The minotaurs are a dangerous race of beastmen, strong, fierce and relentless in the destruction of their enemy. They have the looks of a bull mixed with a man, and their feral variants are much more beast-looking and savage than their normal counterparts, sometimes even going on random rampages through their own dungeons. Some legends even talk about minotaurs as big as a city wall. Minotaurs should be absolutely avoided by any beginner adventurer, and only medium or high level adventures may try fighting them.

Adventurer's Guide,chapter 56

"It seems Lord Andrew's plan worked"

Golind was watching the city burning from the edge of the forest, while the other goblins brought Andrew to the village to rest. He was surprised that the city he had feared for so long was destroyed twice so easily, in only a few days.

"Well, i guess a dungeon is a pretty good defense against invaders ,isn't it Steve?"

The giant eye moved itself as to say yes, quite happily too.

"By the way where have you been?"

Steve opened up his eyelids, showing images of the battle with the scout unit they just had faced, like a television. Then it interrupts the moment Andrew casted [Miasma Leak], just to continue with the images of the city burning.

"So you disappeared because of the exhaustion of my lord. If you're back it means he must fell better. Let's go, quickly"

He gave a sigh of relief and prepared himself to return to the village along with Steve, when he heard an incredibly loud sound of steps, of something so heavy to make the earth shake. He turned, thinking that one of the ferals reached him. And he was right: a giant black minotaur was walking towards his direction. It stopped for a moment, widening his eyes, and fastened his walk. He had seen him!

"Dammit! RUN STEVE! RUN!"

Steve looked at him confused.

"FLOAT, I MEAN FLOAT!"

They began running to the village and suddenly a great shadow appeared over them, and immediately after that a minotaur was in front of them, the ground crushed below him.

"AAAAAAAAH!"

Golind and Steve hugged each other, vainly trying to comfort themselves from the terror.

"PLEASE, DON'T EAT US! WE TASTE LIKE ROTTEN RATS!"

The minotaur began waving his hands and mumbling something, as to calm them down, but they didn't notice.

"MERCY! MERCY, PLEASE, OH, POWERFUL BEAST!"

The so called beast intensified his waving and got nervous, but just like before, he was ignored, and they continued screaming.

"OH, WE'RE DOOMED!DOOMED!"

The minotaur had enough, he lost it.

"PLEASE, CALM DOWN YOU DAMN BUFFOON! I'M NOT HERE TO EAT YOU, NOR THAT SMALL CREATURE!"

They stopped screaming, but continued trembling. They weren't still convinced.

"R-really....?"

"YES,REALLY"

"Ok, then, what do you want from us?"

"First of all, excuse me for calling you buffoon, i got a bit impatient ,since you kept refraining from listening to me. Second, i came to see the one the supposedly created the leak, and by logic, me, to see if he's really my creator."

Golind and Steve finally calmed down.

"Uhm, ok, we can lead you to him"

Golind didn't really want to bring him to the village, but he couldn't certainly refuse the request of such an enormous monster.

"Anyway, what is your name,i f you have one?"

The minotaur panicked, getting all red for the embarrassment, bringing down a few trees with his awkward movements. Golind and Steve hid behind a rock they luckily found for a minute, till their guest regained his composure and bowed.

"Oh, how embarrassing for a gentleman such as myself to forget something so simple. My name is Nero, Dungeon Keeper of the Fallen City of Gorwyn. An honor to meet you, Sir..?"

"I'm Golind, leader of the goblins of this forest, and this is Steve, a summoned demon of the person you're searching for"

"I see, Golind and... Steve.. such a fitting name for such an adorable creature. But let's forget such a frivolous discussion about the cuteness of this small being and lead the way"

"Then follow me"

Golind began walking towards the village ,followed by Nero, who kept breaking trees with his giant axe, without even noticing it, and Steve, who constantly dodged them for fun.

After walking for a while, in which Nero made the road 3 meters larger due to his unaware redecoration, they reached the village. The goblins were initially terrified of the minotaur, but calmed down when Golind explained the situation to them. After a few presentations, they got quickly used to him, and some were even inspired by his gentleman attitude. Golind went to check on Andrew, while Steve played with the kids and Nero taught bon ton to the adults.

The tired leader entered his house, seeing his lord, who he should not think as such, but as a friend, but couldn't help to think of him as his master, sleeping in his bed. Then he saw him slowly waking up.

"Uh... uhmmm... Golind is that you?"

"Yes, my l-Andrew, it's me"

"Ooooh.. what's with the ruckus outside?"

"Well, you, uhmmm, have a guest"

"What? Really?... Who is it?"

"A minotaur, whiiiich is also the Dungeon Keeper of the miasma leak you caused"

"Eh?"

After 10 minutes of explanation about dungeons and the origin of Nero, Andrew finally left the house to meet this strange guest of his. He found him teaching bon ton to the black knights.

"Ok, now bow. Yes, just like that!"

"Ehm... excuse me... were you searching for me?"

Nero turned around to see the face of his supposed creator, showing quite a bit of excitement.

