"the end is nigh" were the words echoing through the empty corridor
A figure which was literally all bones, cald in luxurious dark purple robe which looked cool, matching that whole I am pure evil persona could be seen strolling through the gallery. Only if it was all real, were the thoughts of suzuki satoru, your extremely common and normal salary man, every time he saw himself as his game avatar, Momonga.
After that Momonga proceeded to wip out every single apocalyptic dialogue he had heard or seen and thrown them on the empty gallery as each echoed throughout the place, and before you ask yes, they had installed an echoing feature in the last floor near the throne room and in the throne room so that there household goatboy could let out his chunniboi as epically as possible, much to the misery of a certain justice maniac.
Though that wasn't the issue right now, it was news that YGGDRASIL will end at the end of the month that hit like the truck-chan but without the whole isekai ass holiness. It was bound to happen one day, everyone knew that but they wanted the game to last a little while longer.
Momonga walked through the corridor of the 10th floor glancing at every little thing that he and his friends created in the tomb as if to burn the image in mind. Over the years the infamous guild of all heteromorphic players, aniz ooal gown. had climbed the ranks to become one of the top ten guilds in whole of YGGDRASIL. That time was what there members called were there glory days, when every member was playing the game day and night running on nothing but there ambition, pride, a buck load of caffeine and a truck full of chunniboi.
but as a wise man once said that all good things must come to an end, and no matter how much everyone wanted choke that piece of shit, he was right. and as members started leaving the game due to there now real world problems, the guild's rank fell. Now the once glorious great tomb of nazarick was nothing more than a shadow of there glorious past, with only the guild master holding it all together with some members eventually helping a little and then vanishing like they went in hibernation or something.
'it has been a blast but it's time to face the reality of thing. I really don't want to go back to that shitty world.. Great now I am starting to treat a game as a real world.' thought the said guild master while reevaluating his priorities and what to do after this all is over.
Momonga reached the meeting room of the guild, standing in front of the digital door he looked around, oddly enough, looking for any traps. He opened the door as the large circular table came into view with exactly 41 chairs around it. Only 5 chairs were occupied and that was the highest it had been since last year, so yeah Momonga was certainly happy.
The said occupants were only remotely active members of the guild aside from Momonga, they dropped by a few times every now and then, like once in month, and sometimes longer for killing some time since they were the only ones who had time to kill since they were from wealthy and influencial families. These were what the guild members, mainly touch me, called "spoiled brats". And one of them was our residential trickster with username "Lusi*Fer". The organizer of there current gathering.
"Yo Momonga what took you so long, I thought you visited the tomb every day" asked lucifer with smugness leaking out of the voice notifying the others that the delay was most probably because of him
"I was late because you were the one who called" answered the guild master with even more smugness, telling the other party that whatever he wanted to do had failed.
An annoyed "tsk" was the only answer he got. Lucifer hated to admit but there guild master was guild master for a reason, he knew about every member and there 'tendencies' at the back of his hand even after so many years.
Nubo "I don't quite understand the reason ... Oh wait. Right I remember what happened with peroroncino" nubo here is recalling the incident that happened about 4 years ago, when they had newly bought the echoing feature for the guild,
and the first thing they heard was a girly scream echoing through the corridor, the members went full alert mode thinking some girly invaded the guild, stated by takemikazuchi. but were reassured by bukubukuchagama that, 'that girly' was most probably her brother. Going towards the meeting room where the scream came from, along the way they found 5 golems chasing after the birdboy and a fallen angel behind him laughing his ass off,
Lucifer" oh please, that was ages ago. I have matured now"
Momonga didn't said anything just took out a trap item from his inventory and placed on the table which just so happened to placed in the corridor with a concealment spell on it.
Lucifer "... that fell from my pocket"
Variable talisman "so much for maturity"
Nubo "Ok people we are not here to discuss lucifer's mental age. As we all know YGGDRASIL is ending I thought we should have a grand banquet in the tomb inviting all the members and their families as well" said trying to get to the main topic, the reason they were there in the first place.
"that's a great idea but family might not have any interest in this" Momonga said as some of the members like touch me and takemikazuchi left, just to spend more time with there families.
Nubo"oh they will trust me. My elder sister, who had nothing to do with any game or what I did, is very interested in what I spent hours everyday for the past 7 years. So trust me there curiosity will get the better of them" reassured them.
6 of them had a detailed discussion of how they will get everyone on board with their plan from contacting the members to what they will do in the 'grand banquet'. If they were going to pull it they had to first take care of many things, most of all ensure they aren't invaded during that time.
