1 Chapter 1

Suzuki Satoru let out a sad sigh as he entered his apartment as he listened to the electronic door slide closed behind him before It automatically locked itself he hung his breathing mask, goggles and coat on a nearby rack. He slid off his shoes and let out a sigh as he took off his socks and allowed his feet to touch the floor beneath him.

"the work week Is done at last.....only for me to have to face something even harder than work." He muttered as he looked around his apartment. He had moved to a new apartment a few years ago after getting a promotion at work. His new apartment was about the size of his old one, only It was In a better neighborhood and it's utilities worked. Technically he could afford to live In much more upper-class place but he didn't feel the need to. He had always been thrifty and spending money on better home seemed like a waste.

His first instinct was to go to his video game console and log In to Yggdrasil. For years he would run home from work and log In Immediately In order to get a head start on things.

Those days were over now over.

"Twelve years.. has It really been that long?" He asked himself as he walked down the hallway to his kitchen. It had been twelve years since he had first log Into Yggdrasil. They were some of his best years of his life. Since his fateful meeting with tabula, his time In the point where he preferred the game to reality. In those years Nines Own Goal was turned Into a proper guild called Ainz Ooal Gown which Satoru was the leader of. They had conquered dungeons, killed world bosses, and created a home of their own called the Great Tomb Of Nazarick.

However, the game had been bleeding subscribers for years and the developers could no longer make profit running the servers. Numerous other games with more advanced systems had sprung up that made Yggdrasil look like a relic even with all the expansion packs the game had

Tonight would be the last night that the servers would be online.

"Hopefully they will show up." Satoru muttered as he approached his fridge and opened up the door. He grabbed his dinner and laid It out on his small dining table. His meal would be a packages steak flavored gel In a tube, It had very little nutritional value or taste but It was filling. He stuck a straw Into his meal and gulped It all down, Ignoring the horrible taste. On his salary, he could afford actual food but he saw It pointless since food, no matter how good all became shit In the end.

After filling up on his steak flavored gel dinner he popped several vitamin pills that would take care of his bodies nutritional needs and downed It with bottle of health drink. After cleaning up his meal he went to his bathroom and took a quick steam bath before putting on a comfortable set of clothes and heading to his leaving room where his pride and joy was.

It was his computer console that functioned as an all in one home entertainment system. A black frame about 100 centimeters wide rested upon a stand of some sort. In front of that was a comfortable-looking, high class chair, complete with a footrest. On the side was a remote control and power cables, resting on a wheeled, two-layered table.

He sat on the chair and got comfortable, his computer area was fairly sparse to the point one would think a robot relaxed here. The only testament to his humanity was framed photo showing a happy couple holding a baby.

He picked up a black power cable, which was connected to a wall outlet near his computer rig and removed the protective plastic covering on one end of the plug, revealing a plug that was roughly three centimeters across. A silver gleam blended with the liquid glittering of the slippery protective fluid.

He held the cable in one hand and lifted up the hair on the back of his neck with the other. The subdued glint there came from the man-made object embedded In the nape of his neck. With practiced ease, he opened the roughly-three-centimeter cover on the back of his neck. The sliding motion exposed the socket hidden beneath It.

He pressed the plug home, without any hesitation.

"ohhh.... that's the stuff.." He muttered to himself pleasantly, he could feel light moving through his body, as though his blood vessels were filled with radiance.

he room had not changed, but his field of vison was different now.

Several windows popped up within his line of sight, showing him Information flowing Into the processor within his brain.

He began operating the CPU.

The window he touched had the word Yggdrasil on It.

-The world has changed

His cerebral nanomachines began their computations, disrupting his field of vision and taking control of his voluntary nervous system, and everything changed.

An empty void extended In all directions, no their were things sparkling In the darkness like stars, like space. Among them floated a gigantic tree that seemed to encompass everything.

Part of his visual field flickered , and If he tilted his head to the side, he could see something.

It was a monster.

Or rather It was his avatar In the game. The embodiment of the collective efforts of himself and his friends. His other self which he was familiar with on a personal level since he spent as much of his free time as possible as the being before him.

