Responses to Reviews
Mamon the lich king: yus, here it is :3
Paxloria: Again, it seems I posted just when you made your reply XD. Sorry about the typos. Google/Chrome doesn't have the best spell check, Grammarly is better, but I kinda rushed through it since I was going to work. As for the Demon god remark, true, but I am actually referring to the fanfic "Light's Downfall" (or was it some other fanfic...? or is it volume 12 of the light novels?) where the humans basically learn of Demiurge's full might (or about) and sees him as something far more dangerous than the eight greed kings from old. So while he is not a god, humans won't be able to tell the difference :P
Lemos: I'll look into it, since I am thinking that this story will not be a rehashing of the Code Geass storyline since Ainz presence is far too great of a change.
Jeseno Yutrago: Indeed, All Hail the Supreme Being Ainz Ooal Gown!
RussianReversal: I think you are right about the geass, the details of how it will work I will explore in later chapters. As for Euphemia and Nunnally being level 1-2, I disagree, don't forget that they put in points for the royal type jobs, so that at least brings them up to a level 4 or 5 for Euphemia :P Similar to the golden princes from overlord.
I think I should mention, when it comes to suggestions, first come first serve, so no Lelouch x cc, sorry guest. That, and you can find such pairing in normal code Geass fanfics, so to guest and cerberus328, sorry but this is a rare opportunity to mix things up by having some cross-universe love 3
Chapter 4: Unknown Details (still getting some details in place before the actual meeting and talks, so ya)
Lelouch, dressed as Zero, had just returned from his failed mission to sneak into the park. Since failure wasn't part of the plan, when Zero got back to meet the rest of the black knights who were camping out just east of the park, Lelouch had no way to contact C2 who was dressed as a Zero copycat. C2 didn't mind as dressing as Zero, if she could protect Lelouch then she would do it again. She needed him, she needed someone to fulfill her contract. However, something was different tonight. For the first time in a long time, C2 felt a bit giddy.
While C2 continued to stand around, pretending to be Zero, the black knights were getting antsy and asking her if they should start to move out. Trying to avoid blowing her cover by talking, since Lelouch hadn't finished the voice module yet, she simply went to the destroyed wall that allowed them to look over the park and pretended to study the park intensely. She held up a single hand as if giving them a sign to stay quiet, as if waiting for their moment to head out. In truth, she was actually studying the park intensely. This giddy feeling almost felt alien and new to her since it had been such a long time that she has felt anything but boredom. It had started last week.
C2, altho she wasn't trying to hide, she was on the second floor of the mobile base out-of-site when they got the letter. Sure it was fancy looking, but she didn't care about money, gold, or gems, she had seen them all before. In fact, she found it more amusing, however slight, to hear everyone's reaction to the new base and to the fancy letter. She almost chuckled, watching how Lelouch, dressed as Zero; carefully put the letter down on the table as if afraid of damaging it. She had started to walk away when she started to hear the commotion about the letter, especially the description of the letter being like a ghost or something. As she watched, her eyes went wide when the anti-spy magic was triggered when Zero tried to take a picture of the letter.
In all her many lifetimes, she had never seen true magic before. She had seen the pseudo-magic of human magicians, but the closest thing she had seen to real power and magic was the geass. As far as she knew, reality wasn't entirely what people thought it was, and the geass was a power that was able to take advantage of the true reality. Because of the geass being grounded in the nature of reality, there was a surprising amount of detail that could be measured about it. But watching a black orb and lightning consume the phone was like nothing she had ever seen before. It was like true magic, something beyond any tricks she had ever seen.
As Lelouch read the letter out loud, she would normally scoff at the professional tone of it all, finding it all childish how everyone likes to play pretend. To her, even professional adults had started to resemble children who liked to pretend they were better than everyone else, for she was old and wise enough to be able to see through their act. The letter was friendly, congratulating them, and inviting them to dinner to talk. She would have scoffed at this letter as well, if it wasn't for that magic that took both the cell phone and voice recorder away, interested she actually tried to listen to what the letter had to say. It seemed normal enough, until those final remarks. Even now as C2 looked to the park that was magically restored, she repeated the ending to herself.
I've never heard of this tomb of Nazarick or this guild. What kind of man has a guild in his name? A fool certainly would. But how foolish would you have to be to claim something as pretentious as to lead Supreme Beings? Or to even call himself a supreme being. Who in their right mind could have such an ego! Not to mention, calling himself the overlord of death. This man must be a knight of some kind, like how that princess Cornelia has the title of "Goddess of Victory."
It was the only conclusion that made sense to her, but still, she couldn't help but find a hole of uncertainty brought on by the usage of unknown magic. From what she had heard, this park had been restored in the short time it took for the team to get to the meeting point. From destroyed gardens, to now a glowing mythical forest, it was if magic was involved once more. As C2 thought about this, something went click against her mask. Looking around, it would appear Lelouch had returned, and was trying to get her attention by throwing small rocks at her. He looked to be panting and holding a handful of pebbles, How long have you stood there throwing rocks, she wondered, as she remembered how unfit Lelouch really is.
