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Just to clear things up, now let's carry on!

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"What the Hell?!"

Vaughn looked around and kept blinking in an attempt to make sense of his surroundings that most certainly were not his dive room back home. As he was looking at his gloved hands he heard a deep, commanding, and concerned voice come from his left. "Vaughn, is that you?"

Whipping his head around, on the throne he sees the avatar of his friend looking at him expectantly. "Momonga?" Hearing the question in the voice of the Shade, the Overlord nods an acknowledgment. "Yes, it's me. What the hell is going on? Weren't we supposed to be forcibly logged out already?"

As Momonga opened his mouth a far different voice interjected into their conversation "My Lords? Is there a problem?" At the same time Momonga and Vaughn turned to the source of the voice only to find the beautiful form of Albedo looking at the two of them concerned. "If there is a problem please let me know so that I may rectify it."

{Momonga can you hear me?}

{I can Vaughn, what is going on? I'm not the only one seeing that Albedo's mouth is moving right?}

{No you are not. For now let's just try to gather some Intel.}

Finishing his brief telepathic conversation with Momonga he turned to Albedo and the Pleiades. "Nothing is quite wrong Albedo, at least nothing you can address. For the time being, Sebas."

Upon hearing his name called the older looking gentleman raised his head "Lord?" he asked, waiting to be tasked.

'Is this alright?' Vaughn thought to himself 'whether it is or not this needs to be taken care of.' Vaughn brought his glowing yellow eyes to meet the steely gaze of the butler. "Sebas, you are to take CZ Delta and Lupusregina Beta to confirm the situation outside of the Tomb. You are not to extend your observation beyond 1 km of the Tombs outer walls. If there is any intelligent response to your observation immediately fall back and call for either myself or Momonga. Understood?" As he spoke he noticed that his voice was willowy but firm fading in and out as though there were two or three speaking just out of sync. He was still understandable but he felt as though his voice held an echo.

Sebas, CZ, and Lupusregina lowered their heads as Sebas replied for the three of them "Lord, your will is our command."

As the three stood and left Momonga spoke up "As for the rest of the Pleiades, you are to guard the ninth floor and do not allow anyone to enter the floor."

The remaining Battle Maids bowed their heads and replied with a resounding "Lord!" before standing to complete their assigned task. After they had left the room Momonga turned to his friend before establishing another mental link.

{Now that we've set a course in here we have to ensure that this is reality and not a new DMMORPG. To that end I'm going to run a short test but I ask that you don't judge me too hard.}

Looking at Momonga, Vaughns eyes change from a vibrant yellow to a subdued orange in confusion before his friend spoke up "Albedo, before we go any further with our planning I require your assistance with a small experiment. Would you allow me to touch you?"

Before Vaughn could even think about what was going on Albedo excitedly shouted "Of course Lord Momonga, you can touch me as much as you like." Still so very confused, Vaughn watched as his friend took Albedo's wrist and held it for a moment.

Momonga appeared to be deep in thought for a few seconds before he looked up at Albedo and said in what sounded like an uncertain tone "Now may I touch your chest?" Vaughn paused for half a second, he obviously hadn't heard that right.

Before Vaughn could ask him to repeat himself Albedo almost blew out his semi-corporeal eardrums "My Lord, Nothing would make me happier, please do!" as she grabbed his wrist and forcefully planted it on her ample bosom. Immediately Vaughn's eyes turned a vibrant reddish pink hue as he turned his head, suddenly finding that wall over there very interesting.

After ten seconds Vaughn peaked out of the corner of his eye to see that the Overlord hadn't moved his hand and that the Succubus was squirming in pleasure. {Momonga? How long do you plan on groping Tabula's daughter?}

Upon receiving the mental slap on the wrist Momonga withdrew his hand as though Vaughn actually had struck him "Albedo, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to-"

Before he could finish his apology Albedo let out a small but excited voice "Is this it? Are you going to take me right here Lord Momonga? What about my clothes? Shall I undress or do you want to do it yourself? What should I-"

And before she could finish her absurd list of questions and thoughts about that particular subject, Vaughn cleared his throat "Ahem. Albedo, I understand that such thoughts are a part of being a succubus, however I ask that you please restrain yourself for the time being. We are currently in an unknown situation and will be for the foreseeable future."

