A/N: Someone said that in a hundred years Suzuki will die- let me just say that given that Rigrit and Fluder managed to live over 200 years old, and there are many kinds of things he could use to prolong his life. Let's just see what happens in that direction...

Suzuki and Albedo spent the next few days wandering around the city of E-Rantel. Suzuki went to various shops- not always with something concrete in mind. He did enjoy seeing the various sights in this city- while in sheer size and scale it couldn't possibly measure up the city he had grown up in, it was far more beautiful and comfortable. The sky was clean and he could walk around without wearing a mask, which was all in itself a massive improvement. The architecture was impressive, even if all the buildings were not a hundred stories high. The city had a serene, warm feel to it. No wonder some guilds in Yggdrasil took cities are their bases even if they were impractical to defend.

Not that the city didn't have its darker aspects. At nearly every corner that Suzuki looked he saw starving orphans- or people with missing limbs. In a world where healing magic existed- why wasn't everyone healthy?

After asking around he got to know how the temples controlled healing magic and set a fixed price on it. He was glad he had access to a good range of healing items then, even if they were just consumables at the moment.

Albedo was mostly unimpressed by the city, though she did make Suzuki stop once so she could look at some bridal dresses. Suzuki reluctantly agreed when he saw her puppy-dog eyes.

Really, it was getting much harder to deny Albedo's increasingly creative advances- also that wasn't the only thing getting harder, if you're catching my drift.

For example, the night after their date, Albedo had tried to sidle up to Suzuki saying, "Suzuki-sama paid for my meal, that means I am of course obligated to sleep with him..."

Suzuki was pretty sure that was actually toxic thinking and that if any of the female members of his guild were around they would've punched him if he said something like that.

The other reason was that Albedo was honestly just so smoking hot that Suzuki was finding it harder and harder to keep his hands off of her. Maybe if he was one of the undead he could've controlled his urges, but honestly, Albedo probably could've turned a straight woman into a lesbian. No man could resist her urges for too long, he reasoned, unless they 100% didn't swing that way.

Suzuki had found no easy way of earning some more money, so he was extra careful with the amount he had, though based on what he could tell two thousand gold pieces was more than enough for a person to retire. When the market the adventurer's set up came around, he saw many things though they were sadly of rather poor quality- the only consolation was that he could maybe get some things cheaper than he could buy from Ralph, but he didn't see any high quality (even by the standards of this world) items there.

Eventually the day came when they had to go visit Nfirea, and as Albedo trailed behind him Suzuki knocked on the door.

"Hello! Hel-" he then paused as he saw the door was unlocked. "Nfirea-san! It's me, Suzuki! We were supposed to meet today!"

It was very odd for the door to be left unlocked in a city like this.

"Is there something that you need?" a voice called out to him. He turned around to see a short old woman looking at him.

"Ah, I'm here to meet Nfirea," Suzuki said. "He set up a meeting with me."

"Oh? And what is your name?" she asked.

"Suzuki."

"Ah, ah, you're the one with the red potion!" the woman said with a wide smile. "Ah, do come in! Even if my grandson hasn't returned, he'll be back soon!"

"Grandson?" Suzuki asked.

"Indeed. You can call me Lizzie," she said. "I taught Nfirea all he knew!" She then frowned as she opened the door. "Unlocked- but how?"

As the three of them walked in they were met with a grisly sight. The smell of blood hung in the air. And there was another smell as well-

"-undead!" Lizzie shouted as four zombies appeared out of a doorway.

Albedo was the first to react, smashing each of their heads in and ending their unlives. It was over in a flash.

Suzuki noticed something about the zombies- each of them were wearing adventurer plates.

"Silver ranked adventurers?" Suzuki wondered.

"These must be the Swords of Darkness," Lizzie said. "My grandson hired them to guard him as he went to gather herbs..."

Albedo searched the other rooms and said, "Nfirea is nowhere here."

"Agh!" Lizzie shouted. "What in god's name is going on?"

Suzuki's mind was racing. "Albedo, you should use a locator scroll."

"But Suzuki-sama, they are-" Albedo started to say, probably about to tell him it was a waste to use a consumable on someone like Nfirea. As it was Albedo did not have a lot of them given that an NPC would not really need many of them in their inventories and so Tabula had not bothered to give her many, and it wasn't like she had been a Player who would hoard goods she found.

However, Suzuki felt like he couldn't abandon Nfirea.

"Come on, if Nfirea has been taken somewhere, that means that time is of the essence," Suzuki said. He had read somewhere that the first twenty-four hours were the most crucial in a kidnapping, and given that Nfirea was not there it was likely his bodyguards had been killed and he had been taken captive.

