Chapter 14: The Return of Gazef: Part I

A Few days Prior

Gazef threw off his sheets, he had another nightmare about the carnage of Kattssee Plains, for those would had survived it was old news. Most healed mentally and moved on with their lives even though they were never right again, other men were broken beyond any help. Emperor Ainz after the War of the Kingdoms or the First World War as Gazef like to think of it, had all the men rounded up from institutions or their families and taken away on carts. They disappeared for a weeks and people feared the worst and when they came back, they were completely better as if the war never happened. Many praised the new Emperor if he could break a man he could most likely heal him as well, and now everyone in the world were his citizens everyone would be treated fairly, and hope spread across the land.

Gazef did not know this of course he was told by Climb who told him it took him several years to get over what happened that day. After his resurrection he was told by the Demon King that he had his body switched when they gave it to his nation. He then took it and preserved it along with many other bodies of interest of people his master killed that he had made positive remarks about. Demiurge took this as a test of his master's will that he would like to have these people resurrected one day and took the previous perception and then finally acted upon them when Momonga perfected his power to resurrect anyone.

His felt like he had been drinking the entire night before, his head was spinning, and he felt like he was going to vomit. He could not be sure if it was the overload of information he had been told in the last twenty four hours or the side effects of being brought back to life. He looked at his body no new scars and his muscles had to no signs of atrophy even though he did feel a little weak. He reached for a cup of water on his nightstand and chugged it down, he then looked outside to see the sun was up and by how high in the sky it was around noon. He could not remember the last time he slept in so late, but that was not was bothering him, what bothered him what was next to come of his fate. He could not say he was to upset about the fate of the Kingdom, with King being Climb who had no real power and the Queen Renner who would have been his pick for the old king's successor. They kept their semi-independence through vassalage to the Empire of Nazarick but all the nobles being vampires? Not only that but they all volunteered to give up their humanity, it just seemed to devious to him but he had learned not to say a word. He looked down at his new "accessory" his necklace with the royal signate of Ainz Ooal Gown a symbol showing that her was the Lord Emperor's personal property as well as a surveillance device listening to everything he said.

He got up and put on his pants and shirt and as if someone was watching his every move right when Gazef started to walk towards the door there was four knocks on the door. He cleared his throat and said, "Yes, you may enter!". Immediately the door opened and a Gorgeous blonde in a maid outfit with a uniform in her hands walked up to Gazef eyeing him up and down thinking about what a tasty snack he would be. "Greeting my name is Solution and I am one of the current Emissaries of the Empire stationed in the Kingdom Vassal State," Solution said with a smile as Gazef looked down at what she was holding in her hands she continued, "This is the official military uniform of the Empire of Nazarick, the patch on this sleeve shows your rank and what part of the Empire you serve the other sleeve is the Official seal of Nazarick! Now that you understand you will get dressed." Gazef took the clothing and took it back to his bed and then looked back to see the women in the maid outfit standing there watching his every move. "Well no reason to feel bashful now if she wants to watch I guess that is her job it not unusual for royalty to be dressed," he thought as he disrobed and began to put on his new uniform and just like he thought when it came time to put on the shirt and tie, Solution had to step in and show him several times how to tie his tie until he could do it himself. Finally he put on his jacket, he noticed it went down to the back of his knees and noted that this was something a noble would wear not a common soldier also his rank and designation were missing from his uniform.

"Miss, Solution was it? I have two questions do all soldiers in the Empire wears these uniforms and my second question is my rank and designation are missing, why is that? Gazef asked as politely as he could. Solution looked back at him and said, "Yes, the black leather Jackboots, black pants, overcoat, and tie along with the grey shirt are all standard issue for all recruits and officers in the Imperial Army, second your insignia's are missing because the Supreme Being or your Lord Emperor had not chosen them for you yet, you will make your grand re-entrance at the 8th Annual Emperor's Games where you will show off your martial arts prowess that impressed him so much so many years ago." Solution finished talking while signaling him to the go out the door. All of this information hit Gazef like a ton of bricks he did not know what to make of it; Emperors Games, Assigned Rank? He needed to find a familiar face and fortunately that is what he found when he went out of his room went down an impossibly long hallway he did not recognize, took four turns right and one left turn and made it to two grand double doors that had two men in the same uniforms that he had on. They open the two doors to find Queen Renner at the head of the table with King Climb next to him he was looking for Brian but did not find him nor did he see Momonga or the Demon King much to his relief.

