Sutton Village
A little girl was playing outside with some flowers. Her parents were inside, because there is not very much work to do in winter. But the playful spirit of the little girl could not stay inside the dark house. Her parents were worried sometimes, because some hungry monsters might come out from the forest and attack her, but something like that has not occurred in a long time.
The girl was creating a beautiful crown with white flowers. It was really strange that she had found flowers at this season, but from the curiosity she was able to find some to complete her crown.
Suddenly, a cold wind slammed on her face and the trees around the forest were shaking by it. She turned her blue eyes at the grey sky and saw some mighty creatures flying. She now about them from the tales that her mother had told her.
"Dragons!"
She raised and opened her arms imitating them and imagining herself flying upon the sky. Actually, everyone would have shut themselves inside the house because dragons are the most dangerous predators that one could face, but the little girl did not fear them. She thought them as beautiful and mighty creatures that rule the skies and the mountains.
Then she turned her eyes on the road, because she hears noises like pieces metal crushing on the ground. Her eyes widened what she saw. It was a massive endless army that was coming from the south east.
As the army marched near her, she was amazed by their armor and the crimson flags they hold in their hands. For the others inside their homes that were looking from the window, it was frightening but the girl did not move and stayed watching them with her mouth open.
Someone approached the little girl slowly. She was a woman with white hair, pale skin and wore dark leather armor. The girl keeps looking at her as the woman approaches. Her parents had come out from the house to take the girl inside, but they did not move because of that woman.
The little girl was staring at the crimson eyes of the female warrior. The woman was looking down at the little girl, but she reached her hands to give the crown that she had made with flowers. The woman was surprised for a second, but she took the crown and put it upon her head.
"So beautiful! You are a princess!"
The little girl told her with a cheerful voice. Because of her sweet words, the female warrior smiled and her sharp fangs could be seen. She put her hand on her small bag and took a pouch. She gave it to the little girl and patted her head, then she went away to march with the dark army.
Her parents quickly took their daughter and embraced her, telling her not to stay close to that army.
"Mommy! Daddy! That beautiful lady, gave me this."
The father took the pouch and opened it. Both the parents were frozen looking at the pouch. Inside it had some gold coins and jewels. They both stared at each other, and then at their daughter. With this treasure, they could build a new nice house or find a place in the city and still have excessive money.
Very strange how things turn out like this…
The army had successfully conquer four large cities. They were the City-Fortress E-Rantel, E-Pespel, E-Libera and Re-Bluemalashull. Right now the other armies were marching to take over the Port-City of Re-Ulovale that was on the north and the City of Re-Boulorel that was located north-east from the capital.
Those who tried to fight the forces of Nazarick were destroyed immediately and the citizens were afraid to revolt against the invaders. The enemy were the undead but the Adventurer Guilds did not dare to intervene so they stayed neutral because the Nazarick forces were not hurting the citizens, but were capturing the nobles and the criminals that cultivated drugs.
One each city and town, were put on the office the intelligent undead like scholars Night Lich's, Elder Lich's and Vampires. The temples of the Four Gods were not disturbed by the army, but they did not like to be ruled by non-humans, but still they stood calm and let the new rulers to do their work.
The capital Re Estize was being surrounded from every corner. Soon the city of Re-Lobell and E-Asenaru will be one the hands of the Nazarick and that will be the end of this weak old Kingdom.
Ainz observed the Village of Sutton. It reminded him moments with Tsuare and the fat noble. That was the time when his thoughts were changing. He hoped for the fat pig to be still alive, because hell awaits him and all the nobles. But about their children, Ainz was not sure what to do with them. They were innocent, and it was not their fault for the foolishness of their parents.
His loyal demon lord Wrath, had suggested to take them all and change their race from humans to demons. Thus they will grow loyal and will not remember their past. Ainz still did not like that idea but it was better than killing them just because they were children of the nobles.
He thought this village to be turned into a town in a few years but nothing had changed. "As expected from the nobles." thought Ainz.
