Another hour dragged on with me trying to find where my supposed Spiritual Power before I gave a disgruntled sigh and leaned back to lay down. "Ugh, It's just no use. Maybe I don't have one?" It's possible I mean I've searched for a long time.

Mya looked annoyed, but seemed to be seriously considering it, she probably felt like giving up as well. "No everyone in the netherworld has spiritual power, even the crappiest Prinny has spiritual power."

My brain full-stopped.

"I'm sorry, the what?"

'No fucking way.'

"The weakest Prinny, honestly how do you not know any of this. Everyone else in the Netherworld at least knows SOME of this stuff on a subconscious level. Even if you didn't know some of the details you should have at least some instinctual knowledge."

I didn't know this stuff on an unconscious level.I recognized it on a conscious level, my brain's subconscious had simply refused to acknowledge it. Once again;'No fucking way.'

Okay lets not jump to conclusions, they just happen to have the same name right?

"These Prinnies; Small, typically blue and white penguins, peg legs with little wing. Say 'Dood' a lot. Have a tendency to explode?"

Mya smiled, ignorant to my growing horror. "Finally something you do know! Yea Prinnies are souls who are borderline to their True-Reincarnation. A lot of them tend to be lazy though, because if they don't do a good enough job as Prinnies, they will be reborn again as demons instead and...hey you okay?" she asked with a look of concern."

So as It turns out my brain had been mentally suppressing this possibility. And now that I can't suppress it, I have to confront it in all its messed up glory.

I many have not been concealing my emotions very well.

"I...ye...no." I took a few deep breaths.

'Okay I'm freaking out a little bit.'

"Just checking something...umm" I tried to think of a good question.

"Hey earlier you mentioned Mages and Magicians, could you tell me a bit about them"

She blinked eyeing me warily. Most likely because I was currently freaking out, and likely looked a little crazed as I was trying to hide and/or suppress it.

"Well, I've fought a few before, though my previous Overlord never made any, as he preferred us soldier types. Infantry, Commanders, Mechanics, you get the idea. I think he dated a Mage at once and got burned. Anyways They generally come in The three main magic types. Wind, Fire, and Ice. I fought one that could use all three before, and lemme tell you that sucked. I heard some powerful ones could another element called Star which doesn't target any weaknesses, I think. I never fought any of those so I cant say for sure... That's about it , why the sudden interest?" She asked, after her explanation.

I should not say. "You wouldn't believe me."

she narrowed her eyes. "Tell me." She stated curtly. She is still likely irritated from earlier and my lack of progress. She also has proven that she is quite capable of knocking my ass out.

'Pfft, okay you asked for it.'

"I played multiple video-games when I was still alive that all correlate exactly to the last two things you just told me. Pinnies, the Magic. Spiritual power was just listed as 'SP' . They where all turn based strategy that had a heavy emphasis on grinding. The company that makes them frequently crosses them over with each other all the time. Your explanations have been bothering me because they have been reminding me of it. It now appears, as insane as it is, that I'm somehow in said universe, which really shouldn't be possible. Maybe I'm sitting in a hospital bed right now, and this is all a bad dream which means I just need to think of a way to wake myself up. Okay so-"

As I had been explaining my composure had slowly been slipping. However before I could truly get into a good freak-out Mya's fist had introduced itself to my midsection knocking the wind out of me.

As I looked up glaring daggers, she looked back with disinterest. "You where starting to loose it, so I though I'd distract you." Definitely a demon...

"First off, if you start acting like your in a dream or something else equally stupid, ill be happy to hit you until you change your mind, understand?" I nodded glaring daggerss as I tried to work out how my lungs where supposed to work again.

'Fairly certain you can't get the wind knocked out of you in a dream...'

"Secondly, I'm sorry for hitting you like that, but I can't have you running around acting like an idiot and getting yourself killed."

I tried to wheeze out something decidedly not polite, however that didn't work, so I sat back and just emitted my anger at her. If looks could kill she would have been maimed at the very least. She looked right back at me and sighed.

"I'm not going to apologize more than once for doing something that may of saved your life. Even if it was just preventing you from doing something stupid."

I had to begrudgingly accept that one, I didn't like it one bit however.

I have a short list of things that actually piss me off. Bodily harm to my person is decidedly one of them.

"Okay so your story...was pretty out there. But it's just in the realm of possibility, so for now ill buy it."

'Holy shit she believed me!? Hell I don't even believe me, and I know it happened!'

I had caught my breath enough try and speak again.

Funfact, it takes a couple of minutes to get your breath back if you get the wind knocked out of you.

"Wh-y?" The question roughly came out.

"Few reasons actually. First and foremost is you can't use your Spiritual Power. Like I said earlier, even the crappiest Prinny is aware of how to do that from the moment they gain physical form. Even if they have no memories whatsoever, they can use it just fine. Secondly there are an unbelievable amount of Netherworlds that connect to who knows how many Earths . I don't really know what the odds are of what apparently happened occurring, but It seems like it is possible though..." She scratched her head I thought.

