The Conquest of Norgberg
Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the Overlord games but I do own my OC, Overlord Zack and any other characters that do not appear in any Overlord games and that includes the expansions, I also own Calaria and any other places not in the Overlord games
Summary: The games tell the story of other Overlords but what about the first?. See how the First Overlord rises to power, begins his reign and wages war across the land.
''Testing'' = speech
'Testing' = Thought
*Testing* = Flashback
'It has been 8 years since I arrived at the Netherworld and became the Overlord' thought Overlord Zack 'I am no longer a simple farm boy of Calaria, I am now the Lord of Darkness'
In the 8 years since he had become the Overlord Zack had been busy, he researched a few of the books and Journals the old Wizard had left in the Netherworld and had discovered the Wizard had plans to create 3 other types of Minions and plans for odd totems which would increase your life, mana and ability to summon Minions outside the Netherword as well as something called Forge Stones, but had left the Netherworld after creating the Brown Minions. Zack had gone over the plans and refined them and with the help of the Tower Heart had created the Red, Green and Blue Minions and well as 40 Minion Totems and 10 life and mana Totems.
The Red Minions were the archers, physically weaker than the browns but they could manipulate fire, absorb fires for a temporary power boost and throw fire balls, they are better used by having them hide behind the browns and backing them up with fireballs.
The Green Minions were the assassins, physically they were just under the browns, they could go through the most violent of poisons and had a stronger attack than the browns when they hit a target in the back and could blend into the background but smelled like a rotten carcass which sometimes gave them away.
The Blue Minions were the Healers, they could walk through water unlike the other Minions and they could revive Minions that had been recently killed but the down side is they were physically the weakest of the Minions and could be killed easily.
The Minions totems were a item that contains the power of the Tower Heart and with each one a person could hold 5 more minions outside of the Netherworld so with the 40 Minion Totems he was able to spawn 200 Minions at a time, but due to his hurried construction of 20 of them they would vanish within 30 years, but he could make more stable ones later.
The Life and Mana totem that contain the life and magic of magical creatures and the Tower Heart and with each one a persons life or mana would increase by 10%, but again he had hurried construction of a few of them so they would fall apart in 30 years but he could just make more. As for the Forge Stones he had decided to create them later on.
He had also been collecting life force from the creatures and many beetles that resided around the Mountains and the caves in the Mountains and the Netherworld, altogether he had collected roughly 2900 for the Browns and 1600 for the Reds, Greens and Blues. He hadn't been slouching in Netherworld construction either, he had constructed a tower made out of Nether-stone and had constructed a throne room, Private Quarters and a balcony where he used the odd gravity of the Netherworld and had floating rocks that would take him to the Minion Burrows and the Foundations.
One other thing of note is that he had captured around 50 wolfs and brought them to the Netherworld, taming them so the browns could ride them and breeding them and using the powers of the Towerheart to speed up there ageing process so they were fully grown adult wolfs in just under a year. So far he had around 800 wolfs and he was still breeding them.
Lastly he had fortified the entrance to the Netherworld with pure Iron doors, enhanced by magic to be nearly invincible and couldn't be blasted down by normal means and were resistant to magic attacks, he also had Green and Brown Minions patrol around a 50 metre radius of the Iron doors, they would kill anyone or anything that came within 15 metres of the Netherworld entrance and and place the lifeforce on the Netherworld gate behind the Iron doors to be transported to the Minion burrows so it can be added to the lifeforce supply.
He had also been checking up on what was happening on the surface world. The Shadow Claws had expanded there territory they now had Calaria, which they had turned into a slave camp/fortress where the Shadow Claws sold slaves to rich men or women, their Fortress in the Wilderness and had captured a few small villages near Calaria and their Fortress. They had also made a alliance with the Ruborian raiders of the Ruborian Desert and the Halflings of Meadow Hills. The Halflings control there Village, a slave camp, the town of Spree, Castle Spree and the area surrounding it, What the Ruborian raiders control was unknown as not many would venture into the Ruborian Desert because of the fear of the giant sand worms
Also there had been a alliance between the Humans of Heavens Peak, the Dwarfs of the Golden Hills and the Elves of Evernight and Everlight, they had called themselfs the Guardians of Light, Both factions had been at war for just over 7 years, as this was when the Shadow Claws had became major threat as they had teamed up with the Halflings and Ruborian raiders at that time.