"Understood, Suzuki-sama," Albedo said and used a scroll. "He is nearby- it seems there are a lot of gravestones there. He seems to be alive."

"The cemetery!" Lizzie said.

"Lizzie-san," Suzuki said. "Please inform the authorities about this. Albedo and I will go and try to rescue your grandson."

"Wh-what? Are you two adventurers? Or mercenaries?" Lizzie asked.

"Neither of those," Suzuki said. Nfirea was one of the first people he had met in the city, and he had struck a bargain with him which had yet to come to fruit. Not only that, but with Albedo, there seemed to be little in this world that could stop him. Something Touch-Me had told him resonated in his mind, "Helping someone in need is common sense!"

"I'm just someone trying to help," Suzuki said.

Plus, everything notwithstanding, if he helped bring some criminals to justice- it would increase his reputation in the city, which was one thing he did want in case any of his friends or the other NPCs existed in this world.

"Hold them back!" one of the guards near the cemetery screamed.

In places where large amounts of people were buried, negative energy would naturally build up, leading to the formation of undead. As such, cemeteries had to be walled off in this world and kept under guard, with priests regularly visiting the area. Adventurers would occasionally be sent in if things got too rough.

However, the guards had never seen a wave of undead like this. Calling this more akin to a tsunami would have not been incorrect. While these undead were weak, they still had the advantage of numbers and the guards would soon be overwhelmed.

That is until...

With a single blow, Albedo was able to decimate nearly a hundred of them. Her World Item was good at destroying large areas, even if it wasn't as good as a Divine Item when it came to damaging a single target.

The guards watched in awe as this person, clad in jet black armor slew large numbers of undead with every time she made a single strike- the strikes themselves sending shockwaves throughout the ranks of the zombies.

Within a minute, the situation was now once again under control, and this new warrior leaped off the wall effortlessly even though she was holding something large in one hand and into the cemetery.

"Wait? Who are you?" a guard shouted out. These people were not wearing the plates expected of adventurers nor had the guards yet had the time to raise the alarm and ask for backup from say, mercenaries.

The thing that the warrior was carrying spoke up- it was a man who was currently being carried by this new warrior as easily as if he weighed nothing. "I'm just your friendly neighborhood salaryman!"

Suzuki cringed the moment those words left his mouth, and so he was thankful that Albedo carried him far away from the guards scratching their heads wondering what a salaryman was.

Albedo could swat away the zombies with one hand while holding Suzuki with the other, but even still, she summoned her Bicorn which cut through the mob like scissors through paper as she didn't want to risk Suzuki getting hurt.

"Albedo, if there is a powerful undead creature, let me use that sealing crystal we got," Suzuki said. "I want to see if I can get XP."

"Understood, Suzuki-sama," Albedo said.

There are quite a lot of undead, Suzuki noted. He couldn't control this many even if he had his Momonga avatar... what was going on here? Or were these undead not under the control of a necromancer?

Eventually they reached a clearing where they saw a man so old he looked almost like an Elder Lich. He was carrying an orb that glowed with a dark violet light and pulsated as if it were the heart of some malevolent organism.

"What?" he croaked out as the two of them approached him. Suzuki jumped out of Albedo's arms and Albedo moved to stand in front of him.

"I think you took a friend of ours," Suzuki said. "His name was Nfirea."

"Ah, the boy," the man who was known as Khajiit said.

"Ohhoho, were you one of his friends?" a voice teased from the shadows.

A woman wearing a cloak walked out into the moonlight. She had a sinister grin on her face. "Oh... is that a Bicorn I see? Why wouldn't you be riding it then- oh wait! That's because you're a fucking loser virgin, aren't you?" She began giggling uncontrollably.

"Clementine, concentrate," Khajiit said. "Get rid of these two before they can interfere in our plans."

"Oh? But they don't look all too threatening," Clementine said. "Though I guess that one's armor does look expensive... however, if you are a virgin, maybe I can help?"

She threw away her cloak and Suzuki averted his gaze reflexively for a moment since he thought she was giving them a striptease, but instead she revealed that her clothes were made of adventurer plates.

Bile reached Suzuki's throat as he realized how many people she must've killed in order to make that outfit. This woman was a serial killer!

"Perhaps if I stuck this up yours, it would deflower you and you'd be able to ride it?" Clementine asked while holding up a dagger. "Do tell me though, were you friends with those adventurers the kid had to guard him?"

"Nope," Suzuki said.

"Aww, too bad," Clementine said. "It would've been so much fun if you gnashed your teeth while I told you how I ripped them apart piece by piece... I don't think I can get hard if you aren't angry!"

Suzuki might have been a virgin, but even he was pretty sure that wasn't how it worked.

