Chapter 2 New World no Concentration

What Momonga just heard confused him. A world item? Obtaining these was without question one of, if not the hardest thing to accomplish in the game but after thinking about it for a short while it made sense. It was the last day of the game and so there was no reason for the developers to keep them hidden and thus probably just set the drop rate for them to the same level as other items.

"What item is it?" Momonga asked with an audible curiosity in his voice. Collecting rare things was always a thing he was known for and hearing that his friend found a new world item excited him.

"Is that just a coincidence or is there a GM watching just now?" he just replied.

"What's the matter?" "That world-item is like it's made for me.."

In front of Shota floated a necklace with a slid eye on it. It lazily hung of a thin string constructed from a dark matter and above it, a box floated simply saying 'Lokis Necklace' not giving away anything about its powers. Underneath a description stated 'This item has the ability to conjure illusions of the highest level and boosts the power of all illusions created by the user while equipped and makes it harder to break them. If an illusion above the 6th tier cast by the user is broken by someone else the item deems its user unworthy, killing him and taking all of his job levels related to illusions. The item would then change its owner to the person breaking the illusion.'

Below there was another bigger tab full of lore but Shota couldn't be bothered reading that right now so he just skimmed it real quick as he only had a few minutes left in the game.

"It is an item that is perfectly made for illusionists but also has huge drawbacks, casting illusions of tier 7 or higher causes the risk of dying instantly and pretty much becoming banned from ever being an illusionist."

"Hmm, that sounds pretty cool, even though it is weird that you out of everyone are the one who finds an item made especially for illusionists, I see why you thought that all this was a setup by the GMs."

"Yea I bet you these shitty devs made me find this simply to show me a big finger right before everything ends. I mean, an item especially made for one small sub-group of players and this appears just on the last day? That is just fucked up, these devs just managed to ruin my last few minutes of the game by just letting me know that I will never be able to use this."

"Hahaha" Momonga chuckled amused "that really seems like a bad joke, even though it is slightly amusing if I dare say so."

"Haha, you are lucky we only have one minute left otherwise I would come over and try out that items' full potential on you!"

"I love you too" Momonga simply replied with an ironic undertone in his voice and after that, there was just silence for a few seconds until they both burst into laughter.

Shota laughed hard until his eyes started to tear up a bit partly from amusement but mostly because of him realizing just now that he will never experience these times ever again in the same way and all of a sudden he realized how Momonga must've felt being the only person staying in the game for all that time. He was missing these times more than everyone else and it just made him sad realizing that it will all end tonight.

"I just got hit by some post-nut clarity level of realization that all of this will never come back" he stated with a slightly sad voice.

"I wonder why that post-nut clarity never ever came over Peroronchino." Momonga said in a nostalgic sounding voice indicating that this also reminded him of all his comrades.

"Haha if it would come over him every time he would probably be the wisest 39-year-old in the world."

They both chuckled again.

"But you are right, these times will never come back but I am still thankful for all these great memories we have created together."

There were only 30 seconds left until the server shuts down. Shota walked outside to enjoy the view of Alfheim. The sun was up high in the sky as there was no night in this world. He simply laid down on the ground looking at the sky.

"Yes these times were great, I will miss all this." Shota mumbled while still looking into the sky regretting not spending more time with the others in the game.

"Hihihihi" Momonga chuckled like a little kid all of a sudden which confused Shota a little bit.

"What's going on guild master?" Shota asked slightly mocking him by addressing him with that title.

"Ah, nothing I just abused my power as guild master a tiny little bit."

"Haha you won't tell me what you've done will you?"

"Nope, that is my little secret."

"Fair enough I won't object it is your good right to mess around a bit."

15 seconds remaining

"So that's it huh? I will miss all this." Shota said.

"Yes, that's it, tomorrow we have to go back to our normal life again."

10 seconds

"Ah fuck, I don't want to live my normal life tomorrow."

"Neither do I but tell me everything later"

"Yes I will but only if you tell me what you did with you Guildmaster power"

5 seconds.

