Gnarl was at a loss for words, he glanced at anywhere but his Overlord's face, scratching his head as he tried to think. "Well your Evilness, I only have a slightidea of what happened," He said as the minion pulled at his ears, "It's that some unknown force exiled us from our perfectly conquered and corrupted world and plopped us into this egregiously uncorrupt untainted and unconquered world"
The disgust was palatable in the minions voice, but then again Gnarl got disgusted by anything cute, cuddly, or that wasn't evil incarnate. The dark gods only know how he'd handle the paradox of The Overlord's adorable evil child.
The Overlord turned away from Gnarl and looked out towards the open balcony letting snow in, deep in thought. Juno spoke up. "Hubby-please! Close the tower up! It's freezing in here!" Listening to his mistress complain as The Overlord looked at his gauntlet, time to use one of the spells made by Glorn for him.
Kelda and Fay stared daggers at Juno for calling The Overlord her husband even if it was with a pet term. Kelda even yanked on Juno's hair a bit which almost started a fight until Fay chuckled, which broke the tension as it made them both stare at her. The Overlord noticed Juno's demand but decided to do it rather begrudgingly since maintaining the balance between three happy mistresses was hard.
"Fine." He said and with that single word he raised his gauntlet and created a wall of ice using water sourced from the mirror pool in his throne room to plug the balcony's entrance. The Overlord then put his hand down and went to sit on his throne. Mentally commanding every single minion not doing something to start plugging all the holes in the tower. "We'll find permanent solutions to the cold later but-" The Overlord then focused and spawned more red minions to act as mobile heat sources. "-Reds will do for now"
Gnarl noticed the pep in his overlord's voice. The elder minion smiled, this world of possibilities had reignited the spark that had almost gone out in his master.
The Overlord spoke again, summoning his proper evil voice, blooming with determination and the curl of a smile at the ends of his face visible past the helmet.
"We find ourselves in a new untouched land, enemies unknown, allies unknown, possibly cut off from my empire." He drummed his fingers against the stone arm of his throne. "Glorn!" he shouted and waited for the warlock to make himself visible.
The lord of darkness did not have to wait long as his warlock minion came eager to his call. Tripping slightly over his purple robes, Glorn had come to heed the summoning.
"Y-Yes my lord?" The warlock asked, shaking a bit from either the cold or the recent experience of being thrown into another world.
The Overlord smiled under his helmet, "The scrying eye tower power had been completed a few years ago correct?" He asked as the dark menace rolled his shoulders and popped his neck.
"Yes! We had completed it a few years back when you were trying to find the last of the resistance- It was just made defunct when that green spy minion found the last resistance cell on accident" The warlock said as he tried to think about why he was being interrogated.
"Go and dust it off- I want to see suitable targets to start my exploration, exploitation, and expansion into this world post haste," His evilness said matter of factly, excitement in his tone, "Dismissed"
The mistresses watched the warlock skitter away with his first assignment in the new world. Mistress Fay was already rubbing her hands together with anticipation of the evil to be done while Kelda seemed sad that the cold went away. Juno meanwhile had relented and ordered a minion to fetch her a fur robe.
Fay spoke up, "My lord-what deeds do you have planned?"
"Complete domination of this world of course." The Overlord replied.
He received a mental message from Glorn, informing him that the tower's eye was now active. Up above between the spikes that made the towers crown, a non-copyright infringing yellow eye formed so that The Overlord may gaze upon the land.
Without further ado, The Overlord said, "Now ladies, if you would be so kind as to turn your eyes to the tower hearts mirror pool,"
The three mistresses all looked into the pool as instructed. Juno still shivering until the browns brought her a fur coat as instructed. Fay spoke up "I see, we all three can scry different areas alongside you"
The Overlord smiled. "Yes-four pairs of eyes are better than one, Gnarl, prepare the minions to move out on my order, light a fire under them if you have to."
Gnarl bowed and went to muster the already agitated minions. Their link to their master's gauntlet had them feeling his emotions, his excitement, thirst for combat and hope for a challenge made every single minion, even the blues, excited.
