The Dominator of Life
Chapter 6: True Vampire
A stagecoach was travelling out from E-Rantel, it was a large vehicle mostly seen belonging to nobility, it's size was big enough to comfortably seat six people and it took no less than four horses to pull it.
The stagecoach moved surprisingly smoothly as it traveled away from the fortress city at a great speed, the pavement of roads had been one of the many ideas brought forth by the golden princess Renner, yet only a handful of small cities had adopted the idea, mainly the cities directly beneath the king.
The other nobles were too concerned with spending costs as well as how it may aid the Empires transportation should the Empire ever attack their cities, but the honest truth was much simpler, the nobles were too greedy with their money and only cared for small time instant profits.
As people saw the stagecoach leave the fortified city, they couldn't help, but wrinkle their brow in confusion, by all means leaving in the middle of the night and without any kind of protection was a foolish move.
The Kingdom was by no means a lawless place and there were guard patrols across the entire kingdom, still the risk of running into bandits and monsters at night was quite high, which was the reason of the confused stares from the civilians.
Inside the stagecoach sat Sebas and Solution on one side, while in front of them sat Shalltear, flanked by two vampire brides, as they began to get further away from the city the road began losing it's quality and began wobbling softly.
Shalltear's crimson eyes moved towards the vampire bride on her left side, she was scantily clad and Shalltear could see her bust jiggling and moved one of her petite arms in beneath the cloth to grab the breast.
Vampire brides were a part of Nazarick's pop system, which meant they naturally spawned and were not created by the supreme beings, vampire brides only spawned on Nazarick's 2nd floor and Shalltear treated all of them as her concubines.
The vampire brides were also intelligent beings who recognized their low standing within Nazarick and worked tirelessly on pleasing their mistress, so they would not be disposed of. All vampire brides were beautiful buxom women and monster whose level was in the early 30's.
Shalltear had a small smile on her face as she gave the breast a small squeeze, the vampire bride didn't give any reaction.
Still when Shalltear discovered Sebas and Solution staring at her with mixed expression she quickly pulled her hand back.
"Aha, force of habit."
Sebas face barely changed, but Shalltear was sure she could see a hint of relief.
"Shalltear-sama, I've been meaning to ask you a question, if you would indulge me?"
"Hmm, what's on your mind Sebas?"
"I've been noticing you and Aura-sama are on bad terms, is there a reason for that?"
Shalltear leaned her head back a bit, while thinking about how best to answer.
"I wouldn't say that I think me, and the shorty are on rather good terms honestly, did you know, my creator Peroroncino-sama and the creator of shorty Bukubukuchagama-sama were actually little brother and older sister."
"Siblings? Oh, I see so it's a sibling rivalry?" Sebas questioned as he moved one hand up to his chin and scratched his white beard.
"Mm, something of the sort, speaking off, you yourself have a rather strained relationship with Demiurge, do you not?"
Sebas eyes seemed to shift around a bit by Shalltear's question.
"It's not that I harbor any ill will for Demiurge-sama and to my knowledge my creator Touch Me-sama didn't create me to dislike him either, perhaps it's some kind of instinct, the same should go for him, not to say I don't respect him as a loyal subject of Nazarick."
"Well, the feelings and emotions are deeply engraved in our hearts, but if you want to make sure, perhaps the cause would be to question Naruto-sama, a being of infinite beauty and wisdom such as our Lord, should know the answer."
As Shalltear began talking about Naruto, her chest heated up and her pale undead complexion began to turn red.
"I would rather not bother Naruto-sama, which such an insignificant trouble."
"Ah, Sebas you mustn't say that Naruto-sama, is kind and caring, you know before I departed, he even kissed my cheek and told me to be careful during our journey."
Sebas and Solution sweat dropped, Shalltear had mentioned that with every chance she got. Still Sebas did agree with Shalltear, when Naruto-sama had seen the innocent of a village being slayed, he had stepped in and defended them, just like Touch Me-sama would have done.
"You may be right, I will try and question Naruto-sama, the next time we have contact."
Shalltear smiled at Sebas words, all this speaking of her beloved made her want to finish her mission quickly and return to his side.
"Oh, by the way Sebas, you wouldn't happen to know of Naruto-sama's creations?"
Shalltear have had these thoughts pop up every so often, she liked to think she knew of everything the supreme beings had created, but she was a bit ashamed to admitted, she had no idea of which npcs Naruto-sama had created.
"Well, I can't say for certain but from rumors I've heard, Naruto-sama has three creations, two stationed on the 8th floor and one on the 9th floor. Still Shalltear-sama if you really wanted to know, wouldn't it be easier to ask Albedo-sama?"
"No, I rather not do that, it annoys me to think she may be a step ahead of me."
As Guardian overseer Albedo had access to the master source in Nazarick, giving her the ability to keep tabs on every denizen who lived within the tomb.
Still both Solution and Shalltear were currently mulling over Sebas words, if Naruto-sama had a creation on the 9th floor, could it be he had created one of the homunculus maids, of course there were many other npcs on the 9th floor, the maids were just the most common sight on that floor, if that was the case Shalltear was eager to meet her, she had learned from Perorochino-sama that the supreme beings often filled their creations with their fetishes, finding Naruto-sama's creation would give her a good insight into how to turn him on.
"Still the 8th floor, huh, you don't know anything more about those two, Sebas?"
Shalltear grumbled a bit, she wanted to meet them, but the 8th floor was a mysterious place, even for the guardians, she knew the floor guardian of the 8th floor was someone called Victim and she knew the 8th floor once repelled a massive invasion of foolish invaders who had fought their way through the guild, but that was it.
"Mmm, well I believe Naruto-sama, Touch Me-Sama, Momonga-Sama, Ulbert Alain Odle-sama and Tigris Euphrates-sama were all working on a project on the 8th floor called the 8th Floor Hierarchy, I believe Naruto-sama's creations on that floor is a part of this project, though I do not understand their purpose."
"Ooh, that sounds exciting, how about it, when we return to Nazarick, should we go take a peek?"
Shalltear asked with an innocent smile, but Sebas eyes sharpened a bit and Solution quickly looked uncomfortable.
"Would you go against Naruto-sama's orders?"
"Ah, sorry I was just kidding, no need to look so serious all of a sudden."
Sebas released a small sigh, but honestly, he did share bits of Shalltear's curiosity.
"I understand, but for now we shouldn't try and access the 8th floor without Naruto-sama's permission."
"Of course, I agree completely." Shalltear felt a little annoyed, it was merely a jest, but it felt like Sebas had taken it way too seriously and was now scolding her for it.
"By the way Shalltear-sama, would it be possible to hand our driver over to Solution?"
"Hmm?" Shalltear threw Solution a small glance, a little surprised by the weird request, Shalltear had seen who their driver was, by all means he was an ugly man, who didn't even look worth draining of his blood.
"Why would you want someone like him?"
"I've overheard him talking with the other men who will soon ambush us, it seems our driver in particular can't wait to have his way with me, I merely wish to repay the favor."
Solution explained with a sweet smile.
"I don't see any issue with that."
As Shalltear spoke, Solution offered her a thankful bow and Shalltear couldn't help but let her gaze fall on Solution's chest, a mix of envy and lust growing in her belly, if she were to invite Solution for some fun at the 2nd floor, she did wonder how Solution would respond.
