Hello everyone. I'm Don Orbit and welcome to this Overlord/Gate crossover. This story's basic idea of an evil overlord was a request by another author, so I can't take full credit for this. Still, since a story can't simply be a skeleton and needs some content I'm willing to accept this challenge as well. So far my Overlord OCs have been rather good People. Now let's take a look from the perspective of someone who is downright evil. As for my it has been already a challenge to make this OC. But enough talk for now. Let's begin with the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Overlord or Gate. Overlord belongs to Kugane Maruyama. Gate: Jieitai Kano Chi nite, Kaku Tatakaeri belongs to Takumi Yanai.
Reign Supreme
Prologue - Arrival
From space the planet Earth looked far different from what it used to look like when Homo sapiens appeared on the world for the first time. The last Ice Age came to an end, the human conquered land, sea and sky with his wits and intelligence and managed to fight his place to the top of the global food chain.
However, this came with a big prize that had been the planet itself. The oceans were no longer bodies of clear blue water, but brown dirty muck that was filled with garbage. The skies were constantly filled with black smog where only once in a while a lightning illuminated the skies for just the parts of a second. The once gentlle hills and meadows, the dense evergreen forests, even the white snowy mountains had to make place to the habitat of the human in form of gigantic cities. Skyscrapers stood everywhere with dozens of floors and underground levels like a mockery to the once massive trees that stood in their place. The fluids that rained down on this world were highly corrosive and were highly toxic to most organisms. It disolved the concrete the buildings were made of, destroyed any life that was unprotected and poisoned the ground, making it impossible for plant life to grow ever again. It was as if the planet had understood that the beings it had brought forth had done this to it and now it mobilised all These powers to wipe itself clean from the creatures that had done this to it. But the human being not only intelligent, but also very thick-headed simply continued as it pleased. It knew that the world wouldn't be able to support life much longer and that it couldn't do a damn to reverse the process or even to slow it down. All it could do was to fight for it's right to live and to exist in this wasteland it had built.
In midst of this labyrinth of roads, streets and buildings lived now the human in millions of billions of individuals like a massive bee hive. The streets were overcrowded almost making it impossible for people to move from Point A to Point B. The massive buildings that stood in the center of the city were mostly occupied by companies, while most workers lived further away from the center. While the ones in power had more than enough of everything, the majority of the population lived in conditions that were an Insult to the human rights, if those hadn't been disabled many years ago. The human life was in this society was much worth as that of an ant that one accidentaly stepped on.
And such conditions are the perfect fertile soil for crimes. The gangs and thieves dominated the parts of the cities that were not controlled by police forces and whenever the rich people on top of the hierachy clashed they simply sendt their troops to attack the lower population. Services like hacking, stealing or assassination were well payed by the rich, but it never changed the condtions the people lived in. They were just the cattle, that worked for them day and night until one died by the exhaustion.
In their desperate attempt to flee from this reality most people fled into virtual realities of video games. The most popular game was the Dive Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game known as YGGDRASIL. It conquered the hearths of every gamer when it was released in 2126.
YGGDRASIL was an open world fantasy RPG with 9 different worlds the player could explore. With 300 different races the player could chose from the game was truly a master piece of a video game. Those were the conditions for a truly great game with an unlimited number of possibilities. In YGGDRASIL a guild could conquer a dungeon and make it their base by defeating the last boss monster of the dungeon, before creating a guild item that would represent the guild. When the Guild Item would be destroyed the guild would automatically be disbanded and the dungeon would return to it's original state. However when conquered a dungeon could be freely customized by the players. With real life money additional floors could be added to the dungeon while layout, traps, even the monsters and NPCs of the dungeon could be customized as well. This was one of YGGDRASIL's key Features, an almost unlimited number of customization possibilities.
Cash Items could be purchased via tombola and were paid with real life money, which was something only few could afford. Items of course could also be customized at the player's free will. With it's nine different worlds and open world mechanics the game had more content and freedom than any other game. Players could join together in guilds and clans to achieve their goals together or just follow their dreams on their own.
However, 12 years later in the year 2138 the servers were shut down at midnight. All players, that stayed until the very end of the game, couldn't even imagine what would await them at this very moment.