"Enough!" Khajiit said and raised the orb in his hand. "You must be strong if you managed to make it till here... though I don't see any adventurer plates. Mercenaries perhaps? Regardless..."

A creature rose from the earth- a monster made of bones and with a large maw.

"A Skeletal Dragon," Suzuki said.

"Indeed," Khajiit said. "The worst enemy a magic caster could face! A-" He trailed off as he couldn't understand what it was that this strange man suddenly looked so happy about.

"Finally! Something worth bringing this out for!" Suzuki said and took something bright out of his inventory. "I've been waiting for this!"

The crooked smile on Clementine's face was washed away instantly. "That can't be-"

Suzuki broke the crystal. "Arise! Dominion Authority!"

"What!?" Khajiit screamed as the massive angel which was larger even than the Skeletal Dragon appeared and cast a glow that lit up the graveyard as if it were midday.

Both him and Clementine had been high ranking members of the Slane Theocracy, and as such, there was no way that they wouldn't recognize this angel and also just how dead how both of them would be if they tried to fight it.

"Impossible!" Khajiit screamed. "Just who are you?" Were they sent by the Theocracy? How had the two of them been discovered- it then clicked in his mind. Clementine! The crown that she stole must have been what led members of the scriptures here!

Clementine knew she had no chance against the angel, so she instead aimed for the summoner. She had no time to play around and launched three daggers towards Suzuki with lightning fast speed.

All three were knocked away effortlessly by Albedo.

Suzuki had not summoned a monster before, so he wasn't used to the strange mental connection they shared in this world. That being said once he familiarized himself with it a little, he knew what he had to do. "Dominion Authority! Holy Smite!"

A wave of bright light washed over the Skeletal Dragon- with its magical resistance useless to stop a seventh tier spell, breaking it up so that once the attack was done, not even ashes of it remained. That was the power of the angel against creatures aligned with evil.

Clementine knew that this was the end and so turned to run. She got three steps when she felt someone closing in on her from behind.

She activated Fortress, Lesser Dexterity, along with Flow Acceleration in anticipation of the attack.

They were all for naught as her legs were struck- and they were not simply broken. No, it was more accurate to say that both of them were completely shattered.

"Argh!" Clementine screamed in agony. How? Not even members of the Black Scripture could wound her so easily.

Suzuki had the angel strike Khajiit and watched as the man keeled over after the attack was over. It looked like the man was dead- something Suzuki didn't anticipate would happen, and which sent a feeling of revulsion through him even though he knew what the man had done.

After that, he turned to Clementine, whom Albedo had immobilized simply so that Suzuki could finish her off using the Dominion Authority.

She certainly looked pitiful, but then Suzuki's resolve hardened as he remembered the corpse of one of the adventurers they had found- one who had clearly been toyed with for some time before being allowed to die.

"Holy Smite!" Suzuki said.

And with that, Clementine's life force vanished from the world.

In Yggdrasil, one would gain more XP the lower one's level was compared to the enemy, with the opposite also being true. Being able to take down high level monsters as a level one Player would lead to a massive bonus when calculating XP gained- one of the reasons why it was easier to level up with a guild or Power Suit. As such, Suzuki felt a tidal wave of XP fill him up.

Of course, his summon was not done yet. He instructed the angel to destroy as many of the surrounding undead as it could. They had cut through the hordes to get there, but there were still many left and the guards would be soon overwhelmed again if they did not act. The angel did know a powerful area of effect spell that would could destroy many tens of undead at once.

Albedo then left to look for Nfirea, leaving her Bicorn on standby near Suzuki in case he needed to hide behind it.

With all said and done, he had gained twenty-five levels by beating the Skeletal Dragon and the two members of Zurrenorn- leading him going up to level twenty-six. Much like in Yggdrasil though, he needed to assign these levels to various classes or else they would not have any effect. Several classes appeared in his conscious, though most of them were general classes and not advanced ones like one could find later on while playing Yggdrasil.

How should he go about using them? His first reaction would be to go down the original Momonga route- but the thing was that he was sure becoming undead would have a great deal of negative consequences for him in this world. Also, he most likely couldn't strengthen himself with cash items or with Dark Wisdom in this world given how that skill needed the corpses of other Players or high level monsters- and very few people in this world seemed to know high tier spells.

As such, rather than going for a roleplaying build as he had earlier, a more "useful" build would be appropriate for this situation as it wasn't simply a game anymore. He could try for a warrior build this time, but as Albedo had that covered, a magic caster would be more useful. Not only that, he would not be able to ascertain what kind of warrior build he wanted if he didn't know what high tier weapons he would have access too- this world didn't seem to have items beyond the level of Top tier in Yggdrasil.