Solution must have noticed Shalltear's stare, because she looked back at Shalltear with a small smile and an exciting glint in her eyes.
Just then their stagecoach came to an abrupt stop.
A deep male voice yelled loudly outside. "Everyone inside come out!"
Nazarick 10th Floor – Throne Room
Naruto was sitting on the throne with a somber expression on his face as he listened to Albedo explain the report, she had received from Sebas, his gaze was fixated on the master source in front of him with the name Shalltear Bloodfallen turned black, Naruto knew this change was supposed to mean mind controlled, but that didn't make sense, Shalltear was an undead, they had complete resistance to mind control.
Albedo finished up the report, after Shalltear had her vampire brides slaughter the men that ambushed them they split up, according to Sebas report Shalltear was still acting with utmost loyalty when he last saw her.
"To make sure there was no faults with the events, I've double checked with Solution, her description of the events matches with Sebas."
Albedo was standing next to the throne as she had explained in great detail the last sighting of Shalltear.
Slowly Naruto lifted his gaze, all of the guardians had gathered, the pleiades too and several powerful vassals were lined up through the throne room, much like Naruto most of the denizens that had gathered in the throne room had a somber looks on their face, though in some cases expressions of great anger could also be seen.
"It doesn't sound like Shalltear had any plans to betray me."
"I agree Naruto-sama."
"And this red color across Shalltear's name, I believe we can say for certain that Shalltear did not intend to betray me out of her own volition."
"… Still Naruto-sama, Shalltear has disgraced us and the great tomb of Nazarick, I believe nothing short of death is required."
Naruto could hear multiple voices within the throne room whispering around, with the mast majority of the voices agreeing with Albedo's statement.
Naruto was scanning his brain for an answer, he didn't want to kill Shalltear, just Albedo mentioning it had made him angry, even though he hadn't shown it and then there was still the concern around how an undead like Shalltear had fallen under mind control in the first place.
From what Naruto understood there wasn't any martial arts in this world that could be used as mind control, but perhaps talent holders had some specific ability to do so. Perhaps there was some kind of ability or magic unique to this world that could take control of Shalltear.
Albedo remained silent for a while, but Naruto didn't respond.
"Naruto-sama, please grant me permission to form a strike team, I myself will lead it and annihilate Shalltear with haste."
"Albedo, I do not wish to hear any more about killing Shalltear."
"You're very compassionate my Lord, but I do not believe there is any reason to show Shalltear any mercy."
"Albedo… Do you know where Shalltear is currently at?"
He wanted to reprimand her, he didn't do this out of compassion, he wanted to understand what exactly had happened and how to ensure something like this would never happen again.
"I'm afraid we haven't been able to locate her as of yet."
"Very well, then let's go see your older sister Nigredo."
Nazarick 5th Floor
The fifth floor of Nazarick could best be described as a vast frozen wasteland, with powerful winds and heavy snow falling constantly.
"Aren't you cold like that?"
Naruto's question to Albedo may as well have been given to him, neither of them were really clothed for this kind of weather.
"Thank you for your concern, Naruto-sama, but mere cold will not affect me, rather isn't this hard on you?" Albedo returned the question back on Naruto. She wasn't wrong as a Kitsune Naruto was completely resistant to fire, but was more vulnerable to ice and water.
Usually, this storm was supposed to add a slow debuff to any invaders on the floor, but since it costs gold to keep up, it has been disabled, still though this storm was still more than enough to freeze any human to the bone.
"Mmm, I'm okay, it's going to take a lot more to bother me."
Before long they came to a large structure, on the outside it looked like a fairytale mansion, covered in snow and ice, but in reality, this place was a prison, Neuronist was working deep below this place, whenever torture was necessary, and the area guardian of this prison was Albedo's older sister Nigredo.
Opening the large doors to the mansion another cold air hit both Naruto and Albedo and both couldn't help but give a small shiver.
"ARGHHHHHHHHHH!"
A female scream could be heard far below them.
"Seems like Neuronist is busy working on your new pet."
Albedo was slightly annoyed by the idea of Naruto's new pet, it was a title she herself desired.
"Yeah, I'll make sure to check in on her after we solved this situation with Shalltear."
As Naruto spoke, he had wrapped on of his own furry tails over his shoulders and Albedo was a little surprised when one of his tails also moved over her shoulders.
"Feel free to hug it tightly."
Albedo didn't even ask as she happily squeezed the warm tail in close to her body, while they kept on moving forward into prison.
It didn't take much longer till they were approaching Nigredo's room, Tabula had happily showed off Nigredo to everyone in the guild when he had created her and had gotten quite various reaction, apparently, she was inspired by an old horror movie Tabula had seen one night.
Nigredo was also the only npc, that Naruto had changed the night the servers were supposed to shut down, he wasn't sure why he did it, honestly it was most likely just pity, he had given her a proper face and removed her trap when approaching her room.
While Naruto didn't like the idea of changing the others npcs, when it came to Tabula, he felt it was more than okay, mainly because Tabula before he had quit the game had equipped Albedo with a world item and used another world item to create Rubedo with, he practically stolen those from the treasury without asking anyone for permission.
Along the hallway to Nigredo's room were several pictures of mothers and their children, until they reach the end of the hallway, where another large picture was in their way.
Naruto made a quick wave motion with his hand and the large pictures seemed to fade in front of them revealing a large open room, once again the room was filled with pictures on the walls and simply furniture, but there were also several cribs aligned along the room's walls. Nigredo who they had come for was standing motionless with her back turned as she was staring down one of the cribs.
"Nigredo."
Naruto spoke her name, but there was no reaction or movement.
"Nigredo, answer Naruto-sama!"
Albedo quickly barked when it became clear Nigredo wasn't going to answer, this time though Nigredo gave a small jump as if she had been surprised.
"Ah, little sis, oh Naruto-sama."
Turning towards them Naruto had to admit both Nigredo and Albedo looked a lot like each other, sure there was a difference in clothes and Nigredo didn't have wings or horns, but their beautiful pitch black hair was the same, though Nigredo's was a lot longer and reached the floor, their faces were similar as well, the biggest difference was their eyes though, where Albedo's were yellow, Nigredo's was a crystal cold blue.
"You look well Nigredo."
"Ah yes Naruto-sama, thank you very much, I'm sorry, but can we talk in low voices, the babies are sleeping."
"Hmm oh, okay."
There was nothing but dolls in those cribs, but Naruto didn't mind entertaining her strange request, despite the small changes he had made in Nigredo, he didn't change her extreme love for babies.
"Nigredo, I need you to locate Shalltear Bloodfallen."
"The guardian, very well, just a moment."
Naruto watched as Nigredo threw one divination spell after each other, she was a mage that specified in this area, so locating Shalltear shouldn't be too hard for her.
"Found her." Nigredo threw the location up on a crystal monitor, which showed Shalltear, dressed in full combat gear, she was alone and wasn't moving a single inch.
"Well done, Nigredo, then I'm heading out."
"Please wait Naruto-sama, if anything should happen or if Shalltear attacks you, please give me a moment to gather an appropriate guard for you."
"No, there is-"
[Naruto-sama I'm sorry for disturbing you.]