It was a tall figure In the shape of a humanoid. Black armor encased its body with numerous golden designs mixed Into the armor. Robes flowed from the armored figures as well giving It look of armored caster. The figure had a rich black cloth hood that hid the figures face, the only discernible feature of being's face were two glowing red eyes that shone beneath the hood. the most striking feature of the figure were two wings that stuck out of its back which appeared to be made out of blue magical energy while wisps of grey smoke encircled them.

One would think the figure before them was some kind of armored human battle mage yet It was a heteromorph known as angel. Despite Is humanoid appearance angels were classified as heteromorphs due to the numerous forms they could take. Satoru decided to make his more humanoid since armor looked good on him In his humanoid form. However If one truly wanted they could have angels with lion heads, numerous wings, or even angels that looked like little cupids.

While Satoru took pride In his avatar he knew that most of the credit went to his guildmates since they helped him unlock numerous racial and job classes that allowed his In-game character to be In the top tier of player characters. In a way, his character was just another thing that the collective efforts of the guild had created.

That didn't stop some of his guildmates from making fun of him at times for his choice In avatar. Some even calling him an edge lord, a funny Insult coming from members of guild that loved roleplaying as a the bad guys.

Satoru looked over his avatar with a sad smile. It would be the last time he would be his character. He reached out and touched his avatar. And his vision was distorted as he logged Into the game.

"lets have fun one last time... old friend"

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YGGDRASIL Is about to shut down, Momonga Is alone waiting If some of his friend will arrive before the server shut down.

"Only hero-hero huh, nobody else." Momonga said with a sad voice.

Momonga got up from his sit and took the Scythe Of Ainz Ooal Gown the scythe was made of black prismatic metal and decorated with golden snake that Intertwined along the long slender handle of the scythe. The blade was cruel and could cut through almost anything and gleamed with blue magical energy and seven jewels were embedded near the head of the scythe where the head the handle met the blade, each one glowing with power.

Momonga left what known as the round table Room and walked through the halls. He reached the 10th floor , the place where he arrived was a large receiving room, with several figures within. The butler Sebas and the pleiades were standing here to protect this area from the Invaders. However, no player had ever made this far.

"Follow me."

Momonga led the servants behind him past the magic circle, and laid ayes on the giant doors before him. The majestic set of double doors was over five meters In height and covered In Intricate carvings. The left side was shaped Into a beautiful goddess, while the right was made to resemble a cruel demon. Momonga touched the large door and It opened by Itself.

Momonga advanced through the room, his eye fell on the two females that stood by the right side and the left side of the throne.

One the right side was a beautiful woman who wore a pure white dress and the faint smile on her face was that of a goddess. A pair of curved horns sprouted from the side of his head. In addition, a pair of black feathered wings emerged from her waist.

On the left side was another world class beauty, she wore a deep blue outfit that shows off his Impressive curves, she also adorn a crimson cape that billows behind her, she wears silver blue armor. She had a long blonde hair tied on a bun and she wears a golden crown.

Albedo was Overseer of the Floor Guardians of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick. She was In charge of NPC floor guardians.

The other NPC was The Vise overseer Guardian, Artoria Pentagon (Lancer). While she might look like a divine beauty, In truth she was a demon.

Momonga commanded the NPCs to stand by. After momonga gave the correct command, he ascended the final steps and arrived at the throne.

Momonga sat down on the throne and tried to get comfortable. In YGGDRASIL tactile feelings were greatly minimized for the sake of player sanity so that they didn't confuse the game for reality. However , that didn't stop him from being unable to get comfortable.

"damn wings." He muttered as he looked at his giant angelic wings. Despite the pact they appeared made out of light they were still fairly solid and counted as part of his player hitbox. They also made It hard for him from being unable to get comfortable while sitting in certain types of chairs." I seem to remember that we had to modify a few doors In here since I couldn't fit through them."

"Two forms." He muttered as he activated his racial ability. The darkness that had shrouded his features disappeared and was replaced with a human face with normal human features. Most Importantly his large ethereal wings disappeared which allowed him to relax Into his throne.

"Much better." After the expansion known of Valkyries downfall, the developers of YGGDRASIL released updates to numerous hetemorophic races allowed cosmetic transformations. Races such as vampires, werewolves, and numerous other races which were once stuck In form. The developers claimed It was to make the game more lore-friendly however many players viewed It as pandering to casual players who didn't like playing hetemorph's since they were so ugly. Momonga suspected the real reason for the change was to Increase the number of people playing hetemorophs such as dullahans and homunculi. Another benefit to allow players access to multiple forms was that It also gave players more customiranzation with their NPCs. Several NPCs such as sebas and shalltear had several forms they could take that drastically changed their abilities as they shifted out of their humanoid forms.

