Mya sat back down after our little conversation as I joined her and we got down to business.

"Okay so I think I got an idea of what you can do. First things first. We have four primarily objectives at this point in time. One we need a base, for reasons I already discussed.. Two is weapons Same thing. Three is money. And the last thing we need is to expand your territory as an overlord. That will give us more options for places to live, and potential resources."

"After looking about a bit, I don't think this netherworld is very old so there aren't likely a lot natural demons, Probably just a few towns or cities where demons have gathered so that works out well for us for now."

"How can you tell it's not very old?" I asked.

I already knew new Netherworlds could be made thanks to the games, but being able to tell at a glance was a new one to me.

I think Mya may secretly want to be a teacher, given how easily she enters 'lecture mode' .

"You can normally guess the age of a given area of a Netherworld, by how exotic it looks as well as how many ruins you see while traveling. If this Netherworld was old we'd see ruins of past overlords even in a desert like this one,"

'So it does qualify for a desert. Neat!'

"The other sign is that this desert looks pretty mundane. No rocky outcrops in the shape of teeth, No stone obelisk with writing on them In unknown languages, anything crazy like that."

"It's just a normal desert. Mana tends warp the environment in older portions of the Netherworld as it usually isn't concentrated enough to actually create a demons body, so instead it causes terrain to slowly warp into weird things based upon whatever half-thoughts the nearby souls might have."

"I was wondering about that, actually how aware are the wondering souls?"

I didn't like the idea of countless invisible people watching me at all times.

"Not very. No soul remembers any details while they are between bodies, at least nothing useful. They just retain a sense of what went on and emotions. Before I was spawned by my previous overlord I spent somewhere in the range of seven hundred years trying to get a body. All I remember is how incredibly frustrating it was. I was ecstatic to serve my first overlord even, if I didn't like him personally. At least I could physically do things. The only thing I remember about the time I died is how much it hurt and how it seemed to drag on.."

I interjected before she could get lost in that train of thought again "So we can put building a base on the back-burner?"

It worked as she continued. "Yea, It's not as important as I had thought. Most natural demons get drawn to each other and form groups and towns. Sometimes even cities. All souls normally retains the desire for social contact, regardless of type of demon they are. Even if they don't really care for the company they keep." That could have been a jab at me, but I didn't think it was.

'So even demons get lonely I guess. Sounds about right. The only instances I recall from the games where a demon didn't, involved some "bad ending" scenarios.'

"Getting back on track, between the lack of Mana in the area, and how young the netherworld is, I think it's safe to say we aren't likely going to run into anyone anytime soon. At least not in the middle nowhere. Both Shelter and weapons require you to have one of those Form things anyways, so that's going to be a dead end until you unlock what we need.. We can open up a mine to dig for Hell after we have a place to put the money, and we need to earn enough to pay the Prinnies to cover their wadges until the mine gets up and running . Lastly.."

"Hold up, you can literally just dig for money? Why doesn't everyone just do that if its so readily available"

She huffed a bit at being interrupted, but answered anyways "Because normally it's not worth it." She said as she reached in her back pocket and pulled out a silver/platinum coin with a HL on it and tossed it to me.

"I found that while I was waiting for you to recover earlier. There isn't normally lot near the surface because its almost always been shifted through. No one but a Prinny would dig for that kind of return. And that's only because a Prinny in the Netherworld only gets payed a single Hell a month on average."

'Wow that's fucking terrible, and I don't even have any real comparison yet.'

"The only people who can really get that kind of thing organized enough to make it worthwhile are Overlords who can use Prinnies, and highly charismatic or powerful demons. They tend to be expensive to start up and they don't give much return until they get really deep."

Anyways, that means the last goal is to expand your territory, which you should really make some specialized units for. A Scout would be by far the best option if you can. Though I don't know what kind of units you can summon yet. I suppose you don't know what I'm talking about when I say a Scout?" She asked not really expecting me too. 'I'm not that bad am I?'

"That depends, by Scout do you mean a high movement, light firearms specialist, that has abilities regarding GeoChanging and summoning Turrets? Normally most useful in the Item-world? " She blinked. Twice.

They where actually decent characters, but GeoChange had debatable use because it was random, I always liked the turret though. If you summoned them correctly you could tear up your foes and aggro them at the same time.

"I have no clue what you mean by the 'item world' or Geo-change.."

