[Tek, we require your presence, at E-Rantel, The Players have arrived]
I got a message from Ainz, The Player army had fully arrived, well means I had no more time for training.
"Rael, do you mind continuing this on another day? Seems we are needed; the Player army has reach E-Rantel" I stood up and offered my hand to Rael to help her up.
"Sure, another day I shall beat you up…I mean train you" Rael said with a grin and took my hand.
A vampire bride teleported into the arena as Rael and I arrived where Zesshi and Arche were waiting.
"What's happening?" Zesshi asked, Arche was curious as well. "Seems we have to join the others in E-Rantel, the Player army has arrived" they nodded and joined me. The Vampire bride knelt, "Lord Tek, if you permit it, we should teleport now".
"Of course, lead the way" I still wasn't good with the over the top respect.
"Should I help, or do you guys want to attack them?" Rael grinned.
"It wouldn't be much of a fight if you joined" I said in reply, which caused her to nod in reply.
"But do jump in if it looks like Arche and Zesshi are going to get hurt, or if innocents are in danger, please"
"Of course" Rael looked at the two girls and smiled at them.
I signalled to the bride to continue, which she did. We arrived at Carne village, there were a lot of goblins standing around. We were just outside the gate. The bride bowed and teleported out again. We turned towards E-Rantel, time to take the army from behind.
We ran the whole distance, at our speed it was around thirty minutes, I couldn't send a message because the enemy had a seer.
We stopped at the tree line, and ahead of us was a massive army of POPs with a few dwarves, demi-humans, and humans from the Empire. With my eyesight I could see the guardians of both sides fighting. Even Greed was there, she seemed to be enjoying herself, she was smiling happily.
I observed the enemy formation, I picked a target, the seer was right at the back. He was protected by two guardians and the rogue, I could see him stealthed…
"Hey Zesshi, Arche, want to try to kill a Player? It is a seer, they specialize in observation. There combat power is low, but for an eighty and a ninety, it may be a bit of a challenge"
"I can? You don't mind me fighting someone of that calibre?" Zesshi sounded excited and she had started to breathe heavily…just how much did this girl like fighting?
"Yeah, but be careful" I looked over to Arche to see her reaction, she looked scared and clutched her staff, but she nodded.
"Rael, please make sure they stay safe?" I looked towards her, and she nodded. I could feel the power around her stir slightly, that was odd, I couldn't have done this before…
"Well, good luck. I will take out the damn rogue who hurt Lily, you lot can handle the seer" I said as I activated [Stealth VI], and the daily skill [Now you see me], and the [Fallen Knight] skill [Shadow Form]. These were my greatest stealth skills, I had to sneak up on a trained Assassin PVPer…
The world seemed to go grey and the enemy was outlined in green. One of the passives from [Void Walker] was the capability to analyse the enemy weak spots, but the enemy had passives that allowed him to negate mine it seemed, he probably had the [Void Walker] class as well.
I shadow stepped behind the enemy rogue and activated [Overkill] and stabbed towards the assassin's back, with a sound of shattering glass his shielding that had been cast by a priest was destroyed. My blade continued and penetrated his armour.
There was a spurt of blood and my stealth de-activated, but so did his. He screamed as the blade was deflected off his ribs and sheared a huge flap of flesh and armour from his back.
He spun, both his daggers swinging towards my head. I ducked under one dagger and deflected the other with my gauntlet. With an ear-piercing screech a scratch was gouged the whole way from the tip of my gauntlet all the way to my shoulder.
Dammit, my favourite armour…It was luckily still in a state where it could be repaired, unlike if the acid from the hydra had hit it. I only got the armour recently, from Greed, but it was my favourite because it looked cool and was a matching set with my Personal NPC, Greed, I couldn't help but think of her as anything but that.
He was close, I tried the new skill I had learned from Rael and moved power into my hand and arm, and tried to imitate her magic armour by projecting a small amount in front of my hand and solidifying it.
I punched him in the chest, there was a flash of blue light, so bright it almost blinded me and the Assassin suddenly had a hole straight through his chest, he was half way up my arm. He screamed, grabbing my arm. He opened his mouth, like he was trying to say something, blood dribbling out. I looked over and saw Rael watching, she looked a little surprised, then gave me a double thumbs up, with a proud grin. I nodded to her, and looked back to the rogue.
