Chapter 3: Changes
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
{Message/Notifications}
[Spells/Abilities/Items]
Location change/emphasis
Disclaimer: I do not own Overlord or anything in it except for my OC Tiras Thaddeus Aziz
The Great Tomb of Nazarick/9th floor/Tiras' Room
Tiras and Ulbert were laying sprawled out on the bed next to each other.
"That… was… amazing." Ulbert said whilst panting.
"Yeah… It was." Tiras responded, also panting.
Tiras and Ulbert had spent most of the night together, they had just stopped having finally exhausted their stamina. Being Devils they didn't need to eat or sleep but they could still get exhausted.
They took the time to catch their breath.
"So are you in the mood for refreshments? I know we don't need to eat but we could still get something to enjoy and help restore our stamina." Tiras asked.
"Sure thing, but what are we gonna report to Momonga in the meeting?" Ulbert asked.
They had just under an hour before they were supposed to meet up with Momonga in the conference hall where they would all report the findings of their experiments.
"Easy, we say that our bodies can endure hours of vigorous exercise. We're also going to be testing if food can still give status effects and buffs. It shouldn't take us that long to eat so maybe we could also experiment a bit more with our magic. So in the end I'd say we have a sufficient amount of information for the meeting." Tiras responded confidently.
"You always were good at bullshiting for meetings and reports." Ulbert deadpanned.
"I'll take that as a compliment." Tiras responded "I'll go find a maid to bring us some breakfast."
Tiras got out of bed, took a quick shower and got dressed, he then went to leave his room to find a maid only to discover Yuri was waiting at the entrance to his room.
Yuri bowed "Good morning Tiras-sama. Do you or Ulbert-sama need anything?" Yuri asked.
"Yes actually, Me and Ulbert would like some breakfast. Oh, and we'll also need a maid to clean my bedroom after me and Ulbert go to meet with Momonga." Tiras informed Yuri.
"I'll inform Sous-chef about your breakfast right away and I'll be sure some of the homunculus maids clean your bedroom after you leave." Yuri said before departing.
Tiras closed the door and decided to practice more with his magic. He had only practiced the a few of his regular spells and songs the other day in the arena, so he took a seat on one of the lounge chairs and equipped his lyre. As a bard he could string the effects of several spells into a single song. Effects applied through a bard's song lasted longer than if you cast them regularly, they even lasted longer than if you cast them with the [Extend magic] metamagic effect. The tradeoff was that it took longer to cast. Bards could string together all kinds of songs to apply different effects however it was somewhat limited for balance. For example none of the effects you applied could belong to the same tier of magic unless it was 5ht tier or below, so if you used a 9th tier healing spell you couldn't add on a 9th tier magic shield. These limitations made bards hard to play starting out, but if you stuck with it you could become rather powerful. Tiras' favorite song back in Yggdrasil was his [Song of Renewal X] as its name implies it was the 10th version of [Song of Renewal]. It applied the 10th tier healing spell [Mass Grand Healing], the 9th tier shield spell [Bulwark of Hope], and the 8th tier defence buff [Mass Greater Magic Armor]. Tiras' 2nd favorite song was his [Song of Chaos X]. It applied the 10th tier summoning spell [Summon: Aspect of Sin], the 9th tier fear spell [Mass Terror], and the 8th tier Illusion spell [Mass Enemies Abound]. Tiras decided to see if since they weren't in Yggdrasil anymore if the same limitations still applied to his songs. He was extremely happy to discover that the limitations no longer applied to his songs, he was however not happy to discover that using several spells of the same tier above 6th tier in the same song further increased the cast time.
After a few minutes Ulbert came in having also showered and gotten dressed, he took a seat next to Tiras just in time as breakfast was brought in. They were happy that food still gave buffs/effects. As they ate Tiras explained his discoveries about his songs to Ulbert. After they ate they practiced/experimented a bit more before leaving for the meeting. As they left Tiras' room several homunculus maids entered to clean the bedroom.
The Great Tomb of Nazarick/Conference Hall
Tiras and Ulbert were rather surprised by what they saw when they entered the conference hall. It was Momonga wearing Low tier (By Yggdrasil standards) Warrior gear. A set of adamantite full plate armor and he had two a adamantite greatswords on his back
"Hey guys! Our gear isn't limited by our classes anymore and we can learn new things!" Momonga shouted enthusiastically at them. Momonga then went on to explain how he had discovered this and how after discovering this he had spent the rest of his time training with Cocytus. "I've already learnt enough to be at least a level 30 warrior." Momonga said
"So are you level 130 now? Ulbert asked.
"No, I haven't leveled up at all but training has improved my stats which has allowed me to equip more kinds of armor, weapons, and use more skills." Momonga explained.
"So how do you know you haven't leveled up?" Tiras asked "We can't bring up our character info."
"Actually we can, just think about your levels and stats and you'll see it." Momonga responded.
Tiras and Ulbert did as instructed and sure enough it worked, they could see their levels and stats. They were surprised however to discover that their endurance stats had increased.
"Woah! My endurance stat is 77 now instead of 50!" Tiras exclaimed.
"Really? Mine went from 40 to 67." Ulbert added.
"What? I was doing endurance training with Cocytus for hours and my endurance stat only went from 40 to 50. What the hell were you two doing that increased your endurance stat so much?!" Momonga asked.
Ulbert was blushing, however because of his fur you couldn't tell.
"Vigorous exercise" Tiras deadpanned
Ulbert struggled to contain his laughter and hid his face behind his hands.
"What the hell does that mean?" Momonga asked.
Wanting to change the subject Ulbert spoke up before Tiras could reply. "We learned some things to, Tiras' bard songs don't have the same limitations anymore." Ulbert then went on to explain to Momonga what Tiras had explained to him during breakfast. "Also food still gives buffs and applies effects."
