Chapter 2
"Servant Saber, Artoria Pendragon, reporting for duty." Those were the first words she spoke to me and those words would forever be etched in my mind for eternity.
I…I had done it. I had managed to create a fully functional minion with all the characteristics of a Grand Order Servant.
Gained Minion Heroic Servant Saber, 'Artoria Pendragon'
Gained Skill Minion Master
New Minion System success, you can now create 'Heroic Servants' as a minion class
I brushed aside the notifications and used observe to look at Artoria's stats.
Name: Artoria Pendragon Age: N/A
Level: lv.1 EXP: 0%
Class: Hero Race: Minion
Title: Saber
HP: 73,675 HP Regen: 514.3 HP/sec
MP: 81,865 MP Regen: 812.1 MP/sec
STR*: 143
AGI: 90
INT: 121
SKILL POINTS: 10
Skills:
[Minion Soul]-Passive- MAX LEVEL
Description: The user possess Minion Soul, upon dying the soul of the user would automatically transfer to the Overlord, where the Overlord can use the soul to bring back the minion back to life or simply create a new body for the minion to inhabit. Minion Souls can also be used to enhance items and weapons they can still be given a body again though they would no doubt be weaker than before.
[Multi-verse Adaption]- Passive- MAX LEVEL
Description: This ability allows the user to adapt any knowledge and skills and magic found in the multiverse and use them without any repercussion.
[Dragon Heart]-Passive- MAX LEVEL
Description: The user has a Hear of a Dragon which gives it increased HP regen, increased Mana reserves and increased Mana Regen.
Passively Grants +500 HP regen per sec
Passively Grants +800 MP regen per sec
Passively Grants +70,000 HP
Passively Grants +80,000 MP
[Master of Arms]-Passive- Level: 1 EXP: 0%
Description: This Skill allows the user to wield any modern and ancient weapons, from fire arms to melee weapons and other exotic weapons.
Passively increases damage of all weapons by 10%.
Passively increases accuracy of all ranged weapons by 10%.
Passively increases the range of all ranged weapons by 4X.
[Magical Resistance] Passive- MAX LEVEL
Description: Lowers damage done my magical spells and reduces their effects.
Passively Negates spells that are less than 20 levels above the users Level.
Passively Reduces damage and effects of all magical spells by 80%.
Current Level of Spells that can be negated: 20
[Adaptive Armour & Weapon]- Passive- MAX LEVEL
Description: Any weapons and amours worn by the user are affected by this skill. This skill makes armours more resilient to damage from attacks of the same nature and makes weapons more effective against their targets after successful hits; this skill affects both magical and physical attacks and defences. Can stack up to a maximum of 20000% bonus for both attack and defence, the bonus is also permanent and extends to all future attacks and armours.
Passively reduces damage done by enemy weapons or attacks by 4% per hit.
Passively increases damage done the user using a weapon by 4% per successful hit.
[Magical Enhancements] -Active Level: 1 EXP: 0% Mana cost: 400 MP per sec and additional 400 per sec for every 1 extra stage of enhancement.
Description: The user can enhance their physical prowess by channelling raw mana through their body, not only does it increases your physical abilities but also creates a layer of defence around your body. The higher the level of this skill, the more they are able enhance their body using less mana.
Actively: Each stage gives a 20% physical enhancement and increases defence by 20%
Current Max Level of Stages = 1
[Mana Shield]- Active Level: 1 EXP: 0% Mana Cost: 1 MP per 1 HP worth of Damage
Description: The user surrounds himself in a shield made of mana which absorbs incoming attacks of all nature, negating damage and draining mana equal to the amount of damage absorbed.
Actively: Creates a thin layer of magical shield which drains 1 MP per 1 point worth of damage.
Well…that was just OP, which while it was something I was aiming for; this was totally beyond my expectation.
Sure I meant to enhance Artoria's dragon traits but damn, this was just too broken. I mean look at it…just look at the bonuses it is providing to Artoria, simply the bonus health and MP was broken enough but on top of it the regen was just too broken.