He scrabbled desperately, his hands scratching at my armour. Because of adrenaline and a Player's constitution, his fingers left dints in my armour…
I couldn't let his die this easily so I pulled my arm out and used enough of a potion to stop the bleeding, but not the pain. I then punched again, being more careful to control my strength. I also remembered [Overkill] and [Pierce Armour] was still on, it explained why I did a lot more damage than I thought I would, Assassins don't wear heavy armour so I expected some damage, not this much though.
My second punch penetrated his shoulder, almost ripping his arm off. This guy hurt Lily, he was going to suffer. Again I sealed the bleeding but didn't heal it enough for him to move. Again and again I punched, until both his arms and legs were basically severed. He couldn't do anything, but I needed to keep him like this for a while.
I looked to Zesshi and Arche, Zesshi was slashing at the seer, Arche was casting, though his magic defence was high. Zesshi was having a lot of fun, though she had wounds, she ignored them and kept pressuring the seer.
Rael was watching them, she walked slowly over to me, where I was standing with the disabled assassin. "Do you need him sealed?"
"Yes please" I replied.
She cast a seal that was strangely different to the one she used on Rei, the assassin made a noise and his wounds healed, but he tried to move and couldn't. "This will seal him, it isolates the nervous system, he can still feel pain, but he cannot move. He can scream though" Rael said as she stomped on the assassin's hand, causing him to grunt in pain.
[Vampire brides, please send one of your members to pick up a piece of trash?]
[Yes, Lord Tek]
With a flash a bride teleported next to me, I pointed at the assassin, "Take him to Neuronist Painkill, and tell her to have fun, just don't let him die. Also mention that he has a lot more endurance than most people she has played with. Also, ask her to be creative, he hurt one of us, he was the one who hurt my companion"
The bride knelt. "At once Lord Tek" she got up and grabbed the sealed assassin and teleported again.
Rael looked to me, smiled, and walked back to Arche and Zesshi. I followed her back. Both the girls looked over at me, and then fought harder.
"Arche!" I called to get her attention, she looked over, slightly surprised. "Catch! Transform to your Angel form and attack with melee, this guy's magic defence is too high for you to penetrate"
"Yes Tek" Arche replied and concentrated, holding the Sword of the Archangel I gave her. Suddenly wings sprouted from her back and she was covered in flame. Dashing forwards, she swung at the Seer's exposed back.
Her clothing had burnt off, so I paid a lot of attention, so as to make sure that her lack of armour didn't get her hurt…Yeah, I will go with that…
Zesshi noticed, just glancing over and…looked up and down Arche's body…Ok, that was a little unexpected, and kind of hot.
Anyway, the seer was mostly dead, he was on the defensive, it looked like he was going to be dead soon. "Should we kill him, or seal him? Or what?" Rael said quietly as she stood next to me watching the fight.
"I think we should just kill him, we have no animosity with him" I shrugged, it would delay the enemy's plans, since we could use message magic reliably, until the seer came back out, which could take a day or two, the battle would be over by then.
So neither of us interfered, and finally the seer was chopped down, and vanished into the shadows. Arche and Zesshi were slightly exhausted, and naked Arche's skin was red with sweat slowly sliding down it…
"Eek" Arche screamed quietly and looked at Zesshi, Rael, and I, she blushed deeply then wrapped her wings around herself. "I didn't know this would happen, I apologise" I said to her. "Your apology isn't very convincing, at least stop grinning so much, and hand me a cloak or clothing…" Arche sighed.
I walked over and handed her a set of clothing, which she put on, she didn't object though to opening her wings and having to be naked again where we could see, as she got dressed, strangely enough.
After that was done we started to eliminate the enemy forces, I left that to Zesshi and Arche, I did a few AoEs such as [Whirlwind Blade] and [World of Blades].
We waded through the enemies, most of the combat was happening at the front lines. I could see bolts of magic, huge magics, tearing the ground to pieces. Massive earth walls and waves, which were from mare. Level ninety-five dragons were rampaging, and a pink blob moved between the Players like bubble-gum lightning.
Arrows flashed through the air, carving tunnels and causing thunderous roars as the air collapsed back into the slipstream.
I could see Peroroncino and Akemi standing side by side, firing. Peroroncino's arrows did much more damage. A blinding white dragonoid and a misshapen frog creature held the Player vanguards back, while Yamaiko healed. Ainz and Ulbert stood side by side, casting. Numerous undead attacked the MOBs while high-level summons put pressure on the enemy NPCs, Albedo stood by Ainz's side, and Shalltear summoned her own minions, and was darting in and out of combat, flying.
