Chapter 1: Recap

A/N: For people wondering, this is going to just be a recap of the first episode. I know some of you may not like it, but there may be some people who have never seen Overlord before. If you haven't seen it before, I highly urge you to watch it as it is an anime worth watching and re-watching. I usually don't say that about many shows, but don't just take my word for it. (Seriously watch it). If you have already seen it though, you may want to just skip this chapter as the new original content will be coming out very shortly so you shouldn't have to wait much longer. Disclaimer: I do not own Overlord and all rights go to studio Madhouse and Kugane Maruyama. Please Support the official release. Any who, let's get to reading.

"Dive Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing game or for short, DMMO-RPG. It's a type of game where you can immerse yourself in an imaginary world as if you were in it, such as Yggdrasil. Released in the year 2126, the game sported an expansive world map and an unusually high degree of player freedom. These features above all others made it stand out above all other DDMMO-RPG's of its time, and it became wildly popular in the country of Japan. Now after twelve years of operation, the world of Yggdrasil is about to see its end."

Out of the shadows, multiple warriors appear in front of a large, decrepit mausoleum; their swords and other various weapons ready for battle. In front of the ruins rise a massive hoard of skeletons rose up from nothing and startled the warriors. The warriors then immediately engage without hesitation, and after a brief battle it appears to be over; however, a group of dark figures looms in the distance. They are only shown for a split second, but in that time frame the warriors are immediately defeated by the mysterious, and after it's said and done, the invaders lay on the ground in a heap. Then as the presumed leader of the group in red and white knight's armor looks up, the figure in the center of the group looks down upon him and his team with a cold glare and chuckles menacingly.

"It was fun, in fact, it was a blast…" Two entities appear to be conversing with each other at a large table. Through the eye of the viewer, it appears the one whom we are viewing the world from is named *Momonga* and he is in the *Great Tomb of Nazarick on the 9th floor round table*

"Hey there! It's been a while hasn't it Momonga," said the oozing, purple slim creature talking to Momonga.

"Yeah, it has! To be honest, I didn't expect you to be on since the servers are shutting down. You've been gone a couple of years," said Momonga.

The purple ball of slime looked at its tendril, indicating some sort of analog to an arm and said, "Man! Has it really been that long!? My concept of time must be way off. I guess that's what happens when you work constantly!"

"That sucks, that can't be healthy for you?"

"Tell me about it, I feel like my avatar looks. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have come here just to complain."

"Please, don't worry about it!"

"Well I better go soon I'm beyond exhausted."

"Right, well take care!"

"Honestly, I'm kind of surprised the Great Tomb of Nazarick is still standing? Being a guild leader suited you, you've done a great job maintaining the place!"

"Well, we created this place together. I couldn't just let it go to dust."

"Well, thanks for the hard work. I hope we meet again IRL."

*Herohero-san has logged out*

The face of the man talking is revealed to be the skeleton with robes from the battle earlier, and he starts to have a conversation with himself. "This is the last day the servers are going to be on, it will only be for a couple more hours, why don't we stay on a see the end of it toget—,." Momonga leans over an gives an audible sigh. "Oh well, I'm happy that he even came at all. I hope we meet again, huh? Right? Just when are were would that exactly be?"

Momonga stood silent for a moment, thinking about the loneliness filling the room as he stood there in the quiet. His inability to tolerate it festered in those brief seconds only to boil over and rise over in an instant. "This sucks," said Momonga as he slammed his skeletal hand on the table. "We built it together with virtual blood and sweat, how can he turn his back on it so easily?! Stop it, he didn't. No one in the Guild betrayed you." Momonga got up from his seat and walked over to the floating staff in a case on the wall. "The guild's weapon, the staff of Ainz Ooal Gown. It took countless hours for all of us to make it, some of us even had to spend some of our PTO just to grind the materials needed to make it. But among the original 41 members, 37 of them quit and then the remaining 3—"As Momonga picked up the staff dark ghostly figures emanated from the top and three faces could be distinguished from the dark mass, indicating that those other three members had perished.

