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Chapter 44: The Holy Roble Alliance

The three Overlords rode all the way to the Southern Holy Roble Kingdom via the combination of high class luxury carriages tied to one another from the Baharuth empire and the Golem Engine designed by Koriander. They had stopped several times already, at which point in time Koriander would get out, get her brother to beat a staff with a flaming skull mounted on top into the ground with his big metal fist that was like a hammer, then get back in and move on to the next location. Remedios complained about the frequent stops, usually after she's emptied the contents of her stomach on the road, but Koriander would simply reply that it was a vital part of their plan, and that she was driving.

"Um. Not that I'm complaining but, what are those for?" Neia asked pointing to the staffs that Koriander prepared.

Neia, as the only one among the delegation that the three of them could actually stand she was stationed as their liaison to the forces of the Katze Coalition.

"Glad you asked!" Koriander commented noting that unlike her superior Neia actually asked her what she was doing. "These little guys are undead called Effigies, I've equipped them with message spells. I message them, they send the message to the next one in the chain until they get back to our base. With any luck this will solve the long distance break down of the Message spell." In order to test the system Koriander choose to message the skull in question.

"Wow! That actually sounds pretty impressive!" Neia stated all wide eyed. "Remedios said that Calca did magical research too!"

"What kind?" Koriander asked sounding quite interested.

"Ah... Skin care." Neia compared the two in her head, a way of nailing long distance communication or advanced and radiant skin care, the latter sounding far less impressive then the first.

"Oh I might like to get my hands on that." Koriander had held out her arm featuring the same swirling pattern as Balloma's. "My tats have been driving me crazy lately, must be the cold air around this time of year."

"You have cold resistance hard wired into your body Koriander stop trying to make her feel better." Balloma stated glaring coldly at her sister.

"Spoiled sport." Koriander muttered while she looked out the window. Koriander made a crystal mirror appear to interpret the message she received from Nazarick.

"Mary had little lamb and it's fleece was white as snow." Demiurge stated on the other side of the message, having just repeated what was sent to him by Koriander perfectly she gave a fist pump in response.

"Is there something about this conversation that I might find remotely interesting?" Balloma asked turning to face Neia.

"Uh... I remember that Calca was being talked about being a highly progressive Queen." Neia replied scratching her chin.

"What policies has she implemented to earn that title?" Balloma asked legitimately curious.

"Uhh... I remember hearing her talk about forging peace with the Demi-Humans." Neia stated thinking about after a minuet.

"How has she gone about doing that? You're suppose to be the apprentice to the general of the army aren't you?" Balloma asked cocking a suspicious brow at the squire.

"Uhh..." Neia legitimately couldn't think of any policies crossing Remedios's desk from the queen.

"For Ainz's sake..." Balloma face palmed before she continued. "Tell me something. Is Calca the first 'Queen' of the country?"

"What do you mean?" Neia asked her face twisted in confusion.

"Is she the first woman in charge of your country?" Balloma asked getting slightly more direct to the point.

"Yes." Neia asked not entirely sure what Balloma was talking about.

"I see. I would like to propose a thought experiment." Balloma stated looking Neia directly in her eye. "If you changed Calca's gender how significant would her impact on history be?"

"Ah..." Neia drew a blank at that question. "She's one of the most powerful spell casters in the world."

"Then she should be in the army around the mid guard dumping attack spells on the enemy and buffing your vanguard." Balloma stated as she was already tired of this conversation.

"You say that, but Remedios says she's too soft for combat." Neia replied while she mentally re-evaluated her queen.

"Then an ambassador, someone who goes out and figures out what the peace she desires is going to demand." Balloma stated as she let out a sigh. "Forget it. I'm tired of this conversation."

The carriage eventually arrived at the southern half of the Holy Roble Kingdom. Gustav explained a version of what they intended to do to the southern officials, obviously he didn't tell them that they had drafted a combination necromancer/diabolist and a pumped up monster in human form, or if he did and this was set up for a trap they were quite prepared. The carriage had an integrated adamantine frame built directly into it, enchanted with Koriander's barrier and magic nullification magics, if these people see this as a opportunity to attack them then two things will happen, the first is that it will fail, and the second is that they will have officially give up the right not to be beaten into the ground. However in spite of their preparations that accounted for the worst possibility they still made it to the co-ordinates in the north that Remedios gave them.

