I kinda dislike the earth in overlord mostly because "mega-corporations taking over" is such a bs idea, I mean for that to happen a corporation would have to have their own military able to rival a nation's and a ton of different logistical things just to run a country, there's a reason why it's hasn't happened and it's because running a country is a pain in the ass if you're trying to profit, it ain't practical.
But my personal problem with semi-unimportant details aside.
A karaoke club in Norway Alex POV
"So it's over huh?" I said to my best friend, Chris and the head Dev of Yggdrasil Isabella,
"Yeah, sorry, but listen we decided we'd give you this," Chris said as he opened his backpack and took out a massive book covered with Nordic embroidery flowing from the world tree on the cover,
"What is that?" I said as I looked at the book,
"We know how much you wanted to know everything in the game, this is something that we're releasing after the shutdown, but we thought we'd give you this before then," Isabella said as Chris handed me the book,
"This along with five other books we've sent to your house is the complete lore, stats and hidden effects of all the items, NPCs, races, and bosses in the game," she said as I opened the book and looked at the content page, this book is about the races of Yggdrasil,
"I-I don't know what to say, thank you!" I said as I hugged them,
"No problem, Custodian," Chris said jokingly, that was my name in Yggdrasil, a name thousand times more famous than my IRL name,
"Those gifts aside we also wanted to give you a special gift, since the game's ending, there's really no reason to even have a debate on GM privileges, so they let me and Chris do this pretty easily, so here," Isabella said as she held out a letter with the company logo on it,
"Seriously," I said as I gingerly took the letter from her hands,
"Yep, for today, you're a GM in all but name," She said
"Well now that, business is done, how about we do what people normally do in Karaoke clubs and sing!" Chris said as he grabbed the datapad and started to look for a song,
"Sure just don't pick anything embarrassing okay?" I said,
"Goodnight! See ya later!" I said as I waved at them the streets were packed with party goers and the not so discreet prostitutes trying to get work,
"Yeah, See ya in Yggdrasil 2 Custodian!" Chris said as he and Isabella got in their car and I got on my motorcycle and put on my helmet,
Timeskip
When I arrived at my house I drove my bike up to the garage, and parked my bike,
After closing the garage door I walked into my home, and took off my helmet and placed it on my dresser before tossing my keys next to it and taking off my jacket and shoes,
"So today's really the end…" I said as the weight of the statement hit me and tears started to fill my vision,
"I'm really Crying over a game!" I said as I fully broke down and cried all my pent up emotions, ever since I heard the game was gonna end, it's like there's a knife deep in my heart
"Why, why can't it last forever, why! I don't want it to end," I cried as tears stained the floor, 'Yggdrasil… it's all I have… what am I supposed to do with myself, my entire life leads back to it, without it… without it I'm nothing, sis please what am I supposed to do.'
I stayed like this for what felt like hours until I felt my eyes burn from crying so much,
"T-there's no point crying over it, I'll just have to enjoy it to the last moment,' with that I stood and looked at the time
20:14:21
"Okay I have four hours," I said as I entered my room and sat down on the dive chair and started up the system as I opened the letter and read what it said
"when you log in you'll receive a message yadda, yadda," I said and tossed the letter as I started up Yggdrasil, the letter was more or less just an official statement.
Yggdrasil, Nazarick 9th floor, Custodian's room
As I opened my eyes, opened my menu and checked my inbox, it said:
"Please enjoy custodian, we all know that you'll be playing around for hours with all this stuff, just remember the rules."
