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/Carne Village/
Enri Emmot was a simple village girl born in the village of Carne where she was raised. She always thought she would live a simple life like her parents and her grandparents as a peasant cultivating the land and getting married once she was of age and live the rest of her life happily in the village and die of old age like her grandparents, but today had turned her expectation of a simple life on its head as her village was raided by men in armour of the neighbouring empire, who set her village alight with fire and massacred the people of her village, the people who she grew up with all her life.
She had to watch the men drag her father out of their home and flee, once her parents distracted the men with their bodies, along with her little sister Nemu as their parents sacrificed themselves to buy them time to distance themselves from armed men chasing after them.
She was wrecked with guilt knowing that her parents were dead, killed by the very men after her and her sister, so she ran towards the forest hoping to lose the men after them in it.
Her nose filled with the smell of burning flesh and wood from her burning village
She could hear the men chasing after them as the clinking of their armour drew closer to them, but she did not give up hope and kept running almost dragging Nemu along with her.
But it was all for naught as Nemu tripped and fell due to the fast pace she was being dragged in followed by Enri; this caused the two men to catchup to their location.
The men seeing the little girl tripped quickly raised his sword to slay the young child and swung down without a moment of hesitation.
Time almost slowed down for Enri as she watches the sword descend on her little sister, instinctually the elder sister dove down and covered her little sister with her own body.
A sharp feeling of excruciating pain erupted from Enri's back as the breath was blown out of her lungs and soon a warm moistness filled her back which was most likely the blood from the wound, she incurred.
Enri knew this was the end of her life, with her wound she would not be able to run, but maybe she could occupy the men like her parents while her little sister could run away.
But she found herself unable to move a muscle even though she wanted to with all her might.
The men seeing the two girls in such as position decided to plunge his sword through the two of them at once and raised his sword prepared to take the children's life.
Enri Closed her eyes all hope of living or saving her sister's life now gone from her mind and accepting her death, determined to demand why such injustice was wrought on to them to the gods above when she moved onto the next world while a small part of her heart had hoped for a miracle from her gods.
The sword slowly approached the unprotected wounded back of the innocent young village girl, who held onto her younger sister tightly with tears streaming down both of their eyes, knowing their life was at an end, regretting not being able to do anything but accept their death from these cruel men.
Enri with her eyes closed waited for the pain of the sword plunging into her back, followed by her little sister after which the two of them would slowly bleed to death if the armed man unfortunately did not skewer any of their vital organs.
Enri waited for the pain, with each moment that passed felt like eternity to her, but it never came.
Enri confused as to why the pain she had been expecting never came, opened her eyes, hoping for some kind of miracle.
And much to her shock, the scene before her left her speechless, as the miracle she had been hoping for had been granted as the man wielding the sword ready to murder them, no longer had a sword in his hands.
/Moments earlier/
In a clearing in the forest near the burning village a black void looking like a tear in the very fabric of reality came into existence, out of which a purple robed Dark Elf Man stepped out.
Momonga just stepped through the portal and saw the young girls on the ground with the older girl wounded hugging the younger girl with a man ready to plunge his sword through both girls.
Not wasting a moment, he quickly chanted.
[Break greater item]
A spell designed to destroy item, to disintegrate the sword out of the man's hands, which caused the sword to disappear into small particles of light.
This caused the man to become confused as he looked at his hands where he held the sword.
The companion of the man was also confused for a second, until Momonga decided to let his presence be known.
"Raising your weapons on unarmed children and killing innocents without hesitation, I shall not stand for it." Declared the overlord disgusted by the display before him after which he quickly casted another spell with his hand outstretched.
[Grasp Heart]
A transparent heart appeared in the outstretched hand which he promptly crushed causing the would-be murderer to pour blood out of the orifices of his face as the man grasped his chest in pain after which he keeled over dead.
The man's companion seeing the man standing above the girls die, quickly turned his attention to the magic caster and charged at him slashing at him trying to deal with the threat present knowing casters were physically weaker and closing distance would be advantageous to him.
Momonga saw the man lunge at him but was shocked to see the sluggish movement of the man, to him it looked like the man was moving slowly as he side stepped the man's vertical swing and quickly grabbed the man's throat and lifted him off the ground with the man struggling to break free.
Enri and Nemu watch the scene play out before them astonished by the might of their saviour, they watched him dispatch the raiders with little to no effort.
Momonga not wanting to waste more time on the man, as he saw blood pour out of the girl's wound, quickly snapped the man's neck he was holding.
Once done with the man he approached the girls sat on the ground and quickly spoke.
"Young Lady take this." spoke Momonga as he took out a vial of red healing potion from his inventory and gave it to the wounded girl.
Enri was shocked to see the man offer a vail with red liquid confused with what the content of the vial was and asked "what is this mister?"
"This is just a healing potion, now drink it quick before you lose consciousness from the blood loss." explained Momonga as he urged the young lady to drink the potion.
Enri hesitantly drank the potion, as she had never seen a healing potion being of such colour. And to her shock the wound on her back healed with a warm glow with no scars.
"Thank you, Mister..?" thanked Enri pausing not knowing the name of her saviour.
