"What do you mean, "We can't enter the mine anymore"?" Momonga carefully asked BigStall, the entire guild standing in front of said mine with the green barrier covering over the entrance.

They had all gathered to take back this celestial uranium mine, because celestial uranium can make caloric stone, a literal world class item, but apparently, they aren't allowed to enter the darn mine.

BigStall, who was reading the description of the barrier in his GM form, elaborated on his statement, "Uh, apparently, Duopoly had Ouroboros in their back pocket, and asked the devs to not allow the guild of Ainz Ooal Gown to enter this mine. Permanently. Or at least that's what the description on this barrier is telling me, anyways, which was probably written by one of my co-workers."

"...Is Duopoly not even here, then?" Shizyuutensuzaku asked, "Because if they aren't I say we go find their guild base and destroy it."

"No, I don't see a single player other than us around here," Vagisilious said, "And we have no idea where their guild base is either. Not even sure if it's here on Nioavellir."

Momonga sighed, "Well, it looks like we just permanently lost our one source of caloric stone."

Then, Ulbert had a great suggestion, "Wanna leak the coordinates of this mine, then? Cause if Duopoly can't have it, nobody should have it for an extended period of time!"

Flatfoot nodded at Ulbert's idea, "I like that idea, we can find another prismatic ore mine anyways."

"If we're going with that route, I can hand off the info to a few of my outsider friends so it's not connected to us." Vagisilious volunteered, "You know, pretend that we have no idea what prismatic ore does."

Tabula disagreed with the notion, "Duopoly is a weak guild, even if they have a premium source of caloric stone, they have no idea how to use it properly. Quite frankly, just blowing up their guild base in retaliation is good enough. Once we find it, obviously."

Touch agreed with Tabula, "I'm with him. No need to make our enemies stronger."

The debate went on for a few more minutes before Momonga eventually called it to a vote, "All right, all in favor of leaking the coordinates of this mine?"

The vote concluded 18-22, in favor of keeping the coordinates a secret.

There were some grumblings from the losing side, but Momonga kept them from grumbling for too long as he said, "Alright, our next step is to find Duopoly's guild base so we can destroy it. Nubo, Vagisilious, we'll leave that to you."

The two seers of the guild nodded at the instructions, as Momonga then continued, "Well, since we're all gathered here, is anyone up to just do a quick raid anywhere? For the NPCs, or for our gear."

"Hm, hey BigStall, is there ever going to be transmog in Yggdrasil?" Vagisilious curiously asked, hoping for some leaks from him.

"Well, you didn't hear it from me, but in the next expansion, they'll let NPCs have transmogged gear." BigStall said in hushed whispers.

"Oh shit, really?" Peroroncino said in surprise, "That means we can finally get the aesthetics of our NPCs along with the power! Right?! No strings attached?!"

"Well, if your NPC uses plate armor or a spear, you'll have to transmog them into the same category, but yeah, it's mostly no strings attached." BigStall answered, before correcting himself, "Well, at least, that's what I'm hearing right now. I'll let you know if that changes anytime soon."

Bukubukuchagama excitedly said, "That's great! I'll finally have Aura and Mare kitted out in their proper gear!"

"Buku, if you put Aura and Mare in that stupid crossdressing stuff, I'm going to fight you." Bellriver warned.

Yoipesuto came to Bukubukuchagama's defense, "What? I like their little dresses and suits! Buku, don't fall to peer pressure!"

Bukubukuchagama nodded, "I wasn't, but Bellriver, learn to have some taste!"

Peroroncino wisely nodded alongside her sister, "Yeah, Bellriver, taste."

Denshosho commented on Peroroncino's words, "Aren't you only saying that because you're a lolicon?"

"I don't wanna hear those words come from a goblin." Peroroncino deflected.

"Alright, enough, enough," Momonga put an end to the various conversations, getting the group back on topic, "So, where are we raiding?"

Moved by the excitement of next expansion's NPC transmog, Ainz Ooal Gown decided to take it easy for today, and ended up raiding legacy raids for old gear that would look great on their NPCs.

Vagisilious looked over her various abilities and spells, checking for any discrepancies from the last patch.

She vaguely recalls the moment she was reincarnated, and buying that one perk that made sure she wasn't nerfed too much, but it's always good to check up on any possible changes to her kit.

For example, an expansion ago, she got a massive buff to her overseer job class that basically allowed her to chain scry using a chain of living beings to effectively be able to see an entire world, as long as there were a line of targets that lead to where she wanted to go.

And looking over her merciful spiritual sovereign class…

Huh, some of her passive healing from dealing damage went down… But there's apparently a new function to most of her damaging abilities.

Supposedly, in turn for the lowered passive healing from damaging opponents, using damaging spells now drops little orbs of souls or whatever that heals anyone who picks them up, which is only available to her guild or group.

She ran some brain math, and figured that it's probably an overall buff to her single target healing and a slight nerf to her AoE healing.

Communicating this to her guild, Mekongawa just asked, "So I get healed less now?"

She shook her head, "You're a tank, so you could just pick up my orbs off the floor, but you're never actually taking aggro, your pets are, and I have no idea if that works."

"So I get healed more?" BigStall asked instead.

At that, she nodded, "Yeah, as long as you pay attention to your surroundings."

"Wouldn't that mean the tank would have to move the boss to get the extra healing, though?" Daijobubua asked, making a good point.

She didn't actually think of that, so…

"...Yeah, this is a nerf in the form of a new mechanic, I think." She conceded, "That sucks."

Suratan just laughed, "Ha! About time you got nerfed! This time, maybe one of us can take #1 in healing during our next raid run!"

Punitto comforted her a bit, "Aw, don't worry, Vaggy. With your type of luck, you'll probably get a massive buff in the next expansion anyways."

Yeah, her luck in dodging massive nerfs and getting small buffs here and there despite already being decently strong was infamous in her group of 39 friends.

And by luck, she fully knows its literal divine intervention in the form of whatever imaginary coins she spent on her reincarnation, but that's a bit difficult to explain.

So, obviously, she didn't bother to explain that she reincarnated.

But if anyone figured it out somehow, she'll explain it, since it's not relatively that big of a deal to her.

So instead, she nods, "Yeah, it's all a part of the plan. I'll keep my top spot until the end of Yggdrasil!"

"That was really lame, Vaggy."

"Aw, darn it."

On another quiet day, where most members are playing other games or watching anime, Vagisilious was off helping her non-guild friends running some dungeons for gear.

And by non-guild friends, it was purely Theadul and Orphea, with the 8 Greed Kings tagging along.

"I must say, Orphea, you're quite strong, no wonder why you're in Triumvirate," Theadul complimented, before flitting an eye to PopStarry.

Right on cue, PopStarry loudly coughed, "I hope you're not complimenting other girls in my presence, dear brother of mine."

The other girl of the 8 Greed Kings, WasabiChan, lightly chuckled, "PopStarry, you know you don't have to be so defensive all the time, right? Nobody's stealing your man."

Orphea whispered to Vagisilious, "Am I staring at a bro-con?"

She whispered back, "Yeah, she's like 12 though. We're taking bets on when she'll get over it."

Orphea smirked, "I'll put some money on her never getting over it."

Ah, Orphea was so like her, because she also put some money on her never getting over it.

Theadul sighed, "PopStarry… Nevermind, do as you do."

Plaslam wisely nodded, "Yeah, incest is never the answer."

"I think it's cute, though." WasabiChan answered, causing Theadul to groan and PopStarry to triumphantly puff out her chest.

"Man, you guys are cute." Vagisilious offhandedly said, causing the other members of the 8 Greed Kings to glare at her.

Powerfuel, the leader of the 8 Greed Kings, snarked at her, "Nobody asked, heteromorph player."

"Hm, I didn't hear that, boring ass human player. Could you speak up?" Vagisilious mocked back.

Seriously, what is it with these guys and their super tribal and defensive nature of playing as humans?

