I don't own overlord.

A small flashback story before kits entered this world.


Flashback: Last Day of Yggdrasil shutdown

It was finally the last day of Yggdrasil shutdown. Kits had heard news about it few months back. Kits himself liked playing Yggdrasil very much so he was planning to login the last day but when Kits got a mail from his teammate to try being online on the last day. He took an off on that day from office.

It was morning a Kits wife was getting ready for her office.

Kits was married for almost two years now. He had not informed his wife about taking leave from office. Well that turned out to be a BIG mistake. Kits had a big argument with his wife. It started from wasting his casual leaves on an online game to not putting out the garbage yesterday morning. It continued with forgetting her mom's birthday along with many other things, which Kits might have or might not have done few months back. Obviously, Kits had forgotten what clothes he had worn few days back, there was no way he could remember something so insignificant after 3 months.

This resulted with Kits not getting any breakfast and to arrange his own lunch along with his wife going out to her parents house for the weekend to see her child. Yes, he had a daughter who was now six months old was temporarily with her grandparents who happened to live in the same city.

It turned out to be a blessing in disguise as Kits could now be online for more time. Ofcourse, he didn't had the guts to say that to his wife. His wife didn't like Kits attached to this game after office.

Ten years back when Kits had started playing this game Kits was in his high school. It accompanied Kits all the way through college, his first job, his whole bachelor life. Kits, like many others; was emotionally attached with this game. He could not play the game as frequently now as he used to before getting married. It almost stopped after he became a father. It was not that he didn't love his family it was that he liked to have time alone. He had already stopped playing other games but still he couldn't forget his Yggdrasil days which consisted of third of his life he had lived. Still he did login whenever he was alone at his house.

"Finally, login time."

He put on the headgear and was connected to the game. Kits had set Niflheim's safe city Gralea as his respawn point hence he directly landed there.

According to Yggdrasil mythology Niflheim was primarily a realm of primordial ice and cold, with the frozen river of Elivágar and the well of Hvergelmir, from which spring the rivers called Svöl, Gunnthrá, Fjörm, Fimbulthul, Slídr and Hríd, Sylgr and Ylgr, Víd, Leiptr; Gjöll is hard by Hel-gates. Niflheim was one of the two primordial realms, the other one being Muspelheim, the realm of fire. Between these two realms of cold and heat, creation began when its waters mixed with the heat of Muspelheim to form a "creating steam". Later, it became the abode of Hel, a goddess daughter of Loki, and the afterlife for her subjects, those who did not die a heroic or notable death.

"Ah shit I logged in wrong place."

Instinctively with the hand movement, he called the control panel and deleted his respawn point.

"Ah its my last day there's no point in selecting a new respawn point" He said looking at the large number of available options and cancelled it.

He looked around. It was a big city.

"This place has not changed at all".

He felt nostalgic as he saw the trader (NPC) standing at the corner of the street. Kits had bought countless items from him. He even went through dangerous missions with his friends to get better quality weapons.

He walked slowly towards the merchant.

"Welcome Sir, What would you like to trade today?"

"Ah nothing, just wanted to say good bye old friend." Kits was saying pointless things to an NPC.

He walked around via various lanes and streets. On his way he could see few players gawking around like him.

He reached infront of the portal and then entered it. Of course he remembered instinctively the maps of various places in Yggdrasil. There was no need for him to check the map from his control panel.

The scenery changed infront of him and now he was at a small village near the well.

He walked towards a small hut, which was actually an inn. He looked inside all 5 of his team mates were sitting inside.

"Hey you guys are early." Kits stated while approaching his team.

"So you aren't surprised to see me here?"

"I know you guys, there's no way my teammates won't be here on its last day, am I right leader?". Kits said with a smile.

"So, you also took day off?"

"Well yes"

They all started laughing.


At the end of the day Kits was happy that all teammates were there on the last day. Many players never disclosed their real names in Yggdrasil but Kits and his friends were not like that. After so many years of playing together, Kits and his friends were now connected via networking sites even though they lived in different countries they managed to login at the same time.

But, all good things come to an end after all and they simply wished each other and left one by one.

Kits was now alone moving around in Midgard where the beginners started this game.

Kits was now at the Mercenary inn where he started this game with the help of an experienced player. Kits was thankful to him, but regretted that he was never able to meet him again in Yggdrasil.

There were no players at the inn. Kits was looking at the notice board, and there were few low level NPC's sitting there. They were the ones who gave various starter level missions to the players.

Kits was now looking at the notice board.

Apparently, the missions listed there were the same Kits and his friends had done 10 yrs back when he started with this game. This game was both tough to play and was very exciting at the same time.

"Wanna go for a mission?"

Kits turned around, A girl was standing there. Kits looked at her. She looked a human player and her avatar was hot. Even though it was last day, Kits never liked trusting human players. What if it was a trap? Even though the possibility was low, Kits simply replied.

"Ah no, I don't want to do these missions again. When I was weak it was more fun to do these."

"Hmmm ok" saying thus, she picked up the lowest level mission at the notice board.

"Well I just wanted to meet these squirrels again. I had tough time with."

Kits simply smiled getting a to see a slice of her personality.

"So what are you planning to do, logging out?"

"Ah I don't know. Let's have drinks first."

"You know none of my teammates logged in today," the girl said

"oh, that's sad"

"Well I wanted to meet them for the last time. What about your teammates?"

"Oh they were here some time back".

"All of them?"

"Ah yes, I mean those of them who stayed. My team characters changed with time according to requirements. Except the name, all characters changed in the group. Even I joined my last group 4 yrs back. Ah it was fun"

"How were you able to trust someone so late in the game. I mean group secrets. What about them?"

"And what will you do with group/alliance secrets if your same group no longer exist? Will you stay at the same time frame remembering the past or move on ahead deeper in Yggdrasil. Time embarks change and we went on ahead with it, never looking back."

"So what are you doing now?" she said teasing him.

"Well ah just taking a day off. Remembering my past adventures with all my friends. With all those with whom I'm still in contact and those who are only left in my memories. All the adventures we did together and many things we learnt from each other"

"Oh, well you live with your memories I am going out for the hunt. Bye." The girl said and left

Kits simply nodded her good bye, stood up, and went outside himself.

He then walked around towards a tree, which was within the safe area and rested there nothing down all his good memories in his small notebook.

He had already decided to take a printout of everything that he had written in his book. The photos they had taken together along with photos many stupid thing they had done together in all those years in Yggdrasil.

Actually, he wanted to show his wife why he loved Yggdrasil so much who was against him playing this game.

Well it was already time and many players were firing firecrackers and rockets in the Sky. Therefore, Kits along with others went on firing firecrackers.

After all, it was a good way to say goodbye to his most beloved game.

Then as players started logging out the number of firecrackers in the sky went down as well.

Kits simply sat on a small bench looking at the sky. It was beautiful. He might not be able to see the same word again. His real world that had dust particles covered all over the sky. Kits admired it and wanted to see a world free of so many problems his world was facing.

Yes these were his last thoughts before he closed his eyes for the final countdown..

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