Reds threw fireballs around the spawning chambers of the basement of the tower as the greens sharpened their claws and spat venom, browns beat each other up in a flurry of ready to maul violence, the blues were putting out the fires and bringing back any of the other minions that had killed each other during the 'festivities'. Gnarl was going to have a fun time getting them under control while his master looked for a landing point.
Up in the throne room, all four of the people in there had their eyes trained on the pool.
Juno commented, "Oh look a pretty seaside village with a nice beach, looks easy enough"
Fay saw a church with people praying to an unknown god, "Bleh peasants worshipping the gods of light no doubt or whatever trife is there," The sentence came out as a sneer. Unlike the other mistresses, Fay could genuinely be said to be evil.
What Kelda saw made her gasp. Soldiers having started burning down a village. The gasp spooked The Overlord and he switched to her gaze. Kelda spoke up, reminded of how The Empire had treated her, "Witch-Boy! We have to stop this! Those look like innocent peasants!"
The Overlord was taken aback more by the witch-boy comment than her demand to deliver help, "Slipped into your old way of speaking huh?" Kelda gave a look at him that made him feel like he'd been slapped. "Ok-" He noted that there were orges that had just charged out of the gate but that's neither here nor there.
Fay and Juno spoke up. "My Lord there has to be a better place than a village being raided by an army!"
The Overlord stood up and shouted to his elder minion. "I kill armies for a workout, Gnarl! We have our target! Open the gates!" As The Overlord struted to the pool, minions started coming out of the stone work and jumping into the magic water. Kelda stopped him with a hand on his arm.
"Be safe, and please, try not to kill all the peasants." The Nordbergian woman pleaded.
The Overlord gave a nod and continued walking into the pool until fully submerged.
Across the world, in front of Enri's and Nfrie's eyes. A netherworld gate split open the earth between the charging calvary and her as its dark pincers rose to the sky and a beam of darkness shot into the heavens. The attackers' horses reared back as the men gasped.
Inside the village, smaller minion nethergates opened and a torrent of multicolored mayhem ran out.
Enri froze, with the horn of the goblin general at her lips. Taking it away to ask with shudders. "Lo-Lord Ainz?"
But the figure that emerged from the dark portal was not Lord Ainz Ooal Gown. Instead, a black armored figure with pauldrons decorated in netherfire stepped forth from it. Light being swallowed into its armor. Holding a mace drowning in the same flames, the weapon was big as her no doubt about it even with the distance she was at.
Four brown creatures rolled a, were her eyes deceiving her, was that a red carpet? Yes, the brown goblins rolled a carpet out for the black figure to step out onto. Now she could see and hear them playing instruments of some kind. An entire band of brown creatures were playing for the figure's entrance. The loud instruments getting the attacking knights to turn their gaze towards the new arrival. A brown goblin with a jester hat seemed to be shouting loudly about something related to the figure.
The creatures seemed some manner of race related to her goblin defenders, small green, brown, red, and blue goblins all charging, scrambling over anything, fighting defenders and the attacking kingdom troops indiscriminately.
Kingdom troops were firing arrows into the horde of minute monsters and backing up before they were swarmed. To no avail as they poured in the dozens at a time from the nethergates and then slightly slower through the village gate's bottleneck.
Now the figure approached her and Nfirea. The knights charged at him but with a flick of his wrist, the entire column of knights exploded into flame. Nfirea charged at the figure.
"You demon! You won't touch her!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. Using a spell the hellish armor clad being had never seen before called acid arrow. It drenched the menace, but had no effect aside from burning off the layer of nether ash that covered his arcanium. With a new shiny silver look, the figure kept going.
Nfirea was too close, bare hands all he had as he punched the black and silver clad man. Being rewarded with nothing happening. Nfirea was grabbed by the hand like it was a very strong handshake. With a single movement, Nfirea's wrist was snapped like a twig and he screamed in pain. Followed up with being thrown at Enri like a sack of potatoes. Burning hellish eyes looked into Enri's soul as it came towards her.
Enri watched as the figure had just combusted an entire attacking wave of troops and beaten down Nfirea all before her eyes. What snapped her out of her fear and stopped the figure's gait towards them was a stray arrow pinging off its helmet.
