Domina's POV
In front of what was now happening in the Nothern orkish mounts, Isleplain's battle was nothing more than child's play.
Hundreds of Doom knights had already conquering the place, there was no demon gate to be seen, they simply appeared out of nowhere and took over the whole place. This was not a real demonic invasion, since Domina didn't spread demonic energies around like normal demons did, to make the place more hospital to themselves.
The Skyrres who lived there were of course turned into even more doom knights and his army was now no smaller than any of the garisons blocking his path.
Domina and Jak had decided each to take another way, Domina would go south down the orkish mountains, while Jak would go take over Anchora. After all Anchora was the capital of humanity, or so they called themselves.
A series of bloody battles were fought and Jak who went towards Allastar lost miserably, it wasn't that her troops were weak, it was rather that there were too many players on the other side, while all her troops were npcs.
Domina also was at the other side of the stick, his doom guards were being beaten like crazy, dying again and again by the orks, until their shamans begun destroying the armors, freeing some puppet skyrres and sending lesser demons back to their world.
Domina was lucky that expert shamans were few in number, otherwise he would have lost as miserably as Jak.
Domina and Jak themselves had fought as well, Jak was...well Jak, he just killed anyone he fought but had to retreet each time because his troops had died on him or begun retreeting, while Domina who wasn't good at fighting to begin with was easily dominated by the orkish players losing like like crazy from their immortal berserkers, since he had no sleep spells or calming spells the berserkers were even more dangerous for him.
You might not remember but berserkers can't be killed until their rage falls to zero and each strike on them refills the berseker's rage.
Normally there were three popular ways of overcoming a berserker, first was magic, by casting some calming or sleeping spell, which of course was useless against these elite berserkers, since they would just resist the effects.
Second was dodge them until their rage runs out, which was rather popular until the berserkers decided to work in pairs, one hit the other to gain rage, since self inflicted pain didn't count to the rage meter.
Last was immobilizing the berserker or destroying their weapon, this was something that was rather difficult and only experts could do it, after all attacking the weapon was difficult when the berserker could just block with his bare hand and refill some of his rage and immobilizing them was only appliable to npc berserkers not players.
The only weakness of the berserker was that after his rage run out he would die and would probably lose some equipment, thus berserkers always played with party members and only used berserker's rage as a last resort. Even if your health didn't reach 1, having used the berserker's rage skill still killed you, the worst weakness of course was that if you didn't hit an enemy after a span of time you would also die, the time depended on your skill mastery, meaning that upon mastering the skill there was no time span at all. Of course the greatest weakness of the berserkers was the feeling of pain, if the berserker didn't welcome pain he was a failure, since he would just faint and die.
Of course Simon and Kaj who were watching weren't too happy about the situation, they knew that Allastar had many players but seeing how their npc clones were being toyed with they decided to help them a tiny little bit.
This was when the darkest hour for the players arrived. Domina now had evolved into an Oblivion Demon, and his knights were now oblivion knights, who had a small magic and physical damage absorbsion, of course the knights were not what struck terror in the player's minds.
The Oblivion demon himself was imperilous to the berserker's attacks, the reason was they couldn't brake his armor, which was his strange dark blue skin, his appearance had also changed, he now looked like a black pighead monster engulfed in flames, with a round stomach that made Simon depressed, he was happy that he hadn't evolved more than what he had.
The oblivion demon Domina could send rivers of Azure flames that corrupted the land making it demonic.
Of course the Doom demon could also do something like that but his corrupted land didn't damage the enemy, it just regenerated some health points to his doom knights, which was rather pointless if they died as fast as they did.
After all being swarmed by three to five orks was already a death sentence for any race, even dragons could fall if swarmed by five ork berserkers or warriors.
The corrupted land in turn corrupted all the monsters in the northern mountains making them them demonic and in turn eligible to become oblivion knights. Npc Domina hadn't thought of that and Simon had to tell him tactics that he could use.
