Finally I made it. At long last I made a crossover story with Monster Hunter. (Insert evil laughing)

Oh hey, sorry didn't saw you there. Hi. I'm Don Orbit and welcome to this story of mine. This is basically what 'Reaper of a new World' was originally intended to be. In one way or two of course since there have been several changes in the idea already and I changed main character, condition and situation of said person, Job Classes, Skills etc. Also I'm working on this already quite a while now and that wasn't easy. (shrugs) But then again it never is.

Anyway, at this point I would like to thank the workers of Skythewood for translating the first 9 Overlord light novels into english, making them readable for other people. Also I would like to thank the youtuber Basil Silly Six Shooter for his lore and theory videos of the Monster Hunter universe. I really appreciate it as a big fan of the series.

Now you may ask yourselves: 'Why would someone make a crossover of Overlord and Monster Hunter?' The answer is very simple. Because we can. Originally I thought about a crossover with Monster Hunter in general, but couldn't find a good counterpart. Then I thought Log Horizon might be good, but that might be a better partner for other genres like for example Overlord or Yugioh as a VR game like what Kaiba originally wanted to make in the 1rst season and what Noah kinda had, but enough of that.

Now then, I do not own Monster Hunter or Overlord. All rights belong to their rightful and respective owners. Overlord is owned by Kugane Maruyama and the Monster Hunter game series by Capcom. (I hope I got that right.)

So. Light, camera, Action!

Entomophobia

Prologue - The End is just a new Beginning

Somewhere in the world of Vanaheim, the realm of the norse fertility gods, a single figure moved through the jungle. It jumped over fallen tree trunks and sprinted between the giant trees. The figure itself was covered in a brown cloak, making it impossible to see who or what was beneath it. The figure then jumped out the tree line and came to an halt. The reason why it stopped was the edge of a cliff it faced. Underneath were more trees, but in a distance of several dozen metres. The cloaked figure looked around itself. Then something russeled in the jungle behind it. With a loud roar a creature jumped out the bushes. It looked like a crossbreed between a chicken and a dragon, yet it was as big as a terror bird. It's beak was filled with needle like teeth and a long snake-like tail was were the feathers should be. One could see scales beneath the feathers all over the body and a row of spikes drew itself from the head to the tail. It also had two bat-like wings instead of the chicken wings. A cockatrice. On it's back sat a knight in ordinary steel armor, armed with a lance.

"Seems like the end of the line." said the knight now revealed as a woman. The cockatrice drew closer hissing at the cloacked figure. It took a few steps backwards until it stood on the edge of the cliff. Out of the bushes 4 other cockatrice with knights on their backs jumped out and two of the bird-like creatures took off the ground in case that the cloaked figure would try to attack them. They split up so if one was attacked the other four could engage the opponent. Then however the cloacked figure raised it's hand towards the sky, revealing a dark armored, clawed hand.

"[Maximize Magic: Dark Hurricane]." the figure said as three black tornados crashed into the knights and their steeds, destroying them and everything on the cliff. It was an AoE spell, covering a large field to prevent opponents to simply take a sidestep and remain unharmed. The screams of the knights was only overtuned by the wind, which disappeared after 10 seconds. The HP bars of the knights and their mounts dropped to zero and the avatars disappeared. "It was the end of the line, but not for me." The cloaked figure said, before it jumped off the cliff and disappeared in the jungle below, before griffin-riding reinforcements arrived at the scene shortly after.

8 years later

12 years ago in 2126, the DMMORPG YGGDRASIL came on the market and conquered the gamer community of Japan in a matter of days. The fantasy game allowed the player more freedom then any other game. An open world with only limited access to information and a system that allowed free customization of items and even dungeons and NPCs captured the heart of every fantasy game fan. For all these years the game itself was a sucess and thrilled players to dive in the world of YGGDRASIL. However now in 2138 this story of victory was going to end and to make place for new games.

In an inn people would normally expect to see many people. Players that told others about their experiences and items or guilds that would discuss something. But today only one lone figure sat on a table in the corner. The only other companions were the NPCs of the inn, that had not been erased yet. A dark violet cloak hid the appearance from being seen. This was Umbra Skolopendragon, a YGGDRASIL player from the first minute of the game. She had chosen an Insect for her avatar and now she was a Vermin Lord. Or was it Lady since she was a girl in real life and in-game? Didn't matter really. Why would she chose to play as an insect, when she could be part of one of the other 700 races YGGDRASIL provided the player with to play? Well first she wasn't one of those girls that would run away screaming once seeing a moth or an ant. Secondly she liked invertebrates like insects and spiders. It was probably something she had inherited from her grandmother, who happened to be an entomologist. Well before it became more a less a dead branch of science since the only insects that had survived were cockroaches and other species humans referred as vermin. Except when it came to exterminate those as well. Umbra had fun with playing with others, no matter what the human and demihuman race players said or did. A game should be about fun and nothing else, wasn't it? Still it had been a year or two since she played this game for the last time, but there wasn't much time left to enjoy the game, because it was going to end. The developpers of YGGDRASIL had annouced just a month ago that, due the lack of new players and money issues the servers would be shutdown at midnight today. That was basically the reason, why she was in game for the last month. In the last hours of YGGDRASIL the people didn't really cared anymore if you were a heteromorph or a humanoid, everyone wanted to enjoy the game at least once again, before it would disappear forever.

