Hello fellow readers. I'm Don Orbit and welcome to this first Log Horizon/Overlord crossover. It has been a while since I published my challenge/suggestion of such a story and actually my brain is overflowing with thoughts about Death March, it's ridiculous OP main character and the concept for the crossing of it with Overlord as well, I've decided to publish this first since it was there first and I really want this to work out.

A few people did contact me about my challenge, but as you can see in the crossover category there no one has published anything so far for most likely more personal reasons than actually dropping the idea, so I'll once again try and throw the first stone here. Who knows? Maybe someone else will get inspired by this and publish their own stories.

Also today is the 3rd May 2018, which is also the same date as the day the events of Log Horizon are beginning, so it's kind of symbolic.

I know a lot of people would rather have a Log Horizon/Sword Art Online crossover or with another game or fantasy anime (personally I'd also made it with Yu-Gi-Oh!), but I couldn't write that due the canon that Sword Art Online plays 4 years after Log Horizon. I did see a Log Horizon/Digimon crossover, but that never got over the 1st chapter what is quite a pity. But enough focusing on Log Horizon crossovers. Instead let's focus on this Log Horizon crossover :D

Now however my semester holidays are over, meaning that there won't be coming updates for my stories that fast. Yeah I know, first I say I got to learn for exams and when I come back my holidays are over, but yeah I literally spent my 'holidays' with learning for exams. I curse you cruel reality! Still that won't change anything.

I haven't watched the second season of Overlord yet, because of that, so I apologize if there are some mistakes in the lore of YGGDRASIL (Overlord) or Elder Tale (Log Horizon), because I haven't watched that in some time either. I did research about it's lore and other things, do I can only hope it will be enough. For now there will be this introduction into the story to get some of your interest.

Disclaimer: I don't own Overlord or Log Horizon. Overlord belongs to Kugane Maruyama and Log Horizon belongs to Mamare Tono. All rights belong to their respective owners.

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-Prologue: All that remains is silence-

It was the year 2138 when the DMMORPG YGGDRASIL was about to be shut down. Since it's launch back in 2126, 12 years had passed, making it to an game that actually reached a relatively high age. Surely there had been games that had been holding out longer, but in the end nothing was made to last forever. What had made this game was so popular were elements of it's gameplay that had made people still play it.

The game's environment consisted of 9 different worlds which were simply called the 9 realms of Yggdrasil. As the namesake already suggests the game was mostly based on norse mythology, however it still had various elements from other mythologies and legends from all around the world as well. The players could choose from 200 different races to play as within YGGDRASIL, build their character however they liked due the large amount of job classes and set out to explore the game's worlds.

Something that was essencially for this game was the almost unlimited customization ability of the game. From weapon and armor design to even programming NPCs and dungeons everything was possible, making the only limitation of this feature the imagination of the players.

Still even with those features, this game couldn't withstand the teeth of time forever. Expensive server maintaining, decreasing income and other issues lead ultimately to the downfall of the game. Though the game had no competing game that reached it's software it was doomed to be shut down forever. Once there had been a game that had withstood more than twice as long, what was quite an impressive feat for such games.

That game had been called Elder Tale. From it's first open beta tests in 1998 to it's shutdown in the 2020s, it had more than 20 million players. What had started as a game from the United States had grown over the years to a global MMORPG with an entire world half the size of Earth itself. With that it was a true giant in game history. However what no one knew was that an event occured during the 12th and last great expansion of the game called 'Homesteading the Noosphere'. But soon new light will be shed on this case to reveal the truth of what had really happened on the 3rd of May 2018.

Within all nine realms of YGGDRASIL were multiple dungeons all over the massive maps. Vanaheimr was no exception. It's large environments like dense forests, jungles and vaste deserts were not only housing monsters, but also good hiding spots for the entrances for dungeons. Even for veteran YGGDRASIL players some dungeons posed a challenge and required training and good teamwork to complete some raids that would push those people to the limits of their power.

However for clans and guilds that was a prize worth it due a feature of the game that didn't just included rare items, experience or just the thrill of a challenge. When a dungeon was conquered by a guild, it could be obtained by the players as a guild base. From that moment on the guild could customize the dungeon and it's floors however the members liked it. To prevent unfair advantages and dominance of a single guild for one world a guild could only obtain one dungeon. If a guild already possessed a dungeon and conquered a new one, they would have to give up the previous dungeon as a whole, which included all changes they did were erased with all the effords put into it. There was the way to bypass this limitation by splitting up the guild into several smaller ones or to ally with other guilds, however such alliances had normally no long lifespans and programming the dungeon to not attack a large number of specific people was a tiring work for every player, which is why each dungeon was the territory of only one guild. Also did multiple dungeons require more rescources than most guilds could afford as the defense of a dungeon alone was already not an easy feat.