Looking back at Artoria I saw that she was still kneeling and well, uh, I did not know what to say for now.
"You can rise up now Artoria." I finally said trying not to sound too awkward.
Artoria said nothing and simply rose and stood there.
Okay now that I had a minion, what's next?
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The next few days were extremely awkward for me as well I did not know what to do with Artoria. After creating her due to the sheer awkwardness of the situation I decided to put off creating the other minions and help Artoria settle down first.
It was a good thing the tower had lots of empty rooms for now as I was easily able allocate Artoria an empty room to use as her bedroom, which incidentally was near the master bedroom, namely my room.
Gnarl said that it was better to get used to being close to Artoria as she was not only my first minion but would also be my bodyguard for the unforeseeable future.
Even with that said I am bad with girls especially one as innocent as Artoria.
"So master am I supposed to wear this whenever I attend you?" Artoria asked holding a maid dress in her hands.
I was so very much tempted to say yes but I just could not. While it would be great to see her in a maid dress, the very essence and meaning of the dress would be lost due to Artoria not knowing the meaning behind wearing this dress along with the oh, so very erotic appeal of it.
"No, not now and I would explain the reason later on." I said and mentally noted that I was using that sentence a lot in the past few days as I tried my best to 'teach' Artoria about the world or at least about how I understood it, which…was not good for a girl like her.
I needed help. But the problem was asking for help would mean exposing others to my secret which honestly I did not want to do at such an early stage.
"Then what about this master." Artoria said as she held up a traditional ninja costume.
"That…um…you can wear but only when we are going on some missions at night or one that requires stealth." I said staring blankly at the ninja costume. Really where was Artoria getting all these costumes?
Artoria said nothing but she had a beaming smile on her face and was holding the ninja costume as if it was a precious treasure. Looking at it, I noted that it was charmed as hell and would be extremely durable despite being made of simple cloth.
'It must have been left by one of my predecessors.' I thought as I saw Artoria try out the ninja dress and forgetting the fact that I was in the room again. Really, this girl, can't she even pretend to be modest in front of me.
'Because you are my master', what kind of excuse is that! At this rate I would surely die of blood loss before I even conquer a single world.
"I knew I would find the two of you here." Gnarl said as he entered the room, "And I see that Artoria is up to her usual antics again."
"Well you know how she is." I replied trying my best to look dignified despite my dripping nose, sometimes I wish that I could control it but well, some sights are truly worth shedding blood for. "Where am I going wrong." I complained to gnarl about my utter inaptitude towards teaching Artoria Life Skills.
Gnarl simply let loose a chuckle and said "You're not doing anything wrong, Sire. It's just how Artoria is. You can say that it's just her personality and character that makes her act like this."
"You think so?" I asked sceptical about what Gnarl was saying, I still think that my teachings has some deficiency still.
No one said it was easy being an Evil Overlord and no one said I had to like it too, despite all the benefits.
"I know so." Gnarl said, "And while I know that it would still weigh heavily on you mind. Trust me Sire, trust me when I say this that you are doing well and while surely you won't be the best at it, you are doing fairly well for your first time. Sometimes it is the student that is to blame but like all good teachers I know that you won't accept that as fact."
And it was true I was not going to accept his words at face value not only with how inexperienced I was at this thing but also due to our relationship as Master and Servant, and we all know that evil minions always seek to curry their master's favour and Gnarl was one damn good evil minion.
"Leaving aside our resident Hero's case, Sire, I want to ask, when do you plan to create the next batch of minions?" Gnarl asked me at which even Artoria looked at me with interest. No doubt curious to know when she would meet her fellow minions.
"Well after creating Artoria, I decided to look at the list again and thought that it was all sorts of messed up and so I was busy creating a new list again. This time trying to streamline it so that they are somewhat around Artoria's level yet cheap to create. I was thinking of not creating any more Hero class minions for now." I replied stating my thoughts on the matter.