Climb shot right up and said, "Gazef it is so good to see you!, as they embraced each other with a hug. Gazef pushed Climb away and said, "Look at you! Older than me by what almost ten years and still look younger than me you always did have a baby face!" Climb looked down and said, "Well I did but as you might have forgot we do not age, it was in the decree of the Emperor that the first part of his Kingdom last 10,000 years and to do that you need immortal leaders like us, rumor has it for those in the Adventure group, Church of Nazarick, and Military there is a new race changing program that is completely voluntary to those who wish to gain more power but that enough gossip get over her and sit down we are just about to have lunch." Climb said as they both sat down at the spectacular table that could easily seat 50 people but it today it only hosted three.

Gazef watched as a steak with vegetables with a side salad and a dessert cake along with a glass of wine was poured for him, while what looked like red wine was poured into their cups after that plated with a sort of red pudding in a bowl that sort of looked like soup was given to them. He watched as his masked friend drank his first cup and tapped the table for another from the thickness of what was in the cup and the residue it left behind it was most likely blood. Gazef did not want to think about it and looked down at his appetizing meal and surprised himself by eating everything he was given and asked for seconds. As he was starting his second steak the doors to the dining room flew open and a old man with a beard down to his feet came in, Gazef noticed that he wore the same metal that he did. "Resurrection especially after such a long time can have some strange effects that I am only getting to learn of late due to the prince's powers because what happened yesterday had never happened before in all of history." The old man huffed and puffed as he came in the room Gazef thought it must of been that really long hallway that did the old man in. "My only regret is that I was not there but I was in service of the God Emperor but Prince Momonga said that I will be in charge of Gazef and can study the aftereffects all I want." He finished spitting out saying as if he was about to collapse as he took his hat off to wipe the sweat of his face. Climb and the Queen both began to stand and Gazef followed suite but Fluder motioned for them to sit back down as he plopped unceremoniously down in his chair and called for a glass of water.

Climb looked over to Gazef who had a look if he had no idea who this man was and leaned over to him and said, "This is the Lord Emperor's one of his oldest allies since he awoke let me introduce you to Fulder Paradyne Sapato or also known as Tri-Arts Fluder the most powerful human mage of all time!" Gazef looked over to give him a proper greeting but Fluder was not interested he just waved and took his water and started to drink it. After he was finished he started to speak, "I am more interested in you I am here to see if my God Prince was able to bring you back with any level loss as well as any type of medical issues may arise after being dead for so long you are in short a miracle of magic there is no way you should be alive and here you are!" He said as he slammed the table and started to laugh. Gazef had heard of Fluder as the magical ace of the Old Empire and being the top swordsman in the world they might had to have to battle but he was more concerned about being treated as a science experiment by this old man.

"After we are done here we will take a portal to my lab, do so test you probably meet Lord Jircniv or whatever his title is then you will be given the finest weapons and armor available to in the Empire's Military and then you will train for two days and then show your skills at the Colosseum." Fluder said as he began messing with a puzzle toy that Lord Ainz gave him as a birthday present a few years back. It was just a toy but Fluder was certain there was some certain deeper magical meaning to it. Climb leaned in and filled in more information on the current affairs of the Empire, "Right now Prince Momonga, Emperor Ainz's son has reached the age of 16 and is taking a tour of the Known world it started in old E-Rantel then skipped were the Slane Theocracy was as it just farms now then went to the Dragonic Kingdom because the old queen died but had a son with Sebas and his coronation tomorrow. Then they are going to the Empire to be honored with games and that is where you are going to meet him, any questions?"

"What do the Dragon Lords think of this?" Climb shifted his seat this was not a good subject right now, "The Republic submitted but only because the dragon lords thought the Empire would not last but that has proven to be wrong. Most of the time Dragon Lords see themselves above the affairs of mortals but some think that there will be a final showdown between the Dragon Lords and the Empire. It was revealed that Sebas was Dragon Lord no stronger that a Dragon Lord so most think the most Dragon Lords have fled across the sea and the ones who have stayed will pledge their loyalty but no one knows. Finally Queen Renner spoke up and said, "Darling you speak to much let our guest enjoy his meal." Climb smiled and nodded, he knew he had said too much and was in dangerous waters. "Anyways after you receive your title and station you must contact me with the Empires magic traveling for the Elite takes minutes so I will have to come and see you alright?" Climb said with a smile. "How can I say no to a King?" Gazef said jokingly and finished his wine.