"Let's go you're a testament to our Guild." Momonga began to walk out of the room, and as he did, he thought, "There are 2 requirements for joining Ainz Ooal Gown. The first requirement was that you had to be an inhuman character and the second requirement was that you had to be a functioning member of society. We put our livelihoods on the line to play. Some of them managed to make their dreams come true, so really, I couldn't blame them for choosing real life."

"Huh?" As Momonga kept walking, he happened to stumble upon a group of what looks like to be a group of female maids and a head butler with gray hair in the lead standing completely still in a hallway. After the initial encounter Momonga brought up a virtual in-game console and began interacting with what looks like to be there settings. After a brief second of looking, Momonga found out the information of the head butler. "Oh yeah, I forgot his name was *Sebas*?" These also must be the combat maids of the Pleiades. We intended for them to be the last line of defense for the throne room. But in the end, no player was able to make it that far. I should move them around, one last time, that's the least I could do. Follow me!"

The NPC's began to follow Momonga as he intended to go off to his desired destination. "I'm sure the other guild members will forgive me for doing what I want, just for today." As he finally made it to where he wanted to go, he stood in front of a giant set of doors with images of a demon and an angel on them. When he opened the door, the view switched to that of a grand throne room with flags that had different symbols on them adorning columns holding up the place. As he walked down further towards the throne, a woman with black hair, yellow eyes, a revealing white dress, and dark angel wings stood right next to it, indicating that she was some sort of attendant. "*Albedo*?"

As Momonga was about halfway up the stairs, he turned around and said, "The command was standby, right?" As he said this, the NPC's walked over the right of him and kneeled before him. He then looked over at Albedo and brought up another console. "What were her settings again? As the highest-ranking NPC in the tomb of Nazarick, she supervises all of the guardians." Momonga opened a tab and then scrolled down a long line of coding. "Jeez, this is long! Well, Tabula the settings main ad was the one who created her." When he got down to the bottom line of text on the settings, her last line of text said, "On the outside, she is a perfect beauty. By the way, on the inside, she's a bitch." Momonga was taken aback by this and looked up at her in shock.

"Wait, no way, she's a bitch!? Uhhhhhh, he did like to make contradicting characters. I can't fault a guy for his tastes, but still. Normally you need a tool to change settings but since I have this…" Momonga raised the staff up to the console, and it changed from black to red and the words *administrator* appeared on the bottom. He then backspaced some code and began typing new settings for her. "Maybe I should add something? She's deeply in love with Momonga. Ha! How embarrassing, I'm such a dork!"

"Huh?" He looks over at Albedo, seemingly a tad bit befuddled and swipes away his in-game console. "What was that in-game command again…Bow down!" As he said this the NPC's immediately kneeled before him.

"Now these are relics of the past." Momonga sat back in his chair and pointed at the flags adorning his wall. "There's mine, Touch Me, Shijuuten Suzaku, Ankoro Mocchi mochi, Herohero, Peroroncino, Bukubukuchagama, Tabula Smaragdina, Warrior Takemikazuchi, Variable Talisman, Genjiro." After listing off all of the names of the flags, Momonga sat back in his seat and heaved a big sigh. "Well it was fun, in fact, it was a blast."

As Momonga groggily reopened his eyes, he noticed the countdown commencing and decided to go back to sleep. "Uh? I better go to sleep after the server shuts down, I don't want to be a zombie for work." As he sat there trying to fall asleep, the in-game clock counted down until it hit midnight. However, when it did, the countdown continued, and Momonga unexpectedly opened his eyes to see that he was still in the game. "Did the devs push down the server shutdown!? Where's my console!? I can't use chat or call a gm?! What's going on?!"

"Is something the matter lord Momonga?" Momonga looked over to his side to see Albedo looking at him with a worried look on her face. "Lord Momonga," said Albedo with a confused look on her face. "Lord Momonga is everything alright!? You seem troubled my Lord?! If there's a problem, please let me help!?" As Albedo walked up closer to Momonga, her cleavage came closer into view and then immediately afterward a bright green light covered his body, almost as if it prevented him from feeling aroused.

"The GM call function isn't working!"

"Uh…I'm sorry, but I have no answer. This GM call magic you speak of is beyond my comprehension!"