A new voice entered his head, it belonged to Narberal Gamma, who he had reluctantly left back in E-Rantel, in case someone from the guild wanted to come in contact with him.
"Is it important Narberal?"
[Someone from the adventurers guild, came to meet you apparently the guild leader in the city is holding a meeting for the top adventurers, the subject is about a vampire.]
"I see, good job Narberal, I'll contact you later."
With that Naruto cut off the message.
"Are you going to go Naruto-sama?" Albedo couldn't help but ask.
"Of course not, this is far more important, Albedo you can come along, but I'm going immediately."
"Gate."
With that Naruto opened up a quick gate to Shalltear's location and walked through Albedo quickly following behind him.
Now alone once again Nigredo quickly took a deep relieved breath, it was always a great honor to be visited or summoned by a supreme being, but it was also quite nerve wrecking, he might as well have come because she had messed something up.
Still having been visited by Naruto-sama, she had barely managed to keep her blush back, she looked back at all the cribs in her room.
"Maybe, if I'm lucky Naruto would bless me with a child of my own." As Nigredo spoke she reached down with one hand and rubbed her belly, a small lewd smile spreading on her lips.
Outskirts of E-Rantel
As Naruto stepped into the clearing the first thing his eyes landed on would be Shalltear's battle ready form, had she been hostile she would have attacked the moment he stepped through, yet she simply remained still.
The second thing he noticed was that they were in a clearing surrounded by trees, if one wished to watch them, they would have to come through the forest.
With steady steps Naruto and Albedo approached Shalltear's still form.
"Naruto-sama, please remain careful." Albedo spoke as Naruto kept approaching Shalltear.
"It's fine Albedo, from what I can see, this is really just ordinary mind control, but she's been abandoned here without any orders… Could she have taken down the one who mind controlled?"
As Naruto pondered this he looked around, there did seem to be vague signs of a fight around here, a far more troubling thought would be that she was abandoned because the one who mind controlled her saw no value in Shalltear, but he decided to push that thought aside, turning down a level 100 npc, as a slave just seemed absurd to him.
" [Blessing of Divinity] ."
As Naruto used the spell a white halo appeared over his head and pure white angel wings sprouted out from his back. The spell itself was of the 9th tier and the function of the spell was simply to increase the power of all his other holy spell with 30% for the next hour.
"Albedo, I don't expect Shalltear to attack, but just in case have your guard up."
"Yes, my Lord." Albedo took a quick step in front of Naruto and raised her massive axe.
As a beast tamer, Naruto didn't know too many 10th tier spells and he knew even less super tier spell, of course there was more than enough special magic items in Nazarick he could use to overcome any barrier, should the occasion call for it.
Naruto knew 1 spell of the 10th tier that was designed to remove all debuffs and status affects, but thanks to [Blessing of Divinity] the spell should be just as effective as a super tier spell.
" [Heavens Sanctuary] !"
Naruto's halo and angel wings seemed to glow even brighter as the spell was cast and a massive magic circle formed on the ground beneath them, Naruto could see a white aura surrounding Shalltear, which was supposed to remove her mind control, but instead, it dispersed.
"Hmmm, what?"
Albedo threw a small look back at Naruto as she heard her master's words.
"Did something happen to the spell?"
"It was rejected, that's rather unsettling."
Naruto briefly considered the idea that mind control worked differently on undead beings in this world, but he already knew that wasn't the case, if so, Naruto would have taken control of most of the undead beings last night during the incident at the cemetery. His moniker even stated clearly that he was a dominator of life, which clearly excluded his control over undead beings.
"Could it be… A world item?" As Naruto said that, he could hear a small gasp from Albedo.
There were several world items capable of mind controlling beings that were supposed to be completely immune to mind control, what did Ulbert Alain Odle always say:
"Fucking devs are putting more broken world items into the game, fucking idiots."
It was something alone that line at least, clearly, he wasn't a fan of items breaking already established game rules.
"Albedo, we're returning to Nazarick, once we're back contact Yuri and Shizu and bring them to me."
"I will do so immediately."
Once more Naruto opened another gate to would lead them back to the surface area of Nazarick.
"Oh right, [Summoning: Hanzo squad] ."
Several humanoid monsters appeared in front of Naruto and Albedo.
"How may we serve you Naruto-sama?" The leader of the hanzo's spoke up.
Naruto didn't have a single beast capable of speech, but this being in front of him wasn't a magical beast, it was a summoned creature created from magic, there was five of them each level 85, usually that would take up quite a bit of mana, but Naruto was a beast tamer as well as a summoner, which did give him quite a few advantages.
First of all being a summoner meant that even though these hanzo's were supposed to be level 85, the truth was they were most likely varying in the range of 88-90, furthermore being a summoner meant Naruto was able to summon more powerful monsters for mana when they would usually expand xp for none summoner specialists.
Finally, there was also the benefit of a wide array of different summons.
Naruto was also currently under the effect of his druid passive skill [Nature's Beauty] which meant all his spells cost 25% less mana as long as he remained outside. The passive didn't work when in Nazarick or within the walls of E-Rantel, too many surrounding walls seemingly turned the passive off.
All in all, Naruto only used about 5% of his mana to summon the hanzo squad.
"Lurk within the forest, if any human tries to enter this clearing, kill them."
The Hanzo's quickly bowed their heads and answered in unison.
"It will be done Naruto-sama."
With that Naruto and Albedo returned to Nazarick.
Nazarick Treasury
Naruto was gazing at the vast treasures in front of him as soon as he had teleported into the treasury, the ceiling was far above and the walls were so broad you couldn't see the edges of the room, jumping up upon the large pile in front of him Naruto could see just how far the treasury stretched back.
It almost looked like a mountain range in the far distance made of hold and rare jewels, truly the treasury was one of the greatest achievements of the guild and a clear indication of what Ainz Ooal Gown was capable of back in its glory days.
Still now he was alone and this meant all of this vast treasure belonged only to him, he briefly wondered what would have happened if he was teleported to this world with others from the guild, he didn't like to think about it, the idea was unsettling at best, sure there were some guys and girls in the guild that seemed reasonable, but Naruto had seen plenty of times what happened to humans who suddenly got too much power to handle, corruption was almost always inevitable.
Naruto almost forgot about the situation at hand with Shalltear, in all honesty he wasn't too worried, mainly because he knew Nazarick had enough firepower to easily deal with Shalltear and secondly because Naruto couldn't imagine that it had been a powerful being that had taken control of Shalltear.
In Yggdrasil items had been ranked Low Class – Middle Class – High Class – Top Class – Legacy Class – Relic Class – Legendary Class – Divine Class – World Class.
It was normal for a player to receive stronger and better quality gear as he progressed throughout the levels, still even for a level 100 player having Legendary or Divine class items wasn't always guaranteed, as both of those required hard work and lots of grinding to obtain.
Still world items were unique, while they also could be acquired through grinding and hard work, it was also possible to come upon a world class item by sheer dumb luck, in that aspect it may even be possible for a level 1 noob to come upon a world class item and take ownership of it with enough luck.
When that happened though, people like that would do everything in their power to hide the fact they had one, until they were strong enough or a part of a guild that could protect it, Naruto had heard stories about Nine Own Goal, the previous version of the guild before Naruto joined, had once had a world class item called Atlas stolen.