C2 slipped away, to undress and trade places with Lelouch. Once she was cleared, Lelouch turned to her.
"C2, we need to talk."
"About what?" C2 chirped back with a tone of disinterest. "Did something happen that made you run away." She tried to give a mocking tone, looking to antagonize him a bit if only a little, anything to help her boredom. To her surprise, and fear, Lelouch calmly replied with a yes before continuing.
"Is there something you forgot to tell me about the geass?"
"Nothing that you didn't need to know."
"Well how about telling me about people immune to its power."
"I'm the only person that the geass doesn't work on."
Lelouch paused for a bit, and C2 continue to look at him for a bit. She imagined he was staring at her with frustration, which amused her, but then the sudden weight of his words hit her.
"Wait, are you saying the geass isn't working?"
"No, I'm saying I just tried to use it on one of the guards and they were able to shrug it off."
"How do you know if you had eye contact."
"I'm... I'm not too certain. It looked like their armor was made out of leather, with a simple slit for the eyes. They couldn't of had room to wear any glasses, nor should they know anything about my geass. But the guy acted like I hadn't said anything, as if the geass still erased his memories but that's all."
"I, I see, yes. That is quite a disturbing development. What are you going to do about it."
"I can't do anything about it now. We'll just have to go through this the normal way. I need you to stay here with-"
"I want to come along."
"What? But I need you here-"
"I want to come along. I want to know who can claim to call himself the overlord of death, and how is it he is able to use what so far we've all been reluctantly calling magic."
"Are you certain about this? Very well."
After Zero rejoined with the black nights and introduced C2 to them, explaining to them that she was coming along as well, the headed off to the park.
Small flashback
Ainz was reading some reports in his newly established office. Right now things were starting to pick up after the start of their new and grand plan, operation 'Day of the Dead.' The report Ainz was just reading was the last one for the day, not because it wasn't important, it was very important. It was the one report Ainz actually wanted to read, but held off till the end as a sort of carrot for himself. Now he could read it. Unfortunately, Demiurge and Albedo had elected to stay there with him until he got a chance to finish the report. As Ainz started to read, he got quiet.
"Hmm..."
The report he was reading was a summary of events after their first arrival, and a collection of data. When they had first been transported to this world, Nazarick was hidden in a cave deep underground below Mount Fuji. They had to use magic to hide the entrance, as it would appear that the mountain was being developed, or rather, mined on a large scale after further investigation. A few days later when exploring the outside using [Mirror of Remote Viewing] they had witnessed the skirmish in what was later learned to be called the Shinjuku ghetto. At the time, Ainz had ordered that they don't interfere.
It looked like they were fighting with mechs, another bit of proof about their current level of technology. Had we done anything to get noticed, it would have been caught on camera and made public. We couldn't risk doing anything that would lead to negative press about us... not until we know what we are up against. At the time I had said our interference would only cause the situation to escalate further, I was just trying not to upset Sebas. I really wanted to help them, for Touch-me-san's sake, it was because of that I made plans for this project.
To Ainz high luck stat, the rebels were actually able to win the fight. Ainz didn't hesitate to use this as proof that they didn't need to interfere, but the NPCs mistook. They believed that Ainz had either figured it all out within moments of seeing the scene, or it was a part of Ainz twisted benevolence to give the rebels a chance to stand on their own two feet. Sebas asked for forgiveness for thinking otherwise, now believing in the latter was true. Ainz had managed to keep up appearance, but had lost a perfectly good opportunity to see how strong these mechs were.
I would have figured that they would have been high-level automatons like CZ2128 Delta considering their size. I had Demiurge with help go to the battle after dark to collect what we could to study. According to his experiments, looks aren't everything. While the oversized rifles fire large projectiles like a cannon, giving them the property of a bludgeoning object similar to a counter to undead [Critical Hit Immunity], the rounds couldn't penetrate our physical Immunity skill, so they're less than a level 60 attack or a legacy class item. Further test showed that the strength of the rifles, the mechs, and mechs with lances was more than enough to destroy a Nazarick Elder Guarder, but a Nazarick Master Guarder with its enchanted armor could manage to deflect the blows. Unfortunately, the master guards could not do any serious damage to the mechs without using skills to power attack the mechs. So that puts the two at about the same level, 25.
A note about levels and tiers, by the author
It seems that a lot of people, when they hear about a human who can do second or third tier magic, people think that it means they are in the levels 20's or 30's respectively, but this is incorrect. Say if you start playing a game, such as Diablo or dnd, at level 1 you as the player are already considered above and beyond what a well trained normal person could do, in the first few levels you start to gain abilities and spells. This means that first tier would cover levels 1-10, second tier would cover 11-20, and third tier would cover 21 to 30 at best. This makes sense because third tire is supposed to be considered both good but not crazy impossible, which corroborates with the idea that humanity maxes out at level 30. Momon the warrior of Darkness is considered level 33 at best, and why he is so godlike when compared to other warriors. I figured Momon would best a Master Guarder in a fight, and a master guarder with magic could easily compete with an adamantite team, so in all humans are pretty weak. Mechs should be stronger, but when thinking about a fight between technology and magical enchantment, I figured that at this level of destruction and force the mechs and the master guarders could be described as the same, which I am only guessing to be level 25, between high adamantite warriors and Momon/Death Knight.