And then existed 9 dungeons that were seen as the hardest ones in each world, next to those that were even so hard that they allowed two guilds to attack it for conquer. One of these dungeons was located within a desert in Vanaheim as it took form of a flying mountain, that was big enough to cast a massive shadow on the area beneath it, and a cave on it serving as the entrance. It looked quite spectacular with it floating in the air like a giant looking down upon the world while debris and boulders floated around and beneath it, but the same could be said about several other low level dungeons, that were rarely used as bases due their low number of floors and low amount of levels that players could spent in the creation of custom NPCs. However this was only due something else. In reality this dungeon was anything, but easy when faced in it's original state. It had 6 floors and posed a challenge to even veteran players as it's floors were rather big and the dungeon housed many powerful monsters. It maybe wasn't the place to fight one of the 32 overpowered raid bosses of YGGDRASIL, but to conquer this fortress took more than just an experienced party. The name of this dungeon was Mount Buzhou, the mountain that served as a supporting pillar to the heavens in the ancient chinese mythology. The dungeon had also more than one boss monster. With other words, it was anything, but easy to defeat this monster of a dungeon, however a certain guild had managed that just 3 years ago in 2135. Since then an additional floor had been added, raising the number from 7 to 8.

It was a guild mainly made of individuals of human races and demi-humans, however the guild members were more specialised on crafting items than a fighting so they basically 'hired' other players to do the fighting for them. The guild Brilliant Edge as it was later called had been founded a few years after YGGDRASIL's release. They started small, but soon they became almost a monopole of crafting and selling items in the area they had been first. The quality of their products was quite good at first, but soon they had to venture out more and more for rescources. That's how even heteromorph players had also taken their place among these players. Soon the power of their guards and fighters was big enough to conquer dungeons and fight raid bosses.

However their activities had brought not only friends and customers with them, but also jealous players and PKers that didn't wish to pay for something. And as it was always with the violent nature of mankind, These minor conflicts escalated quickly. Thankfully Brilliant Edge was able to fend off such people and even move to another dungeon, however soon the players grew tired of the nomadic lifestyle and the seemingly endless cat-and-mouse game and decided to conquer a high level dungeon that required a full legion raid.

That was the biggest challenge that the members of Brilliant Edge had to face. The guild had moved to a dungeon not far from Mount Buzhou and then bought as much information and support that they could. An entire year the players did prepare for this fight, however the chances for them to win were not very high to begin with. Though they had many talented craftsmen, they possessed only few Divine Class Items and the fighters constantly had to deal with PKers and other guilds. It was a frustrating as it was mentally exhausting. Also whenever the guild had to move, they had to take all their items with them and make sure to not forget something or it was lost forever as the dungeon would return to it's original state. That made them basically to outlaws for any target practice by any player nearby until the raid was complete.

The guild raid had required five seperated items to get to the actual dungeon, each hidden in another high level dungeon. That was one of the reasons why it took an entire year to prepare for the raid next to craft stronger gear and purchase more intel. The risk was high, but in the end the guild left their dungeon with their belongings to settle over and 36 of their guild members went to the dungeon and began the dungeon raid. After hours came finally the message from the sole survivor of the raid party as the others had respawned in their dungeon and went to the others to wait for the last one.

{Buzhou is ours.}

They had won the bet. It was easy to migrate over to the flying mountain and it took only a few days for the guild to settle down and enjoy the fruits of their hard work. With this fortress at hand the guild became even more efficient. The members collected rescources without having to fear to leave their collegues defenseless and soon the guild began to make Divine Class Items. The guild become more and more popular as they rose in the ranks of the guilds and the popularity of their customers. Their reputation actually grew to the point where even high-ranked guilds asked for their services. And Briliant Edge was always glad to help. As long as the prize was fitting that was of curse. It seemed like that Brilliant Edge was finally freed from the troubles of having to worry about their safety.

And then all they had built in years together came crashing down in an instant.

One and a half year after the conquer of Buzhou the original guildmaster and founder of Briliant Edge died in the means of an heart attack during work. The entire guild was shocked to this point as all of them, or at least most of them, had grown to like that person. However there was nothing that could have been changed about it. Quickly another member took the mantle of leadership and the guild tried move on, though it wasn't as easy as it sounded like. Their workers had become rather unenthusiastic and the atmosphere was gloomy for several weeks. A few members left the guild or the game entirely after this.

And to add insult to injury, the game's shutdown in a month's time had been announced about a year after the original guildmaster's death. The members of the guild had only logged in rarely as the end of the game had brought back the horrors of reality that they all had tried to run away from. It was as if the members of Brilliant Edge had woken up from a long, fantastic and beautiful dream. And now that they were awake again they couldn't have the same dream ever again. Things became worse for the guild members as for some of them personal issues didn't allow them to log in, while others had to face worse working conditions. Earth was by far not a homely place anymore. Companies controlled the nations and their leaders and their families had basically enslaved every person many years ago.