Alfheimr
Time: 22:16:40
Alfheimr was a world in YGGDRASIL that was mostly dominated by human players. In the norse mythology it was the home of the elves. In midst of a lush jungle in this world stood a majestic palace made of stone that could remind an onlooker with enough education of an ancient indian city like the Long destroyed Ankor Wat. Dark stone walls gave the palace an even more imposing in the jungle. A large vermillion banner of a white bow and arrow decorated the front of the castle. However inside of this castle a merciless battle took place. On the 3rd and last floor was an entire battalion of robed mages and steel clad Knights fighting against a far superior enemy.
"Attack with all you got. He can't have that much HP anymore!" Someone yelled as alll kinds of magic projectiles flew through the air and exploded not far from the Group as the Knights had risen their shield to cover the mages. The attack had kicked up a lot of dust, making it impossible to tell if they had won or not. In the next Moment however a stream of black flames flooded the corridor as the fire swallowed the defenders. They cried out in pain before their HP dropped to Zero and their bodies disappeared. The sole survivor was a Knight in sky blue armor with a cape on his back and a crown shaped helmet to indicate that he was the leader.
"What the hell?! We attacked you with everything. Your HP should have dropped to zero by now. You are cheating." He said as he took a step back. A deep voice chuckled in the corridor as two red eyes shone in the darkness.
"Cheating? Someone like me doesn't need to do that. I'm simply better than a bunch of knight wanna-bes like you. And as for my HP, well what can I say? You never heard of [False Life Data] did you?" It said. [False Life Data] was a spell that gave an opponent wrong informations about a player's or an NPC's HP. The blue knight ran away through the corridor as the voice simply stayed where it was.
'Dammit, we cannot win against that guy. I Need to bring IT at least into safety.' The blue knight desperately thought as he ran, but in the next moment another collum of dark flames crashed into his back. Tumbling he fell to the ground as he only saw a massive shadow towering over him. "Why the hell are you doing this? We didn't do a Thing to you!" The blue knight said, trying to reason with the creature above him.
"No you didn't. But that didn't stop you from doing the same to others now, did it? I guess I'll have to show you where lowly creatures like you stand." It said.
"Oh god no. Please no!" Were the knight's last words as a massive clawed hand crushed the man like an insect. The hand withdrew back into the darkness as the red eyes shifted further into the corridor.
"Such a disappointment. In the end you were nothing, but a coward, that hid behind his subordinates without really having any power. Now then to the spoils of war. Let's hope the information was correct." It said chuckling as it marched forward. Shortly the base of one of YGGDRASIL's PK guilds from Alfheimr was erased from existence.
Nidavellir
Time 23:53:26
The realm of Nidavellir was one of the nine worlds in the game YGGDRASIL. The landscape was mostly made of dark rocks and mountains. Only a few rivers cut through the stone and formed a few waterfalls when they streamed down a cliff. The Vegetation of this place was very short and most Monsters were either of subterrean nature or should blend in with the environment. In this desolation was a dungeon. It was a big ruin of an old stronghold with high walls and destroyed watch towers. On top of the walls stood gargoyles still like statues and knight looking golems were integrated into the walls as both decoration and defensive meassures against invaders. However the fortress might have a narrow entrance and strong defenses, but it was still not impossible for a larger Party of 25 Players with good teamwork to get inside the fortress. The building itself was merely the gate, which leads into the deeper floors into the dungeon itself. The dungeon was called The Vanguard's Loss implying a story from the lore of the game about an order of defenders that tried to hold off the Devourer of the Nine Realms at this point, but failed miserably.
The fortress ruins, however, were still a formidable stronghold, especially after a guild took over the dungeon as their base. Vanguard's Loss had 5 different floors. Each resembled another biome and generated other monsters than the other floors. This made it more difficult for invaders to overcome the defenses of Vanguard's Loss. Still the guild that had conquered this dungeon had always been made out of only one member.
5th floor of Vanguard's Loss
A single individual wandered through a long hallway as it's red eyes scanned the corridor for anything disturbing. The hallway was completely made of massive alabaster while at the furniture had been made of ebony. Only large candeliers emitted light in the hallway as they hung from the ceiling. A few pictures with different motives hung on the walls and filled a little the emptiness, however each showed one of the fantastic landscapes of YGGDRASIL. Beautiful and majestic castles of Asgard, erupting volcanoes of Muspelheim and lush jungles of Vanaheim decorated the walls in golden frames with gems, making the hallway look more lively and more luxurious. The creature that stalked the corridor was dragon with a size of about 4 meters. The body was covered with jet black scales. Razor sharp claws were it's fingers and toes. Both hands had five sharp claws as fingers as the feet had only three toes. A long tail was balancing the body and with another 4 meters in length. On top of a long neck sat the short reptilian head with red eyes looking around, while the jaws were filled with sharp teeth. Long thin spikes grew along the spine of the dragon as they were the longest at his shoulder blades' height. A pair of metallic silver jagged blades sat on the back next to the long spikes. All in all the dragon looked like a vicious creature that could tear any opponent into bits with it's natural arsenal.