Attached to it was an item called Creator's Soul, it's a bit of a joke name, it was an item that a hacker made that would give him all the items and powers of a GM without triggering the anti-cheat, but when a GM sees the standard notification saying that an item has been found for the first time ever and they don't recognize it and they can't see anything about it, well the hacker wasn't around for long,
As I brought out the item, it looked like a crystal with a flame surrounding it that was constantly changing color, when I activated it, it cracked and burst into dust and I received a ton of items including a full set of the Creator's armor and the Creator's arsenal, they were all world-tier items that had no limits to their number uses unlike others, but along with this I also got a race change now I'm Half-kitsune and half-God, 'really, isn't that too cheesy?'-
I'm a Kitsune more specifically I'm an Emperor-kitsune, the way that Kitsunes evolve is a bit more unique than other races, instead of there being just one end form, there are three, High-generals which are frontline fighters, grand chancellors who are supports, and Emperors who are any form of ranged firepower, meaning that if you want to be a DPS mage, gunner or archer you want to be an emperor, of course, if you want to be that you have to slog through two of the most painful racial jobs ever,
Alongside the three end racial jobs, there are elemental subspecies like Wind, Earth, Fire, water, holy, lightning, demonic, Void, and undead, this made everything really complex when it came to making a kitsune character,
I'm a void-Kitsune meaning that I have an overall damage increases against everything, and lack any massive weakness, void also lets me use skills like [ Abyssal slash ] which after landing on an enemy, waits for ten seconds and then does 40% of the damage inflicted during the ten seconds for four seconds,
me being one of the first players of the game and having just lost my character, spent weeks trying to get to Emperor, I only reached it because Touch Me-sama saved me from being Pked into oblivion during the genocide that some of the human guilds and Seraphim enacted on my race,
it got so bad that the GMs had to eventually remove the Kitsune race from being playable, they tried to block off the starting area for the Kitsunes, but all that did was make them wait outside for when we eventually had to leave the starting area, and basically every Kitsune player had to start over as a different species, except me,
The Devs gave me a unique title and job class called [ the last Kitsune Emperor ] it made the journey to becoming an emperor Kitsune much easier since I didn't need to go through the standard route instead I could make it all the way to the end with just that job class,
In appearance, the difference between emperors and normal kitsune is that we have white and gold fur, as well as porcelain skin, while the others were the standard red, with the job class I got a flame-shaped scar on the left side of my face starting at the edge of my eye, that lits up with an ethereal green flame, whenever I use any skill or magic.
'Touch me-sama gave me a safe haven and a team I could rely on, it's my duty to make sure that their hard work doesn't fall to pieces,'
"So much to do so little time," I said as I accessed my inventory and equipped the GM items, the armor set is universal meaning it changes to fit whatever class or race that you are, I got a set of metal light armor,
"I wonder how I look," I said as I walked over to my mirror and to be honest I look kinda cool, but the armor, looked really gaudy it had a long red cape with silver clasps, the armor was a silver color and had a cross on the chest with medieval embroidery all over the armor, the helmet looked like a fighter pilot one just with a more angular form, but without the oxygen mask and a set of metal ears for my fox ears, and while it was definitely cool, it wasn't me,
"Okay, I'm sure I can change the look, just need a…" I said as I searched through my inventory as despair dawned on me as I realized that my inventory was practically bottomless, 'I knew that I got some items, but this is impossible, there's gotta be more than a hundred million items maybe even over a billion, where's that auto-sort function,'
"There it is and sort," I said as my game froze for a moment before returning to normal, now my inventory menu had tabs for consumables, armors, weapons, materials, cosmetics, misc and etc. but they each still had millions of items in them,
"Even if I sort it, there's still a lot of crap to sort through, screw it, it's the last day there's no need for me to stress over this," I said as I looked around my room and spotted two of my three personal NPCs,
"Hey how are you sis, I'm still here, the games ending today, no need to worry about me, I'm fine, I didn't cry one bit," I said to the NPCs that I made to be a look-alike of my sisters, they weren't the same species as my sisters', instead they're Kitsunes High generals and my third is a Kitsune Grand Chancellor,
"I kinda I hope there's a heaven, maybe then when I die I get to see ya again," I said sadly and with that, I walked out of the room and opened my menu to look for Momo since he's always on, 'he's in the meeting room? With HeroHero!' with that I teleported to the meeting room,
"Hi!" I said as I appeared in the meeting room
"Hei custodian how are you today!" Momo said with Herohero giving a wave as well
"I'm great, Herohero it's been a while since we've seen you, or anyone for that matter, how are you!" I said as I took my seat at the table,
"Tired, to be honest, I feel like my entire body has gone numb, I was about to log out and get some sleep," Hero said
"Okay, please take care of yourself, okay?" I said in a fake happy tone, not that anyone could tell,
"Yeah, I will, sorry I couldn't stay on till the end,"
[ Guild member Herohero has logged out ]
"Damn it!" Momo yelled as he slammed his on the table, I could tell that he was frustrated that no else came,
"Momo, it's okay, even if they can't be here in person they're here in spirit," I said, 'they left a long time ago, you shouldn't have had hope that they would show,' I kept those thoughts to myself, my sisters told me a long time ago that even if you shouldn't have hope, people will still hold on to it, and that it was the kind thing to do was let them be happy for the moment, but to have a statement to lift their spirits right after.