Education was only available on a minimal level and children began to work quite early to make a living. Taxes were brutal and the conditions of living were for most people quite horrible. Gangs and criminals controlled the street and the forces of the police were mostly helpless against the enemy as they were hopelessly outnumbered as their morales rested on a crumbling foundation. Water and food were quite expensive as food production had become quite complicated with the overpollution of the entire planet. Many people lived in too small apartments most without an own bath or shower. But those in power had no problems with that. They lived the good lives without any troubles and they turned their heads at the sight of the common folk. It was as if they were disgusted by their very presence underneath their boots, though it was them who were responsible for their fortune. But they had long forgotten about this. They saw the ordinary people as lowly creatures.

And so the end of YGGDRASIL drew closer with each second that passed.

The 7th floor of Buzhou was basically the heart of the guild as it was the place where it had produced it's goods. The seventh floor was basically a very organised place. The floor was made of several larger rooms, each with the purpose to make something specifically, before the goods were normally brought to player parties that would be the deliverer to the customer or to get them to the storage rooms as guild members simply got directly to their colleagues to get new gear. Swords and armor wasn't the only Thing they had produced as there were also places to create normal items such as potions, magic items and even food items as they could give players buffs.

It could be said that the true manifactury of Briliant Edge was indeed the 7th floor. Yet it was not a place that invaders could just go into and grab what they wanted. The gates and doors of each room were made of high level materials, what made breaking into the rooms almost a waste of time as the dungeon spawned on this floor monsters like on the other 7 as well. Due their massive income of in-game gold Briliant Espada had been able to place a large quantity of mercenary NPCs, which were all above level 30, on each of it's 8 floors.

Invaders basically would be caught in pincer attacks in the corridors and stopped by monsters for them to be either killed or stopped long enough for the guild's attack force to engage the enemy that was too much for the NPCs to handle. The original guild master had created this system in order to prevent other players to just come and take away all their belongings as if it was an all-you-can-steal buffet.

In the large storage room of the guild stood many, several meters high shelfs, that reached the ceiling, with their contents being in order of the nature of the items. All the items that were gathered from the members of Briliant Edge, and those that were created by them laid here. Even the loot of several dungeon raids were here, waiting for the day that they would be used or reformed to finally be unleashed upon the world.

In midst of this maze of corridors suddenly materialised the avatar of one of the players. The avatar looked like a creature that had jumped out straight of a bad horror movie. The body was mainly humanoid, but there was already the end of similarities to a human. The body was covered in beige colored, organic armor. 4 pairs of unmoving black eyes sat on the head, and chelicerae sat where the human chin would be. Four long legs came out the back in a similiar manner of a certain old comic book villian. Those extra limbs were about twice as long as the other four. A long tail with a large barb like a stinger at the tip seemed to be twice as long as the whole upper body. Hands and feet ended in clawed fingers and toes as the creature looked down at it's hands.

This was one of the assault team members of Briliant Edge, the scorpion-like arachnoid Antares.

"I'm back for this last time YGGDRASIL. Antares has returned Buzhou." The heteromorph player said pumping up his fist in the air. If the game would allow facial expressions and if his face would be capable of such things he would probably be smiling like an idiot. However because the software would be too expensive to maintain and only waste unnecessary energy, the developers of YGGDRASIL didn't intregated it into the game. Instead a smiley emoji popped into existence next to his head to show his emotions to others in visual form, though the entire room was devoiding other people.

As he calmed down, he opened his menu and looked for his friend list. Before Antares joined the guild he had been a victim of PKers like all other heteromorphs in the game, which prevented him to become close enough to other players to add them on that list. Instead he only knew a few players that he used to go on quests together and met once in a while. His friend list was basically made of all members of the guild with a few exceptions to keep an eye open for the case that one of them might log in and perhaps needed help with something. Because of the main guild members being craftsmen they mostly needed help when it came to fighting monsters and gathering rescources. And since it was the assault teams job to provide such services he kept an eye open for this had been one of the first heteromorphs to join Briliant Edge for the opportunity of the protection the guild would provide him with. Still he quickly befriended with other members of the guild and soon it was safe to say that he had found friends and comerades alike among the players. If someone of the others dared to say that they only did it for the profit, they would receive the wrath of the guildmaster.

When scrolling through the list he was slightly disappointed as he found not a single member of the guild being logged in.

