Free City of Vadis

Free City of Vadis (ヴァディス自由都市) is a small independent city in the New World.
== Background ==
The city was among the small towns that the Baharuth Empire and the Re-Estize Kingdom jointly constructed to keep the undead-prone Katze Plains area at bay. Cities like these help adventurers and knights of the Empire to clear up the undead.Overlord Volume 02 Chapter 4: Twin Swords of Death
While normally low-level undead would remain in the fog out of instinct, some of the more powerful undead with higher intelligence may take the initiative to leave the Katze Plains and kill the living that they despise. 
The first to be attacked would be the several countries bordering the Katze Plains, including the Kingdom and the Empire. But even if the two nations involved avoid harm from these undead attacks, as long as their annual wars continued, it was like adding fuel to the fire for the forsaken lands of the Katze Plains. The situation was self-evident that the other neighboring nation would be negatively affected.
For this reason, the Kingdom and Empire jointly built the city of Vadis, which was aimed at vanquishing the undead. While Vadis accepted funds from both the Kingdom and Empire, it has never belonged to either country. The goal of Vadis is to protect all living beings and is the forefront city in fighting against the undead. Additionally it was here the funds from the Temple flowed in the city continuously. 
The city was inhabited by people who are proficient in fight undead. From the forces of the various temples, adventurers, imperial knights, mercenaries and so on.
When a team is sent to cull the undead from the plains, inspectors accompany these armed parties. These inspectors are mainly responsible for counting the undead killed in the Katz Plains to ensure the legal distribution of the reward for the undead hunts. Inspectors used to be retired adventurers, nobles who were in decline or failed to inherit the family business in the Empire and Kingdom, or were priests. 
Inspectors on these hunts normally stayed in the center of the party's formation. And would not take action even if the whole team was wiped out. Their role was responsible for reporting these events to the city. Rather than fighting desperately to save a few people here, it was deemed a more important task to bring back the relevant information about the powerful undead in the plains alive.Overlord Special Edition 01 Chapter 1
== Chronology ==
=== The Phantom Ship of Katze Plains Arc ===
 and The Phantom Ship of Katze Plains II Arc
After the emergence of the Sorcerer Kingdom, the Katze Plains was claimed as part of its territory by the Sorcerer King. The action caused much distress to many people invested in Vadis, including those of the Temple. However most concerning was the future of the Free City. From hearsay by a Inspector that was accompanying the worker team of Fist on an undead subjugation towards Broken Tower 1, the Temple's breaking off with the Free City is an inevitable development. 
While in the past the temples have continued to maintain the Free City and keep it running, through various funds, there are worries that continuing to do so would be akin to aiding the Sorcerer Kingdom, which is ruled by an undead king, and thus benefiting the undead.
Though there were arguments that if the Temple completely cut off support to Vadis that it would be like tacitly agreeing that the undead will take the cursed land of the Katze Plains into their hands, and the danger of doing so may be greater. 
And while the future was uncertain the inspector believe it would be best to continue as is. But there was still concern on whether they could do so as the Kingdom and the Empire would no longer pay for the undead subjugations now that the Katze Plains was the territory of the Sorcerer Kingdom.
To the workers like Fist it all seemed inevitable that their pay will be cut. If that happens, the best workers like them will have to find better ways to make money and leave the city.
After Darkness rescued Fist from certain destruction from three Skeletal Dragons, the workers decided to retreat back to Vadis to warn the people there of the incident.Overlord Special Edition 02 Chapter 3 Later when Fist returned to the city, they were atop the walls. They suspected that it was not a coincidence that powerful undead were coming out the plains when the Sorcerer Kingdom was launching an investigation of the rumors of the Ghost Ship. 
It was their belief that the Sorcerer King was amassing his undead forces in the plains and that the undead they had been fighting were actually his, and perhaps even lured Momon to be killed in the plains. Although they could not fathom as to why the Sorcerer Kingdom did not put pressure on the city's administration to halt their extermination of the undead.
The Ghost Ship of Katze Plains soon emerged from the foggy plains, passing by the city, taking the highway towards E-Rantel.Overlord Special Edition 02 Epilogue
== Layout ==
A small city located on the highway on the north side of the Katze Plains southeast of E-Rantel. At the front gate of Vadis, the ground was said to be mixed with brown-red soil like blood. Duet to the close vicinity of the plains, the area around the city gave it the stench of damp earth, rust and death--- the lingering stench of a cemetery. The area around the city was blanketed in fog. And due to it being impossible to distinguish clouds and fog, it created the illusion of the sky being extremely close to the ground, in which normally the clouds which should have been high in the sky, seemed pressed heavily to the ground. With the sky white and the ground dominated by brown, it appeared to be like being on another world.
Though Vadis is officially called a city, its population is pitifully too small. The city is noted to have tall walls, thick iron doors like a fortress. The gate while not large, had carved symbols of each of the Four Great Gods and various holy seals of the subordinate gods.
The city ever vigilant of an undead assault, was surrounded by sturdy walls—with sheets of copper installed inside of them—making it suitable as the strategic base of the Katze Plains undead suppression efforts. 
== Trivia ==
* The age of the city's establishment is unknown but since the Kingdom and Empire have a stake, it seems that the city was most likely founded since about 200 years ago, when the two countries split from the same nation.Overlord Volume 12 Chapter 2: Seeking Salvation
* Undead elimination in the Empire was treated as government work, and thus one could head to the Empire's Administrative office to collect payment for their undead subjugation.Overlord Volume 07 Chapter 1: Invitation to Death
* In Mass for the Dead, this city appears when Leinas Rockbruise guides the protagonist and his team, composed of Soi and Slimeko, to assist in undead subjugation in the Katze Plains.Mass for the Dead Chapter 05: Platinum Adventurer
* In the game, the city is never actually seen, and is mostly covered in fog, though the characters and players are directed to it off scene. Though it's mentioned by Slimeko to have a symbol of the Four Great Gods and their subordinates.
* The city made its first official debut in the bonus story Overlord Special Edition 01 side story that came with the release of the official movie, Overlord: The Holy Kingdom.
* All the materials to reinforce the Broken Towers came through from Vadis.Overlord Special Edition 01 Chapter 2
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