I would like to thank Sceonn who told me how much of a dick I made Mundus in this chapter. I didn't want to make Mundus like that and decided to re-upload this chapter with the personality I made him, not the asshole he was in the old version.
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Now! Let's get to the story.
CHAPTER 3 IS HERE.
Bold letters = Spells, status effects, settings, item names, and boss titles
"Quotations" = Someone talking
"Bold quotations and letters" = Higher being or item talking
'I'm pretty sure these are still called apostrophes' = Someone thinking
Disclaimer: As I've said before, I don't own Overlord. It would pretty cool though.
'Man. What the hell's with that depressing aura of his?' Mundus thought to himself about Momonga.
Currently, all the floor guardians were kneeling in front of them besides Flowey.
Mundus told Momonga about Flowey's pledge to him instead of him, but the Overlord didn't mind. He probably knew that Flowey was going to nothing even if he did do his oath of fidelity. So instead, Flowey was just being held by Mundus as they watched the whole 'ritual' happen.
Mundus was too busy thinking about Momonga's aura that he didn't notice his own aura was reacting in responce to his friends. Unlike his skeletal friend, the Dragonoid's aura was felt relieving like the wind, but felt deadly enough that any would be hesitant to approach him.
Suddenly, Mundus felt another dragon like presence appear to his left and saw Sibas who, like the others, was kneeling.
"The terrain around Nazarick has changed from the swamps that once surrounded it". Sebas spoke in a even tone.
'That confirms my previous thought'. He turned to Momonga who was praising the floor guardians. "If I may interject".
Momonga's aura dissapeared. "Yes, Mundus-san?" The skeleton leader questioned.
"With the report from Sebas, I have confirmed a theory I have been thinking of". He closed his eyes. "Nazarick as most likely been transported from the land of YGGDRASIL and into some kind of new world". He opened his eyes again and looked straight into Momonga's. "I wish to survey the land we're in and gain information about it".
His friend nodded. "If you wish to do something, I cannot stop you from doing so because we are equals and have always been".
Mundus nodded at Momonga. "Thank you Momonga-san"
Momonga turned back to the floor guardians. "I hope that you all can extend your fidelity to Mundus-san"
"Yes!". All the guardians said in unison with Shalltear being more loud than the others.
Mundus pulled out a book out of his inventory and handed to Momonga. "This will allow me to relay information to you even if I'm all the way around the world". He pulled out another book and waved it about. "Whatever I write on this will show up in your book".
Momonga nodded in approval at his information sharing system.
Flowey's creator put the scroll away. "I'll make my leave now". He teleported to floor one actually using his ring for once. Flowey didn't teleport with Mundus, causing him to fall onto the ground.
"That idiot! He knew that was going to happen!" His face got more pissed off by the second. "Next time I see him, I'm going to pull him into the air by his ankles and drop him to see how he feels!"
Momonga ignored Flowey's little verbal rampage and stared back at the guardians, causing his aura to come back full force. "You all know what I wish to be done". He then teleported away from the Amphitheaterum.
The floor guardians rose to their feet.
"Wow! I didn't think Momonga-sama could be that scary!" Aura slightly gushed. She didn't notice Albedo shivering with no obvious reason.
"Yeah, he was nice to us before and even poured us drinks when he thought we were thirsty". Mare spoke in a less shy tone than earlier.
Albedo's shivering increased to the point you could practically hear vibrations, which ended when she turned around. "Isn't Momonga-sama the best!"
Demiurge nodded. "Yes he's nice and knows when to act like a leader".
While the other floor guardians were talking, Shalltear was talking to a recently calmed down Flowey. "You know you shouldn't curse in front of Momonga-sama".
Flowey was confused. "Why the hell not?"
Shalltear brought her hand to the side of her mouth to block sound from travelling in that direction. "Albedo will get really bitchy about it".
Even though her hand was blocking the sound waves, Albedo heard what Shalltear said and turned to her with a yellow aura surrounding her form. "What was that you tiny breasted bitch!"
Shalltear matched Albedo's aura with her own red one and shouted back. "You heard me Cow!"
Albedo walked over talking with a really creepy face. "You just don't like that my Momonga-sama is better than your Mundus-sama, do you?!"
"Mundus-sam was able to match Momonga-sama's aura with his own and then some. It even made me extremly wet!"
"I bet Momonga-sama's aura made my panties way more wet than Mundus-sama's will ever do to your panties!"
Flowey cursed his luck while sulked. "Why am I always caught in the middle of these things?" He noticed all the male guardians moving away from the fight. He perked up at his chance. "Take me with you!"
They didn't hear him due to Shalltear and Albedo's volume.
Flowey cried on the inside a little. "Why can't I ever escape this!" He cried out loud.