Umbra banged her head on the table, though nothing happened. Neither her nor the piece of furniture took any damage. Here she sat, alone in her virtual world. Even the eyes of the NPCs looked a bit cold at her, despite the fact that they had warm smiles on their faces. Some players hoped for a sequel of YGGDRASIL like most players did when their game was shut down, not wanting it to end. However there was nothing about that in the news and no company had so far announced anything like it. Umbra could only shake her head at this. Of course no one said that there would be a sequal. Not until the game was dead for at least 6 months or so. After all the game was still running. Still other games that were on the market couldn't reach the customization system and graphics of YGGDRASIL so far and it surely would take a long time before that would become available in an RPG again. Sadly Umbra looked back on the time she used to be in this game. She used to be in a guild, however Umbra was a solo player now. She and her friends had seen many things of the nine worlds together, they had laughed and cried together and thus they were connected through a bond of companionship. At first Umbra had been a solo player, before she became part of a guild. In that time she had grown from the little larvae she had been to a strong and capable foes, which was strong enough to stand on her own legs. After she had accomplished this goal she left and after some time became part of a new one. She had a good time with her friends and even managed to create several Divine Class Items. Then however her guild was attacked after they had obtained a World Class Item. A World Class Item needed special conditions to be obtained like a series of quests or being in a specific group of players during a dungeon raid. The problem was that a World Class Item was something everyone wanted because they broke the game's rules and therefore were also called 'Balance Breakers'.

And it was always easier to steal something like that from someone, instead of working on their own since it was okay as long it was just in a game.

At first it was just a little quarrel in the guild about, who was the rightful owner of this item, and who did the most work in obtaining it, but then one betrayed the others and led a large group of invaders to their dungeon. The guild item was destroyed and with it all the work the members had put into the guild. Umbra was one of the lucky ones that managed to escape with her stuff, because she prefered to carry it with her instad of using a storage room or a bank. On top of that she had taken various items of other members from their storage rooms with her, when she realized the battle was hopeless. Of course she gave them those back as soon as she met them since it were not her own ones. When she met the few that had remained after the attack on another world after a few weeks, she talked with them how to go on. Luckily for them, the inventory capacity of how many items one could carry was in YGGDRASIL limitless, so that the survivors had enough time to grab their stuff and leave before the invaders could get anything. However one of the members that had tried to defend the dungeon had the World Item with him as it probably tried to sneak away, but was killed by the attackers.
Even with their treasured items, the former guild members knew, that they would never truly save, when their trust was so easily broken over something like this. Thus they had only one thing to do. They seperated. With no safe haven to return to, they all went into different directions. Umbra still adventured around the realms of YGGDRASIL for a few years, moving on from what happened and facing what laid ahead. For a short amount of time she had been part of guild, that helped people regardless of their species, something really rare in this game, before she left them as well. Sometimes she had thought about restart as a human or demi-human player, but she didn't want all the time and money invested in this avatar to go to complete waste.

Umbra then stood up and left the inn as she walked through the town. The only ones in the streets now were the NPCs at item stores and other buildings. "This place really has become a ghost town." Umbra said to herself. Some towns were actually dungeons, that could be conquered and used as guild bases, however such towns were like giant targets to the kind of people that couldn't let anyone have fun and only seemed to find satisfication through destruction of other people's property. That's why such dungeons were mostly raided for items, but not conquered. She walked to the gate, a circular structure in the middle of the town that was used to fast travel between cities in YGGDRASIL. "Now then let's go on one last adventure." she said to herself as she stood in front of the gate. Without another word walked towards the gate and disappeared.

18:57:35 Jotunheim

Jotunheim, the world of ice and giants, was one of the few worlds in YGGDRASIL heteromorphic players had an advantage. Umbra looked at her clock. 19:57:40. She was looking at the entrance of a fort. It was weird that this single building just stood there, if this would be real, but this was a dungeon. However it wasn't really one anymore, because a guild used this dungeon as their base. Most people had abandoned the game and with it all their items left in game. It wasn't wrong to do that. It was basically finding stuff, right?

However this fort was living up to it's name. If Umbra was lucky she would be out with the items from this dungeon in 4 hours. The yard in front of the fort was decorated with statues which looked like and ancient greek artist had made them. Of course they weren't nude, but they were 'clothed' in fabric tunics. YGGDRASIL didn't allow any character to expose private parts, except your avatar wouldn't even show then when naked. On top of the walls of the fort Umbra saw gargoyles and in the shadows moved demons. Umbra took a last breath and concentrated. She had a reason why she was doing this dungeon at the very end. It was the dungeon of the guild that had destroyed her guild. And vengeance is something that should be served cold as ice. Umbra then started to cast spells.

"[Meteor Fall] [Light Cirus]." From one second to another several meteors started to fall down the yard and exploded in giant fireballs once they hit the ground. The surviving monsters were killed by beams of light that plunked into their bodies like spears, before disappearing. With the yard cleared Umbra walked towards the entrance as more gargoyles showed up and attacked from above. "[Blade Whirlwind]." Umbra said as a small tornado appeared in front of her between the gragoyles and herself. The golem like creatures were caught in the wind as many blades slowly cut them to pieces. They then disappeared as the attack had drained all their HP. Umbra merely kept walking.
And so her last dungeon raid began.