Yeah, it's seriously boring to just play as humans, why don't they just admit it?

"I don't wanna hear it from someone who only has 6 available job class slots." Another member of the 8 Greed Kings, Belloal, said.

"And I don't wanna hear it from someone who's capped at 600 attribute points." Vagisilious shot back.

"Imagine if I had like, 100 more attribute points like every other heteromorph player," Orphea said, trying to change the subject, "That'd be cool."

"Eh, I only have 80 extra attribute points." Vagisilious shrugged, "Besides, you're already all set on the attribute front with your absurd 100 physical and magical attack."

Orphea proudly nods, "That's why I'm #1 on the DPS charts right now."

Yeah, she'll hand it to her, she does do a lot of damage. But she's ignoring the fact that she's had to save her from the AoE of bosses way too many times.

In fact, she saw that Orphea was literally wearing gear that minimized defense in exchange for a lot of attack. And her HP attribute is like, 50.

An actual glass canon.

"Ahem, we're at the next boss now, if you'll all get ready." Theadul said as he began casting buffs on himself.

Well, time to go healing morons again.

After splitting up with the 8 Greed Kings, Orphea and Vagisilious had a quick chat with each other.

"So, my 18th birthday is coming up on November 2nd, which is like 4 months after the new expansion comes out, right?" Orphea said, her voice sounding as if she was trying to coax Vagisilious into something.

So, Vagisilious nods, "Are you planning to kill yourself and start a new character?"

Orphea shrugs, "Eh, I'm not entirely sure on that one, yet. Depends on the success of Triumvirate's search, honestly."

She tilted her head, "Oh? What is Triumvirate doing?"

"They're looking for Ouroboros," Orphea answered before explaining further, "I heard on the grapevine that Ouroboros has a chance to be found if you complete the latest raids with, like, a low number of people. No clue if that's right or not, though."

Oh? That's something interesting to test out, "Well, how many people is Triumvirate trying?"

Orphea scratched her head, "Uh, I think they've managed to do 22 man raids, down from the standard of 30. But since we've had no luck so far, they're trying to whittle that number down."

"Are you a part of that 22?"

"Nah, they told me I'm way too fragile for it."

"Wow, jerks."

"I know! Right?!" Orphea said as if she finally found someone who gets it, "I know my build is super fragile, but c'mon! Is my DPS really not that valuable?!"

Vagisilious had enough of a heart to tell her that, no, her DPS is not valuable in a guild where they had 3 World Champions in. So instead, she lied, "They're just not seeing the value you could bring them."

In her honest opinion, Orphea really needed to switch to a heteromorph class. Her NPC, Leviathan, would beat Orphea in a fight just because Leviathan has an absolutely monstrous attribute total of 765.

That's because Leviathan is a dragon, and dragons are all kind of beefed up in terms of attribute numbers in exchange for having a massive hitbox and wonky attack boxes.

Still, it's not even remotely close to Touch's absurd 800 attribute total that he got from winning the World Champion class.

But either way, gear was still king, and Orphea is just running a wild build.

Orphea looked extremely validated, "Yeah, you're right, you're right… Anyways, they finally let me make an NPC… But only 80 levels!"

"Wha- 80? Seriously?! That's criminal!"

"I know! That's what I said! I was tempted to just buy the last 20 levels mys-" Orphea caught herself, "Um, forget what I just said."

Oh? She wants to hide the fact that she's… Financially stable at the age of 17?

…Ah, wait, emo goth phase, calling herself Orphea, and generally secretive about her living situation…

Yeah, Orphea's another rich kid.

If she plays this right, Ainz Ooal Gown will literally never run out of money, and depending on how nice Orphea is, maybe she'll entertain having the other members of Ainz Ooal Gown to work at her company doing absolutely nothing!

Coup De Grace, she'll get you that nepotism!

"Alright, I'll forget that, then." She told Orphea, before changing topics, "Oh, who's the NPC you made, by the way?"

"Oh, it's this homunculus named Liberta, he's just a really strong mage." Orphea said, "I wanted him to be level 100, and have him be this prodigious and super smart mage, but since he's level 80, I just put in his lore that he hates Triumvirate because they won't let him get to his full potential or something."

Vagisilious nodded, getting the gist, "Ah, alright. How about giving her a sister that Triumvirate won't let him look for? That way, there's just more than one reason why he hates Triumvirate. And you can also add that you want to help Liberta, but Triumvirate won't let you."

Orphea's eyes brightened, "Ooh! That's a good idea! I'll probably name her sister Daemilla or something!" Orphea then moved on to something else about her NPC, "I was also inspired by an old game, so I have this idea where I would have multiple Libertas, each being a different stage of life that would help him gain perspective to help him study magic. But since I can't do that, I just added that Triumvirate sees that as heresy or something."

Oh, that does sound cool, having multiple versions of you to help study the arcane? That's dope, she's kind of mildly upset she didn't come up with that idea.

"Hm, I think our guild has like, 180 levels that we haven't bought yet because we're both poor and don't have any good ideas for what to do with those levels. And I heard from BigStall that we're getting 100 purchasable NPC levels every expansion from now on." Vagisilious said, trying to sweeten the deal for Orphea joining, "If you stake a claim on those 180, well, probably 280 levels, you can probably have a lot of Libertas, and even make space for Daemilla."

Orphea smiled, "That's great! But uh, do you happen to know if I can bring the original Liberta with me?"

Vagisilious sadly shook her head, "Nah, the best you could do is to take a picture of the original, bio and classes and all, and then recreate him, and then just add in the bio that he came with you."

Orphea accepted that, "Well, I guess that works." Orphea then giggled, "Ooh, I'm so excited for November…"

Well, it sounds like she's having a ton of fun. Hopefully, all of her work won't go to waste…

Literally a week before the new expansion hit, we were attacked on the way to do a transmog raid, because by this point everyone in Yggdrasil watched the introduction video for the new expansion and found out they could transmog NPCs now.

Anyways, they were going to do a quick raid so she could get some cooler looking judge gear for Diviser, and Touch also saw that he was able to get some sleeker looking butler gear from this raid. But then suddenly, they were transported to some weird lava realm.

Or, more accurately, the world transformed into the weird lava realm.

"Huh? What's- Oh I'm taking fire damage!" Bukubukuchagama immediately shouted out.

"Can't teleport out either-" Tabula was in the middle of saying, before he had to dodge a magic spell, at which point they all figured out the gist of things.

This was an ambush.

"It's Depiction of Nature and Society!" Punitto shouted out, as he had seemingly figured out what was happening, "It's a shitty 62 man guild, Alfheim Warriors! Nishirenkai, Flatfoot, split up and find the exit!"

Ah, nature and society? She did vaguely recall the details of that particular world item being spread onto the forums because the people in that guild couldn't hold their pieces in.

Immediately beginning to spread her talismans around to heal the fire tick damage, she prepares for a long fight.

Okay that was a comically short fight.

As it turned out, Nishirenkai found the exit super quickly, and immediately got the world item off of them, and proceeded to trap them using it and making them take electric damage in a thunderstorm.

And, well, to be quite frankly honest, the Alfheim Warriors were all using epic tiered level 70 gear, and we were using divine and legendary tiered level 70 gear. It's literally heaven and earth, the difference between our power levels.

"Please, give the world item back!" The leader of the Alfheim Warrior begged on his hands and knees to Momonga when they had gotten to the neutral hub in order to store the world item in Nazarick back on Helheim.

"Well, if you wanted to keep it, why did you bring it out like that?" Momonga had asked instead, opting to trash talk, "That's really stupid of you, you know?"

Nishirenkai, who was holding the world item, laughed, "Haha! Yeah, super dumb!"

"Hey, come on, man!" Another member of the Alfheim Warrior tried to plead their case, "Just this once? Please?"

Not another word was exchanged between the two guilds as we silently took the portal to Helheim and made a gate to Nazarick.

Morons.