Momonga simply nodded and said, "Worry not child, I just did what is commonsense." remembering TouchMe's Motto.
Their conversation was interrupted by a scream from the direction of the village which soon reminded they were not in the clear.
Then a black void opened beside them again grabbing their attention and out stepped an aged man in a butler outfit who Momonga recognized as Sebas and followed by Shalltear in her red armour.
"VAMPIRE!" shouted Enri when she saw Shalltear's Pale skin, red eyes and pointed tooth jutting out of her lips as she hugged Nemu again to protect her and thinking that she really was destined to die today even though she was saved by their saviour.
Hearing the sudden scream all the denizen of Nazarick turned their attention to the source of the sound causing Shalltear to be amused by the fear she caused the young girls as she smirked, while Sebas was indifferent while Momonga Panicked internally seeing how the world's inhabitants reacted to the presence of an undead.
"Calm down young lady she is with me." Spoke Momonga trying to calm down the village girl, understanding undead were not looked in a favourable view.
"b-But s-she's an undead she will kill us all!" Spoke the girl stuttering in fear knowing undead hated the living.
"She is my subordinate she will not harm you unless I command it, so you can calm down." assured Momonga.
He then quickly casts [Create Undead: Death Knight] which caused the corpse of one of the men to be consumed by a black goo which then formed into a hulking undead knight with a giant shield and a sword and stood still.
"See, I can create undead." said Momonga trying to assure the young girls, which caused the girls to promptly faint when they noticed the undead Knight.
Momonga sighed at the girls fainting and decided to deal with them later and ordered "Death Knight go and slaughter all the man in the same armour as this man except one and obey any command from Sebas and Shalltear." as he gestured at the dead man lying on the ground and continued "Sebas and Shalltear go along the Death knight and subdue the survivor for interrogation and Shalltear put on your visor to conceal your vampiric nature."
The Death knight roared and charged off to the village to slaughter the raiders followed by Sebas and Shalltear close behind as the guild leader was left alone with the two unconscious girls.
'hmm.. It seems the death knight has more autonomy compared to the game' thought the overlord as he saw how the death knight charged off unlike in the game where the summon would stay with the summoner, he then walked over to the two unconscious girls and gently shook the eldest girl awake.
"Five more minutes, mum." spoke the girl in response to the gentle nudge until she finally opened her eyes and came face to face with the face of an elven man and recalled the recent events that occurred.
Enri quickly took Nemu in her arms and tried to flee in a panic, scared of the necromancer who could summon such horrifying creature and control a vampire and the unknown older gentleman who she assumed was another kind of undead creature.
Momonga seeing the panicked struggle of the girl decided to try and calm the girl down by quickly saying "calm down young lady, if I wanted to harm you two, I would not have bothered to heal you." calmly trying to be as non-threatening as possible.
The statement had caused the Enri to pause as her mind processed the words spoken by the necromancer. Enri slowly nodded her head and timidly spoke "But I heard the necromancers are evil people who use their magic to cause death and destruction." still not fully trusting the person Infront of her.
Momonga nodded to the statement as that necromancer archetype were usually negative Karma characters who were usually portrayed as power hungry villains who cause chaos and destruction to accumulate power from the death.
Enri seeing the elven man nod panicked thinking Nemu and herself were saved so he could perform evil rituals using their bodies and souls and started to try and flee again until the elven man spoke.
"Yes, indeed necromancers are usually known for being evil, but I am not just a simple necromancer I am so much more I am someone who specializes in many forms of other magic as well and I do not indulge in simple slaughter of innocent individuals nonchalantly." spoke the overlord softly in effort assure the girls.
Momonga statement was not a lie as even though he was a necromancer by class he also had a vast array of other spells which he acquired using his class specific skill which he used to bolster his repertoire of spells over the game's normal limit.
Momonga's speech seems to calm the girls down as Enri enquired "So why did you save us? We are simple villager with nothing to offer to you?" still unsure why a necromancer would save them who were nothing but simple village girls without any benefit to him.
Momonga seeing the girl's sceptical nature was impressed, she did not take things for granted and understood every kindness has a price attached to it, he chuckled at the elder girl's cautious nature.
"Worry not young lady, helping you was simply on a whim, and I do expect to have some of my questions answered once you and your people are saved." spoke the amused overlord.
"My people? Do you plan to save my village?" asked Enri in shock, unaware of Momonga's order while she was unconscious, her voice hopeful getting a nod from the overlord.
"Indeed, I had the death knight and my two companions go clear the village of the raiders." informed Momonga.
"Now then, shall we head to the village? I reckon my companions have taken care of the raiders by now." spoke Momonga as he started to head towards the village wanting to see how the death knight fares against the Human of this new world, getting a nod from the girls.
"Mister may I know the name of our Saviour first? I am Enri Emmot and this is my younger sister Nemu." spoke Enri introducing themselves and asking the name of their saviour.
"My name is Mo... no, My name is Ainz Ooal Gown." spoke Momonga pausing for a moment mid-sentence hesitantly to correct himself.