The two arguing women turned to him and increased their aura. "Shut up Flowey!"
Flowey epped a little, but if you ever ask him he would slice you up with his petals and try to kill you.
The argument settled down after a few minutes telling all the male guardians it was safe to come back.
"You two done arguing?" Demiurge asked.
The auras around the two were gone, but they both still looked pissed at each other. "Yeah. We decided that we would marry the ones we love, birth their children, and let the children decide who is better". Shalltear explained.
Albedo nodded. "We aren't finished resolving this issue and I think we never will, but Momonga-sama has given us our orders and we should follow them".
Demiurge nodded. "That's that wise decision you two have made". He turned around and walked away to do his duties.
Everyone followed suit.
The sky was nothing like nothing like he had ever seen before. Back in the real world, it was hard to clear day or night due to all the pollution and smog that covered the city he lived in. Even if there was a clear sky, he wouldn't have time to enjoy it due to job, which took up most of his time and only allowed enough time for a couple hours in YGGDRASIL. The seven hours he spent hunting for Yig was pushing his schedule to the absolute limits, he was extremely lucky that his target was that close to the surface of the dungeon and not farther in like at level 5000.
Mundus must have been looking at the sky for awhile now because he felt Momonga and Demiurge come up behind him.
Momonga gasped at the clear night sky. "I have never seen a sky so clear before".
Mundus nodded still admiring the sky. "It's beautiful isn't it".
"Yes. Yes it is".
Demiurge didn't know why a clear sky was so important to his leader, but he didn't want to interrupt whatever they were doing.
Mundus managed to tear his eyes from the sky and looked at his friend. "I'm not going to ask about the armour and leave it at that". He grasped the power within him and allowed some to burst out from between his shoulder blades revealing his dragon wings. "I believe it is clear enough for a good aerial view". He lifted off the ground and into the sky.
Even though Mundus had a self appointed mission, that didn't stop him from having fun. He was doing barrel rolls and loop de loops making a beautiful show of himself in the air. Though this didn't stop him from noticing the village that he cast his dancing shadow upon.
He landed in the forest that surrounded the village and threw on a quick disguise that consisted off a tan travelers cloak and a white mask that had horizontal slits that allowed for eyesight. As a little decoration, the mask had some very ornate painting around the left eye that looked like he was crying black tears from far away. In reality it was just a bunch of swirls.
He walked towards the village under the guise of a wondering traveler who lost his way.
He noticed that no one was outside even though there was lamps outside. The lamps were most likely for if some one had to use the privy. Yes, privy. He made that guess from the build of all the houses. Wood and stone, which hints that there is no plumbing and therefore no inside bathroom. He could probably a bath house if he looked hard enough.
He saw a young blonde women rubbing her eyes in a tired fashion closing the door to a nearby house. She walked with squinted eyes due to the light the lamps gave off and couldn't really see where she was going. This caused her to bump into the disguised Mundus.
She stumbled backwards and fell on her butt. "You all right?" He asked in a soft tone as he helped her onto her feet.
The girl was blushing in embarrassment. "Yes. I'm alright". The adrenaline seemed to wake her up, so she looked at the person that helped her up. "You're not from around here". She said it more like a statement than a question.
Mundus shook his head. "No. I have been travelling for many days and I just stumbled upon your village a few minutes ago". He rubbed the back of his head in a sheepish manner.
Her eyes grew wide with concern. "You got here just now?" She grabbed his arm and pulled him towards her house. "You can stay with my family until you now where you're going".
She brought him inside her house and pointed to the only hallway in the house. "Our guest room is the final door to the right".
Mundus looked at her. "What if I have to use the privy?"
"Our privy is right behind our house".She started to push her legs together remembering she had to go to the bathroom. "Um.. If you'll excuse me".
Mundus waved her off. "I should be fine enough to settle in". Before She left for the door though, he asked one more question. "You never did give me your name or the villages for that matter".
She folded her hands in front of her and bowed. "My name is Enri Emmot and welcome to Carne Village".
Mundus bowed in response "My name is Nemo and I am from Ainz Ooal Gown".
They both stood straight and headed their separate ways as quietly as possible.
One word to describe the room would be small.
It was about 2x1 meters in length and width with only enough room for a bed and a dresser. On a positive note; there was a world map on the wall.
He was able to pin point where Nazarick was from the direction he came from and the little dot scribbled onto the border between to of the countries. At least he thought they were countries. He noticed that the language that the map was written in was something fairly old.