'Guess everyone has given up on the game now. Can't really blame them though. I also had needed some time to overcome everything. Now let's see who else is in this list.' He thought to himself as he scrolled down further. Eventually he found what he was looking for. 'Well Odomok is on, but she's probably busy with his friends. Has been quite a while since I've spoke with this lizard. Probably she's meeting with the rest of her mercenary clan right now. Should I...no. It wouldn't be okay to barge into this and most likely ruin some of her good time. Still no one of the guild is on.' He thought. "I guess they all have other things to do right now. That stupid dwarf even mentioned that his daughter needs to be watched so she won't break anything." Antares sighed, before walking out the storage room towards the 8th floor. When people worked together for a long time they started talking about their personal matters. Several people in the guild had at least partners or even had children. "Now that I think about it..." He thought loud. "why the hell did I log out in the storage room last time?" Putting a hand to his chelicerea he tried to recall the last time when he was inside of YGGDRASIL, which was about 2 and a half week in the past. Despite being one of the youngest members of the guild, he had to work as well and it was just as brutal as it was for the other members.

Flashback

"Okay seriously, why did you drag us here?" Antares said as he looked at the one responsible for the arachnoid being in the storage room. It was a giant with a stereotype viking armor. Long brown hair came from underneath his horned helmet and his beard almost reached his waist. It was almost as if he was trying to look like an absurd fusion of an old, wise wizard and a viking berserker.

"Good that you are asking. You see, I've been making armor from the first moment in this guild so I'd ask you to give me your honest opinion about my last creation." The giant said. Antares sighed at this. It was no secret how much this man was a chunibyou. To be honest Antares was one himself. And so were other people he had met. In fact Antares came from a family, which didn't earned too less in the month, though he had not much contact with them at all. His origin basically had allowed him to consume quite high amounts of knowledge of animes, mangas and other popculture genres from the 21st and 22nd century. He would be a liar if he said there was nothing among that that didn't influence the customization of his items here in YGGDRASIL.

"Fine, but don't start complaining if I say something you don't like." Antares said. The giant nodded as he changed his outfit with a flash of light. Immediately as Antares could see the giant's equipment he immediately turned away and held his hands in front of his eyes.

"SLIYER WHAT THE HELL?! I THOUGHT YOU CUT THIS OUT WHEN WE DEFEATED ONE OF THE FIVE RAINBOW BUDDHAS!" He exclaimed. The reason for that was that the giant had basically stripped and now wore what people used to wear when they wanted to go swimming.

Or rather what women used to wear.

"HAHAHA! Sorry I couldn't resist. Okay now I'm serious." He said.

"Can I turn around without having the urge to stab my own 8 eyes out?"

"Now you're overreacting kiddo." The giant said. Antares did turn around and slowly put his hands from his eyes. Only to come face to face with another ridicolous outfit. A giant in a cocktail dress. "Do I look fat in this?"

"CUT IT OUT!?"

Flashback ends

Antares shook his head trying to shake the thought out of his head, however it seemed to have burnt itself now into his brain.

"Stupid very stupid. Why did I try to remember this?! Agh my eyes!" He said to himself as he sighed. "Too bad he isn't here to bore me with his perverted fantasies anymore." He said as he walked to the 8th floor. The 8th floor was a rather insignificant place within Buzhou and only held importance when it came to the protection of the guild item. However for Antares it had a second meaning.

Pushing open the gate to the 8th floor, the arachnoid now stood at the foot of a large karst while in front of him laid a dense forest. There was no way or road as that would have been to easy to go to the guild weapon. An extra to keep uninvited people from destroying it. The player quickly checked clock again.

'23:48:42, huh? Not too much time left to do a last check.' Antares thought as he started walking through the woods for several minutes until he arrived at the base of another karst, however this one had stairs at it's base that lead upwards. 'Walking upstairs and the whole way from the 1st to the last floor sure is a pain, though I want to savour every last bit of being here. This is after all what we have built together. Oddly I have not seen the guard NPCs around here... no wait they are probably assassins so safe for the monsters they were supposed to surprise intruders.' Antares thought as his avatar walked up the stairs. However even if he had explored the entire dungeon in all it's glory earlier it wouldn't have changed the fact that there was no one but himself in here. In the end the flying mountain had become an empty and silent grave of the hopes and dreams of this once great guild. While walking Antares looked over the majestic landscape that he and his friends had built. It looked like one of the old pictures of the imposing mountains in China and Thailand, which had been completely destroyed due the pollution that mankind had caused and replaced with skyscrapers. It made his heart sink a bit more since his firends were not here to admire their complete, yet incomplete creation.

