Note from author: Listen here lads, i need a real rewiew, please i need to know what part I am doing good and what I am doing wrong, I know my english sucks toes,
thats the reason i wrote this fiction, to get better at writing in english, but I need to know, do you need more descriptions? Momonga's musings? Or what are you thinking about this whole plot. This is important for me, every rewiew counts, dont be shy I love constructive critic.
But enough of my ramblings, lets go with the story.
Chapter 8: Death Rising
[City of E-Rantel Partrhorx P.O.V]
I am almost certain that the player has a base of operations inside the city or around it. I can almost smell him in there, this unmistakable smell of pure unrestrained power lingers here for hours, so he must visit this place very often. I took a sip of my mug and looked around me.
I was in the most luxurious adventurer's inn. It is almost certain that I can find him there. My long-gone friend said to me that those places work on players like magnets. It's not like I know how magnets work or what they are, but from what he was saying, this is the place players love to hang around. They love the adventurous feeling of power. They never have enough of it. To put it shortly, their behavior is mostly humane. They look for strange things, and most of the time they like to shine and do something that sooner or later will get them in the spotlight. For some reason, they remind me of moths. They fly towards the sun until they are burned by it. But my goal is not to harm the player, but to guide him like I did with my dear friend Silver. He was an interesting fellow. He was the only person I knew who could beat Tsar and not even break a sweat. Well, of course, Tsar didn't know it was him who beat him, and I was silent like a grave.
Ahh good times.
Some drunkard bumped into my table and spilled my drink. I almost ripped him to shreds on the spot, but I calmed myself down and took a quick peek at his adventurer tag. His name was Igvarge. I would shred him to bits even if he was a high-ranked adventurer, but there was something else. Behind him trailed a powerful undead. It was half see-through in my [Blind sight], but that's not what actually stopped me. It smelled artificial. Looks like I found my first trail.
Here I go. Be ready, unknown player, because I will hit you with some powerful arguments, and I do not have my claws in mind.
. . . /o/
[Great Forest of Evasha Undisclosed location]
Inside a great forest, hidden behind the tree lines, there was smoke rising high above. It rose faster and faster, twirling through the air.
Deep in the forest, there was a grand ritual. Naked elves, covered in red glowing tattoos, were dancing in a synchronized manner, forming a slow spiral towards the raging campfire. It was like a trance. Some of them were lying on the floor, already passed out from the drugs they were using for the ritual. The others replaced their empty spaces. Inside the spiral, there was no living vegetation, but not due to heat or the workings of the elves. It was due to negative energy. The campfire flames turned into sickly purplish flames that burned with hatred towards everything that lived.
Around the center, there was a ritual altar made from black polished marble. Various voodoo engravings were glowing on it in red light.
Above this altar was the Queen of Calamity. She was almost naked, covered with tattoos that were glowing with a purplish light, matching those on the altar. It looked like a tribute to a dark god. However, anyone who thought that would be very, very wrong.
The thing they were summoning was far more horrible and evil, but it wasn't vile. It was indifferent, just like the expression the young Queen had right now.
Then, she suddenly widened her eyes.
-[I Call the lord of the tomb...]-
She chanted, and the crowd repeated after her like groaning zombies
-[...the one that stayed and waited for the end of times...]-
Her was clearly Vibrating right now, she walked up to the altar with clear intention in her movements.
-[..sleeping king of the mountain that awoken from his eternal dream...]-
She layed on the altar, in her hand appeared a curved ritualistic blade, it was rusted to the very handle of it.
[ruler of the dead, the one that stays on the end of the path...]
She lifted it high above her heart. The ritual rumbling was cascading like a spiral with higher and higher voices. The ground was shaking.
[The one that we know for his burning gaze...
Everything stopped like frozen in time, in truth time has really been frozen.
[THE GOAL OF ALL LIFE IS DEATH]
She thrusted the blade.
And the swirling portal of darkness apeared above the extinguished campfire.