"Reason for memories?" I asked choppily. My breathing had returned to normal for the most part, but wasn't very well under control. Have I mentioned before how ludicrously strong her dainty arms are?

She sat down and settled her arm between her head and knee in a thinking position.

"Hmm, could be that the system didn't pick you up because you already knew a bunch of stuff about the Netherworld? It might not be what you needed, but you did have a knowledge base. We'll probably never know." She commented.

My breathing had finally normalized, so I started adding my portion to the conversation.

"Hey why did you need me to stay alive anyways? Couldn't you just write me off?" This had actually confused me for a while now.

"No, not if you summoned me. Well I mean ,I could, it's just i'm better of making sure you don't die suddenly."

I gave her look asking her to elaborate. Which she did, prefaced with a familiar sigh. I've been getting those a lot.

"Right, no instinctual knowledge. Okay so some Netherworld basics." She paused to organize her thoughts.

"Okay, all inhabitants of both the Netherworld and Celestia too most likley, are born two different ways. They are either Summoned, in which a Class type is chosen, then a soul which easily fits that class type is put into a body made of Mana. This souls is bound to the body, which is then bound to the overlord. At any time an overlord can destroy the body of his summoned minion, and can choose to separate their bond anchoring the soul instead of making them a new one like they would if they where reincarnating them, The benefit of doing so is they keep the old instincts, but get the new ones as well.

"The other way is they can be naturally born. This is actually the majority of the Netherworld population. Essentially enough Mana gathers in a location and a nearby soul find themselves suddenly in a body, the type of which is based upon the area. As an Overlord you can do this yourself to make monsters that are loyal to you, just like with classes. You need to find an area where that monster type shows up regularly."

"Now you are my acting anchor to my current form, so if you die there is a very good chance my body will collapse in the backlash. You may not realize this but there is a very intense competition to actually get a physical form. Because you can't really do anything without one. If you want an example for how bad it is, then you should know all the weather in the Netherworld if formed by the conflict between the almost completely intangible souls trying to get a physical form."

"I heard there are means to have children the way people do on earth, but I never cared enough to actually check into it."

I felt a little used to be honest.

"So you basically are just making sure you don't loose your meal ticket, or something like that."

She nodded "More or less. I do sorta feel like I'd like to help you out though. A lot of demons who are summoned would rather kill you if they thought they could get away with it."

'Thanks for small favors I suppose.'

"Hey ,while we are on the subject, I was wondering what being a demon entails exactly. I think you mentioned it a while back but I didn't ask."

"Err, not much too it really. If your sentient and born in the netherworld you 're a demon. If your born in Celestia your an Angel.

"The nature of the places changes some of your baser instincts. Demons enjoy dark places and always have at least decent night vision. Demons are also a lot more prone to violence, and being self centered. Hmm, culturally demons are encouraged to be Evil as well, but I mean if you actually look at the stuff most demons do its not actually as bad as they make it out to be."

"One thing though most aren't actually that bad, one thing to keep in mind is that the whole system seems to run on a 'we are our own punishment' vibe. We get anyone who doesn't make the cut for Celestia, but for the most part , ist just a bunch who want to get their kicks and have fun before being reborn."

"There are some really evil souls though that have fully dedicated themselves to their demonic instincts. Those are the ones you have to watch out for, just heads up on that. And be mindful that your instincts may make you do something you will regret later on."

We each spent a short while thinking quietly over our conversation, and what was aid, before Mya broke the silence.

"So what was your name when you where alive.?"

'Daww, we're gonna have a moment again.'

I told her, she blinked. Then she started laughing in my face.

''Bitch...'

"That's a terrible name for an overlord!" she managed to sputter out between guffawing.

'It's not that bad'

Though if I thought about it it wasn't great either.

"We need you a new name to go by, besides your old life ended anyways, now you need a name for your new one."

"Fine"

We both threw out names I could go by, she may of said mine where all terrible, but hers where all along the line of 'Bloodbane" or "Maldoom'. Granted the Maldoom sounded fairly cool, it wasn't a real name.

eventually I just started throwing out the names I'd come up for characters in videogames.

Letting out a sigh I added the latest to the list of names one of us hated. ", What about Enki?"

And for once she paused.

"Hmm Overlord Enki, Not bad. Yea lets go with that then."

I was tired of making up names, and a spades a spade, a rose is a rose, etc. Easier to just go with it.

With that done, I had to say I had a much better handle on my, insanely weird, situation.

We could finally, we could move on to other things.

"So," I asked, "back to finding my spirit?"

She made a face, then got a shit eating grin. And said. Yea, and I just had an idea.

'I do not like that grin'

"you know, it just occurred to me. You don't seem to have the instincts most demons do, so maybe we can find a way to bring them to the surface."

'I do not like where this is going'

"Mya, what do you mean. What are you doing" She got up and was walking over to me popping her knuckles.

"Just this. Dodge!" and her fist impacted the ground with a deep resounding.

Thud

As i barely moved out of the way.

"Mya stop!" I yelled pleadingly. To no avail.

It's just not my day...