Norgberg however had stayed neutral and had rejected the offers from both sides and had isolated themselves from the rest of the world and had stopped all trade and communication with other villages, which had left them a easy target for the Overlord, because they had no one to help them or come to there rescue, nobody would know Nordberg had been conquered until it was to late and he had secured Nordberg and made it a hard target which neither side could waste troops to retake because it would give the other side a advantage in the war.
'Now' thought Zack 'My forces are ready to conquer this land, but first Norgberg will fall to my army and become my base of operations in the surface world'. As looked at Norgberg from the top of the Mountain he saw they were preparing for there Christmas party, Overlord Zack smirked ''Time to deliver my present to Norgberg'' Zack turned to the First Minion ''Prepare the wolf mounts and make sure there are ready to storm Nordberg'' said the Overlord. The First Minion saluted and said ''Yes Masta!'' before running of to prepare the other Minions.
Norgberg was a peaceful village, never joining in wars that broke out across the lands and they had never been attacked when wars broke out because of there neutrality but it had also made them confident that they would be left alone by both factions of the current war, so there military were slaking off and had joined the villages Christmas party, leaving only 3 guards on duty, there confidence that they would be left alone would be there down fall.
Four small figures dressed in child size fur coats approached one of Nordbergs gates. ''Hello kiddies what you doing out there? come inside and join the party'' said a drunken Guard before he opened the gate and the small figures walked in. The Guard wrinkled his nose in disgust ''What have you been doing, you stink'' said the Guard.
The four small figures coats shook before they fell off to reveal 4 grinning Green Minions. The guard had managed to say ''What th-'' before the Green Minions jumped on him and stabbed him with their claws, quickly killing the him.
The Greens climbed onto the wall and shouted ''All clear Masta!''. As soon as he shouted this 100 Browns Minions riding Wolfs left there cover and charged down the path towards the gate with 50 Red Minions, 26 Green Minions and 20 Blue Minions following them at a slower pace with the Overlord, wearing full armour and equipped with a sword. Once they had arrived Overlord Zack looked at the four Green Minions who had killed the Guard and got them into Norgberg without anyone in the village knowing ''Good work Green's'' said the Overlord coolly ''Now lets get to work, a want you all to split into 3 groups, two groups of 35 browns, 20 Reds, 10 Greens and 5 blues will go east and the other west, while me and the rest of the Minions head to the town Square.'' Overlord Zack explained to the Minions ''I want them alive but if they grab a sword, knife or club and try and attack you with them then you can kill them, I want you to lead them to the Town Square, Understand!'' The last part was said with a fierce glare, daring them to say they disagreed or didn't understand. All the Minions quickly nodded there heads, got into their groups and either went east, west or followed the Overlord as he headed towards the Village square.
After a few minutes Overlord Zack arrived at the town square and saw that the people of Norgberg hadn't noticed him, he'd change that, Overlord Zack fired fired a blast of lightning into the air and gaining the attention of the people of Norgberg.
The Overlord sneered at the people of Nordberg from under his helmet 'weak willed fools' he thought ''People of Norgberg I am the Overlord, the Lord of Darkness I give you a choice bow to me or die!'' said Overlord Zack who finished his sentence with a small hiss. A few people looked at each other in fear but a group of 12 people stepped out the group and walked towards him, drawing their short-swords and grabbing their spears 'Hmmm Guards and Hunters, might as well have some fun with them' thought the Overlord. He looked towards the Minions ''Stay were you are and don't interfere with this fight'' he said before he turned towards the Guards and Hunters and drew his sword. Zack sneered ''Prepare to die weaklings!'' he shouted before rushing at the group.
The group of Hunters and Guards were surprised by the Overlords bold action and before any of them could react Zack had thrust his sword through one mans stomach and reduced another to a pile of smoking ash when the Overlord overpowered his Evil Presence spell. The other men hurried to try and attack the Overlord, swinging their swords or try to stab him with their spears, but he either dodged or let his armour take the brunt of the damage.