. . . . . /o/
[Sky, high above carne village]
Just above the clouds in the freely gazing sky of the night, a figure was floating. This figure was a manifestation of pure concentrated absolute darkness, with light reflecting from the ridiculously sized gems mounted on its shoulders. Arches of purplish energy swirled around the figure, occasionally tearing and creating beautiful daybreaks of purplish light mixed with green. It was an image of death and nothing else. When you saw this visage, you could be almost certain that your time had come.
-Its so beautiful, like shining box of jewels for my taking-
He raised his boney palm to encompass the stars in the gesture, to his suprise and worry stars dimmmed for a moment before his infinite might.
And for a while the world was darker than ever before, like whole light was extinguished from the world, he wanted to take stars for himself and make them his.
-This all shall be mine in the name of Ainz Ooal Gown, if my home was refused to me, then I will take this universe as appropriate compensation.-
He closed his fist, and then released his palm world returned for normal again.
He will never forget this moment in his entire life, not in a thousands of thousands of years.
. . . /o/
[Carne Village Momonga P.O.V]
I took a spoon towards my jaw and poured soup into it.
-!-
Well, it's not surprising that it poured down my robes and onto the ground. It was to be expected, but I was depressed anyway that even this bit of my humanity was gone.
I pulled out a special stew that gives a minor buff to luck for 8 hours. I guess I am really just a bunch of bones created and animated from negative energy. In the lore of Yggdrasil, the overlords were the lords of absolute death. Sometimes they would appear on their own, and there was also a probability that they would appear in the middle of battlefields after the war, if enough beings were slaughtered. They were a concentration of negative emotions and sorrows of mortal creatures. I am literally their personification of suffering. And I guess it rings kind of true with me. I am not only an overlord, but I am ruling over them and all of the undeath.
It feels like all this negative energy that was on Earth has molded into a single being.
Me.
I looked up again at the construction that I had unknowingly approved, well, I had in mind some place to use later as a base of operations. It was looking like a fortress of an edgy lord or kind of villain. Ulbert would like that. It looked rather classical with its twisting towers, none of them placed straight. The building was going like a pyramid placed upside down but much flatter on the surface. If my guildmates saw this, they would laugh their asses off and probably tease me for the rest of eternity, while Ulbert would be defending this idea profusely.
I flashed a nonexistent smile, then looked at the gathering point of the village. There was a cabal of night liches summoned by the overlord general. They were whispering in their raspy voices, chanting anti-divination spells in unison. They were holding their bony hands together. In the middle of them was a distorted beam of negative energy pointing towards the sky. It created a pulsing barrier that covered the entire Carne village and some forest.
It appears his powers have grown significantly. When I asked him about it, he mentioned something called mana stretching. Well, I do not require this because my mana is bottomless. But still, it is good to know a few things. I also turned some corpses into undead that the overlord general has provided. I didn't ask where he took them from. I'm afraid that if I talk to this guy for longer than five minutes, I will go insane. It is half babbling of magical mumbo jumbo and another half singing praises about me and calling himself worthless. Then there is a small part where I can learn something from him. But so far it was worth it, well at least Fluder is less secretive, but I feel even more in danger in his presence than with khajit and all of them. When I gave him an item that improved his exp gain he fell to the ground cackling like a madman and tried to grab my leg, well I escaped in time before it turned into shit show,I saw in my mind how elder liches would be strangling him for disrespecting supreme one.
It's not like I gave him something special; it was a [Travelers Cloak], a trash item of the Legacy class. Nothing to scoff at, but nothing special either. It was useless to me. I don't even know how I got it in here; my inventory is a mess. Well, maybe I will even get to know how mages advance in this world by observing his progress, and maybe later improve my own abilities.
I looked at the still clearly suffering Khajit who looked like he contemplated suicide. A little girl was clinging to his leg. Serves you right, you bastard.
Now, what would I do? Maybe a trip to the forest?...