His mind trailed off as he remembered the human race players. Sure he was befriended with those of his guild, but he didn't held those outside of the guild on high regard unless they would give him reason to. He had been stepped on and grinded into the dirt below him by such people, who simply took enjoyment from ruining the fun of others. He had lost quite a lot gold and items, because of such players and that was something he wouldn't forget. What many players seemed to forget was that in the end they all were just humans in the end, however given the emotional and physical stress that many people suffered he could understand that they just wanted to vent those out. That they just needed to beat someone's face in so their own rage and self-pity wouldn't eat them away. But that didn't made Antares forgive them at all. It only made him feel a bit of pity for them.

Caught up in his thoughts he finally reached the top of the karst. In front of him now stood a shinto shrine. That was the true headquarter of the guild. Looking on the clock once more Antares had to see that the time was really against his plans.

'23:54! Come on! I spend like 20 minutes in the bathroom in the last 3 days. 3 DAYS?!' Antares mentally groaned as he walked inside. The shrine wasn't that big as it mostly consist off the meeting room of the guild and the shrine itself where the guild weapon was stored. Next to that it had only a few smaller rooms, several statue like golems to attack intruders and a small number of monsters to support them. Walking quickly through the corridors Antares arrived at the door of the guild weapon room. The large gate was made of a dark colored metal and decorated with golden ornaments. Opening the door Antares walked inside.

It was a wide room with many pillars supporting the ceiling as it was other wise completely empty, save for the opposite end of the room from the door, where the guild weapon stood on top of a podium in front of a large, crystal monolith. The guild weapon was a shield, which looked like a golden honey comb with an emerald translucent one at each end, forming a shield made of 7 hexagonal plates. The shield was larger than a buckler shield and would cover an entire human's torso. It's simple yet almost science-fictional design made it quite pleasant to look at.

Antares walked up to the podium as his eyes drifted to the monolith. It was like a giant piece of morion, but from the inside a dimmed golden glow was emitted, providing additional light to the rather dark room, which was only illuminated by the magic lights on some of the pillars. It also intensified the golden color of the guild weapon with it's contrast in color.

"[Malinalxochitl's Shield]. Took us weeks to get the materials for that and craft this Divine Class Item back then and some more to come up with a name for it. I think we played rock-paper-scissors to decide that. Or was it chess? Or maybe shogi?" Antares thought loud as he grabbed the shield. Looking at the Guild Weapon made him feel a bit nostalgic, before he checked his contacts again. 'I see. So he's online as well. Well can't be too bad to say hello again. Has been quite some time since I spoke with.' Antares thought as he used the [Message] spell.

To provide players in YGGDRASIL with privacy and avoid the chats that were visible for everyone on their screens and distracted people, the developers of the game actually made this spell that all players could use as a two way connection between players. There was also a party chat for raid parties, giving players the opportunity to coordinate their actions, but the arachnoid wasn't in a party right now.

Then the sound of a connection being established reached his ears.

{Hello?} Came a familiar voice from the other side.

{Hey Vyper-san.} Antares said.

{Antares? Hey how are you doing?} Answered Vyper.

Vyper28 was a dragon player, who had been together with Antares in Brilliant Edge, until he couldn't take the insults from some members any longer and left. Antares kept in touch with the dragon as he joined a small guild with a base in Midgard. It were not many members in that guild, so they it was more seen as a clan who was big and lucky enough to maintain a small dungeon with 3 floors as a base. In the last days of YGGDRASIL Antares had chatted with him even when he wasn't logged in himself. Vyper always liked to tell his friend about what he had done like he changed the guild name to Ophion or that he got his hands on some useful intel for rare materials. Sometimes they even got on boss raids together in order to obtain new items.

It mattered little in these days, but it made the gloomy atmosphere a bit brighter.

{I'm fine. Just looked through the dungeon if everything is still in one piece.] Antares replied to Vyper's question. {What about you?}

{It's cool was always calmer than the other places. Just doing some touches on the base, looking around and hoarding more gold than I could spend even if I wanted to. If you only could use it in real life. The job is killing me.} Vyper said.

{It's the starter realm of the game. I'd be more surprised if you suddenly said you wished to have one of those flying temples from Asgard as a base.} Antares said.

{That would be nice, but suicide though. Have already killed 6 human race players again, that were trying to break my stuff at the entrance. Some people really can't let go of the old ways, now can they?} Vyper said. {I'm fine with what I have as a dungeon right now. Might not be as impressive as Bohzou or those flying palaces in Asgard, but it's home to me. So all hammers are still in place huh? Not really surprising given how much it already took us to get into that damn dungeon. At least it was good inspiration for making locked doors.} Vyper said.

{Yeah, but to make those is hard and the key items could be lost quite easily. Lizzy actually managed to lock herself out once.} The arachnoid snickered as the dragon on the other side laughed.

