea where a portal they opened would led to as portal magic was practised on this world. If The Coven had gone and based itself in say Sunnydale they might have a chance of finding the sisters but this world's dimensions barriers were a lot stronger than the ones back home.
So it seemed that remaining members of the The Coven had no choice now. They'd have to wait for the Overlord to come to them and then deal with him as best they could. That would require some preparation but they all the resources of Magical Britain to call upon so their situation wasn't hopeless.
Yet in her gut Willow knew that if the Overlord wanted someone or something there'd be little that would slow him down and killing him might prove impossible. He was a god after all and there wasn't much that could stop a god. Well aside from a creature of equal power but it wasn't as such beings could just be summoned up...
The red headed Witch stood up and went to fireplace a smile on her face as she threw some floo powder in the fire place.
"Get me Fred" she said to the person on the other side of the floo connection "I have a job for her it involves summoning someone a very powerful someone".
The World Of The Charmed Ones. San Francisco.
In a warehouse down at the docks a group of Warlocks led by a powerful Warlock named Devlin discussed the future of the faction they had formed since the death of the old Source.
"The new Source's offer is a good one Devlin" agrued a female Warlock "a place on the advisory council that could led to a lot of power, for all of us".
In the past Devlin would of jumped at the chance to seize such power but things had changed. The hierarchy of evil had changed. Demons were no longer top of the food chain this new Source was god something far above even the strongest Upper-level Demons.
And as if that wasn't weird enough the Vampires had been welcome back into the hierarchy which in the minds of most Warlocks meant that they would be considered even lower on the food chain but that wasn't the case.
The new Source seemed to dislike Demons and Darklighters instead favouring those who had souls which was strange as that was considered a weakness by those who worshipped evils might.
"What about the rumours" said a dark skinned male Warlock "I heard that this new Source has his own Underworld that draws our kind in and they never come back".
The other black magic users dismissed the rumour despite the fact that it was true. A number of Warlocks and other evil creatures afflicted with souls had disappeared to a place called the Netherworld. The reason none of them had returned was because they didn't want to.
In the Netherworld they didn't have to worry about being prayed upon by power hungry Demons or being vanished by Witches. They got a safe home, plentiful food and regular pay either in gold or whatever else it was they valued.
Before the Warlock leader could make up his mind something strange even by their standards happened. Flying green skulls glided into the warehouse and started blasting Warlocks apart with some sort of magical energy. Devlin tried to flee but found himself unable to move from the spot he'd been standing in.
The green skull things vanished and were replaced by two Human looking people wearing grey outfits. The two males circled the trapped Warlock as if inspecting an item up for auction.
"He's the one" stated the smaller of the two men "The one this Overlord is interested in".
"I can't imagine why" said the taller of the two who was dressed in a darker shade of grey than the other "he's not very powerful and his followers are few in number".
Not all of Devlin's followers had been at this meeting but their numbers had just been greatly reduced.
"But he is a leader" commented the shorter of the two men "there's something about this one that makes his kin want to follow him. That is why the Overlord is interested in him. Gothic wants to control all the evil he can".
"We should just kill him" argued the more aggressive of the two men "he's a threat to our utopia".
The man with the beard had a different idea.
"No the collective needs someone with the Overlord's power. With him we wouldn't need the Charmed Ones at all and his other gods who could be brought into the collective further empowering us all".
The taller of the two nodded and said.
"Very well lets get on with this then".
Devlin found himself able to move but couldn't Blink out this forced him to hear what these two men in grey had to say.
"We have a job for you Warlock" said the shorter and older looking of the two men "your going to join the new Source's advisory council and then report everything he tells you to us. If you don't you will die but serve us well and you will be reward with all the power you could want".
Without waiting for an answer to the two men vanished leaving behind a very confused and very scared Warlock.
The Department Of Mysteries. The Wizarding World.
Winifred Burkle aka Fred sorted through the collection of scrolls that littered her desk.
"What your asking me to do is very dangerous" she warned her visitor "only a demon prince or lord has any chance of stopping Gothic and they are very hard to control".
"I know that Fred" pointed out Willow "but its our only chance of stopping the Overlord from killing us all".
"Are you sure the sisters are even dead?" asked Fred "maybe he took them back them back to the Netherworld, they are the mothers of his children after all maybe he just wanted them back".