Certainly becoming a magic caster who specialized in dealing damage, like Ulbert, would be the best if the two of them wanted to be the strongest possible when paired up, but it would limit their options in other situations. Suzuki could also try to go for a priest build, which would help support Albedo and give them access to healing and resurrection- though with a jolt he remembered that NPCs could not be resurrected by those means, so this was most probably a bad idea..

All in all, he didn't know which classes he could get in the future in this world given that certain bosses did not exist, which made choosing a path quite difficult. He wasn't even sure whether or not he could reset the levels with the ease he could back in Yggdrasil.

As he was pondering this, Albedo came back with Nfirea slung over her shoulder. "He seems to be alive, but there is some enchantment on him that I am unable to break. I think we should take him to either the temples, or to the Magician's Guild. I also found several artifacts including gold coins, ores, scrolls, and magic wands in their hideout, though I left anything which I thought might be evidence."

"Good," Suzuki said and smiled. That meant that they probably wouldn't have to worry about supplies for a while.

"These daggers this woman were carrying are interesting," Albedo said. "Some of them have spells equipped to them, such as Charm or even Fireball."

"Such weapons didn't exist in Yggdrasil," Suzuki muttered. "Alright, Albedo, that's good work! We'll go back to our room and examine how useful the magic items you got are there."

Suzuki's eyes then went to the orb that Khajiit was carrying. Rather than glowing violet, it now looked like an ugly lump of coal. He gingerly picked it up and instantly knew what it could do.

It had a large quantity of negative energy stored in it- not only that, but he could use it to transform himself into an undead without having to use a Book of the Dead like in Yggdrasil. Such was probably what Khajiit was planning all along.

"Kill... Spread death..." a voice spoke to him. It came from the orb, which was almost sentient in itself... Suzuki could feel it attempting to bend his mind to its will, which is why he dropped it immediately as if he had suddenly picked up a hot potato.

"Is something wrong?" Albedo asked.

"That item is sentient," Suzuki said, aware of how he had almost fallen prey to its influence. Such a thing never happened in Yggdrasil. "Still, I think I might be able to use it if I were stronger..."

As it were, if he used the negative energy in the Orb, he thought that he would have enough to convert his levels to that of an Elder Lich, and that would cement his route to becoming an Overlord.

But was it worth it? Should he go ahead and retrace the path he had once forged?

His summon was out of mana now, but the angel could still use weak physical attacks against the undead before it eventually petered out.

Since he had not committed any of his levels yet, he still gained XP as if he was a level one character, and so, as the angel had destroyed upwards of a thousand undead, some of which were reasonably leveled like Skeleton Warriors, it had granted him further XP equivalent to four levels. Meaning he could now level himself up to level thirty.

The XP curve was thankfully pretty generous at lower levels, though he knew that once he hit level ninety it would become a massive grind, probably even more so in this world.

One thing he could've done was to not commit his levels to anything at all, and leave them like that. This would have a benefit being greater XP gain, though the downside was that he could be killed very easily as he would only be a level one character, and also, there was no guarantee that he would find another crystal or item that could summon a monster.

Given all the information available to him, he decided that it would be best to become a magic caster who was focused more on damage output and combat rather than the general utility spells he had taken up as Momonga, given that he would have a lack of access to many of his spells.

As such, he decided on a build that had levels in Necromancy (as it was somewhat familiar to him) but also levels focused on damage output. This was possible as he was a human Player and not a heteromorph, leaving him room for more job classes.

He committed twenty-eight of the twenty-nine levels he had gained, leaving one level unassigned in case he needed it for some other purpose later. His character sheet now looked like this:

Mage 13 lv

Battle Mage 6 lv

Sorcerer 3 lv

Necromancer 6 lv

Total: (0 racial + 29 job = 29 lv)

The moment he finished all of this, Suzuki felt a massive rush of power come over him. He felt as if he could run a mile without gasping for air, and a multitude of spells suddenly entered his mind which he knew how to use instinctively.

"Alright, Albedo, let's go back then," Suzuki said, and the two of them headed off just as the sun began to rise over the cemetery.

A/N: Well, that's that!

I decided to not have Suzuki become Undead as it makes sense in this world- also we need to preserve a certain part of him for Albedo. I do think it is in character for him to go down this route given his options and that he's not just roleplaying anymore. Since Maruyama doesn't tell us much about what classes are advanced and basic, I did some extrapolating myself from character sheets.

Mage is of course a basic job, I got Battle Mage from Narberal's character sheet which I think is in line for a combat focused mage build, Sorcerer since Suzuki isn't a wizard who studies stuff, and Necromancer is kinda self-explanatory.