In truth shifting to humanoid form was useless for players In terms of gameplay since In his human form Momonga didn't have access to any his racial abilities or spells but It did allow for some role-playing fun.

Momonga ran and hand on his changed face and smile at the familiar feeling of being human. When given the racial ability to shapeshift Into a human he allowed his friend and guildmate Bukubukuchamaga to design the face for him at her Insistence since he wanted to just use a default face that the developers provided. He could still remember the conversation he had with her.

Momonga summoned a mirror from his Inventory to look at the fact that his guildmate made for him. It had been years since he used the ability and he could barely remember what his form looked like. Once he gazed at himself he almost chucked the mirror aside.

"I looked like I walked right out of a bishounen anime....that's what I get for being lazy and letting a girl design my character." Truthfully It wasn't all that bad, but he wished his face was more manly rather than soft-featured one that looked back at him. His features made him look like he walked right out of a Final Fantasy game, his hair was long and silver while his eyes where red In color.

He decided that he spent enough time looking at himself and Instead focused his attention on the woman who was standing next to him.

"What kind of backstory was she designed with?"

All he new was that she was the Overseer of the Guardians, as well as the highest-ranked NPC In nazarick. Momonga opened up a console and began scrolling through the details of albedo's flavor text.

"She Is also a slut."

"....Huh, she Is also a slut, what the hell??!!"

Momonga could not help but shout. Holding on his doubts, he read It several times but It was still the same sentence. Even after several moments of pondering the matter, he couldn't think of any other Interpretation.

"Hmmm let's change It."

"She love Momonga."

"Umu, I think this Is better, I hope tabula will not be angry at me for this."

Momonga turned his head to Artoria that was standing at his left side.

"Hmm, what about her?"

He opened up the console and began scrolling again.

"What the...She is madly In love with the guildmaster Momonga?!"

Momonga was stunned and kept looking at that line. He couldn't think that his friend blue planet would write something like this.

"Uhh, let's leave It like that"

Momonga tried to forget this now.

"And the command was 'KNEEL."

All the NPCs Inside the throne room fell to one knee In raised his left hand to check the time

[23:55:48]

"Damn It, this Is not fair, I've been here alone for two years protecting The Great Tomb Of Nazarick and none of my friends came here just to say hello."

He had sent emails to his old companions, almost none of them show up.

"Well, of course, they will choose real life....ahh It was really fun..."

The time on his watch read [23:57]. The server would shut down at 00:00.

That was only natural. Nobody could live In a virtual world, which was why everyone had left, one by one.

Momonga sighed.

He had to wake up at 4 tomorrow. He had to sleep the moment the servers shut down In order not to affect the next day's work.

[23:59:48,49,50]

Momonga closed his eyes.

[23:59:58,59--]

He waited for the automatic logout.

[0:00:00,1,2,3]

Momonga opened his eyes.

"What the....?!"

He had not returned to his familiar room.

"...What the hell Is happening here, the server should be shut down now and why am I In a forest?1"

He was not In the Great Tomb of Nazarick but he was In a dark forest.

"My voice sound different."

"Is this YGGDRASIL 2."

"But I'm still In my high-level avatar."

"And I can't log out"

Momonga was filled with surprise and a bit of apprehension filled momonga's heart as he looked around the dark forest.

Fear gripped his heart as he tried everything to bring up a menu so he could a GM or use the chat function. Nothing he did seemed to work, It was as if he'd been locked out the system.

He felt his heart speeding up as he began to panic, he wiped away some some sweat from his forehead with the back of his armored hand and..

"Wait...sweat?' Sure enough, he was sweating, he also felt the metal og his gauntlet scrape against his forehead and found the feeling unpleasant, even bordering on slightly painful numerous sharp metal pieces making up the gauntlets he wore.

"Is this a new patch? What the hell..."

