Chapter 3 - Combined Magic

Somewhere in the world of Yggdrasil, Asgard. Asgard is the place where most players who have chosen to be a humanoid race to spawn here. The world of Asgard is the most peaceful and serene world, containing vast lush green fields, forests that aren't too thick or thin, hills and hillocks that are safe to climb. The monsters of this world are a bit more docile compared to the other worlds. It includes mostly neutral monsters that won't attack players on sight unless they get too close or attacked them. Perfect for players who are new to the MMORPG games or DMMORPG.

Players near the center of this world will encounter; wild boars, docile green slimes, fairies, treants, forest guardians, living gnomes, cute mushroom creatures, spirits, etcetera. While going further away from the center, the terrain will become more hazardous; mountains with steep cliffs, forest so thick that light can barely pass through them, green fields becomes increasingly rare to find, occasionally forcing players to camp in a dangerous location to recover from fatigue. Not only that, monsters also becomes increasingly dangerous; trolls, ogres, goblins, corrupted treants, poisonous living mushrooms, grieving forest guardians, large slimes, and vengeful spirits, and a plethora of other creatures that players haven't discovered yet.

In a green lush field, a battleground is raging, hordes of demons in various forms and sizes scattered around a battlefield littered with crystals and demons flying around in the sky, there is an open rift that reveals a hellish landscape inside it, occasionally demons comes out of it.

"[Icicles]!" Five large icicles with pointy ends appeared out of thin air around a figure, the figure is dressed in a white robe, holding a white staff that has a red ruby embedded on its tip. Her eyes are turquoise in colour while her hair is blond in colour. After a few moments the icicles launched itself forward, toward the flying demons, five of them hit individual demons. Some of them froze and turned into pixelated dust, while others took the hit head on and are still flying, albeit a bit slower than before, thanks to the "Cold" debuff,

"Good job Tanaki-chan," said Momonga, "[Negative Wave]!" a wave of black aura suddenly swept across the battlefield, killing all the ground demons that cannot fly,

[Negative Wave] is a less potent version of [Negative Burst], unlike Negative Burst which expand in a dome, Negative Wave release negative energy in a wave that travels in the direction that the user wanted it to go with their hands.

"How unfair of you Momonga to leave none for me," Touch Me added, "[Chain Attack] [Air Slash]!" he swing his sword at a flying demon, immediately, a flying slash motion went through the demon, then several others before disappearing, all of the flying demons died one by one in the order that the attack gone through,

[Chain Attack] is a warrior skill that can be applied to certain skills, it allows a skill to become a multi-hitting spell or a multi-target spell that can hit individual targets in a chain, although each time a chain happens it retains only 80% of its potency. [Air Slash] is basically a more potent version of [Air Slice] which causes more damage but with a limited amount of swing and a shorter duration.

"Haha, my apologies"

Suddenly the rift swelled in size and a large buff demonic creature come out of it, the demon holds a large demonic sword that seems to be cloaked in fire,

"Oh! That is one big demon! What is that?" Tanaki pointed at it,

"If I remember, this demon is a Demonic Legion Commander," Momonga said,

"That is correct Momonga, this mini-boss mostly excels in physical combat, grant nearby demons a large buff to their overall stats, and have complete immunity to fire" Touch Me answered, "If we were a party of level 60 player, our chances of victory would be slim"

"Hmph, too bad that NPCs in this game cannot determine how wide of a gap there is between their levels and ours" he slammed his staff onto the ground, the staff is one of his divine class items, Overlord Staff, the name that Momonga gave. It's a black staff that radiates aura of death and has a perfectly symmetrical black crystal skull on its tip, the sockets constantly emits dark coloured flames, "Atleast, you can take solace in the fact that you will be Tanaki-chan's stepping stone to becoming a Seraphim. [Grasp Heart]"

*Squish*

The large demon suddenly clutched his chest, struggling for a moment before turning into pixelated dust. After a few moment has passed, the demonic portal, which pours demons out of the realm, sucks all of the nearby demons into it and destabilizes. The Portal changes in shape and sizes for a few seconds before it abruptly exploded, leaving no trace of it behind, except for the fact that there are dozens amount of crystals lying on the lush green field they are in,

Momonga then opened his item inventory and took out a blue Crystal ball of sorts, "[Crystal of Collection] Activate!" he said, the crystals suddenly glows and all the lying crystals in the area levitate and pointed itself directly at the crystal. After a moment they zoomed into the crystal ball, seemingly sucked into it, the crystal ball stopped glowing then disappeared out of Momonga's skeletal hand,

"That's so cool! You actually acted like an Evil Overlord for a moment there!" Tanaki praised Momonga,

"Is-is that so? Hahaha" Momonga replied, "Alright! Finally those hours of practice role-playing as an Overlord made me look cool!"