"Maybe I will" Momonga replied not knowing that he will never be able to talk to anyone from this world ever again at all.

"See you on the other end then." Shota said closing his eyes preparing for the forced logout.

3 seconds.

2 seconds.

1 second.

And nothing happened.

He was still just laying there, waiting for something to happen. He opens his eyes just to instantly realize that something is off. It wasn't bright outside anymore, it rather looked like a normal forest at night with only weak moonlight hitting the ground. And then everything flashed over him, his eyesight was better but not just a bit but A LOT. He usually had to wear quite strong glasses and now his eyesight was perfectly fine even better than it should've been possible. He was looking around for a bit, just getting used to his eyesight as he noticed another train of thoughts already pass through his head. The next one was probably one of the most bizarre realizations he had to make in his whole life: His legs where gone.

"What is this?" He asked being surprised at his voice the very next moment. It sounded calm, confident and somehow a bit entrancing, it sounded like the way someone would talk knowing that he fully outsmarted someone else.

My legs are gone. Just realizing that fact convinced him that this was all real. He didn't even think of Yggdrasil 2 or some developer prank - He. Didn't. Have. Legs. No legs just a wiggle-wiggle tail! That was enough to fully accept that this was real after realizing that there was no reason to question his realization.

He tried moving his tail and it obediently manifested the movements its owner visualized. What was even weirder was that he seemed to be receiving a kind of visual image from the yellow eye symbol in his tail, he moved his tail closer to his face, just to see himself staring at his featureless face, he then looked at his whole body by slowly moving his tail around himself. He wasn't nervous or haunted by anxious thoughts, he was simply inspecting himself and considering how much fun it was to have a tail, he also realized that he always floated in the air no matter what his tail did. His thoughts were simply: Okay my avatar is now real that is pretty cool what else is there?

Why did evolution not give every human a tail he wondered while being absolutely fascinated by his new body part but then he remembered a quote from a book of the 21st century he once read that said: "evolution rather works by throwing millions of weak organisms into a dangerous environment rather than a superpower that fixes everything." And it was true, sadly a tail wasn't a result of that evolution for humans.

He brought his tail in front of him again and experimented some more with it, he moved it as fast as he could realizing that this thing had an insane speed. He tried standing on it by fully extending it straight down but he realized that balancing on it was pretty hard and he just fell over after standing 7 meters( 23 feet) in the air, somehow he wasn't scared of falling onto the ground. It was the fact that he wasn't scared that made him realize something-

"Am I even still myself? I just turned into my avatar from a game and I am not even concerned about anything. These thoughts aren't exactly normal."

He then decided to inspect his surroundings a little more and his breath got taken the same moment by realizing what he saw. He was standing in a big spruce wood forest with the ground just covered in soft grass and the trees standing tall above the ground. Even by standing on the tip of his tail he just reached the lower parts of the trees needle branches. He never even saw a real forest like this and after his eyes wandering up a bit higher he saw the sky. He saw the sky, a real, clear night sky. This was probably one of the rarest sights to see in his old world and just looking at the sky gave him an overflow of ecstatic feelings. This was partly caused by his new sight abilities. He decided to go up to the top of the trees. As he realized he could fly by swimming in the air like it was water. He just wiggled his tail a bit and was already flying over the trees a bit - he loved that tail already -.

He was just looking at the trees as he started thinking. My body doesn't hurt anymore, that terrible back pain from my old body is gone, my sight is awesome and I have a tail. The question if he wants to go back was already answered as he was just flying in circles and doing loopings in the air. He then realized, that he probably had even more cool stuff to try out and maybe find out where he ended up now considering that this didn't look like the world of Yggdrasil, something just told him that there was nothing dangerous nearby and he trusted that thought thinking it must be some newly acquired sense of danger that comes with that new body.

Oooh damn, there was so much new stuff to try out! Where should he start?