A million thought rushed through his head as he suddenly became aware of how Intense everything felt. He could feel the silken materials of his outfit, the metal of his gauntlets, he took a deep breath and felt the Intensity of the air entering his lungs before he exhaled deeply. He was confused, his human like body felt real. Wanting to test things out he decided to cast a spell but found he couldn't without his specially made macros. Instead, he felt the urge to utter the spells name.

"Two forms."

He muttered as his body shifted drastically. His human flesh dissipated as it turned pitch black, wings sprouted from his back and felt he could flap them around freely. The panic and fear he had been feeling a moment earlier dissipated Instantly and Instead, he felt calm and serene as If all the worries he had felt were suppressed.

Yet despite his new sense of calm, the feeling of his body shifting In such a way and the feeling of having actual wings freaked him out. It was as if he had two entirely new limbs spring from his back. Worst still new his new body felt so strange he was feeling himself lose balance, It was like trying to stand up while drunk. To keep himself from collapsing he sat back down in the ground. Much like before his wings felt uncomfortable, however much to his suprise his wings shrank down to a more manageable size as If they had reacted to his though.

"Uhhh, forget It, I need to get out of this forest."

He stand up trying to balance himself as his wings came back to their original size. He began to try to flap his wings if he can fly with It. freed from the chackles of gravity, Momonga began to fly lightly Into the sky.

"Amazing... the air here Is so fresh that It must never been polluted."

He had never seen such as a clear night sky In his life.

"Beautiful.... absolutely beautiful. Blue Planet..... this world Is like a chest of jewels."

And then he turned his eyes below.

"Wow, this forest is damn huge?"

He had seen similar forest In YGGDRASIL, but this forest was more real.

Momonga aimed for a point on the ground and landed.

"I have to go to work later and I still can't log out. This game... it's so real and nazarick... AHHHHHHHH WHY THE FUCK IS THIS HAPPENING!?"

As momonga shouted the area around him died. All the grass, all the trees rot because of the aura that momonga released.

"Oh shit, my despair aura, I should be more careful."

Suddenly momonga saw something. It was the body of a small creature.

"Damn, he was Inside my despair aura range."

Momonga appoarched the creature to verify It. The creature was small and it's skin was green

"A goblin huh, I'm really sorry little guy."

But momonga found it's strange.

"His body should disappear now and live his Items behind."

momonga waited ten seconds and still, the body of the goblin did not fade away.

"Hmm, all right, I should conform this once and for all."

He took out a black sword from his Inventory and stabbed the goblin. Blood began to flow out of the place where he had been stabbed by momonga.

"No way.... This.... This Is... Not game...."

He steeped back from the dead body of the goblin.

"Holy shit. This Is real. This Is ALL real. This Is actually happening."

He couldn't bring himself to think of this as a game or a dream. This was a real world and was apparently now living In It. If It was real, his body should have felt really tired. Yet he felt nothing.

"But I can still use my magic, my skill. I can still access my Inventory and I am so calm even after I killed a living being...It Is because I am an angel of death?"

Thinking about this made his brain to hurt. He needed Information about this new world.

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The beautiful sunrises and momonga have been walking for several hours, he could use his wings to fly but he thought that would be dangerous because he didn't know If fallen angelic beings like himself were welcomed.

Suddenly momonga heard a some voice...no, screams. He ran fast In the direction where the screams were coming from. Momonga cast[Perfect Unknowable], a 9th tier spell, and now he was completely Invisible.

Momonga reached where the screams were coming from and he saw a small village, there were two houses being burning and many armored knights on horses slaughtering villagers that were running for their life. Some other villagers got stabbed In front of their children without mercy.

"Yep, I fell nothing, If I were In my human form I would have vomit right now." Thought momonga while watching this massacre.

"Touch me would just go there and help these villagers...Alright, I should save them and get Information about this world."

momonga went to the center of the village where the knight has gathered the surviving villagers. He was walking among the knights, nobody could see him.

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"All right then man, these peasants are all here now, let's kill them all haha."

"As you command captain belius." The knights obey and got ready their long swords to butcher the villagers like lambs The villagers with tears In their eyes begged for mercy and prayed to the gods to save them from this nightmare.

"Hahahahaha prayers will not save you from us, even your king doesn't care about you hahaha." Said belius while laughing.

"I think that's enough." The knights heard this voice and were looking at each other. None of their comrades had a voice like that.

And the owner of that voice revealed himself.