"Tanaki-chan, is your quest completed yet?" Touch Me asked,

"Ah, that's right we're doing a Rank-up quest!"

A Rank-up quest is a special quest that allows players to switch races to anything that the quest can give to them, bypassing some restrictions that certain races cannot change into. Of course there are some races that doesn't require a rank-up quest to do but they instead requires special items like how Momonga who used to be a former Skeletal Mage requires the [Book of the Dead] item to change his race into an Elder Lich. If a humanoid wants to become a demihuman or a heteromorphic race, they must find a Rank-up quest around the world. The same also applies to a demihuman who wants to turn into a heteromorph. Unfortunately, for players who has chosen to play as a heteromorphic race, they cannot find a Rank-up quest to switch their race to a humanoid or a demihuman race, so if one is trying to become a heteromorph or choose to be a heteromorph, they must be 100% sure that they wanted to play as that heteromorphic race. Due to the restrictions placed by the Devs, most players dub it "Race switch Quest" rather than just Rank-up quest. There's a slight difference between choosing to become a heteromorph and changing your race to a heteromorph using a Rank-up quest, that is when you choose to change your humanoid into a heteromorph, you gain additional power-ups to your new heteromorphic race. If we were to compare the same race with a heteromorphic being that have the same build as another heteromorph who were formerly a humanoid, they will discover a difference of 3.34% in stats and an additional extra spells, which isn't much.

Tanaki opened her quest log and selected a quest "Rank-up quest: Close the demonic rift in Asgard!"

The quest log read as follows:

A demonic rift has opened in the world of Asgard! Demons are trying to invade and turn our beloved world into hell! Stop them!

Closes three demonic rifts 3/3

Defeat the Commander 1/1

"How odd..." Tanaki muttered,

"What's wrong, Tanaki?" Touch Me questioned,

"It's just that-"

Suddenly there is a beam of light shining down on the field, a Seraphim has descended from the sky, floating just several inches above the ground. The seraphim is holding a large holy sword with both of his hands pointing down and are wearing a holy armor of the most exquisite design, the helmet is covering its face, and there are six pairs of large majestic wings behind it,

The quest finally added a new line, "Talk to the Seraphim..." Tanaki read aloud,

"Go ahead Tanaki-chan" ushered Momonga, as both him and Touch Me backed away from the Seraphim to avoid disrupting her quest,

"Hm" she nodded at Momonga before walking toward it, "I wonder if it has a gender?" Tanaki added as she walked toward it, "Um, hi?" she said once she got close enough to the Seraphim,

"Greetings, Tanaki-san. We are the angels of the highest order, a Seraphim" The Seraphim spread his wings wider apart, his wings seems to be several meters in length, "We have watched over you and deemed that you are fit to become an Angel..."

There's a hidden requirement to become an angel, the character's sense of justice must exceed 300 and is a humanoid, if the character karma points doesn't exceed that amount then the Seraphim will deny the race switch and instead hand out an item reward to them. However, if a character sense of justice is excessively negative, then the Seraphim will be confused, asks the players whether they want to redeem themselves and prove their worth by giving them another quest, while another quest will appear infront of the evil player, telling them to kill the Seraphim. Perfect for players who are tired of having a negative karma value or just want to get incredibly rare items from special monsters.

"Would you like to join us in our quest to cleanse the world of evil?" The Seraphim added,

A dialogue appeared infront of Tanaki, it only has two buttons on it; Refuse or Accept. Naturally, she hit accept,

"Are you sure you want to become an Angel? Once you accept, there will be no turning back..." The Seraphim added again,

"Yes, I want to become an Angel" she hit the accept button again,

"Very well then, from now on." The Seraphim pointed his sword at the sky, "You will no longer be a human, but an Angel bound to the holy oath of heaven," He then pointed his sword at Tanaki, "I welcome thee to our ranks!"

A beam of light shined down on Tanaki, the beam is so bright that Tanaki is swallowed by it and nobody can see her,

"Looks like she is finally becoming an Angel, Touch Me-san" Momonga said,

"I'm very curious though; I wonder how her avatar will look like when she finishes assigning all of her ability points to her character"

"Me too. Come to think of it, we never really had an Angel in our party before have we?"