'I saved a village from a raid my name will be spread soon, My In-game name is not well known outside of the try-hards but my guild name was famous or rather infamous maybe other players will recognize the guild name and try to get in touch with me." thought Momonga now named Ainz Ooal Gown knowing his guild was well known by most of the player of YGGDRASIL while the Guildmaster was known as an infamous Necromancer overlord but few knew the name of the GuildMaster.
He also chose the name because he wanted to honour his friends by having the spreading the name of their guild far and wide.
"Well then Enri and Nemu let us be off." declared Ainz as he started walking towards the burning village followed closely by the two girls.
/Carne Village – Simultaneously while Ainz was talking to Enri/
The Raiders were Slaughtering the villagers with ease with no one being able to even put-up any resistance against the armoured and armed raiders.
"This should draw out that Bastard Gazef out soon, then we can return home after we deal with him." spoke one of the raiders to another in a pleased tone not at all bothered by the bloodshed they caused in the village.
"Yea, that bastard must be on his way here following the trails of destruction we caused." replied the other raider nodding as he slashed another man in the back.
"Quiet! Keep on killing the villager you can talk later when the village is burnt to the ground." ordered a man with a strict voice from behind the two-chatting men causing the chit-chat to come to a halt.
"Yes, Vice-Captain, Olgred." spoke the two men in unison as they nodded and continued slaughtering the villagers in silence.
"Loosen up Olgred, these filthy peasants will be dead and burning soon anyway." spoke another man who looked like he was enjoying the slaughter.
"Yes, Captain Seigfried." Exclaimed Olgred with a curt nod simply accepting the captain's suggestion as the slaughter continued.
The loud scream of the villagers was slowly dying down indicating that their work was almost done till there was a resurgence of screams again which caught the attention of the commanding officers.
"Captain, I think our men found some more villagers who were hidden somewhere, I reckon we should head over there." spoke Olgred to his captain hearing the resurgence of wails.
This got a nod from the captain who ordered the men towards the sound of the screams.
When the captain arrived at the source of the sound, they came upon a scene they were not prepared for, they were expecting to see their man killing more filthy peasants but what they saw stunned them still at the scene before them.
Infront of them was a large skeletal corpse in black armour armed with a giant tower shield and a giant long sword, oozing an aura of death around it as it slaughtered the raiders who were the source of the screaming instead of the peasants that Seigfried and Olgred was expecting.
The Monstrosity was cleaving through their men like a hot knife would through butter as the armour the men wore presented little to no resistance to the powerful swing of the undead being as it cleaved four of the raiders in half with a single swing.
There were bisected carcass of the raiders strewn about the area which caused most of the man who arrived to fall into panic and some of them emptied the content of their stomach upon seeing their own men's gruesome deaths while others fell on their knees praying to their gods to save them from this monstrosity.
"C-c-captain that's a Death Knight!" Shouted Olgred recognizing the Mythical undead creature that was said to be able to cause the downfall of a small country by itself.
"I-I can see that Olgred! Protect me while I retreat men!" shouted the captain ordering his man to protect him while he retreated much to the shock of no one as Seigfried was made captain of this operation because he was a nephew of a man in power.
Seigfried then turned tails and tried to escape but the exchange between the captain and vice-captain caught the attention of the Death Knight who turned its head towards the duo and charged.
"Aaahhh Men protect me! Protect your captain!" shouted Seigfried for his man to protect him when he saw the monstrosity charge in his direction but not one man moved, too afraid to move even to protect themselves.
The death knight charged towards the man slashing and slicing any man who stood before it as it made its way towards Seigfried who was screaming in fear for his own life.
"Death Knight, Halt." a masculine voice spoke commanding the undead being.
As the undead closed towards Seigfried it halted it charge upon hearing the command in the middle of the remaining raiders.
Seigfried and Olgred seeing the undead creature halt looked for the source of the voice and soon found the command was from a well-dressed older man dressed in a butler uniform who had an air of a hardened warrior with steel cold eyes and a neutral visage even though they were in such a macabre scene.
"Sebas, why did you have the death knight stop? our lord ordered all, but one man be spared for interrogation." Asked an Agitated Shorter person in red armour who stood beside the butler now identified as Sebas by the raiders present who was clearly a young female based on her voice even though her face was blocked by the visor of her helmet.
"Lady Shalltear, I reckon we can cross verify the information from our interrogation if we capture the remaining men." Spoke Sebas his voice Calm and curt not wanting to see anymore senseless slaughter of such weak beings to the shorter person no identified as Shalltear by the raiders.
"Sebas, you dare overlook our Lord command?!" asked Shalltear in an angry voice aghast at how the butler was ignoring their lords command to slaughter all but one of the raiders.
"No, my lady I would never dare but I reckon capturing them would be more beneficial than not." Spoke Sebas plainly trying to calm down the agitated Floor guardian.
"You dare contradict Our lord's command Head Butler, Sebas Tian!" Shouted Shalltear now angry at the blatant disrespect the butler showed to her lord as she readied her lance to strike down the disrespectful butler.
"Lady Shalltear, please I shall take full responsibility of my action and report my action in stopping the death knight." spoke the head butler trying to calm down the vampiric guardian knowing he would be easily defeated by her one on one but still adamant with his discission.