"Where's your base? Is there a secret trap door we need to open? Some magic that we have to take out of the picture?" As Kierian asked that Remedios recovered her composure and simply entered the nearest building. "Oh that isn't good." Kieran stated observing their completely exposed and protected building that is supposed to be their base of operations. "I've got some things to take care of, you two start the meeting without me."

Balloma and Koriander were led inside of the building with what distinctly looked like the leaders of what was left of the Holy Roble army.

"Are these the back up you promised us?" A nobleman stated looking at Balloma and Koriander.

"Close, I'm the door knocker." Koriander stated as she got out a piece of chalk and crouched down to the floor and began drawing a magic circle on it.

"Ah..."

"Let her work." Gustav stated in a coolly neutral tone of voice.

Once Koriander was finished on the floor she hopped back to her feet and focused magic into her creation, and soon three crates of food stacked on top of one another made their presence known in a flash of magical light.

"Tada~!" Koriander stated making Jazz hands at the stack of crates. "Pretty cool right!"

"You can use this magic to bring us supplies?" One of the leaders asked looking at Koriander suspiciously.

"Ah ha! Once we get a new base of operations I can begin funneling in troops too!" Koriander stated much to the confusion of those they were suppose to protect.

"A new base?" One of the leaders asked looking at the pair suspiciously.

"This one is compromised you need a new one." Balloma stated as she tapped a finger and her arm.

"What are you talking about? This area is secure we checked it ourselves!" One of the leaders stated looking offended.

"Two things, the first is that zero precautions have been taken to hide the location of this one and the second is..." Suddenly the head of a Zoastra was slammed through the wall with enough force to shake the whole building, before promptly being ripped out again. "Rather self explanatory I hope."

Looking out through the hole Neia saw Kieran ragdolling the Zoastra and using it as a bludgeon against other Demi-humans.

"We're under attack! Everyone get outside now!" Remedios shouted before pulling out her sword.

On instinct Neia went to pull out her sword, but instead Koriander passed her a bow and quiver full of arrows. Kieran threw his makeshift bludgeon at a group of enemies and knocked them all down.

"Stand aside!" Remedios rushed in and pointed her blade at the pile of monsters. "EVIL SMITE!" A beam of light came down from the sky in a overly dramatic manner, causing the ground to shake and the air to blow away from the sight of the impact. After a few seconds the light died down and the Demi-humans were unharmed, on the contrary by the looks of things they had used the attack as a smoke screen to get back on top of their feet. "What trickery is this!?" Remedios snapped distinctly recalling that she had sunk extra power into her attack. Towards this end, Kieran turned her around to face him and picked her up by her hair to have her look him directly in the eye.

"They. Are. Not. Evil!" While Kieran was putting Remedios's problem to her in as slow and as simple terms that he could muster, a huge whistling mass of wind shot pass them and hit the Demi-Humans letting off a loud explosion in the process taking out the whole group of Demi-Humans.

"Nice bow." Kieran commented looking at the weapon Neia was holding which suspiciously resembled a Rune crafted bow he took from the Dragon's lair.

"I got it from your sister." Neia commented as Koriander smirked knowingly.

Fluder and Gondo, under Koriander's orders, had been experimenting with combining rune crafting and enchantments ever since Kieran got back from the mountain. As a work around to the effects of Rune magic and Enchantments canceling each other out the conclusion they reached was a two part weapon which brought them to what Koriander had called the Shooting Star Bow, which was little more than a bow equipped with several wind type runes which fired arrows that had been enchanted to set things on fire that they hit. The pin point pressure of enchantment channeled the dense mass of concentrated air of rune magic and ultimately resulted in a high pressure explosion of devastating power.

"It looks like a our idea of a two part weapon was a huge success!" Koriander stated clapping her hands while bouncing happily. "The next step should be a 'three part!'"

"How bout before you give the rest of them any more ideas we do something about this base situation?" Balloma asked tapping her foot in annoyance. "Don't worry: there's a spell for that!" Koriander stated as she rubbed her hands together.

"First I will scout a more secure location." Saying that Koriander floated up high into the air via fly magic and made a show out of scanning the horizon before finding what she deemed to be a satisfactory location and coming back down. "Next I will use a gate spell to bring us to our new base." At once a sinister looking red and black portal opened and Koriander gestured for those present to enter.

"Not on your life!" Remedios stated as she attempted to pry herself free of Kieran. "You three probably lured them here!"

"Yes we did, but only because we followed your instructions." Saying that Kieran, who had grown tired of her back talk, chucked her through the portal. "One way or you're another you're going through that portal!"