'YES!' I thought.

I always hated the item world. The idea of having to go through a hundred maps of enemies to upgrade an item always felt extremely tedious and padded. Especially considering you could still lose out on some of the power of the items even if you did persevere, due to map positioning or whatever.

"..But that's actually a pretty good description. What other units do you know about?"

I grinned. And I answered her.

I'd put in a good amount of time in a number of the Disgaea games normally enough to unlock most of the base classes at the bear minimum for the ones I played. I also put a LOT of time into Makai Kingdom. I didn't get all the endgame items, but I've broken a million damage before in it and I killed the Tyrant Baal in his original form.

By the time I finished she was dumbstruck. I might not have memorized everything, but I had a damn good knowledge base.

"Okay, what the hell? I'd never even heard of like eighty percent of all that." she said, her face dancing between impressed and incredulous.

"I told you I had some experience with some video-games that all took place in the same Meta-universe that the Netherworlds appear to coincide with."

She gave me a strange look, then scratched the back of her neck remarking, "Well I guess ill just put it up, as a point in favor of me buying that ridiculous story then."

"I thought you believed me?"

'I'm telling the truth damn it! At least I think I am...'

"I said I acknowledged it was just possible, and that I'd go along with it." she corrected. Which made me feel like grumbling a bit.

"Anyways its good you seem to have such a varied knowledge base. Unknown enemies can really screw up your forces if you can't adapt to them."

"Some of the things you listed where a bit off, but I'll assume its off because you only know it in terms of your 'games'." She air-quoted

"Two things I noticed that was off was your description of Skulls and Magicians. You have the two backwards. From what I've seen witches seem to be the more powerful, and skulls tend to be able to cast a lot more. Making the former the offensive sweeper, and the latter act as magic support in groups."

"The other big difference I noticed was your description of what Geomages and Scouts sounded way off.

" I have no idea what they did in your 'games' ." She didn't actually air-quote this time, but I could hear her doubt. In her defense I had to admit it was a rather hard sell.

"But, Scouts have the ability to claim territory on behalf of Overlords, so you don't have to go in person. They can also create and reinforce defensive positions very quickly which would really help us out while we don't have a base. I've never heard of a scout turret shooting allied units as they are more or less extensions of themselves, although iv also never heard of them firing rapidly like that. From what I saw in my own scouts their guns tended to take a lot out of them to keep up and running, Also the Turrets tended to decay and collapse back into spiritual energy rapidly the moment they stopped feeding them power."

"Geomancers are considered by far the worst combat magicians, and I've never heard of them doing anything like heal or use combat magic, but everyone employs them for their ability to fix up defensive structures. Unfortunately I don't know the details as it was never my job to worry about how our defenses where built. Only that they where correctly manned."

'That's weird, then again ideas are often shifted in games for design decisions. Given someone made up the "Item World", they had to tailor units to specialize in it I guess, and neither of them sounded hyper useful in a small man squad like the games normally ran with.'

"Well, you know your units well enough, and given the fact you supposedly played a game that seemed to focus on doing this kind of thing, I think you should make whatever you think we need. The only thing you should keep in mind is we could really use a Geomancer, and more importantly right now, a Scout. Also I think you should make sure to soul channel everything you can to see if you can't get any useful Forms. If you could make us weapons that would be incredibly useful."

I had already planned on doing that last bit, but I still nodded in agreement. I had kind of thought Mya would dictate what I should make a bit more. Then again as Overlord, I'm supposed to make those kind of decisions, and thus far she seemed to like to adhere to the default command structure when she could.

'She really is an Cute-Army-Girl at heart.' I smiled at the thought.

Whack

Something smacked me lightly in the side of my head.

"What the hell?" I looked and saw her open hand the guilty party of the strike.

"Something about the way you where smiling told me I needed to hit you" she supplied casually. She didn't hit me very hard, I think she had guessed that being hit pissed me off as she had pulled back a lot on the aggression, ever since she pressed me to use my SP.(Spiritual Power)

'That's freaky..She really is a Uncute-psycho-knife-chick at heart.' I amended silently before letting it go and settling down to see what I could do to improve our situation.

[AN: Minor edits where made for flow, and reasoning behind actions, This so far has been my least favorite chapter, i felt like they needed to sit down and talk a bit more, but it felt like i was doing nothing but repeating myself for whole time i wrote it. Still it does the job i guess.]