"Ah yes. This is good. And finished." It said to itself as it kept walking through the corridor as it placed a picture of a desert with a large temple that was already half sunk in the sand on the wall, though it's mouth wasn't moving. This dragon was a game avatar of a YGGDRASIL player known under the name Erebos. Erebos was one of the very few heteromorphic players, that managed to reach Level 100 without the help of other people. He had fought his way up to the top of the ranks of the players and even had become the World Champion of Nidavellir. The reason for this solitary playing style was simply the result of his real life. As he arrived at a large door at the end of the hallway he pushed them open. He had arrived in a room fitting for a ruler. It was a massive room with a giant stone throne at the end on top of a platform with an height of more than 25 meters. The room was unlike the corridor outside made of obsidian, which reflected the light of the lamps on the smooth surface. A long red carpet lead towards the throne from it down to the stairs of the platform it stood upon. At the sides of the throne stood massive statues of armored knights with each at least 10 meters high. Those were also golems like the ones up on the surface. 'Welp took long enough to build all of this. Time to enjoy it.' Nhazat thought as he walked to the throne. He had started as a simple dragon player like everyone, however instead of looking for allies to not get PKed after the first minute, he went out into the world of YGGDRASIL on his own. Slowly he gained levels and became a formidable foe for every player he came across. Then 2 years ago, he took part in the World Tournament of Nidavellir. It was a hard and long fight, but in the end he overcame the former World Champion as well and took his title. However after that he had been tailed by more PKers and they attacked more often for a few weeks. Erebos had always avoided the direct confrontation with the other players and had remained alive for years thanks to it. He only formed the guild Tartarus with some heteromorphic players in exchange to a Divine Class Item and protection for a certain amount of time until those guys left the 'guild' when they reached level 100 on their own. Together they conquered this dungeon and Erebos made it the fortress it was tonight while supporting the others to reach Level 100 as well. It was not sad at all. It was simply buisness for Erebos. One side requested something, the other side delivered it and got something in return. He didn' even remembered their names anymore.
Afterwards he mainly focused on adding more things to Vanguard's Loss and put everything he had gained in this game into this project. Erebos had arrived in front of the throne and sat down on it as he looked at the empty throne room. This was his own little kingdom with him as the sole ruler. It was his memento of himself in this world that so many people had left by now. He had sought solitude and now he had managed to achieve it togehter with other things like wealth, infamous and other things on the way.
"A shame really. If I had more time I'd go to Asgard again and wipe the ground with those PKers again. Or I'd get back to the raid of the world eater. That would be fun to beat it up again. Oh well, there's hopefully a YGGDRASIL 2 coming up before I die. Still something seems to be missing here." Erebos thought loud. "Oh right I don't have any servants to serve me right now. Normally the king would be alone, but he would also hold meetings wouldn't he?" He said. In real life Erebos was not more than a simple gangster and former mercenary. In all his life he had been encountered with people that pushed him around like they wanted and even hurt him to the point where his own sanity ceased to work. In a world in which he lived that was nothing rare. It was a dog eat dog world and one could always get killed out of some lowly reason. Nazah himself had grown up in a ghetto as his parents died as he was still at young age. Growing up on the street with many gangs of criminals, that would confront one with stealing, drug dealing and murder day by day wasn't the best way to grow up. People like him were the real victims of this twisted world's order. As a teenager Erebos had grown far more aggressive and was under constant stress due the fact that he had to work in multiple Jobs. Later he had been part of a street gang, that dominated the area he was living in, next to having a job in an office. The illegal buisness in the Underground made life a bit easier for Erebos. A few years later he was simply appointed to go to the army by some rich fat pig to take care of some rival. On the battlefield all of that didn't matter as grenades tore his comrades apart and bullets rained down upon his battalion. Only his instinct to survive had saved him in those days. He simply slaughtered his opponents without beating an eye. After the rival of his employer had bitten the dust by a sniper 3 years after the conflict broke out, he was able to get out of his ghetto and moved further into the city and from then on worked in an office, while also being put under medical observation due his most likely damaged mentality, though his past had made him alreadey psychotic and with that he had no new trauma. Still it was a potential threat to the ones in command. Erebos could track down a person and kill it with no regrets. It was for him like stepping on a cockroach. In revenge for what the fat rich pig he had worked for put him through he leaked Informations to the polices, that damaged the image of the company so greatly that his former boss was imprisoned. After it he had to search for a new employer, but when he had found one it was just like the first bastard he had worked for. Since then he had mostly worked day and night. He could only blame the world and gouvernment for what he had become, but he didn't really held big feelings for the people around him or anyone in general. He had himself and that was more than enough in such a twisted world.
