Master of the Deth fleets

by YYH777

my first time writing. when ainz transported to the new world, he not the only one. watch as i try to write a decent story with over use cliche, theme and many more(this is not crack or humor story, this is somewhat serious story). please review, critique is welcome, spam will be ignore. english is not my first language so please forgive me if there is any mistake (may change to M)

11. Chapter 11

Chapter 11: Aftermath

Written by Y.H

Disclaimer: I do not own overlord or any related element you may or may not see. Those belong to their respective owner

Thought

[Spell]

"Speak"

*sound effect*

Nazarick Throne room

Nazarick 10th floor

When my life get so complicated that is the thought of Ainz during the meeting he held on the throne room for 'emergency situation' or as he like to call it, when the guardians argue what is the best way to smash a fleets of near indestructible, flying ships with Luther in it, or as she named in Nazarick, Dammed Luther

*sigh* he really not what to deal with this. After the 'Attack' on E-rantel, he held the meeting with the guardians to determine the best action, but it all develop into 'how we best smash the fleets'

"We must attack now, we can't give them respite"

"And what that will leave us at? We need to know what their next action and counter them, viscously"

"Albedo right, we must attack them as soon as we can, we know the longer we wait the stronger they are"

"And we will attack them, but we must understand where they are, how to track them and how best to attack them. We know they in the southern region, but where exactly we need to know"

"Easy, we could just send couple of flying beast there, I mean, I imagine it will be hard for them to conceal that many ships"

"Not if they are underwater"

Ainz could already see where this is going, and he didn't like. The forces that 'attack' the city is to flimsy to be consider siege group, there not even battleship or siege ship on there, so that leave it to be scouts group, but why send Admiral with them, they are precious as his guardians. He know Luther is very protective with her Admirals just like he protective of his Guardians.

So why send Admiral to scout potential threat? Probably because they can't afford to mess it up, and they mess this up spectacularly he know the lore that the fleets forces depend on quantity rather that quality, that mean everything down from commodore rank is just a literal meat shield with intelligence of an potato.

Just to add the problem he dealing with, he himself feel conflicted due to lore. When Demiurge inform him of the attack he feel rage for the first time, he almost made hasty decision to march down south there. Now the effect has been lessen but he still have bout of anger and urge to smash her to bits, and his feeling of pure joy on founding out that he not alone is still in him.

The result is he really need to take a break less he overwhelm by the emotion he feel.

"We can't just order them to just open border to us"

Oh, and the arguing Guardians in front of him dint help, at all. Currently they split into two group, one want to immediately march south to the fleets and the other want more conservative on their approach. Demiurge and Albedo is arguing in the middle with other guardians surrounding them either voice their opinion on support of one of the two, or stay silent like Sebastian.

You deserve a promotion Sebas, you deserve it while he could let the guardian reach their conclusion, he still dint want to march down south or warring with Luther on the simple fact that she is her friend and the only other person he could relate to. I could influence their opinion to suite mine, or I could just order this to stop

"Why can't we just send Dragon Lich there?! They the best thing we have against their ships!"

"It's too obvious, too much resource wasted on simple scouting mission, and it will either compile Dammed Luther to attack or speed up her plan, and the worst part of this is we even dint know what her plan yet!" Demiurge say in rare bout of anger among his colleagues "for all we know we could play right into her plan Albedo"

I strongly doubt it Luther character lore is very greedy but cautious too, if she want to send scout she going to send a single corvette and nothing more, not a group of flimsy ship from the 8th fleet alongside their Admiral. He already know that the Admiral is Forge due to the fact that he fight her alongside Touch Me during the event in the war called Return Them to The Watery Grave. It was event called when one of the main Fleets get caught outside of position or stuck, enabling player from opposite faction to attack it and potentially 'destroy' it.

Luther from the game will never do this, but Luther he knew will do this. It was one of few thing he held dear to stop himself from anger and rage he felt every time she come out on conversation. Ainz course of action are finding out where the fleets currently are or open communication with them.

Both sound easy yet very difficult due to various reason but mainly because his guardian is gunning to tear them down piece by piece if what he hear so far are correct.

Enough of this, I need to talk to her in a way that not involve war or fighting, then again I do still fighting my own emotion *sigh* why everything always complicated Ainz smash his hand to his throne, silencing and gaining everybody attention god I never getting used to this.

"Enough of this" it cause particular two Guardian to tense a little "the fleets is here and that is done, we can't change that. Moreover we dint know their location so I want Demiurge to locate where they are" it cause Demiurge to bow.