"Well, are we ever going to use Depiction?" Pannokishi had asked once we had stored it safely within our vaults.

"Eh, probably once or twice, but it's way too risky to use often, honestly." Punitto had answered.

Aw, well, that kind of sucks. Well, at least she knows that Depiction of Nature and Society will be the world item that gets the least use now!

2 months after the new expansion dropped, she had to rescind her earlier statement on finding the world item they'll use the least, because while scouting out Jotunheim, she found something… Odd.

That is to say, she found some glitchy looking texture out in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by the skeleton of a large dead dragon.

She hasn't really heard of glitch aesthetics in Yggdrasil before, but considering the large dead dragon, she thought it might be something unique, so she ended up checking it out.

Only to find… This.

[Shattered Scale of A̴̛͖̳͎̩͓̪͆̅̉̓̈̋̽̔̓̊̆́̒̕͝͠͠ͅz̸̧̡̡̛͕̫͚̥͓͈̫̲̪̟̥͓̙̳̣̈́͒͌̏̃̍͌͛͜͝ͅụ̷̮̯̪͖͇͈͚̹̙̼̺̤̘̽̀̀̇͌̈́̐̋̏̂̒͑͆͒̓͂͘͜r̷̦͈̮͓̟͛͌͋̇̈́̏͐̌̕ȩ̴̡̗̥̜̬̹̙̞̻͓̤̯̖̼̤̖͔̉̐̒̊͌ ̵̛͖̪͙͇̭̙̤̾̃̽͆͆͑̈͝D̶̢̛̛̰͙̹͎̠̝̳̲͈̤͇̑̓͌́̄̉̅̾̓̀́̓̿̐r̸͕͕͒̓͑̋͗̑̀̑͛͊͗̇̃̐̃͘͠a̶͚͇̤̘̱̫̻̫̱͛̚͘͜ͅg̸̢̡̛̞̰̫̲̝̘̻̟͚͖͍͍̘̝̰̦̯̓̐́̋̐͂̃̽̓ŏ̸̡͕̺̻̱͖͈͉̜̲̞̼͚̹̠̜̻̭̗͆̍́͆͒͗͗̌̄n̵̡̻̯̜̝͇̗͍̤̦̘̍ͅ - World Class Item - This shattered scale of Ã̸̢̙̪̯̹͂̒̂͋͜z̴͈̤̦͕̬̲̺̘̤̹̄̋̈́͂̎͗̋̌̕͝u̸͎͆͗̈͐̈́r̸̛̳̾̉̎͗͂̒͐e̴̥̭̼̗̪͓͎̙̓͝ ̴̼͓̰̞͎̤̳̄͠ͅD̷̛̙͓̗̻͖̥͖̒͗͋̿͐͛͝͝r̴̳͓̳̱͓͍̹̅͐a̷͓̱̫̖͛͌̍͊̃̅̀̈́̑͘̚g̷̢̩͈͙̳̑̈͒̈͌͝ͅo̵̡̡̢̻̝̯̭͍̺͕̔̈̈́̎͆͛͑̔̀̔̚n̵̲̰͍͌̓̓̓̐͆ only serves as a warning to those who would dare face the wrath of The Gamebreaker. For that is the only thing it can do now, with all of its power stripped from it. - (Lore) - (World Item Rules)

As soon as she picked up the glitched scale, the entire dragon skeleton somehow 'glitched' out of reality, as all of its pieces suddenly flew into the scale.

It didn't change the effects of the item, but it did look cool.

But, uh, a world item that does literally nothing except warn of someone called the Gamebreaker?

Thinking the lore might help explain what it does, she tapped on it.

Shattered Scale of A̴̛͖̳͎̩͓̪͆̅̉̓̈̋̽̔̓̊̆́̒̕͝͠͠ͅz̸̧̡̡̛͕̫͚̥͓͈̫̲̪̟̥͓̙̳̣̈́͒͌̏̃̍͌͛͜͝ͅụ̷̮̯̪͖͇͈͚̹̙̼̺̤̘̽̀̀̇͌̈́̐̋̏̂̒͑͆͒̓͂͘͜r̷̦͈̮͓̟͛͌͋̇̈́̏͐̌̕ȩ̴̡̗̥̜̬̹̙̞̻͓̤̯̖̼̤̖͔̉̐̒̊͌ ̵̛͖̪͙͇̭̙̤̾̃̽͆͆͑̈͝D̶̢̛̛̰͙̹͎̠̝̳̲͈̤͇̑̓͌́̄̉̅̾̓̀́̓̿̐r̸͕͕͒̓͑̋͗̑̀̑͛͊͗̇̃̐̃͘͠a̶͚͇̤̘̱̫̻̫̱͛̚͘͜ͅg̸̢̡̛̞̰̫̲̝̘̻̟͚͖͍͍̘̝̰̦̯̓̐́̋̐͂̃̽̓ŏ̸̡͕̺̻̱͖͈͉̜̲̞̼͚̹̠̜̻̭̗͆̍́͆͒͗͗̌̄n̵̡̻̯̜̝͇̗͍̤̦̘̍ͅ Lore:

"No! No! It cannot end like this!"

B̵͕̆̌u̵͉̙̽̀t̷̰̣͘ ̴̰͂İ̷͙̗͝ẗ̵͈̭́̃ ̴̲̦̌W̶͙̓͝ŏ̵̘ū̶͙l̷͇̞͒́ď̸̖́ ̶̘̳͋E̸̢̱͌n̷͕̓̄d̸̲̱́̓ ̵͓͆̌L̶̡̮̉i̷̼̍̄ḱ̵̞̙͆ë̷̩͋ ̶̻̈̏Ṭ̴͓̽ẖ̶̡̊i̶͈͕͝s̷̘̞͆.̷̝̾͠

Years of becoming the strongest, only for some interloper to come out of nowhere and destroy everything he has built up?!

Ḣ̸͈̣͐e̷̺͋́ ̷͙͗W̷̫͋ạ̸̡̉s̵̳͑̋ ̴̡̣̾N̶̘͐o̷͖̍̈́ẗ̵̯ ̵̥̈́T̵͔̕h̵͎̄ẻ̷̢ ̸̹͛̍S̵͂́ͅt̵̛̹͉ṛ̶̻́̐o̶̥͠n̶̺͝g̸̢̐ę̷̋s̶̱͈͑͒t̴͉̗̓̓.̷͉͗͋

The Usurper had laughed, "Look at you, the first to exist, and the first to fall by my hands. Pathetic."

It can't end like this! He had come too far to be defied by this… Filth!

He will fight to the very end! No matter what end results that this monster will set!

H̶̻͔̜̏į̸͇̮̿̋s̵̘̭̘͋̑͋ ̵̫̐͝P̵̭̃̽̉ű̸͚̋̚͜n̴͔͍̟͘į̴̢̯͑̋s̸̡̲͐h̷̡̄͐̕m̴͇͉̀ë̴͔́͌̕n̴͍̱͗ͅt̸̫̬̗̔͐ ̶̣̂͑͠ͅW̷̪̃̒͝ͅā̴̡̨͑̾s̵̰͖̤̅̅͘ ̵̦͒̿T̸̠̥̙̉o̵͇͖̽́͘ ̶̛͉͆B̴̗͇͈̂͠ê̸͇̘̘͝ ̴͕̦̜͌̍͠Ş̴̭͑̂́p̶̯̓͜l̶͒͜͝ḯ̶̢̜̗t̷̠͇̔̃ ̵̨̛̎I̸̹͉̖̿̏ņ̷̼͐̅ṱ̷̡̥̆͠o̵̻͌̕͠ͅ ̸̧̆Ą̴̗̣̉̓̕ ̶̧̲͖̒́͝T̷͍̉͘ḩ̷͈͎͋̽o̷̖͚͇͐u̴͓͋̈̒s̵͖͓͔̈́ả̴͈̠͉̾͑n̴̮̝̠͋d̵͙̩̓͛͝ ̸̛̻̑̾P̶͕̞͑̈̆ͅi̴̧̡͛ě̸͈͊c̴̬̘̏̉e̸͈͘s̵̬͐ ̸̘̱̈́͜A̷̺̍c̷̰̈́̌r̸̛̝̮͑̈́ő̴̳͉͍̕͝s̶̛̙̤̏͐s̷̨̙̩̈́́͝ ̵̳́̈́̒T̸̡͛̾̐ḩ̶̮͚̌̇ě̴̬̽ ̶͔̣͆̕Ḿ̷̪ü̸͎̹͘l̷̮̞̾ẗ̷́͜ĭ̴̥̳͜v̶̫̄̾ë̸̺̺̹̚͝r̵̫̔́̀s̴̳̳̣͝ě̶̠͈̊̅ͅ.̴̭̘̒͊