"Lady Shalltear, I, Seigfried off you all the riches for my life if you spare me, I will even tell you everything you want if you promise to spare me! You can kill everyone else." Shouted Seigfried to Shalltear hopping to bribe the young girl with his riches and offering his man so he could live.
This caused a ruckus among his man, many pleading for their life while other tried to flee away while they were the commander were busy bickering among themselves, but it was for not as the young armoured girl vanished from her position and impaled the ones attempting to flee with her lance killing them in a single stab.
"Quiet filth! Any who try to run will be killed and you filth who dare interrupt our discussion keep your mouth shut the discussion is between me and Sebas, you lower trash may not speak while we speak." declared Shalltear the fleeing man still impaled on her lance as the blood slowly leaked out of the body.
Seigfried was cowed by the brutal display of the young girl and could not utter another word in protest too scared of the retaliation Shalltear would cause upon his being if he disobeyed her direct command.
Unseen to Seigfried, Olgred his vice-captain now knowing these powerful individuals were planning to interrogate them and seeing the captain's cowardice and willingness to divulge any information, decided to take drastic measures.
"Die you unfaithful traitor!" shouted Olgred the vice-captain as he lunged at Seigfried determined to kill the captain and them himself to deny these powerful being any information as the rest of their men present were common soldier with basic knowledge unlike himself and Seigfried who were a well of information as the commanding officers.
Seigfried was shocked by the vice-captain's sudden action and could only watch as Olgred's sword drew closer to his unprotected neck with intention to kill him and all he could do was wait for his inevitable death with no time to raise his sword to parry the attack.
Seigfried had tears rolling down his eyes knowing he was about to die and closed his eyes waiting for the sword to plunge into him.
But the pain never came, which confused Seigfreid. He slowly Opened his eyes to see the Old man known as Sebas was stood between himself and Olgred with the sword intended to take his life pinched between the fingers of the old butler.
Sebas held Olgred's sword pinched between his fingers a hair's breadth from Seigfried throat with little effort surprising both the captain and the vice-captain at the agility of the older man.
Olgred struggled to push his sword further futilely to kill the captain, but it all was for naught when the older butler simply snapped the offending blade by simply squeezing it between his fingers which cause the blade to shatter with a shrill sound.
Olgred seeing his attempt to assassinate the captain fail quickly let go of the hilt of his sword and drew his reserve dagger to kill himself.
Olgred's suicide attempt was also quickly thwarted by Sebas who snapped Olgred's hands breaking both his arms preventing him from killing himself from with the use of any weapons.
Olgred was overcome with pain when his arms were broken but his will was still not broken knowing the enemy would interrogate him later decided to bite off his own tongue to kill himself as a final attempt to kill himself.
"Glory to Slane Theocracy!" shouted Olgred determined to make himself a martyr.
As Olgred as about to bite his tongue Sebas appeared behind Olgred and quickly performed a chopped at the neck of the vice-captain which caused him to lose consciousness.
Seigfried was shocked to see how fast the old butler moved as he could not follow the movement of the man even when he was infront of him. Now he was filled with dread not knowing what faith awaited him.
"They are persistent." Spoke an amused Shalltear seeing how the filth had tried to kill one of their own and how he then tried to persistently kill himself until Sebas knocked him out.
"Indeed, Lady Shalltear, I reckon these two as the commander of the men hold important information since this person was so persistent in his attempt to kill this individual and then himself." answered Sebas in a calm voice as if nothing of important had happened.
"So, we can kill the rest of the men and just keep these two alive for their information, right Sebas?" asked Shalltear again wanting to kill all the other raiders present like their master commanded them to do, much to the dismay of all the raiders present, who could not even flee seeing how fast the two individuals were.
But before Sebas could reply three Sholette approached the area who were revealed to be Ainz along with Enri and Nemu in tow who was surprised to see the macabre sight of the area filled with bisected body of the raiders and the impaled bodies on Shalltear's lance.
Enri and Nemu not used to the sight of such brutality simply froze at the sight then promptly emptied their stomach where they stood while Ainz while shocked by the carnage in front of him, was even more shocked was not feeling the repulsiveness he would have felt if he was as Suzuki Satoru, a normal human who would have had the same reaction as Enri and Nemu, which caused Ainz to realize that transferring into this new world had changed something in him that made him human fundamentally, as he could no longer empathize with the scene of brutality before him and he could only see the dead as a by-product of a futile attempt to resist his will.
"Sebas, Shalltear, report!" exclaimed Ainz wanting to know why so many men were still alive when he ordered all but one man killed, as he gazed on the two denizen of Nazarick with intense gaze.
"My lord, we have Killed most of the men who were raiding the village these are the only men remaining and these two are the two commanding officers." Spoke Sebas in calm tone his voice not wavering under his master's intense gaze while he along with Shalltear took a knee infront of the overlord.
"I see, but did I not order all but one man killed, was my order not clear, just sparing one of the commanding officers would have sufficed." questioned Ainz, his gaze now bearing its full brunt on the head butler who was unmoved.
"Yes, my lord I, too questioned Sebas, why he halted the death knight from slaughtering the rest of the men but he insisted that more information could be gained from the men." Spoke Shalltear her voice panicked fearing she had failed her master again like she did in the throne room.