"Nah, if anything we mostly relied on Tabula Smaragdina's potions and Ankoro Mocchi Mochi's scrolls to heal ourselves"

"Hah... I wonder why we didn't have any healers in the first place" Momonga lamented,

"Probably because of our hideous appearances, who would heal heteromorph like us?"

Both of them chuckled a bit, "Besides, most of our guild members get damaged by healing anyway" Touch Me added in,

"Touch Me-san, let's not forget that Tanaki-chan discovered a new magic. She could probably create a new spell that can heal us," Momonga rebutted,

"Ah, you're right. Forgive me."

"Hm?" both of them looked toward the beam of light, sensing some sort of a change,

The beam of light lowered in intensity, revealing Tanaki. Her appearances remained mostly the same, except that her avatar's skin looks more supple than usual, and she has wings behind her back, "Oh? I can actually feel the wings?" she touched her wings, giving her a vague sensation like it is a part of her body but isn't at the same time,

"The transformation process is complete, go forth and spread the heaven's name..." the Seraphim said as he ascended back into the sky,

"Congratulations Tanaki-chan" said Momonga as both he and Touch Me walked closer to her, "You are now an Angel. Hm?" as Momonga walked closer, he noticed something, "Tanaki-chan, your eyes. They look a bit different,"

"Ah, you noticed? I made my eyes have heterochromia!" she posed with her character, emphasizing her eyes, which has violet and navy blue blending together in colour,

"Oh, that's quite interesting, decided to give heterochromia eyes to your avatar?" Momonga exclaimed,

"Haha, that's pretty creative. Choosing to blend the colours together rather than having two distinct eye colour" Touch Me complimented her,

"Anyway, thank you Momonga, Papa! I couldn't have done this without you two!" Tanaki bowed to them,

"Ah, no need to bow to us Tanaki-chan, you are the daughter of my friend Touch Me-san. It's natural for me and your father to help you," Momonga replied, "Now that we got what we came here for, let us return back to Guild Base and spread the news." he opened his inventory and took out a scroll, "[Guild Scroll: Warp Gate] Activ- No wait..." he suddenly stopped,

"What's wrong?" Tanaki-chan asked,

"I almost forgot that we are in enemy territory right now. I should probably cast some anti-divination spells and anti-detection spell first before casting this" he opened his inventory and then several scrolls appeared on the ground, "Let's start" Momonga said as he take scrolls after scrolls and activating them, most of them disappearing into thin air after been used,

[Fake Cover] [Counter Detect] [Anti-Magic Detection] [Greater Anti-Magic Detection] [Eliminate Presence] [Cloak Magic] [Perfect Cover] [Perfect Counter Detect] [Fake Alias]

All of the scrolls used are to reduce the chances of another player detecting them or tracing them

"Why is Momonga casting those scrolls Papa?"

"Ah, you didn't knew, let me explain then..."

Many players in Yggdrasil, although friendly, are incredibly wary of Player Killers or PKers for short, and many Yggdrasil players hate them. In fact, a lot of players have lost some of their incredibly rare items that they gotten from a dungeon due to PKers and the main equipment they usually equip their character with. Due to the increasingly frequent occurrences of these attacks that players complained in the forum, it gave birth to a new species of player in Yggdrasil, Player Player Killers. These PPKers are a dedicated group of players hellbent on hunting PKers down, and are adored by the community. Most of the time, PPKers mostly patrols near all sorts of dungeons and NPCs towns that has well known PKers near them except for Worlds that is incredibly hostile to humanoid and demihuman races. A PPKer party consist of a couple of power players, and a player that has passive detection magic and high tier divination spells, or in a set of two, one for Divination and one for Detection since a player specializing in both would be very weak. Thanks to the PPKers, the frequency of these attacks decreased accordingly. These PPKers have their own forum in Yggdrasil, allowing players of all kinds to report potential PKers and post location of wanted PKers for others to hunt them down. They even have their own Bounty System, which lists the potential reward that a player can receive if they managed to kill one and bring back one of their known equipment for confirmed kills. Many of Ainz Ooal Gown members are well known PKers in the PPKers community, most of them been the top hundred most wanted PKers, so they can't even let their guard down even for a second outside. Ainz Ooal Gown is a bunch of wanted virtual criminals by the community.

