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The next day or whatever you call day in the Nethertower. Kelda enjoyed her own quarter she happily moved out of the main one which I used it had what was need at the minute, well I need to get some gold flowing to get more stuff the soon I conquer Nordberg the better. Putting my armour on minuses the helmet for the minute I went down to the throne room and ask Gnarl "can you hear me without the helmet?"

"It's possible, why?"

"Was going to check out the town before we conquer it to get an idea for the siege"

"Good Idea" Kelda said appearing by the stairwell that leaded to the quarter in a dressing gown "we need some more life force anyway"

'No wonder the fourth adored her she has all the qualities an overlord wants in a mistress' you can take her I don't mind the voice in my head said, I think about that and enter the portal.

The one thing that Nordberg it has plenty of is cold, snow and ice, covering my head with a hood I set off down the path toward the town, 5 minute down the path Gnarl said "can you hear me" through my head

"Clear as crystal" I though back at them

"Good carry on we can hear you and see through you"

So I carry on down the road and enter Nordberg it was a simple village Kelda said it would not have change in the 2 year after the last overlord death, I stood a moment in the centre of town ah this brings back memories, 'I see'. I entered the tavern and sat at the bar the barman said "greeting sir how are you today"

"I good thank anything interesting happening in town for a travel to get involved in"

"Not really, celebration a bit of a bad omen around here"

"Why?"

"As soon as a celebration start it get destroyed"

"Oh sorry to hear that"

"Not mater think are different now than they were"

"How different was it?"

"2 year ago were under the rule of the Overlord some of us didn't mind it was better than the empire rule other hated but the those were mind control in the end"

"Sorry to hear that"

"It better now that we are ruling ourselves again but I wonder for how much longer"

"Why do you think that?"

"There was a strange wind yesterday evening it made everyone go on edge"

"Sound ominous"

"You telling me something bad is coming I know it"

"Well than for the chat I think I'll be heading off now"

"Have a good day sir"

I left the tavern and made a final walk around town then headed back to the gate, I didn't notice at the time that I was been followed by a brown hair girl of 13 year of age. I leaped into the gate and fell the down to the throne room. The girl who at this point curiosity was driving her to the gate and it opened and she fall in. l landed and stepped off the portal, "welcome back my lord" Kelda said

"Good to be back where it's warm, they fear something coming my speech has done more than I expected it to do" I replied

"The shadow of evil is looming" Gnarl simply replied

"I know that we Overlord had control over magic"

"Ah" gnarl said "follow me"

Before we could leave the throne the room, the portal opened and the girl that had follow me landed. The three of us turn to see the new arrival "how the hell did you get here" I said

"She must have followed you from Nordberg my lord" Gnarl said

"You must be right. Who are you?"

The girl sat up and looked at us wide eyed there was a flicker of brown in her eyes then it was her normal colour "Maddy my lord" she said

"Well Maddy welcome to the Netherworld, stand up and let me have a good look at you"

She stood up; she was five foot one tall with breasts that match her development. 'What to do with her' I thought 'I know' I summoned some brown, two brown minion appeared in the throne "your order mastah" one of the brown said

"Take Maddy here to your hive stripe her and get her to do something"

"Ok" the other brown said, they took Maddy by the hand and took her to the minion burrows (we will come back to her in a minute).

"Now where was I?" I said

"You were following me master" Gnarl said

"That right leaded the way"

We left the throne room

(Maddy pov)

I did not expect the person I was following to be an Overlord I thought he would be a traveling knight; I was a child when the old Overlord came and conquer Nordberg but now I feel strangely at home here don't know why. The two brown with escorted me to their home once we were there using their sharp claw cut me out of my clothes strangely I did not mind being naked with half a dozen of these minion running around, one of the minion that escorted me handed me a broom and said "help clean," so we set about cleaning the brown hive area.

(Back to James pov)

Gnarl and I enter the magic room of the private quarter, "ah only the target spell remained hmm the other must had disappeared when the last overlord dies"

"So what did the target spell do?" I asked

"Well the fourth mainly use to dominate the simple minds of the townsfolk of the towns we conquer it was useful to keep the one that didn't like you inline"

"Yes that would be useful, now how to unlock my magic"

"Simple first step jump down that hole"

"Okay, you know what you are doing"

So I jumped down the hole, I fall for about a minute I think, I was not too sure of that but I landed on something solid, Gnarl was hovering above me with his black wings extended "so that what hidden under your cloak never would have guested that what now"

"Find your magic takes a look around"

So I picked a direction and started walking that way, couple of minute in I meet I figure and asked "who are you?"

The figure replied "I am lord Sayron the fourth Overlord"

"You are the voice in my head sometime"

"Correct, death did not get ridded of me that easily my spirit still hangs around here"

"Do you know where my magic is?"

"Yes follow me"

So I walked by his side. Couple of minute later we met another figure "here he is" the fourth said and vanished. Continue to my magic, I said to the figure "I take it that you are my magic?"

"Correct" he said

"Shall we"

"Yes"

I grabbed his left hand and absorbed the magic. After that was done I return to Gnarl. "Successful" he asked

"Yes" I replied

We returned to the top of the magic room form there we headed back to the throne room. Kelda felt the tingle of magic as I came down her green eyes sparkling "oh I just felt seven years younger" she said

"You look it" I replied

"Why thank you my lord" she smiled 'no wonder why the fourth like you' I thought "I was think about a change" she continue

"Be my guest use whatever clothes fit you I will be getting more stuff soon"

So she went off to her room. "I think it life force hunting time" I said to Gnarl

"Good Idea master" Gnarl replied

I step on to the portal and shouted "hunting ground" the portal zapped me to the outskirts of Nordberg and I hunted for life force with earnest.

(Maddy pov)

The first trickles of life force flow through the hive, new brown were being born as the life force came in. I was helping all the new browns finding their feet they did not care that was human or naked they just carry on like I was one of them which is nice I just feel like I belong here, striker one of the older brown and horde leader began organizing the other brown into groups and setting them jobs to do one group was task with grab item form the portal that the mastah had sent down to store these were mainly hides and carcasses of the animal he kill for life force and anything else that he finds of interest, another team was sent to help Grubby the digger to grab ore for the forge, I was task with some other brown to start curing hides for future use. The once died tower was again a live with active.

this has been beta read through will update chapter one when it been read through please review

edited on the 20/04/2015