Taking her chance the chief of Carne Village blew the last horn she had now.
Things for the men of the kingdom were not going well. Prince Barbro rubbed his brow in frustration. A squad of orges attacked, the defenders were fierce,and now being reported was a fucking dark lord straight from nightmares had emerged from a gate of darkness, killed most of a cavalry troop with a single spell,and completed his entrance with bringing his own multicolored minions who were swarming defender and attacker alike. He wrung the neck of the bearer of bad news. The only thing that could be worse was if this got even more complicated.
That's when the sounds of drums were heard from behind the village. All the factions present looked towards the source of the sound. All but The Overlord's faction were shocked by the arrival. The minions were always excited to fight and The Lord of Darkness looked more annoyed. That was because an army of over 5000 goblins were moving in lockstep formation, advancing in time with the beat of the war drums. The Goblins surrounded The Overlord and the human duo fled.
"My Prince,we must flee from this battle,there are simply too many things going wrong,first orges,then that dark lord and now more goblins!" The knight being strangled pleaded with Prince Barbro. "Those damned colored goblins are killing our men with their own weapons!"
Barbro surveyed the battle,the four colored tide had wiped out or captured all the defenders and were still pouring from those hellish gates. Already several rookies had attempted to rout only to be stopped by sterner hearts than theirs.
It was true,whenever a soldier fell to these damned things,his weapons and armor were picked up by the naked ones and put on. There was no glory to be had dying to these endless looting savages.
Barbro opened his mouth to give the retreat order as the four colored horde approached his army. Blue goblins sprinkled in the horde began channelling power from the black and silver figure. Before he could swallow his pride and order the retreat,a blue chain of lighting from the demon struck every blue goblin in the swarm,using them as jumping off points to his armies ranks and continued jumping through it towards him.
Affected men started kneeling as the multicolored goblin army ran over the submitting soldiers in a tide of unwashed jibbering bodies.
The sight of men laying their arms down infuriated Barbo and he instead yelled. "TRAITORS-TRAITORS THE LOT OF YOU,I'LL HAVE YOUR HEADS AND THE VILLAGERS HEADS FOR THI-" Then the blue lighting made it to him. Striking his entire retinue and accompanying nobles and he heard a voice from all directions burning into his skull and the grey matter below.
"SUBMIT"
Barbro almost wept when the voice shook his brain inside his skull,the voice was like knives carving his scalp,needles inside his ears.
Now the men that hadn't been magically coerced into surrender had started a rout. So sure they were fighting the diminutive hordes of hell that men that hadn't ran or kneeled were praying.
One of Barbro's honour guards that was far enough away to be spared but close enough to make it to him shook the prince from his stunned state. "We have to leave!" the guard yelled before one of those damned green goblins that stank terribly leapt onto the man after jumping on his horses plot and drove its daggers into his chest through his armor.
Painting Barbro with the loyal man's blood as brown goblins surrounded his horse,beating it with wooden clubs as he drew his sword and began cutting them down. For every damned brown goblin slain, another one appeared. They struck his mounts knees and his legs,a huge by goblin standard and terribly smelling one leaping on his back. Claws stabbed at his eyes. Everything went black when those claws found their mark.
"Damn you savages! I will not be defeated so easily-"
He flailed as the weight on his shoulders pushed him off his bucking horse and to the ground with a blow to the back of his head. The last thing he could hear above the gibbering of the goblins foul tongue,the whinny of horses,fleeing footsteps and the sounds of him being beaten was a coherent "Stink say no kill! Masta wants him alive!"
At least he wasn't going to die immediately going to die at the hands of goblins. But from the sounds of indiscriminate slaughter continued as dozens of hands started tying him up with ropes.
Barbro was blind,bound,gagged and pretty sure that all the nobles that had followed him into this mission were being slaughtered. Goblins were now yelling about keeping shinies and stabies. He uselessly flailed on the ground before a club knocked him out. The Prince would be added to the growing pile of people the minions were dragging into the nethergate to store them in the dungeon.
The Overlord on the other hand. Was having a blast with all of this mayhem. He was,in his own messed up way of saving the villagers,that was dominating them and marching them into the gate to the safety of the Dark Tower.