After the scolding of the Shade standing not even 5 feet away Albedo stood and righted herself back into the posture of the Guardian Overseer "Forgive me, Lord Vaughn, I forgot about the situation for a moment and lost myself. Thank you for bringing me back to my senses." She said bowing her head to him.

Once Vaughn had told her to think nothing more of it Momonga spoke up once again. "Albedo, with the exceptions of the Guardians of the eighth and fourth floors I want you to gather all of the Floor Guardians in the sixth floor amphitheater in one hour."

Giving her acknowledgement, Albedo turned and left to accomplish her given task. After she left Vaughn turned to Momonga. "Alright spill it, I know that succubi in general are supposed to be horny as all hell but that was on a whole other level. And it wasn't a general kinda horny either, that was directed at you specifically. Why?" Under the withering gaze of his friend Momonga broke and told him about the single line change in her settings that led to this outcome. Releasing a long sigh Vaughn shook his head, "Look I get your reasoning but now they are all real. So it's on you to take responsibility for changing her like this."

"I understand that but now I feel like I'm taking advantage of her because of the changes I made."

"Look, if you don't at least acknowledge her things will probably get worse before they get any better. She is a succubus, she can only keep her lust at bay for so long."

"I get it, now before you scold me any more we really should head up to the sixth floor. I wanted to test my magic to ensure that it still functions correctly."

Vaughn sighed, he felt like his friend was just avoiding the problem, but his excuse was a valid one so he nodded before instinctually using the Guild Ring to teleport to the sixth floor. It was only after he appeared in the corridor to the Colosseum that he froze and realized exactly what he had done.

Momonga appeared next to him and chuckled "Are you that desperate to get away from me?" he asked mockingly.

Vaughn shook his head, "No, I just did it. I didn't even think about it, it just happened as if it was second nature." Vaughn cupped his chin in thought, after a moment the luminous orbs that his eyes grew slightly, giving the impression of widened eyes. "No it is second nature, literally. My shadow teleportation, the flavor text says that 'while mechanically different, it is just like other kinds of teleportation magic. Because of this Shades have a much higher capacity to understand and apply teleportation effects.' If the new world makes flavor text true like my shadow teleportation or Albedo's setting text, what else is possible that wasn't before?"

Momonga gripped his chin, "I agree that this definitely requires more analysis. Maybe we could allow Pandora's Actor or Titus access to the Item descriptions. However if we keep adding things to our to do list we are never going to finish our current tests." he said as he continued walking towards the gate at the end of the hall.

"Agreed." The Shade replied before falling into step next to his friend. As the two entered into the open air of the Colosseum Vaughn looked around in amazement. Now that this was all real he felt that Blue Planet did a wonderful job designing the look and feel of everything on this floor. After a moment he caught up to Momonga who had stepped down to the floor of the Arena.

Just as he was wondering where the twin guardians of this floor where, a diminutive figure propelled itself out of the VIP box before landing with a cloud of dust. Once the dust cleared he could see a young elf girl wearing a jacket made of red and black dragon scales with a white and gold vest emblazoned with the sigil of Ainz Ooal Gown on the left breast. She was holding her hands with her fingers extended in a V before she ran over to stand before the two Supreme Beings that stood in her domain. "Welcome to my floor Lord Momonga, Lord Vaughn. How can I help you today my Lords?"

"Aura, sorry to impose on you we just had a few tests we would like to run. I really hope we cause you too much of a bother." Vaughn said, grasping his hands behind his back.

Aura shook her head back and forth while holding up her hands in a stopping gesture. "Please Lord Vaughn, you could never inconvenience us. We are always more than happy to help you with anything you need, after all the whole Tomb belongs to the both of you."

Momonga nodded his head before looking around. "Thank you Aura. Speaking of the two of you, where is your brother?"

Aura looked over her shoulder in surprise that he wasn't right behind her before turning completely and calling loudly "Mare! You're being rude to the Masters, get down here now!"

A similarly small head peaked over the edge of the VIP box before a small voice came down "I can't Sis, I'm scared."

Aura opened her mouth to yell back up at him but before she could Vaughn placed his hand on her shoulder "Don't worry, I will get him down here safely." he told her with the hint of a mischievous tone in his voice before opening his hand in the sky above his head "[Shadow Gate]" as he said this both in the air above him as well as in Mare's own shadow, a link was formed and Mare fell straight into Vaughn's waiting arms.