That's why Erebos liked to be in this world. Here it didn't matter much how many people you killed or out of what reason you did. It was just a game. After beginning with YGGDRASIL 5 years ago Erebos felt some kind of relief whenever he entered the digital plane of existence. Here he could be anything he wanted and even a part of his rational thinking became better after this. Still in real life he remained a cold blooded killer. No matter how much he wanted to stay here he couldn't stay in this game forever. And all of this was going to end in less than 5 minutes. He had chosen the dragon race for a couple of reasons. One of them was the large variety of dragons in all different kinds of mythologies. Also dragons were a symbol of many things. Wealth, divinity, calamity, terror and most importantly for Erebos power. Also when dragons were an available race to play in a fantasy game it was just natural for Erebos to pick one for himself. However due the fact that there was no penality for killing a heteromorph player, there were only few heteromorph players at all. For Erebos this was rubbish. Why making so many possibilities when the player couldn't enjoy it. He had worked hard to get where he was now and no one could take that away from him. Not even the PKers that tried to do that not Long ago. It was almost scary how fast some news spread. Still, merciless as he was in real life he simply killed everyone who challenged him. After a few times the PKers had learned from their mistakes and eventually gave up as he was an opponent that couldn't be easily defeated. But some of them couldn't learn, so Erebos simply went over to their guilds and destroyed them.
Erebos chuckled at the memory of him killing an army of those guys as he summoned a console in front of him to look at the NPCs he had created to keep this place safe when he wasn't in-game. He browsed through the NPCs names that he had created, before checking their positions inside the dungeon. All of them had still full health and they were at their appointed positions. That was a very important factor if a guild of players would try to attack Vanguard's Loss. Erebos might not be a passionate roleplayer like other YGGDRASIL players, but he was an experienced mercenary and therefore was a very organised person. For each NPC he made a personality that was mostly depending on the role within Vanguard's Loss. On top of the hierachy was him of course and below him the NPCs in a hierachy that was also a critical factor for their level and class design. Sighing to himself Erebbos as everything was fine. He dismissed the console and opened his inventory as he brought out the guild weapon. It was a massive battleaxe. It's cruel looking blade glowed with a dark red aura and several violet glowing runes decorated the handle of the weapon, while blue glowing lines were running over the blade like circiuts. On the opposite side of the blade were several spikes. This [Executioner's Bane] was Erebos' strongest weapon and extremely solid. It enhanced the wielders stats and gave it a resistance against slashing weapons. A very handy weapon, however it would be too risky to use it now in battle.
"If I go then I'll go with style at least." The dragon said as thought about what he had created. When he conquered the ruins the dungeon was rather easy to beat. The ruins resembled mostly an old cellar that would only change into a stalgamite cave at the 4rth floor before facing the endboss Janus, the roman god of the beginning and the end at the 5th floor. Before he had altered this dungeon a temple was where now walked. It had been fun for the dragon to fight the two-faced god. Then he suddenly thought about the fact that until now he wore nothing. Normally it was impossible for avatars to be like that and the game at least gave them underwear ince the game didn't allow nudity, however heteromorphic races that even naked didn't look perverted or didn't show any private parts were exceptions such as insects, slimes or dragons. However in his case armor was rather unnecesarry because he used a lot of data crystals to increase his own defense. "Well I leave this world as I entered it." Erebos said shaking the thought out of his head he remained sitting on his throne as he changed his size. The once 4 meter tall dragon grew to a size that matched the size of the throne, making it look much more suitable for the dragon. The Guild Item had grown as well to the size of Erebos as well. All items in YGGDRASIL changed their size so it fit the one who wore it or used it. A giant could wear the armor of a dwarf and a human the armor of an amorphous creature as well. "I actually made it in a weird way, given the fact that this is still a video game. I've a strong fortress as a home, created a lot of NPCs to serve me, tons of gold and items stuffed in a massive vault and even became a World Champion. Too bad it is going to end so soon. I wonder what life would have been if it had been like this a bit earlier. Well tomorrow will be another horrible day." Erebos said as looked at the clock. It read 23:59:43. For some reason however he had an uncomfortable feeling in his chest. 'Damn it really has been a long time since I felt actually sad about something. At least it was worth it.' Erebos thought as he smiled inwardly. He couldn't help but close his eyes for a moment as mental and physical exhaustion slowly took over his mind.