3 and a half hour later (22:27:48)

Things turned out a bit more problematic then Umbra had expected. First off, the guild had set up traps and strong monsters to protect their stuff. And then there were the custom NPCs. They were quite easy compared to the rest of the monsters altogether, but in comparison with them they were of course far stronger. Still they were only at level 80 to 85. That was the main reason it took longer, but one reason for the delay was that the guild must have put more money in making additional space to hide their items and have a bigger number of monsters. Still Umbra brushed the majority of the attacks off like they were nothing. Most blades made no damage, when they came in contact with her carapace and a few punches by the Vermin Lord were mostly enough to kill an enemy. The reason for her abnormal defense was the concept of Body Armaments. When an avatar or an NPC was created with natural weapons and defensives like for example a vampire's fangs or a lizardman's claws, the player had the possibility to improve these parts by using levels, data crystals or real life money. And Umbra had much time to improve herself and sought like everyone else for perfection. In all the years she had been playing YGGDRASIL she had formed her character into a serious opponent for most other players and monsters. She was originally only a Magic Caster with low defense and no capabilities as a short range fighter, however she had shed that old skin a long time ago. Now she could throw spells at her opponents first and let them come closer, before engaging them in close combat. She was basically a tank among the Magic Casters, which was the reason why she referred herself as a frontline mage. With that she had already cleared 3 floors of the dungeon and took everything she could get from the equipment of the NPCs to several items, that just happened to be there.

Now she stood in the 4rth floor, the last floor that also was the headquarters of the guild. From this moment on Umbra had been careful what she destroyed. Staying in a collapsing dungeon was never a good idea. Right now a group of NPCs rushed towards her. They might be human, but they were also just NPCs, that were created to give this fort more life. Umbra simply raised a hand in their direction.

"[Crystal Spear]." With that several translucent spears appeared in the air next to her and flew like homing missiles at the maids and butlers, that had were carrying axes, swords and other melee weapons. Each spear hit home and killed the NPCs quickly. "So they thought high quality weapons and a large number of enemies would be enough to stop invaders. Clearly never heard of leveling up." Umbra said to herself as she got the NPCs equipment and wandered off. Finally she found the throne room. At least it seemed to be the throne room, because the door was at least 4 metres high and decorated like the ceiling of the Sisitine Chapel in the Vatican. She quickly took a [Greater Healing Potion] and a [Greater MP Potion] to refresh her stats and looked at her buffs. She checked twice to make sure that she was ready to do this, but then again all items she had collected and created were in her inventory and if she would die here it at least would be an awesome battle. When a player in YGGDRASIL died said player would lose 5 levels, all gold the avatar carried with it and an item from the inventory. But since she had no place to put this stuff anyway, Umbra walked around with everything in her nonexistend pockets. That also had an advantage. The item the player would lose would be randomly chosen. If she only carried important items with her she would lose something important no matter what if she died. By carrying trash items with her she reduced the chance of that to happen. Umbra wouldn't admit this loud, but she liked the old video games and animes from the 21th century, which was why a lot of her items were based on such.

She opened the door and stepped inside. In the room she found a large room with colored windows like a church and finally a lone throne standing in the middle of it all. Suprisingly there was no one in this room. Umbra had to say she was disappointed that there was no final boss. Or so she thought.

Just as she thought she could call it a day she picked up a noise from behind. She turned around to look at the one who made that noise. It was a demon. Then the door to the throne room shut with a loud banging sound. The demon had an humanoid body, an enormous pair of bat like wings sprouted from it's back and two curved horns ran along the temples, while two others were pointed upwards came out the skull. The demon was as big as an average human and wore a crimson armor covering the entire Body, even the wings and it's membrane. On it's hip it had a nodachi, a longer version of a katana. A purple cape was attached to the armor. Umbra quickly used [Mana Essence] and [Life Esscene] to check it's MP and HP. It turned out that the HP was quite high, while MP was almost nonexistend. For Umbra it seemed that this was the only Level 95 warrior NPC so far and with that the strongest NPC here. The demon then drew it's sword and got into a stance. With the sword over it's head and pointed at Umbra he then dashed towards her. In the last moment she disappeared through [Silent Cast: Teleportation] and was now behind the crimson knight.

"Huh so they had an endboss. Welp, that makes the whole thing only better for me." Umbra said as mutliple gylphs around her popped up in the air. Out of each crawled silhouettes of monsters, which looked with their glowing eyes at their opponent. An orange-red aura of lightning and fire surrounded Umbra as she got ready for the last big battle in YGGDRASIL.

23:48:24 Jotunheim

"Well that was something, right?" Umbra said to herself as she walked away from the fort. She had raided abandoned guild bases before, but this time it at least was quite fun. As the shutdown of YGGDRASIL was revealed, many guilds had simply abandoned their bases since all their effort was wasted anyway and would be deleted together with the rest of the game. And so thiefs had a much more easy game by stealing valueable items. When they were strong enough to overcome the defenses that was. 'Of course no one is here to witness this.' Umbra thought as she looked at the barren field that she had created. Everywhere were craters in the rock and ice, while structures like pillars and statue-like golems laid destroyed everywhere. After she had defeated the last guardian she had quickly grabbed everything valueable in the dungeon, went through every floor once again to make sure that nothing was left and then took the guild item and destroyed it. Originally she planned to keep it, but it turned out to be the worst Low Class Item she had ever seen. She only had to ball her hand into a fist to simply crush it between her fingers. Now the fort was collapsing and everything in it was erased forever. Not that it mattered anyway. None of this ever really mattered. Especially, because the World Item they had taken, wasn't there.

Still the fight with the archdemon had quite done the number one her. Her HP bar was down to 19% after the battle and she had to use quite a lot of spells to defeat it. No player really wanted to be killed at the last days of the game, but that wasn't her problem. Some players were just that much of douchebags, that they couldn't leave heteromorphs alone even if it was the last day of the game. Umbra for example was attacked 3 times by PKers, who were simply bored, before they were killed. Umbra wandered through Jotunheim for a while until she climbed up a mountain and found a nice rock ledge towering over the clouds. Above the clouds were only rocks and ice like all in Jotunheim, but this place had an awesome view. This sea of clouds seemed to stretch itself over the entire horizon and only a few spires looked out the blanket of clouds like dangerous looking cliffs and islands. High in the sky shone the sun and painted the clouds white like crushing wave crowns. It truly was a crude, but pretty sight for Umbra as she sat on the ground and leaned against the rock.