Kaj in turn advised Jak on what to do, the first of the things being become an oblivion knight himself.
With their newer power ups the two of them established the northern orkish mountains as their territory and from there begun expanding, little by little, turning dungeons into spawning grounds for doom knights and skyrre villages into their own bases.
Domina no longer went for battle as he organized his towns and Jak went on hunts to bring back more demonic monsters for him to turn into subordinates.
Only the orks in vain tried to attack the corrupted northern mountains, but before even reaching the enemy they were already damaged by the demonic energies and warned that if they stayed for too long they would be turned into demonic beings, meaning pernament death of their character and disadvantages.
Of course some players wanted to try joining the demons making the situation even more chaotic.
Demonic orks were given Oblivion armors and gained the doom knight's reviving ability and damage absorbtion, while also regenerating health like the oblivion demons did.
In truth there were many players who wanted the demons to win, mostly the opressed smaller guilds who hated the situation in Allastar, even some who had abandoned Allastar for other worlds came back to join the Demons.
Simon was somewhat curious what would happen if the npc Domina was evolved into his final form. The next for was the Hell demon and the last was the Abyss demon. He of course already knew what the two promotions granted but he couldn't see how he would look like if he evolved.
Simon held himself forcibly from evolving his npc clone, while Kaj who instead of creating Jak an army just made another Jak was even more enthusiastic, there was now a group of Jaks, called the Jak squad.
All nine of them were oblivion knights but their weapon was not the oblivion rapier but Jak's custom made armor piercing rapier.
They all had one of them and did tons of damage.
Average players mostly fained from their Rip psychic power, while even experts found it difficult, fighting against the Jaks.
Domina had created demonic structures, that were made of the corrupted demonic dirt. The structures had different uses but the most common were dwellings places, the bizare houses made players rather excited, after all there was no monetary value, everyone could ask the Demon lord for a different suit of demonic armor and the demon towns were still expanding and growing bigger.
The two other frequently seen buildings were the miasma pools and demon mist chambers, the miasma pools held a rather strange dark blue liquid that could raise someone's demonic energy, long contact with the liquid could turn a player into a demon, rather than a demonic being, the difference was that if someone was a demon they wouldn't die upon death but teleported to the demon world, of course it also ment that they would lose the use of magic, since all their magic points would be converted to health.
The demon mist chambers were large glass chambers that held a strange dark blue mist, upon contact demons regained full health while magicians refilled their magic points instantly, making this a boon for the magic users who had joined the demons side.
Domina however was somewhat distressed, the last and most important structure was yet to be completed, it was a large dome akin to the one on red moon, meaning a new portal, the destination of which would come as a surprise to the players, but demonic structures weren't like normal ones, in other words it wouldn't be built in a week like normal buildings and the portal was a rather special creation that Simon asked him to build for him.
Domina was somewhat angry, becoming ruler and all was fine, but why did he have to do all of these things, he would have been happy just enjoying a lazy day at Simon's hotel on the moon.
It made him laugh how he was jealous of himself, or the other himself,em whatever.
The Jaks were all over the place battling monsters exploring dungeons, all the things he was to lazy doing. At first they came back with monsters for him to make into oblivion puppets, but later they came less often until they had stopped comming at all.
A month passed by as he had no stabilized his reign over the northern mountains, the other races had sent ambassadors to negotiate. Domina was so lazy that he left the demon players' representative deal with them.
The Demon players' representative was Green, the loli Diva who had recruited Simon. She had found Domina and thinks that he's Simon, it was rather funny how a great hacker like herself couldn't tell apart an npc clone from the real thing.
Green was a Spider woman, called Arachnarch, akin to the Driders from the fantasy books, her apper part was that of a girl while the lower was that of a spider, don't expect something big, they were smaller than legs and she had some difficulty walking with them but she could non the less walk on walls with them.
The reason behind her appearance was the miasma pool, after absorbing enough demonic energy you are forced to change your race into that of a demon, most of the players however don't make this choice, since it's comes with character deletion on death.