No... that's too dangerous right now, with all of those dragons flying around. They probably have ears everywhere. There is too much possibility that one of them is a fairy dragon. As soon as I enter the forest, he will know. But this temptation...
Without saying a word, I cast [Create Greater Item] and [Perfect Warrior].
Momon the Black is back on track!
. . . . /o/
[Forest of tob, next to the village of Carne Partrhorx P.O.V]
He was flying high above the peculiar village that appeared to be empty, but he knew that was a farce. He saw with his [Blind Sight] what was really going on here. It was a miracle that no dragon lord flew over this village and burned it to the ground. Even he, rusty and not specializing in divination magic, could see it. The whole village was shimmering in waves of tingles of negative energy. He had never seen a use of negative energy like that; it was kind of impressive.
-Clever bastard-
I smirked. It was the middle of the night when he finally unraveled the thread of summoning and found this caster. He was inside the forest, talking with some overgrown rat. I was almost certain the poor creature didn't have much time to live. But how huge was my surprise when he spared the gerbil and took him into the village.
Normal undead would have turned this gerbil into an undead long ago. Humans would have skinned it and made clothes from it. Normal players would slaughter it only for a small amount of what they call "exp". It is clear to me that this dark warrior is no ordinary undead. He is already building his "base" in the middle of the village. Does he want to create the country of undeath? It looks like it. I even saw from above a couple of humans-turned-undead mating in the bushes. The boy was what interested me, he was new, undead like him were the first of their kind, this player is so absurdly powerful that he can create new kinds of undead? Well Tsar would make a temper tantrum if he heard a glimpse of that.
Anyway, I am going to observe him for now, and see does he is worth my attention, maybe this undead is what this dying world needs.
. . . . /o/
[E-Rantel Main street Momonga P.O.V]
When I heard from Nfirea that this creature is acknowledged as one of the most legendary monsters in the forest of Tob, I laughed for 5 minutes straight with breaks when emotional suppression activated, but then he said he was serious when I asked him. This? Hamster is a legendary creature of these lands? No wonder this country is so terrible, from what I heard from my servants. Re-Estize wasn't an ideal kingdom, in truth it was far from it.
So when I rode a goddamn hamster in the streets of E-rantel and saw their oohs and aahs, I only lowered my head in shame. And I was planning to create some elaborate and well-layered plans to quickly build my reputation in this world, but a freaking hamster did its job better than defeating the Elder Lich Cabal.
-Look at the top of this thing! What a powerful warrior!-
-Marry me!-
-The eyes of this creature hides an incredible wisdom, truly this is our new Adamantite adventurer in rising.-
-Aeugh.-
-Oooh macarena!-
-Momon!, Momon!-
People were cheering like on some victory parade, my embarassment reached critical limits and maniacal giggling slipped from my control.
And the emotional suppression activated, the hell continued.
-This is going to be a looooong day.-
I sighed like some old man, well in truth I am very old I reached the level of age where normal people become wizards and learn the art of lewitation with ropes.
So with deranged smile, that nobody could seen even without the helmet, I moved on.
/o/
[Forest of tob undisclosed location Multiple P.O.V]
-This is not good evil boss.-
Tina said. They had been walking in this forest for hours, even though none of them wanted to admit that they were lost. Not in the sense of not being able to find their way out, but in the sense of not being able to find their objective. Above the trees, there flew a certain childlike magic caster, trying to navigate the endless forest. Below them walked Gagaran, a mountain of a woman, towering above all the other girls in the team. She was swinging her hammer from side to side with clear annoyance.
Behind her was the famous wielder of the dark blade, Lakyus Alvein Dale Aindra, a runaway noble daughter who abandoned the luxuries of nobility for a life of adventure. Among the trees hopped shadows of two twins. They were so similar to each other that you couldn't make out which of them was Tina or Tia. The only thing making them different from each other was their loops, which were tied in tight knots in their hair. One was red and the other blue.