Mare shyly held his skirt down as Vaughn held him. "T-thank you, L-lord Vaughn." the boy replied skittishly.

"You're welcome Mare, I can understand the fear of jumping 90 feet, but you should learn to have faith in yourself and those around you. Do you really think that Aura, Momonga, or I would really let you get hurt? Of course not, Momonga and I see you both as if not our own children then at least as our niece and nephew, right?" he replied looking over his shoulder at the Overlord.

"Right, we would much rather die than let you get hurt." Momonga said, taking Vaughn's que. "Now before we move onto our tests I should inform you that I've called most of the other Floor Guardians to gather here in about an hour."

"Eh? Does that mean Shalltear is coming?" Aura asked, looking put out about it.

"Yes Aura, she was not among those who are staying at their posts." Momonga said, as he began to step forward with the staff of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Upon seeing the golden staff, Aura and Mare looked at it with mouths agape "Lord Momonga, is that the staff of Ainz Ooal Gown?" Aura asked, amazed.

Momonga looked at the staff in his hand with pride "Indeed it is Aura, each of the stones-"

Vaughn tuned out the conversation as he did his own mental checklist, 'Okay so my abilities work as described, if not as designed. So next I think I want to test magic, wait there was something in the flavor text of the Tome of Wisdom that is making me a bit worried. So first reread it's flavor text, then test my magic.' As he pulled himself out of his thoughts to see the dragonoids placing a couple of targets for Momonga. "I'm going to be doing some reading up in the VIP box if you need me." He told his friend.

After receiving a nod of confirmation from Momonga, Vaughn cast fly on himself and sat in his designated seat in the VIP box and opened the item description for the Tome of Wisdom.

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This Tome was used through the centuries by several spell casters, wizards and sorcerers, arcanists and warlocks, clerics and necromancers. After so long the Tome developed a form of sentience and learned from its users just as they learned from it. Not long after it developed these near-thoughts it came into the possession of an Overlord Wiseman that used the Tome to record the spells as well as many observations about his own Dark Wisdom. Using the information that was inscribed within it, the Tome improved its own knowledge and wisdom, while not becoming intelligent it is at least instinctual.

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Vaughn started scrolling through the description when he realized just how long winded it was but stopped when he saw the text that he remembered seeing before.

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After several of its users were killed one after another for ownership of the Tome it learned a defense mechanism to try to keep its users alive. It learned how to "catch" the magic from a spell, ability, or item to prevent the death of the user. While not perfect it kept them alive longer than they previously were able to.

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If Vaughn had a mouth it would probably be hanging wide open. If that was true this item could be the most overpowered World Item. He stood up to see Momonga watching the twins finish their fight against the primal fire elemental. Vaughn hopped down to his friend not even worrying about flying, "Momonga, quick silently cast a spell that would affect me." He said, sounding crazed.

"What? Why? What did you find to make you say crazy shit like that?" Momonga asked, pulling away from his friend slightly.

"Just do it trust me." Vaughn said, regaining a bit of composure.

"Fine." [silent forced move] as soon as Momonga finished casting his spell, the Tome of Wisdom on Vaughn's hip flew up in between them and flipped open to a specific page and seemed to take an impact.

As the book started to close Vaughn grabbed it and looked at the open page, "Well I didn't expect it to do that…." he said, reading what was before him, "So you attempted to cast [forced move] which from you would have pushed me back 2 meters over a single second. So it can tell me the name of the spell, the casters desired effect, and explains how to cast it. Interesting, now try a Relic Class Item."

Trusting his friend now Momonga drew a simple dagger, throwing it at his friend and once again the Tome moved to catch the blade but something different happened. As the blade hit the book it passed right through only to bounce off Vaughn's [high tier physical nullification] that could only mean that the blade was no longer enchanted. Looking at the book it listed all of the effects of the enchantment that it absorbed. "Weakness lv 5, bleeding lv 4, and a modifier for damage based on the race of the target. Interesting, I wonder.." he trailed off as he grabbed the fallen, now mundane, dagger and placed it on the Tome to check something. "It looks like I can transfer the enchantment, but it requires something else to do it." He closed the book and then turned back to Momonga, "for now I recommend that you should keep the staff as far away from me as possible. I don't want to accidentally erase the enchantment."

Turning around he saw that the twins were standing there looking amazed as a gate opened behind them and a small figure almost shot out flying directly towards Vaughn.

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