Really looking at the previous list, it was all sorts of messed up with what me trying to keep things 'Balanced' and all. I had forgotten that I was not editing maps for Rance or StarCraft and Warcraft where I had to keep 'unit balance' in mind for optimal level of fun and competitive gameplay. Evil was the bane of Balance and I was going to cheese the hell out of my units and make them all Ultra Marine tier cannon fodders, which was harder than it sounded.
It was really hard unlike maps where I could easily change the values of stats, abilities and units with a simply click of a button. No, I had to dig deep into the archives of books and spells and mix and mash all sorts of hax abilities, spells and powers to get the perfect solution, all the while keeping in mind that I had to make them cheap as hell. Till now I could not drop the cost below 500 resources which while seemed less would not allow me to field millions of minions like I wanted, my goal thus was in the tens of units and not hundreds, if I could reduce the cost to that much than some of the few hundreds and thousands templates would become viable as higher tier minions.
Till now I was just down to some basic melee minions and casters, who were nothing much, and with my limited amount of resources with no way to increase them without a 'worker' unit and an economy I had to be careful while creating my minion templates.
Wait a minute! Workers! Yes, that's what I needed right now, workers and by which I could lay the groundwork for an economy.
"You know what Gnarl, why don't you come and help me creating a template for my new minion." And yes you can join in too Artoria." I said eagerly wanting to know their suggestions and ideas. Gnarl surely would have a lot of ideas with him but I also wanted to see if Artoria could also throw in some of her own.
"Off to the drawing board everyone."
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The next few hours were spent in the relative comfort of the study hall, a massive hall that served both as a library and a study. Ideas kept bouncing about the three of us, some good…
"…and we can even make them look badass."
""Denied""
"Oh come on the Heterodynes aren't that bad."
"Yes they are."
…yet reject, while some were plain bad…
"Oh how about Zerg Drones, they seem pretty good."
""Denied""
"But they seem so cute and cuddly, just look at this chibi drone and tell me they aren't cuddly."
""Still no""
"You guys are no fun."
…and finally we simply settle for a simple design.
"What is simple about freaking Tech Priest?!" I bellowed out looking at the mould and the list of abilities the Tech Priest would have. OP did not even begin to scratch the surface of it, as despite being a 'worker' class minion. It could serve well in any frontline situation and its [Construct] ability and [Technosorcery Mastery] gave it quite the leg up in decoding technology and a little bit of magic. It also had the [Harvest & Reclaim] ability which allowed it to harvest 'resources' and add it directly to my own pool.
Its extra mechanical arms greatly helped in repairing and constructing tools, vehicles and structures at an really obscene pace and it even came with a personal force field too on top of its damn impressive armour and could wield a variety of weapons that it could create from scratch, like guns etc. though its primary armament was its staff and two in-built lasers in its mechanical arms. All in all a deadly worker, who had no right to be called a 'worker' but screw you 'balance'.
"Well despite its strange appearance this form is the most suited for our given tasks." Gnarl pointed out and I could not help but agree. Being on a Mini-death World Island, meant that even a basic worker minion would have to have the firepower of a small army just to survive, which the 'Tech Priest' had in spades.
"I think they are great." Artoria said as she picked up the mould. I just hope that the Tech Priest do not inherit their insane cultist like habits of their cannon counterparts.
"Now that we have a worker class and the day is still young I think we have time to hash out the details of a basic minion that act as both cannon fodder and the backbone of our army." I said wanting to ride the enthusiasm of the two. "And remember we are going Fantasy theme here so less sci-fi more fantasy but it should also be something that can stand up to modern armies." I said pointing out the characteristics of the army.
While Hot Alien Girls are cute as Lala proved I still wanted some hot elves. Also what is with the fascination with blue alien chicks? I just don't get it.
"Back to the drawing board"
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"…and this is why the Mage Knights are good soldiers." Gnarl said as he ended his speech, as he listed out all the reasons to make Mage Knights a good addition to the army. "This would also not only bolster our military power but if we need more inferior soldiers we can always recruit them from the population later on." Gnarl added and honestly it was a good advice too.
"Well the mould we have made is also quite inexpensive." Really the MKs needed only 15 resources and 3 blank souls to create.