Willow suspected this too but she needed her fellow Coven members to believe that their former master was out to them, only then would they be desperate enough to follow her new plan.
"Maybe he'd spare them but he won't spare us and even if he did I don't want to go back to being a slave".
Fred wasn't so fussed herself. Gothic had actually been quite nice to her. He'd gotten her out of that cave and back into a nice safe library away from the monsters. He'd even gotten her magical powers so that she could defend herself if needs be.
So when he wanted sex or some magic researched Fred hadn't considered such a big deal. Willow on the other hand seemed very ungrateful about the whole thing. The Overlord had given them all power, immortality and a great place to live yet she didn't seem grateful at all.
"A Demon Lord could do a lot worse" argued Winifred "we'd be risking more than our lives and I don't want to be dragged off to a hell dimension".
Rosenberg suppressed her anger.
"What other choice do we have?".
Fred considered this.
"Well he wasn't immune to magic when we left so maybe if we hit with a lot of spells we could disable him long enough to throw him through the Veil of Death".
Willow considered this for a moment. She'd seen the Overlord be hurt by Superman who was very powerful so it might be possible to hurt him of lots of magic users teamed up. Even a god has his limits and The Coven still had a lot of magical power. If they could disable him they could try the Veil it was a one way door to death nothing that had gone through it had ever come back.
"Okay so a Demon Prince is a bad idea" admitted the red head "but we will need something to contain him, any ideas there?".
Fred chewed her lip for a while before answering.
"There is a type of cage I read about that can contain anything magical but it only stops magic he might just bash his way out. Summoning him would only work if he's already on this world so we'd have to lure him into the cage"
Fred ranted for a while coming up with a dozen plans all of which she dismissed as quickly as she made them. This carried on until she mentioned that they could try the enjoining spell which would combine the Coven's power into a single member. The result would be enough to battle anything even a god.
"It should work unless the Gothic has become more powerful than the entire Coven which isn't likely if he's just gotten back from the dead".
"It will have to do" decided Willow "once enjoined we will either win or die together, either way we won't have to go back to being slaves".
As Rosenberg left the office Fred frowned and began to consider the idea of just how free she was. Being a slave hadn't been so bad for her and being free was a lot more trouble. Perhaps being a slave in the Overlord's service wasn't so bad when compared to a freedom which was seemed likely to get them all killed.
The Underworld. Advisory Council's Chamber.
Like most of the Underworld the council chamber was a dark and deary place were the only light available came from flaming torches. Despite the efforts of my slaves there was much anyone could do to make the Underworld look more comfortable. The walls had been smoothed out and ground was now paved stone rather than cracked rock, and the tables and chairs were fancy but aside from that not much had changed.
Still it would do for the purposes of this meeting. For the next one I planned to purchase some property on the surface world and have that decorated to the highest taste but for now we'd have to met down here.
One by one the Council members arrived and took the seats allocated to them. The council members were a mixed lot. The Queen of the Vampire clan I'd allied with sat on my right side along with a charismatic Warlock named Devlin who had promised me the allegiance of many of his kin.
Sitting so close to me wasn't a sign of my favour they sat there because I wanted to keep an eye of them. Two creatures more loyal to me sat further away on that side of the table. Both were Elves one was a very powerful Blood Elf mage while the other was a Necromancer from Tamriel who had brought ten other Necromancers with him when he arrived in the Netherworld.
After that was a Warlock of a different kind this one was the leader of all the Warlocks who lived in the Netherworld and did research for me. He had a hard to pronounce name so I just called him Lord High Researcher.
A female Drow who served me as Priestess sat furtherest away from me despite perhaps being the most loyal to me. She led all those who ensured that I and my goddess Mistress were correctly worshipped.
On the other side of the table sat Kurzon a Demon who had once tried to overthrow the last Source but knowing that he couldn't beat me he'd offered his services and had quite a lot of Demons backing him.
Next to him sat another Demon who went by the name of Paul Haas. He was young by Demon standards but had quite a following among the lower-level Demons. In the original time line of this world he wouldn't of risen to power until after the Charmed Ones faked their deaths but my shake up of Underworld had brought a lot of changes about and as a result Haas was a rising star in the Underworld.