{That sounds much like the old times.} Vyper said. {Hey, listen Antares. I maybe cannot come over to you, but you got my mail adress and I got yours, so how about this? When a new YGGDRASIL like game comes out and I mean a game that really is like YGGDRASIL unlike those posers, that came out recently to take YGGDRASIL's place and trust me they were underwhelming, I write you a mail or you write me a mail and give each other name, time and place so we meet in that game okay?} Vyper suggested. Antares was quite for a moment, but nodded to himself.

{Sure. Would be fun to see you getting yourself handed back again.} He said.

{Hey! Don't cry when it's me who has to save you this time 'Spidey'.} Vyper shot back.

{In your dreams.} Antares replied. After a moment both players broke out in laughter. Antares laughed for the first time in a long time now. It sure has been so silent since the old man's death.

{Ha. I'll really miss that Antares-san.} Vyper sighed.

Antares was confused at first, but then realised that it was time to say goodbye. The clock read already 23:59. {Yeah me to. Well it has been nice talking to you again Vyper-san, but you're right. It seems like our time is up now.} He said sadly.

{Seems to be the case. Tomorrow I'll probably have to listen to my boss again what I did all wrong this month. Take care Antares. And don't forget that we will see one another the next YGGDRASIL like game.} Vyper then yawned loudly. {I'll be going to bed soon. Goodnight Antares-san.}

{Night Vyper-san.} The arachnoid then terminated the connection, before sighing. "Well, it was good to talk with him one last time. But now I'm tired as well. Doesn't matter really. It's over really soon." Antares said as he yawned quiter than Vyper had done. 'Farewell YGGDRASIL. I'll miss you and hopefully I'll live long enough to see your successor to go on an awesome adventurer with the others once more.' Antares thought. As he simply stood there and waited for the servers to shut down.

23:59:58

23:59:59

00:00:00

00:00:01

00:00:02

"Huh?" Antares thought loud as suddenly his HUD had disappeared. Confused he looked around for it, but he was alone in the shrine. Scratching the side of his head out of habit he walked around the shrine as if he was looking for something. "Did they delay the shutdown of the game or something? I cannot remember reading anything about that." Antares said as he looked around himself. As he walked outside he put his hand to the side of his head again as he tried to call the GM. However the connection failed to be established. "Now this is weird."

Then however he walked down the stairs and stepped on the way that was covered with stones he felt something change. He looked down his feet and saw what had caused the change. While the floor of the temple was made of polished wood the way he now stood on was made of stone. The feeling of walking on wood and stone was most certainly a different one. Texture, temperature, hardness and so on. Antares froze at this point as he knew one thing for sure. YGGDRASIL did only allow limited feelings of touch and it was to smell anything within the game. Right now however he could smell of the fresh air that surrounded him.

"What's this? Could it be YGGDRASIL MK II?" Antares said as he was now more confused than before. Walking towards the stairs that laid behind a large shinto gate he came face to face with two giant golems, that resembled a mystical creature known as Shisa next to the stairs. They wouldn't move from their spot unless being attacked or when an enemy was close by, but Antares could feel how their eyes seemed to follow the arachnoid as he walked down the stairs. It was a long way down and that gave Antares enough time to look at the world around him. It was all so sureal and yet now it felt so...real. Antares couldn't help himself but look around the forest as he watched the leaves rustle in the wind and felt the wind blowing around his face. In that time Antares realized something else. He hadn't blinked once since the shut down. Normally a human would unconsciously close the eyes at such a wind to prevent the eye to get damaged or dirt to get into it, but now he had been looking around like nothing had happened. He tried, but surprisingly he didn't felt the muscles anymore for his eyelids to move at all. No he didn't even felt his eyelids as if they were not there. Antares tried again and again, but to no avail. He couldn't blink. Bewildered he climbed down the stairs until the scorpion had reached the bottom of the karst.

Now he stood at the edge of a dense green forest, that housed various monsters of YGGDRASIL in order to protect the area. Immediately his spider senses registered multiple movements within the vegetation. He couldn't really say what was going on, but it was slightly frightening the arachnoid. He left the shield on his arm and walked through the forest as he started to wonder if it really was a game. His destination were his own quarters that were located within this forest. Each member of the guild had of course quarters for their own activities. It would have been quite rude to live so close together when they had the possibility to avoid one another when it was called for.

Then the scorpion had all of the sudden a rather odd urge. He was hungry. As in quite hungry. It felt as if some kind of void had appeared in his stomach and now asked him to fill it. Antares had made his equipment so that it tuned down the debuff that his race had given him as it had a lot of impact on the player's abilities, but now it was there for real in the back of his mind. Now Antares would have broken out into cold sweat... if he could actually sweat. His entire body was covered by a hard exoskeleton, that couldn't do such a thing. He panicked as his stomach once again reminded him of it's presence. Though without a menu he had no access to any of his items within his inventory so he couldn't grab something from there to eat.