"Rael, please keep some of the Players back, Zesshi and Arche, can you take out the healers. Arche the clothes I gave you are fireproof, so please take your flaming form. I am going for the vanguard from behind" I gave my companions their combat instructions and activated stealth, of course I had already used my daily skills, but that didn't limit my damage too much as I shadow stepped to Aelith and waited for the chance. When it came I stole the ring that cast [Anubis Anchor] off him, it would be bothersome if he used it here.
Aelith didn't even notice…heh, bastard.
I joined the fighting, it was actually a pretty good PVP match, though thousands of unrelated soldiers on both sides kept dying. War and PVP have huge differences though the Lords of Light and the newly summoned, didn't seem to notice or care. Huge damage had been done, according to Ainz, the Empire had been wiped out, and the Theocracy had been almost completely absorbed by the Roble Holy Kingdom.
The dwarven kingdom was also gone and the Elven kingdom was engaged in a full civil war, so it was probably going to fade as well. The entire face of the continent was being re-arranged.
Most of the enemy Players had been wiped out and I had sent Arche and Zesshi back to Nazarick.
Rael was standing beside me, Bukubukuchagma and Yamaiko we were the last ones left alive, dead bodies lined the streets, blood flooded the gutters, I could see peeking out of the partially ruined houses. We had been pushed back to the palace outer walls, and walls could not hold back Players.
"You lot should just give up" the red-haired man was still alive, he kept pushing us back.
"Rael, can you wipe these people out?" I ask, she looked at me, and then nodded.
Grinning, Rael swung into motion. Her hands blurring as she punched the Players, somehow keeping them in the same place with her capabilities while shattering bones and breaking armour. It took thirty seconds to kill three players, while the other five took us almost a day and a half…She probably could have done it in under a minute.
It was always fun to watch Rael in action, she said she was average for her level, which was level one hundred and thirty-five. I wouldn't want to see people more powerful. Yamaiko and Bukubukuchagma were shocked.
E-Rantel had fallen and Blue Rose had lead the Kingdom army to attack part way through, it seems they had been observing us and had attacked when we looked weakest. I had them transported to Nazarick, under guard, but not as prisoners. Evileye would be happy to see them again.
There was nothing we could do for E-Rantel, well, not until the war was over. The reconstructing of kingdoms or what Ainz chose to do.
We appeared in the throne room, Ainz and the others stood on the dais on which the throne was situated, the guardians were kneeling. Blue Rose was with Evileye, they seemed terrifies but Pandora's Actor was trying to calm them down. Aura was wearing Greed and Avarice, she had re-levelled the Players. Greed saw me and ran over and knelt, "Lord Tek".
"Ainz, can we talk in your office please? I have some questions to ask"
"Hmm, ok" Ainz nodded and followed me.
"Are you going to be continuing this fighting with Lords of Light?"
"Yes, they attacked us, we fighting until they are all dead" Ainz sounded mad.
"What about the people? Over three societies have ended. The Dwarves are no more, the Sorcerous Kingdom is gone, and so is the Empire" I wanted to know, I was going to be fighting more, because surprisingly, wiping out entire civilizations were a little less fun than I expected…
"If they survive, I will re-build, if they all die it would allow us to make a safe country for Nazarick" Ainz sounded less human, a normal person would not do this, and Lords of Light seemed to think of it like a game.
"Ahh, ok, well I will be travelling with Rael, Zesshi Arche and Greed will be coming with me" I said.
"I will need to be contacted when Lily gets better, please" I continued.
"Alright, have…fun" Ainz said, there was a green flash just before he said it.
I walked out of his office and he followed. When I said goodbye to the others, they seemed surprised, well that was to be expected, I had given no warnings.
Shalltear ran up and hugged me, she was crying. She also hugged Arche…and groped her, before jumping back. I asked Yamaiko to say goodbye to Lupisregina for me.
We got Shalltear to gate us to Arwintar. What met our eyes was a ruined husk of a city, with rubble and the collapsed remains of houses and buildings. There were bodies everywhere. We got another hug as our transport vampire prepared to leave. She was rather affectionate to her companions.
It was night, so we had to set up camp. We had walked out of the ruins of the city, we didn't want to sleep near a lot of dead bodies. I set up the tents. And we went to sleep, Zesshi, Arche, and Kael in mine, Greed in her own.
(A/N: This may seem a bit rushed, I wasn't sure how to end the guild war arc realistically. I was planning from the beginning to have Tek leave the continent with Rael. She was too OP for these guys. That and the next arc or two requires another place. Unfortunately Ainz Ooal Gown (the guild) will not be showing up, neither will Lily, well not for a while. /A/N)