The pair he came out near looked important, Enri resembled a painting of his mother Rose when she was younger and that also drew his interest, and his suspicions were confirmed that she was important when she summoned this army. Before that he approached them to give them a scare and get a closer look before being rudely interrupted by a stray arrow fired.
Glancing at the army that let loose the arrow,he commanded his blues to start channelling a spell for him. Using them as targets to bounce the domination spell off of, he fired it through the entire village to strike most of the advancing army and the one that looked like he was giving the orders.
No sooner than he had fired the domination spell,the sounds of a horn blared and was followed up with the sounds of marching with drums. Mentally yelling at his minions to disable the knights army commander as he deals with the village leader and her new army.
The Overlord popped his neck as he was surrounded by the army. Enri had ducked into a command tent along with some of the villagers that didn't get mind controlled or killed in the initial conflict. The tent was then revealed to be a tent sized palanquin as goblins wearing red hats took them away.
Not minding her retreating he scanned the army with his eyes. Gnarl contacted him from the tower through the tower hearts magic.
"Master! The Goblin wearing the funny Ruborian desert looking hat appears to be calling the shots"
Fay chimed in "They have mages on their side, watch out for spells"
Juno mentioned what she saw "The knights commander has been taken out by the way,his outfit would of looked better on you but that's neither here nor there"
Kelda spoke up too "Outside the town,opposite of you,in the sky was a shimmer,as well as a magical spell on one of the houses but I'm not able to tell what it is,expect trouble from behind too"
The Overlord returned the advice with a thankful "Thanks for the updates, let me know if more reinforcements come,Gnarl-have the minions get my sword ready to be taken to me, I've always wanted to dual wield when carving through an army"
Gnarl nodded and said "Yes sire-also it appears that we've lost...let me do the math, a little bit over 1000 minions so far, the freshly spawned whelps don't stand much of a chance but the veterans are killing enough knights to let them loot equipment from them"
"Anything else I should know?" The Overlord inquired as the Goblins held ranks as they tightened the circle.
Gnarl spoke up again "Well err enemy casualties on both sides, defenders and attackers are more than enough to supplement the minion losses, fortunate that all participants are all living beings so it doesn't matter who kills who, the life force flows for your uses master-LOOK OUT" Gnarl shouted at the end.
The Overlord, distracted by the in battle debrief, pulled up an infernal shield just in time for a reaper scythe to collide against it and disintegrate on impact, blowing back his attacker.
The surprised Goblin Redcap stood back up. Missing an arm and shrapnel from the destroyed weapon embedded in his face and hat.
The Overlord raised his mace. "And you are?" he asked.
"-I am a subordinate of her-Excellency, General Enri ─ one of the thirteen Redcaps who serve as her bodyguard-even though you blocked my attack, and broke my body-you are no match for the rest," the red cap said as a group of black clad goblins came from shadows that couldn't exist in the open area around The Overlord.
"We are the subordinates of her Excellency, General Enri ─ the Goblin Assassin Squad. We lurk in the shadows, nothing will stop us from killing you."
The Overlord's eyes narrowed. "You will die trying"
Seventeen white wolve riding goblins put themselves between The Overlord and the rest of the army.
"We are the subordinates of her Excellency, General Enri ─ the Goblin Paladin Corps! We pledge our loyalty to her Excellency! By her decree, you will not take another step anywhere near Carne Village!"
"Is this a bit? Am I being pranked? Because I don't do jokes, goblins don't make armies that matter" The Overlord growled at them.
More wolves poured in with goblin riders and their leader,a goblin riding a winged wolf said without a shred of self awareness.
"We are the subordinates of her Excellency, General Enri ─ the Goblin Beast Rider Corps! Prepare to be run down demon!"
With that he charged towards them. Ignoring further goblin corps/squads/teams introducing themselves.
The Redcap raised his remaining arm,vanished and sudden blasts from the army sent his way, clouds of dust and concussive waves that made his armor vibrate. The Overlord stumbled to a stop and let the infernal shield do its job. It always felt like it took less power standing still.
Five more voices spoke.
