Chapter 1

You know… The world is strange. One moment, you are playing some game on your computer inside your home, and the next thing you know, a massive bus appears from the wall of your room and kills you instantly.

Wait! The weirdness did not stop there.

The next thing I know, I'm a small child once again, a seven-year-old child staying inside a massive house inside a dome in the middle of a futuristic city.

Sadly, the world is depressing. Even my previous earth, where the threat of World War 3 floating in the air, is not as depressing as this world.

For the past seventeen years of my life in this world, I have learned that the year is 2126. I died in early 2022 when a lot of countries sanctioned Russia, and in return, Russia threatened the world that they would use Nuclear Weapons or some shit like that. That is more than a hundred years of gap.

Does that mean I am reborn in the future? That means World War 3 is not a joke, and it happened because this world is the post-apocalypse world where we need a fucking specialized gas mask to ensure we do not die from breathing the air.

Or am I reborn into an alternate timeline? I don't know! It is a possibility.

Anyway, after the war, companies got even more power and created corporatocracy in Japan, where I was reborn. That's right! Large companies have the power to govern the people, and you can already know the result.

In this city alone, Tokyo, people are divided into Upper, Middle, and Low-class citizens. I'm lucky that I was born into an upper class. I was born into a family that owns a company that controls the food sector of the entire city.

You can say that I'm a young master that you cannot touch or, god forbid, offend.

While my family is a cold bastard, they care about family image, and boy, when someone dares to tarnish our family image, the one that does that will disappear without a trace, and the next thing you know, some of the lower citizens will get free meat.

While it is a bummer that my parents are not as kind and caring as the previous one, I don't really care. I already had love in my precious life and learned how to keep to myself and search for my own family from my previous life experience.

Anyway, other than the depressing part of the world, the technology of this world is fantastic. The VR of this world is a hundred times better than the one in my previous life. Now, I can truly get inside the Virtual World rather than just a headset for my eyes.

I can send my consciousness inside the game, and it is fantastic.

And you know what makes it even better? I have the greatest VR equipment money can buy. To get into the virtual world, you need to inject a nano-machine into your body, and it will let you get inside the virtual world for up to eight hours before it needs to be injected once again.

On the other hand, my equipment did not need me to refill the nano-machine every eight hours, as the helmet my family bought would automatically refill the nano-machine. I only need to buy the new nano-machine tank that contains the nano-machine.

One tank lasted me for thirty days playing non-stop, and I have four of them already plugged into my VR equipment. All of them are fresh tanks. The reason? There is a new game in the market. It is called YGGDRASIL, a DMMO-RPG I know will be popular.

I get into my VR capsule to ensure my body still gets nutrients so I can play for up to seven days nonstop and put on the VR helmet. When I open my eyes, I'm in the middle of an empty space.

This is the VR hub. I can do anything in this place. I can go to a concert, book some food, and even do crime. Yes. A hacker can use this hub to go to other VR hubs to steal their data and all kinds of things. Lucky for me, I did not need to worry about it.

Upper-class citizens have a personal hub that is a very secure server that even a world-class hacker needs a hard time to crack.

I shake my head and open my game library. I quickly find the game I want and press play. The game will officially open in a few minutes, so I surf the internet for now. While surfing the internet, my eyes look at the logo of Yggdrasil before something connects inside my head.

I know this game. I remember now. This is a game from an anime. I remember my coworker telling me to watch this anime when I asked him for a recommendation for a newbie. He recommended this anime called Overlord.

I frown a little and start to think of the plot of Overlord. I think it is about a man transported into a new world in his game character after he did not want to log out of the game when the game was about to close up. I think that is the main plot. I don't know how the anime is going and what kind of world the MC gets.

I shake my head and put aside that kind of thinking. There are a lot of times for me before the game ends, and even then, do I want to be transported to another world instead of staying in this world?

I think about it for a few seconds and get the answer. Yes. Pretty much. I'm rich here, but boy, this world is depressing, and the people around me have a stick the size of an Eiffel Tower up their butts.

I rather take my chance in the other world with my game character. At least, I realized the situation early on. I need to make a perfect character, huh? Urgh. After reading all the promotion classes and races the dev put out on their website, I already have a basic plan for my character.

I want to create an undead character. The reason why I choose a Heteromorphic race is because of the higher basic stats and their special section called Racial Class, which grants me a unique skill and other things.

It will reduce the amount of classes I can take because of the level limit.

From what I read, Yggdrasil has a level cap of one hundred. However, it is not like a regular level. We level up our classes and racial classes. A low-level class and racial class will have a level cap of fifteen, mid-level is ten, and high and special-class is five.

You can take as many classes as you want. You can either take a few classes but with a maximum level or take many low-level classes instead.

Anyway, I want to choose [Mummy] as my first race and take [Necromancer] as my first class. It is the basic combo for necromancers, but I have a plan. If I can choose more than one class, I want to take [Druid] as my second class.

The reason? [Necromancer] and [Mummy] will give me a certain advantage because of the summon I can bring in the early game. From the description, [Mummy] will give me a good chunk of HP because it is an undead and gives me disease and death immunity.

As for [Druid], I need a good Crowd Control class; by the look of it, this class is great for this type of job. [Druid] is the one controlling the battle, and my summon finishes the job.

The game dev only put thirty classes on their website, and we need to explore the world to unlock hidden classes and other races.

I snap from my thoughts when I hear the game is about to start and take a deep breath. After a few seconds, my vision is engulfed with white light, and I appear in front of my avatar. I smile a little and start customizing my avatar.