Overlord - The Beast of the Apocalypse

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Prologue

I exist. . . . . . I always have. . . . .And I always will. . .

I do not boast. . . Or hope. . .I merely state the fact. . .

I was born in the Darkness at the beginning of time. . . And I will exist until the end of time. . .

I have no name. . .No family. . . And no idea what I am. . .

You call me Monster. . .God. . .Demon. . .Beast. . .

But none of those is my name. . . .For I have no name. . .

But all peoples know and fear me. . . . .

For I am the Beast of the Apocalypse. . .And this is my story.

Chapter 1

Overlord POV

I have no name. I am called several things, but I have never been given a name.

They call me The Great Beast, and Beast of the Apocalypse, or just Beast.

I live in a place known as the Hell Plains. It is located in the center of the Demon Continent.

The Demon Continent is an enormous island that is overflowing with the strongest demons and other non-human races. The island is an enormous circle with the radius being 750 miles. Adventurers from different continents would sometimes come to kill demons and prove their skills, but many of them never make it very far. And even fewer return home.

There are 20 rings that surround the Hell Plains, which are located in the middle of the island. Each of them is twice as hard to survive as the last, and the demons and creatures are twice as strong. And at the middle of the island, the 21st ring exists, The Hell Plains, the harshest place in existence, most beings cannot even step foot there, they would die instantly.

The Hell Plains is the circle at the center of the island and has a diameter of 250 miles. The Hell Plains are a sea of lava and volcanic rocks, with multiple volcanoes, and underground caverns.

I exist in the center of all this. I am the strongest being on the Demon Continent and my rule is unchallenged. My original form was that of The Great Beast. I was an enormous Demonic Dragon, who was large enough to swallow smaller dragons whole. My entire length from head to tail was around 11 miles long.

Imagine a combination of these two dragons:

http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=120297

http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=252918

I was created at the beginning of time, to destroy the world at the end of time. I was born with this one purpose, and I would fulfill this purpose no matter what, it was the reason for my existence. Eventually the Gods came into existence, and began creating numerous other races. Many of the Gods used to come to talk to me and befriend me, but it was all an act.

I trusted them and did what I could to advance their ideas but they secretly feared me because I could kill them, even though that thought had never occurred to me. So they banded together and attempted to seal me while I slept.

Unfortunately for them, I was always a light sleeper, and I awoke when they began the sealing process. Now, not all of the Gods were such cowardly *ssholes and three of them attempted to protect me. They had been my closest friends and I had cared for them the most.

There was Eris, the female God of War, who was in love with me. Long story there, but apparently she vowed to marry the man who defeated her in single combat, and I was the only one who did.

(She Looked like this): http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=99127

The second God who defended me was Irenia, the Blind Goddess, and Wife of Harak, the God of Terror.

(She looks like this): http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=269621

The third God was Irenia's husband Harak, the God of Terror. He always wore this strange armor and told me that the only time he takes it off is around Irenia, because the sight of his face will drive even other Gods to madness.

(He looks like this): http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=536020

Those three were my true friends and they attempted to stop the other Gods but they failed. Despite their strength, they were heavily outnumbered, and were taken away to be sealed in different places.

Even though they had attacked me, the Gods were too scared to try and kill another God. They believed that they were immortal, and couldn't be killed. They knew that it was not true and that anyone could be killed, but they persisted in their beliefs and would not kill any of them, for fear that it would prove that they were not truly immortal.

I suppose I was lucky in that my only friends were not killed that day, but it taught me a lesson, to never trust anyone. I was used for my knowledge and power, and once their fear for me exceeded my usefulness, they betrayed me.

That day I learned that you can not trust anyone completely. You must always be prepared for their betrayal. I truly realized that while I was under attack from millions of Gods, all of whom were trying to seal me away, and eventually they succeeded. Even I cannot fight every God in existence all at the same time.

However; before I was completely sealed away, I sent a portion of my consciousness outside of my body, and into a piece of my arm that had been blown off during the attack. It was similar to the bi-location spell, that allowed you to be in two places at once. I was still in my body, but I was also in the piece of flesh that had been ripped off my arm.

The Gods believed that they had sealed me, and left rejoicing that I was no longer a threat. However; only my original body was sealed, and unable to move. It took me a long time, but I was eventually able to form a much smaller form to reside in, from the single piece of flesh.

The form I created was a humanoid form around 9 feet tall, and had silvery-gray skin with several cracks running through it, exposing the burning lava that flowed in my veins.