In her real life body, Umbra sighed as she enjoyed the view. There she was. In YGGDRASIL she was Umbra, the spellcasting Vermin Lord, that could kick ass if she would wanted to. She had obtained hatred and friends from all different kinds of races and treasures, that would make every ancient emperor pale in envy. But in real life she was just Cho Ishikawa. 39 years old, ordinary japanese buisness woman and living a boring life in a dull and almost lifeless world called Earth. If Cho had to be honest she would love to stay a little bit longer, even if it was just for a moment, to be able to admire the realms of YGGDRASIL, but she knew that wasn't possible. Wasn't it fascinating how much humans clung to something like their life? They would do anything to preserve their precious existence and was it just for a moment. For Cho it was the same with YGGDRASIL.

Back in the real world she felt tired and yawned. She glanced at the clock. 23:55:03. "Just 5 minutes to go. Oh well I think it won't hurt if I rest my eyes a little." Cho said to herself. She leaned back in her chair and started to drift into sleep. In real life Cho was even able to fall asleep with her entire gaming gear still on her head. She even once had fallen asleep during her office job and had to do a lot of work to make up for that. Luckily she wasn't fired. Slowly her eyes shut and the only thing she heard was the wind in Jotunheim, one of the nine worlds she used to call her home. As her mind slipped in unconciousness she thought about tomorrow and what she would do. Standing up early, working up all the pages of paperwork and then come home at night to eat and sleep. And one the next day the same thing. 'Why must life be so boring? Why continuing when such a life isn't even desireable?' she asked herself as she slept in. Then there was only silence and darkness. Just how she liked it.

While being unconscious the time didn't stop and eventually it became midnight. The servers of YGGDRASIL shut down and everything that was created in the 12 years of this story of success was erased from the digital plain of existence.

This was not the end of her adventure as Umbra Skolopendragon in the nine realms of YGGDRASIL, but every end is also a new beginning.

But what the players, which hadn't left the game before the shutdown, didn't knew was, that in the very moment YGGDRASIL was supposed to come to an end, the items, dungeons and even the players within their avatars of the game were transported into another realm. However like the namesake of the norse mythology, the world tree Yggdrasil did not just connect two worlds with one another, but instead many different realms. Each different and unique among the many possible universes with their own inhabitants, wonders and dangers.

And now another player was brought at another time to another world.

Hours after the YGGDRASIL shutdown

Cho slept suprisingly peacefully, even though she laid on her desk. Or so she thought.

But then a sound woke her up. The sound of waves crashing on a shore. Wait waves? Shore? As Cho 'opened' her eyes she immediately felt that something wasn't right. She looked up and saw a coast, which put her into confusion. She had fallen asleep against a rock in Jotunheim not a tropical island. Cho then noticed something else. She felt the water sand beneath her. YGGDRASIL had as a full dive game no touch effect on the player, since he/she was still sitting in front of a computer, something Cho didn't feel either. She felt the sand underneath her and the breeze on her skin, she heard the waves crashing in the rocky shore and smelt the salty water Cho then wanted to stand up, but then she realised something as she looked at her was the hand. It wasn't the human hand she was used to since the day she had been born. It was the hand of her Vermin Lord avatar from YGGDRASIL, Umbra Skolopendragon. Now was the perfect moment to freak out.

"What the hell?!" she exclaimed as she noticed 3 things. One that her mouth felt somehow weird, when she spoke. Normally she would feel her lips and jaws moving but this time it was...odd. The 2nd thing she noticed was that she coldn't blink. She tried to close her eyes, but somehow her eyelids didn't move. It almost felt like she had none. And three, that she was wearing the same cloak her avatar wore earlier. A Relic Class Item she had once picked up in a dungeon. "What's going on?" she said to herself. She got up and walked over to the water. She immediately felt the wet substance on her feet and almost jumped backwards at the sensation. She walked deeper into the water and looked into her own reflection. Because of the cloak she saw nothing, so she put it down. As she saw her reflection she was so shocked, that she didn't even noticed, that she had dropped her cloak into the shallow water.

She looked like the deformed amalgamation of a wasp, an earwig and a centipede. With a height of 1.85 metres she was slightly taller as she used to be in real life. She had two red compound eyes, which looked expressionless, because they lacked pupils and eyelids. Her visual field was now bigger and sharper then it had ever been, which wasn't so hard actually since she needed glasses as a human. She had no nose or nostrils anymore, yet she could smell just fine. She had now a pair of horizontal, sharp mandibles, which looked a little bit like the venom claws of a centipede. Her actual mouth was a pair of smaller mandibles between the first pair, which was like those of a grub. At the back of her head grew short orange hair. Her slender body had only slight curves at chest and hips to indicate that her avatar was indeed female like she was in real life. She had a long segmented tail, seemed to be at least 3 metres long and looked like it belonged to centipede with many hooked spikes at the sides. At it's end sat a pair of sharp jagged pincers. Her four arms and hands with five armored fingers. Her legs were slender, yet protected by the same carapace that covered her body. Her slender legs ended in feet with 5 digits, three long toes at the front and two short ones at the back. Her carapace was dark blue in color like the carapace of a tarantula hawk.

