Dominance in the New World: An Overlord Fanfic

Requesting Help

Chapter 99

"fuck logic you creepy abomination"

White Sovereign, moments before bringing down a meteor shower on a Spider

POV Neia

The travel to the Arcanian Empire was interesting to say the least. Queen Calca was declared dead with the giant Fire Demon using her as a club to smash the soldiers around him into mincemeat and simply decided to summon his army to do the rest. If his motive was to break our spirits...it worked.

With King Caspond on the throne, he immediately sent us, a small Paladin Squad (and me a squire) to request help from the Empire to deal with the demons. It was clear that the King's ideologies were very different from the late queen. While she had taken isolation and independence as the absolute priority, the King's first order was to 'go to the Empire and beg them to save us'.

To be honest, I had to agree with the King. I honored and respected my Queen for everything she had done and sacrificed for the Kingdom to keep it afloat but the last few years showed that it just was not working. The work revolved around the Empire and maybe it was necessary for us to follow it. While I was a devout follower of the 4 Gods, it wasn't like the Empire had done great evil like the church liked to spread. From what I heard, the Empire had something called 'Freedom of Thought and Expression' which somehow translated to allowing people to believe in whatever they wanted. Something that we didn't have.

My superior, Remedios, was grumbling on and on about the situation. Initially it was her mourning of our Queen, in which I can relate. Remedios-sama had always been close to the queen as part of her honor guard and probably some family relations as well. Due to this, she did not take the death of the Queen well at all; however literally a week later when the King ordered us to go request help, Remedios-sama went on a tantrum on a scale that resulted in broken furniture and artwork throughout the entire Temple. Quite like a spoiled and uncontrollable child. How she reached that level of strength with the intelligence and comprehension of a child...I would never know.

Our carriage rode to the border of our Kingdom where we were greeted by the 'fucking undead abominations' as Remedios-sama liked to call them while in reality they were a mix of Death Knights and a couple Valhallan Warriors. There were a few supervising Elder Lichs and Arcanian Knights who monitored the people passing the borders but other than that, there was nothing.

Remedios-sama had somehow gotten into an argument with a Death Knight which sounds impossible but perhaps grunts understand growls. I and a few other superiors needed to pull her off the death knight before it drew the Flamberge to skew us all into skewers. I would not like to be killed before I even step on Empire territory please...

Having the Royal Message helped greatly as we were given an escort straight to Katze (much to the dislike of Remedios) but it was much faster and quite convenient to be allowed to skip pretty much everything. On the way to the city gates, I saw things that I have never seen before in my life.

I saw Ships floating across the plains with the symbol (Scale) embedded into the sails and dozens of Undead on board, patrolling the empty lands. I saw Giants, goblins, orges, elves, dwarves, and so many kinds of beastman all together and seemingly in harmony as they walked towards to city. I saw thousands of caravans entering and leaving the city, a testament to the sheer size of the place.

Finally, we were allowed within the great walls that towered over plains. Made entirely of metal which seemed to me like a waste...but this was the Empire after all. On the other side of the gates was another world. One in which I couldn't believe how different it was from the Kingdom. Even Remedios-sama who tried to frown and insult everything about the place seemed to have lost control of her jaw as it dropped upon seeing what lay beyond.