In order for these PPKers to detect them, they must use powerful magics that leak a lot of power to the surroundings. [Grasp Heart] is considered a quiet spell even though it is a 9th tier spell, it's a simple spell that only requires you to squish a target's heart. On the other hand, if Momonga were to use [Negative Burst] an 8th tier spell then the large power leak to the environment might alert some players with passive detection magic far away from his location. Fortunately, most of the spells they used aren't really powerful enough to alert anyone in a 2 kilometers vicinity.

"Okay, now then. [Guild Scroll: Warp Gate] Activate!"

The air around the field seems to buzz with energy then a spark is seen near Momonga, which slowly expand in size before exploding into a portal that leads to Ainz Ooal Gown's Guild Base near Momonga, "Let's go"


A few days later near Ainz Ooal Gown base, in the swamp area

"Are you sure that we're going to be alright? I mean, what if it is a bait for them to catch us?" A priestly looking man in holy robe asked,

"If it's bait then why do they allow us to invoke the Virtus System against their base? Not only that, we could get a World Item if we can beat them" said the warrior clad in a stylish red suit of armor,

"That still doesn't change the fact that they could ambush us"

"Ha! If they ambush us then we might as well report to the forums and tell everyone not to trust their post"

"That... actually make sense"

In the Throne Room, Momonga is observing the two players through his Guild's security cameras, "Looks like our first challengers is just a duo, I wonder what kind of tricks they have up their sleeves... They must be pretty confident if they think that two players is enough," Momonga thought as he rubbed his chin, "Hmmm, [Counter Detect] [Inspect Player] [Reveal Illusion] [Appraise Items]... Do they really think they can get past through the first floor like that? Hah..."

The items that the invader wore is only of the Relic level. In Yggdrasil, items is categorized in grades, the lowest to the highest grade are as follows: Low, Medium, High, Top-class, Legacy, Relic, Legendary, Divine. Many of Ainz Ooal Gown's NPCs are wearing equipment of the Legendary level with a few Divine items in the mix. The difference in power between grades is quite wide although the effect is less visible at lower grades. The difference in power is wide enough that if a character of only level 75 were to wear a full suit of divine items he could in theory beat a level 100 player wearing equipments of only the Relic grade

Suddenly a dialogue popped up infront of him, asking him to choose his team members that are currently in the Guild Base, "Looks like they invoked the Virtus System, get ready Tanaki-chan!"

Tanaki-chan is trapped in a birdcage. It looks... pretty normal, lavishly designed with curved edges and the pattern that is designed onto the silvery metal seems to resemble a heart, "I'm ready!"

After affirming Tanaki's resolve, Momonga accepted the Virtus System's challenge, the effect took place immediately as he could see that Ainz Ooal Gown traps has deactivated itself and the fact that a dome is starting to form around the swamp.

Outside of Ainz Ooal Gown's walls, a large screen popped up infront of the invaders, "Welcome heroes, I see that you have decided to challenge us. Hmph, I accept your foolish attempt to rescue her" the Overlord taunted,

"Help me! I'm trapped in this birdcage!" she tried to roleplay as a Damsel; still need some work though,

"Don't worry! I'll kill this bastard and rescue you! Just wait for your hero in shining armor!" The red warrior replied,

"Foul undead, you will rue the day you kidnapped that Angel" added the holy mage,

"Hahaha, if you think you can beat Ainz Ooal Gown with second-rate items, then be my guest. Shalltear Bloodfallen! Destroy the Invaders!"

The screen disappeared, the two players prepared themselves by casting buff, having their trigger on the ready, and preparing a battle plan. Once they finished speaking to each other, a small petite girl wearing some kind of a red Valkyrie armor with a Lance that looks like a mix between sci-fi and alchemy science appeared from the entrance facing them. After a few seconds has passed, the result was clear, the invaders were massacred,

"I didn't knew she would be this powerful!" the warrior said as he died

Ainz Ooal Gown Won! Congratulations! The dialogue popped infront of Momonga and Tanaki,

"... Was I invaded by idiots? It's like they don't know who we are..." Momonga mumbled to himself before shaking his head, "Well, we did post it on the forum where everyone can see it, it can't be helped if some unlucky players wanted to challenge us without any prior knowledge of us" he reprimanded himself, "Anyway, Tanaki-chan, Good work. You can come out now"

In the Birdcage, Tanaki just pushed the cage door opens from the inside, apparently it isn't locked, probably because its access level is set to all guild members only, "So everytime when we are invaded with the Virtus System, I have to stay in the birdcage to act like a Damsel?"