̷̧̹̎N̸̠̳̜̍̀o̸̳͉̮͂ẘ̴̧͇,̴͚̣͕̾́̀ ̷̹̦̋Â̷ͅl̶͓̯̣͒̇͘l̶͇̠̔ ̷̤͕̕H̶̩͂ỉ̷̳̈̅s̵̪͔͍̈ ̴͖̪̔̾̌S̶̨̝͆ḫ̸̰͊ả̸̺̏͆t̶̝͐t̸̢̩̩̄͛͛é̴̮͠r̶̢͖͎̉͋e̸̥͗̃̌d̴̦̎͛͝ ̴̘̇̃͜S̵͈̠͔͗̓ö̸̡́u̷̠͒̚l̴̰̍ͅ ̸̢̣͋C̴̢͎̐ȏ̷͕̤͘u̵̯̿́͠l̸͚͋d̷̤̰̕ ̷͔̈̆͠D̶̖̪̩̉̂o̸͇͚̞̎́͝ ̵̩̫̔W̵̩͋̋a̴̙̻͎̎̂͋ṣ̷̳̈́̋̆ ̴͎̘͂̊͑Ẅ̸͇̪́̈e̶̮͇̓e̴̦̎̄͒p̴̘͐̅̋,̵̆ͅ ̴͖͉̟͑W̴̼̎̒i̸̹͑̐s̸̖͕̟̈h̶̢̫̎i̸̫̼̔̋n̵̥̻̽͝ǵ̷̢̟̝̍ ̸̪̫̲̍̇̍H̴̖͒e̵͙̋͜ ̷̣̓C̶̡͎̭̋̋ȏ̷͈̫̉͐ͅü̸̩̰͚l̴̢͓͌̕d̷̨̰̤̽͗͘ ̴̩̊̋Ḥ̷͝ą̷̹͔̆v̷͕͒e̷̳̎̀͠ ̴͉̮̌̐B̸͔̳̉͘ę̴̥̳̋͝e̴̺̞̟̍n̷̼͐ ̵̫̰͋͊S̴̮̀t̵̰̍͐͝r̷̠͝o̵͖̫̐̐n̴̡̹͙͋̆g̸̣̠̎̀ê̷͈̓ͅr̵̮̻̠͆̑.̵̻̿͜

…You know, she thought the glitched text effect was sort of cool at first, but she literally could not read that last bit. Well, she could, it was just straining her eyes.

So, the lore is that Azure Dragon fought some guy named the Gamebreaker, which he considered an usurper, and then got his ass beat and his soul split into 1000 pieces.

And one piece of his soul just so happened to come here in the form of one of his scales.

You know what, that is pretty wicked lore, she wonders if that's some sort of hint towards a later expansion and that maybe this item will get stronger if she finds more pieces of Azure Dragon's soul.

…But, uh, 1000? Maybe not all of them are world items, but that is a lot…

She did just find a new world item, after all, which makes her the proud finder of 3 whole world items! No way finding 1000 things would be more difficult than that.

Man, she really is lucky.

Well, she'll just ask BigStall about the world item, see if he has anything he wants to share about it.

"It literally doesn't have a description, we can't even access its code." BigStall explained to the guild a day after Vagisilious showed off the world item.

BigStall had been pretty intrigued about the mysterious scale, so he ended up asking some of his co-workers who work on world items about it, but…

"What do you mean you can't access its code? It's literally right here in front of us." Otanabetabeki asked, "It literally needs to have code to exist."

"Literally what I just said. It exists in Yggdrasil, but it has literally no code. We can't interact with it, but it still has the properties of a world item for some reason." BigStall tried to explain, "Nobody has any idea why that thing exists, and we keep a pretty tight eye on where every single world item is at all times, so for us to not even know who made this is just straight up weird."

"Uh, so you're saying that this is an anomaly?" Luci*Fer questioned, "Like, in a good way, or bad way?"

BigStall just shrugged, "Well, it doesn't look like it's carrying malware, even if it's looking pretty… glitchy. And it does have the properties of a world item, just with no power behind it. So I'd say… Neutral, but this is definitely turning into a creepypasta sometime in the future, if Vaggy ends up leaking this to the public."

She tilted her head, "Why would I leak this to the public?"

BigStall just shrugged, "Cause it'd be a cool creepypasta."

"Fair."

"Well, I have a wild guess on why this is in the game," Denshosho said, raising his hand, "What if the lore on the item is actually a real event in the real world? And what if one of the pieces of the real Azure Dragon made it to Yggdrasil?"

Tabula questioned Denshosho on this, "Denshosho, are you trying to convince us we're living in an anime universe as one of the many background worlds in that hypothetical situation's world?"

Denshosho shrugged his shoulders, "Well, that's my guess, at least. Wouldn't it be fun to find out we actually live in a universe where real magic exists?"

"In some far off universe? Come on, why couldn't it have been us?" Peroroncino complained, "Anyways, great fanfic material, Denshosho. Think that usurper could be a hot girl?"

Denshosho just laughed it off, "Thank you, thank you. And no, I think usurpers are all dudes. But really, it would be cool to have a reality warping battle far off in the universe that we're not even aware of, no?"

"Quite frankly, I'd hate to be the guy who gets their soul split into a thousand pieces," Momonga commented, before wrapping up the discussion, "Well, anyways, we'll just keep this in the treasury forever, and maybe one day, we'll have an answer as to what the heck it is. Meeting's over, everyone."

Vagisilious, during that entire conversation, felt a small aura of dread wash over her.

She knows that there is some sort of magic in this universe, after all, she is cursed with the knowledge that this is just an anime world. And she was reincarnated specifically to this world because the previous person cursed her somehow.

Later that night, she ended up writing into her real life notebook that details all of the memories she wanted to keep, "Azure Dragon maybe was the person who made me reincarnate here?"

Suffice to say, she did not have a good night's sleep for at least 2 weeks, stuck pondering the circumstances of her rebirth.

Then, she finally made her peace with it, realizing she did not even have the slightest clue what the greater picture was. And so, she vowed to revisit it in the future when she had the ability to figure out the greater picture.

She had actually forgotten the day of Orphea's birthday, because she forgot to write it down.

Instead, she was discussing politics with Ulbert, just the peachiest guy to have political discussions with.

For the past 20 minutes, they've been arguing about whether Japan should've stayed a democracy, or fully gone into a totalitarian dictatorship.

Ulbert's point of view was that the reason why corporations were able to amass their power was because democracies weren't equipped to handle situations like those fast enough, and so his train of thought leads him to think an all-powerful benevolent dictator wouldn't let something like current-day Japan to happen.

Personally, though she's been in Japan for long enough to consider herself at the very least, pretty Japanese, she's still at heart an American, so she absolutely despised the idea of authoritarian governments.

Besides, America somehow managed to keep its democracy through the era of corporate dominance, though that was mostly due to the armed insurrection when they realized they were treading down that path as well.

Which, apparently, Ulbert was a big fan of the 2nd amendment, who would've guessed? Authoritarians usually aren't big fans of letting the people do anything, but Ulbert must've realized that when the people aren't allowed to do anything, today happens, and realized that the people need to have some amount of power.