23:59:57
23:59:58
23:59:59
00:00:00
00:00:01
00:00:02
"Huh?" Erebos said as he was suddenly awake and still sitting in the throne room of Vanguard's Loss. Also his HUD had suddenly vanished from his view. "What's this? Did the devs made something right for once and delayed the shutdown?" He said as he stood up. Then he froze. "What the?" The dragon looked down at his feet as he felt the carpet under his feet. There was nothing else to see. He tried to move his toes and the digits indeed moved. Even more suprising, he felt how the carpet shifted beneath his foot with each movement he made. "Now that's interesting." Erebos said as he looked at the clawed hand of his avatar, however he felt it when he clenched his fingers. He felt how his mouth moved and his tongue touched the sharp teeth. He could even feel the tail that was attached to him at his coccyx. He walked out of the room while still remaining in his large form as his mind started to run in circles. 'Seriously what the heck? What's with this? Why the hell can I feel my avatar's movements and why does it feels like the most normal thing that is? This doens't makes any sense!' Erebos shouted at himself mentally as he reached the door that lead outside of the labyrinth of hallways.
He was greeted with a sight that he did expected but it still stunned the dragon. The place where he had been until now was a castle that was built into the wall of the dungeon itself. The real dungeon was outside and was basically a massive underground stalagmite cave with a great lake with about 30-40 meters depth at the end. The entrance of the castle was buildt on a small ledge of rock with a staircase leading down to the body of water. The water reflected the light of the crystals that illuminated the room from the ceiling. In the distance the entrance of this room was visible as well. The massive lake was filled with monsters that attacked any enemy that dared to enter the water. This security meassure kept outsiders out from the castle and was for most YGGDRASIL players an hinderance that was difficult to overcome. Even a flying player like an angel or a birdman couldn't simply fly over, because a monster could still attack from below. Erebos thought of it as a creative idea to test his opponent's wits, but it was also a very pleasing sight for his eyes. He himself could simply cross the lake however even then he would need to pass through the rest of the 5th floor of the Vanguard's Loss.
"Ah there you are Erebos-sama." A voice tore the dragon out of his daydream. He turned around and found himself face to face with a hooded figure. A black mantle hid the person's face and features perfectly. Not even the feet were visible as it looked at him. The voice was deep, but not threating or angry. In contrary it was very respectful towards Erebos as the figure kneeled to him. Erebos was however in total shock as he looked at the person in front of him. Not because he had no idea who this person was, but because he knew very good who and what that was. This was Charon, a dullahan, that Erebos had created as a caretaker of the castle and strategist for the case of role playing.
"I see you are here as well...Charon-san." Erebos said as he looked at his creation.
"Where else should I be Erebos-sama?" Charon asked as he looked up to the dragon. Feeling uncomfortable with the NPC staring at him like this Erebos tried to change the subject.
"Have you not felt anything?" Erebos asked.
"Felt anything? Forgive me Erebos-sama for my lack of knowledge, but has something happened? Are we under attack or did an assassin try to attack you?" Charon asked now in a slightly worried tone.
"No. It's nothing like that. However I have the nagging feeling that something might have changed. Charon, I'll head directly to the entrance of Vanguard's Loss. Stay here and inform me about anything that happened. Bring the guardian generals to the throne room. I wish to speak with them within one hour. Place Caitlyn at the entrance so nothing enters or leaves the dungeon without permission." Erebos said. Charon bowed in respect to this.
"As you wish." The hodded undead said before walking off. Erebos sighed at himself as he couldn't help, but grin like a child in a candy store, before shaking his head.