After that there was a Demon know only as the Dark Knight. He commanded very little in the way of resources but he was after Excalibur a magical weapon could kill perhaps even me so it was important to keep an eye on him just in case the one he served did come to posses the sword.
I'd also gotten a Grimlock to join this group as they had the power to open portals to other worlds that would come in handy once I had a big enough army as they could aid me in moving troops.
The only other Demon to sit at this table was a Dark Priestess whose named I'd never bothered to learn. I often used the services of a Dark Priestess or Priest so it made sense to keep one around it would save me having to deal with a different one every time I needed a Dark Binding performed.
The last to sit at the table was one of the two Dark Angels who served me. Amon was his name and while he never said much he was quite loyal to me and eager to advance the cause of evil.
"Welcome to the new advisory council" I told the mixed group of evil beings "you are all here to help me in deciding the future course for the evil of several worlds. Each of you... ".
The room froze everything just stopped aside from myself and I looked around rather confused by the whole affair.
I then suddenly found myself surrounded by people wearing different shades of grey which given the world I was on meant they were likely a neutral group as evil beings normally wore black. Looking at the them it wasn't hard to figure who they were.
"We are the Avatars" declared their leader. "my name is Alpha and we have come to make you an offer".
Ah so they were going to recruit me rather than try to kill me. That made a nice change. It was a waste of their time but still it was better than having to fight for my life.
"I'm kind of busy here" I told Alpha "why don't you come back later once I'm done with this meeting".
Alpha began to stride around the room examining the creatures that were to act as leaders of evil alongside me.
"Ah yes the business of evil. Following the so called Grand Design forever trapped the endless cycle of good verses evil".
And here comes the bit were he tells me that there is a better way.
"We can offer you something better than this Gothic. A way to rise above the limitations of good and evil".
"And to give you power beyond what you even know now" added a female Avatar.
While I'd not prepared to deal with the Avatars I did know a lot about them. Their power was shared among them as a collective meaning that if I joined them they'd get access to all of my powers and I'd get to use theirs. The power would weaken if one of them died which was why I wasn't to join them as there'd be no way to take their powers for myself.
I pretended to be thinking about what they said while really thinking about how to get rid of them forever. I knew about the potions that killed Avatars I could even get one thanks to my powers as I could time travel. I never used that ability because I didn't want to risk changing the present but I could go back and steal one of the Avatar killing potions that were destroyed.
"I have power now" I told the female Avatar "quite a lot of it. I'm the Source of all Evil and a Hellgod what do I need with more power".
"You rule over a collection of self serving monsters" pointed out a tall Avatar "they will betray you they can't be trusted and the empire you have built will crumble before your very eyes".
I sensed a threat somewhere in that statement. I got the feeling that this was a promise rather than just a prediction of a possible future.
"We have the power to alter reality to control time itself" Alpha informed me "and we have a plan that will change the world to make it better, you can be a part of that".
Yeah that stupid idea of Utopia. It was a fool's dream nothing more. Conflict is necessary for growth without it Humanity would grow stagnant and no progress would be made.
"With us you can reshape the world" said a male Avatar wearing a light shade of grey "and create something that will last forever".
Nothing lasts forever I'd learned that the hard way.
"Please think about our offer" asked Alpha "take your time were not going anywhere".
Time restarted and only I seemed to have noticed that the Avatars had ever been here.
"This meeting has been cancelled" I told the evil beings sitting at the table "we will convene later".
"But..." protested one of the demons.
I was in no mood to be questioned so I waved my hand and vanquished the demon, not caring that this would certainly cause problems for me later.
"Out now" I ordered.
The others left quickly without saying a word. I sat down on the chair meant for me and considered what to do next.
The Avatars weren't just going to take no for an answer and there was only one way to kill them so I'd have to risk time travel and hope I didn't change things too much when grabbing the needed potion.
If that didn't work I might have to leave this world forever. That wouldn't be difficult and it would mean giving up the position of being the Source of all Evil. I wouldn't have to surrender the magical powers but I'd lose access to all the resources of this world and a lot of recruits for my army.
On the off chance that this wasn't enough I'd just have to join them and then find a way to take them down from the inside because I sure as hell wasn't going to live in a boring ass Utopia.
The Underworld. Demon Lair.
