It was the end of Yggdrasil... with only 10 minutes to shut down, two figures were spotted moving across the hallways of the ninth floor of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick.
They were two of the 41 Supreme Beings of The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, the last two of the supreme ones remaining in the desolate tomb...
"Sigh... Momonga-san, now we both are left alone huh..." said the first voice in exasperation and sadness. The speaker looked to be a silver haired young boy clad in priestly robes. At the young age of twelve, this boy was forced to work to afford basic necessities. Forced to deal with absurd hours and little pay, just continuing living had become a daily struggle, such was the harsh reality of the outside world. Despite his young age, he had obtained the position of the youngest and arguably the strongest among the forty-one members Ainz Ooal Gown, possessing powerful classes, high stats, and overpowered skills.
"Indeed Erius-san, I wished they could have stayed longer, at least a few could have stayed… We had built this together, this was our home, our pride! How could they just abandon it!" angrily shouted the robed skeleton next to the saint, his name was Suzuki Satoru, with his username being Momonga. He was the guild master of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick
Erius sighed and replied "Momonga-san, lets calm down shall we, I do know that they left, putting their real life over Yggdrasil and our memories but what can we do about it? Nothing, I doubt any of them will return now, It is close to shutdown anyways. We should be happy that at least Ulbert, Yamiko and Herohero made time to come I suppose… But you still have me for company!" joke Erius, trying to ease Momonga's sadness.
Momonga decided to ignore Erius' forgetfulness of honorifics, he was not from Japan and was instead from a European nation, despite it being impolite in Japanese culture, there was no point correcting him right now, the last few minutes of shutdown could be spent on better things…
"Well, I suppose... But still, I wish we could have them all gather here for a final meeting..."
"Momonga-san! I have an idea!"
Despite the sudden outburst and interruption, Momonga decided to once again ignore it and instead reply with a "Hm? What is it?" in a curious yet wary voice. Erius' ideas were... not the best. The last idea he had involved a lot of dead cats and a half-destroyed base of the guild "Kitty Kingdom". It was a guild in Yggdrasil that was themed entirely about cats. It nearly resulted in a guild war which was thankfully stopped by Momonga's quick thinking and profuse apologies. When questioned by the other guild members on why he did it, he defended himself by saying that he was bored and wanted to nuke cats for fun. The other guild members were… not happy and forced Erius to pay reparations from his own pockets. Erius complied although it was not voluntary, it look Touch-me and Ulbert ganging up on him in a duel with the condition being that if they killed him, he would pay up. After a rather long and arduous duel, it ended in the duo's victory and Erius was forced to give up large portions of his personal stash of money to pay up. This would have been well and good, a guild member doing something stupid and then paying reparations for it from his own pocket. It often happened with others too, although mostly in much smaller scales.
The next day, the guild base of Kitty Kingdom was found to be in shambles. With their guild weapon destroyed, the guild was disbanded and resulted in a large portion of its members quitting. When asked about the incident, the members claimed that thousands of angels bombarded their base. They resisted but it was futile as they were heavily outnumbered.
Most of the playerbase blamed the guild 'Seraphim' for it as they were one of the top guilds and due to an ongoing dispute regarding the ownership of a mine. Seraphim of course denied any responsibility, but their claims were ignored. None of the suspicion came to Erius as the matter was silently dealt with by Momonga in order to not spread rumors about an incoming guild war to other guilds which would no doubt cause an alliance created which would focus on defeating Ainz Ooal Gown. Much to Momonga's surprise, this had happened a few years later and was actually NOT the fault of Erius!
When asked by the guild members, Erius acknowledged that he nuked a nation of kittens much to the horror of some guild members and the delight and praise of others. This resulted in him getting lectured once again by Momonga, Yamiko, and Touch-me while getting praised by Ulbert and Peroronchino.
When the developers heard of this, they investigated to find out who was behind this and found this culprit. Upon hearing about how he nuked the nation of cats using angels, they secretly awarded him an additional level added to his level cap and thanked him for spending over a thousand dollars in Cash Items to commit genocide on kittens.
This was just one of the many shenanigans caused by Erius. Several other stories were created due to Erius being further motivated and encouraged by the shitty devs. Hearing that he had another idea, Momonga was understandably worried.