I see, so that's about when Demiurge asked for some other test subjects, when I made those Death Knights to help with his testing. With all the monsters in Nazarick, there seems to be a bit of a power gap between levels 25 and 35 due to how YGGDRASIL divided tiers of undead. Good thing we did it in his lab where he had some bodies hidden away, I didn't expect the nature of the spell to change so much. I can't believe it will possess a body now. I can't imagine the kind of trouble I would be if my spell activated on a body because of my carelessness. Good thing the spell works like normal when there are no bodies around. Wait, what's this!? Those created without a body eventually degraded and crumbled away like a normal summon, but those made with bodies stayed. I see, so that explains why I still feel a connection.
"Hmmph"
Ainz tried desperately not to chuckle out loud as he kept reading. According to the data, a Death Knight could outmatch a Mech, being able to handle the blows, deflect them, and hit back to inflict a fair amount of damage. Ainz found the idea silly of a short Death Knight giving an oversized mech a hard time and winning, size being relative.
At the time they had gathered the mechs and bodies, Ainz had also sent out some Hanzo's to track and spy on these rebels. The reason was Ainz figured that they would be their best sort of information about the current situation of the world until they knew who was higher up and worth spying on. It was this spying that led Ainz to learn about the half defeat of Japan, and it being turned into area 11. Ainz did not like the idea or the state of the world, and considering the incident at Shinjuku ghetto, this was the perfect opportunity to pay tribute to Touch-me. Project 'Day of the Dead' was Ainz plan to announce his presence to the world, seeking to protect the innocent Japanese who are being butchered almost on a weekly schedule.
Imagine Ainz surprise when Zero pulls off that stunt with the fake toxic gas bomb to save that honorary Britannia. Since then, Ainz had ordered some Hanzo's to track and follow this Zero character. At first, Ainz was speechless as his high luck stat struck again and his Hanzo's reported back the conversation Zero, or rather Lelouch, had with this C2 girl, describing the nature and workings of his powers. A single use mind-control ability. It reminded Ainz of Demiurge's [Command Montra] which had similar effects.
After reading the report, Ainz slowly put it down, pleased to hear that they may have a militaristic advantage should they need to defend themselves. Altho Demiurge always stood straight, seeing Ainz finish his report, he seemed to straighten himself out even more so. Demiurge had thought he might receive praise for his finding, his proof that these humans were of no serious threat to The Great Tomb of Nazarick, but instead, Ainz seemed focused on working.
"Albedo, could you hand Demiurge his new files."
"Certainly, Momonga-sama."
As Albedo handed Demiurge the files, Demiurge watched her with a bit of a surprised and puzzled expression, but Albedo kept smiling, almost smirking at him. Demiurge wasn't sure what this was about, so he had to ask.
"New files? Has something happened, my lord?"
"Indeed, everything you need you can find in that report. Thank you for your hard work Demiurge, it pleases me to see you dedicate yourself to this project."
"Of course, it is the greatest joy to be able to work for the supreme one and to make Nazarick even greater."
"I am glad to hear, you have done a lot of work and planning to help bring my vision to light, but I feel we should make some changes to the plan."
"Ah, I see."
"These changes revolve around a certain person I think we could use. He appears to be one of the few humans with the ability to use powers."
"So there are humans who can use magic in this world?"
"We don't have enough information, but as you had mentioned before, this plan will let us be able to accelerate our ability to gather data."
"I see, very well. I will take my leave and make the needed plans."
"See to it that you do. Get familiar with the changes, tomorrow I will be making a major announcement, and I will need you there and ready to explain to everyone what you are working on. Tomorrow we will be changing our operations to maximize data gathering until project 'Day of the Dead' is ready. Thank you for your time today, Demiurge."
"I understand. Thank you, Momonga-sama."
Demiurge turned and walked briskly.
I see, so Momonga-sama must have already predicted my results already, that's why he wasn't even bothered or moved by my report. He already a new task ready for me. Just how far can you see Momonga-sama?
After Demiurge left, Ainz retired to his own room. Ainz didn't need to sleep, and spent the night practicing and planning. Trying to figure out how he was going to tell everyone to change his name to Ainz Ooal Gown. How to make sure they stay onboard when he tells them about his plan, project 'Day of the Dead' to bring Nazarick to the world. His plan to save Japan. All Ainz wants to do is stop the deaths... but something dark stirred in Ainz mind...
What happens once they start figuring out how to make nukes? We need to do something about this world, this war, about Britannia before the technology comes to fruition!