"We are the subordinates of her Excellency, General Enri ─ the Goblin Arcane Artillery Squad! We who specialize in area-attack spells are the most potent attackers of the Goblin Army! You will be blown to bits before you can reach her monster!"
Overlapping with the blasts were multicolored beams,gusts of slicing wind,and bursts of flame that all hit The Overlord's shield.
Predictably the goblins introduced themselves.
"We are the subordinates of her Excellency, General Enri ─ the Goblin Magic Support Corps. Be it strengthening, weakening or attacking magic, we wield them all with the same stand no chance against us!"
The dust cleared and The Overlord stood there. Unfazed and unharmed.
"Are you done? Because the nex-" The Overlord yelled before being interrupted by banging drums and yelling.
"We are the subordinates of her Excellency, General Enri ─ the Goblin Music-" before they could finish their introduction speech, The Overlord yelled in primal fury at this interruption.
"Mass Inferno!" Pointing his gauntlet at the musicians,the ground burst open with a geyser of flame that licked the top of sky, consumed the Goblin Musician Squad, and their annoying drumsticks.
The battlefield was silent with only the distant sounds of knight slaughter,burning drums, and sizzling goblin steak being heard.
"Anyone else want to join the pyre?" said The Overlord as he popped his knuckles, having set down his mace to perform the casual intimidation act.
His only response was the entire goblin assassin squad appearing and shiving him all over with their knives. After a few stabs he stopped laughing from the 'tink-tink-tink' noises as they did nothing to his infernal arcanium armor. Instead casting combustion localized on himself and igniting them all. He needs to shake the hand of the mage that made the combustion spell ignore friendly targets and the caster.
With a bunch of goblin assassins on fire,he kicks one into the Goblin Paladin Corps and charges once again.
In a display of barely held back violence, The Overlord smashes three of the paladins and their mounts into broken messes of flesh and bone in one strike.
It was funny how a living creature could be so easily turned into a dead one when struck by The Overlord. Even more so when the creatures boasted such high amounts of life force that was released from their corpses upon their death. Usually more life force meant harder to kill,considering one unit of life force was usually all you got from a single human peasant,the goblin paladins were raining life force all over the place.
Gnarl contacts The Overlord through the heart once more. "My lord,I took the liberty of dispatching the mounted minion corps-and I noticed some women and children fleeing so I dispatched a few wolf riders to steal a few for hostage purposes-expect the rest of the wolf, salamander and spider riders to come out of your gate...now"
On cue,green minions riding spiders came from the gate and leapt into the magic casters, brown minion wolf riders charged and went about fighting the goblin cavalry. Finally but not least the salamanders,rolling and bowling over goblin shield bearers as they threw firebolts all over the place. Igniting the nearby forest.
The army ceased being an organized group upon contact with the minions and became a mosh pit of bloody violence,limbs being chopped off,and life force being flung all over the place.
A little while before all of this above Carne Village was Lupusregina Beta. Invisible as her clothes various frills were ruffled by the winds. She was positively tickled pink by the devastation that was being wrought to the attackers by the defenders valiant but soon to be fruitless efforts.
"My oh my,maybe this little village will be wiped off the face of the map after all,such delightful expressions to look at~" Lupus shook herself and reminded herself of the duty placed on her.
"But,it has to be saved-or rather just four have to be,I can wait a bit,get some fun watching faces' ' she said as she turned invisible and flew down to watch. Making sure that Enri and the other VIP's like Nemu and Grandma Lizzie were spared by planning to give some careful taps to the back of some attackers heads to make them not win fights too near Lizze's workshop. Taps being an understatement as the men would crumple like paper to the blows.
It wasn't until the gates fell and the enemy got inside did she intervene more. Casting a repulsion effect around Grandma Lizzie and her workshop to make any of the attackers turn away from it without thinking while the old woman hides the alchemy tools given to her by Lord Ainz from the raiders.
"Good grief this village can't catch a break,attack after atta-" She flinched a bit from feeling whatever that was. A powerful evil presence had washed over the village. "L-Lord Ainz?"
She flew directly up,spotting the pillar of darkness and the black figure coming from it. Rubbing her chin as she said. "Hmmm not Lord Ainz...but lets see and what happens to these miserable peasants and their terrified expressions when they see him~" her mouth twisting into a familiar hungry look as she saw The Overlord make its dramatic entrance.