The Avatars moved quickly knowing that if they wanted to get Gothic on their side they'd have to make it so that he nothing worth staying for in his current life. They knew that the Overlord might simply leave this world forever and cut himself off from this dimension. And while the Avatars existed outside of this reality it did take a lot of power to access other worlds so it would be better to work on this world and save as much power as they could encase Gothic tried to fight them.
"These will do" decided Alpha as he used his powers to keep a group of possessing Demons from Shimmering away. "We can have them posses some of the Overlord's servants".
Convincing the Demons to do as they were told wasn't difficult. The hard part would be getting them into the Netherworld but the Avatars had the power needed.
The Netherworld Tower. The Lower Levels.
"Okay why is my army attacking itself?" I asked Faith.
I'd just gotten back from the past were I'd tried to kill my hands on a Avatar killing potion. I'd failed at this task and resolved to cut myself off from the world of the Charmed Ones but upon my return I'd found my army, which had just gotten back from a successful battle on the surface, fighting itself.
The evil beings under my command didn't get along with other types of creatures and were only held together due to fear of me and the power the Dungeon Heart had over them. But now it seemed to have come apart.
It wouldn't have taken much to get them fighting each other as the different groups never got along but what I was seeing now was totally anarchy.
Every creature was out for itself and the only the Humans seemed to be working together and given that most of them came from the dangerous world of Fallout Earth they were all well armed and very good fighters, if they hadn't been they wouldn't of been in my army.
The ground shook as three giants charged into the battle taking place in the large open area that served as a staging ground of my army. With their impressive strength and size the giants were able to hold their own even as hundreds of creatures tried to take them down.
"Its like this all over the place" Faith told me "the leaders of each group just decided they should start fighting. Its like their all possessed".
Given that each of the leaders had sworn an Unbreakable Vow to serve me loyally it was possible that this was the case. They couldn't willingly betray me but if they were possessed then the Vow wouldn't kick in as they weren't responsible for their actions.
None of the creatures were attacking Faith or I, not that it would of mattered if they did, they were all to focused on each other so this gave me plenty of time to think.
It didn't take me long to figure out who was behind this. The Avatars had done this before to try and drive Leo the Charmed Ones Whitelighter away from the other Elders. Now they were doing something similar to me. By having my army turn on itself they denied me the warriors I needed to conquer worlds thus disrupting my plans.
But this action alone wouldn't drive me to join them. I had ways of rebuilding my army so I had to assume they'd try something else. And they could get to me here then there was no point cutting myself of from their native world.
My options seemed very limited. Other than trying to destroy the Avatars with brute force I didn't have any way to deal with them. Well aside from joining them that is.
Which thinking about it might work out for the best. I could do what Cole did when becoming an Avatar which was to create to alternate universe more to his liking. Granted that hadn't worked out the way he wanted but I could learn from his mistakes and even if the reality I created wasn't to my liking the Avatar's collective power would be greatly weakened removing them as a threat, at least for a while. While they recovered I could try and find away to destroy them permanently.
Of course that would mean leaving everything I had here behind but truth be told that wasn't as hard it might seem. I wasn't that attached to anyone or anything in my current life and I'd been tempted to start over again elsewhere more than once. If I created an alternate reality for myself then at least I wouldn't have to start all over again I'd just assume the life of another me or even create that existence.
I mulled over this new plan and decided to go with it but after I dealt with a few matters in this reality. I knew that this existence wouldn't come to an end if I left it all behind so I had to make some arrangements and deal with a few matters.
First of all I'd have to deal with the war going on in my basement because at this rate the whole Tower was going to come apart. I had an idea on how to this a spell I'd prepared myself to cast should ever need to stop something like this before it started.
I stopped myself as I realised that there wasn't really a point to casting the spell and that it didn't stop Humans from fighting anyway so the Fallout lot would just keep going if they were possessed. Best to kill them all.
Using my desire to inflict endless amounts of suffering and death to the Avatars I brought forth a shitload of lightening. The bolts of magical energy didn't zap individual beings they zapped many jumping from being to being in mad dance of deadly power.
Pouring everything I had until to this attack I brought death to everything sight as the lightening grew in strength it reduced everything it touched to ash. Thousands died in anguish as I brought painful death to them and by the end of it nothing was left.
Faith looked at me with sheer terror in her eyes but I ignored anything she had to say and opened up a portal to her home world before throwing her through it. I'd send Dawn along later but for now I had other matters to take care off.