Around Ainz were many high level undead, demons and angels to protect him even from a pleb. He saw the undead subordinates. They all had the same appearance, but not the Death Empresses. They had the same skin color but looked different from each other
Hmm, maybe because they are undead humanoids...
For example, Nualia before transforming into a Death Empress, she was a level 25 ghoul female, but she was intelligent like an Elder Lich. Because of her rarity, she drew Ainz attention and she was perfect to be transformed as a Death Empress.
He saw the Evil Lords behind him. Some of them were the same as the Evil Lords that were left in Katze Plains. But something was not right here.
"Strange…
"Wrath."
"Yes, my Lord."
The demon lord walked near Ainz.
"Have you noticed something strange at the Succubus demons and the Angels?" asked Ainz with a small voice for the reason to not be heard by the others.
The demon lord observed them to find out what was bothering his master. Everything seemed fine. Some had serious faces when they saw Wrath looking at them, but most of them were smiling with each other because of the successful invasion.
"Sorry my Lord, I am not seeing anything strange." answered Wrath.
"If I summon another Evil Lord Wrath, it will have the same appearance as you, right?"
"Yes, but…
Wrath again observed the Angels and the Succubus demons. All of them were different in appearance, high, armor and priest robes. How? Wrath did not understand that. The power of his master is majestic.
"I see the problem, my Lord."
"No, no, that is not a problem. But it is... strange."
As soon as Ainz discovered how to summon angels and demons permanently, he had been summoning them non stop and didn't noticed how they were different from each other in appearance.
"There must be a secret behind this, my Lord."
"Maybe it is because of this world that has changed my summons. Hmm... Fluder… Fluder is very old. He must know something."
"Fluder, come here for a moment."
"Yes Supreme One!"
The Overlord Wise Man with the majestic white robe that was riding a Soul Eater, approached his master. The three of them now were very close so they will not be heard from the others.
"Now Fluder, you see the Succubus demons and the Angels look different in appearance. Do you know something about it?"
Fluder saw them while touching his chin with his skeletal fingers, because it was a habit when he had his beard in his mortal days.
"Hmm, I don't know about the angels, my Lord. But for the Succubus, they are different because there exists a realm called Demon World. So, I guess they are summoned from that place." explained Fluder.
"I see, I see...
Ainz was not sure if this realm exist because the inhabitants of the New World say so. But, nobody knows. When he was a human, he did not believe in fantasies like being isekai'd, so this Demon World or even Heaven might exist.
"Thank you Fluder. You may return."
Fluder bowed his skull and returned where he was before.
"Should we ask Kuro and Saphir, my Lord?" spoke Wrath.
"I will talk to them about this another time. For now, let's focus on Re Estize."
"As you say, my Lord."
He could not ask such a thing now. His summons are loyal and will give their life for him. Every ruler will want subordinates like that.
But Ainz forgot about this topic, because he could see them.
The walls of Re Estize…
The citizens of Re Estize has been warned by the surviving nobles about the armies of monsters that were coming here. First the city was filled with panic and thought they are going to be massacred like the Royal Army in Katze Plains.
Evileye and the other adventurers were trying to calm them, because the city was about to fall into chaos. The citizens were running in every direction. The mothers had embraced their children. Some others had lost the will to do anything and awaited death to come.
What is the Sorcerer Kingdom?
This is what Evileye wanted to know. It happened so fast. They were invading the Kingdom in every second. She was trying to find survivors from the battle, but nobody was alive, only some warriors of Gazef Stronoff and some nobles.
She saw the sky had turned dark and the birds were leaving elsewhere. It was a message about the coming of the enemy.
The Vice Captain arrived inside the capitol, and Evileye run to talk with him. The man was very tired from being for a long time traveling upon a horse.
"Vice Captain, where is sir Stronoff?" asked Evileye.
"Captain stayed behind to buy us time because there was an enemy following the King. That was the last time were saw him."
"But-But what is this Kingdom that is trying to invade us?"