Climb stood up with Gazef and they gave each other another firm handshake as Gazef turned and and walked toward Fluder who had finally gotten flustered with the plastic 3-D puzzle that the Emperor gave him and stood up and escorted Gazef out of the room. When they both left the room Climb flopped into the chair a let out a large sigh, Princess Renner had kept her eyes straight and did not engage in any of the previous conversation except to interject when she thought he was getting close to speaking blasphemy against the Empire. With a cold tone she said, "You know that he is no more than the Emperor's new toy to add to his "collection". The princess said then took a drink finishing off her chalice signaling for more. Everyone knew it from the Quagoa that lived and dug the tunnels under the cities, to the dragons that provided transport. Then there was the case of the new species found on the frontier that were split up and had some sent into the cities and the rest annexed into the Empire but there was an exception of all the species that bowed its head to the Emperor all of the greatest warriors of their race would become his personal property and added to his collection. His collection was a Hero Class Adventurer group that had no peer that had no equal that went by Nameless that only the upper class of the society knew about because they went on direct orders from Emperor to do work that no one else was up to the task. "I think you are right as I overheard that he is to be a gift from the Prince to the Emperor, but I think it will be good for Gazef as of now Nabe is the only human in that group and I think it will be good for all of us to have a human in that group." The princess looked over and smiled at him, "You do realize that you are not human or do you so easily forget?" Climb rolled his eyes he might be a vampire but he is still a human he thought to himself.

Gazef follow Fluder to a special room that had a large stone with writing all around it and then two large obelisks on both sides there was what looked like a panel on the right side with a hooded figure standing by it. Fluder turned to the figure and said, " To the Old Empire capital palace please." a bony hand stretched out to the panel a light began to emit from it, then the letters on the stone tablet lit up and lastly the obelisks began to glow a reddish pink and then arc out pure red magical energy until the streams of power began to swirl and make a portal in the space between them. Fluder looked over and said, "Thank you!" and began to walk up the stairs up to the portal and then turned around a waved to Gazef to follow. Gazef walked up even with Fluder as the both made it to the top of the steps to the slab and then Gazef closed his eyes walked forward through the portal. He opened his eyes to see that he was in a room that was almost exactly the same but the walls were stone instead of wood where he was previously. They walked down the stairs and walked through to doors for Gazef to find he was in a completely different building that was in a different part of the world by the architecture and dress he knew he was in the old empire.

Gazef followed Fluder like a lost puppy, he was completely out of his element at one moment he was in the Kingdom and the next he was in the Empire his old sworn enemy as of a few days ago to him. He rounded the corner to find himself standing in the throne room Fluder walked up to the man sitting on the throne and said, "Greetings Jir this is Gazef Stronoff the former warrior captain of ….well you know the rest." As Fluder pulled out a handkerchief and wiped off his face and caught his breath. Jinciriv stood up and walked over to Stronoff and grabbed him by both arms and said, "Gazef as I live and breath welcome back to the land of the living you know when I hear your were back I had a hard time believing it but here you are walk with with me." He motioned with his hands for Gazef to follow him and clapped his hands and two servants brought Gazef and Jircniv a drink, Gazef tasted it and it was was one of the best things he had ever tasted.

Jircniv looked over to see the expression on Gazef's face and said, "Taste good right?" Gazef said, "Yes, yes it is!" Jircniv smiled and said, "I remember the first time I meet the God Emperor or at that time the Sorcerous King and tasted this drink I would pay anything to have that feeling again. Anyways you can call me Jinx and I hope you will consider me a friend, I was one of the living God's first Vassals but when I thought he died I rebled and when I found out it was all a trick to lure out his enemies and start the Great War I rectified my mistake by becoming a spy for the Emperor and finding myself in his good graces. As punishment for my little discretion the Empire was absorbed in the the Empire of Nazarick and I was stripped of being Emperor and given the political title of Tribune. I still rule over these lands but I am no longer considered of noble blood." They came to the end of the hall where he pushed open two doors and what Gazef saw could only say was a King's harem, Gazefs eyes shot wide open as he saw dozens of naked and scantily dressed women drinking and laughing. Some were naked in pools and others were on swings laughing, Gazef looked over at Jircniv as the tribune put up his hands innocently and said, "Now I know what you are thinking but they are not slaves, slavery was outlawed years ago believed it or not they are all from the temple volunteers that came here to meet and please the Gazef Stronoff the man mentioned in the scripture of Nazarick! The Emperor's friend that was fated to fight in battle and to tragically die refusing resurrection and saving the lives of countless men!"

