Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

AN : Greetings to you all, I hope you enjoy the new chapter. The hiatus is over and the announcement chapter will be removed.

Disclaimer :I don't own Overlord.

Chapter 9.

He walked carefully through the rabble, his eyes scanning the area for any hostile, but the ruins were silent, only the wind distrusting the eerie peace.

He approached the area between the two towers which from where he was now looked more like a skyscrapers than any type of medieval structure, and stopped gaping.

There between the two ruined buildings was a ramp descending deep into the earth, a small sign of black trefoil on yellow font.

"A nuclear shelter" he muttered in awe when the synthetic voice of his AI interrupted him.

"Master, I detect a huge reading of an unknown particle coming from within the shelter"

That stopped the man in his tracks "Unknown?" he asked surprised.

"Indeed master, the data doesn't match any other in my database... I would suggest to proceed with caution" Scorpio advised.

Alistair nodded before changing his armor into the special environment armor, his helmet closing hermetically.

Summoning an automatic photon rifle he proceeded to walk down toward the entrance, his scanners on full alert.

Arriving to the end of the ramp he found himself before a heavy opened blast door, peering inside the shelter he activated the night vision in his helmet as he proceeded carefully.

He stepped in, carefully looking around as he walked down a long corridor.

He stopped before an intersection looking both sides, unsure which way to go, when his sensors picked around a dozen heat signatures approaching him from the right.

Leveling his weapon, he took a position on one knee, the gun positioned in front of his right eye before he squized the trigger, releasing series of plasma bolt toward the approaching signatures.

The plasma left the weapon silently, illuminating the passageway as they flied forward.

A yelp of surprise and pain came from the shot who fell down quickly, their final groans echoing in the passage.

Alistair approached carefully, making sure all of the hostiles were dead when Scorpio interrupted him once again.

"Master, your sensors are picking the unknown particle from some of the hostiles you just killed, it may be a good idea to analyze them closer" the Ai said.

"Thank you Scorpio" Alistair said as he crouched beside one of the bodies, only now noticing that while it is humanoid, it was definitely not human.

Its skin color was angry red, it's eyes had a reptile feeling to them, and their ears were long thick and red.

Activating a small scanner on his hand, Alistair carefully recorded the signature, before summoning a small plastic bag were he put part of the creatures flesh for further inspection later.

Getting up he reactivated his energy shield before he continued on his way.

He passed through long corridors filled with rooms and monsters which he easily took out, as well as some cultists.

Arriving to another intersection he shook his head in wonder.

"Is this really a shelter?" he wondered out loud "It looks more like an underground city".

He was about to randomly choose one side when a small sign on the right side of the wall caught his attention.

It was an insignia of a raven holding a shield and sword and words written around it.. A sign of some kind of organization or government most likely.

The words were in a language he couldn't read, but maybe Scorpio could.

"Scorpio" he said "Can you decipher this?" he asked, pointing his hand scanner on the sign.

"One moment master" the Ai replied as it tried to decipher the words.

After a long moment of silence the Ai flared back to life.

"Since I have no reference I might be mistaken, however if my conclusion is correct it says 'Alliance defense Bureau' " the Ai said.

"An alliance?" Alistair asked surprised "And this modern technology" he mumbled clutching his helmet lightly "It seems that the history of humanity in this world has quite a bit of a mystery" he said.

"Master, while this is fascinating the truth is we can always return here to try an uncover what exactly happend here.. However we do have a more pressing issue" the Ai reminded him.

The Brit nodded in agreement "Indeed, we shall deal with it after we take care of our demon problem.. Now to figure which side to take" he said.

"I would suggest left Master, the abnormal reading are coming from there"

"Should've said something earlier than Scorpio" Alistair said, annoyed but took the advice nonetheless.

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The emperor overlooked his army getting ready to leave, standing firm and proud, the sunlight reflecting from their armor.

A blonde woman approached him, her long hair covering the right side of her face.

"Your majesy" she said quietly "The old man was able to reach a wizard in Eastwood and relay your orders... Our forces there will mobilize soon" she said quietly.

The man nodded but didn't look at her "Thank you Leinas" he said "However I have to admit I am surprised.. I expected you will run away the moment something like this came up" he said quietly.