All in all, Naruto believed it was possible for normal humans or demi humans to be able to use a world class item, in this world, if it really had been another player who took control of Shalltear, then he had done an amazing job in concealing all traces of himself.
Indeed, Naruto wasn't worried, he was just angry, half of the anger was guided at himself for not thinking about the possibilities of world items, this world had clear signs and stories about other players having lived here long ago. Nazarick had been transported to this world with all of it's world items intact, yet he hadn't thought about the possibilities of world items being used against themselves.
The other half of his anger was guided towards the mysterious individual that had taken control of Shalltear, whoever or whatever had done so, he would make sure to kill it in an excruciating manner, Shalltear was a valuable asset to Nazarick as well as Naruto's property, truly this growing anger in his heart, was because Naruto felt as if someone had tried to steal Shalltear from him, when she belonged to him.
There were but 2 ways to negate the effects of a world item, the first being having a special job class, it was a rare phenomenon that a job class could negate a world item, yet it wasn't unheard of, not all world items were created equal, and some world items were just blatant upgrades of other world items.
The second method to negate a world class item was much safer and much more well tested, simply put a world class item could not affect the hold of another world class item.
Nazarick was currently in the possession of 11 world class items, well it may be more fitting to say 9, since Rubedo was a walking world class item and the throne in the throne room wasn't possible to move.
Still their guild was the best on their server in collecting world class items, the guild who had the second most world items after Nazarick only possessed 3, which was quite the gap.
Naruto was snapped out of his thoughts when a small light lit the treasury making him look back at the three women who had teleported here.
"Sorry about the wait Naruto-sama." As Albedo spoke the two women behind offered a deep bow, they were Yuri Alpha and CZ2128 or just Shizu as everyone called her.
"Not at all, your timing is as perfect as ever."
Naruto was happy that he had got a moment alone to think over the situation, taking a step down Naruto gracefully slid down the large hill of gold and jewels, until his feet were on the ground again.
There was a look of admiration on the women's faces as they glanced at the long line of gold and valuable stones, their reactions were as expected for someone who was seeing the treasury for the first time.
"Naruto-sama, may I ask why the treasury is left in this condition, if you gave the order we would immediately begin tidying?"
Naruto frowned at Yuri's words, well she was a maid, so it was only natural that she would want to clean and keep things tidy.
"How exactly would you do that?"
Naruto's tone may have had slight edge, the thought of someone touching his treasure without permission had surprisingly annoyed him quite a bit, was he also growing more possessive?
Yuri looked a little uncomfortable and looked around, the reason why all of this treasure was laying out in the open in vast hills was because there was simply no other room for it.
"Forgive me for my lack of insight my Lord."
"You're forgiven, let's move on then."
They had to walk for a few minutes before they got to the end of the room and all the while they walked the vast quantities of gold to their side, never diminished, at the end of the room was a large black door, which looked like a barrier to prevent one from passing through.
"By this means you shall acquire the glory of the whole world, And so you shall drive away all shadows and blindness." Naruto remembered most of the passwords used in Nazarick and even if he forgot, there was a master password, which would reveal a hint written in latin and Naruto could fluently speak every language in the old world.
As the black gate disappeared in revealed a beautiful hallway that would lead to the armory. Naruto was about to take another step, but it seemed that someone behind him had reached their limit.
"Ah." Naruto released a small, surprised sound as someone had grabbed one of his tails, throwing quick look behind he could see the culprit being Shizu.
"Cute, can I touch it Naruto-sama?"
Normally you would ask for that before just grabbing it. Albedo and Yuri also had two quite strong reactions.
"Shizu!"
"YOU DARE?!"
Naruto quickly raised his hand and try to stop Albedo who looked like she was about to blast Shizu's head clean off.
"It's fine, I don't mind, but Shizu next time, ask before you just grab it."
"Ah, sorry."
Albedo still looked unhappy, while glaring daggers at Shizu.
"Naruto-sama, please allow me to hand a punishment to Shizu afterwards." Yuri asked as she bowed deeply.
"Mmm, just don't be too excessive, it really doesn't matter much."
With that they finally began walking through the beautifully crafted hallway, the next stop would be the armory, then the mausoleum with Pandora's actor, then another long hallway filled with golems until they finally reached the vault which held the world items, to say the security was top notch would be an understatement.
As they reached the armory, they could all see the different types of arms and armors hanging on the walls, there were weapons for any need ranging from massive claymores to simple wands and everything in between like rune crafted bows and crossbows, maces, morningstars, javelins, lances, spears, truly every kind of weapon one could imagine was being kept here.
There were hundreds of different armors on the other side of the room made from different metals and prismatic ores, Naruto's gaze went up higher to where three powered suits were standing still, maybe he should try one out and see how they work in this world one day.
The three powered suits had different colors, one blue, another white and the last one being black, Garnet had fully upgraded all of the suits to their maximum potential, still when Garnet had tried one out and fought against Perorocino in a duel, Garnet had gotten his ass whopped and hadn't touched the powered suits since.
"Hmm."
Naruto briefly stopped before they exited the armory, the three women looked at him puzzled and were awaiting his next orders, reaching up with a single hand a loud clank could be heard one of the weapons had come loose and landed straight into Naruto's open hand.
It was a spear, it looked like something royalty would use for ceremonial purpose, the wood that made up its shaft was white, and the spearhead was light blue and seemed to crackle with electricity and magical power, the power it contained was enough for everyone to recognize it as a divine class item.
"The spear Gungnir."
Naruto spoke its name but didn't clarify any further as he began moving again, while Albedo and Yuri did wonder slightly what he wanted with the spear, after all his build wasn't much suited with spear, yet they didn't bother with such an unimportant question.
Shizu didn't bother asking either as she was still rubbing her cheek up against one of Naruto's tails.
It didn't take long before they reached the next room, it was smaller and much simpler in design compared to the other room, it had the look of a simple waiting lounge, but a few surprised gasps did come from behind Naruto as they saw who was sitting and waiting in the room.
"Momonga-sama?"
There was a clear hint of shock in her voice, but it only lasted a second before she quickly managed to calm down.
"No, you're not him."
"Only supreme beings are allowed access to the treasury." Momonga countered, his voice having a dangerous edge and Naruto had to quickly stand in before the two level 100 npcs attacked each other.
"That's enough, Pandora's actor, return to your true form."
The skeletal being in front of them began to morph, till it took the appearance of a doppelganger wearing a military uniform. Naruto didn't know too much about Pandora's actor. Momonga he's creator was one of the last players, but he didn't speak much about Pandora's actor.
"I salute thee, supreme being Lord Naruto!" The doppelganger spoke loudly while saluting, making Naruto blink several times.
"What's this now? A military salute, that's new… Momonga is this a gag character?"
It wasn't too uncommon for the other players in the guild to sneak in what they considered small funny details for others to find.
"It's good to see you too Pandora's actor, I hope you haven't been lonely locked up in the treasury."
Pandora's actor may very well have items that took away the need for sleep and food, but still as Naruto was looking over the rather empty room, Naruto couldn't help but feel like Pandora's actor may get lonely being locked up here.