It looks like this: http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=314743

I was not nearly as powerful as I had used to be, but I was still stronger than all of the Gods, at least individually. However; I would not be able to handle any more than one of them at a time, I was strong but not invincible. I only retained 1/8 of my power, but it was still an enormous amount of power. I almost rushed off to find Eris, Irenia, and Hakar, immediately, but I realized that that would only lead to a true sealing this time, and decided to bide my time.

If I wanted to find and free them, then I would need to act in secret, to avoid the Gods attention. I would have others do my work for me, while I plotted the rescue of my friends and the destruction of the Gods. Now, the first thing to do was to obtain disposable workers.

I began my work by altering the beings who existed on the island I was sealed on. The Gods, in their arrogance, would ignore any mutations that occurred in them, and attribute them to leakage of my magic power from the seal. And once they began reproducing, I would be able to create new races and add them into the population.

I first began by creating the Salamanders, by altering smaller lizards and worms. They were beings that thrived in the molten lava that surrounded my sealed body. The salamanders were split into two groups. The Fire Dragons, and the Wyrms.

The Fire Dragons were much smaller replicas of my original form, with the largest being around a mile long, and most of them being between 200-800 feet long. I took and altered the small lizards, giving them wings and advanced intelligence. I also gave each of them the ability to shift into a humanoid shape at will, since I found maneuvering to be much easier in a smaller form.

The Wyrms were made from common worms, and some of them were even larger than my original form, although they were not nearly as strong. The Wyrms were divided into two main groups,. These were the Minor Wyrms and the Major Wyrms. The Minor Wyrms were smaller and faster, only being about two miles long, and having scale plating that looked like metal. While the Major Wyrms were so large that they had entire mountain ranges on their backs, but lacked the scale armor of the Minor Wyrms. I chose not to give the Wyrms as much intelligence, and left them with a dog's intelligence, and a perfect devotion to me as their master.

Minor Wyrm: http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=129838

Major Wyrm: http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=400480

After I created these to occupy the 21st ring with me, I created other beings to occupy the other 20 rings.

The 20th ring was a large empty desert that was populated mostly with Minor Wyrms, that lived under the sand and would strike from below. I discovered giant mutations of desert insects, that were a result of the magic leakage from my seal, and decided to leave them alone, since they would provide extra security. So I left the giant ants, scorpions, and spiders alone.

I also discovered giant mutations in every other ring and decided to leave them alone, after I dubbed the stupid creatures monsters. They were dull mindless creatures, that would provide a source of meat and battle for my creations.

The 19th ring was a harsh mountain range, that I filled with Stone Golems and Tsuchigimos. A Tsuchigimo was a spider person, who had the lower half of a spider while their upper half was the torso and head of a human, albeit with tougher skin.

The 18-15th rings were covered with several enormous lakes with marshland in-between them. I created beings of water called nymphs, that dwelt in the lakes, and drowned unlucky adventurers. I also created sirens, whose beautiful voices could lure people to their deaths. Sirens had the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish. The numerous monster fish and sea snakes that populated the 18th ring were also very dangerous. While the marshlands were like death traps, as the numerous mutated insects and beasts would attack while you were bogged down in the marsh.

The 14-10th rings, were full of hills and plains, and were inhabited by a humanoid species known as Demons. The Demons were an intelligent race of humanoids, who tended to have leathery or scaly skin, and claws. They formed their own hierarchies, and built towns and castles, while waging war on each other, the numerous monsters, and the occasional adventurer who managed to make it that far.

The 10-6th rings were a mixture of frozen wastelands, and frosty mountains. I created several tribes of Ice Demons who could survive in the harsh environment, and scattered them through out all 5 rings. I then created a race ice spirits, called Yukki-Onna, which I gave the ability to shift into a human form that could control ice and snow freely, without being affected by the cold. I also created a race of tall fur covered humanoids called Yeti's who roamed the mountains.

The 5th and 4th rings were a thick jungle, (Think Amazon Rain forest). I populated the jungle with several different tribes of weaker Demons called orcs and goblins. The orcs looked like pig people, while the goblins looked like small green humanoids, who only grew to about 4 feet tall. I also spread several Dryads, forest spirits throughout the forest. Dryads were forest spirits who could take on a humanoid form, which they could abandon at leisure, reverting to the forest.

Finally the 3rd, 2nd and 1st rings, were a giant forest(not jungle) that was inhabited mainly by mutated forest creatures, although there were several Dryads, and goblin tribes that had immigrated there. I also created a creature called a harpy, who looked similar to humans except that they had wings, and clawed hands and feet. They were also all female, and had to mate with a different race to obtain children.

(This pic looked cool so) Harpies look like this: http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/069/b/1/harpies_by_sopic84-d4saj9y.jpg

That was what I had gradually done over the course of 450,000 years. It had taken me a long time, but I had finally created a kingdom of my own, that I could use to locate Eris, Irenia, and Hakar.