"Her mouth is moving," thought Momonga as he kept watching Albedo talk.

"I know my inability to assist you is inexcusable! I don't deserve it, but I beg for you mercy lord!"

"I'm actually talking to an NPC! No way, this is a bug, a programming error! Ok, so the staff still functions like it normally does, but I can't use my console or contact the administrators. What should I do?"

"Sebas," said Momonga in a different tone of voice from his usual one.

"Lord."

"Is it ok for me to give him orders…ah, screw it! Sebas step out of the Great Tomb and confirm the surroundings of Nazarick."

"By your command my lord, I'll return."

"Pleiades, I want you on the ninth floor. If anyone tries to trespass, deal with them."

"As you wish my lord, it will be done," said the maid in front with glasses leading the other maids. The butler and the maids then walked off, and Momonga was left to his own devices with Albedo.

"They even respond and recognize commands that aren't native to the game?! What in the world is going on!?" Momonga took a moment from his thoughts only to look at Albedo who gave him a pleased look. He was a bit taken aback by this and then resumed his thinking. "Think, how can I contact an administrator. The GM call function is busted? The message spell? Maybe, though it's usually reserved for players to contact each other, so there's a chance? But I'm not even sure I can use magic?"

"So, Lord Momonga, do you have any orders for me to obey?

"Let's see, I guess you could come here for a moment."

"Sure," giggled Albedo as she came up to Momonga.

"Woah! She smells great! Wait smell, there was never a function like that in Yggdrasil!?"

"Albedo, may I touch you?"

"Yes!" As Momonga grasped her wrist Albedo seemed to moan in pleasure.

"No way, she has a pulse?! This is crazy, she's supposed to be an NPC run by an AI program!? Why does she seem so alive? Ok, Focus! Last test! I have to confirm this no matter the cost!"

"Albedo, may I touch your chest?"

"Huh?"

"Ah, this is necessary, play it cool, act natural like its no big deal."

"You don't mind that right?"

"You blew it noob!"

"Of course not! Touch me as much as you wish!" Albedo stood up in front of Momonga, and her breasts jiggled. This caused him to look in awe. He slowly reached out his hand and finally managed to grasp her chest. As he touched, her moans could be heard in the background.

"Let's think this through, the fact that I can do something reserved for a hentai game means that this isn't a new version of Yggdrasil and chances are slim that this is some new DMMORPG? Is it possible that this virtual world somehow became real suddenly? No way that's nuts! But really talking to the NPC's, smelling their scent, touching them, all of these things have been impossible to program into games! Hey, how long did I plan on fondling her!?"

Momonga tried to recollect himself and looked at Albedo worriedly. "A-Albedo I'm sorry, I didn't mean to—"

"Oh, this is it isn't it?! You're going to take me right here?! What should I do about my clothes?! Should I remove them on my own or do you want to remove them yourself!"

"Woah! Hold on a minute Albedo, this isn't right! Now is not the time to be doing such things."

"Ah! I'm so sorry lord Momonga!"

"It's fine Albedo, I forgive you completely. More importantly, I have an order for you."

"It would be my pleasure to serve you."

"Except for the guardians of the fourth and eight floors, I want everyone else to meet at the 6ths floors fighting arena. Have them gather there in one hour."

"As you wish my lord."

"This is terrible! Tabula, I can't believe I took the NPC you made and tainted it like that!" After Momonga pondered over what had just happened, he reached out with his hands and brought his staff towards him and grasped it. "Dammit, I'll worry about that later. I have plenty of other problems to take care of first." Momonga then instantly vanished and reappeared in a dark corridor leading to what looked like an open clearing. "It worked, the rings teleportation ability has no issues. I can still use items. It looks like Albedo and the others are still loyal, just like they were programmed to be. So then, what about the other characters?"

Momonga finally made it to the clearing when he was talking, and it was revealed that it was the *Sixth Floor Amphitheater* during nighttime. "The twin dark elves that Chagama created should be the guardians of this floor. Where are they?"

"Hup!" Out of nowhere came crashing down a boy dressed in a white vest with a red shirt, brown gloves, brown shoes, a necklace around his face, and most notably, heterochromatic eyes. When he landed, he giggled and gave a peace sign with both hands. "Crushed it!" After he landed, he ran up to Momonga and stood right in front of him.