-This is taking us nowhere, shorty you are sure you can't sniff out undead like you always did?-
Gagaran asked in loud masculine voice. The magic caster flying above stomped in the air like a child with annoyence.
-How many times do I have to tell you, i can't "sniff" them out I am not some beastman or undead.-
She protested with her childish tone.
-Too bad, you could always know where Zurrenon was making their rituals, when we were fighting in Draconic Kingdom. What' the problem now shorty?-
The magic caster swirled in the air and appeared before Gagaran.
-I do not know maybe you can give me some of your beer sense and we figure out what I can do-
Gagaran swinged her hands in the air trying to catch the caster by the leg, all of them laughed at this display.
Then assasin twins tensed in their shadows inside the tree line.
-Somebody is coming here-
Said Tina.
-One is amored man and the other is some kind of rat-
All of them took battle stances and waited for the new arrivals. The bushes started moving ahead of them, then they heard someone swearing at the top of his lungs, and some childish voice apologizing profusely and an audible smack. And then there was only silence. They tensed even more. Evileye prepared her spells and...
She wasn't going to let her friends be jumped like that. She was sure that whoever was coming here had a strong aura. Her hairs were standing on end as this person approached. She also felt something that she hadn't felt in a long time. It was like the coming of a king and a lot of overwhelming... lust?
Then from the bushes came out gerbril with a huge red protruding bump on his head his tail was encompasing his huge body.
Then a figure of heroic tales came out of the shadows of the forest. He was clad head to toe in tough and pristine black armour finished with golden edges, the plates of this armor were coming atop of another completly covering the person inside, behind him was a red cape that was flowing in the wind.
She only had one thought in her mind...
-So cool!-
She said that aloud, and everybody looked at her with some hint of consternation, she quickly covered her mouth with her hands, cheeks flashed red under her mask.
Blushing profusely for a vampire princess was an rare thing, but she couldn't help herself in the presence of this...
Who is he anyway?
The dark knight took this as his clue to speak and coughed in his hand.
Then finally started speaking after some uncomfortable silence and Evileye covering her head like a child not wanting to hear anything.
-Welcome fair maidens, my name is Momon the black the mithril rank adventurer from the city of E-Rantel!-
Said making flamboyant gestures, making Evileye water her mouth.
What the hell is wrong with me?! She asked herself in her mind.
Holy shit, they are frozen, what do I do, and the [Jewel of Death] took me on the wrong way, it detected an undead in the area, but i wanted to really quickly cover this mishap of mine, well it appears after I created the Death knight with the corpses that Khajit gave me I didn't left him with any specific orders, so he just started wandering about, until guild shat their pants and made a bounty on my summon. How careless of me, and now I am looking at this vampire that releases huge amount of lust aura and her friends looking at me like I was some kind of joke. Not good I scratched back of my helmet in a very human manner.
-Ekhm, we are blue roses the Adamantite team of Guild in Re-Estize, My name is Lakyus Alvein Dale Aindra I am the leader of this team, the tallest of us is Gagaran, behind you are Tina and Tia, and floating above us is Evileye. Its a pleasure sir Momon.-
She gave a little curtesy like those noble ladies, well her noble name make it obvious, good I stopped Red from anihilating them outright for to dare for sneaking up to supreme being, its not like they are something special, even I can see them though I do not have any special classes that specialize in stealth, this floating one seems to be strong for a creatures of this world, interesting... wait! Blue roses?! Adamantite team?! Dang it! Ainz was panicking in his head.
Emotional suppression activated.
-Why are you here-
Said undercover vampire, asking the undercover king of undead. Hilarious.
-Umu, then, umu.. you see... I have come in my rutine hunt that I always do to sharpen my senses... and to be true I got lost.-
They relaxed at my embarassed tone. But they still held their weapons, not like I was different I was ready to blast them to the oblivion with my [Time stop] and [Triple maximize magic:Fireball] well there would be no evidence, but I need to stay atuned to the outside, I can't just blast anyone that come to close on the spot because I am shitting my pants... about shitting my pants I just did that releasing my dispair aura by mistake, I quickly sucked it up, so my aura can leak like that even when my heart is in sleep mode. Good to know that. Thought Ainz.