Umbra's thoughts in this moment were simple. 'Okay...What the actual fuck?!' She flexed her four arms and clenched her fingers, hoping that this was still a dream, but unfortunately she already knew that this was not the case. Umbra put her hand to her temple and used a basic spell every YGGDRASIL player could use. "[Message]." She heard the familiar sound of the spell. 'Hmm... let's see if the GM picks up.' Umbra thought to herself, but no one picked up. Sighing to herself she wanted to put her cloak back on as she noticed that it had soaked wet from the water. Frustrated she then tried to put it in her inventory, however her menu didn't popped into existence. However when she focused on the inventory her hand with the cloak suddenly disappeared in a small hole in the air. Umbra was once again left stunning as she looked at her empty hand. Shaking her head she then looked around herself. She was at a rocky shore with many boulders laying around. At this moment she noticed that she was able to see completely fine without glasses or special contact lens. Something she had always wanted. Her parents never had been very rich and had to safe money whenever possible. Be it food, medicine or electricity/water. 'Okay I have no idea where I am, my menu doesn't work, my GM call doesn't work and my game avatar has become my real body. To summarise it: I'm fucked in every not figuretive way.' Umbra thought as she walked back to the dry shore. Then however she heard something erupting from the water. Startled Umbra turned around and saw something she hasn't even seen in one of the old National Geographic documentations. In the distance erupted a giant crocodile-like sea dragon from the waves and held in it's jaws a smaller aquatic creature. The smaller animal wriggled and screamed in pain, before the dragon leaned backwards and crashed back into the water. Umbra witnessed this with quite shock and suprise. For a moment she stood there motionless.

'Well I guess swimming is out of question now.' Umbra thought to herself. But all the suprise and wondering vanished as Umbra realised something. That she wasn't on Earth anymore was clear as she had seen the strange monster in the ocean before. She wasn't in YGGDRASIL anymore, which made only sense since she had touch and smell enabled. She was here, wherever this 'here' was and had no one except herself. Then something shot over her. It was a massive red wyvern with jagged red and black scales. It's tail was like a spiked maze with a long red spike at the tip. In it's giant dark colored talons it held something that looked like a gray dinosaur. It let loose a short roar, before flying away, carrying it's prey with it. Umbra had frozen at this. She did nothing for a second. Two seconds. 15 seconds. Then she grabbed her head and threw her head back facing the bright blue sky as the dam of emotions broke.

"JUST WHERE THE FUCK AM I?!" Umbra exclaimed. Eventually her scream was so loud, that all creatures of this world stopped what they were doing and turned towards her direction, even though they were on an entire different landmass. Even in burning deserts and freezing tundras animals of all types and sizes turned towards the sudden noise. After a second or so they continued to do whatever they had done in that moment. Umbra panted after her outburst, trying to catch her breath.

Her brain worked overtime as she saw a canyon in the rocks that seemed to lead deeper into the island. "In a situation like this it is important to not panic and keep a calm head through this. I should explore the environment like back in the old days. Maybe I find something like a civilisation or something. Anyway it's better then to stay here for too long.' Umbra thought. 'Wait a sec! Since my avatar has become my body, does that mean I can fly?' With that Umbra concentrated on her back. Unconciously she spread her wings. The alien yet somehow natural sensation startled her a little. She had two almost draconic-looking wings, each at least a metre long. The membrane was violet in color and streached between 3 beige-yellow, segmented limbs with small thorn-like claw at the end (A/N: think about Megaguirus wings from Godzilla). Each was at least a metre long to lift her body up in the air. Umbra shot the ocean a last glipse as she took off into the sky. She only flew up a little as she landed on top of a nearby cliff. The Vermin Lady landed a bit harsh as she simply dropped out of a short distance out the air, before her wings folded back on her back, while she looked around. "Alright I definately need to work on the landing. I guess I'll have to experiment... with... these..." her voice trailed off as she looked what laid ahead. In front of her laid a beautiful landscape. Giant plains, where dinosaur-like creatures like the one the wyvern had carried, walked around, a forest greener then any synthetic plant she had ever seen, the sky blue and not being polluted with smog and the great and seemingly endless ocean, which didn't look like a huge pile of floating garbage.

"Okay." she said. "Time to explore the environment." Umbra said, trying to hide her panic and nervousness behind a mask of enthusiasm, before she went down to the canyon she had seen.

Hours later

Umbra honestly had no idea what was worse. That she had been transported to some island with her YGGDRASIL character as her body, that didn't knew where she was or that she had been wandering this island for hours and still had no real idea where she was. She could fly up again but even then she had learned the hard way, that flying too high might scorth her wings. Players, that used wings or the spell [Fly] are after all very easy targets and the last thing Umbra wanted was getting blasted by one of those wyverns. As Umbra wandered over the island she hardly could believe her eyes. She saw so many creatures and plants unknown to her like never before in her life. That was actually nothing hard to accomplish since the pollution of Earth had destroyed the entire biosphere of it and with it more then 99% of all living organisms. Seeing a place, where the pollution had not even started yet was a miracle for her. Even though some of the wildlife was like it used to be on Earth, it still was a very alien experience for her. She had also figured that her mouth moved when she spoke, something that was impossible in YGGDRASIL. In the moment she was in a valley surrounded by smaller platforms with several nests in them. Just as she realized that she had entered something's lair a creature jumped out the caves.

It looked like a velociraptor to some extend, however it was about twice as tall like a tall sheperd dog. Orange and violet scales covered the little reptile, giving it an exotic appearance. A small thrill was at the sides of the head and small brown thorns were lined up at the sides of the tail. Claws at arms and legs as well as needle sharp teeth in it's moth screamed carnivore. The little raptor looked confused at the insectoid and cocked it's head to the side as it never had seen such a cloaked creature. Umbra was also curious so she didn't move to not scare the raptor off. Then however it made barking sounds and howled. Soon three other creatures of the same species joined the first one and surrounded the insect player. Now Umbra had an idea what was going on. Yet even with reinforcements the raptors kept their distance. It was a result of Umbra's passive ability [Apex Predator], which inflicted fear to every living monster and made low level monsters normally avoid her. These little raptors however still thought that they had a chance when they would attack together.

