Hello everyone, this is the third chapter, please enjoy.
I released it so quickly because I was getting impatient.XD.
If it seemed like that Momonga did not have many dialoge scenes, it is because this story is a prologue and the actual stories will be the several sequels I release in the future.
Anyway, there will probably no romance relating to Ainz, as he has spend an eternity as a skeleton.
To the guy who suggested Momonga going to In Another world with smartphone world and kill all the gods: I actually like this suggestion, I will probably write it, I mean I don't hate the series, but I was always annoyed by the clichè gods portrayed in the show, and while I don't know if you mean it as a joke or not, I will still do it, since i like the idea. Thanks bro.
And to my other friend who suggested this many anime: Thank you, and don't worry, as I said before I don't plan on any romance for Ainz.
And expext more magic of 11th tier and above to be used in the future sequals.
Disclaimer: I don't own overlord.
The Abyss: Prologue
Chapter 3
He registered the blank darkness of nothingness of an abyss as he regained his consciousness. And then the first thought that crossed his mind was,"Where am I?" and then," And who am I?",he tried to take a look at himself, only to come across nothingness.
In an unknown place, with no memories, and just nothingness to look at, a state which would put many into a state of total confusion and terror, yet for some reason he didn't feel anything, just curiosity.
It seemed like he did not have a physical form, at least for now?
"I wondered, how I used to look like, if I ever had a physical form?"At that moment when he expressed the minute desire of wanting to know his physical form, several images flashed through his consciousness, one of a regal looking skeleton dressed in expensive looking artifacts and the others of an average looking human, each varying in age.
He then imagined himself looking like that skeleton and at that very same moment when looked at himself, he realised that he had taken that same form he imagined.
"Could it be, that these things happened because I willed them to?"(1) Overcome with curiosity and eager to test out this theory, he wished to know the circumstances that lead to this moment. And then his wish came true, he remembered his time as a human, playing YGGDRASIL, waiting for the server shut down, being trapped in the Abyss, trying to escape it and causing himself great pain and then finally losing consciousness.
"Then, how am I still conscious and how does anything I wish comes true."
The answer came to him, he regained consciousness because he had successfully absorbed all of the Abyss after an immeasurable amount of time, which lead to him ascending to such a state that he did not have any limits, so he became unable to remain unconscious.
That same answer also applied to his second question, now that he is a boundless being, he can do anything he wants to he had ascended to a state beyond even True Omnipotence, because even Truely Omnipotent beings have some restrictions, but him, on the other hand, did not have any.
"Interesting.", was his only thought, albeit with a little excitement, remnants of his old self."But what should I do now."
He could go back in time, before the shut down of YGGDRASIL and turn the programmed nazarick into a reality, he didn't even need to go back in time, all he needs is to wish for nazarick to be recreated and it will happen.
Now that he had ascended beyond all bounds, he is also a completely separate existence to his counterparts and all selves across all the times, even of he erases all of his counterparts, past, present and future selves out of the out of the existence, it will not affect him at all, mentally, physically or in any other way. So even if he were to encounter his past counterpart, it will not do anything to him.
With the time travel being safe, if he were the same person he was before his ascension, he would have definitely re created nazarick. But he was not that same person. After all this time, he didn't feel much attachment to anything much, so he did not feel like following that idea.
But maybe he still had some attachment to the tomb, so, if only just to satisfy himself he used his powers to reach toward the past, a minute before the end of YGGDRASIL and appeared in his old apartment room, making his presence, he took a look at his counterpart, who was still in the virtual world of YGGDRASIL, he changed reality and made it so this version of himself gets to spend time with the Nazarick he once loved.
Now satisfied I in knowing that he at least played a part in bringing nazarick to reality, he reported to an empty dimension , and then, he realised something, that there was one thing he did feel like doing, one thing he somehow still liked, and that was travelling.
"So that's what I will do." But where will he go, was the question. So he wished to know, what existed out their, how many universes were out their , while at the same time stopping himself from getting the knowledge about what was inside the universes, after all what use is travelling if he already knew everything there is to see
The knowledge he wished for came to him, like a universe was a concentration of an infinite amount of timeline, a multiverse was a combination of many universes, ranging from a few in numbers to even infinite amount. A hyperverse was, similarly a combination of many multiverses. Then there were outerverses, then there came many other verses, until finally there came the omniverse. An omniverse was a collection of an infinite amount of every other verse, an infinite amount of abyss ( like the one he was born from), etc.
With this knowledege, came excitement, after having been trapped for many eternities, he was very excited for his travels.
"But still." he thought, " I should avoid using my true power and rely only on magic for things." After all, he did bit know how many other boundless entities exist in the omniverse, neither did he know if they were friendly or hostile. Shaking his head, he pushed those paranoid thoughts out of his mind and prepared a portal to any random universe.
"Now then" If he had take the form of a creature with movable mouth, his face would be covered with a huge grin of excitement.