"It's called the Sorcerer Kingdom of Nazarick. Two month ago arrived a message from the Empire. It said about an ultimatum for the King. If he does not submit Re Estize to Nazarick there will be war."
"What are they?"
Evileye asked with a curious and anxious expression. The Empire is an ally of this Nazarick Kingdom, so she hoped for them to not be monsters as the nobles said.
"I was there when I saw him... the Sorcerer King Ainz Ooal Gown. It was a terrifying undead monster and had an endless army of horrible powerful monsters that crushed our army. I still can't believe how this happened. It was like a nightmare."
"That's...
"I'm sorry miss Evileye, but I have to return to the palace."
The man did let not her to finish her word and started riding to Valencia Palace.
This is bed. The undead was coming here. There are so many innocent civilians here. Are they going to be all massacred? Will this be the end for the human race?
With an unimaginable speed, many dragons appeared upon the city flying, bringing strong winds that created dust in the street of the city. Dragon with armor, this was new for Evileye. Truly they were Dragon Knights.
Evileye shocked when she saw an ultra large object that was floating in the sky. It had put the city in almost complete darkness. The citizens were astonished by its might.
"Is that the legendary...
It was a mighty ship with sails. It was black as the night and at the beginning of the deck it had a statue of a beautiful goddess.
"Ghost Ship!"
She had heard the legend of this ship that haunt the Katze Plains, but she did not imagine it like this. It did not deserve the title Ghost Ship. No, it is way too beautiful to be called like that.
The name of this colossal ship was The Black Pearl. The people on the streets were amazed by its beauty.
Only Evileye noticed ropes coming out from the ship and from it appeared hundreds of armored soldiers. They landed near the gate of the city, and the citizens did not know how to act. Run away, or stay watch.
Some of them went to open the gates and the others turned to the citizens.
"Move away from the streets! The Supreme One is coming!" shouted the Death Warrior.
Evileye observed them giving orders. They were undead… but intelligent and stronger than adamantite adventurers.
"Hey shorty, we were looking for you."
Her teammates arrived. Even they were surprised by the mighty ship.
"What are they trying to do?" asked Lakyus.
"Someone is coming! Someone powerful beyond imagination!"
They all turned their eyes at the gates. The first thing they heard, were the sounds of iron boots, that told them about the coming of the army.
As the the Black Pearl begin to move to bring some light on the streets of Re Estize, Evileye saw at the entrance of the gates many crimson points and then they revealed themselves.
"By the Gods!"
It was an endless army of darkness marching inside the human city. They were holding crimson flags with a strange crest in the middle. These were the flags of Nazarick Kingdom.
Some of them climbed up to the walls and brought down the flags of Re Estize and put the flags of Nazarick in their place.
It frightened Evileye because all these soldiers were legendary undead that are very rare to be seen. And here they were, thousands upon thousands of them marching before their eyes.
It's like the armies in legends and now they were becoming reality. With fear in their eyes, the citizens watched the black parade of the monsters.
There were so many soldiers with different armor. Some were bulky undead that had rotted faces and full body armor with sharp spikes and huge shields. Some others looked like knights with black armor from head to toe and gothic longsword.
"Could they be behind the vampire invasion?"
This question popped inside the head of Evileye. The reason was because of hundreds of vampires that were marching there, but they look so different from the vampires of that night. Most of them looked like humans and elves like herself with no ugly twisted faces and disgusting grey skin.
After the dark army passed, two other small armies arrived inside. They were divided in two lines.
One the left side were different creatures of power that made Evileye to remember the old days. They had bat wings, snake or dragon-like tails, some had scales over the body and some just normal skin.
Leading these creatures was a woman with tan skin, short white hairs and golden eyes. Bat wing could be seen behind her back and on her head, two black horns protruding crookedly. She wore a black bikini armor and was holding a cruel looking halberd on her hands. She was an absolute beauty and there were some other beautiful demones like her in that line.
"Demon Gods?"