Gazef looked at Jircniv as if he had just lost his mind, "I was just a warrior who died in battle among hundreds of thousands and nothing more how can I be a hero?" Jircniv looked down and nodded patting his back and said, "I understand it seems like it was just like yesterday for you, it might as well been but it was decades ago. The church of Nazarick mentions you twice once when the God Emperor saved your life and again on the field of the Kattesse Planes were you fought in battle and lost. Winning his respect which made him call of the rest of the attack saving countless lives." Gazef looked at him in surprise he remembered Ainz saying that if he did not bow down to him he would kill everyone but he refused due to his own pride so he honored his deal even though he did not. Jircniv seeing that he was moved had to seal the deal. "Then as your lifeless body started to fall to the ground he grabbed your body lowering it to the ground and said, "Fair well Gazef I never hated you." Jircniv said as he acted out the movements. "Although you were considered an enemy of sorts you are also considered on of hero and are celebrated as the Sword Saint of the Tomes of Nazarick and of late rumors came started in the temples that you were coming back! So my friend you have a lot of lost time to make up for enjoy yourself before you start training!" Jircniv said as he snapped his finger and two women grabbed both of his arms and pulled him into the room and closed the door behind him.

As the Jircniv started to walk back down the hallway and a women came out of the shadows and said, "Tribune I have lived up to my deal what of you?" "Yes, yes you will get your money after one of once I get what I want have you made the preparations?" he said back. "Yes we have been giving the women that we have pick out drugs that will guarantee a male pregnancy and we have the other women are going to drug his wine and make sure they have sex." the women said, "And what of the woman? Jinciriv said. "She has agreed to become your wife and say he is your son." Jircniv smiled and said, "Perfect a wife and a male heir and then I get my title back was the deal. He walked back to his throne and put his necklace back on he learned he could keep it off for short times without anyone suspecting anything. Fluder was still standing there as Jircniv said, "Fluder did I mention the hair potion worked perfectly, look a full head of hair again how do you do it old man"

Meanwhile at the North Eastern Vassal State (formerly the City State Alliance)

Alabaster was humming her favorite song and smiling while she had her brides combing her hair and painting her nails. She was in the best of spirits, she had just received a personal invitation from Prince Momonga himself to go to the Emperors Games as his date. She received it from a personal message demon all the way from the Capital itself, normally she would not speak on equal terms with her brides but she was in the greatest of moods. "Do you think he will like this color...Velda wasn't it? The bride had perked up she had almost never been called by her name by her mistress whom she adored and thought was the image of beauty and grace. "Yes my mistress by the information we have gathered this is his favorite color, and might I add that you will make the perfect Queen when they announce your engagement!" Alabaster smiled and said, "Queen yes, that will be nice and I am sure that you two will be happy to move to the capital for awhile with me!" The three women started to laugh Alabaster had no friends so her two personal brides were the closest she had to celebrate with.

Suddenly the door was kicked open with her mother Shallteer standing at the entrance, "You bitch, you bitch, YOU BITCH!" She screamed as she shouted for the two brides to leave, they both scrambled out of the room as fast as they could as they knew the Queen was deadly when she was like this. She walked slowly towards the terrified Alabaster, with a document in her hand and said. "This is a report and do you know what it says, it says you were invited by Prince Momonga himself and guess what I had to learned about it from my informants and not from my own DAUGHTER!" Alabaster started to back away from her mother, scared while saying, "Mother I was going to tell you I just found out myself as she held up the invitation with a shaking hand." Shalltear grabbed Alabaster by the hair and dragged her over to her vanity and sat her down in a chair, "Poor Alabaster does not know how to fight! Shalltear said while pacing back and forth while Alabaster could see her in the reflection in the mirror. "Poor Alabaster only has her beauty that could be taken away from her at any time" Shalltear said as she dragged her finger nail down the side of her face gently enough not to damage her skin. "Everything you have I have given to you, do you think for a minute you could have had the prince with your old pethic short, ugly, body!