'Well I created all the NPCs so they all should be obidient.' he thought as he looked at the lake in front of him. Unconciously the pair of wings on his back unfolded itself. The massive blades on his back were the wings as the patagium was as dark as his scales. Both wings were as big as Erebos himself and had a long wingspan to lift his body up into the air. Erebos looked at both extra appendages for a moment before shrugging metally to himself. "Alright. That's neat." He said as he took flight into the night sky. He tried to navigate in mid air, but unintentionally he suddenly stopped in mid air or changed course. He even nearly crashed with full speed into the water below if he didn't pull up again. It was basically like someone who never had sit behind a steering wheel trying to drive a car. "Maybe with some practice I can figure this out on my own." Erebos said as he landed on the ground on the other side of the lake and walked deeper into the cave. However after a few meters he had already to crouch down to fit in the narrow tunnels, before being forced to walk on all fours to fit inside the tunnels, even after he reduced his size back to just 7 meters. And he hadn't even got much closer to the point where he could go to the 4rth floor. 'Alright that won't get me anywhere. Luckily I made a shortcut for such moments.' He thought as he crawled out of the cave again back to the lake as he spread his wings once more. Erebos took off and spotted a tunnel over the lake in the wall, big enough for him to fly through. It was a shortcut to the floor above. As he flew in the corridor the temperature started to drop and the rocky ground slowly was replaced with ice. The 4th floor of Vanguard's Loss was a tundra and therefore a very cold place. Erebos could already see the light at the end of the tunnel as he slowed down before he left the tunnel. Snowflakes hit him all over the body and his body was embraced by the cold winter air. He looked around into the seemingly endless fields of snow and ice. So far he couldn't make anything out in this winter wonder land safe for the hole he had come from.
'Never thought it would be so cold in reality inside of this fridge, but somehow I don't feel that cold as I should.' Erebos thought as he made his way to the next shaf. Those shafts connected the floors with one another and served Erebos as a way to travel faster between the different floors. As he however found the second shaft he got an idea. Erebos was a more a warrior type player than a spellcaster but he could use a few basic spells he had learned just for the case that a physical damage alone may not be the key to defeat an opponent. "So how do I cast a spell? Maybe like this? [Teleportation]." Erebos said as he disappeared in a bright flash of light.
Vanguard's Loss, Entrance
With a loud thud the dragon landed flat on his stomach as he arrived at the entrance of the dungeon. He clearly wasn't used to this kind of travelling yet as he had not teleported directly on the ground of the room, but about 2 meters above it. This height had already been enough for him to lose his balance and fall to the ground. Groaning he lifted his body from the ground again as he looked around. The entrance of the dungeon was beneath Vanguard's Loss and were connected through a tunnel that lead from the medieval looking castle into this short cave like tunnel into the first floor, which happened to be behind Erebos, who was more interested in what laid ahead. So far everything seemed to be normal, but in a game where even a simple corridor could be littered with traps and a world, where the next alley could be the place where you died Erebos was very careful. With his eyes he simply saw through the darkness around him like it was daytime. Apparantly a perk of being a dragon.
"Seems like the dungeon has remained unchanged." Erebos said to himself as he walked up to the surface. Soon he arrived at the door inside the destroyed castle. The roof of the fortress was still intact however the furniture inside was damaged very badly. A staircase that lead upwards was destroyed, everywhere laid the debris of smashed wooden furniture and stone and an old torn piece of cloth hung above the entrance, where once had been a banner. Erebos however cared little for this as it had been part of the dungeon and he couldn't remove it as it had been a game or hadn't bothered to do so as he had been busy to organise the deeper floors of the dungeon. He walked over to the massive gate of the fortress and opened it. The sight in front of him made him swallow as he saw the landscape in front of him. Gone was the desolated landscape of Nidavellir. Instead he saw a lot of trees as the ruins of the castle stood now in a clearing of a forest. Even with his height he couldn't see the end ofthe forest. The cool night air gently flew through the air as Erebos tried to figure out what had happened. He looked upwards and saw more stars than ever before in his entire life. Since the sky was constantly filled with black smog he had seen the sun a few times, but because of his living place he had never seen real stars before. At the sight of this clear night sky he unconciously reached out with his hand as if he could grab the stars, before closing his hand to a fist. Erebos looked at his fist for a moment. "This is..." He said as he suddenly sensed a presence behind him. "Who is there?" he hissed as he turned around.
Behind him stood a figure in a white dress. On top of it's shoulder long platinum blonde hair sat a black bow resembling the ears of a cat. However here the similarities to a human ended. The face was covered with a steel mask with only one big red glowing eye on the left side of the face. This was Caitlyn, an automaton designed for two simple tasks: search and destroy. She kneeled to Erebos and lowered her head.
"Please forgive me Erebos-sama." She said a monotone voice. "I didn't mean to upset you." Erebos stood there for a moment before sighing to himself.