"Of course my lord, I will find where they hiding at"

"I want everything related to the fleets on this world to be relay directly to me, no delay or anything on this Demiurge"

"Yes my lord"

"As for Albedo, I want you to raise the alert level to maximum and make sure the legions is ready for deployment at moment notice"

"It shall be done Lord Ainz"

"As for other, remain inside Nazarick for now and postpone your outside assignment, as we know the fleets is out there so we can't have unnecessary risk on our hand" all the other Guardian bow and sounded their own confirmation "now you all must know that while we have the superior overall quality of our forces we can't and I repeat can't attack them right now, do you all understand"

*a round of yes*

"My lord" Demiurge began and after getting nod from Ainz continue "while I have full faith for your decision, might you enlighten your servant on why you decide that this is the best course of action?"

"of course as the servant of Nazarick need this so they don't charge without thinking toward danger" his eyes glow for a bit as she look all of his Guardians "the Deth Fleets back bone is the will of their Grand Admiral, so as long as that will is unbroken, so to their forces. They will charge to us again, and again, and again until we exhausted ourselves and they will overwhelm us" this time Ainz raise from his throne and his aura activated resulted in heavy pressure all around the room "they are weak but they are the Deth Fleets, and we all know them to be the one that steal the Pearly Gate and decimate our forces during the war, especially during the Rotten Assault" his Aura intensified as more and more pressure is put into the room "they oppose both Paradise and Nazarick. Fight us to a standstill and assisting the Ragnarok, remember this loyal guardians of Nazarick Great Tomb, now there is someone that could and will fight us, and defeat us they will, be careful you all" then his voice drop in intensities "and stay safe"

With that he teleport out, leaving the Guardian to mull over the severity of the situation. During the war they are the strongest force, winning battle against their enemy left and right but they also loses battles, either against those accursed Heavenly Host or dammed Admiral Board. The war is pretty much draw toward stand still as not one of them manage to win against the other.

Many have bitter memory about being killed and resurrected and then send directly to the frontline again to aid their troops again either the blinding holy light of paradise or unending tide of Deth Fleets or both if you get bad luck.

Meanwhile with Ainz he just plop into his bed, tiredly let's hope they get my massage clear this time, especially Demiurge he trust them, but they dint know anything outside of their lore about Luther and that alone is enough to cause another war and he don't need it right now.

Maybe I try contact her after a little bit of rest, dealing with them is enough to drain me, heh never thought I will tired as undead overlord Ainz don't sleep as much as he just calming his mind and enter a state of metal off mode to speak, he discover this after the fiasco with mind controlled shalltear over.

(9Liiiiiiiineeeeee break0)

The Deth Fleets

The Black Death

Luther sitting on her office with small stack of paper on each side (thank bloody fucking goodness gracious for this gift) she already finish all of her work for now and now ponder on how best to defuse the situation without breaking her character while thinking how to communicate with momonga, suffice to say even with her super old intellect she still can't find the solution for it.

Massage not working, Light Code is no go, Dark Code is too short range, Morse is not working, and sending runner is going to get them killed, and while relocating the entire Fleets toward them so they at least listen is tempting it probably going to end with big war while she thinking how to do it the door open and Lumia enter with clear tired expression on her face. Due to sudden recall by Luther many Admiral work and task get mess up and must be corrected again, more over on Lumia and Crux case because they dealing with the increasingly suspicious nobles and patriarchs of the holy kingdom, Luther have no idea why but from what she read apparently Lumia do 'something' there that alert them.

Luther only glance her and back to her deep thinking, Lumia just sit on the chair in front of Luther and while her expression clearly showing how tired she is, she not going to let it too much of a problem, especially when she talking toward Luther "something matter to me Lumia?"

"Not as much Grand Admiral, only couple of curious insect and some interesting specimen to gather"

That make Luther look at her with raise eyebrow "you still doing that request from Richard? Why?"

"He promise me few thing that I want and divert some unwanted attention from me"

"Listmen then" Luther once again back to her deep thinking pose "tell me Lumia, why you here and not on the capital? I heard Mirai make great progress there"

"*sigh* Nazarick sending agents from north, force me and Crux to limit our involvement" this get Luther attention "Mirai being dealing with increasing probing from them and pressure from the patriarchs to expand her network, I also heard rumor about monster attacking the caravan near the north, probably Nazarick"

"that is a problem" Luther close her eyes and for couple of minute there only sound of shuffling from the upper deck "continue as usual, I'm sending some assassin on your disposal and couple of chest for negotiation, I want progress Lumia, Nazarick is here and I don't want to left with only half functioning economy" Luther said without even opening her eyes.

