Disclaimer: I hereby declare that I do not in any shape or form own the Video Game known as Overlord, along anything under that name wither it be sequels, characters, and plot. I only own my own characters, plot, and anything else I create for the purpose of this story. So please no lawyers, I do not have the money to pay them. Thank you.
Well basically this had been yet another failed project, though one of the few that at least had a complete chapter to its name. Basically it is a fic based after the end of the first Overlord game. Unlike some other of my failed projects I don't think I am going to be able to even finish this idea due to most of ideas and notes for this story have been lost so I don't really know where I intended to go with this story. Anyhow I still hope you enjoy this piece anyways!
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Overlord Resolution
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Summary:
After the destruction of Old Overlord, the New Overlord is left as the supreme ruler of the Tower and his people. How will he go about this new life and will he ever forgive Gnarl?
Chapter BGM is Victoria by Krypteria
Those first few days after the death of the old Overlord, I tried to help my lord and master to recover from the fight and the recovery of his memories. His memories of the friends he had slain thanks to the manipulation and corrupting presence of the old Overlord, and the memories of his previous life. It is a sad thing to see, but I shall stay at my lord's side no matter what.
- Taken from the Personal Journal of Rose Granger, Overlord Mistress
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As he towered over the dead body that was once the mortal body of the man known as Tiberius of the Grange, a powerful Wizard, he could only remember the various times he had spent with the older man during his time growing up and later during numerous fights against various bandits, slavers, and rouges he followed the man through. These mentioned memories joined many others of his old life, the one that had been torn away from him thanks to mad scheme of the man who had possessed the Wizard during the cusp of his defeat against Tiberius and the heroes he had gathered together to fight the evil man, including himself. With a weary sigh he reached up and removed his towering helm from his head and looked away from the burned husk of a body to look around at his surroundings. The cheering Imp-like minions that surrounded him, the glowing smile on the face of the recently entered Rose Granger, Tiberius's oldest daughter and an old close friend of his during his childhood, and the moaning of the few live Minions of the now dead Overlord. All of this a reminder of his new life, and one that he fully intended to follow through in the memory of his friend and mentor Tiberius, and the memories of those other heroes he been manipulated in slaying by the Overlord. With this in mind the man once known as Elias Forrest, Beastmaster and son of Cyrus of Spree, Lord Spree, was once more gone and now he was once more Overlord Kione. With a grim smile he sat the helm once more on his head and turned to look at over at the cheering minions and raised his mailed fist in victory making the minions cheer louder. With that same smile on his face now hidden by his helm he gestured with his left hand silencing the minions thanks to the Minion gauntlet gracing that hand.
"Gnarl! You filthy traitor get out here!" he yelled out with a snarl making his minions reflecting on their Overlord's anger tense ready to fight. After a few moments the aged Minion Master and Overlord Advisor appeared at the now broken door to the platform where the two Overlords had fought against one another.
"You bellowed master?" the old minion calmly asked as he approached the platform and the Overlord. Underneath his concealing helm the Overlord snarled in anger at the old minion before calming himself seeing how his emotions was making the minions agitated.
"Yes while I am not all that happy with you right now, we need to get the Tower back together once more. Therefore I want you oversee any repairs that are needed, especially the Tower Heart since thanks to your treachery was damaged. When you do this however I do not want to see or hear you for no matter how angry I am at you, I cannot afford to kill you. You are the last of the Grays, and I am sure I am going to need your help in the future. You understand this?" he managed to growl out towards the surprised old minion. He quickly recovered before bowing low towards the Overlord.
"Yes Sire. I understand with that said I shall go now to oversee the repairs," he replied with some glee in his voice, something at least made the Overlord smile at. With that done the Gray hunchbacked Minion turned towards the gathering of minions and started to make his way once more through, before getting to one of the injured Brown Minions that had been fighting for the old Overlord and was being watched by a older Red with a long scar running down his face and one horn missing.
"Gnash you slimy dog shall assist me in this," the minion master ordered not even giving the old Red a look and grabbing the ear of the injured minion before starting to drag him away. The Red blinked at this before looking over at the Overlord who only rolled his eyes behind his helm before only nodding at the minion who shrugged before turning his attention back to other injured enemy minions.
"The rest of you lot are dismissed. There is other work that needs to be done. Grimgore and Giblet stay behind," the Overlord ordered waving his minion gauntlet once more. The various Minions bowed their heads towards their master and departed. Some dragging the injured enemy minions away with them leaving the platform clear with only the Overlord, his Mistress standing a respectable distance from her Lord, and the two mentioned Brown Minions. Both of whom were the oldest of the Browns, and therefore two of most powerful of the Brown Minions. Giblet had lead the Minion Four, an elite group Minions organized briefly by the Second Overlord and had recently during the current Overlord had been promoted to Forge Master by Gnarl due to the old Brown's quick thinking on several matters as well as his ability to take the armor from dead enemies and modifying it to be used by the minions. Grimgore was the oldest Brown Minion and the current Minion Lord of the Browns, and had been almost solely reasonable for Kione to once more able to command Minions after the Old Overlord had removed that ability during their first confrontation.
