Second chapter, please enjoy.

Thank you everyone for reading my story I can not tell you how happy I am about it.

Another thing, the next section will contain spoilers for the ending of this story, but it will also answer some of you questions, so here is it.

SPOILER ALERT

Nazarick will not appear any in any of the sequels unless enough people are for it.

SPOILER END

Disclaimer: I don't own overlord.

The Abyss: Prologue

Chapter 2

"What is going on?!"

Momonga thought as a wave of panic surged through his body, only to calm down as a ethereal green glow surrounded his body.

Now calm, but still confused , he examined his body, it was not his human body, but instead it was the body of a large skeleton dressed in garments fit for a king. The body of his game avatar.

"Is this a glitch?"

It was possible, maybe the admins pushed back the shut down and it was due to that this glitch had occurred. But that theory was shot down by the fact that he could feel the soft cloths on his body, a feature which should be impossible in the game. And he had also tried to log out only to find out that he cannot access the console.

He then tried to contact the GM , or any other player through the message spell, only for it to reach nothing.

He finally excepted it, he was trapped, in a void of nothingness, in the body of his game avatar. And it can't be a dream since he can feel things like they are real and not a dream.

"Then what about nazarick?" It was gone along side YGGDRASIL, unlike him.

"How is this even possible?" Momonga wondered, trying to think of all the possibilities, but they all reached a dead end.

With nothing to do , he just started to aimlessly float across the void , some time passed before a thought came to him. If he was in the body of his game avatar, he should also have access to magic, his skills and items. And so, he tried to equip him magic items from his inventory.

Starting with the Divine class items, he tried all of the items in his inventory. their abilities seemed to work, but he can not be sure, without any target to that them out on.

"Target. Of course that's it." An idea came to him.

"Summon Mid-tier undead: Death knight"

Black coloured goo like substance appeared from his fingers and took the form of a skeletal monster. It had a large shield in hand and sword in the other with a horned helmet and a black tattered cape. It was a death knight, a mid level summon with a defensive skills. Its strongest ability is a skill, which allows it to survive any attack with a single HP intact. Perfect as a target.

And so he summoned many more Death Knights and then began to test his magic items in them, one by one. When he was out of the number of times he could summon Undead with his skill, he began to use summoning spells for creating targets.

After the items and skills, he began to test out his spells, taking a break whenever he ran out of mana, before starting again.

Some time passed.

Eventually he ran out of spells, skills and items to test. So he decided to take a look at his status.

It was exactly like he remembered it. But, there was one major difference, his mana bar, which had already surpassed normal limits, was now even higher than before.

While testing out his magic, skills and items , he had run out of mana many times. And apparently it lead to his already insane mana reserves increasing.

This opened a lot of new possibilities for him to explore. If he can increase his mana reserves, then this suggests he might also be able to develop new spells. Maybe, even a spell which allow him to escape this place.

And so, clinging of to this bit of hope, he started to study magic, from books of YGGDRASIL.

In YGGDRASIL, there were many books, story books, spell books and many others. But many of these books were just for show, a collectors items, and Momonga, being a miser had still collected them. But after they became a reality, the knowledge their lore described them to have, had also become a reality, which gave him a lot of things to study from.

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A lot of time had passed, not like he was able to know how much time passed. And there was no concept of time or reality in this place anyway.

By now he had forgotten his human name and every thing about himself that had nothing to do with YGGDRASIL or this place he was trapped in. The only reason he even remembered YGGDRASIL was because of the items he had that kept reminding him of his favourite game.

Momonga had been studying magic for a long time now( again there is no concept of time here ). He had also studied the place he was in, with the limited resources he had, and decided to call it the Abyss. He had even developed higher tier of magic, even up to the 34th tier and was on the verge of reaching 35th tier

He had developed many spells, mostly those of 11th tier( Super tier ) and above.

Studying of magic was a good was for him to pass the time and not get get insane, even though he can't get insane, due to being an undead.

But one day, he came across an idea, which might just be his key to getting out of the Abyss.

It was a spell called Energy Drain. In YGGDRASIL this spell was used to drain the opponents levels and gain a temporary boost in return.

But when he used it on one of his summons, he found out that it increases some of his own levels, by adding 1/4th of the targets levels into his own, permanently at that. Excited with this find, he developed many new spells which allow him to absorb the powers of other, without any limits and he succeeded when he developed the 15th tier spell True Energy Drain, a spell on par with a world class item.

But the most fascinating thing which happened was the fact that when he had the insane idea of trying to absorb the nothingness of the Abyss, and as expected, it did not word, but the effort was worth it in his eyes as, when he tried it instead of absorbing energy from the void, it instead pulled an Eternal Death summon of his towards himself.

Due to this he came across a theory, that when this spell has nothing to absorb, it tries to attract any absorbable thing towards itself, much like a vacuum.

And so he thought, if he develops a extremely high level variant of energy Drain, he might be able to attract something towards himself, like an abnormability in reality, similar to the one that brought him here.

Then he began to develop more and more spells, reaching the 34th tier, surpassing even the True world class(1). And now he was finally about to develop a 35th tier spell, which he called Infinity Drain, that he hoped will help him escape the Abyss.

"Now to test it." said Momonga to no one in particular.

"Infinity Drain."

And it turned out to be a mistake. As soon as he activated the spell, he cried out as he felt an ubearable amount of pain coursing through his entire body.

"How?!" He thought painfully. His pain nullified should suppress any physical pain, then it occurred to him, what if the pain he was feeling, was not physical but spiritual?

"Then is my soul going to be destroyed, if it continues like this?" Panicking he tried to turn off the spell, only to discover that he was unable to do so."I will have to wait for my mana to run out then." He then tried to sense his mana through the pain and much to his horror, it was not reducing but instead, the mana bar was increasing at an alarming rate.

"Could it be.. that I am absorbing the Abyss." If it is true then this theory would explain the pain he was feeling.

"Ugh, The pain is becoming even more unbearable. I have no other choice then."

He activated a skill he developed through creation magic (19th tier), which allowed him to forcefully shut down his consciousness, indefinitely, waking him up after a designated condition has been met.

As his consciousness faded away, he realised too late through the pain, that he did not designate any condition for himself to wake up.

To be continued...

Another cliffhanger, hehe , I am so evil.

While the concept of time or reality does not exist in the Abyss, if we convert Momonga's stay in the Abyss, up until this chapter, into time in human years , it will be:970,064,784,785,789,457,784,896,489,009,887 years.Of course, it will increase in the third chapter.

(1) 20th tier is the final stage of true world tier, aka, the power of the 20 World class items