"My lord, I in my humble opinion had thought that if we had multiple men interrogated separately could cross verify the information we got from each individuals." Spoke Sebas explaining his thought process to his master his voice unshaken unlike his companion.
This caused Ainz to pause for a moment as he pondered the words of the head butler in his mind and concluded that if the information was indeed from a single individual, it could not be verified but if multiple individuals were interrogated their information could be cross referenced and inconsistencies could be found out which would yield an unmitigated information.
"Hmmm indeed Sebas I see you are indeed right. I commend you for your foresight, well done." praised Ainz as he nodded to the butler's deductions.
This had caused the floor guardian present to be confused, who just saw the head butler being praised for blatantly disobeying the lord's direct order but decided to keep her mouth shut and decided to ask the butler why the master praised him instead of reprimanding him at a later date.
With the issue resolved Ainz decided to order the remaining raiders alive to be taken to the tomb where they would be interrogated
"Shalltear, you shall escort them to the frozen prison and lock them up individually in separate cells and tell Neuronist Painkill to extract all information from them and cross verify the information, then you may return to your post in your floor and have the death knight guard the prisoner while they await their interrogation." ordered Ainz with an authoritative tone, which got him a nod of acknowledgement from the Vampiric guardian as she opened a gate to the fifth floor.
Ainz also had Shalltear and the death knight leave the area as he knew the human here were not accustomed to the presence of the undead so this would kill two birds with one stone, the prisoners would be taken to the prison while the undead present would also be absent for his second interaction with the humans of this world.
This left Ainz along with Sebas and the two girls left in the area and soon the overlord noticed that the two girls were still emptying the content of their stomach and he felt sorry for them for seeing such horrifying sight while being so young and he decided to help them.
Ainz approached the two girls and knelt near them not worrying about dirtying his robe in the soiled grounds as he patted them on the back like how someone would do to ones who were throwing up.
After a while they stopped no longer having anything else in their stomach to vomit anymore, Ainz gesture to Sebas who understanding his lords whish presented two napkins from his inventory to the two girls who were slightly dazed, after they emptied the content of their stomach involuntarily.
"Thank you master Ainz Ooal Gown" thanked Enri followed by Nemu who used the Napkin to wipe their mouth from the residue of their throw up.
When Enri called Momonga as Ainz Ooal Gown Sebas Paused for a moment but soon composed himself knowing his master had a plan in place for disclosing the name of their guild instead of his real name
"Enri, if you are feeling better can you tell me about these men who raided your village? do you know who they are?" asked Ainz in a soft voice not wanting to startle the girls with any loud voice as he could see the girls were distressed with the carnage infront of them.
Enri Surveyed the corpse of the men who raided her village with a slightly timid gaze with her face turning green again when she was confronted with the sight of the macabre again but this time she did not vomit or rather could not since her stomach was empty.
She easily recognized the armour the men wore as she had heard of the armour worn by the soldier of the empire from the many men in her village who were conscripted into the annual war with the empire.
"Yes, master Ainz Ooal Gown the Armour worn by these men are similar to the men of the Baharuth empire who our country goes to war annually." Spoke Enri identifying the armour as the one from the empire their country was at war with, in a weak voice still in a dazed state.
'Hmm so this was a raid by an enemy country to cause chaos in their enemy's land?' thought Ainz as Enri informed him of the war her country was in with an empire.
"My lord, if I may, before the commanding officer of the raiding party tried to bite his tongue, he proclaimed his action was done in glory for a Slane Theocracy instead of the Baharuth empire." spoke Sebas calmly informing his lord of the information he knew which shocked Enri when she heard the men were from the Slane Theocracy.
'hmm a false flag operation but the two countries are already at war what could the Theocracy gain from further antagonizing this country against the Baharuth empire." thought Ainz not understanding the Theocracy's action but he knew he was missing information, since he knew very little about politics of the countries of this new world. so he could not come to a conclusion with such little information, so he decided to ask the only person that knew of this world.
"What do you know about this Slane Theocracy Enri?" Aske the overlord gently trying not to stress the young lady too much knowing his questioning was hard for Enri who just survived the raid of her village, but he needed the information.
"The Slane theocracy is a country to the south of the Re-Estize kingdom they are the country known as the protector of Humanity." Spoke Enri softly in a hollow voice of void any emotion.
"Hmm quite a contraindicatory title don't you think?" mused Ainz in a low tone, as he thought of the theocracy still unsure what the purpose of this false flag operation was.
"Why?! Why did the theocracy slaughter my village?! Why?!" Enri shouted in anguish as her world views were shattered upon learning that the Slane theocracy the so-called protector of humanity had been the one who were responsible for the slaughter of her village and her parents.
Ainz did not know how to respond to the questions asked by the young woman decided to keep quiet as the silence descended upon them, but the silence was broken by a Calm voice of a well-dressed gentleman who decided to share his wisdom with the grieving young woman.
