It was the end of Yggdrasil. With only a few moments left, Momonga gripped the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown tightly with his bony hand as he admired the tomb of Nazarick and all its splendor for the last time. The NPC's they put life into, the guild base they conquered and built together.
This is the end huh?
Suzuki Satoru thought to himself before closing his eyes, expecting to wake up and go back to his soul-sucking job, working for corporate megacorps as a slave without any will until the day he croaks. But as fate or a stroke of luck would have it, something unexpected happened.
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"Hmmm? Ehhhhhhhh?!" Momonga screamed in confusion. His voice for some reason was now deeper different from the usual voice he had for twenty years. He suddenly calmed down.
For whatever reason, he was now sitting on the Throne of Kings holding the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown in a vast desert with nothing but rocks and sand surrounding him, not in the Great Tomb of Nazarick or in his tiny apartment.
Where am I? Is this a teaser for Yggdrasil 2? No, everything feels so real…
He could feel the wind brushing through his body, or in this case bones. He could vividly see the tiny ants on the ground moving and the specks of sand or dirt; he felt the heat of the blazing sun on his bones.
Momonga shifted his skull upwards, gazing straight at the sun with his two crimson flames that now served as his eyes.
"Beautiful…"
Were the only words he could utter. He could only look at the sun through a digital device in his original world, as the outside was covered in dark, gray, poisonous smog.
The sun was radiant in all its glory and splendor. It was the brightest thing Momonga laid his eyes on. It wasn't comparable to the artificial sun on the sixth floor of the great tomb of Nazarick; this was a genuine shining star in the sky.
Momonga could now understand Blue Planet's obsession with nature a bit more; he could probably gaze at the sun for the whole day.
Blue planet would have enjoyed this… I still don't know where I am. I need to know where exactly I am. I'm now my avatar. Do I have access to my spells and abilities?
"[ Fly ]."
As soon as he uttered those words, his body started floating, his feet no longer having contact with the ground. He didn't know how he casted the spell, it just came to him naturally, as if he always knew how without ever actually knowing how.
After putting the Throne of Kings in his inventory, Momonga ascended to the skies, reaching the clouds faster than he had expected, only taking a couple of seconds. Looking around, he couldn't see any type of civilization, just a vast wasteland of rock and sand.
There… The ground rumbled and it rumbled again. Something enormously large was moving…
What could that be?
Curious, Momonga flew towards the sound, trying to find the source for the ground shaking. Then in the corner of his eye, he spotted a massive beast. It was huge to his estimate, about the same size as a large skyscraper building or maybe even larger.
It slightly resembled the high-level mobs called the Tarrasque, except it was quite obviously substantially larger than the mob. It looked reptilian, it was covered in black and brown scales that covered it in armor and it had large spikes on its back.
A type of boss monster?
"I'm tired of waiting for the Deep Sea king to die. The subterranean lord is already dead and after I defeat the fish, the terror clan shall reign the earth as its rulers!" It monologued to itself in the stereotypical fashion of a villain or boss enemy.
Momonga, who was not in his field of vision and faraway, had heard everything.
Who monologues to themselves about their evil plan? Though I do sometimes remember Ulbert practicing in front of a mirror his monologues he used against players before pking them. But from what he said there is civilization! So I'm not just stuck in an enormous wasteland. That's a relief.
"You! Skeleton in the sky!" He pointed his finger to the floating Momonga.
Eh?!! How did it see me? Sure I haven't exactly casted any invisibility spells but we're still pretty far from each other!
"Yes? Do you have something to say to me?"
Momonga asked, using his newly granted deep voice to sound confident, although he wasn't sure if he could take on the massive beast. If the battle proved to be too much he would teleport away.
"I am the ancient king, ruler of the terror lizard clan the rightful rulers of this earth, and I ask who are you?"
If my instincts are right this skeleton should be on the same level of a threat as the deep sea king and subterranean lord. This may prove to be a problem.
"I am the Overlord of the Dead, Ainz Ooal Gown!" Momonga proclaimed to the gigantic lizard that was the Ancient King.
"I have never heard of anyone named Ainz Ooal Gown, but if you contest my rule over this earth then die!"
The lizard roared before breathing out a blast of crimson red heat out of its mouth, evaporating all the moisture out of the air due to its sheer heat alone; it was his strongest attack comparable to the heat of the very sun; he was confident this attack could kill the sea king.
Hot steam covers the area waving his hands to clear the steam there, the skeleton still floating in the air unharmed, its black majestic robes not having a single burn mark, his skeleton frame not reduced to ashes it was unthinkable!