By this time tears were pouring down Alabaster's face, "No" she said. "No what?" Shalltear screamed back. "Nononono my queen" Alabaster sobbed. "You have that right! You should feel lucky if I had a mother like you then I would have been able to marry...oh never mind" Shalltear said as her anger turned to sadness and she then turn around and started toward the door. "I want you to spend the day in her and think about how much you owe me and I might let you go to the event tomorrow." She then left locking the door behind her, Alabaster looked in the mirror at her tear stained face and then panicked, "I must make myself beautiful for Momonga, he could never see me like this or he could love someone else, I must be perfect"

Alabaster started to powder her face to get rid of any traces of her tears, she thought about what her mother said and it was true, she did not know how to fight nor wanted to even learn. She was a lady through and through, when times were simpler she could remember her brother chasing her with snakes and other creatures he would find. For a true vampire such a disposition would be disgraceful she would suppose. She had never even turned into her true form no did she want to because it looked unsightly. Her mother never gave her a hard time about it but instead took her feminine qualities a taught her how to use those as a weapon. "A woman's looks and attitude can win wars." She would always tell her a story she read in the Supreme Beings Library about a long time ago in another world there was a women named Helen who was so beautiful she started a war when she was taken away from another king. The king flew into a rage and sacked the king's castle and killed the king and was ready to kill Helen but when she went to her chambers she was naked and the sight of her beauty made him change his mind and he took her as her queen again.

Alabaster loved this story as it made her feel like she could do anything and then her mother told her of her "purpose". When she first heard she was being groomed to be married to the God Emperor's son who was a God as well she was nervous, but when she saw the first picture scroll of him he was around her age. As time went by he gradually got older and older but with the weekly current pictures and the constant updates she felt like she knew him even though she had never met him. Puppy love, turned into true love and then to obsession as she saw herself as the perfect princess for him, a Noble of the Gown name and a direct descendant of Nazarick even though it was only half. She and her brother got a lot of grief from the Emissary's of Nazarick when they came to visit, they did not like her father at all as he would often be hunting or on a mission during the visits. They really did not like how timid she was and would often say, "It has to be her tainted blood, such a shame." She did not know what that meant until she was much older but never took offence to it.

She did like the kindly old man Fluder who would come and inspect the children and make sure they were growing as they were undead and should stay the same size but the Supreme Being cast a spell that she and her brother should grow to adulthood and then stop aging. She was always nervous when he came and he would do magic tricks to put her at ease a smile and stroke his beard and tell her that she was very special and not to listen to other people who said otherwise. Fluder was considered a sort of Gown family doctor for the children of Nazarick since they were so unique one of his duties was to become familiar with the biological makeup of the different species in Nazarick and then teach it to the best magicians in the University in the Capital where they would teach teachers to go out into the smaller cities and teach a local colleges.

Shalltear was in one of her moods again she called for some hard liquor and was drinking in her room. The same thought went around in her head, "If her creator was their then she could have learned the things she needed to capture Ainz's heart." It made her hate Peroroncino for leaving her to fend on her own, she was not like Albedo who hated her creator since the start for leaving, it hit her what she lost when she had children of her own. It was then when she realized how Lord Ainz treated her and the other guardians as children when they came to the world to learn and grow from there mistakes. She was always rash and when she met Brain she went into a sort of blood frenzy and before she knew it she was engaged to be married. She wanted to get out of it but she saw how happy her Lord Ainz was and everything had been set into motion, how could she stop it. Demiurge was definitely happy about the new asset and Aura was even happy for her and did not tease her at all. In fact her relationship with Aura had gotten way better before and after the marriage.