"Oooooh, I thank thee for thou concern, but fret not, the magic items are all the company that I need!"
Naruto sweat dropped, wasn't he being a little too dramatic? It would be a problem if this didn't stop soon, Naruto could feel the corner of his lips beginning to move as he began finding Pandora's actor mannerisms amusing.
"Well, that's reassuring, anyway I will need you to guide us to the vault, I need to take out the world items."
"OOOOOOH!"
"Please no more."
"World items, they have the power to change the world! Is it finally time to unveil their great power?" Once more Pandora's actor finished talking by striking a small pose.
"Mhmm."
At this point Naruto couldn't hide his amused smile anymore, honestly Naruto considered him a fresh breath of air from all the other npcs.
"Still Naruto-sama, since a situation has arisen that calls for the use of World class items, wouldn't it be better to allow me to roam around on the other floor of Nazarick?"
Naruto looked over Pandora's actor for a second.
"So, you were lonely after all?" Naruto's voice was filled with pity.
"Ah, no that's not it, I merely thought my talents may be off better use on-" Pandora's actor stopped talking when Naruto placed a hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry I understand." His voice was still fully of pity.
As an immortal being who had wandered through the world for thousands of years and had watched friends and family wither away, Naruto pitied no one more than the lonely.
And so, Pandora's actor was granted permission to freely roam around Nazarick.
Nazarick 10th Floor – Throne Room
Albedo had once more gathered the guardians in the throne room and distributed the world items, according to Naruto-sama, it wasn't important which guardian got which item, since none of the items were for use, but only to ward off the effects of other world items.
And then they waited, after they had picked up the items, Naruto had said he would personally craft a team to take down Shalltear, despite Albedo pleading to be included on the team, she was refused, Naruto-sama himself had said he would only bring people he was confident were stronger than Shalltear, while it did sadden Albedo it was true that Shalltear would win against her in a 1v1.
A gate opened up in the middle of the throne room, normally it would be impossible to use [Gate] or any other kind of [Teleportation] directly into the throne room, the only exception to that rule would be the area guardian of the Cherry Blossom Sanctuary Aureole Omega, who was able to open up portals anywhere within Nazarick.
Out from the gate stepped Naruto closely followed by three women.
"Little sister." Albedo spoke noticing the only one of the three women she recognized as her little sister Rubedo.
Rubedo was the younger sister of both Nigredo and Albedo and was often referred to as the strongest entity within Nazarick. The most noticeable difference was their eyes, Nigredo's iris were blue, Albedo's were golden and Rubedo's were green, but all three of them shared the black slit pupil.
"Hello, big sister Albedo." Rubedo's greeting were short, and her voice lacked any kind of emotion, just like Shizu, Rubedo was an automaton, who struggled to show any kind of emotion.
"Albedo, have the world items been distributed?" Naruto's voice forced Albedo's eyes away from her little sister and back towards her master.
"Yes, Naruto-sama, though there is one spare."
"That's for Shalltear once we get her back." There were several frowns as Naruto spoke this, none seemed too happy about the aspect of bringing a traitor back to Nazarick.
"Understood Naruto-sama." Albedo spoke, even if she didn't completely agree, she still served and obeyed.
"Now then, I believe Albedo, already have told you all about the reason you all received a world item, further more from this point on till we find the assailant responsible for attacking Shalltear, no one is allowed to leave Nazarick without at least five level 80 or higher companions."
No one objected to that statement and then Naruto turned towards the two women behind him, since Albedo had already called Rubedo little sister, there wasn't any need to introduce her.
"Maschenny, Yuri introduce yourselves to the guardians."
Albedo recognized both the names as she had seen them on the master control, she had access to still she had no idea what they looked like.
The first woman who stepped forth had long wavy blue hair, that was so light it could be called cyan, she stood a head taller than Albedo, but what Albedo's eyes were most focused on was the spear she was carrying, it was the one Naruto had taken from the treasury.
"My name is Maschenny, I'm an area guardian on the 8th floor who serves the floor guardian Victim and the ruler of the great tomb of Nazarick, my creator Naruto-sama." She ended her introduction with a small bow.
Then the other took a step forward.
"Yo, I'm Yuri, pretty much the same as her." She spoke while pointing towards Maschenny.
Naruto released a small sigh, he could see the displeasure on Demiurge and Albedo's faces, but it was Naruto's own fault, he remembered when he wrote Yuri settings:
"If there's a problem, punch it if that didn't work, punch it harder."
In short Yuri was very straightforward and wasn't much for formalities.
"Yuri, Maschenny."
Both quickly turned around and bowed to him.
"I'm permitting both of you to leave the 8th floor and wander freely around Nazarick, I'm sure both of you will keep in mind that when you're away from the 8th floor, all the guardians here are in fact your superiors and you will treat them with respect."
"Yes, Naruto-sama." Both of them replied with missing a beat, when it was just the two of them, they usually referred to Naruto as father, but wouldn't dare being so informal in front of him.
"Good, now then for how we're going to deal with Shalltear." Naruto hesitated slightly, he had already thought about the situation himself, but one thing that still bugged him was the resurrection of npcs, there was no guarantee it was going to work like it did in Yggdrasil.
Still, it was the only thing he could do.
"I plan on killing Shalltear and have her resurrected… Maschenny in case resurrection of Shalltear won't be possible you will be placed in charge of the 1st to 3rd floor as the guardian."
Maschenny sent Yuri a small victorious smirk before she replied.
"Understood, Naruto-sama, if such a thing were to happen, I will not disappoint you."
"Mmm, let's hope it doesn't come to that, now for the rest of you all, you are to remain within Nazarick, while I don't believe it's someone strong who's responsible for this, I'm not yet ready to exclude any scenarios, so I will have you all protect Nazarick to the best of your efforts till we return."
Once more Naruto could see their expression weren't positive, but at the same time, they couldn't deny he was well protected, especially Rubedo made a good impact as she was widely known as the strongest in Nazarick.
"Understood Naruto-sama, we will protect Nazarick with our lives."
Clearing Near Shalltear
"[Nuclear Punch!]" Shalltear eyes filled with light as a sudden punch hit her armored stomach, sending her flying into the air.
Shalltear who had remained inactive for a long time, quickly began asserting the situation and quickly identified the woman who had punched her.
"Hoo~ And who would you be?"
Shalltear's eyes were fixed on the beautiful woman who had sent her flying, ankle long hair tied in a ribbon on the left side of her head, wearing a simple long sleeved white shirt and black skirt.
"Names Yuri, I would say it's a pleasure, but it's not, you caused father quite a bit of distress and so I'm quite happy he's asked me to kill you."
Shalltear furrowed her eyebrows, firstly based off the powerful punch, she was quite certain that this Yuri was similar to Yuri Alpha from the pleiades and had the majority of her stats placed in physical attack and secondly the only person anyone would call father from Nazarick was their creator.
"So, Naruto-sama is here as well?"
The cocky smile on Yuri's face disappeared as Shalltear spoke.
"A filthy traitor like you, aren't fit to speak his great name, isn't that right Maschenny?"
Shalltear barely got time to register the words before a pillar of blue light descended from the sky and slammed her down into the ground.
"Keep calm Yuri, the faster we kill the more praise father will give us." Maschenny spoke as she seemingly appeared out of thin air next to Yuri.