"Let the never ending story begin."
The End.
So the prologue ends.
(1) The things happen because he wills them to, the first time he asked the questions 'who am I' and 'where am I' ge was only wondering and so he did not get a answer, but the second time wished to see how he looked like, and so his wish came true. Those wishes that he wants to come true, will be the ones to come true and just a passing thought will not come true.
Even if Momonga is boundless now, the remnants of some of his past traits still remain, one of them is his love for adventure. Since he likes to travel, he will avoid using his true power and will only use magic to do things most of the time, rarely using his true power.Besides, he had developed a spell which allowed to absorb infinity, though only because the said infinity did not have any conscious will, he was already boundless, the only difference is that he had now 'officially' ascended to a boundless state.
After some time I will release many sequals, which may have happened before of after each other, so look forward to them.
The final decision of which world will he travel next will be up to me, but I would like it if you guys give me some suggestions in the comments.
There are some major differences between this series and 'Born from a Void' series that are,
Firstly, I will not write about the first universe Momonga visits, all the stories of 'The Abyss' series will take place at random times. And the the second story of 'Born from a Void' will take place right after the prologue and rest of the stories will take place at random times.
Secondly, despite the fact that both Momonga(from The Abyss) and Izayoi( from the Born from a Void ) are equal in power, they have differences in personality, the theme of this story is to see Momonga travel accross the omniverse and enjoy things as they are, while the theme of 'Born from a Void' is to see Izayoi meddle and change things in many universes for his own amusement.
Thirdly, while Izayoi will visit other universes, he will stay in the Mondaiji tachi verse, when he is not meddling in the state of other verses. But Momonga will be permanently travelling.
Now let me clear a few things,
1. Momonga will be literally invincible ( he is a boundless being after all ), but that will not make the story boring. Because the Abyss series is about him travelling accross the omniverse, and he will be the main character who helps others develop and meddles sometimes for his own amusement.
2. Momonga will have many alias , like Suzuki Momon, Ainz, etc., and he will also keep changing his form very often.
3. He may seem very OOC at times, but it will be because of the fact he is a now the Abyss itself and can do anything and also that he has spent an immemorable amount of time alone.
Now,
1. how strong is Momonga?
Like I already stated he has boundless power. He is a boundless beyond everything.
2. who is stronger between Momonga (from The Abyss) or Izayoi (from the Born from a Void)?
both are equally strong, as I have already stated. Since they both are boundless they are equally strong.
And there are characters as strong as them in the omniverse, but there are none stronger than them in the omniverse.
Edit:
Hey guys, I have added this note to clarify a few things,
1. Ainz is a boundless entity, yes, but don't worry, since he does not want other boundless entities to find him he will rarely use his true powers, even if he does, it will be very little.This is because of reminants of his paranoid personality. He does not know if the other boundless entities will be violent towards him or not.
2. The meaning of boundless, to me is that they have no restrictions and can do anything, even the thing true Omnipotent entities should not be able to do, like control his powers completely and leave the plane of existance he came from.
3. If Momonga wills the knowledge, then he will also find out that he is a fiction character and other things, but he probably will not do so, after all, when you are boundless, you can never imagine yourself to be just fiction.
Edit 2: I understand people's concerns that Momonga being boundless will lead to removing the suspense from the story. But you guys don't have to worry as, an attack from other boundless entities is something Momonga is most afraid of and since his all knowing and all seeing powers don't work on other boundless beings his paranoia over them will only increase , which will lead to him only using magic attacks as a means to fight or do anything else, if he ever does so. And another thing is that while Momonga will travel accross the omniverse, he will not go around helping people, he only seeks amusement at this point, and he will mostly stand back and observe most of the time, some times changing things for his amusement only.
And finally he will go around creating misunderstandings and helping side characters develop, due to the fact that he will be curious of the potential lesser beings.
What I want to do to make sure this series doesn't get boring is that I will make it so that he bends things for his own amusement and focus on putting arrogant people in their place, because in canon Momonga hates stuck up people and even this version of him which has ascended to a boundless state will still find 'stupid people who consider themselves strong' reaction to his power amusing.
An example would be him going to the highschool dxd universe and putting the gods in their place because they annoy him.This is why I like a protagonist overpowered beyond belief, because they can put some arrogant people in their place and amuse us because of that, of course if the protagonist has a hero complex it ruins the story, because it ruins the while premise of "overpowered protagonist not letting anyone walk over them".He will also kick the butts of hero wannabe, like that one side character from arifureta.
edit 3: before I forget, since momonga doesn't need any development, he will create and possess dummy bodies, while suppressing his powers, the bodies will be so weak that he will not be able to use powers higher than a certain level when inside them, but he would still be capable of discarding those bodies any time, if they appear as an hindrance to him or if they are destroyed. He will do this to increase the challange for himself and I have done it to make the story more intersting.