That being said, she still believed in the power of a good republic.

Anyways, politics aside, she got a message from Orphea just now during their discussion.

[Orphea: Your guild base is in Helheim, right? Can you come pick me up?]

"Oh, one of my friends is asking for something. Sorry Ulbert, I gotta do this real quickly," She said, getting up from where she was seated.

Ulbert just scoffed, "Yeah, yeah, run from this argument you're losing."

"I wasn't losing shit."

"You totally were."

"If literally anyone was hearing this conversation, they'd be agreeing I won. Anyways, see you in like, 10 minutes."

Teleporting to the neutral hub, she looked around and found Orphea…

HOLDING 5 WORLD ITEMS IN HER ARMS?!

And this wasn't a subtle thing too, because people were just staring at her, while Orphea was trying to find her.

So, she immediately went up to Orphea and asked, "Orphea, what the hell am I looking at?"

"A robbery, obviously," Orphea answered, "So, can I go to your guild base? I already quit Triumvirate, obviously."

She had to process what she just said before she did anything.

Orphea has 5 world items in her hand because she robbed Triumvirate before she quit.

Then she realized Orphea must've just turned 18.

Also, is that Ouroboros in her hand?!

"Uhh, yeah, let's do that." She dumbly said, sending a party request to Orphea so she could use her gates.

After they joined groups, she made a portal to Nazarick's entrance, and from there, the conference room where Ulbert, and surprisingly, Momonga was discussing.

Momonga was holding a bright red orb in his hand, and as he realized her appearance, he shouted out, "Vaggy! Vaggy! I got a world item-"

Then, he realized there was another person in the room, "Oh, who's this-"

Then, he realized what Orphea was holding, "WHAT AM I LOOKING AT?!"

Ulbert must've realized what happened, because he immediately said, "Holy shit, you did not do what I think you just did, mystery girl."

Orphea smiled, "So, uh, I earned a spot, right?"

Momonga and Ulbert stood still, mouths agape, Momonga recovered first, "Uh, I need to send a message to everyone in the guild really quickly! This is super urgent!"

As Momonga went to do that, Ulbert had asked, "Wait, you're Orphea?! That Triumvirate girl Vaggy sometimes mentions?!"

Orphea nods, "Yep, that's me. Only good things were mentioned, I hope?"

"Uh…" Ulbert looked at her, before swiftly realizing pissing Orphea off right now was not the correct move, "Yeah. The best parts."

Punitto was the first to log on and enter the conference room, "Ugh, I'm trying to rest after a hard day of work, this better be important-" He realized the situation, "Oh shit, this is important."

Luckily enough, all 40 members of Ainz Ooal Gown were able to log on today, so 41 players had convened at the conference room, all trying to figure out what the hell Orphea just did.

"So, uh, Orphea, would you like to explain your motives behind your betrayal of Triumvirate?" Momonga had asked once everyone had gathered.

"Well…" Orphea looked over to her, and then she shrugged, "I didn't like Triumvirate, and I liked Vaggy. So when I turned 18, today, I decided to rob Triumvirate and hope that you guys will ignore the heteromorphs only rule for me."

"For 5 world items? We would've begged you to join even if you were 17!" Bellriver blatantly admits.

Tabula snorted, "You know what? Sure, we can overlook your humanity, because stealing literally every world item from Triumvirate is metal."

Everyone at the roundtable agreed with the notion that the act of handing Triumvirate's world items to Ainz Ooal Gown would've earned her a spot in the guild no matter her status, but Orphea seemed a bit displeased at the thought, "What? I literally gaslit my guild into thinking Ouroboros could be more useful later down the line for the sole purpose of asking to have my race changed for this purpose!"

She pat Orphea on the back, "Well, you know, we could use Ouroboros anyways. I don't think anyone else has any good ideas, do we?"

"Huh? Are we really going to waste Ouroboros on something like that?" Garnet asked, "That sort of seems like a waste, doesn't it?"

"Hm, actually, do you know how pissed off Triumvirate would be if we spent Ouroboros on something petty like that?" Peroroncino said, "And imagine if we recorded it and posted it onto the forums!"

Orphea's eyes glowed at Peroroncino's suggestion of posting it onto the internet, "Peroroncino, I love you and that idea you just suggested. Can we do that?"

Peroroncino was not expecting that declaration of love, so he was caught off guard as he stuttered out, "Oh-uh wha- Thanks?"

"Wow, can't take it, huh?" Bukubukuchagama mocked, "Anyways, I like that idea, but just a simple race change, really?"

BigStall offered his own opinion, "Well, you could probably ask for something like 50 extra attribute points alongside a race change. That's in-line with how much Ouroboros can do for you."

Some extra discussion occured, and Momonga eventually said, "Alright, then all in favor of Orphea using Ouroboros to change her race, and then joining Ainz Ooal Gown?"

Unsurprisingly, the motion went unopposed.

Immediately after, BigStall had began recording, giving the go-ahead for Orphea to use Ouroboros.

Orphea first did some light gloating, though, "Hey Triumvirate! Go kill yourselves! You're all the worst people I've ever met, and Principality is the only good person in your guild! By the way, sorry Principality, but I'm not sorry at all to you other guys!"

Orphea then activated Ouroboros, its form glowing with power.

"Alright, what do you want from Ouroboros, then?" a tired voice came out of nowhere, a good sign.

Orphea then answered, "I want to become a homunculus with 50 extra attribute points that I can allocate!"

"...That's it? Thank god, yeah, I can literally do that in 2 minutes." His voice was relieved, as in 2 minutes, a glow enveloped Orphea.

The voice then disconnected, and then Ouroboros then disappeared.

"Well, Orphea" Momonga sent her the invite, as she immediately accepts it, "Welcome to Ainz Ooal Gown."

While BigStall was uploading the video to the Yggdrasil forums, Orphea was listing off the world items she stole from Triumvirate.

"So this cup is Hygieia's Chalice, basically it allows you to revive people for no penalty, these are Avarice and Generosity, which lets you store experience in the hands or something and give it out, this one is Ginnungagap, which deals a bunch of AoE damage, and this last one right here is one of the 20, Azathoth's Awakening, which I think just instantly kills anyone who sees it when activated." Orphea explained, showing off her rightfully stolen items.

"Hm, does Avarice and Generosity basically allow us to skip the exp farming whenever we want to switch classes?" Punitto asked.

Orphea nods, "Well, you have to charge it up, but yeah, that's literally what it's used for."

"And Ginnungagap, how large is its AoE radius?" Tabula asked.

"I literally have no idea, I've never seen it be used." Orphea said, shrugging.

"How did you even manage to convince them that you were allowed anywhere near the treasury where all of your world items were being held?" Vagisilious asked, gaining a smirk from Orphea.

Orphea looked very proud as she said, "I sent EmpireOfWar fake nudes."

Everyone present had just laughed, as Peroroncino boasted, "That would never happen to me!"

"Yeah, because you're only into anime girls," Herohero jabbed, "You'd see a real girl and be like, 'uh, why are you 3d?'"

Orphea looked at Peroroncino oddly, but didn't say anything out loud. But it was caught by Vagisilious who was most definitely going to question her later about it.

"Shut up, Herohero, don't embarrass me in front of the new girl!" Peroroncino had just said in a lower tone, still eliciting laughter from the other guild members.

Orphea then changed the topic, "By the way, how many NPC levels do you guys have left?"

Momonga quickly checked before answering, "We used up all of the ones we have available, but there are still 280 levels that we haven't bought yet, but I'm sure we can pool together $560 to buy it for you, since you've already done all of this for us."

"Oh, nah, I can just buy it myself, I think I like you guys enough already to invest this much," Orphea answered easily, causing some confusion.

"Huh? That's literally almost half a year's worth of money to me, Orphea, how are you going to pay for that?" Variable Talisman said, who was a low level architect in real life.