The officials arrived on the other side of the portal, only a few willingly, to their surprise they were treated with the sight of a vast empty field.

"Where's the base you promised us!?" One of the officials growled. "I haven't built it yet." Koriander produced several magic circles that floated around her in perfect synchronization.

"Magic Ms. Ooal Gown? But you need to preserve your reserves when we engage Jaldabaoth's forces!" Neia protested as she watched Koriander cast her spell.

"Super Tier kid, she's not using her own reserves she's manipulating the magical energy all around her." Kieran stated as he impatiently tapped his foot. "The down side to this is that it takes a bloody long time to complete."

"How long?" Neia asked noticing the unusually long cast time.

Suddenly Koriander clapped her hands together and a flash of light pulsed from her to her surroundings. The ground started to shake as slabs of stone emerged from the ground, some of them bent once they grew to a great height and folded over to form roofs, soon a fortress was formed around the group of Overlord's and Roble officials.

"And for my next trick!" Koriander cast a huge illusion field over the area, turning the entire place invisible to the naked eye. As far as anyone else was concerned the field was completely normal and unchanged. "Now than to the business of armies."

The Roble officials would probably feel reluctant to have any combination of Demon, Demi-Human or undead fight alongside their people. Luckily though they had alternate solutions as through Koriander's teleportation circles men in Baharuth and Re-Estize armor began walking through the portals carrying with them supplies to feed a army. Koriander and her siblings retired to their room for the evening, better to wait until all the necessities were brought over in any case.

"So the two part system we developed was a success then." Demiurge commented looking quite pleased with himself.

"Aha. I'll leave perfecting the two parter to your, for now I have a even more radical idea: a three part system." Koriander stated already dressed in her see through night gown.

"A three part?" Demiurge stated sounding vaguely excited.

"Fluder has been experimenting with the dragon queen yes? A user of rare wild magic." Koriander stated smiling wickedly. To re-cap Enchantments are about refining magic to it's peak for min max type strategy, rune crafting offers a bare minimal amount of refinement and more power but is more difficult to use and also eats up a larger amount of power, wild magic used by those with the blood of dragons offers zero refinement and is instead all about dumping as much raw power on a problem as possible. "In the same way that we were able to achieve a increase in power by feeding rune crafting into a enchantment, we should be able to achieve a even greater result by funneling in wild magic into runes and then into enchantments."

"Should I see what alterations can be made to the Dragon Queen for our benefit?" Demiurge asked smirking knowingly. "Not tonight no. Only a small portion of the queen's biology is useful to us. We can't risk large scale modifications to her without destroying it." Koriander stated as she scratched her chin. "Though the dragons should be able to use wild magic as well, and much better then her too, some of the Dragon Newts might be the same way too. Begin investigating the possibility of draconic wild magic immediately."

"Thy will shall be done." Demiurge stated letting out a bow before the crystal mirror disappeared.

"If you're done with your madness Koriander we can get to business please?" Balloma stated stepping over Kieran's body who was already sleeping on the grassy floor. "They want us to rescue some of their people from a nearby concentration camp in the morning." Balloma explained dressed in a far more modest night gown.

"We rescued them from a ambush, restocked their supplies, gave them a army and built them a new base. Just how greedy are these people?" Koriander asked a look of clear disbelief on her features.

"They seem to be under the impression that their paladins will be the ones leading the charge." Balloma stated as she face palmed herself.

"In other words, they are the ones who are going to rescue their people: we're just going to be there to 'help.'" Koriander stated making air quotes with her fingers. "Do they at least have a plan in place?"

"Go in, rescue people, take any supplies they have, kill all Demi-humans present, convert camp into base." Balloma stated in a displeased tone of voice, after a moment of silence from Koriander. "That's it."

"Riiiiight. Do we have a plan?" Koriander asked looking at her sister with a puzzled look on her face.

"That depends entirely on one singular factor." Balloma stated as she held her chin in her hand while Koriander gestured for her to continue. "The progress of the Dragon Newts into the Kingdom."


Review Section:

rmarcano321: True, but was one of the enemies in the original Overlord game. You're not wrong, mostly I think it's just her raging against Ainz for saving their people. For this segment, more to come down the road anyway. At the moment they've made alliances with three major factions conquered two and destroyed one: you tell me. Balloma, make the union between Koriander and Kieran fall apart resulting in a systematic dismantling of Nazarick's forces.

PervySageChuck: Gross man.