'It seems to be a mixture of Latin and Old English as well as some degree of some form of Japanese dialect'. He looked at where Carne Village was added on the map. 'Although some names seem to lean towards one language rather than all three'. He thought about it and put his knowledge to use. 'If I remember my university days, Carne means 'the flesh', which would make sense as it is right on the border of two countries'
He pulled out his Information Book and wrote down several notes about what he learned so far. The words sunk into the page and if the books worked as intended, the words should be showing up in Momonga's book.
He put all his armour away except for his mask and rings.
He looked at the rings. After the fight of Yig he never took them off as per Death's request and he was getting quite familiar with their abilities. He was even able to use all of their powers simultaneously now. He was quite proud with him self and was very happy that the rings persona's didn't mind him at all.
The rings glowed brighter somehow knowing that he was happy with them.
Mundus, or Nemo as he was going by now, shook his head and laid down in the bed that was provided for him by the nice young lady named Enri.
Even though it felt like it was stuffed with straw, Mundus fell asleep very quickly.
He rest was peaceful, but his awakening left something to be desired.
His rest was disturbed when he felt the hooves of dozens of horses trampling their way to the village. He would hazard a guess that they would be here in about 20 minutes.
Mundus quickly equipped all the armour he took off to sleep and stepped into the hallway of the house. He noticed that all the other doors to the house were open so he assumed everyone was up and doing chores and what not.
The disguised man walked into the main room, which he noticed had a stone stove and a table with chairs, 2 of which were occupied. One by a tiny red headed girl that was about to his knee in size and the other by a adult man with blonde hair and beard who was maybe a few heads shorter than he was. He looked and saw Enri at the stove cooking something that smelt like bacon and eggs.
The red headed girl turned in her seat and stared at the massive figure the was standing in their kitchen. She pointed at him. "You're tall".
Mundus laughed at her blunt observation.
The adult whom Mundus presumed to be the father looked at his daughter. "Now Nemu, be nice to our guest". He stood up and held his hand out to him. "Kazoku"
Mundus shook his hand. "Nemo" They released their hands and Kazoku sat back down.
The father gestured to one of the two empty seats. Accepting the offer, 'Nemo' sat down. "I believe you already met my eldest Enri" He nodded his head to the young women who was cooking breakfast.
"And I'm Nemu!" The little girl shouted in child-like enthusiasm, which fitted as she couldn't be any older than eight.
Enri put the food she was cooking onto four plates and with an impressive display of balance brought them over to the table using only her arm to hold them. She laid them out in front of everbody, who started eating in a quite relaxed pace.
Mundus didn't want to feel like the odd one out, but he also didn't want to remove his mask and show his identity. It wasn't like he was that well versed in the illusion department when it came to spells.
Nemu pointed her fork at Mundus' face. "Can you even take off your mask mister?"
Mundus nodded his head. "Yes I can".
"Then take it off and eat".
Kazoku looked up from his plate and looked at his youngest. "Nemu, forks are for eating not pointing".
Nemu went back to her breakfast blushing slightly in embarrassment. "Yes papa".
Mundus chuckled once again at the child. He decided that removing his mask and eating the delicious smelling food would be the best course of action.
His hand grasped his porcelain mask and took it off revealing his youthful face to the family. They didn't gawk at him or anything so that was good. He picked up a piece of bacon and bit half of it off. It had been awhile since he'd had a home cooked meal and this didn't disappoint.
As he ate, Mundus focused on the rather large group that was quickly closing distance with the village. There was about eight minutes before they came upon the village. Mundus hurried his pace enough to eat more quickly, but not enough to alert the others to his rush.
He finished his plate and stood up with a bow. "Thank you for the meal Enri". He went for the door, but was stopped by Enri's voice. "Are you leaving already?"
Mundus nodded and opened the door and left.
He proceeded to walk quickly in the opposite direction of the the approaching horses.
The Dragonoid was not that far from the village when he heard screams of terror and pain.
He didn't think that was the intent of the horses that came. He turned around and ran towards the village
He felt two people approaching him from the direction of the village. One was chasing the other
"Somebody help us!" The familiar voice of Enri screamed out from behind him. His body stopped and stiffened.
"Please!" The desperate cry rang through the forest.
The Magic Knight clenched his hands as the two options classed in his mind. Either he could save the Enri and possibly leave the villager to their fate or he could continue on and leave her.
His chivalry won out.
'Dammit!' Mundus whirled towards the screams using wind manipulation to speed himself up.
He found a bleeding Enri holding Nemu close to her chest with a knight of sorts raising his blade to kill both her and Nemu. That might have actually happened if Mundus didn't send a spell their way.
"Wind Lobotomy". A thin sliver of air solidified and shoot it self through the eye hole in the helmet causing the knight to drop his sword and fall backwards.
At the same time a Gate opened a few feet behind the sisters that let a certain Overlord through.