"Well…" Orphea looked to Vagisilious, "Hey, Vaggy, is there anyone here that you wouldn't trust with your life?"

Vagisilious quickly scanned the room before shaking her head, "Nah, I mean, I don't really love some of them, cough cough Ulbert, but I still trust them all."

"Did you really just unironically say cough cough." Ulbert deadpanned.

Ulbert was swiftly ignored as Orphea then revealed, "Alright, I'll take your word for it. Anyways, I'm the only daughter of Karasu Group, so I'm rich."

Coup De Grace literally jumped up and popped off, "HOLY SHIT LET'S FUCKING GOOO! ORPHEA, VAGGY, YOU'RE LITERALLY MY MOST FAVORITE PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET!"

Orphea blinked, "What."

Tabula didn't seem that concerned as he answered Orphea's query, "It's literally a fantasy of his to have a rich person in the guild, because he wants to be involved in some nepotism."

Orphea seemed to understand, "...Oh." Orphea then looked to everyone else, who, while looking somewhat excited, wasn't as vibrant as Coup De Grace, "Is that, uh, not that big of a deal here?"

Blue Planet shrugged, "I mean, we're all adults with jobs. And Karasu Group is one of those big Tokyo hedge funds, right? I don't think most of us even qualify to be a janitor for that company, so it's not like our lives will change that much."

Orphea stared at a wall, despondently saying, "...Well, I guess that makes sense, but… I kind of wanted this to be a really big deal?"

Bellriver just sent an unimpressed emoji and decided to snark, "You're not even the CEO, you're literally the daughter of the CEO. You're not that special."

"Well-!" Orphea tried to defend herself, before immediately deflating, "I guess you're right. Ugh, all of those daydreams, all for nothing!"

Laughter ensued, and Orphea laughed alongside them.

After it died down, Momonga reiterated the rules for Orphea, "Alright, well, since you're the one who brought them, you get the final decision on what happens with the 4 world items for as long as you're in the guild, and since the NPC levels belong to the person who buy them, feel free to buy the 280 levels and make your NPCs with them."

Orphea nods, "Alright, I'll do that straight away, uh, is there any restrictions on where I can put my NPCs?"

Vagisilious answered for her friend, "Well, you'll have to just ask the floor directors for permission, the first 3 floors are Peroroncino's, the 4th floor is mine, 5th floor is Takemikazuchi, 6th is Blue Planet, 7th is Ulbert's, 8th is Punitto, 9th is Whitebrim, 10th is Momonga." Then, Vagisilious realized, "Actually, you have no idea what I'm talking about. We're taking you on a tour of Nazarick, we'll go to the treasury really quickly to get you a guild ring, and we'll introduce you to all the NPCs."

Orphea sighed in relief, "Oh thank god, because you lost me on the floor director part."

And so, the tour of Nazarick began.

Quite frankly, she hasn't visited some of these floors in a long time, as she pointed out, "Here's the floor guardian of the first three floors, basically the bosses of the floors, Shalltear Bloodfallen, which is Pero's creation."

Pero puffed his chest out, "Yep! I specially designed her for 1v1 combat to kill any idiot trying to invade Nazarick alone!"

Orphea looked interested, "Did you also write a character bio for her?"

Vagisilious checked as Peroroncino answered, "Of course I did!"

Her eyes widened as she quickly warned, "Orphea, don't check."

Orphea looked very curious as she disregarded the warning, "Huh? That just made me want to check it!"

Opening it up, her mouth opens, "Oh."

While there was a character bio at the top of the menu…

Peroroncino had copy and pasted the entire kink section of wikipedia into Shalltear's bio, saying that Shalltear has basically every kink known to man, and then some beyond that.

Coup De Grace fell to his knees and cried in despair, "It's over, so over. She knows, she's going to quiittt! Come on, Pero! Why would you do this to us!?"

Orphea chuckled, "Actually, I think this is funny."

Coup De Grace popped off again, "Pero! Thank you! Thank you!"
Peroroncino looked very proud, "Thank you, Orphea. Can I assume that you're a woman of culture as well?"

Orphea looks away as she nods, "It's kind of embarrassing, but yeah."

Bukubukuchagama groaned, "At least you have some sort of shame. My brother doesn't even keep it subtle."

Orphea laughed, which helped reduce her shame somewhat, "Haha! Pero, you've gotta teach me some of that degeneracy."

Peroroncino wisely nodded, "Of course, my pupil, you have much to learn."

Tigris looked lost, "Maybe I'm just misunderstanding things, but am I hearing that Orphea is also a hentai watcher?"

"My goth phase was, uh, very strange and I'm still affected by it to this day."

"I can see."

Vagisilious proudly showed off the 4th floor, the cave floor that she realized had no special name. But it didn't really need a special name because 'cave floor' was a perfectly fine name.

Leviathan in his human form and Tokino in her qilin form were standing still as she showed them off, "This is Tokino, my first floor guardian and my first creation. And this is Leviathan, whose build is the one I stole from you."

Orphea opened up Leviathan's character screen as she said, "Wow, I should've been a dragon, 765 attribute points? I'm jealous, honestly."

"Eh, his human form makes him lose 40% of his attributes, you know, to make sure people aren't picking this race just to be a stronger human. And I have no idea if it'd be easier or harder to hit people as a dragon." Vagisilious replied, shrugging.

Then, Orphea scrolled down the character bio, "Vaggy, did you just write an entire book in here?"

"I got carried away, honestly." Vagisilious answered, "Also, yeah, it's kind of crazy how much attribute points the devs hand out to heteromorph classes in comparison to humans."

"Honestly, I'd change some of the attribute points for some more classes. I'd love to have 10 classes like human and homunculus players do." Temperance said from the side.

"Then why didn't you play one of those races?" Orphea asked.

"Cause I love ghosts, duh." Answered the ghost player.

"Eh, that's fair." Orphea responded back, then going on to check Tokino's status, going down her character bio.

"...Huh? You're a shipping NPC…? Wait, what's this about Pero and Buku?" Orphea confusedly muttered out.

"YOU STILL HAVEN'T DELETED THAT?!" Peroroncino and Bukubukuchagama angrily asked Vaggy, who had to take a step back from the noise.

"I ONCE AGAIN ASSURE YOU IT'S COMPLETELY VITAL TO HER LORE! YOU CAN'T STOP ME!"

After an shouting match that was defused by Orphea's raucous laughter, they had moved on to the 5th floor, where Takemikazuchi was showing off Cocytus.

"Uh, I didn't really add much to Cocytus aside from him being a super honorable warrior. You know, like a samurai." Takemikazuchi nervously said, regretting not spending more time writing out his bio.

"Oh, nah, it's fine." Orphea answered, going over Cocytus's status, "Huh, can he really equip 4 weapons at once?"

Takemikazuchi nods, "Yeah, can't wear any armor, though, so all of his defense comes from the trinkets, plus whatever defense attributes I put on him."

"...This is level 74 gear. We're at level 77 gear right now." Orphea said.

"Okay so I MIGHT be slacking off on upgrading him, alright? Besides, I can literally hand him my old gear and it'll work out!

The 6th floor was most definitely Orphea's favorite, mostly due to the artificial sky they put there.

"Man, you made all of this?" Orphea asked Blue Planet, who was very pleased someone else got it.

"Yeah, literally hundreds of hours poured into this to make it look as real as possible." Blue Planet answered, in complete zen.

Bukubukuchagama wasn't that happy, "Uh, can you meet my floor guardians now…?"

"Nah, I have to stare at this sky more, it's beautiful." Orphea answered, causing Bukubukuchagama to droop down.

Ulbert was channeling his inner chuunibyou as he introduced Demiurge, "Behold, my greatest creation, Demiurge! I based him off your dad, by the way."

Vagisilious was surprised to hear it, "Oh? I thought you based Demiurge off of just megacorp CEOs in general?"

Ulbert nodded, "Yeah, but his hair and style of glasses is from the CEO of Karasu Group, which is her dad."