"It's fine. I just wanted to take a look at our surroundings before the meeting starts." Erebos said as he turned his back on the much smaller human sized automaton. He then spread his wings as he heard the automaton speak up again.
"Erebos-sama. You should not go alone. We don't know what These strange lands have in store for us. Someone of us should accompany you." She said. Though her voice was as emotionless as a voice could ever be heard a hint of concern in it. The dragon sighed at this. She wasn't entirely wrong. Many flying YGGDRASIL Players had met their end multiple times because of being to careless when flying. Long range weapons and spells could still hit the dragon and he had no idea what could be in this world.
"Fine, you will come with me." Erebos said as he reached out with his hand towards the automaton. Caitlyn let herself getting grabbed as held her with both hands and took off. The automaton and the dragon quickly ascended from the ground into the night sky. Erebos flew higher and higher as they finally came to an halt. He looked down at Vanguard's loss which stood in the small clearing of a large forest. In the distance he could see the forest getting replaced by plains. In the back of the castle stood high mountains which were beneath the dragon now as well. Behind the mountains he could make out plains and grasslands. Erebos kept looking down at the world below. Everything seemed so meaningless in this moment as he literally stood over all other things.
"Is everything alright Erebos-sama?" Caitlyn asked, tearing him out of his thoughts.
"Not at all. I don't recognise any of the landmarks. This is not Midgard or Vanaheim. We are somewhere far away from there." Erebos said. "Still this is a really nice place. Would be fun to explore all of this and then the stars beyond." He said as he looked up into the star filled sky again. "From here it seems to be so easy to reach out for them, but they are still too far away from my grasp." He chuckled as he slowly flew back to the ground. "I cannot wait to see what this place has in store for us. For now let''s go back."
"As you wish, Erebos-sama." Caitlyn said. Both of them finally flew back in front of the ruins as put her down again.
"I'll meet with the others at the 5th floor. You are on guarding duy for tonight. Make sure nothing takes notice of this place. And stay inside the fortress. I don't want you to attract unnecesarry attention from something." Erebos said as he walked inside the ruin. Holding the gate open he let Caitlyn in before the gate closed itself. "You know your orders. Make sure that nothing sentient that can tell a story about this place gets away. It would be good if you could catch them alive and bring them to the interogation room to get more informations about this place." He said looking down at Caitlyn.
"I understand Erebos-sama." Caitlyn said. Erebos turned around to take his leave as he stopped after a few steps and turned back to the automaton.
"Alive doesn't mean unharmed. And remember this well Caitlyn. I will not tolerate failure." Erebos said. Caitlyn's red eye seemed to glow a bit more intensive at this order.
"Understood." she said as she remained inside the ruins as Erebos walked back into the dungeon.
One hour later
As Erebos sat on his throne he waited patiently for his guardians to arrive. Meanwhile all different kinds of thoughts ran through his brain.
'Seriously what the hell is going on? This is far too real to be a game. Could it be that I've died in my apartment when the server shutdown somehow managed to fry my brain? If that is truly the case I really don't want to wake up right now. I finally managed to get away from that hellhole. Hopefully none of the cops followed me here, but under which excuse would they want to arrest me anyway? I'm free for crying out loud! And on top of that my avatar has become my new body. I think I just hit the jackpot. Though being a dragon is quite weird to be honest.' He thought. 'Guess I'll have to get used to wings and a tail then. But this isn't so bad to be honest. I have the dungeon and my NPCs so far are all obidient. I guess now they are expecting me to be their leader. Geez, leading People is something I'm not very good at. But isn't that what I wanted? A kingdom for me alone to rule? Or perhaps that was just me getting too much into the game. But there are too many questions not cleared yet.' Erebos thought. 'Was I the only one who got in this world? If not, who got here as well? Where are they and what are they doing? I should Keep an eye open for those if they appear to got here as well. What lives in this world and could it get dangerous for Vanguard's Loss? So far I've no idea this world at all. I can actually use magic and probably the over ranked magic as well, but I should test that out at another time. What about my other NPCs? Will they behave like programmed Caitlyn and Charon? God why must all of this be so complicated? I wish I could slam someone a knife in the head. I thought I actually could do now how I-' In that moment a knocking at the door got Erebos' attention. "Who's there?" He asked out of instinct in a stern tone. He had already experienced it once when the own soldiers opened the door to a knocking without checking first. The result was a troop of 7 of them dead and an entire bunker lost. To take it back took the lifes of 3 other civilians he didn't cared about back then nor did he do now.