Then the minion gates burst from the ground and poured their cargo into the city. She frowned and watched. "That just won't do if they threaten the-" Then she spotted where the new person was going.
The Overlord approached the pair of VIPS and she flew down to intervene. Just like with the ogre attack, she let NFirea get roughed up until the figure halted its approach because of an arrow.
Lupusregina giggled to herself at the sight of a figure she could describe as a fat death knight on fire getting bothered by an arrow plinking off its helmet.
Then the horn of the goblin general was blown and the situation became more of a cluster fuck than it already was.
The cleric grinned,now she was going to get to see the mysterious figure's power as his small minions were strong enough to kill the kingdom's knights to a man.
Returning to the present now, Goblin Wolf Riders slammed into Minion Wolf Riders. The golden armor of the minions contrasting with the black armor of the goblins as the wolf vs wolf battles continued.
The minion's wolves were smaller but they were faster,running loops around the goblins mounts as the minions jumped onto the goblins when they were close enough. Close quarters combat was a minion specialty and their savagery gave them advantages until the goblins were able to recover.
The greens were introducing the magic users to the business ends of claw blades before they could cast spells. The best way to keep mages from using magic was stabbing them after all.
The goblin strategist called the forces into the forest with their general. Being too close to the minion's spawn points meant that any losses they inflicted on the enemy would be replaced with in moments and the strategist had recognized that.
Still the clusterfuck that had been the first minute of the goblin armies existence had been fraught with casualties. The Overlord was charging right for Enri's palanquin. Infernal barrier disintegrating any weaker living being he came in contact with, leaving the charred and partial remains of goblins behind him.
The members of the support and magic artillery made it a pain in the ass to do so,they had a chance to cast a coordinated spell before the greens started shanking them again.
First creating an ice ramp to abuse his momentum,sending him careening into the hastily made pit when he lost traction with the earth. Following up with covering the hole in ice, and grease. Mages summoned bags of ball bearings and threw them in there to join the already impossible terrain. Trapping the esteemed warrior of darkness in a place his immense bulk was working against him.
The Overlord swore that he could hear laughter coming from somewhere above him as he slipped and fell,cracking the ice in the pit every time he fell. The Overlord repeatedly tried standing up in the pit only to fall on his face, rear, or side.
Composing himself,The Overlord raised his hands to the sky as he laid sliding around the pit. "Combustion!" he shouted as the flames ignited the grease and melted the ice.
The water from the ice softened the ground as combustion was a softer fire spell and wouldn't burn the ground into hard compact dirt.
With the ball bearing sinking into the mud floor of the pit,The Overlord stood,dirty and angry. With determination,he pulled himself from the hole in the ground. These goblins were going to get it.
Gnarl and the mistresses winced when their overlord took several strikes from goblin hammer bearers that had gathered around the pit to keep him in there.
To the first goblin's credit,he made the smart choice of slamming his hammer down on The Overlord's less armored hand. That stung and made him let go with that one hand on reflex. The rest of dealt blows to the rest of him excelled in further pissing off The Overlord.
But he pulled himself up and out of the pit with his other hand. Casting another localized combustion on himself to wipe out the hammer bearers. He called out to his minions.
"I need a drink!" he shouted,knowing the Goblins wouldn't know what he meant but his minions did. A green whelp freshly spawned rushed over to his master and offered himself excitedly as the rest of the green squad that came stabbed the burning goblins to death.
Standing in the middle of a burning forest as the goblin army lets loose arrows at him,he grabs at and wrings the neck of the green whelp.
Replenishing his mana and health reserves at the cost of a minion life,a single minion life wasn't going to fill his tank so more minions rushed to him as the Goblin Strategist noticed and ordered his men to put a stop to it.
Unfortunately,a overlord surrounded by minions is even more dangerous and powerful than him by his lonesome. Gold armored veternan browns formed a line of pikes,swords,and hammers as verteran reds resembling their demonic relatives even further began throwing fireballs into the attacking goblin ranks. Veteran greens vanished and spread themselves around the forest. Cutting the throats of anyone not paying attention to them.