"Aura…"

"We're honored to have you lord Momonga! Welcome to the sixth-floor Amphitheater!"

"I will only intrude for a little while."

"You must be joking right, you're the ruler of the Great Tomb of Nazarick! Your power here is absolute! There isn't a guardian that would call you an intruder, least of all my brother and I!"

"Mhmm, speaking of…," said Momonga as he was looking for the other guardian.

"Uh…Mare! You're being rude to Lord Momonga! Stop cowering and get down here already!"

"But sis I'm scared! Come on!"

"Mare!"

"Ok! Ok! I'm coming!"

"Good grief!"

Mare jumped off a balcony in the distance and managed to shuffle over to Lord Momonga while making sure his skirt didn't lift up.

"Were getting old here!"

"I'm hurrying!"

"I apologize for making you wait Lord Momonga!"

"Its fine, now I would like the two of you to help me with something."

"Amazing, is that the legendary item that will only bend to your whim Lord Momonga? The fabled weapon of the tomb?!"

"Indeed. It was created through the efforts of the guild's past members. A testament to our dedication. The staff of Ainz Ooal Gown. Each stone in the mouth of the seven crowning snakes is a god level artifact, and in fact, the power in the staff itself transcends god level. It is truly legendary. Its base stats are on par with any world level item. In fact, the DPS of its auto attack alone could one shot a—" Momonga managed to recollect himself from his lengthy talk and recomposed himself. "Well anyways, that's how it is."

"Incredible!"

"Awesome! It's so cool!"

"I would like the two of you to run some tests with it."

"Right, we won't let you down lord!"

"Also, Aura. I've called for the other guardians to meet here. They should arrive within the hour."

"Uh? Does that mean Shalltear coming," said Aura in a disappointed tone.

"Yes"

Two lizard-like creatures carried two huge stakes that had scarecrows attached to them, and they hammered them into the ground. "In Yggdrasil, if you wanted to conjure magic, you just had to click the appropriate icon on your console, but now that icon doesn't exist... However, if I focus hard enough, I don't need it. I feel the attack range of my spells, their individual cooldown rates, even how much MP I have! I can do this!"

"Summon Primal Fire Elemental!" As Momonga waved his staff, a bright light emanated from it, and the scarecrows were set ablaze by a raging inferno. The two lizard creatures shielded the two guardians, possibly out of instinct or because the attack was that powerful.

"Oh wow," said Aura

"Ah," said Mare

Momonga himself had to shield himself from the flames with a purple barrier of magic because of the fire's intensity. When the light died down a bit, out of the fire came a giant dragon-looking creature with fire coming out of its every being especially its torso where it acted as its source of locomotion.

"This is the Primal Fire Elemental. Its level is in the upper 80's."

"Woah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

"So, would you like to fight it?"

"Ah! Yeah, I'd love to!"

"I just remembered I still have a few errands I need to tend to. Bye."

"C'mon!"

"Aahhhh!"

Aura and Mare went out and stood before the great beast and readied themselves for combat. Aura had a chain-like whip at her disposal while Mare had a staff in hand. "Primal Fire Elemental, attack the Dark Elf twins!" Just as Momonga said this, the beast spewed out a plume of fire that spread towards Aura. Aura quickly avoided the attack and jumped up into the air with her chain whip and readied herself to attack the elemental. When she swung the chain-whip at the elemental, it appeared to it home, splitting the creature in twain. However, after the attack, the elemental immediately regenerated and threw its fist towards Aura.

"Magic Shield," said Mare as his staff lit up and a green shield of energy enveloped Aura, protecting her from the punch. When the fist connected, the shield protected Aura immediately dissipated. This, however, was no problem for her as she quickly came barreling towards the monster again and kept up the barrage of attacks while Mare protected her with her shield. As they kept attacking, Momonga sat in the background and watched the battle.

"I had a feeling this would be easy for them. Now I know my other magic skills work as well. But…message." Momonga put his hand up to his head and immediately afterward a beeping sound could be heard only for it to sound like a call was dropped at the end, indicating that his message spell didn't go through. "No go, I can't connect to a GM or my guild members."

