Chapter 5 is Edited.

Thanks to Vandenbz for the the beta on chapter 5.

It was impossible.

Despite his insight and clarity on the workings of Helkaginia, the overlord Ren never in his life suspected that a minion hive came upon this world. Though the minion hive looks rather different from the hive he used to have in the old dark tower, shaped more a like a holed giant egg rather than a flabby beehive of the brown minion's. Still, he could feel the familiar evil presence flowing out from the hive like smoky tendrils snaking its way through the air.

Knack was frantic from wherever he was watching from, and was desperate to get the Overlord to act.

"Forget what I said Master! We have to retrieve that minion hive no matter the cost!"

Agreed.

Meanwhile, Fouquet was taunting Louise and company for their incompetence.

"I certainly did not expect things to turn out like this. It was so nice of you to crack through that wall. Fouquet Thanks you Very MUCH. Now the egg of destruction has been duly received!"

Kirche gave out an angry sigh as she turned her head towards Louise. "Nice going Zero. not only did you fail at fire spells, you managed to give Fouquet what she wanted."

"Shut up you walking melon stand."Whispered Louise.

Meanwhile Tabitha was trying to diffuse the situation with a hopeful encouragement as she readied her staff."Not too late."

But before Tabitha could utter a word the Overlord lightly rested a hand on her shoulder Tabitha meeped in surprise and blushed lightly. Then Ren quietly stepped forward and gave Louise a pitying stare.

"Let me show what I meant before."

Louise was aghast, but Ren was already facing towards the golem. The Overlord gave concentration to mind and his gauntlet started to glow hot red as if it was freshly taken out from the forge. Louise could feel the intense heat from the glowing hand, the air itself sizzling and popping around it. Ren shot his hand forward, and the golem's arm started to fracture with molten rock spluttering out from the cracks. Ren gave out a satisfied huff as the minion hive rolled out of the golem's hands as it hit the ground with a heavy thud. The mage gritted her teeth in and waved her wand to have the golem's arms regenerate again. The golem quickly picked up the hive and stomped away with frightening speed, knocking down the walls as it disappeared into the dark forest.

The Overlord growled in annoyance.

"Quick! after her Sire!"

In an instant, Ren dashed off to chase after the golem, leaving the girls to process of the event that just occurred. Tabitha was frozen in shock with her mouth slightly open while Kirche was burning up with a fever of intense excitement. Louise however was trying to run after Ren while trying to carry the heavy clunky sword.

"wait where are you going Ren?"

"YOU FORGOT MEEEE!"Cried Derflinger.

The overlord ran through the forest trying to catch up with Fouquet. IT wasn't hard for Ren to find his direction since the golem left a path of destruction in it's wake, trying to get away from the vengeful pursuer as quickly as possible.

While he was dashing through the broken tree trunks and upturned boulders, Knack was quickly explaining his finds of the day.

"-I was saying before I can prove now that the thief is actually the Secretary from the academy! Personally I think that was a poor disguise to begin with."

The Overlord finally came into a clearing of the forest where nothing but dirt and rock carpeted the landscape. He spotted golem right in the middle of the field, absorbing the ground itself to augment it's size to even more monstrous proportions. To his relief, he also spotted the minion hive lain carefully at its side. Then he saw the thief Fouquet standing atop of the golem's shoulder in confident defiance. But Ren could already see what the thief was trying do.

She thinks she can beat me with an unlimited supply of dirt stones...How quaint. I haven't had a sporting entertainment for a long time.

IT took only a moment for the Overlord lay out his plan of attack. Soon, he was out of the dense woods striding slowly towards the massive golem and its controller. Fouquet was a bit surprised at the Overlord's audacious approach but nonetheless remained tense for any ambush attacks from the academy students. A moment passed in silence when Fouquet realized that no one was accompanying the Overlord.

"I counted that you didn't bring your friends along, Familiar. Though I don't know how Cromwell thinks this disgusting looking rock is valuable, but he better pay me double for all this trouble."

Overlord couldn't help but laugh at the thief's naiveté. Not only she doesn't know about the minion hives, she just gave away her clientele's name. Even Jewel wasn't this vain.

"You think that's funny GANDALFR? You may have the gift of Brimir and some magic tricks, but even you cannot stand up to a triangle mage with an earth golem at her command alone. Oh yes, I know your little secret familiar. Since that day in the duel with that idiot boy, I have researched a way to defeat your little magic spells. Certainly, You don't use the kind of magic we use, but even your little dispel won't work on my golem. He's too big for you to dispel all at once AND there's an unlimited supply of earth to regenerate my golem so don't even think of using that fire spell. You cannot hope to win here."

If your gonna kill. Just kill. No need for idiotic speeches.

While Fouquet was busy with her monologue of impending doom, the Overlord was quickly at work in-canting the ritual of minion resurrection under the shadow of his hood. When Ren summoned Knack, the ritual required a substantial Mana reserve since there was so sufficient way of processing life force. With a minion hive though , it was now comparably easy to produce hives as it converts life force and very small amounts of magic to produce battalions of minions.