"Yes, I suppose…" He said but he seemed to drift off and turn to our guild's masterpiece, the staff of Ains Ooal Gown,
"You can just take it, seriously who else would use it," I said as I looked at the staff, it's the definition of gaudy, made of some of the rarest materials in the game it just screamed egotistical megalomaniac.
"I was thinking maybe we should spend our last moments in the throne room," he said as he stood up and reached out to the staff as it floated into his hand,
"Sure, let's go!" I said as I got up and walked out the door,
10th Floor
when we finally reach the last steps to the throne room we stopped when we saw the Pleiades,
"The Pleiades?" I questioned, 'why haven't we ever moved them?' I wondered
"They were set to hold off any enemies that made it to the throne room," Momo said answering my unsaid question
"But nobody ever made it this far," I said, in all their time they've hardly if ever seen combat, "what were their names? It's been so long since I checked on them,"
"There's Sebas Tian, Yuri Alpha, Lupusregina Beta, Narberal Gamma, CZ2128 Delta, Solution Epsilon and Entoma Vasilissa Zeta," Momo said as he looked over their names and stats,
"I still think Shizu got a weird name, I mean what does CZ2128 mean?" I groaned Shizu's name was so bad just hearing it made me want to bang my head against a wall, it's just a bunch of rubbish,
"Yes, I get that you dislike it, but at least he gave her a nickname," He said making me pout, not that it showed on my avatar,
"That aside, we should bring them with us to the throne room," I said as I walked in front of Shizu 'she's really cute! I just wish she had a better name,'
"I suppose. What was the command again? Follow," he said as the NPCs followed behind him as we continued to head towards the throne room,
"By the way custodian, is that a new set of armor?" He asked,
"Yeah, it's GM armor, for today I'm a GM," I said as I walked beside him,
"Really! Lucky you, you always did want to be a GM just so you could learn everything about Yggdrasil," He said as we reached the throne room opened door,
"Yeah, I also have a crap ton of items now, like millions," I said as we reached the steps of the throne,
"Really, the command was uh..? Standby," at his command the NPCs walked to the side of the steps as we walked up to the throne,
"I had wished to learn everything before the world ends, but it seems I'll just have to make do with what I have, still a shame that I'll never get to first-hand use all these items I just received, it's like the world itself is mocking me," I said as I took my place beside the throne as Momonga took his place on the throne, and looked at the Guardian Overseer, Albedo.
"The Guardian Overseer... I never read her Bio?" he mumbled as he opened Albedo's settings and back story,
"Shit," I said as I looked at the mass of Kanji that was crammed into Albedo's Bio, 'good thing I learned how to read it,'
"Come on where's the Summary," Momonga said as he scrolled to the bottom, showing a small summary shocking us both,
"A slut?" we questioned in unison
"Well it is Tabula that made her, but still…" I said 'why'd Tabula have to be obsessed with making a character with these really long bios and still somehow have massive gaps in detail in them, and why'd he always make characters with a "Gap moe" mentality above all else,'
"Let's just delete that part," He said as he used his Staff to let him delete it, and started to type in a new line to replace it, 'She is deeply in love with Momo- HELL NO!'
"What are you doing, stop trying to fill that romance you're missing IRL, you should just replace it with cares greatly for everyone in Nazarick, that sounds good, right?" I said with malice in my voice 'even if they've left us, that doesn't mean we're entitled to do whatever we want,'
"Yes, you're right," he said as he removed the text saying that Albedo was deeply in love with him,
"Good," I said 'even if it's the last day, doesn't mean he can mess with the NPCs,'
"Well, it seems this is the end, my friend," he said as he waved away Albedo's Bio and looked at the banners that hung from the balcony of the throne room,
23:59:40
"Man, I start work at 4 am tomorrow, I'll have to crash as soon as the shutdown happens," he whined
"Well, I've got the whole month off till they need me so I might just spend it searching for a replacement till they release Yggdrasil 2," I said as I closed my eyes 'it's been a great time here, but I guess all good things must come to an end,'
23:59:57
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00:00:00
00:00:01...02...03...04 'what?' I thought as I opened my eyes, to see that I'm still in Nazarick, 'why am I still logged in, they couldn't have delayed the shutdown they would've told me, what's going on?' I thought as I looked around the room
"What's going on!" Momonga shouted as he stood up startling me, his voice had changed from a normal guy into this deep voice that makes him sound like an evil overlord,
"Lord Momonga is everything okay?" I heard a woman's voice say startling me and making me turn toward it, to see Albedo with a concerned look on her face,
"The GM call isn't working," Momonga said calmly 'how is he calm, why can't I bring up my menu, and why is she animate outside of a cutscene?' all these questions swirled in my head as I quietly watched,
"Forgive me, My lord, but I do not know of this GM call," Albedo said 'this isn't right,'
"Sebas check our surroundings, take…" I said before a feeling like my skull was being crushed making me lose focus as the world started to spin around me,
"My lord!" I heard voices shout as the world turned black,
"What the hell happen?" I groaned as I opened my eyes, but instead of seeing the bland ceiling of my room, there was only a clear blue sky that was slightly obscured by massive Pine trees,
"Well, it's not earth that's for damn sure," I said as I stood up and walked toward one of the pine trees, 'these shouldn't even exist outside of a enclosure which would've already picked me up, so either this is a forest that has somehow stayed hidden from the rest of the world, or I'm in a different world, the latter is much more likely all things considered,'
"Seems like it's winter, and telling by the trees I'd say-" I analyzed till I stopped and covered my mouth, 'is that my voice?'