Lumia only sigh and nod before standing and exiting the room, before she close the door Luther said something to her "oh Lumia please tell Cole I want more tea, this time DON'T make it taste like wet sand"

"Of course Grand Admiral"

With that Luther is left alone again, ever since that day Nazarick agent have been monitoring and gathering Intel on her agent movement and, if there opportunity, disrupt her orders and operation, especially Mirai operation. It got so bad that the crown suspected something amiss on their territory, thank fucking goodness Lumia manage to redirect some of those attention to somewhere else, but little success from dispelling patriarch suspicion.

You better try to reprimand this momonga, I can't hold the fleets forever, and sooner or later they, and me, will want fucking revenge her 'vacation' are cut short due to the issue, leaving her companion on the capital city of Re-Eztize to do her thing while she here trying to hold hordes of undead from going berserker.

And with her back to the fleets so too her work back to her desk (curse you paperwork, curse you to oblivion) she been tied to the flagship, solving few issue and directing/staling the entire fleets. Unlike Sorcerer Kingdom, the fleets have no fix position, no imperial territory and no international recognition so they all, technically free men and could do whatever they want and go wherever they want. This cause a lot of headache for Luther as she thinking how to contacted momonga while not accidently issuing fleets wide order to attack.

Currently she try few method and failed while Richard is definitely progressing on it research she have common sense to not include that mad thing on her own personal agenda what else, what else I can try. On the corner of her eyes she spotted a paper detailing the new dungeon system on flagships, including Black Death and she read the sentence about two human prisoner on her mercy down below because of her order.

Ah yes those two, what can I do with them? Richard obviously want to experiment with them and I don't want to beginning to hear screaming from the fleets, no sir. I maybe have no feeling for humankind but I be dammed if I turn into insane overlord, hell-bent on destruction of the world, that just seemingly a bad idea while thinking about it she suddenly remember one thing that they could do harmlessly and without risk of them escaping or anything you know, I always wonder, how tasty blood directly from living human.

Beside she need a drink after thinking how best handle the situation with Nazarick, all those bloody mental image and conflicting psyche and heart is definitely no good for her mental health

Later

POV shift

After days, weeks, moths? She don't know passing of time here, what with dilapidated halls, no windows, and same old cell on her is get difficult to tell how long has she been here after she and her brother get capture by these strange undead creature, who dint pounce on her but ignoring her. She have a bit of experience with undead and this is completely throw her off.

Back to the preset, she and her brother have been escort/dragged from their cell down to this dark foreboding halls, they already pass the cells area and into seemingly common area because there a lot of bodies moving around

And they all undead

It send shiver down her spine, a necromancer have two choices on their undead, it was either numerous weak skeleton or single powerful undead. But what she see in the hall is undead zombie with more than basic skill and movement and more than she could counts high level undead wandering the halls. It disturb her, for that mean this is a fairly large cult if they could field this many necromancer to sustain this many undead

Right?

Her brother keep silent and glare at their captor, an interesting undead vampire to be sure. From what she could feel he must be true vampire, his magic aura is shades of dark red almost like old blood. True vampire are territorial monster, only their zombies and brides are allowed around them and they are strong, very strong.

It make her head spin, there too much unknown, she maybe only study undead as side project but she know enough to point on that this entire situation and undead surround them is just wrong, how could they just ignores-

"We here"

They stop at imposing black double door with engrave picture of what look like undead overrun a city with flying ships? At the back and at the top there is some kind of symbol. But before she could ponder anymore the door is open and the thing behind her stole her breath

Row upon row of fully armor undead warrior, their armor glow with magic rune that she could clearly see is more that decoration, magic and power seem to swirl around them and each of them carry weapon that she could feel is massively enchanted. But what caught her and her brother attention is the far back on the room.

Sitting on the throne made out of some kind of magical stone, because there no way that many magical aura could be originating from one person. Her eyes always have this special abilities to see the magical aura around people and object, that abilities made her prime target for cults and rogue mages and to protect her, her brother join the church even thought he could avoid conscription by being merchant he chose to volunteer to protect her, and she join in with him shortly after.

The aura she see is massive, the color and size of it is imaginable, she have no doubt that have to do with various items and enchantments because there no way that much magic could be crammed into one person, undead or not. The person is a vampire from what she could see and extremely powerful one if the aura she see is anything to go by. The figure is definitely female with the face and the eyes gods what are those her eyes is black and red and hold power, not to mention the feeling she got from her, pure malice. She have no idea how something could be so evil. The figure wear multiple layer of coats and wear some kind of hate and even then her clothe is strange as their captor.