There was no doubt about it. These creatures of chaos and destruction were demons and devils, but they were different from 200 years ago. They all had a killer and cruel aura that looked so powerful in the eyes of Evileye.
But everyone gasped in surprise when they saw the beings on the right line. The aura they spread was pure and divine. One their back they had wings with white feathers Some had two, some had four and some had six of them. Most of them had humanoid faces but some looked like demihumans.
Leading them was someone that shocked Blue Rose and some other adventurers that fought the vampires of that night. The beauty had long white hair, blue eyes like the ocean and two white wings on her back. She was wearing a silver-golden armor and a short white skirt. From foot to knee, she wore golden poleyns, greaves and sabatons. Upon her head could be seen a halo that shone like the sun.
"Its her!" shouted Lakyus.
It was definitely her. The one that saved the capital of Re Estize. The angel of divine power was leading her fellow angels. But the real question was… Why with them?
"What is she doing with the demons and the undead?!"
Lakyus could not believe her eyes. The beautiful angelic maidens were on the side of Nazarick Kingdom. It has never been heard before about angels, demons, undead working together. Divine-Chaos-Death.
Sacrilege.
This violate or misure what is regarded as sacred. Without noticing, Lakyus was approaching the angel.
"What is she doing?!" screamed Evileye inside.
The Angel stopped her advance and turned her eyes at Lakyus.
"Your Holiness... Why? Why are you with those abominations? Angels are supposed to protect humanity from those monsters, not join them. Are they holding you and the other angels hostages?"
The angel now had an angry face, like she was about to explode. Lakyus could feel the divine aura slamming against her face. She did not mean to offend the holy angel, but she needed answers. The angel came near Lakyus staring at her with cold eyes.
"And who decided that we angels should protect humanity?"
Lakyus gulped "The-The G-Gods-"
"Didn't I told you that night? You believe in idols and imaginary gods. They were nothing but some strong mortals that pitied the humans, and they decided to worship them as gods. But in the end, they were just some mere mortals and died of old age. They do not exist in the Realm of Heaven where I come from, Six or Four or whatever you mortals worship."
Lakyus was frozen like a statue with her eyes wide open while listening to the words of the holy angel.
"There is only one being that rule upon Heaven, Earth and Hell. We angels only serve the Supreme Being. It was he that ordered me to save the city from those lesser vampires."
"Wh-Who is this Su-Supreme Being?" asked Lakyus with a shivering voice.
The angel had grin on her face and turned her head at the gates.
"He is the God of Life and Death. The Supreme Overlord Ainz Ooal Gown!"
The Great One arrived inside the city. All who saw him lost the power of speech. All the citizens shuddered uncontrollably from what they were seeing. They feel an overwhelming power radiating from and undead being that was riding a demonic war-horse with red eyes and horns.
It was Ainz Ooal Gown. The aura of death floated around this mighty being. Other powerful entities surrounded him that will slay anyone who touch their lord. On his right, was riding a beautiful woman with heterochromia, for both her eyes and hair. One side of her hair was silver, while the other half was black. On her back she was holding a war-scythe.
"She is a human?"
The girl near Ainz was a living being, that what Evileye thought. There was another beautiful woman on the left side. She had silver hair, pale skin and crimson eyes wearing a black dress. The woman was a vampire called Vrakulina Marxus Leka.
Staring at Ainz, did not do her good, as it electrified her entire body. The power that spread from his form was out of this world. It looked like a hurricane enveloping the entire world. The angel was right about her master.
Ainz Ooal Gown is a God.
The Angel was staring at her master with a red face and followed him, leaving Lakyus with her mouth open.
In the area that was empty landed the mightiest beings in the world.
"Even the Dragon Lords serve him! This says how powerful the Sorcerer King is to put the dragons under his command. I wonder if Platinum Dragon Lord is watching this."
To command lesser wyverns is one thing, but to rule over the Dragon Lords, that are the most prideful beings in the world is unbelievable. The frighted citizens were compressed at the walls of their homes to let the gigantic beings to pass.