"That is correct"

"Eh?.. So boring..." her avatar drooped forward a little,

"Don't worry, if the bait doesn't attract any more challengers then we will stop using the Birdcage." Momonga replied, "The first catch of the day was pretty disappointing though. Well, as long as it works then it's a success. All we have to do now is wait for that big moment and catch it"


On the forum of the Yggdrasil website, in a topic posted about a day ago

Ainz Ooal Gown Challenge by Ulbert Alain Odle

Attention to all Heroes! We have kidnapped an Angel Princess! Daughter of Seraphim Athena! (I made that up)
If any of you have the guts to challenge the Might of Ainz Ooal Gown to rescue her! Then fight us at our Guild Base!
If any of you managed to conquer the full might of our Base and rescue her then we shall reward you with one of our World Items of your choosing!

The rule of this challenge:

1. The player must invoke the Virtus System on us

2. That's it

and below it is a post made by various players, many of the post mostly talk about the validity of this challenge posted by Ainz Ooal Gown, some say that it's bait, some say that it isn't bait but actually true. There's even a heated debate about why Ainz Ooal Gown, a guild that is famous for PKing players are doing this as well... Hm, looks like people debating about stuff that doesn't make a difference whether if it's true or not still happens in this day and age


The first attack on Ainz Ooal Gown is probably one of the more casual players of Yggdrasil, the one who doesn't care to keep tabs on which guild is powerful and which guild is the most dangerous, they probably discovered the post based on how hot of a topic it is. Quite unfortunate of them, if that's their main equipment then they might have taken quite a huge blow. In Yggdrasil, the most powerful items they have equipped will drop first if they were to die, so if it's an item that is incredibly important to their character's fighting power then losing it will be a huge setback, if they don't have a spare that is.

"What? They only have 10 Million Yggdrasil coins? That means they have a shared debt of about 31 million... " Momonga said as he check the amount of money they gained in the Guild's Weekly Report at the Throne, "They are really underprepared for this, hah..." Momonga slumped forward on the throne when he sighed,

The duo who resurrected in an NPC town on the other hand ended up berating each other for not planning this through well enough


A few days later, 2nd attack on Ainz Ooal Gown, this time it is a party of players with a group of NPCs. Beastmaster, Honor Knight,Grand Wizard, Ninja Grandmaster, Dark Magician, and an Alchemical Healer. The group of NPCs they brought along are Squires, disciples, Ninjas, Clerics, and a mix of beast monsters. This raid party, if you count the NPCs together, total up to about 64 people

"I'm so excited to test out our new spells!"

"Don't get too cocky! If you get cocky then we might as well be the one losing the war!"

"Hahaha, Punitto-san is right. Let's try to be discreet about this."

"Hmph, a true warrior never let his guard down until the battle has concluded itself"

All four of them exited from the doorway leading to the first floor, a group of four beings faced the raiders; A demonic looking goat, Ulbert Alain Odle. A death vine monster, Punitto Moe. A Nephilim dressed in Samurai armor, Warrior Takemikazuchi. Finally, an undead Overlord of the highest caliber, Momonga.

"You guys must be pretty cocky if you think you can beat us outside of your guild!" the Knight yelled at them,

"Ah, please do not mistake our intentions. We're just here to test something first" Ulbert retorted,

"What do you mean?"

"All of you are basically our Guinea Pigs," Momonga added, he raised his skeletal hand with an open palm [Silent Cast] [Combined Magic] "[Extend Magic] [Time Lock]!"

The knight suddenly turned colourless and stops mid-motion with the debuff "Time Locked", surprising his party members, "What kind of a spell did he use?!" the Healer asked,

"It's a time spell, quickly use the counter measures!" the Grand Wizard commanded,

"It's not working!" the Dark Magician replied, trying to cast an anti-time spell, which failed to dispel it,

"What?!"

[Time Lock] is a combination of [Time Stop] and [Lockdown]. [Time Stop] stops everything in the game except for the host's party members and players who can resist it, due to the game restrictions, it can only stop time in a 1 kilometer radius. [Lockdown] is a spell that lock the targeted player in place, forcing him to take or block hits that he can otherwise avoid, although they can still fight back with spells and skills. [Time Lock] on the other hand, combines both effects together, they are put in a stasis-like effect and can still take damage from all kind of attacks despite having time-frozen, one of the more unique effect is that the player who has their health reached 0 will not die until the effect has ended, preventing immediate revives.