Both women looked towards the dust cloud that had been formed when Shalltear had been knocked down into the ground.
"Ow ow, It must be quite nice being a beast tamer, getting everyone else to do your fighting for him, but that's probably for the best, Naruto-sama is quite the weakling compared to Perorocino-sama."
Shalltear taunted as she emerged from the dust cloud.
"The fuck did you say, you bitch?"
Despite Maschenny having just told Yuri to keep calm, she had clearly been provoked by Shalltear's statement as clear veins could be seen on her forehead.
Shalltear smirked knowing her provocation had worked quite well, still she knew she was in trouble, the dark haired woman was a lot stronger than her in terms of physical power and the blue haired one was stronger than her with magic.
"[Raise Kin]"
Several monsters spawned around Shalltear, her action merely made both woman in front of her raise a single eyebrow, clearly none of the monsters she had summoned was seen as a threat by either of them.
"Comp the forest find Naruto-sama!"
The monsters scattered and entered the forest, when concerned like this she believed the best possibility for her victory would be to cut off the head of the snake.
"Oh, you think our father is hiding from you, He simply can't be bothered fighting someone as lowly as you himself."
"[Vermillion Nova]"
Both Yuri and Maschenny jumped back as a powerful fire erupted beneath their feet.
"Yuri, she's making a run for it!" Maschenny saw out of the corner of her eye as Shalltear quickly moved deeper into the forest, had she already located father? It shouldn't be a problem Rubedo was still with him acting as father's bodyguard, but if they allowed her to get away, it would be seen as their failure.
Somewhere Deeper in the Forest
"Uwahhh…" Naruto let out a small sound as he looked at the small hill of corpses in front of him, these were all adventurers from E-Rantel who had come to kill Shalltear but had been killed by the Hanzo's he had left in the forest.
"Narberal had contacted him that the guild wanted to meet with me." Maybe if I had gone and talked, he could have changed this outcome, still it didn't really matter.
Naruto's gaze turned away as he heard the nearby battle beginning. Maschenny and Yuri should be more than enough to kill off Shalltear, he could have gone too, but in all honesty, he liked Shalltear, and he rather not see her die.
"The faster this is taken care of, the better."
Naruto briefly thought about his own created npcs, honestly while he would like to say they had been created equally, that wasn't completely true, Maschenny had been the first npc he had created and he had spent countless of hours grinding on her, she even had her own flying castle on the 8th floor, filled with her own servants.
In contrast Naruto did feel slightly guilty in how simplistic he had made Yuri, if Yuri ever asked if Maschenny was his favorite, it would be difficult to convince her that he loved them both equally.
"Welp I just leave that problem for future Naruto."
Naruto had begun collecting the dead adventurers plates, if he could bring these back to the adventurers guild, Kurama's fame would surely grow.
"Hmm, a vampire wolf?"
Naruto mused and then a second later it was gone having been blasted apart by Rubedo.
A small frown spread on Naruto's face, how did one of those slip past Yuri and Maschenny? He had explicitly told them to take care of Shalltear as fast as possible.
An explosion shook the ground, once more Naruto narrowed his eyes, the didn't sound like it came from the clearing at all, but closer to his own location.
"I think Shalltear is trying to head towards our location." Naruto spoke in a calm and uncaring tone.
"If you desire, I will go kill her, I could also deal with Maschenny and Yuri for failing to take care of mission swiftly." Rubedo's voice was emotionless and flat.
"No, I absolutely forbid that, your only objective is to guard me from Shalltear and other unknown enemies. Yuri and Maschenny are neither."
Naruto began to wonder if it had been a good idea to bring Rubedo, he mostly did it to make the floor guardians feel at ease, but she was a bit too robotic, while most denizens of Nazarick overflowed with emotions, Rubedo had none or at least showed him none.
Naruto could slowly see multiple people approaching his location at fast speed
The first one to appear before him was Shalltear, with Yuri and Maschenny following a second later.
Shalltear looked pretty banged up and out of breath, still Naruto was amazed she had actually managed to run all the way here.
But what shocked him most was the trail of blood that was seeping from the corner of Maschenny's mouth.
"Forgive us Naruto, she ran off while using multiple skills and magic, making it difficult to keep up with her, we managed to take of her trump card the [Einherjar] on our way here."
"Mmm, how did she damage you?"
Maschenny looked surprised and confused.
"Ahh, no while both me and Yuri attacked Shalltear, she managed to dodge one of Yuri's attacks which hit me instead."
"Me? It was your attack that missed, you practically jumped into my fist with your face."
Yuri fired back and Naruto sweat dropped, he made a mental note to introduce some team building exercises to Nazarick.
"[Purifying Javelin]"
Rubedo moved in front of Naruto and swatted the attack away, while Naruto turned his gaze towards Shalltear.
"Quite a pitiful state you're in Shalltear, tell me are you aware you're brainwashed?"
"I'm brainwashed? Mmm, no that doesn't matter, what matters is that you're my enemy Naruto-sama, are you done hiding behind your servants?"
Shalltear spoke as she pointed the Spuit Lance towards Naruto as if issuing a challenge.
"No, I'm not, fighting you wouldn't amuse me, so instead I'm having others do it." Naruto spoke while crossing both his arms.
"Amuse?"
"Yeah, I've decided to only what I find amusing from here on out, whatever it is to fight, kill, fuck or conquer the world, I will only do things that amuse me and fighting you won't amuse me, so go ahead and die already, so we can bring you back to Nazarick.
Naruto had already fought plenty during his unnatural long life, so when he created his character in Yggdrasil, the entire idea involved sitting back and watch as others did the fighting for him.
Besides there was no way that their fight would be anywhere near close, he could annihilate Shalltear easily, due to the pvp restriction being long gone.
Back in Yggdrasil under official pvp tournaments beast tamers where only ever allowed one divine creature for each match, it didn't matter how skilled a player might have been if they had been ganged up on against 10 creatures of similar level they would die.
Had this been like Yggdrasil and he could only summon one divine creature to help him in his fight against Shalltear the battle might have gone either way, but they were no longer in Yggdrasil and Naruto could summon any numbers of creatures from his beast inventory he wanted to.
Furthermore, summoning individual creatures didn't take up that much mana, most of Naruto's equipment reduced the mana cost of summoning spells along with his druid passive that reduced the cost of all spells by half as long as he remained outside near nature.
Naruto only had two worries, the first being that while the initial summoning of beasts and monsters were cheap, if Naruto's beasts began using abilities, they would borrow the mana for their spells directly from him.
The second worry was his own personal strength, Naruto couldn't help but wonder how different this situation would playout if they were inside Nazarick. Naruto's most powerful beasts were quite large in size and wouldn't fit inside the 9th or 10th floor of Nazarick, if he had been attacked by Shalltear on one of those floors he would have been quite fucked.
Well, if it came down to it Albedo and the other npcs on those floors would function as his shield while he made his escape, still the thought that he was at his weakest was while he was back in his base, did trouble him quite a bit.
"[Einherjar]"
The one who spoke was Maschenny, the sudden appearance of Maschenny's Einherjar got a shocked look from Shalltear.
"You're a Valkyrie too?!"
Naruto smiled a little.