-And why here big guy-
Tina said.
-You were coming straight at us-
Tia said squinting her eyes still hidden in the shadows.
I almost shifted but my emotional suppression saved the day. Umu! Random bullshit go!
-Umu, you see I have a certain item in my possesion that detect undead... Umu, and I was pretty certain that I have been lead here because of your friend.-
Ainz said, sweating bullets under the helmet and making Evileye do the same.
How did he? Cannot be! I checked my spells and they are still active... unless the items work on smell, damn it! Evileye was panicking in her mind.
They looked worried at their surroundings, not counting sweating Evileye that looked like a total mess trying to find balance in the air.
-Where? I would know if one of those abominations were so close, I am priestess of water there is no undead that can hide from me for long.-
Said Lakyus, at which Evileye heart has sunk.
Ainz gulped quietly masking it with coughing while being enveloped in invisible green light.
-Ahhh yes, then I must have been mistaken, maybe the item wasn't working as it should be its a foolish mistake on my part, my deepest apologies.-
The knight bowed and only thing Evileye think was again So Cool! with a moments of realization that knight didn't sold her out and was looking at her in understanding manner, she never known that she would be thankful to someone like that. Her heart was starting to beat a tinge faster. Just what the hell is happening? Vampire heart cannot beat unless... Evileye was making asumptions and racked her head with confusion. That was to much for her to bear.
. . . . . /o/
[Great forest of tob Multiple P.O.V]
She was tense, and stayed like that since dark knight found out about her condition, what's more she felt some kind of familiarity with the faceless knight.
Evileye pouted under her mask childlishly and flew on the side of the Momon that was at the back of the column, riding a giant gerbril, it looked very majestic.
But before she could squeal in delight like love struck girl is, there are some important matters to know. She wont trust him that easily.
-Soo... why you can't reveal your face to us?-
He cupped his armored chin in a thoughtful manner.
-Religous reasons.-
He said without skiping a beat. Now Evileye get suspicous.
-Why? I didn't heard about any religon who would do such a thing? Are you from minotaur nation? Maybe you are a beastmen in disguise?-
She pressed him. Inside Ainz started feeling uncomfortable, but a glowing lightbulb went over his head and he smilled diabolically under his helmet.
-Give him some space Hornyeyes, he is tired of your drooling at him right now.-
Gagaran said nonshalantly still swinging her pick with casual ease to sweep out plants.
Evileye cheeks went red. It is time to strike!
-You now we can show our faces to one significant person in our life.-
She pumped out her fist, probably without her knowing she did that. Ainz almost fell out of Hamsuke at that.
-Ha! So you can show your face!-
He turned his head to face her.
-Oh but I wouldn't do that on your place...-
-Why?-
-Because you would have to become my betrothed-
There was only silence for a while. Evileye looked like she was steaming.
Then everybody went to a fits of laughter, even Hamsuke had a good time at the cost of embarassed vampire.
She was crying inside with blood tears of shame.
Trying looking cool she became laughing stock, now they never going to let it go of her untill all of them die of old age.
. . . ./o/
-Hold!-
Momon yelled unsheathing greatswords from his back, where did he hid them before? Behind this little cape? Ridiculous.
Every member of Blue Roses tensed at that an prepared for attack for a five seconds everybody was slient.
-Awwwwooooh!-
Terrible howl shook the entire forest. Evileye stopped looking at Momon for a while, clearly worried.
Oh no! I was so absorbed in thinking about Sir Momon that I neglected my detection skills! Damn you, stupid brain! Start thinking about survival and figure out how to get vampire-like you pregnant later! Evileye didn't expect she would say that aloud. And everybody stared at her.