"Oh, wow, hidden Ulbert Alain Odle lore." Tabula said in slight surprise.

Orphea looked a bit weirded out, though, "Yeah, that's uh… Certainly an NPC. Feels weird seeing that hairstyle on anyone else but my dad, honestly."

Then, she checked out his character bio, "Um, why did you make him so sadistic?"

"He's a megacorp CEO." Ulbert answered as if it was obvious.

"Yeah, you're exactly like you are on the forums."

"My powers have increased tenfold since we last argued. I'll just prove my superiority over you by out DPSing you in our next raid."

Orphea chuckled, "I'll look forward to it, Ulbert."

"So basically, we put all of our store NPCs right here, and then we'll let Victim die first, so everyone gets debuffed, then we coded it so after Victim dies, literally everyone descends on the enemy."

"...So this is the tryhard floor?"

"Yep."

"Kind of boring, honestly."

"It's supposed to be. It kills you."

"You know, Triumvirate didn't have a dedicated RP area like this." Orphea said, checking every room of the 9th floor, "I think the closest we had was like, some background bathrooms, and like, a sign that says 'get your food here!' and nothing else."

Whitebrim nodded, "Yeah, I know, we saw the videos about the Triumvirate raids."

Orphea snorted, "Oh yeah, that month SUCKED. We were basically holding off raids for days on end until people finally realized that we weren't the right place they were looking for."

"Honestly, that was hilarious." Touch said, gaining some agreements from others, "Hopefully we won't end up getting raided by a thousand players like Triumvirate did!"

Momonga laughed, "Well, I know we're going to get raided by Triumvirate, but aside from maybe one or two other guilds, I don't think it'll exceed a thousand."

"At least Triumvirate had the luck of all of the raids spanning over the course of a month, though." Vagisilious mentioned, "If Triumvirate finds us and a bunch of other guilds join in, it'll all basically happen in one day."

"Eh, what are the odds of more than 3 or 4 guilds joining Triumvirate to raid us?"

"...Not that high, honestly. Triumvirate needs their world items back, after all.

Momonga was pointed towards an empty spot near the back of the throne room, "That's where your flag will be. You'll have to make your own emblem, but Vaggy can help you with that."

Momonga then sat down on the throne of kings, "Anyway, that's the end of your tour of Nazarick, since you already saw the treasury at the start. Do you know where you want your NPC to be now?"

Orphea nods, "Yeah, I really liked the 6th floor, you guys have a place for a few human mages and a warrior there?"

Blue Planet gave his approval, "Yeah, feel free." Then, Blue Planet amended his statement, "Wait, actually, can you make them homunculi? You know, since we're trying to keep it all either demi-humans or heteromorphs here."

Orphea smiled, "Thank you! I can do that, yeah."

BigStall then entered the throne room, "Hey guys, I just edited the video and uploaded it to the forums. I assume you guys want to fight some people there?"

Orphea grinned, "Oh, I'm so ready to!"

Yoipesuto looked at Orphea, "Man, I wish we heteromorphs could have that level of facial expressions."

"Are you a jellyfish in real life?"

"What sounds do jellyfish make? Woosh woosh?"

"Pfft, whatever, I'm going to go argue on the forums for a bit."

Yggdrasil Forums:

Topic: Orphea Betrays Triumvirate and Joins Ainz Ooal Gown

Posted on November 2, 2130 by BigStall.

BigStall (Original Poster) (Developer) (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

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I have no real dog in this fight, I'm just the recorder of it all. But I'm sure the rest of my guild will gladly argue with the rest of you in the comments.

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Orphea Scarlet (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

I'm only sort of sorry for Principality, the rest of you are misogynistic pricks and I'm super happy I could do something like this to you guys.

Also, I just checked the leaderboards and YOU GUYS GOT OVERTHROWN BY SERAPHIM HAHAHAHA!

EmpireOfWar (Muspelheim World Champion) (Guild: Triumvirate)

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Crackaslama (Asgard World Champion) (Guild: Triumvirate)

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BigStall (Original Poster) (Developer) (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

Believe it or not, hate speech is actually not allowed on the Yggdrasil forums.

BlessThyHearts (Guild Leader: Seraphim)

Haha, no doubt Triumvirate is pissed off right now losing that #1 spot to us. That being said, we're still not allowing you to have, what? 8 world items now? So you'll probably see us at your guild base real soon.

Mustapha Mond (Guild: Seraphim)

I'll be having words about this to you later.

Eyesee (Guild: Seraphim)

Lol Mustapha, stop trying to act like the guild leader it ain't happening blud.

Saibandoke (Guild Leader: Clown House)

God damn it, I knew today was going too well to be true.

There's nothing I hate more than Ainz Ooal Gown becoming stronger.

Big Man Underground (Guild: Clown House)

Our biggest prank yet: Destroying entitled manchildren's guild weapon!

Yggdrasil Forums:

Topic: Triumvirate's Response.

Posted on November 3, 2130 by Principality.

Principality (Original Poster) (Midgard World Champion) (Guild Leader: Triumvirate)

First, I would like to apologize to Orphea for allowing my fellow guildmates to keep harassing her despite my warnings to knock it off. They should've treated you with common courtesy, and I did not properly ensure they would. This entire situation was born out of my negligence and I will strive to do better in the future.

However, the simple fact of the matter is that Orphea has robbed us of 5 world items and used one of them to switch races as a final severance to us.

All actions have consequences, and Orphea's betrayal shall have the most dire of consequences.

As you all know, Orphea's choice of guild to defect to is Ainz Ooal Gown. Very infamous for PKing players who even mention not liking heteromorphs, and they claim to be the defenders of heteromorphs everywhere, despite coming into conflict with many heteromorphic guilds.

While Triumvirate and Ainz Ooal Gown have never properly fought each other due to the difference in power between our two guilds, the actions of Orphea have compelled us to total annihilation.

But I do not want Ainz Ooal Gown to have even the slightest chance to come out of this alive. I want this defeat to be complete and utterly undisputed and humiliating.

Therefore, I would like to invite every player in Yggdrasil to our raid of Ainz Ooal Gown's guild base as soon as we find it in Helheim.

Sign ups will be right here. [Link]

Let Justice Be Done, Though The Heavens May Fall.

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Orphea Scarlet (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

I'll be honest, I didn't know how I didn't expect something like this to happen.

But yeah, nothing against you, Principality. I just really hated your friends.

Principality (Guild Leader: Triumvirate)

Of course, I'm sorry that it's come to this. You deserved better.

Vagisilious (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

Oh yeah, they'd totally be banging each other in an alternative timeline.

Orphea Scarlet (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

BRO WTF.

SteamBird (Guild Leader: The Yggdrasil Times)

Holy shit this is MASSIVE. There's literally never been an event like this in Yggdrasil before!

TheHistorian (Guild Leader: The Lore Keepers)

Honestly, it'd be kind of insulting if we DIDN'T join at this point, yeah?

Charlotte (Guild: The Yggdrasil Times)

We gotta interview everyone ASAP. We already have half the guild trying to get in contact with literally anyone from Ainz Ooal Gown to get their opinions right now.

Mayoshi (Developer)

Looks like BigStall couldn't stall this one out lol.

Giant Developer (Developer)

I may not be able to win against him in Pokemon, but at the very least, I'll see him defeated in something in my lifetime.

Hyper Offense (GM)

If We're taking bets, I'll have faith in my archnemesis. No way he's getting beat by a bunch of hobos.

BigStall can only be defeated by me!

Jax (Guild: Digital Circus)

I may be an atheist, but I thank God that I'm alive right now to witness this all happen live.

HeavenlyOne (Guild: Curse Killers)

Personally, this wouldn't have happened to me.

Fraudulent (Guild: Curse Makers)

Would you lose against the biggest raid that Yggdrasil has ever seen?

HeavenlyOne (Guild: Curse Killers)

Nah, I'd win.