"Well, Perorocino was one of my best friends when we played together, both you an Maschenny were created at around the same time, me and Perorocino inspired each other a lot when both of you were created."
Neither Maschenny nor Shalltear looked happy knowing they had inspired each other's creation.
Still, none of them stopped fighting, while Yuri had begun leaning back into the background, while Yuri had wanted to help kill Shalltear, she had to admit while she and Maschenny fought together they got too much in each other's way, so taking the backline was the best option for her.
Shalltear was quickly running short of mana, hp and skills to use.
She had kept using [Force Explosion] in an attempt to push Maschenny away from, while she had summoned lesser vampiric familiars and killed them off to regain her hp, but now that Maschenny had deployed an [Einherjar] she found herself being quickly chased down.
Furthermore, Maschenny looked calm and collected, having barely exerted any of her true power as of yet, her true form was that of a Tengu as such she was yokai demon same as Naruto.
"[Thunderous Herald]"
"[Negative Impact Shield]"
A massive shock wave formed as Maschenny moved the lightning coated spear down and hit Shalltear's shield, she could only use this shield twice every 24 hours and now had it on a cooldown, but at least she had stopped the attack.
"Activate."
The spear moved straight through the shield and hit Shalltear's shoulder, the edge of the spear engraving itself deep into her left shoulder.
"Arghh!"
"Surprised? Father said I might have use of this spear, it's able to bypass three skills every 24 hours, quite amazing don't you think?"
As Maschenny spoke her eyes lit green as she checked on Shalltear's hp and confirmed it was low.
Shalltear moved back, the head of the spear glistened with her blood, her blood fell down across her already crimson armor making it hard to see.
"I'm going to end it here, be thankful, your death will relieve father."
As Maschenny spoke Shalltear found herself staring towards the sky, she could see the attack coming, a massive wide area of effect spell, usually the broader range the spell had the weaker it would be, but Shalltear could feel the sheer power surging above her.
"[Dawn of Lightning]"
For an instant the entire forest turned white in a pure blinding light and just like that Shalltear Bloodfallen was gone.
"Hah… Well, that takes care of that, but she was quite a bit weaker than I had expected, oh well, best go tell father it's over."
Maschenny felt quite disappointed, after all one of her job classes was battle maniac, the tougher the fight the more fun she could have.
Maschenny had only just turned around when she felt an enormous force hit the top of her head sending her crashing down into the ground with a resounding boom.
"What the… You… A resurrection item?"
Maschenny was looking up at the smirking from of Shalltear Bloodfallen once more, her eyes quickly turning green then blue as she confirmed both Shalltear's hp and mana were full.
Still Maschenny wasn't that concerned, resurrection magic wouldn't change the cooldown of her skills, so she wouldn't be able to use Einherjar or any of her shields anymore.
"I would have liked to go take care of Naruto-sama, but I suppose that's not really possible, besides I find you far more infuriating right now, so how about it, want to play with me a bit more?"
Shalltear smiled as if she had figured something out.
"Need help?"
Yuri asked Maschenny and Maschenny replied by flipping her sister off.
Maschenny eyes returned to Shalltear's form as she was charging towards her. Something seemed off, this time, as Shalltear looked more confident.
"[Maximize Magic: Call Greater Thunder]"
The thunder fell on top of Shalltear, but she shrugged it off with minimal damage as she kept on moving towards Maschenny with a fast pace, as she got within the range of Shalltear's javelin she had to jump back, but Shalltear never gave her a chance to make distance.
"You're only good at lightning spells, aren't you?!" Shalltear suddenly yelled wide a wide grin on her face.
"Huh?"
"I've once overheard the supreme beings speak of a place called the Elemental plateau, as long as keep up a high resistance to lightning magic, you're nothing to worry about!"
As Shalltear yelled a growing vein could be seen on Maschenny's forehead.
Shalltear was happy to see her words got an obvious reaction from the blue haired woman, furthermore there were also the spear she was holding, while Shalltear's job class was called Valkyrie: Lance, there were also other version of the Valkyrie class, clearly Maschenny was a Valkyrie: Spear, which only further meant she was better at ranged fighting, so all Shalltear had to do was to keep a close distance.
"[Perfect Unknowable]"
All traces of Shalltear disappeared in an instant.
"This fucking bitch…" Maschenny muttered silently.
Yuri looked up at Maschenny in the sky.
"Ahh, no good she's pissed."
"[Vampiric Chains], [Force Explosion]"
As Shalltear cast two quick spells the effect of perfect unknowable disappeared, the first spells created chains that wrapped around Maschenny, not allowing her to move further away than 10 meters, while it simultaneously began draining her life force, the second spells was merely to check if the first spell worked as it knocked Maschenny backwards, but she stopped after the 10 meter limit was reached.
"Unlike the other woman your strength doesn't lie in close combat, in fact, now that I've already taken care of most of your lightning type attacks, you're pretty weak, aren't you?"
"You fucking trash, know you place beneath my feet."
Maschenny's eyes were full of disgust as she looked towards Shalltear, despite being bound in chains she showed no signs of worry.
Shalltear didn't show any sign of letting the taunting get to her.
"Pathetic and a poor loser, well then again you were created by Naruto-sama and not Perorocino-sama, of course you, if you want to blame everyone then blame yourself for not being created by the better supreme being.
"You will die within the next 10 seconds."
Maschenny spoke and Shalltear simply scuffed, but still took a step back when a small white circle appeared in front of Maschenny's head.
"[Lightning Pill]"
Maschenny moved forward, she opened her mouth and quickly gulped the pill down, her eyes quickly turning completely white, while electricity seemed to move across her body.
"Oh, and what does-"
Shalltear was cut off as a fist was firmly planted in her face, sending her flying backwards with tremendous force.
Shalltear quickly attempted to steady herself midair, while her face was burning with pain, however she came to a sudden stop as her neck had been grabbed, Maschenny already standing behind her.
"[Lightning Skill: Montana Azul]
A massive spear made of pure lightning ripped right through Shalltear once more, usually a deadly injury such as this wasn't possible unless the attack was powerful enough to take care of all the hp of the opponent at once, which Maschenny had just did.
"H-how?"
Shalltear was clearly in shock moments before she disappeared once more, all of her hp had been burst down in the matter of seconds.
Maschenny remained on guard as Shalltear vanished once more, if she did have another resurrection item, it might become a bit problematic, slowly the effect of the lightning pill disappeared.
While Maschenny had a wide arrange of powerful abilities, the [Lightning Pill] was without a doubt her most powerful, it was a buff that tripled all of her stats for a full minute, however after that minute had gone all of her stats would be halved for a full 24 hours.
And there was one more side effect.
As Yuri approached the scene once more, she released a small laugh.
"Ah, Maschenny you look so cute, does that mean I'm the big sister now?"
In the place of the usual beautiful and mature Maschenny stood what looked like a 13 year old child, though she still looked very much like her usual self, with the biggest change being her hair which was now more white than blue.
"Shut up, let's go report to father, it doesn't seem like she will resurrect again." Maschenny spoke in a higher tone than usual.
Approaching a small area within the forest they saw their father awaiting their arrival along with Rubedo by his side.
"Naruto-sama, it's done Shalltear Bloodfallen is dead."