"Really?! That means if we ensured that you were properly defended you could use a song that used all 10th tier spells!" Momonga exclaimed
Ulbert sighed in relief having successfully steered the conversation away from what happened last night.
"The NPCs can level up if they aren't already level 100. We can also add more floors to Nazarick and create new NPCs! However we don't use [Data Crystals] anymore instead we use Gold." Momonga explained.
They spent hours in the conference hall discussing all the possibilities of what they had learned. They decided to give all the NPCs training to increase the strength of Nazarick and also started discussing how they could attempt to gain more Gold to add more Floors and NPCs to Nazarick
They spent an entire week experimenting with all the different features of Yggdrasil and discovered that none of the limitations from Yggdrasil applied anymore except for those on World Class Items.
They also discovered that they could resurrect the NPCs without spending Gold, instead you could resurrect them by simply using a resurrection spell. They discovered this due to a training accident. They started training the homunculus maids to level them up.
After their week of experimentation they decided it was time to send out scouts to find more about the new world they were in.
A day after sending out scouts they got a report about how they had discovered the burnt ruins of a village as well as a road. Following the road the scouts found the fortress city of E-Rantel.
After receiving the report about the city they sent in Shadow Demons to gather information. They also asked the Shadow Demons to try and find a map of the surrounding regions.
The Shadow Demons successfully found a map and sent it back to Nazarick. Using the map from E-Rantel and the maps their scouts had been drawing they found out that The Great Tomb of Nazarick was within the borders of the Re-Estize Kingdom. They also learned about the neighboring countries, the neighboring countries were The Baharuth Empire, the Slane Theocracy, The Draconic Kingdom, The Roble Holy Kingdom, and the Argland Council State.
They learned about the Mages Guild and the Adventurers Guild as well as their rankings.
A few days later they got a report from the Shadow Demons in E-Rantel that the city was being overrun by low tier undead. Making use of the [Mirror of Remote Viewing] they watched as the city fell to these weak low tier undead.
"How can such low tier undead be such a problem for a city?" Momonga asked
"Maybe the inhabitants of this world are just that weak." Ulbert suggested.
"It sure seems that way." Said Tiras "Even the higher ranked adventurers are have trouble with these low tier undead."
They watched as the fortress city of E-Rantel was turned into a dead city filled with the undead.
Tiras got an idea "Hey guys since the city has fallen to the undead that means that Re-Estize doesn't own it anymore and that it is up for grabs for anyone that can take it right?"
"I guess but what would we do with a city?" asked Momonga.
"We could start our own kingdom and use it as a fake base. We'd also be able to make use of the undead for farming. We could then put the crops we grow into the [Exchange Box] to get more Gold." Tiras explained.
Momonga adopted his thinking pose "Hmm it would be useful to have a fake base to lure possible enemies to and mass farming crops to put into the [Exchange Box] is a good idea. But why would we want to make a kingdom? Momonga asked.
"Because if we make a country we would have more land claimed as our own to work with as well as getting access to more resources and manpower. Whilst the inhabitants of this world seem weak they could still prove useful." Tiras said.
"What do you think of this plan Ulbert?" Momonga asked.
"I agree with Tiras on this one" said Ulbert.
"Very well then, we shall form our own kingdom!" Momonga exclaimed.
They started making plans to take E-Rantel and forge their new kingdom.
A/N:
And finally the story takes its first major changes.
Yes because they spent a week experimenting, they didn't save Carne Village. They also didn't interfere in the undead event in E-Rantel, instead they made use of it to gauge the strength of the new world's inhabitants.
Yes they can still learn and grow, but the max level is still 100 so whilst they can't get new classes they can still make use of gear and abilities from those classes as long as they have the proper stats.
Also the stats aren't exact. For example let's say you were a level 1 character all the stats you put points into as you level would be zero
EXAMPLE:
Stats:
HP (0)
= MP (0)
= Phy. Atk (Based off Strength, Agility, and Gear)
= Phy. Def (Based off Endurance, Agility, and Gear)
= Mag. Atk (Based off Intelligence and Gear)
= Mag. Def (Based off Intelligence, Endurance, and Gear)
= Strength (0)
= Perception (0)
= Endurance (0)
= Charisma (0)
= Intelligence (0)
= Agility (0)
= Luck (0)
Let's use the HP stat.
HP (0) = 100 HP, Base HP is 100. To figure out your HP after putting points into it would be however many points you put into HP Plus the points you put into Endurance multiplied by 100
So HP (60) Endurance (50) is (60 + 50) * 100 = 11,000 HP + any extra from your gear.
MP works in a similar way but is the points you put into MP + Intelligence * 100 then add on any extra from your gear
Strength, Endurance, Intelligence, and Agility help decide your Physical and Magical Attack/Defense along with your gear.
Perception helps you notice hidden players, NPCs, traps, etc.
Charisma helps you get better prices with merchants as well as offer more diplomatic options.
Luck increases the odds of getting rare drops from mobs.
Spells:
= [Mass Grand Healing] an extremely powerful healing spell capable of healing all allies within range
= [Bulwark of Hope] A magical shield that increases your defense for every ally within range
= [Mass Greater Magic Armor] A defense buff that gives a large boost to your defense stats
= [Summon: Aspect of Sin] Randomly summon one of the seven aspects of sin (Wrath, Greed, Lust, Envy, Pride, Sloth, or Gluttony)
= [Mass Terror] Makes affected target flee from anything that registers as Hostile.
= [Mass Enemies Abound] Affected targets see Illusionary enemies which register as Hostile.
So let me know what you guys think of my Story so far.