"The halberds and swords are quite cool with them acting as range weapons too, though why shields?" Artoria asked curios at the tri shields I was planning on giving the MKs.
"Well they do have the [Defend] ability and that requires a shield to use so there is that." really [Defend] was a broken ability in terms of range protection and it was an ability that mere footmen had in Warcraft 3.
"Now we just need some spellcasters and a tanky elite minion and we can call it a day, so suggestions?"
"Hmm, I have two spellcasters in mind that might prove useful." Gnarl answered.
"Let's hear it then."
"First of all a Healer-type minion that can use the ability [Revive], it is an ability that can raise dead minions originally belonging to the Blue Minions, having such a powerful ability will take care of most of the hassle of creating new minions to replace lost ones and with some healing spells can make the army better at attrition warfare and last longer in any battle and be an all-round nuisance to the enemy." Gnarl suggested laying out some good ideas.
The ability to revive minions was a powerful power, almost game changing in its application. Just look at how ridiculously powerful the Paladin's Ultimate was at times, and letting normal minions have the ability to use this power would be simply asking for nerfs or outright removal of this ability in any game.
"So priests?" I asked gnarl if that was what he was hinting at though knowing him.
"No Necromancers, with a side ability to conjure spectres and raise dead to further bolster the numbers. Giving them some spells to bind and cripple the enemy would allow a single Necromancer overpower multiple enemies with sheer numbers. Priests are better at healing no doubt but overall they tend to be quite easy to kill while Necromancers are simply notorious for being hard to kill like cockroaches, which is something that would no doubt frustrate our enemies to no end…"
Raising my hand I stopped Gnarl not wanting him to continue his speech, "OK, ok, you have made your point Gnarl. We will use Necromancers as our main healers." Geez the multiverse sure was weird if Necromancers were going to synonymous with Healers. "And our primary support spellcasters?" I asked Gnarl if he had any more ideas.
"Nothing beats a good old White Mage at healing and support." Gnarl said with a shrewd smile on his face. "Though we could go Red Mage for versatility or Black Mage for full on magical assault, Bards and their songs would help a lot too if you prefer to hear music while you go into battle or simply hear their songs in feasts and celebrations."
Okay…I was not going to ask how Gnarl had gotten the information about the White Mage, Red Mage and Black Mages. Final Fantasy is something I would rather leave alone for now.
"Bards seem good and we can even create an orchestral band out of them." Ah, music, I wonder if I could make them play some of the more well-known songs from back home, Food for thought. "Now we just need a Tanky elite minion who can absorb insane amounts of punishments."
"Dragons" Gnarl replied in an instant, "There are only a few creatures and monsters that are more formidable and powerful than Dragons. So, having them in our army would greatly enhance its powers and due to the large variety of Dragons, we are oh so very spoiled for choice. From small Drakes and Wyverns to the large Serpentine Celestials Dragons, Behemoths and Mantas, we have a lot of options and that is not even going into their various elemental powers."
"I really like the sound of that." Artoria said sounding like someone just told her Christmas was here.
"Of course you would." I remarked remembering the Dragon Heart of hers. She really would find dragons fascinating and I was also a bit partial to the idea too. So we would have Dragons as our tanks. That sounds awesome.
"Or we can just leave all this aside and use the good old OG minions." Gnarl said as he projected images of little goofy looking gremlins in various colours.
"Add them too." I said in a heartbeat, those minions really looked like they could lighten up a place and I was sure they would be quite formidable too.
"Of course sire."
And with that I had perhaps unleashed a terrible, terrible menace upon creation.
Meh, I was an Overlord, it was basically my job to unleash terrifying menace upon creation.
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It took me a few days to get the Totems of all the minions up and running, after which I was able to pump out quite a considerable force of them and sent them loose upon the dangerous inhabitants of the island.
The flora and fauna proved very troublesome killing quite a lot of my minions during the first few days of fighting but my almost endless numbers prevailed and my losses were almost negligible too as I was simply able to revive the fallen minions with the help of my Blues and Necromancers. Yeah they were bullshit.