"Now, Takemikazuchi!" Momonga ordered as the spell distracted them,

"[Grand Slash]!" Takemikazuchi yelled as he swung his samurai sword in a wide arc infront of him and a large wave rushed toward the invaders,

"[Reflect Magi-"

"[Reject Magic]" Punitto Moe interjected the Grand Wizard, "Like I'm gonna let you send it back at us"

[Grand Slash] is just like it said, it delivers a large slash wave towards the direction its user swung at and expand outwards. [Reflect Magic] is used to reflect spells or skills that can be reflected, depending on what kind of spells or skill reflected, its MP usage can be minimal or massive. If the caster mana pool cannot sustain it, then the magic will fizzle out before it does anything. [Reject Magic] basically stops a caster from casting their spells, its mp cost is based on what tier magic the caster used, so the user must be careful as some spells cost a lot less than some other spells of the same caliber.

"Cheh! Everyone raise your shields!"

All of the raiders tried to shield themselves with whatever they have on hand while those with magic spells used magical shields instead, as the wave sweeped through them, many of them received minimal damage thanks to their items, some of the unlucky ones got critical hits instead and have their shields cracked a bit. The frozen knight took the full brunt of it and his avatar bend forward at little when the wave hits him in the chest. Afterward, without warning, the knight that is still frozen in time got sniped in the head by some kind of an elemental arrow which pushed his head backwards a little, his pose looks like someone tried to run while looking at the sky,

"Sniper? Shit!"

"Excuse you and your entire race? Our sniper has a name you know?" the Vine Monster said, "And he has a rather... Explosive way of dealing with raiders like you" he added as the arrow started to glow brightly,

"Quick! Get away! Get away!-"

*Boom*

"You are... very sassy today Punitto-san, are you alright?"

"Ah.. Don't worry about me Momonga-san, just relieving some stress"

"If you say so."

"Anyway, how much MP did you just use?"

"About 20% of my total mana pool"

"That''s quite a lot"

[Combined Magic] is a combination of two spells at once, although incredibly powerful in its own right, there are several drawbacks to take notes of if the user want to use its full potential. Its first drawback is that [Combined Magic] has very long cooldowns, depending on how high of a tier they used. For example, for a level 100 player, the cooldown rate for a normal 10th tier spell has an average of about 10 seconds, but for a combined spell of 10th tier, it varies from 20 seconds to a minute. One of the more dire drawbacks is the total mana cost. A spell that combined both [Time Stop] a 10th tier spell, and [Lockdown] a 9th tier spell, individually it only cost about 8% of Momonga's total mana pool, but when casted together it went as high as 20%. For a normal level 100 magic caster, if they were to cast [Time Lock], it would cost about 50% of their total mana if they don't have skills that increases their total mana points. Normally in a fantasy MMORPG game, this drawback is easily negated by having a mana potion. Unfortunately, Yggdrasil does not have mana potions. Even NPCs shops doesn't sell any mana potions nor can they be found in a dungeon, and many players that have various alchemical job classes has tried to create a mana potion for years, only to create an [Unstable Potion] or a potion that has a different beneficial effect. Another drawback is the shared cooldown effect, let say that you cast two spells individually, one has a cooldown of 5 seconds and the other have 10 seconds, if you use [Combined Magic] and cast those two together, then those two spells will have a shared cooldown of about 20 seconds together. And lastly, when you have a [Combined Magic] spell in effect, you cannot cast another [Combined Magic] spell till the duration of the active spell has expired. In other words, if you cast [Time Lock] onto a target, you cannot cast another [Combined Magic] spell till that spell has ended.

As the large cloud of smoke disappeared from view, the total number of raiders have been reduced from 64 to about 31, most of the squire has died along with the Honor Knight,

"Hm, looks like the ninjas are making a move now, they are probably going after Peroroncino-san," Momonga thought as he took note of the Ninja Grandmaster Absence, along with some NPCs Ninja,

"Oh, still alive and breathing I see?" Ulbert mocked them,

"Damn you! How dare you toy with us like this!" the Beastmaster yelled,

Immediately Takemikazuchi swung his katana beside Momonga,

*Klang!* "Kyaah!" Momonga let out a girly yell,

"Wow, how did you-"

"Not another word Ulbert-san" Momonga threatened Ulbert, "Uwah... How embarrassing! I can't believe I just break character! Punitto Moe told me they would try to assassinate Peroroncino-san! But, why did they go after me?"