Maschenny spoke up making Naruto turn towards them.
"I see, oh Maschenny you look so cute." Naruto quickly spoke seeing Maschenny in her child form, despite having just gotten the same comment from Yuri earlier her reaction was now completely different.
"T-t-thank you fa- Naruto-sama." She stuttered with a large blush on her face.
"You both done well, then let's return to Nazarick, oh and I do hope, once I resurrect Shalltear, if it succeeds without problem, you will be able to forget about this incident."
Yuri and Maschenny shared a small glance.
"Naruto-sama, during our fight with Shalltear, she did the unforgiveable and openly insulted your exalted form, I don't think I- no we can forgive her for that." Yuri spoke up.
"Ah, I see, hmm, well I won't force you to be friends with Shalltear, but please try your best to act without hostility towards her."
"Understood." Both agreed swiftly.
Naruto opened a gate.
Nazarick 10th Floor Throne room
500 million gold, it looked like a massive amount that flooded the throne room, but compared to the treasury, this couldn't even be called 1/1000 of it's contents, still Naruto rather disliked using the wealth, after all Yggdrasil gold still had many uses within the guild, such as paying for mercenary monsters, weather systems and even food on the 9th floor all cost Yggdrasil gold, no matter how little disappeared it wouldn't last for an eternity.
"I really need to find a way to secure future funds for Nazarick, the only way is the exchange box." You could place different items in the exchange box and then it would spit out Yggdrasil coins depending on the value of whatever you placed in the exchange box.
2 gold coins in this world is the equal of 1 Yggdrasil gold coin, but that's the only thing he knew about the exchange box, he need to try and throw more random stuff down into it.
"I'm going to start resurrecting Shalltear, in the case something goes wrong, I'll trust you all know what to do?"
"Of course, Naruto-sama, leave it to us." Albedo spoke up as she once again had taken her place by his side.
"Good, then let us begin."
As Naruto spoke those words the vast amounts of gold in the throne room seemed to melt and move around, the once large hills began to grow smaller and smaller until it began to take the shape of what looked like a 14 year old girl.
Naruto could hear his own heartbeat as Shalltear appeared to be laying on the floor, he turned his gaze towards Albedo.
"It would appear that the mind control has been terminated."
As Albedo confirmed the information Naruto quickly approached Shalltear's form, she looked like she was sound asleep, then his eyes fell over her naked body, her thighs slightly parted and Naruto could feel his lust growing, though he quickly threw it aside.
"Shalltear?" Naruto leaned down and gently picked the vampire up into his arms.
"Ahh, Naruto-sama?"
Her voice sounded tired as if she had just been forced to awaken, but he could also hear the loyalty in her voice and a big smile quickly formed on Naruto's lips.
"Ahh, I told you to be careful, didn't I?"
Naruto spoke, while his smile didn't drop, he moved his head down and pushed his check up against the top of Shalltear's head, his actions clearly showed just how relieved he really felt.
"Hmm, ah yes you did Naruto-sama, what's going on, did I do something bad?"
Shalltear slowly became aware of her surroundings.
"Shalltear, what's your last memory?"
"I was tracking down some humans in the forest and had just gotten to their base, but now I'm here, sorry Naruto-sama, I don't understand how I got here."
"Well, that's okay, I'm sure the other will be happy to fill you in, what's most important is that you're safe and sound."
With that said Naruto let Shalltear back down and produced quick crimson cape he let her cower herself with
"Ah, Naruto-sama!"
Shalltear sudden yell got a surprised reaction from everyone within the throne room.
"My chest is gone!"
Various reactions filled the room, while Naruto released a small chuckle.
"Don't worry it suits you perfectly." Naruto responded.
"Insolence, don't you know how much distress you placed on Naruto-sama?" Albedo barked at Shalltear, who seemed to tremble a bit at Albedo's words.
Honestly Naruto was so relieved he wanted to spoil Shalltear right now, but he knew the other guardians wouldn't understand it, as they would see it as a reward for betrayal and so Naruto did his best at holding back.
"Huh, what do you mean, distress, but I've-"
Naruto slumped back into the throne, while this may have been a less than pleasant experience, he was still quite happy, just the fact that he could feel anything again was gift, truly he had been blessed by whatever forced him to come to this world and gave him this new body, even though there were still many mysterious and uncertainties, Naruto firmly enjoyed this new world.
Naruto-sama, please issue a fitting punishment for Shalltear." Albedo spoke snapping Naruto out of his thoughts.
"How many times, must I say it? It's all forgiven, no rather let's shift our focus elsewhere, Demiurge."
The arch demon in question quickly took a step forward and kneeled.
"My Lord."
Naruto took out one of the new scrolls Demiurge had been creating.
"These scroll you have started creating are a great boon, well done Demiurge."
"I'm unworthy of such praise, I've only done as to be expected of a guardian."
"I'm curious, which animals are this skin from?" Naruto asked as he slowly touched the smooth soft sheet.
"Ah, various animals found near Abelion hills, near the Holy Kingdom."
"I see and can I looked forward to a steady production of these scrolls?"
Demiurge smile seemed to widen even more as he recalled the different experimentations he had performed.
"Indeed, my Lord we've already made sure that the animal won't die when skinned, by using healing magic."
"Magnificent, I'll say it again well done Demiurge."
The demon seemed to beam with happiness, as he stood up.
"Then secondly, I wish to perform a few experiments of my own, primarily involving resurrection, for that I would need a few test subjects, about a 1000 or so would do."
"Oh, Naruto-sama, Naruto-sama!"
"Hmm, what is it, Aura?"
"Back at Carne village, if you follow the forest till the end, there is a big lake, there is about 1000 or so lizardmen there, would that work?"
"Lizardmen? Oh, that would work just fine."
End of Chapter 6
AN: So straight off the bat, sorry it took so long, this chapter was a pain and honestly it's probably my least favorite one, but holy shit I've had different ideas, where I want to go from here, so from this point on I want to have a bit more fun, I'm well aware that the lizardmen arc is looked down upon by the majority of overlord fans, myself included, though I'm sure that lizardmen sex scene was relevant for the plot somehow.
So, a lot of rewriting went into this, I ended up deleting half the chapter after discovering it was Naruto going to the guild and talking back and forth with the guild master and other teams and found it boring as fuck.
I also originally had planned to introduce two more divine beasts in this chapter but decided against it and allowed Maschenny to take center stage, I know most people who read this probably don't read ToG, but I hope you at least googled them, so you have a better idea of how they look, I'm pretty bad at describing appearances and writing fight scenes, so I'm happy this chapter is over.
Ahh, I want more Overlord, it's just so good.
Anyway, please leave a review, follow and like and all that and then I'll se you next time (if you still wanna read that is)
Character Sheet:
Name: Maschenny
Racial Class:
Yokai: 10
Tengu: 10
Demon: 10
Demon Fighter: 10
Job Classes:
Lightning Priestess: 15
Heavenly Ruler: 15
Valkyrie Spear: 10
Spear Bearer: 10
Genius: 5
Battle Maniac: 5
Karma: -500 Extremely Evil
Stats:
HP: 72
MP: 100
: 69
: 87
: 100
: 91
Resistance: 90
Special Ability: Exceeds Limit
Total: 726