You know what was more bullshit than OP Revive Casting minions? Bullshit Tech Priests and their OP [Construct] and [Harvest & Reclaim] skills that allowed them to construct and repair any and all machinery and structures in a matter of minutes regardless of said machine and structures size. Oh and they could stack it to repair and construct machines and structures faster by working together in groups. They were totally broken in that field.
They were also quite innovative too when creating new things and coming up with all sorts of new gadgets and weapons. Gnarl also keep giving some hints and spoke of some of the old weapons and defences used by the past Overlords and the Tech Priest tried their best to recreate them, though they did not have much success on that front.
Artoria in between had been leading the Mage Knights and some of the few dragons I had created and was actively hunting down some of the more dangerous beasts in the island, while Gnarl was leading the Bards and taming some of more controllable ones for the newly built Bestiary, while I lead some Greens and was collecting samples of the various floras in the island for the Greenhouse.
Geez, some of the plants were much more terrifying than the animals of the islands and that was saying something as the island was host to beasts that could swim in lava, could create blizzards, were made of literal acids and could take over other animals and control them via some bizarre parasitic bullshit. Yeah, I was cursing a lot but that was because I was in a Mini Death World island.
I just hope it just this island that was like this and the rest of the world was tamer in comparison and not worse, or else I would NOPE out of here faster than Flash breaking SPEED.
You know, for a while I entertained the thought that I was in the Pokémon world with how scary the animals were but so far the animals and plants were just too bizarre and scary and alien to me and while the creatures were powerful they were not like Pokémon level powerful.
On a side note, I had given my minions free reign on what name they should take but mostly I had ended up naming quite a lot of them.
Well for now I was currently in the newly built workshop where the Tech Priest were doing all sort of science and magic to create new trinkets, it was like a laboratory and a factory rolled into one as all new technology were researched here and it was here that they were built and assemble for further production.
It was a ship, more specifically and airship, with a wooden hull with metal lined in between, shaped like old wooden ships yet having no sails upon in, making it have a wide open deck with a central tower near the end of the ship. Measuring at about 300 meters in length, 20 meters wide and 40 meters in height, it looked old and classy and unfinished but I knew that this was completed and this would be the final shape of the ship.
"This my Lord" the Tech Priest Boldor said, his enthusiasm unbound as he introduced his latest creation "is the Prototype Airship Victorious, a ship made of metal and wood married in perfect symphony to create the toughest hull capable of withstanding even the harshest punishments and repair all even fatal damage under an hour. Upon its wide open decks one could view the beautiful sceneries as it sailed through the wind with its sharp edges cutting through the air like a hot blade through butter. It is propelled but a powerful magical core that cared not for the laws of physics and the natural forces, negating inertia and gravity with its special array of magical cores and barriers that can even survive the harsh vacuum of the void and take you to distant worlds." Boldor said, pride evident in his voice over the work superb work he had done on the Airship Victorious.
"Alas we don't have proper weapons to mount on the ship's many weapon ports but if what I have been hearing about from the other minions is true, we will be able to fill all of its 20 weapon ports and its bombing bays, though we could use them for transport and cargo bays for now." Boldor informed me.
Well the prototype was good and though the lack of weapons was a glaring flaw, it would have to serve as a transport and cargo ship for now. In fact, with some proper modifications it could even serve as a cruise ship not to mention a really great merchant ship.
"Good job Boldor. Don't worry about the weapons for now I think the ship is fine as it is and is in fact quite suitable for some of things I have in mind." Yep it would do well for diplomatic ventures and trading. Now onto the main question, "It's cost?"
"1,215 Resources including the weapons and upgrades we are going to add on. Though for now we can easily mass produce it at 800 Resources, if we sacrifice some speed and armour of the ship and add only the some low level weaponry." Boldor listed out.
"It is quite cheap." I remarked at the amount "And the build time?"
"545 seconds."
"9 minutes and 5 seconds, that is fast, faster than I expected." Joy evident in my voice, this was quite fast speed.