One of the raptors lunged at her, however something was odd for Umbra. In the moment the creature crouched down, she knew where it would jump to and how she could avoid the attack. Instinctly she took a step sideways and the claws of the creature passed harmlessly away from her. Another one tried to bite her however Umbra put her arm up in defense. As the creature bit down, the teeth didn't even penetrate the hard carapace as the creature tried to get a grip on Umbra. The YGGDRASIL player however swung her arm in a wide arc, sending the creature flying into the next wall. A spiderweb of cracks appeared in he wall and the raptor gave a last pathetic Growl, before it slumbed lifeless onto the ground. The other 3 now backed away from Umbra and just barked at her, before running to their nests. Umbra was suprised to say at least, but didn't wanted to push her luck. Instead she bolted away from the nests and ran outside the small valley.

'What the hell? I know I've strengthen this body a lot, but that it would be this powerful is just...ridiculous.' she thought at the display of her physical strength. With that she ran deeper into the island. The raptors didn't followed her after seeing what she had done with nothing, but a swing of her arm.

Later

It had become evening now and Umbra still wandered on the island. However her momentary homelessness was one of the many problems she had in this moment. One of them was her appearance. In the moment she looked like some kind of insectoid monster, that had spawned in some mad scientist's labratory of scifi movie. Also Umbra still needed time to adjust to this new body. Especially her tail was a problem to not just slam right into the ground and create a crater or cutting a tree down with the leg-like spikes at the sides. Then there was the shelter problem. Normally she would think about something to eat first, however not having a roof to sleep under on an unexplored island with nothing, but wild and unknown animals around her, were not the best conditions to start a new life. Also her race doesn't have a racial penality like humonculus or arachnoid, which always need to eat. In fact insectoid players had according to the game lore only little to no need to eat anything for a long period of time, when they at least eat a big meal in a while similiar to real life sharks. Therefore Umbra wasn't really hungry in the moment.

Even though most survival games started at a similiar situation like the one Umbra was currently in, in real life this was something totally different, especially for someone who grew up in a city on a dead planet. Somewhere deep in the forest near a small stream she put out an item out her inventory. It was a miniature figure of a tent. She threw the little figurine near a few metres away from the stream at the base of a large tree. Then in a flash of light a big tent for 3 persons stood in the place of the figure. The figure was an item called [Magical Base Camp Tent]. It was a dungeon build item, which also allowed the player to use such tents as places to rest. Umbra stepped inside the tent. From the inside the tent was larger then from the outside. There was just blank space, but Umbra could work with that. She pulled out a bed of her inventory and placed it next to a wall and a table in front of it with a chair, both made of ebony-looking wood. Umbra couldn't help but let her fingers slide over the furniture's dark surface. She then pulled out a blue banner with her symbol out her inventory and hung it on a wall. Her symbol was a centipede, which had wrapped itself around a sword with the centipede being wrapped around the handle and the head over the blade. Umbra had read that samurais had once used centipedes as their emblems as a symbol of strength and victory, so Umbra had designed hers like this. After she was done with the furniture, she walked outside and began to cast various magic spells as security meassures.

"[Anti Life Cocoon] [Protection from Arrows] [Holy Sanctum] [Invisible Dome] [False Life Force]." With that Umbra created a dome around the tent before it vanished from sight. The first spell made living beings avoid a certain small area. The second one was like the name suggested a protection wall against airal attacks. The third one kept undead monsters outside for a certain amount of time, since they wouldn't be stopped by [Anti Life Cocoon]. The last spell prevented spies to scout the area under the spells protection. Years of being discriminated for what she chose to play had made her learn the hard way, that protection sometimes was the tipping point of a battle. Also she didn't knew what else might roam this island.

'Let's see. Spells and inventory of the game are still working.' Umbra thought to herself. 'I think going out at night isn't a good idea. But perhaps I can send something out there to do this for me.' Umbra was a [Insect Master], a Summoner Magic Class, that allowed the player to summon insectoid and arachnoid monsters. However low level monsters had only limited intelligence and most other creatures she could summon were as intelligent as ordinary animals. Therefore she had to summon something more intelligent. Something that also would understand the concept of being and staying undetected. Such a spell was [High Tier Insect Summon]. She could summon other high level Insect Fighters like she used to be, but also powerful monsters to help her in battle. The only drawback at summoning high tier monsters was, that it was very restricted. Only 3 times per day was already the maximum to prevent players to summon more and more creatures like a never ending army. Her Summoner Job Class reduced the MP costs for the spells, but with her immensive MP pool it was nothing impossible for herself. That's why she tried something else. "[Middle Tier Insect Summon: Giant Beetle]." Umbra said as a bright glowing gylph appeared on the ground. From the circles rose three giant hulky figures. The creatures Umbra summoned were Giant Beeltes. The creatures possessed a dark carapace and looked a little like scarabs, just several times bigger. Each of them was as big as car and provided quite the defense and man power to move even heavy boulders. The scarabs lowered their heads in front of Umbra. Then she used [Middle Tier Insect Summon] again to summon an Insect Soldier, an Insect Fighter on Level 40 or so. This one looked like a lime green longhorn bettle, however it stood upright on two legs and held in it's two three fingered hands a sword and shield. With it's wings on the back it gave the Impression of a knight with a cape, which was even increased by the armor like carapace. The large red compound eyes looked at the ground as the creature stabbed the sword into the forest ground and kneeled to her. The Insect Soldier then cracked it's mandibles, which looked like they belonged to an snail eating beetle.

