After a relaxing morning of harvesting lifeforce, Zephyr had one more thing to do before returning to his conquests.
"Gnarl, have the minions in Evernight give the elves measurements and get their weapon preferences."
"Please tell me you do not intend to arm those knife eared bastards, sire. They may be grateful now, but elves will always be the enemies of evil!"
"Your concerns are noted, Gnarl. Now do as I command, or suffer my wrath!" Zephyr ordered before returning to the Golden Hills, finding two elves standing outside of the castle, he moved over to investigate.
"Hey, what are you two doing standing out here?"
"We are enslaved to greet visitors and take luggage. But the palace is locked up, so I guess we are on break."
"They say that thieves have been spotted at the new temple construction site. Goldo is so fearful that they are after his gold, that the royal halls have been locked down until the matter is dealt with."
"So let me get this straight. Me enslaving an entire dwarven village, stealing a gold mine, taking and occupying a major fortress, and taking the one and only beer kettle, not even an investigation. But even a whiff of an idea that thieves might be after even a penny of his gold, it's red fucking alert!? I fucking hate dwarves." Zephyr said, face-palming in frustration, only made worse by Gnarl talking to him.
"Thieves, eh? Wouldn't want them to steal the statue before we had the chance to!"
"I don't suppose we managed to torture the information on how to create dwarven bombs from the craftsmen we captured from the village, have we?"
"I'm afraid not, sire. But we did pick up some forging technics that will come in handy." Zephyr ignored Gnarl and moved on with his day, finding the other side of that bridge from before, he activated it but did not cross just yet. Smelling smoke, he investigated that only to find another mining town burned to the ground. A screaming elf ran from the settlement's burning rubble, stopping when he spotted Zephyr.
"The Arcainium min is overrun! We did not even have enough time to save the smelter!" Zephyr was so excited by those words that he didn't even mind Gnarl yapping in his ear for once.
"Locat that smelter, sire! Then our minions could create armor truly worthy of you!" Zephyr wasted no time entering the mine, and to his shock, he found the smelter right away. But it was not unguarded.
"More flamethrowers, lord. Goldo must have sent them in here to clear out the slugs."
"Then he sent the wrong people. Those fools couldn't handle a peasant uprising, let alone vermin." Zephyr mocked as he quickly took care of the dwarven guards. To Gnarl's delight, he had claimed the smelter.
"Good! Return it to the tower, and we will make you something suitably befitting. However, that smelter was not made for a quick getaway, master. You must search out a route for it."
"Ya, I don't even see how they managed to get it in her, to begin with. It is too big to fit through the door, however did the runts manage it?" Zephyr simply moved on, content to never really know the truth of it. Finding a switch to turn off the fire vent, Zephyr moved on. Seeing that the mine was as stupidly designed as Melvin's kitchen was. Impractical, and work safety hazard was the first words that came to Zephyr as he cleared a path through the dumb place. He even found a new fire spell hiding out in the corner, as well as a massive bag of gold in a side tunnel because, of course, there would be one. Harvesting everything of worth he could find, Zephyr and his merry band of minions moved deeper into the mine. However, their path was soon blocked by what looked like the mother of all slug queens.
"That's just not hygienic! There's never a cart full of salt around when you need one!" Rose said, clearly disgusted by what she saw through Zephyr's eyes. He activated his legion of terror spell, and just like that, all that stood in his way from retrieving the smelter, new fire spell, and fuck tone of gold, were all gone. He had the spell sent back first, wanting to know what it doses.
"Inferno's a vicious blighter! He likes to spread himself around, so he's practically good for damaging several enemies at once."
"Lovely, I'm going to sweep this place one more time. After I get back, I want minions mining as much Arcanium as they can." After clearing out the mine one more time, Zephyr returned to a very excited Gnarl. The little freak was practically jumping up and down. It was very disturbing.
"The Arcanium smelter. The smelter of smelters, sire! It will allow you to create some truly superior weapons and armor."
"Have the succubi get down there and help Giblet. Their hell magic will be quite useful in this undertaking." Zephyr went down to the forge, put in the order with Giblet, giving him his old armor and ax to be melted down and repurposed before returning to his private quarters. He took a well-deserved rest in his bedroom before looking himself over in the mirror. He was shocked to find jet black spikes growing out of his shoulders, as anyone would.
"Well, this is somewhat concerning!" Zephyr said to himself as Rose walked in.
"What is?"
"Do you not see the giant fucking growths from my shoulders?"
"Wait, you only noticed those now!?" Rose moved a hand to her mouth in shock, making Zephyr feel rather stupid.
"Um... Any idea what the fuck they are?"
"It's a mutation, sire. You have accumulated enough evil energy that it's manifesting on your body."
"Well, there goes my boyish good looks."
"Oh, I wouldn't say that, sweetie. One man's mutation is his woman's handlebars~." Rose then quickly walked out of the room, leaving Zephyr to think about that bomb she just threw at his feet.
((Hey everyone, this is your one true king, MrGoblinKing7! And I have another contest for the lot of ya'll! Hopefully, with more activity. So we are getting to the end of Zephyr's tail, sade I know, but I had an idea on how to stretch it out. There was a one year gap between the release of the original Overlord and its DLC Raising hell, so how about a filler arc? And the best part, I'm taking suggestions! Some things will happen no matter what, like going to Greenvale. But any other story ideas, villains/heroes, cool creatures, plot points, you guys can suggest them in the comments. If an idea gets a popular vote, or if I like it, it's going into the story. I hope to see more people commenting than last time. No offense, RQ Quest, love you. Have a wonderful life, my little goblins!))