He sat down at one of the tree branches from which he could overlook most of the forest. He was just thinking about what to do next as he all of a sudden saw an owl sitting on another branch a few trees away. He swiftly floated near it, however, the owl noticed right away and started observing him sharp-eyed ready to run for it any second.

He stopped closing their distance right after noticing that. "This seems like a great opportunity to try some stuff out!" He activated his racial skill [Cover of Natures Ambassador], there was a tier 3 spell doing the same thing as this ability called [Calm beasts]. Both of them made wild beasts that aren't super aggressive by nature and usually only attack non-forest creatures ignore you and just let you pass. However, his skill was a bit handier than the spell version. His tail started glowing in a weak yellow hue and after seeing that the owl didn't seem to mind his presence anymore he could continue getting closer to it. Now that he was in front of it, he started wondering what he should try out now. He just confirmed that his skills work and using them seemed as natural as wiggling his tail around.

He got a funny idea of what to try out. He cast [Major Image] on the branch below them and created a small mouse he visualized. This spell creates an image with smell, temperature, and sounds of a real creature however once you touch it you realize its just an illusion because your hand would go right through it. He made the mouse squeak and run as he mentally commands it while watching it with his tail. The owl soon picked up on it and got ready for its attack. He just stared at the owl as it grabbed nothing trying to pick up the mouse. The owl seemed visibly confused and Shota just had to laugh at this owl trying to catch the mouse. He made the mouse jump unnaturally high into the air, even making it run off the branch at some point and just continue in the air. The owl didn't seem to realize and just observed the mouses' weird behavior. He tested how far he could go until the owl would realize it wasn't real, however, it still kept trying. After two minutes, however, it stopped and just sat down again simply accepting the fact that it cannot catch that weird mouse.

"I like you, you are my pet now, I will call you Gerald" Shota said activating his [Charm Species]. His tails eye lights up pink for a short time and in the next moment, the owl was already domesticated fully affected by the charm spell.

He then got back on the ground with Gerald sitting on his shoulder.

"You know what Gerald, you probably know more about this world than I do, don't you want to guide me?" However, the owl just looked at him tilting his head.

"Well that wasn't very helpful, go find someone that can help me find out then!" The owl took off his shoulder right after. That was just one of his small experiments on finding out if his charm spell also gives him power of command and apparently it does as long as it is in the targets power to fulfill its duty.

"Am I here because I said so before I logged off? Because I said I don't want to go to work? And if I'm here maybe Momonga is too! Why did I not think of this earlier? Damn that new body made my way of thinking completely irrational!"

He quickly cast the message spell as he felt a kind of invisible string just extend from his body looking for Momonga, it felt like it was further extending at an insane speed just to fail after a few seconds giving him a feeling that indicated it had failed.

Slightly frustrated he decided to find something else that's interesting

He started jumping from tree to tree realizing that it isn't even as easy as it always seemed in these naruto mangas. These trees don't just have their branches stick out like this to perfectly land on them. However, it was still fun to him especially considering his speed. That too fascinated him. He was so fast, he could easily move around in the forest at an insane speed and it was so much fun for him to just jump around. He had to try out is physical abilities further when he has the time. Now he was just looking for something that could entertain him. And soon he found something, it was a

pack of wolves that was looking around in the forest, trying to find food. They too ignored him due to his skill he activated earlier but he landed near them just observing what they were about to do. He soon realized that these weren't the normal wolves he knew from his world. These seemed to be more like Yggdrasil creatures but still a bit different, they looked like normal wolves but had evil red glowing eyes and there was drool dripping down their mouths as they were scouting for prey like berserkers. He thought what power these wolves might have compared to Yggdrasil even though his new thoughts made him think about just messing with them with illusions, Shota still wanted to measure their strength. He cast [Mental Prison] at one of the wolves, still a bit fascinated by how natural spellcasting was to him, which trapped the wolf in his own mind. In it he still kept going and wandered around, however, all of his mental commands never left his mind, in the real world the wolf collapsed right after the spell was cast. A tier 7 spell that he actually really liked because it was hard for others to realize that they were inside an illusion and unlike sleep they might just lay around for a good minute until realizing that they were actually not fighting or walking around, enough time to set up a perfect ambush around their unconscious body.