I knew my son would take over as the next Overlord and rule the Netherworld so I'd leave everything here to him. I'd close the Gates once I got my Mistresses to the worlds they belonged on leaving just Paige down here to raise the kids. My heirs could have everything else.
Using the Dungeon Heart I dismissed any creature still bound to it and they returned to their native worlds via the portals and the Netherworld Gate. I then drained its power before opening a portal of my own one that led to an Earth like mine and dumped the Dungeon Heart there. On a world with little or no magic and no creatures the Dungeon Heart would be nothing that a cool looking shiny rock.
Moving on I sent all the Mistresses, aside from Paige, away and closed the Gates. I killed the demonic Seer and Rose with a couple of oversized fireballs.
I had to laugh when I realised how easy it had been for me to destroy my own Dark Domain. Months of work had been undone in hours and it made me realise how fragile the whole thing had been. The Avatars would have been able to destroy it all with ease. I was just saving them some time and effort. Besides I was getting sick and tried of having to deal with monsters and demons it was time to try something else and as the old saying goes a change is as good as a rest.
Before I could go and trick the Avatars into giving the power to start that new life I had to deal with Willow and her fellow Witches I didn't want them coming here looking for the Charmed Ones. Nor did I want Willow taking over the Netherworld. Oh and I'd need to kill Illyria too.
Outside Of Time And Space.
In a place that didn't exist in any universe the collective of magical beings known as the Avatars worked their joint power.
On the circler table before them a projection of light showed Overlord Gothic tearing down his own empire.
"The spell is working better than we could of hoped" stated Beta.
"A little to well" remarked another Avatar "even with the possessing Demons destroying his army he shouldn't be reacting like this".
"He's a god" pointed out Alpha "we can't assume that he'd react like a Human and it hardly matters if he destroys his own power base, he won't need it soon".
"What if this isn't enough?" asked a Chinese looking Avatar.
"Then we will have the Warlock betray him next" replied Alpha. "we will do whatever it takes to convince this god to join us".
The collective will of the Avatars went back to using their powers to mess with the mind of Gothic uncaring of the consequences it would have for other worlds.
The Wizarding World. Hogwarts School.
Magic filled the air as the students of this school and the staff traded blows with the invaders. Demons from the Underworld led by Gothic had somehow entered Hogwarts bypassing the many wards that protected it.
Energy balls whizzed past Willow's head as she sent the Killing Curse at another Demon which exploded rather simply leave a dead body on the floor.
Amy Madison picked herself up off the floor and sent a dark arts spell at a Warlock who had just tried to stab her with a conjured dagger.
"What the hell is going on?" she asked of her lover "were are all these Demons coming from".
"Everywhere" answered Willow "all the wards are down".
Students and staff were dropping like flies, they'd never fought magical Demons and despite killing many of the enemy more of them just kept coming.
A massive fireball went through the air and hit one of the older students who Willow had personally trained. The young Wizard was incinerated in a heartbeat leaving nothing but ashes behind.
"Gothic" snarled the red head.
She spied her former master who was killing anything that move regardless of what side it was on as if he'd gone into some sort of killing frenzy. Nothing was being spared from his wrath even if the pets were being immolated if they crossed his path.
"We need to do the enjoining ritual !" shouted out Fred who was trying to hold off a group of magical Demons with mostly non-lethal D&D spells.
Her words doomed her, as soon as Gothic heard them a bolt of lightening hit Fred striking her dead. Which put an end to that plan rather well.
"Run, run" screamed Amy as another bolt of lightening struck killing Sabrina.
"This isn't happening!" screamed Willow as she saw her plans fall apart around her.
Years of work were being undone in a matter of moments as Overlord Gothic effortlessly killed anyone or anything The Coven tried to use against him. Summoned creatures were blasted apart by demonic powers while wand waving Wizards were reduced to ash by electrical attacks.
"Illyria was quite disappointing" said Gothic as he made his way towards his former Mistresses "she died quickly I wonder how long you will last".
Willow cast the Killing Curse putting her hate for her former master behind it but the spell proved ineffective.
Dismayed by this Willow didn't even try to defend herself when a powerful pain curse hit her. She didn't even scream she just dropped to the floor.
"You betrayed me" accused the Overlord "I was dead for two years because of you".