A thin dark smile appeared on her face "If it was an enemy that would focus solely on you I would have.. However a demon lord from the times before the six gods would destroy anyone.. The safest bet is to stay near the old man and thus you" she answered before turning around and leaving the man's presence.

Jircniv shook his head in dismay but let her leave, his attention turning back to his army.

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Riding in front of the marching army Jack was talking to his team members.

"I sure hope Alistair is alright" he said "After all should the demon lord actually been summoned he walked to a certain death" his voice was confident but to his companions it was obvious that he was scared for their freind.

"We can only hope that if this is the case that he was able to run away.." Alicia said quietly.

"I on the other hand believe the demon lord should be scared of Alistair.. There is something weird about the sorcery that he weilds" Antonio said quietly.

"Antonio?" Matthew asked surprised by the redheads words.

"I can't really put a finger on it" the man said "But it doesn't feel like magic.."he trailed off, unsure of himself.

" What was it that he said?" Helena's voice broke the short silence" Advanced enough technology is no different than magic? "

Antonio's eyes widend "That's it!" he exclaimed "But can it really be? Could all those miracles be a product of technology?" he wondered.

"I guess there is only one way to be sure isn't it?" the brown haired leader said "We should just ask him about it".

Alicia nodded "I agree, whatever his powers are we can learn later.. If we survive this that is".

A sour look came over Mathew "Always the optimist aren't you Alicia?" he jubbed at her.

The woman just turned her head away, ignoring him.

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Standing in front of a door, Alistair took a deep breath before approaching it, his weapon ready.

"Master" Scorpio suddenly flared to life "Before you go in I would like to give you an advice" the AI said.

"Sure, go ahead" the British man said.

"Since we know nothing about what those particles are I would suggest to exercise extreme caution... We know not what reaction it might have to certain chemicals"

Alistair nodded "Understood.. However we will see if we can afford such luxury" he said "Please be alert and let me know anything you think might be useful as we go" he instructed the program.

"Acknowledged"

Without another word Alistair opened the door, carefully walking in and observing the room.

It was a very large chamber, with it's once white colored walls now gray from age and splattered with blood.

And at the end of the room, cloaked in shadows was his target.

It was humanoid looking, despite it's three meters height and pair of black wings sprouting from its back and the black hallow over its head.

When he walked in the figure turned it's head toward him, eyes surprisingly humanoid.

"A human" it's said in a deep baritone voice "And one without any magical capacity.. How curious" it said surprise echoing.

"I guess you're the one they call Belial?" Alistair asked.

"Indeed little human.. I must say I am surprised to meet one of the old humans here.. Those new humans are quite different from you after all" the creature said.

Alistair looked surprised "Old humans?" he asked "What do you mean?"

"Hmm.. Curious" Belial said quietly "You know of no difference between you and those" he pointed on the countless bodies around them, and Alistair was thankful for his helmet protecting him of the terrible odor that surely emitting from the corpses.

"Well.. I know that our body structure is a bit different" he said quietly, deciding not to point that his own modified body was quite different from the sapiens from his home just as it was different from the people of this world.

A booming laugh escaped the monster "Well perhaps.. But I am talking about their ability to accumulate mana" he said "After all it was your kind that gave them this ability" he said.

"What do you mean?" Alistair asked, now truely curious "We gave them the ability?" he asked.

"Yes.. I remember when we first arrived to this world, it was so different.. Humans were the only race walking upon the land. They confronted us using their toys.. They killed our minions easily and even were able to create something to absorb ectoplasm destroying our ghosts.. Their flying machines rained death upon our armies." the creature continued to speak and with each word Alistair felt his eyes widen as he continued listening to the demon.

"Seeing as our minions were useless, we decided to appear ourselves in this world. And here we learned quickly that with all the magnificent abilities of the humans.. They couldn't fight beings made entirely of magic" a dark chuckle escaped him.

"They tried everything, and even some new weapon they called photon canon and it didn't work.. It was then that some of them decided to hide.. We swept across the world destroying your settlements.. And for a time we thought we've seen that last of you, we made sure to destroy everything about your civilization as to make sure nothing like this will ever happen again... After all when the portal opened other races came along.. Some who can wild magic and we wouldn't let them have your inventions as well" a chuckle escaped it's mouth.