The only thing that demons didn't lack was food, they could eat anything, even the dirt under their feet, although they never got hungry and only ate normal food for the taste of it.
The four ambassadors were now in front of Green and Domina, who had his eyes closed trying to disregard the matters in front of him.
The dwarven,elven,orkish and human ambassadors were all players, this was a mission given to them by the rulers of their race and if they succeeded, they would all gain a clearance, since all four of them were guardians to begin with.
By composing oustanding merit for their race guardians could gain an aditional clearance, the four who had come were really lucky or so they thought until they saw Green.
Three of the four were from the psychics camp, meaning not on Green's side, of course they could negotiate, but the deal would not be to their favour, the most concerned was the dwarf ambassador, he was a centurion from Blue's side.
Blue was the leader of the psychics and she like Green wanted to be the heir to the empire, after all the empress was always doing whatever she liked, not really caring about the worldly matters.
Even Rain wasn't against it, if one of the two could gain the aknowledgement of all the others, then she could become the new empress, that was the deal set for them and the only way to do that was to defeat one another, the two candidates Green and Blue were in turn the best Hacker and the best Psychic, well if you exclude the psycho brown, of whom the other divas knew nothing about.
Green's favourite animals were spiders, her weapon of choice were metal wires, which she stored inside two seemingly normal metal gauntlets, well they were desined with spiders on them and stuff but they looked rather normal.
The two gauntlets could shoot out a steel wire that nailed one point into the target, she could drag the target with it or create traps by shooting a second time to another wall, she could do so for up to 83 times, creating a weblike trap. The wire wasn't gluey at all but it was nearly transparent and hard to see, making it a good weapon for assassinations.
Even the the low level guardians if they have played the game long enough knew who Green was, after all the two divas, Green and Blue were the only candidates for the place of Empress, even now it was mostly them who took care of the whole world, they
were rather busy and unless there was some gain for them they didn't leave their respective homes. Of course they had long ago passed through all worlds and created their own domains.
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Allastar was supposed to be under Blue's control, Domina's invasion had upset the balance, of how many worlds blue controlled.
Each of them controlled five each, two were arena worlds which were neutral ground, since they couldn't control them at all.
Green controlled all the futuristic worlds while Blue all the medieval and undeveloped ones since hacking there meant nothing at all in front of raw power, Allastar was also one such world, no matter how much Green had tried to hack she could do little to nothing against the system, thus most of her guardians had left this world, for her this was a comeback, a step to overcome Blue.
However both npc Domina and the original Simon knew nothing about it and seriously didn't give a fuck.
This world had now become his and since he had promised Green that he would help her, he lost nothing in doing so, of course he hadn't told her about his own plans.
The dwarven champion and ambassador of the Dwarven race knew that gaining this merit clearance was impossible since Green's presense in Allastar, ment only one thing "War".
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Galie's POV
Galie and Lidie were now walking through the deserts of Ashrad, it was all Lidie's fault in the first place, she was too stingy to buy mounts and teleportation in the endless desert was useless, since every side looked the same it only ended making things even worse.
Galie was sure that she was seeing a mirage as not far away she could see her father playing with a little girl volleyball, well simple passes but it still felt weird.
"Lidie I think that the mirages in this world are too frightening"
Galie said, sweating like crazy, they had both bought heat resistant garbs but after walking for so long there was little they could do but keep walking, if they stayed in one place for more than half an hour that place would become their spawn point meaning, their grave.
"You are right, after all your father did say that he would be away for a year, so it's impossible for him being here playing with a child"
Lidie said, fully sure that this was a mirage.
"Funny, I'm seeing the exact same thing"
Galie said, somewhat puzzled, not knowing if that was supposed to be happening or not.
To their surprise, Darknym said something to the girl and the girl run towards Lidie giving her a tackle, that looked like a hug.
They could see Darknym facepalm himself as he came towards them and miraculously the heat stopped becoming somewhat cool and like fresh breeze revitalized them, making all the weariness go.