As Momonga looked behind him, he saw Takemikazuchi having a weapon clash standoff with the Ninja Grandmaster who is reverse gripping a dangerous looking knife that drips with a purple fluid, "Hm? Poison? I guess these players are also underprepared..." Momonga thought as he observed the knife, "Warrior Takemikazuchi. Kill him."

"With pleasure!" Takemikazuchi begin putting strength into the clash, pushing the Ninja Grandmaster back with each passing moment,

"I hate heteromorphs like you!"

"And your point being?"

"You are ugly, have overpowered abilities, and just trample over us like it's nothing!" he did some hand gestures with his free hand, all of the Ninjas that followed him popped out of the shadows ready to strike,

"That's why heteromorphic beings has drawbacks to them! You fight with items they are weak against! Not with something that they are immune to or strong against! Please don't tell me that the players we're facing are also a bunch of idiots..."

"Hey,hey. This battle is for players only and no NPCs are allowed! [Widen Magic] [Death Vine Grip]"

Immediately the ground sprouted deadly looking black vines with thorns beneath the NPCs Ninjas and entangled them, immobilizing and dealing constant damage to its victims,

"[Tighten Grip]" Punitto added, which caused the vines to deal increased damage against the NPCs Ninjas,

"This isn't fair!" the Grandmaster exclaimed,

"Oh really? Then I guess trying to assassinate our Guild Leader counts as being fair to you?" Punitto ridiculed him, "Fine, if you want this to be fair then I'll make a deal, you fight Takemikazuchi-sama one-on-one, and we kick your friend's asses. How does that sound to you?"

"You son of a-"

"It's a yes then!" Punitto immediately replied, leaving the Ninja raging to himself while fighting Takemikazuchi,

"Sheesh! Punitto Moe-san sure is scary today! This is way worse than the tongue-lashing he would give to us!" Momonga thought as he observe his friend's savagery, "Hm?"

"Everyone charge! Support the Grandmaster with all your might!" the Beastmaster yelled, all of his beast monster soon followed his lead and charged into the fray,

"Oi! The plan! Don't forget about the plan!" the Wizard tried to remind him,

"Screw it! Everyone, Attack!" the Dark Magician soon follow the Beastmaster lead, and started to throw spell after spell,

"Looks like they've given up on strategizing" Momonga said as he observed their reckless charge,

"Cheh, you guys are the most stupidest players I've ever met on Yggdrasil. You people didn't even try to protect your Knight who is important to your overall party formation, didn't even check what kind of an arrow he was shot with. And your Ninja decided to try to assassinate our Leader rather than the Sniper! He's either very rash or plain idiotic!-" "-Oi!-" "-Not only that, your teamwork is basically none existent!" he raised his vine hand with an open palm, [Silent Cast] [Combined Magic], "[Earth Tsunami]"

The ground infront of the heteromorphs suddenly come alive and rises to about 70 feet,

"What the hell?"

"Are they cheating?! They must be cheating! How the hell did they cast such a spell!?"

"So they must resort to hacking the game just so they can win?!"

"Nevermind that! We're going to be entombed into the earth!"

All of them tried to run away from the tsunami that is crashing onto them, which didn't make much of a difference as all of them still got caught in its AoE attack, it gave them several debuff in the process, "Dazed","Slow","Stuck","Entombed"

[Silent Cast] [Combined Magic] "[Volcanic Eruption]" Momonga casted a spell as soon as the Tsunami crashed onto them,

Suddenly the ground shakes and a mini-volcano came out of the ground which slowly grows to about the same height as the Tsunami before which then erupts, sending a fury of molten rocks, toxic black smokes and ashes, and lava flowing down its steep slopes, Peroroncino from somewhere shot a shining red arrow into the Volcano's mouth. A few moments later the Volcano then erupts in a destructive fashion, shooting up a geyser of lava toward the sky, which then splatter across the battlefield. Killing the weakened party of raiders

The Guild, Ainz Ooal Gown has triumphed over The Raiders from The Guild, Heroes of Dawn! Congratulations!

"Man, I didn't get to do 'anything' at all..." Ulbert said, a bit disappointed that he can't even cast one of his [Combined Magic] that he discovered himself,

"Don't worry Ulbert-san, I'm sure we'll get more Guinea Pigs soon" Momonga reassured him by patting him on the shoulders before looking toward Takemikazuchi... who is just sitting down, "What?..."