The world cannot go against such a foe. It was impossible to have just a little victory. They will be destroyed without starting anything.
"Huh?!"
Evileye's body started to shiver even being an undead. And the reason was because Ainz Ooal Gown had stopped and was staring at her.
Why?
Does he know she was a vampire?
Evileye felt so small in front of this God. Because of fear, Evileye bowed her head before the Sorcerer King. His aura was absolute dominant and she could not resist it.
Her gesture shocked Blue Rose and the other citizens around. After that, the citizens followed the short adventurer and bowed their heads, accepting the undead King.
"How does this city look Zesshi?"
The others heard for the first time the deep voice of the Sorcerer King. The voice that belongs to an almighty God. But, to Evileye, it sounded similar to the voice of that strong hero.
"A bit gloomy, I think. But now that is under your rule, it will become as mighty as the Supreme City, my love."
From her charming smile and the way she spoke to the King, it told everyone the girl was his wife and their Queen, but even the other woman might be his wife too.
"Oh really? Well then, let's bright it."
Evileye did not understand what he meant with "let's bright it". She did not like the way he said it but...
The Sorcerer King waved his hand, and the dark grey clouds disappeared from the sky. The sun shone upon the city and the temperature became warm.
All the people gasped in surprise. They had no words to describe this moment. It looked like the end of spring and the coming of summer. Even with the undead armies around, the city felt so alive, like it has been born just now. It was like Ainz Ooal Gown had told those clouds to move away because they were annoying him.
Was that… [Control Weather]?
[Control Weather] was a 6th tier spell that can manipulate the weather. Evileye was sure that it was this spell the Sorcerer King used to remove the clouds.
Ainz, Zesshi and Vrakulina dismounted from their horses and started to walk on the streets of Re Estize. In both sides of the streets, the Death Warriors had lined up and raised their flags for the King and Queens.
From the miracle of the Sorcerer King, many citizens had come out from their houses or were looking from their windows.
Evileye quickly ran in the small streets to reach where Ainz was heading. His voice and his presence made her to follow him. It still reminded her the dark hero.
Ainz and his wives stopped at the plaza. He reached a place that everyone could see him. The Dragon Lords stood proud behind him.
"Dear citizens, please come closer."
Without thinking about it, they all came closer a few meters. The citizens were all calm and did not spoke a word.
"First things first... Please accept our heartfelt sympathies on the loss of your loved ones in that war. I know you will not forgive me. Some of you hate and fear me for what I am. But I really don't care! I will do my best to help all the poor families that are in penury."
The citizen never thought a king apologizing for killing his enemies on the battlefield. And that was coming from an undead being.
"For decades, the nobles had treated you all like garbage. They took the villagers with force to war, leaving their families behind, and those products that you make , gets taken by the nobles to fill their belly."
"Your taxes go into their pockets and they spend them to build their own houses. Oh, they are not simply houses, but large residences…
"Ah, here they are- Welcome, welcome."
The Death Warriors brought the nobles before Ainz. They were all upon donkeys and half striped. Their mouth was covered with a rags so they could not scream all the way here. Except Raeven, all the great nobles were here, even prince Barbo. The citizens touched they mouth with hands to hold the laughter.
The warriors, dismounted the nobles from the donkeys and presented them before the Great One. Ainz gave a nod to his servant to remove the rags from their mouth. Now the nobles could breathe freely and were looking at Ainz with horrified eyes.
"What do you have to say for yourself?" asked the dominant voice of Ainz.
"Please! Please, I am Prince Barbo of Re Estize Kingdom! Please release me! My father will give anything!" shouted Barbo. His eyes were full of fear and terror.
The Sorcerer King clapped his hands slowly and walking around Barbo.
"You heard that my dare citizens, he thinks that his title will set him free."
Ainz stared at Barbo with his dreadful eyes.
"You and your old man own nothing. You and the rats around you, don't get to choose. You are all equally worthless."
"But this is not fair! We are nobles! We have worth!"