"Young lady Enri, my master nor I, know why the Slane Theocracy did this but I can only impart the wisdom my creator bestowed upon me, will you stand this injustice laying down or will you take a stand and face the injustice head on fighting tooth and nail to get the justice that was taken from you!" Spoke Sebas passionately remembering how his creator TouchMe was a beacon of justice and how his creator had inspired the rest of the supreme beings during the grand raid.
Ainz stared at the usual calm and reserved head butler with shocked look, the word spoken by the aged man was reminiscent of what his dear friend TouchMe had spoken to encourage Peroroncino when Shalltear was slain during the grand raid as the astral image of TouchMe overlapped Sebas.
/Flash Back/
The members of Ainz Ooal Gown had just witnessed their first line of defence be slain by the raiders, all the members were shocked to see the number of players that were suddenly raiding their guild base, while thinking what their next course of action could be.
while an Avian player was hitting a pillar in the throne room saying how could the raiders slay his perfect waifu as he was comforted by a player in the form of a slime of amber colour.
Soon the group of players fell into chaos unable to come to a conclusive decision as to what their next course of action should be, which led the group to simply start arguing like children, until.
"We will not stand THIS INJUSTICE! we will avenge the death of our floor guardian! Heed My Call members of Ainz Ooal Gown, I, TouchMe, the paladin of justice, the form leader of the guild, ask all of you present will you continue to bicker like children while waiting for the enemies to destroy our base further or will we form a plan with a calm mind to avenge their unjust slaying of our guardian." spoke a loud voice among the group which caused the bickering group to fall into silence.
The voice was none other than the insectoid Paladin, TouchMe, who saw the bickering would lead them nowhere and also saw Momonga was overwhelmed with the chaos, so he decided to step in and provide the current GuildMaster a hand in calming the guildmates.
The proclamation had caused the throne room to fall in silence no longer filled with the chaotic bickering.
"Punito Moe, Tabula and Ulbert as the most strategical mind in the guild you three come up with plan to counter this raid, the rest of us will try to slow down the raiders using the guild ring to perform guerrilla warfare on the raiders, once you three come up with a plan inform me then we will implement it." spoke Momonga using the tone the other dubbed GuildMaster voice and continued "Pero let us avenge Shalltear!" declared Momonga.
Momonga had used the Opportunity TouchMe created to quickly formulate a first response plan while also having the most brilliant minds in the guild to come up with a counter strategy for the raid.
Upon hearing the GuildMaster's command the three mentioned member nodded and stepped out of the throne room and went to the meeting room to plan their response, but they requested the assistant of a scrying expert to join them.
With the strategist out the rest of the members geared themselves up to face the raiders.
Momonga turned to TouchMe and spoke "Thanks TouchMe without you the whole situation would have been worse." thanking the former GuildMaster.
"All in a day's work, my friend, I just used the training I had as an officer to control the chaos" Replied TouchMe with a smile knowing during a chaotic situation grabbing everyone's attention with a loud proclamation usually help diffuse the situation or at least quietens the situation for clear thinking.
Momonga nodded then prepared himself to face the raiders.
The raid was a gruelling event while none of the members were killed but many of the NPCs were slain, which caused the creators of the NPCs to redouble their effort.
Each floor conquered by the raiders was defended with tooth and nails by the members and the NPC exacting heavy casualties on the raiders side for each inch of the base and with every NPCs killed the resolve of the members were further strengthened.
Especially the creators of each floor guardians poured their heart and soul in the base defence as their NPCs fell.
Peroroncino who saw Shalltear being slain first, was ruthless with his attacks on the raiders with his guerrilla technique of teleporting to one end of the floor far away from the raiders and using his legendary archery skills to harass the raiders' number.
Next floor guardians to fall was Gargantua followed by Cocytus, which caused the creator of the fifth-floor guardian WarrirorTakmeiKazuchi to become more ruthless in his efforts, no longer worrying about the honour of a warrior and taking part in ambushes on the raiders, while not holding back on backline classes, who he once considered not worth his time.
When the sixth floor was conquered, and the twin guardians killed, BukubukuChagama who was usually a happy go lucky tank of the guild with a penchant for using a loli voice, too started participating in the ambushes with overwhelming zeal, while using her real-life voice acting skills to deceive the raider and sew chaos in their midst using the proximity voice chat feature of the game.
But all hell broke loose when the guardian of the seventh floor was killed, as the usually calm and often Chuuni, Ulbert had stomped out of the meeting room ready to use his special skill grand catastrophe to eliminate the raiders responsible for killing his perfect creation, it took the combined effort of Momonga and TouchMe to calm the Baphomet player and have him return to planning on how to repel the raiders.
The raiders were finally repelled when they reached the eighth floor and slayed Victim the floor guardian which caused the floor to be enveloped in a cursed mist killing many of the raiders present on the floor, which had the remaining raiders retreat not wanting to incur more losses in the raid of the tomb.
Which concluded the raid as Momonga announced "Ainz Ooal Gown Knows no defeat." which was later coined into the motto of the guild.
Once the raid concluded the members were left with many loots that they collected from the slain raiders and sold in the in-game auction.
The raid was later named as the Grand raid of the great tomb of Nazrick by the player-base which was also acknowledged by the game devs who immortalised the event by giving the guild a special item which Tabula Smaragdina later used to create Rubedo his last NPC who was made into the strongest being in the Guildbase even out gunning players like TouchMe and Ulbert Who were known as the world champion and world catastrophe respectively.