The Minion Hive began to shudder from the Overlord's incantations, and soon enough the minions awoke from their nest and crawled out like ants from a hive. To the Overlord's surprise, the minions physique resembled closer to Knack than the original minions. Like Knack, they resembled miniature amphibian raptors with big heads and jaws. The only difference lay in the colour of their skin, their bodies covered in vomit yellow with blunt brown scale-bumps lining their back. In a few moments, about fifty minions were running about, sniffing, curiously poking at their surroundings and brawling violently with other minions. Fouquet's jaw dropped in awe, momentarily stunned at the absurd chaos of the minions.

Time to show these little minions who's the big boss around here.

The overlord raised his gauntleted hand in the air , conjuring the rally call as a low booming horn blared throughout the forest. The minions stood silent then and all glowing eyes directed their undivided attention upon the Overlord. At first the minions seemed confused., but then one of the minions came to understand in his teeny tiny brain, who the individual in front of them was.

"M,M,MASHTAR?"

The minions stared at each other before another whooped out in acknowledgement."DA... MASHTAR!"

Soon the whole band was cheering over and over."MASHTAR! MASHTAR! MASHTAR!"

"So...that what the rock really does, now I'm really gonna have to make Cromwell pay triple."

As Ren glared back the thief mage, so too did the minions followed their overlord's exampled with equally murderous stares. All was still in the forest before Ren raised his hand once more and commanded in a low booming voice as he pointed it towards the golem and Fouquet.

"Minions... charge."

The minions gave out a loud and shrill war cry before they broke ranks and charged Fouquet.

"ATTAACK~!"

"DESTWROY~!"

"Whatawewedoinagain?

"EEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHH~!"

The minion rushed the giant golem with rampant glee. The golem threw his fist down to the ground, crushing a dozen minions flat and throwing a dozen more high into the air. But the minions were undeterred despite their losses and began to surround and climb the golem from all sides. Fouquet desperately tried to shake off the devilish creatures by directing her golem to whirl, flail and stomp at the same time. If it wasn't a desperate situation the act might have looked like a flamenco dance, but most minions were caught in the backlash and died under the crushing weight of the rock construct. Fouquet saw the minions scattered all around her, most being dead while some continuing to attack despite the lack of limb or limbs. Fouquet was confident in her victory, as she believed that the overlord was out of options.

But she failed to see one minion that managed to hold on despite the golem's deadly lashings, and was now creeping up behind the gloating mage. The minion leapt up and strangled the mage by the throat while biting hard into her head. Fouquet screamed in surprise and tried to get little beast off her back by wildly shooting spells with her wand. Meanwhile the golem lost all commands from it's master and fell silent in it's movements. The Overlord saw an opportunity to attack and signalled all his minions to attack. The creatures whooped in excitement and charged out once more in frenzy.

Fouquet and the golem were overwhelmed in less than 30 seconds.

Without the mage's concentration, the golem crumbled to dust and the minions pressed Fouquet down flat on her front. Some were rummaging through her pockets and underneath her robes until they found handfuls of gold and jewelry. They waddled back to the Overlord with hands out forward and triumphant grins on their faces.

"TWEASHURE!"

The overlord snatched the trinkets from the minions hands, but the minion only smiled wider being kicked off by the overlord's boot. The overlord was greatly ecstatic of the situation. Now, he barely had the need for disguises, but he thought once more that the need for secrecy might benefit him better in the long run. Meanwhile, Knack was finally clapping joyfully at the aquisition of the Hive and the result of the horrendous carnage.

"Masterfully done Sire! Of all things possible, who would've thought those yellow blighters managed managed themselves to end up in this blasted world. Still, its a lucky break for us to have minions under our control now. Who know what they could have done with the minion hive. Suck out it's magic... or break it apart... or Gasp! EVIL FORBID..Use it as a Garden Gnome. We should look into this Cromwell fellow and teach him a hard lesson."

"Now, about the thief Sire..."

The overlord turned to face Fouquet, who was now sobbing indignantly and pleading for mercy against the giggling minions.

"You can capture her and take her back to the academy. I've seen wanted posters of this woman and I am happy to notify you that the reward for live capture is VERY Substantial. I'd like to personally interrogate this woman myself if you catch my drift..ehehehehe...ehem,ORRRR... You can kill this miserable creature righ-there-and-now-and suck out her magic till she's dry as bone. She will provide an excellent boost to the creation of the tower heart."

"Do what you would like best Sire."

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I left derflinger out of the fight cuz, lets face it people. The sword's annoying as hell. But then again we can satisfy our bloody appetites with more battles to come. And who knows? Maybe the overlord will have some fun tormenting derflinger instead.

It's a bit short for this chapter, but i hope you enjoyed so far.

Until then, A single Indian shed a tear while reading this chapter.

SHAME ON YOU READERS. SHAME. ON. YOU.