The advancing goblin heavy troopers were burnt,stabbed,or poisoned to death at the hands of veteran minions who had been through countless battles with their master. Many had died but always were brought back afterwards at the cost of life force.
"Singe!" The Overlord called after he was back to full health and mana. The rolling salamander squads came careening his way and a large minion riding the largest salamander came to a stop as the others rolled around The Overlord's formation to chuck fireballs at any goblins coming.
"Azgutyuitry?" Singe asked in his purely gibberish way of speaking.
"Catch up with that palanquin,create a forest fire in their path and leave them the only way to go is back towards me" The Overlord told his minion general.
"Jkiofasmn!" Singe said and with that,he and his salamander began rolling towards Enri's command palanquin. The salamander rolling riders resumed their trademark burning anything flammable in their way as they rapidly caught up with the palanquin with their superior agility.
Enri's red caps braced for impact as the salamanders rolled right past them and instead ignited every single tree that was around the retreating goblin general. Remaining rolling as they keep increasing the width of the inferno while leaving them a clear way out,back towards The Overlord.
Rookie red minions were fire fighting,keeping the blaze from spreading towards the red caps but also keeping the fire going enough to smoke them out.
The Overlord looked smug under his helmet. Soon he will destroy the goblins command and grab that girl that summoned them,he'd figure out how she did it even if he had to shake it out of her corpse.
Gnarl contacted him over the tower hearts connection again.
"Master,expect the wolf riders with hostages to arrive soon and speed up this battle by making the other forces surrender. That human girl looks too soft to let hostages die ahuhu~"
There would be a few tense minutes as the palanquin turned around slowly as all ranks of the goblin army broke off from their skirmishes to surround their fair lady and her friends. In the down time The Overlord called for a chair to be brought from the tower so that he can casually sit on it as if he's not taking this seriously. Also yelling at the reds to put out the fires near him as he likes whatever hostage he has to not suffocate from smoke.
However The Overlord called his red rollers back and they simply let the fire that chased the goblin general do what it wanted now as they came to his side,joining ranks with the freed spider and wolf riders.
Blues on the other hand were running around the battlefield resurrecting fallen minions and grabbing life force to bring to him for absorption.
With some howls,the wolf riders brought a hostage to him a minute later. She was a small child wearing a blue dress and had red hair bound in pigtails. She reminded him of Kelda when he was but an Overlad.
Except this child was screaming and kicking as the wolf riders handed her to him. A salamander rider came from the nethergate dragging his sword 'The Chopper' to him and he exchanged his mace for the bladed weapon.
The Overlord held her by her neck gently as possibly while he sat her on his knee. "Surrender 'Goblin General', or the kid gets hurt" Angling the sword's demonic dual blade towards her to show his intent.
Enri and Nfirea came out of the tent to see Nemu being held hostage by The Overlord, she gasped out "Nemu!" and covered her mouth while he yelled "You bastard! Don't hurt her sister!" with vitriol in his voice.
"Don't get any funny ideas about fighting back, surrender" The Overlord said. Pleased as punch that his minions not only caught a hostage,but one that was Enri's blood relative.
Surprising him was his words being repeated in a mocking voice from above.
Hovering above his army was a redheaded tan skinned maid with a giant cross in her hand flourishing the giant metal weapon like it was nothing. She casted some manner of spell to fly and be invisible up until now.
It gave him pause as he looked at the unusual sight and blurted out the first thing that came to mind.
"You do realize everyone can see up your skirt thing when you move like that right?"
That sentence got every single brown minion jeering as they looked up and saw directly up the combat maids skirt.
The Overlord facepalmed with the hand that held Nemu, then realized he just let go of her to face palm and the flustered maid used that chance to cast some manner of levitation spell on the child to fling her out of his reach.
Adjusting the way she was standing in the air as Nemu floated right next to her in a daze. Now back to her composed self, Lupusregina Beta introduced herself.
Dropping in front of The Overlord with her cross on her shoulder. Nonplused about the minions around her, she spoke.
"Hi hi, I'm Lupusregina - Nice to meet ch'ya!"