Foundation

Clear blue sky welcomed the robed figure called Ainz Ooal Gown as flew around without any worry.

Just few weeks ago, he found himself in this world when the servers of YGGDRASIL shut down. At first, he thought that this was the sequel of YGGDRASIL and wandered around until boredom stopped his movement.

But then, he found something unexpected. He couldn't even log off for some reason. While he used various methods to force log out, he failed miserably.

Disappointed and scared that the game company was doing something strange to him or exploiting his digital rights, he decided to stay at one place. Until he met some humans who were running away from a vine-like monster of gigantic proportions.

Curious about it, he decided to intervene while putting his escape countermeasures active at any moment.

At first, he chose to use his favorite spell [Grasp Heart] on the monster, but the monster just stood there stunned. No wonder, the spell met the resistance against the monster. He launched another few spells, yet the monster resisted them with ease.

Frustrated at the near-boundless magic resistance of the monster, Ainz decided to use his summons to deal with the monster.

Ainz was a Necromancer, a type of Arcane Magic caster who specialized in the magic of unlife and death. Rather than a spell, Ainz used his Overlord skill called [Create High Tier Undead], a racial skill that created the strongest undead monsters in his arsenal at the cost of his XP.

However, the monster that he had summoned was clearly different than the one he hoped to see.

Instead of a ghostly skeletal rider called [Pale Rider], he got a dark shadow covering the entire sky without any light. Two crimson eyes shone upon the vine monster. Not wasting anytime, Ainz gave his mental command to finish the monster right there.

Amazingly, it happened very faster than before.

Ainz remembered that day and wondered if all his spells and skills were different than before. Especially, the one related to summoning magic.

"Master, we are near to the Himalayan Mountains."

The ghostly voice of his summon echoed in his non-existent brain. Breaking the train of thoughts of Ainz, the shadow emerged around him and pointed to the foggy mountains of Himalaya.

Come to think of it, the summoned undeads never spoke to him in YGGDRASIL unless, they were the part of an event or quest. The Pale Rider was capable of talking and thinking.

From what Pale Rider spoke, he was some sort of divine spirit related to sickness, plague or curse. Normally, the divine spirit could not be summoned in the world due to them being concepts than actual spirits.

But because it was summoned by the system outside of the normal one, the plague incarnate was capable of being summoned into the world again.

There were also other divine spirits, monsters, dragons, heroic spirits, servants, natural spirits and extraterrestrial beings in this universe. All ready to unleash themselves upon the world, but Gaia and Alaya had put them under control or others.

And no matter how hard it felt, Ainz adapted to his current situation.

"Even though you all are not here my friends, I will explore this new universe on the name of our guild. I will turn our name as an eternal legend."

Ainz swore to himself and prepared himself for the grand exploration in this world. No matter what changes this would cause.

(Few millenia later)

In this 21st century, most modern people were unaware of the supernatural creatures and societies. Whether it was Chaldea, Mage's Association or Dead Apostles, the human society turned blind eye to all such things for many uncountable times. And even now, a supernatural being was just moving among them.

Violet hair flowed like the waves of water, beautiful eyes like gemstones called Cat's Eye and pale yet healthy face was hers, an exotic was moving around the market of Shinjuku.

From the look of her face, she looked lost. Like she trying to search something amidst this crowd of human. She sighed nth time and whispered to herself.

"I hope I won't late at the meeting."

"Hey hottie, where are you going?"

A sound that looked akin to a drunkard's wailings, the woman glared behind her. Ready to murder the guy, she was about to unleash her killing intent. But what she saw surprised her. A familiar face came in front of her, as the man showed no sign of a pervert but...

"Ash..."

"Medy. It's been a while."

The man was clearly a hunk of muscles, with brazen look and fierce hairstyle, he waved his hand and walked upto her.

"Can't I even joke with my friend? You were not texting me back."

The man called Ash, gave an exaggerated sad look and showed his smartphone.

Medy smiled and replied to him,

"I was busy with my students. Their exams are finally over now. On top of that, tonight is our meeting but..."

She stopped mid-sentence and blushed in embarrassment that she lost the directions. But unbeknownst to her, Ash was going there as well.

"Great, let's go to the meeting spot together."

Medy thanked her lucky stars and easily took his offer. As they were walking towards their destination, the people around them were whispering with each other. Like how both of them were together or so. But Medy ignored their words and moved forward without stopping.

Soon, their destination appeared in front of them. Medy was clearly thanking Ash in her mind, if not him then she would have been late or absent today.

"Look at the beach. Once we finish this meeting, we are going to have fun in the waters!"

Ash exclaimed in pure excitement. He was always like this, from the day they first met with each other to the day they were meeting again. However, this was not the time to think about such stuff. Others might be waiting for her.

Entering the building, they went directly to the top floor. The five-star hotel called Golden Pavillion had many things to attract the attention around the Japan.

Today was a very special day.

The day when their small group became the organization called New Ainz Ooal Gown, or in short NAOG.

It was founded by the monster called Momon more than a millennium ago. And to this day, the organization withstood against likes of Mage's Association and Chaldea.

And their goal was simple, but tough.

Exploration.