Shota took the wolf and started thinking about how he could measure its strength compared to Yggdrasil. His body quickly made the decision for him as he just slapped the dog on the head with quite a bit of force, around the power you'd use to slap someone in the face just to see the poor doggos skull completely squish into a gory pulp of blood under his hand. He was a bit irritated at his action and the result of it. Huh, a bit inconvenient but we made some advancements he thought. He now confirmed that he was ridiculously overpowered and that really calmed down his human part. The same part of him wondered why he wasn't disturbed at this at all but then he just thought that the readers were probably already sick of protagonists that question everything and just accepted it as a change in his personality.

He then quickly rushed back to the other wolves and started thinking how he could toy with them next. His thirst to just observe others react to an environment he could toy with was something overpowering all of his other thoughts. He had power and he wanted to use that as much as he could.

So just to see how well the wolf pack could communicate in their group if a problem occurred he cast [blind] on one of the wolves in the middle. Turns out their communication is not the best. The wolf instantly started walking backward probably thinking something was covering its eyes, which already greatly amused Shota. After a few seconds, the creature seemed to realize and started wiping its face with its paws and then sniffing the air. The other wolves didn't seem to have realized yet that something was wrong with their mate. He then started making weird barking noises while looking at something, it first seemed to alert the others but after they realized that it was a false alarm they seemed to get annoyed at the blind one for disturbing their mission so they started growling at it. The blind one still trying to orientate then got a quick bite into his front leg by the one that seemed to be the pack leader. The blind wolf then tried to bite back however being completely off-target just bit the air. After that something happened that was quite unexpected. The pack leader instantly bit through the poor wolfs neck. He could see the life slowly leave the wolfs blind eyes as the teeth dug deeper into his neck.

Quite interesting he thought, now time for his next experiment. What would the pack do without a leader?

[Seeming] was the next spell he wanted to try out. He cast it on the leader wolf changing his appearance into the one of a baby deer that smelled of cooked steak(that was the best smell coming to his mind). The other wolves just looked at their leader as he transformed into probably the most delicious prey they have ever seen. It was the curiosity over what simple creatures, whose only purpose in a game would be to kill the player, reaction would be if confronted with difficult problems. How would they react if their leader was super tasty all of a sudden? He will find out soon as the pack first seemed a bit confused, sniffing at the deer that was their leader just a moment ago, however right after they started growling and slowly encircling the deer. To make it more interesting Shota made the illusion not alter his sounds so they could still hear the deer bark at them. Interestingly the smallest one of them lowered his ears and just sat down tilting his head at the deer as the others started pounding at it and killing it after a short struggle. In the fight, the leader somehow wounded the first unlucky one of his clan that attacked him which means that there were only 3 and a half wolves left, two of them feasting on the deer illusion with the other one dying of its open wound at its neck with the third one still just observing. Everyone with a bit of intelligence would've realized that there was something off about the wolf transforming into prey. He tried the potency of his illusion in raw power by casting [False Attack] of an arrow striking on one of the wolves faces.

Only the wolf could see that illusion, however, the wolf died in an instant, which quite surprised him. It usually causes some psychological damage however it rarely works like a death spell even on low-level monsters. He tries the same spell with a weaker attack and again the wolf died. He looks down on him seeing a necklace dangling from his neck. "Are you enhancing my illusions strength?"He wondered. The last wolf was now visibly scared and just looking around confused. Let's find out just how much more intelligent you are compared to these other mindless beasts Shota thought already getting ready to continue his experiment.

Though, he got interrupted as he saw something coming closer to him. He already knew what it was as the owl came closer. He quickly held out his arm for it to land on and asked: "So what did you find, Gerald?"

Author Note: If you guys have some spare time could you please leave a quick review on my writing style and thing that I could improve on? Feedback is always appreciated.^^ Thnx 4 reading