The one who shouted was the young Marquis Pespea, and many other nobles started to wail supporting him.
"Yes! We are more worthy than these commoners!" shouted Marquis Boullope
The citizens gave a cold look at the nobles. Even in that state, they don't want to accept they are lost. But they feared if the Sorcerer King will accept them.
"Hahaha, I don't think that's the right way to spell, "worthless". Listen, I don't like to use this word because I hated, but... you fall in a category lower than slaves. You are… objects. Yes, that's right, just object to do whatever I want with them."
The nobles were frozen on the ground when they heard him. They now understand the words equally worthless. They are to be tossed around like true objects they were.
"You, you can't do this to us!"
"Oh, yes I can."
"Hiiiii, He-Help us! Do something you commoners!
Despair had fallen upon the nobles and tears were coming from their eyes. They will be executed soon. The citizens were looking at them with angry faces.
"How amusing the way you squeal like pigs you are. You thought that I will choose scum like you before these hard working citizens? Oh no, that will be only a dream for you. I'm not like that old weak coward that is hiding in his castle."
"Please I will give you anything! Please don't kill me!"
Marquis Blumrush, the man that will betray his own family for a gold coin, bagged in front of Ainz for mercy.
"Everything you owned in the past, the gold and mythril mines belong to my Kingdom. All your wealth will be given to the poor families, so you are broke."
"I think it's time, my love."
"You are right, my dare Zesshi, but i'm not going to kill them, not even my knights will do it."
The citizens stared at Ainz dumbfounded. They did not understand what he meant by that. The corrupted fools deserve to die.
The crimson points of Ainz, lit up.
"It will be you, my citizens."
Silence fell upon them. They still did not understand the Sorcerer King.
"I'm giving you a chance to take that sweet-revenge."
The Death Warriors turned the nobles at the citizens. They were hesitating for a moment.
"The people that had destroyed your life are in front of you. Take revenge, my citizens. It's yours!
There were no movements for a moment, but from the crowd came out a teenage boy. He grabbed a stone from the ground and approached Marquis Boullope. He looked at the noble with killer eyes.
"You killed my mother, and burned our house!"
The boy shouted as he raised his hand.
"Wa-Wait b-boy I-
The words of the noble were cut as the boy hit him with the stone. Marquis Boullope fell on the ground and blood came out from his forehead, but it was not over. The boy grabbed him by the hairs and hit him countless times in the head.
Sweet revenge he said…
The citizens rushed at the nobles and unleashed their rage at them. They punched them, kicked them, hit them with different objects and the nobles screamed and begged for mercy, but the citizens did not stop till the last breath of those fools. They kicked the nobles even after they died.
"Wrath, after they finish this execution, take the bodies and revive them. These fools are not going to escape so easily. After all… Death is mercy. They don't deserve that."
"It will be done, my Lord." Wrath bowed his head.
Ainz with Zesshi and Vrakulina, turned and began to head to the palace. That was the last stronghold of this Kingdom. But suddenly-
"Glory to the King!"
The boy shouted, and the others followed him.
"Glory to the King!"
"Long live the King!"
"Long may he Reign!"
All the citizens in the plaza, praised the name of the Supreme Being. Evileye that has been observing him for a long time, was amazed how he won the trust of the citizens in such a short time.
Ainz turned again at the crowd.
"My dare citizens, a golden age is about to start. The Empire, the Dragon Kingdom and the Beastman Kingdom do not exist anymore. We are united as one powerful nation!
The citizens had their eyes shocked of being part of such a large nation. It felt like a dream.
"Corruption, racism and discrimination against other races, rape, criminals, murderers will not exit inside the territories of this Kingdom! Let's make Nazarick Kingdom great. Let's begin a new era of peace and prosperity!"
Ainz opened his bony arms. The crowd exploded at cheering for him. It made them eager to work for the new King, to leave the gloomy past behind and to work for the glorious future.
Again Ainz turned and let the people shouting and praising his name.
This is the way...