"Grimgore I have to ask why did you support me over the old Overlord?" he asked looking down at the grim and scared Minion Lord. Grimgore stood a head taller then Giblet and the rest of the regular Browns. He was heavily muscled, even more then a regular Brown, and sported various scars from past battles, he also sported only a single eye and wore a leather patch over his destroyed eye socket. He was one of the only Minion Lords to survive the years since the First Overlord, all the others had been slain during various battles over the years. The only other Lord that survived was Mortis the Minion Lord for the Blues who had supported the old Overlord with Quaver the Jester and Gnarl. Technically Gnarl was considered to be a Minion Lord thanks to his abilities as the Minion Master, though he never was the Minion Lord of the Grays before the destruction of the Gray Hive.
"Master that is thanks to the Tower Heart's connection to you. While your predecessor still had his old link with the Heart it was weak thanks to his body being destroyed and his possession of the Wizard. Your link was far stronger and even when it was cut it mended in time due to how strong it is. Therefore I decided that you are my True Overlord and Master," the minion responded after a few moments of thought with a blink of his remaining eye. Grimgore like Gnarl spoke just a human though his voice was heavier almost a growl over the more dry tone of Gnarl. Overlord Kione nodded at this for he like many of the previous Overlords knew that the Tower Heart was semi-intelligent due to the magic that created it and its age.
"Very well then Grimgore return to your duties," he ordered nodding to the aging Minion Lord who bowed his head towards him before leaving him alone with Giblet and Rose. Nodding he turned his head to look down at Giblet and smiled slightly to see the old Brown back in his Forge Master get-up over the armor he wore earlier when saving him and then leading his own Brown Minions against the minions of the Old Overlord.
"Giblet I want you to put together a tomb for our friend here for while the old Overlord was my enemy. Tiberius the Wizard was not, and I think he would at least deserve a proper burial," he ordered waving an armored hand towards the body at his feet.
"Yes Mastah," the aged minion replied with a slight confused look on his face before turning to follow his orders. Kione only smiled a bit under his helm at the confusion from the minion before he sighed and raised his minion gauntlet he mentally ordered three Browns out of the nearby minion gate before ordering them to carrying the dead shell of Tiberius down to the Tower Catacombs where Giblet would construct his tomb. With a wearied sigh he turned finally to Rose to see her watching as the body of her father was taken away.
"Rose come here please," he ordered with a sigh snapping her attention towards him. Rose blinked before walking over to his side and dropping into a curtsey.
"Yes My lord?" she asked after recovering from the curesty with a small smile on her pretty and calm face. Kione smiled down at her before sighing and looking up over the tower.
"First thank you for your support and help during this. I know I hadn't really spent any time with you in last few months. Second what should we do with Velvet, since she did support the old Overlord. I really don't want to kill her, but then again I don't want her coming back and opposing me again," he said making Rose smile brightly at his thanks before sighing at the mentioning of her sister.
"Sire I believe you should keep her in the dungeon for a while before releasing her. She really isn't that much of a threat to you without a powerful patron behind her," she replied after a moment of thought making Kione nod his head for it made sense for it made sense for Velvet really didn't like getting herself dirty all that much.
"Understood, I will pass on orders to Crunch to throw her into one of the more dirtier cells to teach her a small lesson," he stated with a nod of his head mentioning the Crunch the Brown that had been promoted to the Tower's Dungeon Master.
"That would be the best. Now my lord come to bed for I am sure you are exhausted after all this," she said picking up one of his hands with a large smile on her face making Kione smile as well before he sighed knowing that he was indeed exhausted after all this.
"Very well My Lady let's retire to our chambers for your right it has been a long day for the both of us," he replied allowing Rose to lead him away from the large bacony towards the Tower's Private Chambers leaving behind the remains of the battle while the sun finally cleared the dark clouds that had hid it since the start of the battle between the two Overlords and start shining down onto the Dark Tower.
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First I like to mention that yes I know that there where no wounded enemy Minions or even dead bodies thanks to them just disappearing after they where killed. My excuse for this is that I didn't like how different the Enemy Minions where during the final section of the game for they looks like cheap copies of Minions not real minions.
Anyways I hope some Overlord fans would like the idea of the Minion Lords, for they are something I wondered about when playing the game. What if there where Minions that where smarter and more powerful then the regular minions? This is my answer to that. To counter this only two real Minion Lords are left of the original five created. Grimgore is the Brown Lord, and Mortis from Overlord II is the Blue Lord. Gnarl is technically a Minion Lord thanks to his position as the Minion Master, though he does not have the other abilties of a Lord thanks to him originally being a regular minion. A minion of the Gray Tribe, but a regular minion nonetheless.
Speaking of the Gray Minions. That is something else I am introducing into this story, I have seen other stories which calls Gnarl a Gray, some others have him as a Brown. I am expanding the idea of a Gray Tribe of Minions, and they had been the brains of the Minions. They where the researchers, advisors, stragertists, and at times leaders when the Overlord needed to split his forces for some reason or another. Sadly like mentioned the Gray Hive was destroyed sometime before the game starts and without that no more Grays can be created though Overlord Kione will find a way to replace the Grays later on.
Anyways that is about it folks I shall see you all in the next chapter. Till then Ciao!