"Did you have fun?" Takemikazuchi said,

"Well, yes. I think so. What happened Takemikazuchi-san?"

"That assassin I faced... He just keeps complaining and whining... Not even focusing wholeheartedly during our fight," he suddenly released some kind of a depressed aura in the virtual world, which shocked Momonga for a moment,

"Wha- What is this!? Is this some kind of a passive ability or am I imagining it- WAIT, Why is this even happening in the first place?!"

"It's the most disappointing fight I've ever had. I even had this fight all envisioned in my head!" Takemikazuchi then stood up and went on a tirade while walking mindlessly of how he; the Evil right-hand being of the Sorcerer King, prevented an assassination on the King from happening and so in their desperate attempt to win all of them charged forward, and him, Takemikazuchi will give him a glorious death along with his comrades. Parrying! Clashing! Deflecting Shuriken and Kunai! and so on and so forth...

"Well then... Seems like he snapped out of it himself" Momonga said as he turn around to leave him in his land of fantasy, "Anyway..."

Punitto casted [Control Weather] to make it rain so the lava doesn't destroy any of the items. Even if they didn't cast it, items that are relic grade and up usually are very durable and tough enough to receive little to no lasting damage from hazards. Momonga told them to cast Weather Control and make it rain, "Just to be safe" he said. Ulbert on the other hand commanded the NPCs to scavenge the area for items and return once they finished searching for items. Takemikazuchi finally stopped monologuing to himself and came out a bit more cheerful than expected, saying "Ah, how wonderful it would be if we can fight like that"

"Well done everyone" Momonga said, "Now let's go back inside and hear what Peroroncino-san has to say about our performance. Punitto-san did he find anyone spying on us?"

"Nothing of the sort. He told me through Message that he didn't see any players in a 5 kilometer radius. But, there would be a lot of players spying on us after this once they post it on the forums"

"Then let's head inside and discuss about our plan after this"

All of them used their Ainz Ooal Gown Ring to teleport back inside, leaving the NPCs to collect the items for them


In the following months after fighting through a wave of challengers at their Guild Base, Ainz Ooal Gown became the hottest topic of discussion in the forum. They have grown in infamy ever since they posted a topic challenging the players to fight them using the Virtus System. On the forum, there are many topics, which relates to Ainz Ooal Gown: "I have proof Ainz Ooal Gown cheated!", "Hackers! All of them!", "Ban them!", "Yggdrasil Devs should just delete their accounts!", " %&^* them! [Deleted]"

If one were to go in and participate in the topics they would see comments saying they have proven that they are cheating or hacking, and went on to explain in a long paragraph of words of why with a video attached to it showcasing the 'proof' that they did. Some of the more zealous players got themselves forum banned for posting an expletive comment explaining why AOG must be banned, well let's hope they don't end up banning themselves instead. Underneath all of that mass exodus of comments lies a group of sensible Yggdrasil players, who are trying to figure out how AOG's member can cast such spells, like people from the Top Ranking Guild. Most of them are just trying to figure out how by watching those 'proof' videos and then asked some of the more sane players in the forum, participating in these topics to explain why to them. Some of them even tried to bribe AOG's Guild Members into revealing it for them, which didn't work unfortunately, so they are left in the dark as to how. The only challengers that AOG faced are small fries who think they can beat them at their own 'game' by using loopholes in the system which also ended up getting them banned by using them a bit too much that the Anti-Cheat System noticed with the added benefit of the Yggdrasil Devs patching the loopholes soon after. Thanks to AOG's bait they managed to catch some players who are using Divine Items and beaten them, these players then went on to become the most vocal players in favour of banning them for allegedly cheating or hacking the game, ironically some of them end up getting banned themselves

Thanks to the Divine Items and the mass of wealth they collected from the invading players, they have risen up in ranks to about 6th place in the guild rankings


Notes from Author

I must focus- nep nep! Let's play neptunia rebirth!- Not yet! not until I finish writing this chapter- Nep nep!- Motivation is too low... I can't continue writing like this- Nep nep! Play Neptunia!

Nep nep nep nep! Nepupon!

Serious Note:

I can't believe I haven't played Neptunia till now haha, I'm so behind the times. I kept finding myself wanting to just play neptunia all day and not writing my fanfiction, hahaha... This isn't good is it? But the game's opening is dope yo! Have you seen it!? Although it ain't visually appealing but still! IT'S DOPE AS- *Cut off*