Disclaimer: Kugane Maruyama is the true writer of the Overlord light novels that the anime is based on, I am just indulging my writing and imaginative skills.
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A Different Supreme Being
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As a Dive Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game released in the year 2126, YGGDRASIL was focused on exploration and mystery as well as player freedom and customization in a fantasy environment accessible through technology that literally connected the Player's mind into the game. All Players had to uncover the advantages in playing YGGDRASIL on their own just as they were able to choose their own individual Player races, jobs, and guilds for themselves.
Among the many guilds in YGGDRASIL was Ainz Ooal Gown. Headquartered at the Great Tomb of Nazarick in the Grenbera Swamp of the world of Helheim and exclusive to Players of Inhuman races that were also employed in the real world, it was notorious in YGGDRASIL for its vast in-game accomplishments from their acquiring of Nazarick to withstanding a vast invasion of competitors.
However, after twelve years of operation, YGGDRASIL was about to shut down its servers at last, and while many Ainz Ooal Gown members kept their Player accounts per the request of their guild master just for the sake of a final goodbye on the last day, it left bittersweet emotions all the same for all members as the chances of a reunion in either a different DMMO-RPG or in real life was slim to none.
Even so, none of the Players could expect something miraculous to unfold. For while YGGDRASIL had ended, a New World was about to be explored.
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The Paladin of Pure Silver
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Part 1
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Having logged in YGGDRASIL on the last day after several years of absence due to real life commitments, the Insect Paladin known as Touch Me spent the game's final hours chatting with old friends like the guild master, Momonga, looking at his created Non-Playable Character, Sebas Tian the Head Butler of Nazarick, and exploring the Great Tomb itself. With so little time, Touch just could not focus on one certain activity when there were lots of things he wanted to do, but was able to get his happily married wife's permission to stay logged in until YGGDRASIL finally shut down, which would be when he, and all the other likeminded Players that remained, were logged out automatically.
However, by the time midnight came, and Touch was playing with his swordsmanship in the Sixth Floor Amphitheater with the desire to go out with one last action move, he felt something strange envelop him and the surrounding environment, and when his eyes could not locate his Player console needed for logging out and contacting YGGDRASIL's administrators, he tried to use the Message Spell to call his guild members for help, but instead received a reply from someone totally new.
"Is there something you need, Lord Touch Me?"
The voice sounded masculine and elderly, but Touch had no idea who it was, warranting him to ask in a deep voice that, to his surprise, was not his in the World of 2138. "Who is this?"
"Sebas Tian, my Lord." The voice replied, even though he sounded uncertain by Touch's question. "Head Butler of the Great Tomb of Nazarick and your personal creation."
'Sebas became alive?' Touch asked himself in bewilderment. Getting his focus back, he decided to play along. "Sebas, where are my guild members?"
"I've received a report from Lady Albedo that all the other Supreme Beings, excluding yourself, have vanished, Lord."
"I see." Touch replied in a controlled voice that hid his worries. He then ordered. "Step out of the Great Tomb and confirm our surroundings, Sebas. I'll join you soon enough."
"By your will, I will obey." Sebas responded reverentially and the connection broke, leaving Touch alone to his thoughts.
'Should I have really given him an order?' The Paladin asked himself unsure, but ultimately shrugged it off and decided to find the Dark Elf twins that served as the Guardians of the Sixth Floor to see if they had become sentient or not as well.
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After encountering Aura Bella Fiora and Mare Bello Fiore and seeing that they were not only sentient, but touchable simply by patting their childish heads, Touch then used his Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown to teleport to the Tomb's entrance where Sebas was waiting for him. Passing by the bowing butler in the guise of an elderly Human, Touch saw his first glimpse of a night sky clearer and more genuine than anything he saw before on his polluted and divided home world as well as in YGGDRASIL. Awed for only a moment, Touch stepped out himself, placed his helmet and gloves in his inventory by thought, and brought himself down on his knees to touch the surrounding glass that Nazarick had been teleported to upon the end of YGGDRASIL.
'It's real grass on real ground.' Touch thought to himself with an excited chirp from his insect mandibles. After being raised up in an arcology and observing farming only in biodomes, Touch could see and feel nature's genuine wonders for the first time in his entire life. 'Blue Planet wasn't kidding when he said that natural beauty should never have been wasted on Earth!'
The thought of his old guild member, however, filled Touch with melancholy as he remembered that he was the only one from his guild who appeared to have come to the New World he and the NPCs find themselves in. Thinking of his wife and daughter in Japan of 2138 made him even more miserable. In a rageful burst of grief, his hands formed into fists and he slammed down on the ground as he began to scream.
"Lord Touch Me, what is wrong?" Sebas asked in alarm as he brought himself to his creator's left side on one knee. "Are you hurt?"
Bringing himself to glare at Sebas in a way that he was taken aback by it, Touch suddenly felt guilty of putting Sebas in a bad spot, exhaled, and then replied. "I'm not physically hurt, or ill, Sebas. It's just that as I look at this New World's unparalleled beauty, I'm reminded of all those I left behind without meaning to. There has to be a way I can return to my original world."
"But you will take us with you, my Lord?" Sebas could not help but ask in a desperate tone. He then added. "Please forgive me for being presumptuous, but without you or any of the other Supreme Beings, we would all be lost without your guidance. You created us, therefore, it's only natural that we all eternally serve you."
Momentarily weirded out by Sebas' zealousness, Touch moved on from that topic to instead say. "I'm not sure that you can come to my world, Sebas. I don't even know how we came to be here." Placing a hand on his creation's shoulder, he then said. "I appreciate that you want to help me, Sebas, but I am still lost all the same."
After a moment of silence, Sebas bowed his head and replied in a serious tone. "Then let all of us help you, my Lord. We will obey any order you give us, even at the cost of our of lives."
Sighing to himself, but content with Sebas' loyalty, Touch rose up and said to him. "It's good to know that I can rely on you at least. Let's head back inside, Sebas. I must talk strategy with the Floor Guardians."
With Sebas following suit, Touch reentered the Great Tomb of Nazarick with an internal vow that he would dedicate his time in the New World towards. 'I will return to my family someday. And with Nazarick by my side, I will finally bring not only justice, but a true tomorrow to my world.'
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Had some difficulty in writing other stuff at the time, so I figured that I would try something new in the form of how a different member of Ainz Ooal Gown would do if any of them took Momonga's role in the story of Overlord after looking up similar fanfiction depictions and YouTube videos that talked about such stuff. In terms of format, this will be like my One Piece series, Luffy's Universal Queens, in how each story is about a certain Supreme Being/pairing, so do not expect this work to solely be about Touch Me just because I started with him first.
I am not against any constructive advice my readers might give me on how to depict the moves each Supreme Being would make in the New World, but one good step at a time. I do, however, want to say that I will only be using the Ainz Ooal Gown members that were given character sheets in the light novels from Touch Me to Lucifer, with perhaps Blue Planet, Beast King Mekongawa, and Whitebrim to follow once the remaining volumes are shared since I can imagine that Maruyama will depict those three next since they were in a poll with Lucifer not too long ago.
I kind of wanted to make this longer, but there's always next time, just as there's always next month for writing more stuff.