"What did you do?!" He roared in confusion; it didn't make sense! Monsters and enemies alike have been burnt to fine crisp being hit by this attack! Had he gotten weaker over the last 300,000,000 years of sleep? No, that was impossible. His strength felt roughly the same.
Or was this being truly of the ruler of the dead like it had said? Then how come he had never heard of such a being?
"Maybe your attack was simply too weak? It is my turn [ Grasp Heart ]."
An enormously large spectral heart appears on Momonga's hand, beating wildly and furiously pumping blood.
"Strange, the spell never worked like this before."
Momonga commented before positioning himself and giving the spectral heart a full-force punch making a fist-sized hole in it.
The Ancient King recoiled and fell to the ground, bending a knee and clenching his chest, his heart now punctured.
Dammit, it hurts! I'm regenerating but this skeleton is strong! If I don't do anything I'm gonna die here!
"Let's try this: [Triplet Maximize Magic: Reality slash]."
Three blades of light formed and flew at an unparalleled speed cutting through the very fabric of space and time as they flew by, reaching the large body of the ancient king and cutting through his scales and armor, which was harder than any other mineral, yet the attack cut through it like a knife through melted butter.
The blades did not care how hard his skin and muscles were, they simply cut through him as that was their purpose, to be conjured and to cut through the very fabric of existence, killing anything and everything they went through, no matter how microscopic or hard.
"WAAAGGGGHHH!!!"
The leader of the terror lizard clan, the ruler of the dinosaurs, wailed in pain as his body was severed into three different sections. His right arm slid right off onto the ground with gallon after gallon of blood pouring out and forming a large puddle of blood on the ground.
"Hmmm? What was that?"
Momonga questioned as he looked upward at the skies above. He had felt his scrying countermeasures activate but who would spy on him? He had just arrived here.
"I should clean this up. I need to survey the area and find more information about this world
[ Black Hole ]."
"Wah-"
Before the lizard could understand what was happening, a tiny spherical orb manifested itself onto the world and sucked up the light around Momonga. The Ancient King's body broke down into atoms, being sucked into the sphere of nothingness, including the blood and ground. Everything was turned into tiny atoms as the environment was sucked into the black hole.
The spell was finished, with the only thing remaining being a crater where the ancient king was.
"I need to be more careful to not encounter a random enemy again [Perfect Unknowable]."
He said as his very existence vanished from the world. All traces of him were now gone; All the senses, whether they be scent or sight, and all energy signatures, proved to be useless against the spell. Of course, his mass was still present and if someone were to touch him, they would know he was there.
After his preparation was complete, Momonga took flight once more; he would eventually find civilization, right?
"Status report." A hero association member asked.
"All traces of the Dragon level threat Ancient king have disappeared, the satellite we were using to spy on him mysteriously exploded and is out of commission. A new monster, calling himself Ainz Ooal Gown, appeared on the scene and all visual communication was lost."
They were in a state of emergency with so many unexpected events happening that the sudden appearance of a new monster, to the Ancient king awakening.
"Call back the armed troops and S class hero Terrible Tornado."
Ring Ring and here it comes the moment he was dreading for the most the S class hero Tatsumaki calling. She is a competent hero, sure, but her temperament…
"Answer the call…"
"Yes," the employee picked up the call and walked out of the command room, not willing to hear the S class hero's complaints and tantrum that was the job of her senior, not hers.
"What do you mean the threat is gone?! You called me out here and suddenly you're saying I'm dismissed?! I was having a nice little vacation-"
The hero association member lowered the volume and motioned with his hand to continue the report.
"What's the threat level of this new monster Ainz Ooal Gown?"
"Since we didn't get a visual confirmation all we can is from the amount of destruction around the area when our troops arrived roughly around Dragon level, but we have no information on his abilities."
"I see, notify all A to S class heroes about this threat, and, if they see it, make them report back to the association."
We traded one Dragon threat for another one. Let's just hope the S-class heroes can deal with it…
Many thanks to Edgy for Beta reading this and fixing my shitty grammar you can check his works Re: He who is beyond sin and Drowned madness walks the land.
I'll probably update this once a month maybe longer if I'm busy IRL
You can bug me in Discord if you want to complain to me about the power scaling on how X character defeats Ainz or How X character does to Ainz or if you want to help me out.
https/discord.gg/xcfpDuxNrC
Explanation of why Ainz managed to damage/kill the Ancient king will be in the future.
Note I won't be answering "Can X character defeat X?" Unless there is an obvious victor like Can Ainz kill lightning, Max?