"We aim to please, Sire. Though I will like to point out that while building this ship one workshop cannot built anything else in their current form and that it would take 25 Tech Priest to fully operate the ships and some 20 to 40 guards to protect it from boarders, not to mention we will have to keep an eye on out resource incomes to truly balance it out the cost of building the ships." Boldor added pointing out the additional logistics of the ship.
"And what of the our new mines? Will they be enough to act as a stable income source?" I asked Boldor about the new mines that we had created in and around the island.
The mines were nothing special in themselves as they were mostly iron mines but the harvested iron and metals could then be converted into 'Resources' which I used as a staple economic resource for my operations. I knew that having a good economy was a must in strategy game and while I was no expert in the subject, I at least knew of the really big economic advantage I had due to the conversion rate and I wanted to make the most out of it by harvesting resources till my coffers overflow.
Incidentally, I had found out that I can convert my 'Resource' into actual materials like gold, silver, iron etc. with 1 Resource = 1000 unit converted material, regardless of the value of the converted material, which meant that I could get only 1000 unit iron and 1000 unit from 1 resource even if gold was much more valuable.
Gnarl explained to me why this was good as in some worlds Gold was hardly a precious metal with how soft and rare it was and metal like iron and copper were more valuable due to their availability and utility and the likes.
The unit was also quite vague and random as it could range from coins to bars depending on the converted material. Gold and silver would be in coins while iron would be bars which would somehow by some obscure reason and magic would correspond to the local unit using some sort of bullshit OP magic. As such in a place where gold coins were used 1 resource would give me 1000 gold coins of the highest quality and that would hold the same for silver and other metals.
No matter how much Gnarl dumb it down for me, I just could not wrap my head around that concept it was just too alien and mind bogglingly complex for me to understand right now. I guess that this was what it meant to be an empire in a multiversal scale. In a way I was filthy rich as hell by most standards but going by the standards of my predecessors I was but a pauper before a king.
Bullshit Overlord and their bullshit powers.
It also dawn to me just how expensive my minions were with Artoria costing more than the wealth of multiple nations combined. Yeah, even economically my predecessors were bullshit and now I had the same economic power in my hand, which I had to increase using all possible means of resource harvesting methods and trade.
"Yes they would be more than enough for now. In fact with your permission sire I would like to set up new Workshops to offload the increasing workload on them as the current workshop is being strain to its limits." Boldor requested, which was something I was already planning to do so anyways.
"Permission granted but only after you guys finish working on the warehouses, armouries and airfields and the dockyards. We would need them to store all the vehicles, ships and all the other things we have been making." Yeah, space was becoming an issue, the island seemed smaller everyday with the expansion I was doing, which was why I had ordered some of my dragons to scout for new lands.
Well after the ship, Boldor showed me a couple of weapons that they had developed so far. The first of which was a cannon that could be mounted on tanks and ships, with the apt name Volcano cannon, as it reduced the targeted area into molten lava via a large energy beam which gave it good AOE attack.
The main issues with the cannon was the range and power and due to space constrains the Tech Priests were not able to test out its full capabilities and tinker out its flaws. Another reason to find new land as the island was just too small for the level of testing that my Tech Priests had in mind.
The second thing Boldor showed me was the Hellbore cannon, which prompted the question, where were they getting these names? Unlike the Volcano cannon the Hellbore had a longer range and was mainly going to be used for precise long range bombardment, which made it perfect for long range sniper artillery action.
Boldor said that the Tech Priest got the idea from the Legend of Galactic Heroes and were trying their best to recreate the same electronic interference that the setting was famous for, which when combined with the magical sensors that were in development would really give them an edge ship to ship combat.
"Of course we have also added several security measures both technological and magical to prevent hacking and copying of tech and we are developing new ones every day." Boldor said enthusiastically.