"Galie, this is your sister, It was her I was trying to find for some time now and at last I was able to cure her or at partly cure her, she cannot use psychic power at all, so don't you dare try teaching her how to use them, in truth her powers are unstable and dangerous so there's no real need for her to use them, I will be travelling with you for a few days but I can't be always inside the game, I still have so many things to create, I knew that earth was a treasure grove, the people here are so much more creative than in other planets, ironicaly however they are so much undeveloped as well"
Darknym's words made Galie and Lidie take a funny expression. Brown was still hugging Lidie instead of Galie and didn't seem to care what they were talking about.
"By the way what are the two of you doing in the middle of the eastern desserts, this place is not too hospitable you know"
Darknym asked, in truht he already knew the answer to that, but wanted to tease them a little.
Ashrad was divided into west and east, the west were rather civilized or as sivilized the people of ashrad could get, but the east side was a warzone, here nomadic tribes ruled and the few oasis that existed were the five great powers of the eastern deserts, of course only experts and people who liked to PK went to the eastern deserts, since pkers weren't banned from the eastern cities, or rather oasis. If you asked an npc why, he would say that here they don't care about a man's past.
"Wee! I have a sister"
Galie while trying to take little brown off of Lidie. It was a rather hilarious scene as brow was glued to the distressed Lidie and Galie was trying to have her to herself, after all she was "her" sister.
"Brown let go of Lidie, she's not your real sister, she's an imposter!"
Darknym shouted, his voice having a tone of fear, making everyone's faces turn funny, even little brown seemed scared as she went hugging Galie, looking at Lidie as if she were a monster or something. At that moment Galie's and Lidie's faces were worth more than gold, Lidie had a strange crooked smile while Galie just twinkled her eyes like an idiot, disbelief all over her face.
'Is Lidie an imposter?'
This question was written all over her face making Darknym's outburst of laughs even more annoying.
Galie and Brown were mad at him, this wasn't the first time he had played a prank on them, he was really deceptive and bad at times, especialy when he was in a good mood.
Galie and Brown both came next to him and begun kicking him for a good few minutes, but he couldn't stop laughing. Once he did and called them to stop, Galie and Brown looked at each other, nodded once and continued the good work.
Lidie was left there seeing the two of them kicking the shit out of their old man.
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Max's POV
Max and Red were taken by Leo to Drogan, there was no reason travelling all over the world if Lidie herself didn't want to be with them and Red was still in Galie's friend list, so she could talk with her if she wanted to.
Leo however had invited them back for another reason, War was upon the land, a war that he as a guardian could not avoid.
Leo was affiliated with the Epress but most of his subordinates were on blue's side, in truth all guardians on Allastar were either neutral or on Blue's side, the appearance of Domina and Green was of course an act of war.
Leo wasn't afraid for himself, but for his guild, if Green took over his guild would be out of experts, since almost all the experts in his guild were guardians under Blue's control.
Simply put he will have to start rectuiting people from scratch and although they will still have a considerable capital, they will still lack manpower, in result they will most probably lose at least half of their territory.
Max was dragged into this forcefully, mostly because the Helllion guild was sort of family business and he did use too much of their resources at eal island to begin with. If he didn't help when his father needed his help how could he call himself his son.
After all this time Rain could do nothing to help him, in this war she held neutrality, to begin with if not for Max finding a girlfriend she wouldn't have bothered coming to Allastar in the first place.
Red didn't really care, she liked Max so she came after him, while behind them came Honda, who in turn liked Red, but he didn't have much of a success, Red didn't even look at him, instead she was more interested in Max's father rather than Honda, he seriously thought of changing his avatar into a macho bodybuilder at the moment.
The Helllion guild had already planted a few spies into Domina's army and knew first place what was happening but some of their spies went rogue and simply decided to join Green's side.