But the members of Ainz Ooal Gown did not forgive the sudden raid of their guild-base and performed many raids of their own which propelled them into the top tier guild of YGGDRASIL.
/End FlashBack/
'That was also when Nishikiren infiltrated the elf guild.. Good times, good times.' reminisced Ainz remembering the glory days of his guild, and just like how he used the opportunity TouchMe provided him to reign in the chaos he used the opportunity Sebas' passionate speech provided to encourage the despairing young girl.
"I too once was weak not unlike you young Enri and Nemu, I was once saved by TouchMe who believed in justice, who put me on my path to where you now see me. Earlier you asked me why I saved you two simple villagers? Let me tell you what HE answered me when I asked him the same question. Saving someone who is in trouble is commonsense." spoke Ainz calmly and behind him unknown to him the aged butler's neutral facade cracked as a single tear escaped his eyes finally understanding how deeply his creators ideal permeated in the master he served.
"Now let us not further linger here the macabre sight bothers me and I know the two young ladies would like to rest too after the day they had." exclaimed Ainz as he started walking into the burnt village.
The burning village looked desolate with no signs of life anywhere, Ainz had thought that the two girls he saved were the only survivor of the village.
But against all hope Ainz decided to cast a spell to detect if there were any other living being nearby as it could also serve as an experiment to see how the spells of the game worked in this new world.
Ainz cast [Detect Life], a spell used to detect any living being around an area to find any living villagers nearby.
Soon he found about a dozen or so villagers hidden in a well hidden basement in a burning hut.
He and his companion promptly went to the entrance of the basement and told the survivors the raid had ended.
"Villagers, the raid on your village has ended, you may come out of the basement now." announced Ainz as he stood outside the charred hut.
But he got no response, he waited a few more minutes until Enri approached the hut and spoke.
"It is me! Enri, the raid is over! You guys can come out now, the day was saved by the sorcerer Ainz Ooal Gown, it is safe now." shouted Enri loudly knowing the villagers would not respond to a stranger's voice.
Soon after Enri's shout an elderly man stepped out of the hut along with an elderly woman, who Ainz deduced to be the wife and spoke "is the raid truly over?" his voice hesitant.
"Yes, Elder, I was saved by Master Ainz Ooal Gown here, and then his companions slew the rest of the raiders." Assured Enri he voice still hoarse and hollow.
"How do we know he is not one of them?" Asked the elderly woman still suspicious.
"If I was one of the raiders, I could have simply cast a fireball toward the basement, since I know there are about a dozen of human in that hidden basement." Spoke Ainz casually as he announced his knowledge about the number of survivors in the basement.
"So, Master Sorcerer, how can the village elder of this ruined repay you for your generous action?" Spoke the elderly man still sceptical of the spellcaster's motive.
"Elder! This man saved us on a whim and told me, he would simply have some of his questions answered would suffice as payment." Enri Answered quickly as to not anger their saviour, as she knew sorcerers are whimsical and could change their minds on a dime and use the survivor for experimentations if his ire were wrought upon the survivors.
With the elders nodding to Enri's Answer not wanting to enquire further about the sorcerer's intentions as they saw the village girls' haggard visage and expression of caution and fear, knowing not to earn the ire of the sorcerer who saved them.
Soon the elders and the rest of the survivors established order in the village putting out most of the fires and gathering the remains of their friends and families.
While the rest of the survivors of the raid tended to their deceased Ainz was escorted to an unburnt warehouse where he was offered a place to rest.
A few hours had passed since Ainz was escorted to his resting place with Enri reporting to him every hour or so.
Beside Ainz, Sebas stood as the butler he was and watched as Ainz take a sleeping Nemu, who fell asleep in Enri's arms, in his lap as he petted the young child's back in a comforting manner, he reminisced about his time with the twins.
Soon his reminiscing was interrupted by Enri who entered the warehouse looking exhausted with her eyes devoid of any emotions.
"Master Ainz Ooal Gown there are twenty villagers remaining out of the eighty that used to live here. The rest were killed in the raid." Reported Enri to Ainz about the survivors of the raid on the village in a monotone "and we are gathering the dead for a funeral soon." continued Enri as she was getting even more haggard with each passing moment.
Seeing the young girl's appearance Ainz was shocked and spoke "Enri, I would like to suggest you taking a moment to rest, you have been running about endlessly for hours." worried for the girl's health.
"I'm sorry master Ainz Ooal Gown but with the number of dead villagers it cannot be helped, every able-bodied person must contribute." explained Enri while she started to walk away but did not make it too far as she collapsed on the ground from what Ainz later concluded to be fatigue.
"Enri!" exclaimed Ainz as he reached for the collapsed girl and saw Enri had simply fainted from Exhaustion which was not a surprise as he had seen what the poor girl had been through but seeing such a young girl collapse of fatigue was hitting too close to home for him as it reminded of his mother's tragedy.
He quickly placed Nemu Down and approached Enri to check on her health.