"It is me Erebos-sama. I've brought the generals like you ordered." Charon said from the other side. Erebos sighed at this.
'I'm growing even more paranoid than before. Well better safe than being cut into pieces.' He thought sweat dropping. "Enter." Erebos said as the gate opened and revealed five of his subordinates. One of them was Charon who walked in the front, but he was easily overlooked as the four generals walked in behind him. The four generals were four dragon NPCs, who were based on the european elemental spectrum of air, earth, fire and water. Each was about the same height as Erebos in his current form as he looked at each of his creations with slight interest. The first one was Gaia, an earth dragon. Her lizard-like body had no wings and was covered with brown scales, making her scales look like made of massive moving boulder. Rock-like horns where at the back side of her head and ran along her back, adding natural camouflage to the massive dragon. Ruby-like eyes looked at Nahat as she walked towards the throne and stopped several meters in front of it. Due her quadroped body she appeared smaller than the other dragons. The second dragon was Vulcanus, obviously a fire dragon. His body was mostly red in color at his lower side and his limbs while the upper side of his body was covered by black spiky scales. He also had a large black horn on his forehead and a pair of large red wings. Without them he would look in Erebos' opinion like a version of Godzilla before melting down. It would be fitting since he was unlike Gaia walking on his hind legs. The third dragon was Kymopoleia, an ice dragon, whose body was completely covered with blueish white scales. She had no horns or spikes across her body as her scales were plain and smooth. She was a little shorter than Vulcanus, but still an huge dragon by human standards. The fourth and last dragon was called Aeolus, a serpentine dragon with lime green scales. A pair of wings sat on the back as the limbs were quite short in comparison to the other dragons and his own body as a pterosaur-like horn grew from the back of his head. A row of Spikes grew along the spine while at the end of his tail thorns like those of a stegosaurus sat. In front of those four dragons kneeled Charon. His head was lowered to the ground like the other NPCs did.
"Erebos-sama. The four guardian generals of Vanguard's Loss have been assembled." He said.
"Well done Charon. You can stay here as well. The result conversation will determine the course of our further actions." Erebos said as the dullahan bowed once more and walked over to the sideline of the room. The player now looked at the dragons as he tried to sound convincing as their ruler. After a short moment of silence he spoke up. "Guardians, I thank you for coming here at such a late hour. I apologize if I have disturbed you in any way." He said.
"Not at all Erebos-sama." Said Vulcanus, while still bowing to his creator. "You have created us all. You have every right to command us as you please. Give us the order and each of us won't hesitate to break our limbs and crush our bodies" The other dragons only gave short nods in agreement at this.
'That's a little extreme. I like it.' Erebos thought. "Very well then. Now I shall explain what has lead to this situation. About one hour ago, the Vanguard's Loss has been transported from the realm of Nidavellir to an unknown position." Erebos said as he observed the reactions of the guardians. They were shocked and anxious, but not panicked the slightest. "The fortress' ruins used to lay on top of a hill of a desolated landscape. Right now however we are in the middle of a lush-green forest. I've looked around the area already for a bit and I can confirm that we are not in any of the areas of YGGDRASIL I know. This could mean two different things. One would be that we are in an unknown region of YGGDRASIL, which is highly unlikely. The second and more likely possibility is that we are no longer in YGGDRASIL at all. Therefore, I've assembled all of you here to talk about our next actions in this world." Erebos said.
"What course of action would you suggest then Erebos-sama?" Asked Kympholeia. Now Erebos was a little bit suprised.
'Huh? Isn't that why I summoned you here?' Erebos thought. The NPCs looked at him awaiting his answer as he tried to figure out an answer on his own.
Meanwhile
Far away from the forest, where the ruins of Vanguard's Loss had appeared, another anomaly had appeared in form of a mysterious gate had appeared on top of a hill. These two events should be just the beginning of a chain of events that would change this world forever.
And so it begins. Thanks for reading. This was the first chapter of the new story Reign Supreme. I hope you enjoyed it so far. Now then, how should Erebos and the rest of Tartarus go on from here? Write your opinion into the reviews or send me a private message with your ideas and suggestions and I'll see what I can do for you. All kinds of constructive criticism is appreaciated.
However don't worry that this will make me stop updating for the other stories. I just had to get this out of my system. Character sheets are still in making and should come out with the next update.
Now then, I hope to see you next time again to see how things will unfold. Until then stay tuned for more and have a nice day.