The reason was simple, something that made Leo, Max and even Red horrified. Demons were immune to psychic powers. Making powerful guardians equal to simple players and people who didn't have useful psychic powers.
Of course self improving psychic powers wouldn't be blocked, but spychic attacks and defenses were useless against them.
Max and Progie were sitting around a table, they were in Max's estate and only a few npc servants were making some sound. The house was empty and Max was at a loss for words as there was nothing for him to do, even weeks after his return home.
There was simply nothing to do for him yet, the demons hadn't even reached the Drogan continent, since they would first have to pass through the Orkish mountains, which was a journay that would at least take a year unless they can of course fly or teleport, but at the moment there was no notion of something like that happening.
Max of course Red and Honda stay in his estate, but Red was a late waker and Honda spent most of his time training. Max would spar with him a few times but he always lost, which was of course to be expected since Honda didn't let him approach him and simply sent wind cutters towards him.
Wind cutter was the most basic of wind spells, it would make air particles form a line and travel at a rather fast and violent speed, creating cuts on contact before dispersing.
The skill itself had a low chance of causing the enemy to bleed, but since it didn't drain much magic power to the high level players they simply spammed it as if it was nothing. Of course a good armor makes the skill useless but when fighting with someone so much weaker than you even a simple slash is as powerful as a skill.
In truth Leo had other children as well but they were npcs, if they died they wouldn't respawn, each was given an estate or a fort or a village to govern.
Max of course was the only player among them.
The only two of the dozens of simblings were Jey and Mondy, the two were quite friendly and visited him from time to time. Of course all of his npc simblings were jealous of him, but did nothing against him, mostly because they couldn't think a way to do so.
They were like silent victims of discrimination, that would endure injustice until they die, that was true for all npcs and was made so in order for humans to have fun inside the game, not the other way around.
Max was anxious, he had just taken a letter than his brother Jey would come visit him, Jey was the intilectual type, a rather powerful mage, with a rather bad gambling addiction.
Max was somewhat afraid of him, the reason was that he easily became violent when he was left peniless, and had no better way to unload his sorrow rather than beat at his servants and younger simblings.
Max was one of Jey's usual victims, when he was young, so he bore some fear of Jey, even though he's now bigger and probably stronger than him, but they had a difference that made Jey come on top even if they fought.
Max had no psychic powers and neither had Jey, but Jey as an npc had good reflexes and had an average fighting ability, something that Max lacked in.
Max was rather clumpsy and didn't like to fight, unless of course it was absolutely unavoidable, like protecting ones woman or honor, the first because of his father's orders and the second due to his mother's seminars about what honor was, honor of course is a thing defined diferently by diferent people, the honor his mother taught him was part pride part business morals, to her who used to be a hitman, honor was important but not to the point where life was concerned, after all survival has to always be above honor, but a sense of honor has to be protected, at least when you are in a position able to do so.
Max was rather unhappy other than bored, the reason behind it was not the money Jey would ask of him, after all for him money was no problem, his other simblings also came to ask for money, knowing that they had more chances with him rather than with their father. Max's real problem was what to do with Progie, after all he couldn't just take her to the front, it was simply too dangerous for her.
He had wanted to leave her with Red, but after what happened at the imperial city he had understood that it was a bad Idea, there was no one he could entrust her to, although he could still sent her to one of his simblings for safekeeping.
Jey and Mondy were the only two he knew well.
Jey although rough around the edges, he was rather polite to Max right now, one of the reasons was that he owed him a lot, another was his wife, a female player who too was into gambling.
Mondy was rather militaristic and was also married to a female player, Mondy was okey, but his wife was somewhat goofy, she loved cute and expensive things, making Mondy also owe Max a healthy sum.
Both of course had a sense of honor, the gambler had his own sense of honor and augmented with a healthy sum to take care of Progie would ensure her safety.
The militant Mondy, although he was the better choice he would most probably want to accompany his father to war, making the one who would take care of Progie the player wife, who although was also from the Helllion guild was rather bothersome to deal with.