'What the hell is going on? Why am I feeling so hungry all the sudden? I didn't ate that much when I got home before, but this is ridiculous. It feels like my stomach is stung by a thousand needles. The game cannot really simulate such feelings, right?' He thought as he whipped his head from side to side at the sounds of monsters that stalked through the undergrowth. It only made his mind race even more. 'Not even with the newest of the new technology this kind of simulation should be possible. While the nanomachines are already linked with my neural system they still cannot stimulate my senses like that, right? How could this happen? A sytem malfunction?' He thought as he kept walking through the forest. After a while he arrived at another karst like the one where the temple stood on top, but smaller. Tracing it's rough surface with his claws the stone made a sound as if something was dragged across it. Antares felt the slight resistance as his fingers grazed the stone. 'Such detail, such input of the sense to feel... it cannot be. It can't be right!' He yelled in his mind as he walked now around the stone with a quicker pace.

Soon he found a gap in the rock as he tried to get through. Against the narrow entrance scrambled the legs on his back slighty, which was the first time that he felt them actually. After a moment he had vanished into the small cave that lead upwards into the stone. Inside this slab of stone was a room with a bed, a working bench, a shelf, a chest, a nightstand with a flower pot, that held a slightly blueish white glowing flower in it, and a picture on the wall. On the floor was a vermillion carpet, covering the cool stone floor. The former guildmaster had helped him with this little home as some of the other members of the guild didn't agree with the idea of letting mercenaries settle down in the dungeon. Only Antares, Vyper, the old guild master and a very few other members of the guild knew of this place.

Antares however had no time to take in the simple home's beauty as he went immediately to the chest to open it. Inside were multiple food items as Antares always needed supplies to not suffer from the hunger debuff. The chest was a magic item that he actually wanted to name [Fridge], but was called [Iceberg Bento] by a fellow player. Since food items didn't expire in YGGDRASIL there was no need for the developers to make an enhancement to do such a thing. The iceberg in the name came simply from the function to store food. Not wasting any time he grabbed an item and pulled it too his eye level.

In his hand was now a large piece of meat on a single bone. The meat appeared to have been grilled as black grit marks were visible on the surface. Surprisingly the piece of meat was actually still warm. Not too hot to drop it like a sac of potatoes or too cold to minder the taste. Antares then realized that he had been ogling the meat in his hand for about a minute as if he wanted to eat it through his eyes. Nervously he swallowed as the savorful scent went into his mouth, making him drool slightly.

'Okay Antares. If this is really a dream you won't taste a thing. You know that no matter what the bastards of devs cannot recreate taste. It's impossible and if they could the rich pigs would probably be boiling like tea cattles at this. No way those bastards would want the normal mortal worker to taste what wasn't meant for them.' He thought as he realized that his mouth was now rather oddly shaped. Lowering the meat to his mouth he opened his chelicerae. It was an odd feeling for him to open his mouthparts now horizontal direction than vertical one. 'Here goes nothing.' He thought as his mouth clamped down on the meat.

For a moment there was nothing. And then...

"IT TASTES REALLY GOOD!" He cried out in joy as his mouthparts began ferociously chomping down the meat and bone into tiny bits. Swallowing what he could he carelessly let whatever fell victim to gravity fall to the carpet, staining it slightly. What he tasted almost made him cry. No he probably would have cried right now if he still could. He had tasted meat a couple of times in his life, but it was nothing compared to this. He had no idea that something like that even existed. 'The texture, the aroma of grilled meat and the fat giving it so much taste...' He thought as his mind was completely occupied with what he was eating. Once he had indulged the first piece into his mouth he suddenly felt his hunger disappear completely. Now his mind was clear as day and once again reality crashed down on him. Antares closed the [Iceberg Bento] as he collapsed on his knees. His extra legs fell softly to the ground as he buried his hideous face in his hands.

He tried to regain his compusture, but it was useless. The whole gravity of the situation had crashed down on him once more. His body shook in a mixture of fear, anger and sadness as his finger's tighten their grip on his head. His extra legs stomped on the ground slightly in silent frustration. Then he couldn't take it any longer as he tore his Hands away from his face.

"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" He screamed on top of his voice as if he expected someone to answer him, but he was only met with the quite. (At the same time in Akihabara (and perhaps the rest of the world) a lot of other people asked themselves the very same question.) He was all alone. No one was there to answer him this question.

In the end only silence remained.

So caught up in his situation Antares did not realize that someone else had entered his home. The heavy silence was finally shattered by a soft and worried voice.

"Antares-sama?"

Here are some informations about Antares including his character sheet.