'These fools are starting to annoy me' thought Overlord Zack. He thrust his sword downwards cutting the leg of a Guard and then he swung his blade, slicing the throats of two Hunters at the same time, blood gushing from their wounds are splashing in a few of the other men's eyes, blinding them, using this distraction Zack threw his sword into the air and used both his hands and cast his Evil Presence spell on a Guard and a Hunter, they screamed in pain and the spells power soon overwhelmed them and making them mindless drones. Catching his sword as it fell back down he ordered the mindless drones ''Attack the Hunters'' Zack ordered, the mindless drones did as he asked and managed to cut down the remaining 3 Hunters before the remaining Guards killed the mindless drones.
The 3 remaining Guards looked at the corpses of the dead Hunters and Guards and threw down there weapons and surrendered, knowing they had no chance because while they had lost 9 men the Overlord had only gained a few scratches on his armour. The Overlord smirked ''Good choice weaklings'' said Overlord Zack before he used his Evil presence spell on them and ,after a few seconds of them screaming in pain, they were turned them into Mindless slaves.
After a few minutes other people began walking into the town square led by the other Minions he had sent around the town to find the other villagers. When the villagers were all in a group in the middle of the town square and the Minions had blocked every exit so no one could escape he walked up to the crowd. ''People of Nordberg, I am your new ruler but don't think you will have free will under my rule!'' said The Overlord before he laughed coldly and fired his Evil presence spell at a random man in the crowd, after a few seconds of hearing him scream he stopped the spell and the man was now a mindless slave. ''He is just a example of what you are about to become, You will serve me as slaves, digging in my gold and iron mines, making food for me and my Minions and forging armour for my Minions and the browns wolf mounts to wear'' The Overlord soon began throwing his Evil presence spell left and right and within 1 hour every man, woman and child were now his slaves and have now begun to do the jobs he had given them, either Mining gold or Iron, making food, forging Minion or wolf armour or upgrading the towns defences.
Overlord Zack turned to his Minions, thankfully non of them had died in the swift assault and conquest of Norgberg ''I want all of you to stay and defend this town, Reds and Greens on the walls, Browns guarding the gates and the blues ready to revive any Minion who dies here, I will be returning to the Netherworld and I will be visiting later on to inspect this town so it better be in top condition, or else I will have you all killed and harvested for Lifeforce, DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!'' Shouted Overlord Zack. The Minions franticly shook there heads up and down ''Yes Masta!'' they all shouted. ''Good, you won't know when I'm visiting so you better get to work'' said the Overlord and with that he left Norgberg, heading towards the Netherworld entrance.
After arriving at the Netherworld and greeting Daganth, Overlord Zack headed towards the War room. The War room as a big circular room with a round table that took up 3/5 of the room and had a map of the world on it. Zack placed a miniature metal peice that looked like his helmet over the village of Norgberg.
Zack stared at the map of the world ''Norgberg has fallen but who should fall next, Calaria or Meadow Hills or maybe Evernight'' said Overlord Zack before he walked out of his War room to have more patrols added around Norgberg and the Netherworld gate.
2 weeks had passed since Norgberg had been conquered and it had been transformed into a fort that was still being improved, Norgberg had four stone towers built that had 5 of the Mindless slaves that had been taught archery in each of them, each side of the wall had 4 ballista and 20 reds and both gates into Norgberg had 10 Browns and Green Minions Guarding them and Browns patrolled the streets and guarded Norgbergs Town hall and 30 blues were in a building in the centre of town that had been turned into a Hospital for the Minions.
The Overlord had also increased the patrols of the Greens and Browns and added the Reds to the Patrols. Now there were heavy patrols about 80 metres around the Netherworld entrance and light patrols around about 20 metres out around Nordberg. One other thing to note if that around 1000 of his Brown Minions and 300 of their wolf mounts now had metal armour while the Greens, Reds and Blues wore leather armour.
Norgberg was now adequate fort, by his standards anyway, now Meadow Hills and the Halflings shall fall and come under my rule or become a burning field of eternal flames.
Sorry if there isn't much action in this story, I will add more action in the siege of Meadow Hills, I just wanted to quickly get the Overlords and his Minions had done and what improvements he had
Please Review!, I will be updating this on next Monday at the latest