"well I am all for it nubo but aren't you a little too excited for it. I can imagine momonga being like this but you are going a bit out of character here" lucifer asked
Nubo "Well as you all know my father is a supervisor in one of the companies that work with YGGDRASIL there he got the news that developers are working on something that will happen at the time server shut down or just before it. Some were willingly working overtime to pull it off. I have no idea what it will be, but they were calling it "Going down in style"."
"wait you said the infamous 'shitty devs' were working hard for something for once" Momonga exclaimed, the many broken mechanisms of the games and the crap ton of glitches were the proof that they might be geniuses to create such a game but were lazy as hell.
Suratan "No way in hell I am missing that"
Nubo "that's why I thought we should see that with everyone plus the shut down is in Saturday night in Japan so they will have a leave the next day"
Lucifer "well what are we waiting for, get to work people"
A week before shut down
Momonga along with variable talisman had sent messages to all the guild members, telling them about their plan. After that they decided to individually call every member to ask for their opinion and problems in attending it, the members who were free had to help the others to get so time off. Currently lucifer, very reluctantly, was on call with touch me.
"come on you damn geezer Japanese law system won't crumble if you took half day leave"
"you don't understand... lucifer.. the higher up can be really annoying even about half a day"
.. Lucifer 'I swear he was going to say punk'..
"Well do you want to come or not and don't tell me that your wife and daughter is not even bit interested in what you spent most your time doing for 12 years you were one of the oldest player and I am not talking about age "
"of course I do want to come and my daughter also wanted to see the tomb of nazarick when I told her about but.."
" but what! "
"I only have one headset"
"... You know you can rent extra headset for a day it won't bankrupt you. Come on think about momonga and the guild. One last time won't hurt"
"fine you win I will try my best"
"don't try, do it"
"shut it brat"
"damn geezer"
One day before the shut down
Almost half the members had returned while the others will come on the last day, the ones who had returned were helping in organising the banquet, and collecting materials for it. There main objective was to buy a non aggression shield for one day which was ridiculously expensive since it went against the free world mechanism of the game, it was classified as a world item.
That is what was written on the pack description, but it was clearly a load of bull crap the developers came up with to justify the nonsensical prices in the shop. But still chances were, given there long standing reputation of having an impenetrable fortress named the great tomb of nazarick, that some bunch of megalomaniacs decides to take one last shot at them.
Currently, Momonga along with herohero and bellriver were talking in the meeting room of the 10th floor. They had returned to the game after several year and were get in touch with the latest mechanisms and features for one last time.
Momonga "I am glad you guys could come"
Herohero "yeah, how long has it been"
Momonga "almost two years for you herohero and four for bellriver"
On the mention of bellriver there was a brief silence
Bellriver "Well I know my friend and I think he wouldn't want you all to be so depressed about it"
Herohero "but still dude he was god damned murdered, I can't just wave it off"
Momonga "I know it's hard to take in but we can't do anything about. I have said before but still I am grateful that you told as the truth sir"
Bellriver "think nothing of it, even though I can't replace your friend I will try my best to fill in the gap his death brought. And please call me bellriver"
Herohero "sure"
Meanwhile in the throne room on the 10th floor there were punitto moe, lucifer, bukubukuchagama and blue planet were creating a table just for show it was not like they could actually eat something.
Lucifer and punitto moe were arguing what colours the table cloth should be, Blue planet wanted it to be blue and green because of his obvious reasons while lucifer wanted the whole thing to match with theme if the throne room which was, much to blue planet's surprise, a genuinely good idea. While bukubukuchagama and blue planet were drowning in nostalgia
Bukubukuchagama "I was quite surprised when momonga suddenly called"
Punitto "out of all of as he was the most dedicated to the game and from what I heard from touch me he never really had any family or friends aside from the guild. Out of all of us, he is most affected by closing of the game"
There conversation was interrupted by a 'ding' sound with a message
[peroroncino has logged in]
In front of them appeared the bird faced hetero morph
Peroroncino "what's up guys"
Blue planet "nice, you came too pero"
Peroroncino "Of course I came who wouldn't after reading that fucking emotional letter from momonga. I actually cried a little at the end of it"
Bukubukuchagama "No way your perverted brain could have registered emotions other than lust"
Peroroncino "what did you say you filthy hag"
Bukubukuchagama "who are you calling hag you weird fetish loving jackass"
A few moments ago momonga and the others came to greet peroroncino but then thought they should not get involved in the little spat between siblings hence they decided to greet him after they both are done and went back to their tasks.
This is rewrite of the first chapter, yesterday it was showing I updated. That was not an update, I was just messing around with the settings and fucked up a little, I will post a new chapter by the end of the week.