Momonga looked surprised that the knight was killed before he stepped out of his Gate, but when he felt the familiar presence of his 'scout' he knew their was no problem. Well the whole 'no problem' thing got thrown out the wind as soon as the two girls turned and faced the obviously walking dead person.
'Has the reaper come to collect our souls now?' Enri wondered.
Munus' white jeweled ring glowed and a voice he hadn't heard in awhile spook up. "The older one thinks I've come to collect her and her sister. I suggest you get over their and calm her down". Mundus nodded and ran over to the two petrified girls.
He knelt in front of them and shook them out of their trance. "Are you two alright?" He asked.
The shaking knocked them out of their daze and made them focus on their old house guest. "No I think I'm going to die". Enri reached for the wound on her back. She looked at him with pleading eyes. "When I pass on, can I ask of you to take care of Nemu for me?"
Mundus gaped and reached into his cloak as if searching for something, but in reality he was pulling a potion out of his inventory. He pulled the glass vial full of red liquid out and held it out to the young women. "Drink this and I won't have to".
She took the vial and took the stopper out. She started at the liquid for a second before downing the vial.
Enri instantly felt the large cut one her back heal up and stop bleeding. She felt where the the cut was and looked up at her healer in wonder, but she noticed that he was talking with the reaper.
"Momonga, what are you doing here?" The Dragonoid asked.
Momonga looked at the two girls for a moment. "I saw those two in trouble and I simply wanted to help".
Mundus smiled. "Thats kind of you". Realization struck him a second later. He steeled his eyes at his friend. "What do you mean you 'saw' them".
"I have a mirror in my room that allows me to see where ever I want with the exception of a few areas". He noticed his friend shivering. "Are you alright?"
The Magic Knight bonked Momonga on the head. "Why the hell didn't you tell me you had that! It would have saved me trouble!" He huffed. "Whatever, now's not the time for that" He looked at where the path to the village. "There are more knights in the village that way".
Mundus turned to the girls and pulled something else out of his cloak. A white feather. This was an expensive pay item he bought during the fifth anniversary YGGDRASIL sale and it was still expensive during the sale. It would summon a medium sized dragon that was equal to or slightly lower than the buyers level. He didn't really need it anymore as he believed he wasn't going to be raiding any cities soon. Plus he was a dragon god in full retrospect after he absorbed Yig's soul.
Before he gave the feather to them, he looked to Momonga who just set up a barrier around them with the use of protection class spells. "I think it would be useful if you gave them a couple of your summoning items that you don't need". His friend nodded and produced two horns that he recognized as an item that, when used, would conjure up a squad of Goblins.
They both tossed their items inside the barrier Momonga made around them. Momonga spoke this time. "Blow into those horns and a squad of Goblins will come to your aid".
Mundus then explained his gift. "The feather shall summon a dragon that will help in your time of need, but I advise that it should be used as a last resort".
The known remaining members of Ainz Ooal Gown turned away from them and faced where the village was. Momonga spied the corpse that laid in their path and came up with a devilishly good plan.
He raised his hand towards the corpse. "Mid-Tier Summon: Death Knight".
Blood came out of every hole the body had and started forming upwards into a vaguely human like being. It engulfed the body within itself and shot upwards to something taller than Mundus. The grotesque being took form and became a extremely tall skeleton with black armour and a helmet with two horns pointing forwards. It's weapons of choice was a rather big curved sword that when compared to the Death Knight's size it looked rather small and a tower shield that was actually bigger than the wielder itself.
Momonga pointed in the direction of the village. "There are knights in a village that way"
"Kill them all".
The Death Knight roared and ran in the direction it was given.
Momonga waved his friend over. "Let us go and see what state the village is in". They started walking away until Enri shouted out them.
"Wait! What are your names?" She asked them both. She knew now that 'Nemo' was lying due to his abilities.
Momonga looked at her with a single eye. "My name". He thought for a second. "Is Ainz Ooal Gown".
Mundus did the same thing as his friend and stared with one eye. He heard in her voice that the question was actually for both of them. He didn't know how she figured it out, but his cover was blown anyway. "And I am Mundus Solvite".
With that out of the way, the two guild members continued onwards to the village.
A.N.
Fun Fact # 1. Mundus' education. Mundus went to university for Modern and Ancient Languages and has a Masters Degree in both. He also got a law degree for if languages didn't work out.
Fun Fact # 2. Mundus' job. In the real world, Mundus acts as a translator in a court of law and is also an English teacher at his old high school.
I actually found this chapter to be lacking in some departments, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
Also thank you to all those who have voted so far and for those of you who haven't, worry not as the poll is still open for a few weeks.
I'm going to wait a little bit for the next chapter so I can read the light novels and watch the anime.
So yeah. Bye bye for now.