"Relax! It's not an idea about nuking a nation of cats... well not this time anyway... But it's an even better idea!"
"Which is?"
"A very good idea!"
"No- I meant the idea Erius-san, what is it?"
"A thing which I wanted to do for a while now!"
"Can you please just tell me the idea!" exclaimed Momonga now annoyed
"Ah you wanted to know the idea... you should have just said so."
Momonga wisely decided to not respond,
"Well, the idea is that I grab Megiddo and you the staff, and we sit on our thrones like the cool people we are and sit there staring at each other till shutdown."
"Well... I don't know if that's a good idea Erius-san, Taking the staff and a World Item? It sounds a little too extreme, the staff is the symbol of the guild, if it is destroyed, Ainz Ooal Gown will be no more…"
"Momonga, Momonga, Momonga… Do you honestly think that someone will get a team of top tier players and be able to pass all eight floors below us just to destroy a fancy golden stick with seven shiny things on top of it in the final moments of the game? No! they won't! At least I don't think they will…"
"Anyways… should we do this or not? I think it will look cool, it's the final moments… besides if you think any other guild members will have a problem with it, remember, what they won't know, won't hurt them."
"…"
"…"
"…"
With a heavy sigh, Momonga relented and said "Fine, let's go get the sword then head towards the throne room."
"No, it's fine Momonga-san, there are only a few minutes left till shutdown. I can go get the Megiddo myself."
"Understood, but do take care Erius-san, you do remember when to take off your ring right?"
"Yep! Now off I go! See you in the throne room!"
"Yes, looking forward to meeting you in all your saintly glory Erius-san!"
"I shall pretend I never heard that Momonga-san, if I ever hear you say that again I shall kill you so many times that I will unlock the [Overlord Killer] class"
"There is a class called [Overlord Killer]?"
"Maybe…"
With this, the duo parted ways, with one heading towards the throne room, the other the treasury.
Great Tomb of Nazarick, Treasury, Sacred hall of World Items
"Ah Meggido, there you are!" happily exclaimed Erius as he walked towards a sword located in the center of a room which housed thirteen items of unimaginable power, called World Items.
Of the thirteen, he personally had obtained two for the guild.
He had personally obtained Meggido during one of his adventures. Although he could not remember which one, he remembered it involving angels and dead kittens...
Meggido was one of the most powerful World Items and one of the three Twenty belonging to Ainz Ooal Gown's collection of thirteen World Items. It could temporarily nullify an entity's immunity against World Items while giving them severe debuffs when hitting an enemy. It however disintegrated after a single attack.
Erius looked at the sword with teary happiness, like a parent would to a child who they had not met in years. This was as per him, an overpowered World Item which helped the guild rise to the top 5 in the leaderboards. It was his prized possession. They could have even gotten first place in the leaderboards if it had not been for nearly all the members quitting over time- "Damn it all!" shouted Erius in an angry voice.
Erius knew that they prioritized real life over a game, yet he could not forgive them for this. For leaving their legacy. For leaving everything they worked for behind. For leaving him and Momonga behind. Had they forgotten the blood sweat and tears they put into this? The months they spent grinding for the staff alone?! He could not help but feel immense resentment and hate towards them for abandoning him and his friend. For abandoning Ainz Ooal Gown…
Pushing the raging feeling to the back of his mind, he picked up the sword and made a move to head to the throne room.
"[Ability: Guild Teleportation: Great Tomb of Nazarick Throne Room]" saying these words, He found himself at the entrance of the throne room. He moved to admire the massive doors when he felt a weird numbness spread across his body.
"Eh? Is this one of Luci Fer's pranks? But it should not affect me in real life..."
'What is going on?'
23:59:35, 36, 37
Erius felt himself losing all strength...
23:59:48, 49, 50
'Is this how I die? Is this death? If yes then goodbye world... I am sorry I could not meet you as we promised Momonga-san'
He felt his vision going dim
23:59:58, 59—
'Welp rip me I suppose... Goodbye Yggdrasil, goodbye shitty devs…'
This was how Erius died
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A.N
Hello there! Thank you for reading this. Just so you know, I apologize for any errors in writing as English is not my main language and this is my first-time writing. Do post any comments or suggestions, I will be reading them. Thanks for reading :D