Great, I'm the New Bad Guy...

We were in a clearing surrounded by pine trees, there were three open paths leading out of the area we were in. There was some sort of mark on the ground where we had teleported in, like it was burned into the dirt. One of the paths ended in a deep cleft with a river flowing through it, so that was out. I could see some rather large pigs searching for truffles down the other, and the last winded off to the side so I couldn't see anything. Pigs it was then.

I began to head in their direction with all of the minions following when Gnarl decided to speak up, saying "My lord! See those lesser creatures?" he pointed to the pigs, which I suppose were lesser... "They house a very valuable resource for you, Life Force! You must collect it if you wish to create more minions! More minions, equals more power and faster construction of the tower!"

I nodded my understanding to Gnarl, before waving my hand at the pigs sending all of my minions to kill them. They all swarmed forward, armed only with clubs and a loincloth, and proceed to slaughter them. The pigs didn't even know they were under attack before they were dead.

Once the first group of pigs were dead the minions carried the life force which came out of the corpses back to me, before dragging the bodies into the same hole that they came from. When I touched the life force it went through my gauntlet and back to the tower, except for the last one which I held onto in order to look more closely at it. It was like a small sun in my hand... warm, glowing with a brownish yellowish light, but near the center it looked like a crystal... the longer I held it the warmer I felt, almost burning up but there was no pain...

"Sire! Send it away!!" Gnarl shouted at me, startling me out of whatever trance the life force had put me in and sending it to the tower. "I know how... alluring life force can be my lord, but it is dangerous to the unprepared. I only have this bit of life force tied to my back because of my... let's call it advanced age. For a being such as yourself, well, too much life is just as bad as not enough..."

I looked around and saw that the minions that were following me looked like they were afraid, all huddled together and hugging each other. I shook my head and grunted trying to shake it off, continuing to walk down the path we were on. There were more pigs and after killing all of them we came upon a small idyllic cottage.

"Ooh! Sire, let's see if whatever lives here knows where the Tower Heart is! Would you like to knock, or shall your minions? Hmhmhm!" Gnarl said, chuckling evilly at the end.

I walked forward and lightly knocked on the door, almost knocking the door off it's hinges. All of the minions gasped at once, and I groaned internally, when the occupant of the home answered the door. It was a family of sheep people.

It was sheeple.

They wore poorly made woolen hats and chokers with bells, and they all looked like they were afraid of us. Or really everything...

"U-um, y-yes? What d-do you want?" said the biggest and most masculine looking one. I assumed he was the father of the group, and if that was true then in all there were both parents and three kids, two girls and one boy, as soon as they saw me he froze in fear.

"We need to find an object, a large glowing orb, and were hoping that you would point us in the right direction! Or at least provide us with some life force... hehehe!" Gnarl said with no kindness in his voice at all.

Before the sheeple could start panicking at Gnarl's tone, I stomped the ground getting everyone's attention. Once I had said attention I wordlessly shook my head at Gnarl, before turning to the sheeple and saying "We aren't going to hurt you unless you give us a reason to. However we are looking for the glowing orb, if you could lead us to it I would be happy to compensate you."

The father of the family looked at me with wide eyes, his mouth slightly agape, probably scared of my voice. After a few moments of staring, Gnarl coughed into his fist making the father suddenly bleat out an answer, saying "W-we're sorry!!! We d-didn't know it was your's!!! We-we gave it to them s-so they would just leave us alone!!! P-please don't kill us!!!"

Gnarl and the minions growled angrily, but I waved them back turning to the father, getting on one knee and as carefully as I could I asked him "Who did you give it to, and where are they? I won't blame you for something you couldn't have known, I promise. Just tell me what I want to know."

Pretty soon he had almost stopped shaking and sobbing, and tried to answer me when the ground began to shake. At that point he yelped and slammed the door behind himself and his family. The ground shaking reached a peak right before a group of dogs wearing vests and collars burst out of the ground and began to pace around the small area in front of the cabin. They seemed to be talking to themselves, saying things like "Look's like new meat..." and "Hope they put up a good enough fight before we beat them down..."

The biggest of them was as tall as me while I was kneeling, so while still kneeling I asked them "Am I to assume that you are the one's who those sheeple gave the Tower Heart to?"

The second smallest one snarled "No idea what a 'Tower Heart' is, but if they had it, it's ours now!" at me.

Gnarl shouted "Watch your tone, you sniveling worms! That's the Overlord whose allowing you to grace his magnificent presence! Filthy mongrels!" at the dogs. They were less than pleased at this and began to growl at the minions and I.

I slowly got to my feet, rising to my formidable height while saying "I believe what you meant to say was, 'Oh great and powerful Overlord, allow us to lead you to our home so that you may take all that you please, sparing us from your wrath, as we have already angered you with our belligerence and obviously unnecessary cruelty!' correct? Or would you like to say that when there is only one of you left?"

While a few of them were visibly frightened by my size, they didn't take option one, feeling that they had the advantage in numbers as it was ten to six. Even as unsure of the minions as I was, I knew that they did not have the advantage.

"We were going to beat you into submission, now we're going to just kill you and save ourselves the trouble of breaking you like we broke them!" Said the tallest of them, and with that they all rushed us.

I made a sound somewhere between a roar and a growl as I charged forward, swinging my ax at the first dog who reached me. He practically exploded into blood as his head left his neck behind. I saw the minions, sans Gnarl, fighting the other dogs, swarming them one at a time, taking a few hits but nothing lethal.

The biggest dog took a swipe at me with his spiked club, hitting me in the left leg. I felt pain for a moment and then there was nothing, but it was enough for me to split him in half long-ways. Once nine of the ten were dead the last one was trying to run away, but was being pinned by the minions.

"Master! Come here!" Gnarl called to me, when I reached him, looking at my knee the whole way to see how bad the damage was, he said "Do you see the black clouds rising from the bodies of those dogs? That's evil energy. It collects in all evil creatures, and the more you can gather inside yourself... the stronger you will become!"

I looked at the black cloud that was dissipating fast, and asked "And what, pray tell, is the price for this power?"

Gnarl just snorted and said "Ahh, I expected nothing less from you lord! Always thinking, aren't you? The price is how you gain the power. You can only gain evil energy by committing acts of true malice and evil."

"And what if you don't believe in evil?" I asked him, his eyes went wide for a few seconds before he burst into laughter.

"W-well, lord, I-I don't quite know! I suppose we'll have to find out together, won't we? Though I have to quote a little thing I heard once, if you will?" He asked, motioning for my approval. I allowed it and he said, "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled, was convincing others that he didn't exist."

"Well, I heard that the greatest lie ever told, was that anyone other than yourself could judge you." I said in responce.