While I was happy to see my Tech Priests working hard and developing all these technologies, I think I should keep them away from Science Fiction Space Operas for now. Really when I had asked them to develop ships I was mostly thinking water based naval ships not Space Ships, and if the Tech Priests were developing weapons for these ships than the yields were going to be insane. Water based naval ship cannons had nothing on the cannons mounted on space ships, even a low level Science Fiction Setting like LOTGH.
I just hope I can rein them in before they go too far.
As Boldor and I were talking about all the new inventions and the possible places of for the new workshops, one of the browns came rushing in the workshop, stumbling and rolling all the way towards me.
"Sire, sire! Dragons have return! Dragons have returned with big news! Big news, Sire!" The small brown bounced over his place as he gave me the message. Looks like the dragons I had sent on the scouting trip had brought some good news. "Tower sire, landed on tower sire, conversing with Mistress Artoria."
I rushed out of the workshop and headed to the tower where the dragons would be, eager to hear the news that they brought.
There in the large courtyard the five dragons stood before me, they were blue wind dragons, the fastest dragons that I had created with mastery of wind and fire to bring forth terrible firestorms. They had sharp reptilian features with their snout sprouting horned scales and two horns adorn the side of their heads twisted like a ram's horns. They had slender limbs shaped for great mobility and agility with sharp serrated claws that could easily replace the blade of a sword. Even their size was something to behold with them being longer than two buses in length and their wings spanning twice their length though were now folded to accommodate them in the courtyard.
"Greetings, My Liege." The lead dragon, Vale, greeted me, his voice resounding clearly across the courtyard. "We bring news of the new lands we have found."
Did I mention they could talk too? Yeah they could, talking dragons for the win.
"Greetings Vale, it's good to see you too." I greeted back it really was good to see him. I just seem to have grown a soft spot for my dragons. "I hope your mission went well?"
"I thank you for your concerns, my liege. And our mission went well, this world is more populated than we imagined as we found and saw many great kingdoms and cities dotting the continents beyond the isle."
"Let's hear about them then."
"To the north we have found a frozen landscape home to scattered tribes of nomads each different than the last, a bit south of that is a land of elves who inhabit cities surrounded by fertile valleys and vast forests, further south seems to kingdoms inhabited by humans ruled by magicians and west to those kingdoms is a floating island nation once again ruled by human mages. They did not seemed technologically advance though we did spot a myriad of airships."
That sounded quite interesting yet familiar at the same time. Well it seemed that I had found some candidates to trade with.
"We also discovered that this part of the world was separated by a barrier from the rest of the world isolating it in its entirety though we have found that the barrier can be traversed but the only land route is through the elven lands while the sea routes and air routes would be difficult to traverse due to the harsh storms and strong tides. The island we inhabit current is within this sphere and thus I recommend that our operations should start with this nations."
'Now if that was not suspicious than I don't know what will be.'
"Further south we found a large desert continent that was bare save for some wildlife. To the west of the world we found a large continent home to many humans, demi-humans and magical races ruled by an Empire with many smaller nations dotting its borders and island nations at its eastern and western coasts. The Empire while spanning an entire continent seemed to be technologically backwards and were quite behind magically too compared to the other nations despite having the largest magical population compared to other parts of this worlds. Then to the easternmost corners of this world we found lands home to many human and magical creatures and a myriad of kingdoms dotting the vast plains and steeps, it was truly diiverse in culture and technology but nothing to advance."
Wow that was big news. A continent spanning nation, now that was what you would call a legitimate Empire.
"And with this I conclude my report, my liege."
"Good work Vale, get some rest along with your companions and take some time off. You have done enough for now, leave the rest to me for now." I replied congratulating Vale and the other dragons after which I dismissed them.
"Now what am I going to do with this information?" I mused, thinking about my next step.
I wanted to start off my Overlord career as a merchant and gain experience handling things so naturally I would have to start a company of sorts and move on from there. Seems simple enough, let's go that route shall we.
Now what should I name my company? Thinking about it a name came to my mind which oddly fitted me in a really strange way.
"Kuzunoha." Yes that fit. "Watch out world an evil merchant is out to get you."
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AN: Done and Done. Geez this was a dozy who knew world building was this hard.