One of the twins fell out of the trees in mute silence. They looked at her in worry, and for the first time in their life, they saw Tina laughing like a little teenager, bawling her eyes out. Well, it went straight downhill at that point.
Ainz had emotional suppression epileptic attack 2 the electric bogaloo.
What the hell you perverted jewel! You supposed make her say her thoughts to make me sure what she is thinking about! Not turn her into you!
He almost grabbed the moaning [Jewel of death] from his inventory and tossed him into the forest. But he stopped himself.
(Death knight attack me and push me away from here I can't take it anymore!)
He commanded in embarassment. Then a blow came and pushed him deep into the forest sending him flying and his greatswords swirled around in air staying in place.
Girls gasped at that and for the first time they were surprised by a death knight that was a size of a freaking house. This one was different.
Evileye still crying and squirming started chanting.
-[Shard buckshot!]-
The circles of magic appeared before her hand and six shards of crystals bounced of the now enraged death knight.
-Roooarrhhh!-
It howled in rage dashing its shield and sweeping jumping up Gagaran to the side like a rag doll.
-You vile scum[Dark Blade Mega Impact]-
Lakyus struck a similar pose to the momon liked to do. The dark energy impacted the undead in shield and pushed him back a little.
It released mocking laughter pointing his dark sword towards Lakyus. That looked beet red.
-Bravo six going dark-
One of the twins whispered.
Then from the all four sides came twins and their clones with a thundering attack on undead sword.
-[Disarm]-
The undead dropped its sword and it flew in the forest. Then Death knight pulled out another sword that appeared in his sheath like nothing happened.
Evileye eyes widened like saucers under her mask.
-This thing is a summon!-
She exclaimed in astonishment. What a powerful, dreadful being could do something like that? She knew, she saw it with her own eyes, in the times when thousands of heroes still wandered the mortal plane. She was one of them at some point. But even Evil Deities couldn't do such a feat for good.
This thing was rampaging there for days. It was very, very bad. A chilly sensation came down her spine, never again.
The giant death knight roared in challenge. Even she, for a while, fell under its influence. [Hate] was a passive ability that all death knights had.
Lakyous, like a big oaf she is, charged recklessly while making silly poses that, in her opinion, were cool.
-Die monster! Your reign of terror ends here! You will not consume me, my sword wont do that to!-
She screeched and bounced of deathknight shield and layed on the floor like a pancake. Death knight seemed amused, normally it would kill her but his lord ordered him not to do that, so he only laughed his ass of while parrying Gagaran not even looking at her.
-Parry this you filthy casual!-
Gagaran jumped up in the air making a dust cloud below her feet, the death knight was looking at her as she painfully slow from his perspective descened.
He planted his sword in the earth and swatted her like a fly with his back hand.
Death knight didn't even seen when enraged Lakyus charged at his head, and she chopped with her sword on his neck.
There was dull rining of metal and suprise on Lakyus face.
Then from nowhere they heard a scream akin to berserker.
Before they could react something charged at death knight making him tumble into the tree, the whole ground shook.
Then they saw Momon with big dent in his chest slamming his fists like mad at the undead making him shake like a ragdoll. In place where he landed was a crater.
-Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless! Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!
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Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!-
He was pounding him to the ground bits of metal were flying literally everywhere, Momon screeched like a madman.
-AAAArhaaaa! Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!
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Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!Useless!-
The death knight was a pile of rubble at this point. Then he disappeared and momon swinged his last punch impacting the earth enlarging an existing crater.
Then his emotional suppresion activated.
-Perimeter cleared-
He said.
Somebody moved.
-Perimeter cleared?!-
Evileye's hood was unreaveled showing her gold like hair, she looked like she saw some shit.
-You almost destroyed half of the forest and that's what you say?!-
Momon shrugged.
-Perimeter cleared.-
Author: Well like bone boy said perimeter cleared. Stay tuned for the new chapters, and remember to leave a rewiew, it really helps for my writer block.
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