Another bolt of purple light hit the prone redhead and this time she did scream.
"You could of brought me back so easily but instead you ran away!".
Again pain filled Rosenberg and she struggled to breathe.
"Everything I'd worked to create was destroyed on that yet we might of recovered had you done what you should of done. But rather than stay and fight you ran away. Because of that my city was lost, my wealth buried under rubble and my power was taken away. For this you will die".
A bolt of red energy shot out of Willow and entered the body of the Overlord. Gothic drained away the Witches life leaving nothing but a cold lifeless body on the floor.
Soon after that the other members of the Coven joined her death. By the end of the battle nothing was left of the thousand year old school but bodies, rubble and dust.
The Netherworld Tower. The Throne Room.
I sat upon my throne and wondered if I'd ever see the Netherworld again. Once I used the prepared spell to rewrite the past so things worked out better than they had here I might not be ruler of the Netherworld any more. I might find myself ruling my old Dark City or perhaps even something grander.
I wouldn't know until after I cast the spell and I couldn't do that until the Avatars turned up. So far that hadn't made an appearance, perhaps they wouldn't until I'd finished taking care of business here.
I'd just sent Paige and the kids back to her home world along with a magical device called an Orlon Window. If broken near someone whose memory had been altered by a spell the device would restore the person's memories. So if Paige went to her sisters and broke the Orlon Window they remember everything including the fact that the kids Paige turned up with belonged to them. Paige hoped to rejoin her sisters and I wished her luck with that.
This new arrangement meant that it was unlikely that my son would succeed me but that didn't concern me too much. If my spell rewrote history rather than send me off to an alternative universe then it might be for the best if all my brats were in another reality.
Gnarl had for some time now been trying to get me to explain what in the name of the Dark Gods I was up to. I had purposely undone everything I accomplished which was very unusual for an Overlord as we aren't the kind of people to give up power. But then again I'd never been a normal Overlord.
The Minion Master was just about to try again when he froze in place and I once more found myself surrounded by Avatars.
"We've given you some time to think over our proposal" said Alpha "have you made your choice?".
I decided to act as if I was reluctant to join them but that I had been given no choice due to their actions.
"Yes I'll join you" I said while sighing in defeat.
I got up from my throne and walked over to Alpha.
"After I become one of you I'll want some time alone" I told the Avatars " a few days will do I'll need to get use to my new powers and I want to make sure that the creatures here will be okay without me".
That was all a lie. I didn't care about what happened the minion tribes I just didn't want these guys to start thinking I was to eager to sign up with them.
Alpha dismissed the rest of the collective and spoke to me one on one.
"I'm surprised that you took up our offer so quickly. You may gain great power by joining us but you will lose your empire".
I tired to look unhappy but really I was quite joyful right now. I knew that within moments I'd be an Avatar and then I'd be able to rewrite history so that my past was changed. Assuming the spell went well I'd no longer have to deal with the mistakes of the past and I'd no longer be a god which meant that I wouldn't have to put up with crap like this.
"Empires come and go" I told Alpha "I want to outlast mine".
He seemed to accept that
"Then there is no point waiting any longer".
Alpha stepped forward and performed the ritual that was suppose to elevate me beyond good or evil but I felt little difference afterwards.
"I will leave you be for a while" said Alpha "take some time to adjust, when your ready you will be able to find us".
As soon as Alpha left I broke into a smile and took out the a piece of paper. The spell was the work of art even if I did say so myself. I'd never been one for rhyming so it written in Latin instead but the wording was rather good.
Even with my god powers rewriting reality on this scale was impossible to do without risking my own existence as while I could alter the past I had no way of knowing how anything did in the past would effect the future. This was why I needed this spell and the power needed to perform it.
Using magic to make slight alternations to reality wasn't that hard but altering past events to create a present which suited my desires, well that was something else entirely. Without the power of the Avatars there would of simply been no way to alter the events in the right way but with their power I could power a spell to do it for me.
Before I started the spell I froze the Netherworld in time so that even if the Avatars figured out what I was doing they wouldn't be able to stop me.
I started the ominous sounding Latin chanting and reality began to change around me. The past was altered and the present changed. I felt energy being drained out of me as the time line of not only this world was altered but of other worlds as well. My godhood vanished and this me ceased to exist but I didn't die instead I became someone else for me every changed.