When she started to think about the wedding she began to weep with mixed emotions, this had been bottled up for too long and she needed to get it out before she did something rash again. As she was thinking about what she had done to Alabaster she cried even harder, if Peroroncino ever treated like that she would have been devastated. As she was crying as softly as possible she heard footsteps coming down the hall, Shalltear tried to gather herself up quickly but her condition betrayed her and the door opened. She grabbed her glass and threw it at the figure and screamed, "How dare you come in here unannounced!" because she thought it was a servant but it was Brian and he was fast enough to avoid the throw that would have killed a normal person and froze at the doorway. He took one look at Shalltear and started to walk out wanting nothing to do with what was happening. Shalltear spoke out, "No wait Brian can you come here for a second." Pausing as if pondering if he was going to run or not he walked toward her and stayed within arms distance. "Brain I messed up today and took my feelings out on Alabaster can you go and talk to her for me?" Shalltear asked. Surprised Brain said, "Yes that is not a problem I will go talk to her now." Brian turned around and started to walk out the door when Shalltear asked, "Back from your mission so soon it must have been a pretty weak tribe?" Brain turned his head and said, "Yes another disappointment but they do seem promising they seem to have a latent magical ability that might be able to cast up to third or fourth tier magic, they were a new species or rather seemed like the dragon-kin that worked in the coliseum in the tomb." Shalltear replied, "Well if there is any potential then Lord Ainz would definitely be interested, you may go now." Brain nodded and walked up the stairs and to Alabaster's room.

Back at the Old Empire Palace

Gazef woke up groggy in a different room than the day before he was searching his memories as it all was a little hazy, he remembered talking to Climb, then going to the Empire in that strange magical device and then he met Jincriv but that's when it got hard to remember. He was really concentrating even though he had throbbing headache. He finally remembered the women being taken into the room given drink and laughing and talking about his life and then wanting to excuse himself but things getting very fuzzy and that he must have gotten blackout drunk but that was not like him at all. That's when he realized what woke him up was a knock on the door and there was a second round of knocking that he finally responded to. Gazef got dressed and followed a guard into Fluder's study that looked more like a library with every book out of place, and in the mess of the stack of books sat Fluder at a desk looking over a book on resurrection.

Fluder told him to take off his shirt and listen to his heart told him to do some basic things like touch his toes, looked into his eyes and mouth."Well there is no tissue decay of any sort and you seem to be able to be physically active next we go to the gym." Fluder said as he stroked his beard in thought,They went to a outside sandpit that had swords, spears and all other sorts of weapons. " OK, now grab a sword of your liking and let me check your level." Fluder said as he rolled out a scroll, Gazef walked over and pick up and sword and stood in front of Fluder, "OK your level was here before you died now let check you level with a information spell, and well this is amazing!" Fluders eyes popped out and he did a little dance, which for Gazef he almost started laughing but he was to interested in what he was so excited about so he had to ask, "Well as you know most people lose several levels when they die but when the God Prince resurrected you that was not the case you are exactly how you were before you died!" Gazef knew of adventurers who died and had to work very hard to get there levels up but for a warrior like him he had no idea of the implications. Fluder marked some more things down on the scroll and then said, "That is all the information I needed the man from the coliseum is here, I am afraid the accommodations will not be a comfortable as you will be training for the next few days and be put in a cell until the Emperor sees you I hope you understand you will be treated with respect, I was promised that it just we cannot have you running away." Fluder smiled as two guards came and said, "Sir, you are to come with us for the games." Gazef nodded and went with the two men.

There he was processed and put into a cell where he was then escorted to the training grounds where he practiced his martial arts and swordplay, he quickly got the attention of everyone else as no one else was near his level. He followed the same routine for two days and as his name got out the amount of freedom he had increased as well. He trained like a madman getting his body in peak physical condition again to show off his skills he felt like it was the sword tournament that won him the favor of the king all over again. By the day of the tournament they did not even lock his cell anymore and he came and went as he pleased, all the guards would bow their heads as some of them had known men at the Kattssee Planes and knew how he saved many lives. He was told by one of the coordinators to follow him and wait in this room and that the God Emperor would be there soon. Gazef while seated noticed that he was nervous for the first time since he was about to fight the dark young and now he was about to meet the Emperor of the world and the man who killed him, he was very conflicted. Just as he was trying to sort out his feelings when he heard the familiar voice of of Ainz Ooal Gown and the door opened…..

Authors note:

Hey everyone I got to writing and realized that it was going to take two Chapters to get Gazef back into the story or else his grand entry would be no where near a good as I wanted it. Also my proofreader is out of town for a couple of weeks so sorry for the grammar issues they will eventually be cleaned up.

-UPDATE-

Just so you all know there are only going to be two more chapters and this book will be finished. I am going to wait a couple of months and see if the this book is received well and if it is I will write the next book Overlord Xgen: The Dragon Lord Hunt and The Floating City.