Although I have listed what I did, there were also changes to the creatures I had created over the years. The Demons were the most prolific species and they gradually expanded until they had tribes in every ring. They had gradually adapted to each new ring they traveled to and now were the most common species on the Demon Continent, leading to its name. They also evolved in several directions creating Demons who were nearly perfect copies of humans, to the minotaurs and trolls.

I also created sylphs, air spirits that traveled constantly throughout the sky, never stopping in one place for too long. Along with harpies they were some of the fastest messengers.

I also created dragons for each ring, and sent them out as overseers, to make sure that my creations did not exterminate themselves. This led to the creation of Water, Ice, Rock, and Plant dragons, with each one having an affinity with their own element.

After I was done with this, I began creating a plan to find and free my friends, before taking revenge on the Gods. I knew that eventually the Gods would begin sending their followers to try and kill off the Demons. I knew this because the Gods thought of everything as a game. And now the game was their followers against the demons, who were the product of the magic leakage of the horrid Beast of the Apocalypse, meaning me.

It didn't take to long, before adventurers began traveling to the Demon Continent, to prove their strength and destroy the "Evil" Demons and monsters, as well as taking the precious metals and jewels that they found back with them. After all greed is one of the strongest forces in existence, even I am not immune to it.

And with that the first phase of my plan activated. I knew that all beings crave power, and I was going to exploit that, tempting the humans, elves, beast-men, and dwarves to betray their makers.

I started with small parasitic demons who could control the minds of other creatures. They invaded the returning ranks of adventurers and began spreading their beliefs and tempting power, among the populace. The parasitic demons could not reproduce and had to travel from host to host, but gradually their ideas would spread, because all beings can be tempted, and gossip is one of the fastest methods of travel.

It took a long time, somewhere around 600,000 years, for my followers to spread across the various continents, but I didn't care because I had all eternity to make sure that I did this correctly.

I made sure that they never once referred to me as the Beast, rather I took on the name of Overlord, and was called that by everyone around me. Until the day that I rescued my friends and took revenge on the Gods, I would be known as the Overlord, the Beast of the Apocalypse was sealed, and would remain so until the end of time.

The Gods considered me a powerful Demon, but remained oblivious to my true nature. They did not target me personally because to them this was a game, and only their pieces, or followers could attack me, since I was only a piece in the game.

It was finally time. I had spread my followers across the continents, so that there was at least an underground section who served me in every country. I had a foothold in every kingdom.

There were even several races who had completely submitted themselves to the Overlord. Their race had changed over time as they adapted to the use of dark power. This resulted in the creation of the Dark Elves, and the Dark Dwarves, who lived apart from the rest of their people. However; the humans and beast-men who served me, did not show any physical changes, resulting in their just being classified as evil, since their was no specific way to tell if someone served me.

I had done everything possible to prepare myself and now it was time to begin the search, personally. I was currently sitting on my throne in the enormous castle reserved for the Overlord, and his closest subordinates.

I slowly stood, and stretched my 9-foot frame. I glanced over at Sebastian, an ancient dragon shifter, and my personal butler. He was one of the first Dragons I had created and was a Dragon Emperor.

He looks like this: (Had to use Sebas Tian from Overlord. Awesome Novel, can't wait for the anime.)

http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/overlordmaruyama/images/c/c3/Sebas_Tian.png/revision/latest?cb=20150321080723

"Have the preparations been made?"

"Yes, My Lord. Our spies are currently researching all of the ancient texts that may contain information about the whereabouts of the three sealed Gods. One of them has found a text referring to the sealing of a great terror, which we believe to be Harak."

"Good. Who is the agent who found it?"

"She is a young shadewalker, My lord. Her name is Sharil."

Interesting. Shadewalkers are extremely rare, and only the child of a Demon and a Human Warlock, can become one. There are only about a hundred of them in existence. Shadewalkers specialize in dark magic, and can become intangible at will. They can also melt into a shadow, and stay there until they are ready to leave. They are highly sought after as assassins, because of their stealth potential.

I walked over to the wall and stretched out my arms, letting my armor leap from the walls and settle on my body. I always wore this armor whenever I left the castle, because it was not only an excellent source of defense, but it completely blocked my aura, so that even if I passed within a foot of a God, he would not recognize me.

My armor: http://wall.alphacoders.com/big.php?i=528297

The Gods had grown fat and lazy in their arrogance and power. Now was the perfect time to strike. But I had to be careful. I will not allow them to know of my existence until they are right where I want them. You can't be to careful. After all, I have all of eternity to get it right.

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