Name: Antares
Epiphet: Deathstalker, Spidey (by some people in the guild)
Race: Arachnoid
Residence: Mount Buzhou
Karma: 428 Negative: Very Evil ~ Extremely Evil

Class Build
Racial Classes
Arachnoid (10)
Job Classes
Assassin (10)
Rogue (5)
Ninja (5)
Monk (5)
Striker (5)
Magician (5)
Cleric (5)
Chef (5)
Others (45)

Stats
HP: 76
MP: 56
Physical Attack: 91
Physical Defense: 76
Agility: 84
Magical Attack: 56
Magical Defense: 63
Resistance: 71
Ability: 53
Total: 626

Bio: Antares was born as the 3rd child of a wealthy family on the 1st December of 2100. At first he took everything for granted, but after the death of his younger brother and the uncaring attitude of his father and siblings as well as the fact that his mother had died when he was at young age, he began to realise that not everything was nice and dandy in the world around him. He later broke the ties with his family, while working on his own to make a life. He was digusted by the conditions the workers had to live and work, especially since his own family lived on the misery of others as well in that sense.

Though he was able to play YGGDRASIL, the times he had to work were brutal, limiting the time he could spend in the game a lot. After one and a half year as a solo player and being a victim of PKers, he found the guild Brilliant Edge as they were looking for fighting members to protect their property.

He joined the guild alongside other heteromorphs as well who later became the security team of Brilliant Edge. In his time in the guild he grew closer to the people around him. Together they went on a lot of adventurers that had brought the guild fame and rare items that were later used for the creation of more powerful gear. Antares had also been among the players in the party, that was sent to claim Mount Buzhou for the guild with him dropping out in the final battle when the last boss hit the 50% mark of it's health by using a surprise attack. The time in the game after that was rather peaceful for Antares.

The death of the founder of the guild had hit him pretty hard as well, but he recovered quickly from it at least from the outside. Under the new guildmaster he kept protecting Buzhou from intruders, though said person didn't really like heteromorph players as he saw them as leechers that only lived on the fame and achievements of the guild. Several members of the defense team therefore quit the game or left the guild. Upon a majority vote the new guild master was removed from his position and left the guild out of rage. The players voted for another guild master and turned to their usual matters.

However with the end of the game announced shortly after, requests depleted and the game became more and more abandoned. And so did the guild become even more abandonned as it was before. Because of less members being available, defending the dungeon was getting more and more difficult, but the dungeon was never raided by another guild. Also there were not many people that still tried to raid the dungeon.

Antares' job was getting harder in the last days of YGGDRASIL as he had to work overtime for a couple of days. In the end he only had managed to log in very late in the night without even having ensurance that the dungeon hadn't been destroyed yet by other players. Checking his friend list it was confirmed that no other member of the guild had logged into the game, since the last time he had been there, making him to the last member of the crafting guild Brilliant Edge, that remained in the game.

Antares: brightest star in the constellation Scorpius

Ophion: in Greek mythology a serpent deity, that ruled the world before Cronos and Rhea

Malinalxochitl = in Aztec mythology a sorceress and goddess of snakes, scorpions and insects of the desert

And that is that for now. Thank you all for reading this first chapter of this Log Horizon/Overlord crossover. Feel free to give me your opinions about this work or ask me questions that you'd like to receive an answer to in the reviews. Or send me a PM. Whatever you prefer. Critics and constructive advice is always welcome. Flamers and haters are not.

Sorry that it took so long to write this, but as long as something isn't out yet, is basically always changing with every new and fresh idea. Because no one knew how Entoma really looked like underneath her mask until the second season was at this point, I had to design Antares real face myself after the image of a scorpion and spider. I actually had also planned to give him a second pair of arms with pincers, but that would have been to many appendages for me to picture him X3
Also I'm not really good in naming things, which is why I named him after that star and the guild after well diamonds and bladed weapons to point out their position as a crafting guild. Not to mention that flying mountain, the guild weapon and a lot of other things I had to research about 3 months ago.

Now I haven't made all OCs for this story yet (OC adventurers and some custom NPCs), so if you want I'll be accepting OCs if you want. Just post your ideas in a pm to my profile and I'll discuss it with you. However I cannot take all the NPCs you suggest, because of the level cap of the dungeon Mount Buzhou, and the guardian NPCs are already done, just that you are warned.

I know there are other franchises that the arachnoid race would probably work with as well with for example Toriko, due the hunger debuff and the quest to satisfy it (also because slimes don't really seem to taste food as they more absorb foreign matter like an amobea and digest it immediately), or maybe Tokyo Ghoul for a similiar, constant inner struggle with one's own humanity, but I couldn't think of another race for this Overlord story's main character and I don't want to always make OCs of the same race.

I hope to see you next time when I reveal more about Antares' new situation, the dungeon, the world (ZA WARUDO!) and more. Meanwhile I'm going to work on the other stories' new chapters I've stopped working on a month ago. Now have a nice day.