"You summoned me Supreme One. What are your commands?" it asked in a young male voice. Umbra titled her head a little at the new piece of information.

'Supreme One? Out of which hole did that came crawling out? Must be because I summoned an intelligent, sentient creature and no simple animal.' she said to herself. "I want you to scan this island as far as you can go. If you meet intelligent lifeforms, stay away from them and keep out their territory. Should something like that happen, you tell me. Got it?" Umbra said.

"As you wish empress." the Insect Soldier said, before spreading it's wings and taking off while the Giant Beetles simply walked into the forest between the trees, not giving Umbra the chance to ask why her summon had called her 'empress'. Umbra stood there dumbstruck.

'This is getting weirder with every second now.' she thought to herself as she went into the forest to small clearing. As she looked up she could see the stars for the first real time in her life. Almost unconsciously she spread her wings and flew upwards as if the light of the stars drew her to them like a moth. She could only gasp in awe as she saw the endless sea of stars on the clear nightsky. Hundreds, thousands of stars shining down on her and the island that was already far below her. In the next moment she noticed that her summoned knight had followed her.

"Is everything alright empress?" he asked. There it was again.

"Hmm? Nah. Everything is fine. I just felt like gazing at the stars." Umbra said. The Insect Soldier just wanted to fly away as her master spoke up again. "By the way, why are you calling me empress? As far as I know there are Insect Queens and Kings, but not empresses and emperors." Umbra said as she tilted her head.

"My deepest apologies Supreme One, if I have displeased you. It's simply that you are eclipsing any insect queen in every way possible. You're stronger, wiser and way more beautiful then them." the summon said in a somehow panicked or worried voice. If Umbra could have blushed in that moment, she would have been cherry red now.

"T-That's...nothing hard to accomplish." Umbra said. A Broodmother was such a queen and a high level insect monster that Umbra could summon, however it wasn't one of the most appealing ones. If Umbra remembered the game lore correctly about this monster, they were basically large insectiods, which could spawn most other kinds of insectiod monster from YGGDRASIL, including sentient Insect Fighter and Druids players could choose as the race of their avatar like Umbra did, however only of the same species as the Broodmother was. A mantis couldn't spawn mosquitos and a wasp couldn't make beetles. That was a major difference to an Insect Master and this monster type from YGGDRASIL. In general the insect type monsters of YGGDRASIL looked very unattractive for the human eye and Cho wasn't that appealing in real life either, which was why the statement of her summon stupified her for a second. Quickly Umbra changed the topic. "Don't you have a scouting mission to attend to?" she asked. The summon quickly replied.

"I cannot leave you alone! What if..." He said, but Umbra cut him off.

"I'll be fine. Don't worry about me. Just do your job and I'll do mine." Umbra said. The summoned insect seemed to disagree, but just nodded and flew back in the woods without another word of protest. Umbra then returned to gazing at the stars. "I ask myself if somewhere out there is Earth. How are the others doing there, I wonder." she shook her head at this as she looked at her hand. "Well I kinda got my wish. My old life is over and now I'm the invertebrate monster, I have created to explore YGGDRASIL, on an alien planet. I ask myself if someone else is out there." She chuckled to herself. "Yeah. Be careful what you wish for. It could come true. In the end I'll get killed by another player because he/she thinks I'm free EXP." She spent half an hour with looking at the night sky, before she returned to her base camp and stepped inside the tent. "But the summon was acting weird." She then put her cloak off and on the chair and laid under the covers of the bed. It felt much more comfortable then she had expected it to be. She reached out in her inventory and pulled out a little book. This was a beastiary of all monsters in YGGDRASIL she had encountered. She had to check on something. And then she found the page she looked for. "Let's see. Insects Fighters are sentient invertebrates that live normally in a hive like structure, but also..." Umbra read more and more about the lore of her race until a certain point, which would have make her blush madly if she had still human skin to do that. Originally she just wanted to know more about her race out of curiosity, but this was really unexpected. "Like ordinary insects, Insect Fighter males intent to fight against one another to prove themselves worthy for the ones they desire to mate with. They also tend to try to impress the desired mate like some kinds of spiders. Male insects are rumored to be blinded by phermomones of the females, which makes them to mindless puppets of the females, what sometimes results for them to be left to be eaten by the female after the mating process to provide the feamle with the necessary nutrients for the production of eggs and larvae. However male and female insects of a hive always seek the 'attention' of the leader to serve them and all their needs, even if it costs their own lifes. An exception for example would be revolting of individuals in the hive to claim the leader position." she read loud again. There was a long moment of silence after that, in which Umbra just sat there staring at the book with her unmoving eyes. Then she out it back in her inventory and facepalmed. 'Great, just great. I probably just summoned someone who is going to rape me in my sleep. Nononono. Definately not with me.' Umbra clutched her head at this with her four arms. Her Office job had prevented her to get in any realtionship with the opposite gender at all, meaning that she was 39 and still a virgin, which is why the topics sex and children were something she didn't like to talk about. Then she straighted up in her bed again. 'Wait! Summoned monsters disappear after a certain amount of time. So I don't need to worry. Just a few minutes or hours and he will be gone like he never existed.' she thought to herself. "But I have to make sure that he stays away from me. [Message]. Soldier can you hear me?" she asked.

"I can hear you empress. Is something the matter? Should I come over?" he asked. Umbra's answer came immediately.

