Overlord: 7 Primordials

Chapter: 1 - With Friends Like These

It was the last day, the last day for the game me and my friends love to death. We were all planning on logging in one final time to enjoy the bittersweet moment of the shutdown. At this moment I'm rushing home to where my two little sisters live, this is due to our parents passing away some years ago. We decided to all get an apartment together mainly due to the fact we were inept at finding a partner, it would be easier to fuel our need to play YGGDRASIL.

The game was pretty pay-to-win but none of us cared it was all we did from morning to night. Money was not as abundant as we would like it was still enough to fuel our somewhat unhealthy addiction. My name is Marcus Pierce, my sisters are Allison and Krista, while I am 26 years old my sisters were both younger as said previously, they were 24 and 20 years old.

Allison Pierce, at 24 years old and only being a couple of years my junior was pretty responsible when she was growing up and became independent pretty quick, she came to love games when seeing me play them, but she tended to stay away from them because most of the interesting games were Multiplayer focused and playing by yourself wasn't very appealing. She later made a dive into game development making a couple of hit indie games.

Krista Pierce, at 20 years old being the youngest was babied for quite a lot of her life even when our parents were still around, her interest in games stemmed from mobile games which took a lot of convincing to drag her away from. She eventually loved bigger games on other consoles and PCs, mainly playing single-player games for their story-focused nature, the number of games she cried at was a bit excessive but I loved her all the same.

Playing YGGDRASIL was everything to us to the point I had made a streaming account to live to stream my gameplay if that was raids, dungeon crawls, or even one vs ones against viewers. Our characters were based on an older anime and light novel that we adored as well. Before even creating our characters years ago we invited 5 of our very close friends.

Maximillian Rush, I had just called him Max, we met even before either of my sisters were born and was a friend from pre-school all the way to college, having the same interests was the kick-off for our almost brother-like friendship. He is the same age as me but a bit younger if we're being specific.

Tessa Walker, the most popular girl in primary or grade school, the last person you'd expect to be a total nerd. It took about a year before we had a full conversation before becoming friends but what started it was we were playing an older multiplayer game on the last day of school, both me and Max kicking everyone's ass, but here she comes and 2v1's us shocking everyone there. After that, we talked more and more up until YGGDRASIL was released. Tessa is also the same age as both me and Max being slightly older than Max but younger than me.

Annie Garcia, the same age as Allison at 24, had been around at my and Allison's house a couple of times, they both had pestered me to play games with them and they were surprisingly good at them. She was pretty shy and quiet but when introduced to games, especially first-person shooters, explosions and nukes were plentiful when she played.

Zoey Barnes, the youngest of us all at 19 was like another little sister to me, she was frequently found attached to Krista's hip, being her best friend she would drag her everywhere. Zoey was cheerful and quite outgoing and was not shy like Annie. Funnily enough, Zoey was the one to convince us to play YGGDRASIL in the first place, this was because her father was the creator of the game. Pretty lucky stuff if I do say so myself, she had asked him to give us an exclusive race to play, and in her outgoing and playful nature made us all role-play as evil demons.

The decision on what we looked like was made by Max, this was due to him finding that we all coincidently loved That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Slime. It was pretty easy from there as there were 7 Primordials to choose from. It was easy enough to assign who would pick who in terms of appearance and build, the only one that was up for contention was me and Max. I wanted to pick Guy Crimson as my primordial but Max also wanted him, to end the debate Tessa had told us to flip a coin, whoever wins will be Guy and whoever loses will be Diablo.