He calmed down after his quick examination of the girl and laid her to rest near her little sister as he went to speak to the villagers.
"Survivors of Carne village your current representative Enri has become indisposed of I need one of you to replace her till she recovers." declared Ainz and soon after an older man with a white beard stepped forward his posture hunched due to his old age.
"Master Ainz Ooal Gown, I, as the eldest of the survivor present myself as the replacement for Enri." offered the aged man which received a nod from Ainz.
"Very well elder, Report to me when the dead are collected or if there are other raiders that approach the village." Spoke Ainz as he re-entered the warehouse.
/ Carne village- Late Noon/
The ruined village of Carne was in a somber mood as the survivors of the raid were working endlessly to gather the bodies of their friends and families, many of the survivors were young men and women barely out of their teens along with a few elderlies.
They worked with tears streaming down their eyes. as they gathered the remains of the villagers who were slaughtered in the raid, while also fixing some huts so they could stay in for the night.
Finally, near dusk the survivors had collected all the remains of their fellow villagers.
The elderly man soon approached the warehouse where they accommodated their saviour,
"Master, Ainz Ooal Gown, we have finished gathering the remains, soon we shall start preparing the funeral." spoke the elder as he entered the room.
The elder saw their Saviour had fallen asleep in a sitting position with the butler standing still beside his master while the girls Ainz saved were sleeping off on a side with a sheet draped over them.
"hmm.. Oh, I must have fallen asleep." Spoke Ainz as he woke upon hearing the elder entering the room.
"Master, the villagers have finished gathering the remains" spoke Sebas informing his master what the elder had reported.
"Hmm, yes that is good to hear, elder" spoke Ainz addressing the elder with a nod.
"Now that the work is done, I had a few questions I needed answered as the payment for my service." spoke Ainz as he was excited to have some of his questions answered.
But all of his excitement came to a halt when a young man quickly rushed in shouted "cavalry men spotted approaching the village!"
Causing the sleeping girls to wake up with a jolt while the elder was stunned shocked fearing a second raid.
"hmm seems like my questions can wait elder. Sebas with me" spoke Ainz as he got up to see to the approaching cavalry men.
But soon a second man entered the room and spoke "the cavalry are from Re-Estize"
Causing the tense elder to relax along with all the other villagers present in the warehouse.
"hmm.. looks like the kingdom relief is here" spoke Ainz as he continued "Elder, let us greet the kingdom's soldiers" as he walked out the warehouse with the elder and Sebas in tow.
/End of Chapter/
Author Notes:
Well guys this is my first attempt at a fanfiction so I hope you liked the story so far.
I see many reviews regarding punctuation and grammar so I hope someone could help me in editing the story Dm me if anyone is up for it
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Now answering some of the reviews
Muffledscreams: This needs a re-edit with a focus on punctuation.
A: Yes, I see that the first few chapters were not punctuated well and I do apologize and yes, I do plan to re-edit the chapters at a later date, but I wanna get the story going first, get some of the plots underway.
Chongwillson : I hope he dosent change his race to something basically human looking, since there are plenty of other more interesting options like beastmen or other crazy looking heteromorph's.
A: Well, I prefer dark elf as it was to help Aura and Mare but maybe I can have him transform into other heteromorph if the situation calls for it.
E: Chapter 1 was fine, so I don't why the grammar and spelling are so rough in the chapters beyond. Not write unreadable, but bad enough that I'm not gonna read anymore. The premise at least seems interesting.
Might see if this is fixed sometime in the future.
I await more, as always.
A: thank you and yes the earlier chapters will be re-edited at a later date my friend. Hope to see you then
Darkdoom III : (sorry dude the text is too long)
A: yes, I think draudilion would be good but we have to see how the story pans out.
About Shalltear enthralling Ningun well see what happen in the next chapter
Alex TF : First time I've seen someone use the three sisters from the get go. By the way, the descriptions you make for almost all reactions/characters are a bit long in my opinion. Keep up the good work :)
This looks promising. I was wondering for a second there if you were going to have herohero going along for the ride.
A: yes I was hopping to bring herohero to the new world but later I changed my plans.
Yes the description are kinda long but when I start writing I cant stop myself from over explaining.
AtrisTheAngel :I don't want to interrupt the flight of fantasy, but canonically Momonga can't change his race without a special world item, which he doesn't have, by the way...
A: well my friend, that is why we, or atleast I write fanfic to screw with cannon and while we are at it since overlord is based on D&D so I took the ring of polymorph [uncursed] as an item so it's can be considered Psudo-cannon.
TrapKing: Am I seeing things or did this have 90k~ words?. Also keep up the great work
A: Ahh yea, about that I used to write the fanfic in notepad and it did not sit well with fanfiction when I pasted the first few chapters and instead of the story it displayed the code of the text. I am still learning how to work the site so it may happen again.
Now on to guests reviews
Gusest Oct 18th : Looks promising. Just gotta fix up those occasional grammar errors
A: yea, buddy working on it, hope the new chapters are better in comparison
Guest Nov 9Th : Great chapter as always. But if he's something living I'd prefer if it didn't turn into smut lol
A: thanks and I don't think I can even write smut since this is the first time writing so you are safe... for now.