"Oh, so it's you! I've been waiting to meet you since i was born... more or less 4 hours ago. My name is Nero, and i must know, did you really create that mana leak?"

"Yes, i did... even if it made me faint"

Nero looked at him intensively, as if to find the slightest bit of lie in his words, but judged what he was saying as true.

"Indeed, it must be you, i feel great power coming from your body.... Not power of this world, now is it? Something more... divine..."

"You can notice?"

"We Dungeon Keepers have a very keen sense for mana and energy in general. Things like this are easy to notice for us. It may also depend on the fact that i'm quite powerful, even for a Dungeon Keeper"

"Good...then, what will you do now?"

"I will follow your orders of course"

"Wait, wait, wait! Why would you do that?"

"It's the duty of every son to obey their father... unless he's not worthy of such a title"

"Wait, i'm not-"

Andrew tried to say he wasn't his father, but Nero's gaze was full of affection, just like a child's.

"Uhm, yes, you're right"

"Thank you for acknowledging me, father. So what do you wish from me?"

The boy had no ideas what to do with his new "son", then Murgin returned in his mind.

"KID, KID!"

"What, i'm talking!"

"THIS IS YOUR CHANCE!"

"What do you mean?"

"With Nero,you can build a great dungeon as a line of defense for the goblins, so you don't have to worry about them anymore. YOU CAN FINALLY LEAVE AND SPREAD MY WORD! WE WON'T HAVE TO BOTHER WITH SUCH TRIVIAL MATTERS ANYMORE! WELL, NOT TRIVIAL, IT'S ACTUALLY WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT STILL! GREATNESS AWAITS!"

"Nice plan"

Andrew immediately kicked him out of his mind ,annoyed by his sudden megalomania and desire for power and returned to speak with the minotaur.

"Nero, your job is to create a great dungeon, so that you can defend this village from outsiders and at the same time, protect the leak"

"Oh, a great duty indeed father, i will not disappoint you. But i'd like to get your help to create the bare necessities for my dungeon"

"No problem"

"Thank you"

Nero gazed intensively at his new father with a spark in his eyes, full of excitement and expectation for his home.

Andrew sighed, thinking it would have been very tiring, then proceeded to follow Nero to the city to build an efficient defense. His first true step as an hero of darkness.

Kieris, capital of the Kieris kingdom, Royal Palace, 2 days later.

"THIS IS A DISASTER!"

Many people were reunited in the throne room of the king of Kieris, shouting and screaming their opinions about the matter of the complete devastation of a city in the south called Gorwyn. First the city was decimated by an undead plague, then, when both templars and adventurers were sent, a miasma leak opened and destroyed them too. It was a complete, utterable, miserable disaster.

"HOW COULD THE CHURCH ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN!"

"SILENCE, YOU BLASPHEMOUS PIG, HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE CHURCH!"

"TOUGH WORDS, FROM USELESS CHARLATANS!"

"YOU!"

"SILEEEEEEENCEEEEE!"

The voice of a middle-aged man sitting on his throne silenced everyone else. He was a tall, muscular man, both his hair and beard were long and white as snow, which gave a false impression of old age, but also of true experience. His right eye had a great scar over it and his left one was of a deep blue. He wore a great white armor, ornate with gold, silver and jewels, and a white robe with the symbol of the kingdom. His crown was humble and small, compared to others, but his rough design showed authority nonetheless. He was Stolz Kieris, king of the homonymous kingdom.

"My dear subjects, please calm down. We'll obtain nothing by quarreling between ourselves. And now, since all of you are ready, let's start the first reunion about the incident known as Gorwyn's Fall"

Hello guys!Enjoyed the chapter? Nero the gentleman has finally met his father! Such a touching reunion! Wait, it wasn't a reunion? Oh, damn. Anyway, finally the upper echelon of Kieris is getting of their ass to deal with Andrew's chaos. How will our hero/overlord/dark lord/badass night bringer/(insert something,i 'm out of ideas) do? You'll discover it in one, maybe two chapters! And maybe, finally Andrew will move away, if not i'm gonna have to change the name of this novel to Greyleaf Gazer. Which sounds lame. Anyway, on another note,i want to do a small race. In the last 10 chapters, apart from the flashback chapter, i've put a bit of references to various things, some obvious, some not, some regarding the story, some just random writing, some inspired. So ,i thought that the guy that finds the most references will win the right to create a new character by sending me private messages about his ideas ,that of course i'll adapt to the story (i mean,if someone tells me to put a pony, then i'll make a freaking badass pony)(DON'T ACTUALLY TELL ME ANYTHING STUPID, IF YOU DO, MURGIN WILL ANNIHILATE YOU.... OR I'LL MAKE SOME REALLY AWKWARD, CRINGY FAN FICTION IN RETALIATION).Anyway good luck,you'll need it. BYEEEEEEE!

P.S. Leafyeyes you're excluded, i'm already preparing a character for you, so don't complain! LOOOOVE YAAAAA!

Almost forgot, the names of characters count! (Some of them you'll have to move the letters in another order to understand)