"One, two, testing, god that's weird," I said, my voice before wasn't anything super deep, but this voice was cute and sounded innocent,
"Fuck, haha, cock sucking bitch, hahaha," I laughed, hearing a cute innocent voice swear was always funny,
"But what to do, what to do," I said as I scoured my surroundings until I saw it, something just at the edge my vision, I reached out my hand and grabbed it,
"Ow!" I yelped I softened my grip and moved the thing in front of me,
"A fox tail?" I wondered as I traced the tail to its owner, only for it to lead to my butt and eight other tails, 'Why do I have tails, wait no, no, this is isn't possible, I've got foxtails so does that mean…' I thought as I hesitantly felt around my hair and felt a pair of fluffy animal ears,
"I-I have ears, I'm a kitsune," I mumbled as I walked through the forest, snow was falling gently meaning it's winter and the clouds were a white color so there's no big storm coming,
"Well, my new Condition aside I need somewhere to live maybe I can chop down some trees and make a basic cabin, but I don't have an axe, or do I?" I thought out loud, as I searched my person for anything I could use as an axe all I had was were empty pockets and pistol holsters,
"Great, I've also got no way to defend myself," I groaned until I felt a strange weight it wasn't real, just a feeling like something just at the back of my brain telling me there's more than just what's on my person,
"What's with this goddamn feeling, it's not like I can't just pull stuff outta nowhere," I said as I held my head as feeling became a pounding feeling until I thrust my arm front of me to try to balance on something, only for a grey portal to open around it and the feeling to fade,
"What the fuck," I said as I hesitantly moved my arm around till I felt I touch what felt like a wooden handle, 'screw it,' I thought as I firmly grasped the handle and started retracting my arm,
"An axe?" I said,
"Guess I should get started," I said as I got into a stance and raised my axe,
"One, two, Three!" I yelled and swung the axe only for it to cut straight through the tree, 'what the hell!' I was so stunned that I almost didn't notice the falling tree, but it was too late so I lifted my arms as if it would stop it,
"No!" I yelled in protest, but nothing happened, 'what's going on?' I wondered as I opened my eyes to see that my hands were somehow holding back the tree,
"What, how?" I wondered, the tree was pretty big, but I could barely feel the weight, 'it feels like a feather,' I thought as I started to move the tree on to my shoulder, the weight still felt like nothing,
'how's this possible, wait I'm a kitsune, I was a kitsune in Yggdrasil, don't tell me that I am Custodian, and since I became a "God" with overpowered stats,' I thought as I placed the tree on the ground, and realized something 'I'm not cold, this place is below zero, the trees have ice on them,'
"Well, I guess if I have the OP stats from Yggdrasil, then maybe I have all my items," I said as I thought back to the portal that I got my axe from, 'do I just need to focus on it to open it?' I wondered as I focused on the feeling from before, and slowly a grey portal the size of a dinner plate formed,
"That was easy, now let's see about a gun," I said as I moved my hand into the portal, almost immediately my hand touch a gun grip, and I pulled my hand back,
"What is this?" I wondered as I looked over the gun in my hand, it's the same size and general shape as a pistol, but it had a smooth design, the muzzle split into three, the sights on it are really strange, when I aimed at a distant tree the gun transformed the barrel lengthened to of a standard sniper, the sight reformed into a scope and gave me a crystal clear view of the tree, and a buttstock formed letting me shoulder it,
"Cool, now let's see, [Message]" I said, hearing a long beep before it flatlined, and nothing answered,
"I-I guess, I'm all alone here," I said as I started to set up my new home,
"There, done," I said as I sat down on the floor, it took me a day to make this log cabin, halfway through I remembered that I had a telekinesis skill, which helped as I could use it to cut the wood to the right size, so I made a near perfect replica of the log cabin my family owned. Strangely I haven't felt the need to sleep, but hunger was still a thing,
The gun kinda worked as expected, instead of a bullet it shots a fireball, but when it hit the deer I was hunting, the deer just dropped dead, like a puppet whose strings were cut, I also found a pitcher of infinite in my inventory when I got thirsty,