"And even after that we still admired humanity for how clever they were, which is the only reason why I am telling you all this instead of killing me you outright" the demon said "But after two or three centuries we discovered that humans were even more cunning than we assumed.. They emerged from nowhere and while lacking the technology they gained magic.. We didn't not know it was even possible to grant magic to a race" Belial shook his head amused.

"So our scientists modified humans.." the Brit muttered in awe.

The demon didn't appear to hear him, instead he continued to talk "Even with their magic they were not much for us.. It appeared that while they were granted the gift of magic, it wasn't as good as it was for races like the elves.. We hunted them and found places like this one.. Were people in white experimented. We ended it.. However humanity survived even though they lost their wonderus gifts."

"However they were on the brink of extinction" Alistair said quietly remembering the known history of humanity he read about in the library "Until the six great gods appeared".

The demon nodded "Yes.. They destroyed us and saved the last remnants of humanity" he finished the story before his face moved back to the side.

"You should go now.. Before I change my mind and kill you.. Last of your kind" the creature said.

Alistair gritt his teeth, if plasma won't work and neither regular modern technology.. Than what was he to do? Should he retreat?

It was the AI which gave him his answer.

"Master, if we assume that this unknown particle is indeed magic.. We might be able to destroy it.. It is a particle after all" Scorpio said.

Alistair widened his eyes.. Scorpio was right.. There is one weapon which he might be able to use.

Turning as if to leave he quietly mumbled" access code :0001 ER" causing a small rocket launcher to appear on his hand with a single black projectile on it before turning around and pointing toward the demon.

"Here goes nothing" he screamed before releasing the projectile at the creature.

Xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Walking through the bunker's long corridors were a group of soldiers, the insignia of the empire unseen in the darkness.

"It seems that adventurer we were told about is already here" the lead soldier, a man who's golden cloak was shining in the darkness said as he moved over another cultists corpse.

"Sir " one of the soldier said quietly "Are you sure it's wise to come here?"

Under his helmet the leader scoffed "This is my city Gerard, I will not let anyone not even a demon lord stop me" he said as they continued deeper into the maze like area.

They arrived in front of the room where the enormous magical energy emitted from to hear the demon speaking.

"You should go now... Before I change my mind and kill you..last of your kind" the booming voice of the creature sent shivers down their spines but the leader decided to walk in only to freeze in his place at the sight of a lone adventurer suddenly turned around and whipping his hand forward.

"Here goes nothing!" the adventurer roared as something small and black headed toward the demon lord who turned around at the roar, his eyes igniting red and making the whole room to suddenly light up with dark red light.

"So be it.." the demon said, just as the projectile suddenly stopped right in front of him.

The leader froze at the sight of the monster, and the magical energy he felt made his legs buckle.

Belial stopped as the small projectile stopped in front of him and started to glow.

Reaching his hand toward the tiny armament he saw the human jump back toward the door.

And as he touched it, it suddenly glowed blue before exploding, the eerie blue light engulfed him, causing him to scream.

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Alistair looked carefully at where the explosion happened, the scream of pain from the monster still echoing in his head.

"Master, I pick no reading of the unknown particle.. It seems it's a success"

The man nodded a sigh of relief escaping him, this weapon was his last resort.. The eradicator rocket.. A weapon designed to eradicate even molecules and particles into nothing.. Something that scientifically should not be possible.. But he did come from a sci-fi game after all.

He turned around only to freeze as he saw ten pair of eyes looking at him with awe and fear.

Smiling awkwardly, forgetting his face was obscured by his helmet he lifted his hand in greeting.

"Hi there" he said awkwardly.

It took the group a few minutes before the leader decided to approach him.

"Greeting" he said, lifting the bevor, reveling his blue eyes "I am governor Richard of Eastwood.. Am I correct to assume you are the adventurer we were told about?" he asked.

Alistair nodded "I believe so" he replied before falling silent unsure of what to say next.

"I guess the threat is neutralized?" the governor asked rhetorically.

Alistair nodded "I believe so.. I am sure you have questions.. But can we perhaps speak of it in a more.. Comfortable setting?" he asked, hoping to take the man out of here.. After all he wanted to see if he could find here something useful which would be difficult with those people around.

The governor nodded" Very well.. Perhaps we should go back to the city and contact the emperor.. " he said before turning around and walking the same way they came, Alistair behind them.

And as they walked he couldn't help but contemplate what the demon told him, and more importantly the chances to find him something that would help him get back home.

End of chapter 9