"NO!" she blured out, before regaining her composure. "I mean no. I want you to scout the area as far as you can. The giant beetles will make sure that nothing will come here. That's all." Umbra said.

"Very well." was all the Insect Soldier said.

'Yes success! No weird perverted insect will get in here. I guess if I summon a mantis nymph next time this couldn't happen.' she thought to herself. A mantis nymph was one of the more intelligent and deadly bugs of her arsenal. But there was one point it was perhaps better then the beetle from earlier. Mantis nymphs were female, so they would try something like that, right? She also could summon an Insect Queen, but then she might try to kill her for the leader position. She would really have to look out what kind of monster she would summon in the future. "Yeah tomorrow everything will look different." she said to herself as she reached into her inventory again and this time pulled out a pen and a little book wrapped in leather. The pages were all blank and so Umbra started to write a diary, before she went to sleep.

Diary Entry#1

Date: 22nd, or is it already the 23rd April(?) 2136 (A/N: It wasn't said yet when the game shut down, so I'll just say that it was sometime in spring like it was spring in the New World when Momonga came to the New World)

It's weird to write a diary to be honest. I never thought I would ever do such a thing. But...given the new situation...I think it might not be the worst idea. Still I'm probably the only person that is going to read these. (Most likely, because I won't publish this)

Anyway it seems like I have been thrown into another world. Yes I know how that sounds, but I suddenly woke up on a shore that I wasn't before. One moment I'm in Jotunheim, then I fall asleep and I'm somewhere in nowhere. It had been an actually good last month that YGGDRASIL had. I had the chance beat up a lot of PKers, I looted almost every dungeon I came across and got so many items I probably could create an army of NPCs. I have no craftsman job classes, so the indrigient items are more or less useless to me, but perhaps I can find a way to make them of use for me. This is what happens when you have a lot of cool ideas and no one to make them come true. Pure craftsmen oriented players in YGGDRASIL were always as rare as Medics and supporters. Everyone loves them, but no one wants to be one, because it's less fun to Play as one of them.
Oh and finally I have destroyed the ones that had destroyed our guild and now I'm kinda left without a reason to go on. Well I didn't got the players but their base is now somewhere in Nirwana. I wished those shitty devs would finally put some facial animations in the game. I wanted to see their pained expression, when I killed them.
Now that everyone is gone, I think it was kinda bad that I couldn't get the World Item. I mean I wouldn't have a use for it anymore anyway. But still it is a shame that the douchebags didn't had it anymore. That basically puts all the efford we went through into the sink. Well doesn't matter anymore. It can't be changed now. I better treasure the memory of my friends then mourning around that item.
Still it's quite a shame really.
This new world I came in is nothing like I've ever seen before. It's...beautiful and flourishing with life. I know a few people that would love to be here right now. Even though they might have scowled me already for killing this... raptor thing, that had tried to eat me. This whole thing with my body is weird and yet it isn't. I cannot explain it, because I don't understand it either. I guess I'll have to check this out tomorrow.

Cho Ishikawa

Umbra put the pen and the book back into her inventory, before she finally pulled the covers over her body and laid down to sleep. She put her four hands behind the back of her head and looked at the ceiling of the tent for a moment, before she got up again and continued to read about the different types of insectoid and arachnoid Monsters from YGGDRASIL. After 2 hours she lay down again, turned to the side and shifted into a more comfortable position. A few minutes later her red eyes had dimmed darker as she fallen into a dreamless sleep. However one question didn't left her even in her sleep.

'What do I do now?'

Meanwhile under the ocean's surface something had stirred in it's own sleep as it had slept for days now. It has been uneasy in it's sleep since last midnight. Something had happened. It just didn't knew what, but it was sure that, whatever it was, would be a great change in it's habitat. And it won't be a good change for it. For that was sure.

Name: Umbra Skolopendragon

Epithet: Spinewing Monarch, Sister of Chaos

Race: Heteromorphic Race, Vermin Lord

Residence: None

Karma: -500 extremely evil

Class Build

Total Level

100

Racial Level

Insect Fighter (5)

Vermin Lord (5)

Job Level

Armored Mage (10)

Elementalist: Air (10)

Elementalist: Ground (5)

Summoner (5)

Insect Master (10)

Weapon Expert (5)

Shapeshifter (5)

Monk (5)

Others (35)

Status Chart

HP: 85

MP: 90

Phy. Attack: 80

Phy. Defense: 100

Agility: 75

Mag. Attack: 90

Mag. Defense: 85

Resistance: 75

Special Ability: 60

Total: 740

And that's the prologue of the story. Hope you enjoyed it so far. So I guess many of you guys will right now enter the rage mode, because Umbra has higher stats then Albedo, however Albedo is an NPC, while Umbra's avatar was created over a decade ago and was never deleted and just kept improving. Imagine you would play an MMO with one and the same character for 10 years (which is quite unrealistic I have to admit) and the game gives you the possibility to make your avatar even stronger then it already would have been with the maximum level here 100 and you had the resources for that without any kind of bad consequences, wouldn't you do so just because you could? I'm pretty sure you would. Also 10 years a long peroid of time, meaning that she had been able to examine the mechanics of the game and to shape herself into the form she is now.

Anyway, give me your opinion in the reviews and/or PM me for suggestions. I appreciate any kind of help and constructive critic from you guys. And if you guys want me to add something in the story or just want something specific to happen, feel free to tell me. I'll see what I can do for you. Also this is just the first chapter so don't go into 'Flame Mode', because it was boring so far or your not interested in the story.

Well, we hopefully see each other next time, whenever that will be. So until then, have a nice day.