The figure see them and smile, exposing her pearly fang

And Alice and her brother gulp

MEANWHILE

Mirai is not having a good time, ever since Nazarick everything becoming too much of annoyance. Caravan raid, spy on corner of her eyes, and the ever pressure of the patriarch is really grind on her nerve. She already see the spike on convert operation against her and the fact that all that spy she caught give the same answer really dint relieve the pressure but adding it.

'The Demon King order them to do it' she already decipher that this demon king is just Demiurge with mask on, she have no idea why but if he want the world to hate him then fine by her. Currently she resting on one of many common room on her flagship, her flagship is consider the most normal one and the most bland, not that she complaining or anything, but having some semblance of normality is great on her mind.

Unfortunally normality is synonym with bland and boring on most of commodores, so her commodores usually just spend their time playing card or gambling, it was okay until they start gambling their forces and she put her foot down. She have to left her business on holy kingdom to come here for couple of days due to increase on hostile presence from the north and need to gather few items from the fleets and she could only hope that nothing bad happen to her work while she away, yes she have Lumia and Crux to help maintain her cover but she can't just leave them alone for too long.

*gulp* "I fucking hate them" mumble Mirai as she drink wine on the couch on the room, the tension is there, accumulate from all the 'shit' she must endure from the holy kingdom and now Nazarick, and by grand admiral she going to relive herself. By getting drunk

Unfortunally being undead kind of cut off your ability to getting drunk, she still could taste it and feel it burned her throat but not getting drunk. That mean bottle after bottle she drink to just ease her burden, not that it help on any meaningful way.

Especially with the newest report she get from her agent all across the kingdom, mortal or not. Strange monster movement with magical signature and more than few agent disappear only to appear dead shortly after, yep it Nazarick Mirai is one of three Admiral who got assigned to frontline combat role so she know Nazarick movement when she see one and from what she know apparently they completely focus on her operation.

She could only grunt in displeasure at that news, she already regretting putting her own name as the official merchant name for her product and it biting her on the ass. She could already see, they target the most obvious connection to the fleet, her merchant, that mean she going to get more work dump on her due to this shit.

"Let's hope Crux and Lumia can stand the pressure before I back because I certainly can't!" *gulp*

MEANWHILE

"Fuck"

"Fuck indeed sister"

Crux and Lumia sitting on some couch in one of common room on their mansion. "Please tell me you joking, please tell me" Lumia say with obvious distress on her voice.

"This is no joke, current Nazarick attention is us and Mirai so the fleets give us new set of-"

"NO, I REFUSE TO HEAR IT!"

"Order-"

"AAAAAAAAAAA FUCK YOU NAZARICK, FUCK YOU TO OBLIVION"

"To confuse and distract Nazarick while the fleets prepare"

"Prepare my ass, the Grand Admiral only send us those… thing to help us from getting bump fuck by them"

"And we do get 'bump fuck' by them sis, you can't just ignore the fact that we need this to just getting through this month"

Lumia grimace, she is official noble that 'own' Mirai trade and subsequent wealth, but Nazarick sapper is making it hard to make some profit and she have explicit order, not just from Mirai but also from Listmen to not ruin Mirai progress, it was easier said than done on this bloody case.

Crux ever stone face remain cold but inside she too grimace at it, while Lumia dealing with the upper class, she is dealing with the lower class, including Merchants and bandit and oh boy does she want to slice them open with her halberd. They keep talking and threating her to give up her possession or intimidate her with disastrous result but they just keep coming, it really grind her gear and the only thing that make her keep her cool is that her sister must dealing with nobles and she know that Lumia hate noble very much.

"But request loan from them will only get us more trouble, not to mention excuse for them to block our network"

"Yes but it also give us the boost we need to get out of this negative and stabilize our own network"

Both of them sat in silence for a while before Lumia signing heavily "get me some paper and ink, I have couple of letter I need to make and one very strong worded letter to Mirai please"

"Of course mistress"

And with that they back on their routine of mistress-servant girl. While Lumia getting ready to make the letter, Crux in the meantime after fetching the paper and ink for Lumia, decide to make her move early. As she getting ready to go the market she grab a paper and write something down before folding it and slip it on her pocket and with that she grab her usual basket and out she go from the side door of the mansion.

Both of them know that Nazarick is testing the water but that doesn't mean the fleets is sat idle, they already knew the new order issue from Grand Admiral to all other Admiral and the erratic movement of the scout ship above the bay indicating the fleets next destination.

Crux could only hope that she have enough time finish having her tea before this

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