As Aura and Mare continued to fight in the background, Momonga was mulling over the information he had to work with but didn't have enough time to think as a familiar voice interrupted his brief interlude of thought. "I'm here is there something you need lord Momonga," said Sebas over the message intercom.

"Whoa! My message spell connected," thought Momonga.

"Sebas, how do things look on the outside?"

"Well Lord, there's a slight problem."

"Mhmm, well, I have called all of the guardians to gather. Come to the amphitheater on the sixth floor immediately. You can report what you saw once you're here."

"Understood."

As Momonga was finished with his conversation, Aura and Mare destroyed the beast as it went up in a plume of smoke. Immediately afterward, they both came running tooth wards Momonga.

"Well done, that was impressive."

"That was fun! I haven't exercised that much in a while!"

"Hmph, well you two must be thirsty." Momonga reached out into the air, and a black hole opened out seemingly into nothingness. When he drew out his hand, he had a pitcher in it and then gave both Aura and Mare a glass that he filled with water from the pitcher. Both guardians looked at each other with a befuddled look on their face, unexpecting such generosity from their master. However, they accepted without hesitation and downed the water. Then as Momonga put the pitcher back into the hole, Aura spoke up.

"I have to admit Lord Momonga, I'd thought you'd be scarier?"

"Oh, is that so? I could do that if you'd like me to."

"I like you this way, it's the best."

"Hmph," said Momonga as he strolled to the side. He was about to walk the other way put a portal appeared out of nowhere.

"My. My. It appears that I am the first to arrive," said the mysterious vampiric looking girl walking out of the portal.

"I haven't the foggiest idea of what is going on here. In that case, I should probably keep playing my role here and act like a proper superior in front of them. While I'm at it I'll learn everything, I can about this world. I was max level in Yggdrasil, I wonder how strong I'll be here and if this is another world, should I even try to return to my old one. It's not like I had anything special back there. I had no friends or family, all I ever did was work, eat and sleep. In all honesty, my life wasn't worth much.

As Momonga was lost in his thoughts, all of the guardians had gathered and presented themselves before him and kneeled.

"My lord, we the guardians, pledge our fidelity," said Albedo in the front of the group.

"I am the guardian of the first, second, and third floor, Shalltear Bloodfallen. I serve and obey," said the vampiric girl who came out from the portal earlier.

"The guardian of the fifth floor, Cocytus. I serve and obey," said a large insectoid looking creature with a blue carapace and a lance in hand.

"I am the guardian of the sixth floor Aura Bella Fiora."

"I am her brother and also the guardian of the sixth floor Mara Bella Fiore."

"We serve and obey," said both simultaneously.

"The guardian of the seventh floor, Demiurge. I serve and obey," said the elf looking man with glasses and an orange, pin-striped business suit.

"The leader of the guardians, Albedo. I serve and obey. Other than Victim, guardian of the eighth floor, and Gargantua who faithfully guards the fourth, all the guardians have gathered as requested and pledged their undying loyalty. Supreme one, we await your orders. You need but to ask of it of us and it shall be done!" As Albedo said this, Momonga's eyes light up a bright red and thus sets forth the tale of Overlord.

Hello friends, I have returned to writing. Some of you (most of you) have probably been very impatient with my huge hiatus from writing. Well I am here to formally apologize for that. Because of some certain personal issues and the fact that I wanted it to be authentic, I had to complete Terraria by slaying the Moon Lord and getting all of the items that I would use for the story. I wanted this one to be a bit of a personal one, so I wanted to use inspiration from me trying to defeat the game solo on Expert mode, with Mediumcore on my character. Let me tell you it was an endeavor. It took a huge amount of time just to get where I am now, I honestly never thought I would get there, but I have arrived, and the story will commence. I honestly had some dispute whether I should have done this crossover with Black Clover, but I thought Overlord was much more of an apt choice because its also a video game. Lastly, I will make sure that all of the time I spent away from the keyboard will now be spent pushing out the material I should have by this point so get prepared because it will be premium. I hope you all have a good morning, evening, or night wherever you are and remember! Plus! Ultra!