"This is real, what the fuck, is this bullshit, for fean, hva slags hundskit er det her," I said sitting with my back against the wall, pressing my legs against my chest, my many tails acting as a cushion,
"Why the fuck is this even happening, it doesn't make sense, I was playing Yggdrasil there's no way I could've died and this is my afterlife, but they couldn't just toss players into a brand new game without their consent," I ranted, 'whatever, I still need a plan, I can use the gun to hunt for food, and I know that there's a pitcher of infinite water in my inventory,'
"Wait, if I have my shit from Yggdrasil, then," I mumbled reaching into the grey portal, and then pulled out two sealing crystals, except these were unique, 'please, let this work,' I prayed as I tried to activate the crystals, and a blinding light enveloped the room,
"What happened, did it work?" I groaned as my eyes recovered from the light,
"Yeah, it worked. Now, bro mind telling me where we are?" I heard a voice I haven't heard in years, and in front of me stood my sisters they looked like their Yggdrasil avatars
"Sis!" I yelled as tackled them to the floor, "I missed you so much, please, don't ever leave me again," I said, I could feel tears streaming down my face, but I didn't care,
"Don't worry, we won't leave you," my oldest sister, Victoria said, she had purple hair, and slightly tan skin, and a pair of beautiful golden wings, she was a spell-sword angel, she was always the one who'd keep us outta trouble,
"You promise?" I whimpered,
"I promise, don't worry, but where are we? This doesn't seem to be Yggdrasil," said Kristine she's the middle child, she had brown hair with bangs that reached down to her shoulders, she's a Dragonlord, she's currently in her human form, she's the one who always got us into trouble,
"I don't know, It's not earth or Yggdrasil," I explained standing up and drying my tears,
"Really, by the way, what's up with your look?" Victoria said with a quizzical look,
"Don't know, just how I look like now, didn't get to chose," I said pouting, it's not like I hated my condition, I just like being sassy,
"Well, I think you're adorable, just as you always should be, our cute little bro," Kristine said patting my head, making me blush,
"Yeah, and you look really cute when you pout now, so it's perfect!" Victoria said joining in, making me blush even more,
"Shut up, y-you assholes!" I yelled,
"Aw, sorry, you're just so cute when you're all fired up," Victoria apologized, but I could tell she was lying and was 100% gonna do it again, despite that a smile began to form on my lips 'oh, how I've missed this,' I thought as I hugged my sisters again, feeling the last tears that I had to shed run down my cheeks,
300 years later
"I understand your concern, but we cannot go to war just because a Teranian patrol is close to our border, and need I remind you that even if they do try something, we'll easily be able to lay siege their pathetic kingdom," I said in a flat tone, the mayor's concern was reasonable, but we don't want to be the aggressors in this war,
"Remember the plan, if they attack, and we take over, their people will curse the nobles and their king, but if we attack, then they'll hate us," I explained,
"I know, but I just didn't realize that it meant that we'd let them trespass into our border," the man said, he wasn't meant for war, but his skill at city management far outweigh his flaws, and as a person, he was quite admirable,
"We're not letting them reach the city or any of our villages we're going to let them step into our territory and then we'll destroy their entire-..." I trailed off as I heard a deep voice say (Hello?)
"Sir? Prime minister Hovine?"
"Sorry, I got distracted for a moment, but do you understand?" I said, to which the man nodded and ended the transmission, (Hello, you still there?)
(yes, who are you?)
(depends, I think the one that calls is the one who needs to introduce themselves,) I responded
(very well, I am Momonga guild master of Ainz Ooal Gown, who are you?) the voice replied, making me freeze, 'impossible, this can't be,'
(M-momo…) I whispered,
I think I'll end it here, I wanted to finish this off, and I'll be on summer break after the 21st, so I'll have plenty of time to write then. For now, though I'm busy living in fear of coming up in an oral exam since my school system thinks that it's fine to have exams a week before the summer break.
See ya later.