Unionite (Guild Leader: Foreigner United Front)

Oh yeah, Ainz Ooal Gown? Screw those guys. Definitely having the entire guild sign up for this! You have our swords!

Saibandoke (Guild Leader: Clown House)

And our spears.

Surshana (Clan Leader: Slane)

And our bows!

CocaineKuma (Clanless)

You know what? Yeah, I can rejoin Yggdrasil for this. Fuck those guys.

Elohs'Yddad (Nioavellir World Champion) (Guild Leader: Bad Bad Bathhouse)

You know what? This looks hilarious, we're in too.

Fisticuffs (Helheim World Champion) (Guild: The Good Guys)

You know what? I'll try to rope my guild into this too lol.

Beats Goku (Vanaheim World Champion) (Guild Leader: Anime Fans 100)

You know what? Count me in too! Can Ainz Ooal Gown beat Goku? We'll all find out!

Kashikoi Otoko (Niflheim World Champion) (Guild: Ravenclaw)

You know what? I have nothing better to do, when's the day?

CANSCREAMGOOD (Jotunheim World Champion) (Guild: Glass House)

At this point, I'm kind of obligated to join in, then. The 8 world champions vs Ainz Ooal Gown lol.

I have literally nothing against them, but if I wasn't gonna join, everyone's gonna clown on me for not showing up.

Barbatos (Guild: Teyvat)

We'll sing a song as you die a terrible, terrible death, Ainz Ooal Gown.

Beelzebul (Guild: Teyvat)

You said you wanted to join, though?

Barbatos (Guild: Teyvat)

Don't snitch :((((

Heavenly Principles (Guild Leader: Teyvat)

We're joining, yes.

DarkKnight (Guild: Teyvat)

What? Seriously? Of course you higher ups keep dragging us into things we don't want to do.

Shin'nyū-sha (Guild: Love Highway)

My favorite thing on the Yggdrasil forums is literally seeing people who can probably just talk to each other, instead air out their discourse on the Yggdrasil forums for all to see lol.

EebenTee (Clanless)

You love to see it. I would not have half the joy I would have reading the Yggdrasil Forums if it weren't for these types of people.

Theadul (Guild: 8 Greed Kings)

Rest in peace, Ainz Ooal Gown.

PopStarry (Guild: 8 Greed Kings)

Serves Vagisilious right!

Powerfuel (Guild Leader: 8 Greed Kings)

Lol they had it coming.

Momonga (Guild Leader: Ainz Ooal Gown)

The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick shall be your final resting place.

2 days later, they found Nazarick, and the date was set for November 12th to be the day of reckoning.

The conference room was dead silent despite having 41 players inside, as Momonga quietly asked, "...Vagisilious, you've been keeping up with the news. How many players are about to come down on us?"

Nobody made note of Momonga using Vagisilious's full name, because everyone was too in their own heads.

"Mein Fuhrer…" Vagisilious started, trying to get a chuckle out of literally anyone, which did not work, "...The latest reports indicate at least… 4000 players will join this raid."

You could see a strand of hair fall off someone's head in that room and hear it perfectly clear. The atmosphere in the room had hit rock bottom upon the news of up to 4000 players possibly coming to destroy their home.

And that wasn't even the final number, because there was still a week to sign up for the raid, not to mention players who will just show up without signing up. The true number could be bigger than 5000.

Orphea had her face buried in her hands, ashamed that her actions lead to this, she could see some of her guild members visibly trying to hold back tears. Even Punitto looked extremely defeated, and he was always the last one to lose hope.

They all knew on some level, they totally deserved this. They've been bullying way too many players for way too long without consequence.

But…

"They're bringing literally every single world champion. Literally every top 10 guilds are joining in on this too." Vagisilious managed to speak without choking, "Even though the group limit is 100-"

"200." BigStall interrupted, causing everyone to look at him, "I heard that they're increasing the group limit to 200 just for this."

"...What's the scaling on the NPCs at that point? Can they one-shot players?" Tabula despondently asked, trying to gather some amount of hope.

"I have no idea," BigStall answered, "They'll just increase it to 200 in like, 2 days, and they'll let the system figure out how much stronger NPCs should get."

"A single level 100 NPC has no chance against 100 players. I doubt that'd change for 200 players." Pannokishi pointed out.

"Quite frankly, we may as well hope for divine intervention at this point," Shizyuutensuzaku said, slumped in his seat, "If it was just 100 players, we could've mounted a defense on every floor, despite the 60 player difference, but with 200 players, we'd just get melted."

Ankoro actually started to tear up, though no tears showed on her avatar, "I'm going to miss you guys…"

"Ankoro, you know we can just start a new clan, right?" Yamaiko pointed out, "It's not like we'll be dead forever."

"Ankoro, please stop crying, you'll make me cry too…" Vagisilious said, audibly holding back her own tears.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry…" Orphea despondently muttered out onto the table.

Peroroncino was the first to console her, "Nah, it's fine. In fact, this is probably the best case scenario."

Ulbert looked at Peroroncino oddly, "How is this the best case scenario? We're about to be raped in our asses by 4000 players."

Orphea got her head off the table and looked at Peroroncino as well, "Yeah, Pero, how is this a good scenario in any universe?"

Peroroncino puffed out his chest, "Cause obviously, when we win, we'll be undisputedly the strongest guild in all of Yggdrasil! It's literally fated in the stars!"

Herohero laughed, "How can you say that with a straight face, man?!"

Peroroncino lifted up a finger, "Guys, we're Ainz Ooal Gown. We literally don't know what defeat is, that's our whole motto! How are we going to find out now?"

Vagisilious perked up, "That is the most cope shit I've ever heard come out of your mouth, Pero." Vagisilious then flew up, "You know what? Yeah, I'll buy it. We'll cement ourselves in the halls of the greatest of all time, by defeating this invasion!"

Ulbert scoffed, "I can't believe you're all buying into this delusion." Ulbert raised his hand, "Waiter! Waiter! Some of that delicious copium, please?"

Punitto sighed, "Well, if we're doing this, let's come up with a plan, yeah?"

"Our plan right now is to pray to god that our NPCs can scale to literally one-shot players." Daijobubua blankly stated, "What can we even plan?"

"You know how we can revive everything in Nazarick for like, 100 million gold, right? We can plan when to use those and when we shouldn't." Punitto suggested.

"How much do we have in the treasury, then?" Orphea asked.

Momonga quickly checked in his menu, "Uh, we have… 356 Million gold."

Coup De Grace did some quick napkin math, "Well, if hypothetically have 5000 players, the worst case scenario, then we'd have like, 25 groups we'd have to kill. And if we have 3 resets, then we'd have to be able to kill 8 or 9 groups, so about 1800 players for every Nazarick."

"I mean…" Bukubukuchagama trailed off, "I may be coping, but that doesn't sound impossible, does it?"

"No, you're definitely coping, 1800 players is an ungodly amount of players for one guild base to go through," Denshosho said, amusement coloring his voice, "That being said, let me add to the cope and mention that not all of those players would be level 100."

Luci*Fer laughed, "What? There'll probably be only half a group's worth of non-level 100s. Probably the very first group too, just to scout out what's in Nazarick. We're all coping way too hard right now."

Otanabetabeki asked Luci*Fer, "Hey, your golems don't cost guild levels, right? How many of those can you make before the raid comes?"

Luci*Fer shrugged, "I don't even know if they scale with the base, man. But yeah, I guess I have a valid excuse to finish the Legmetons now…"

Temperance then suggested, "Well, if the 8th floor is supposed to be our final layer of actual defense, why not move Pandora's Actor, Albedo and Sebas to the 8th floor? You know, just to beef it up."

Momonga agreed, "Yeah, we should probably do that. Actually, let's just bring every NPC that isn't for RP purposes from the 9th and 10th floor to the 8th."

Touch nods at the order, "Alright, I can do that."

Suratan then added, "Also, we should probably give all of our best gear to the NPCs, right? Since we're not going to be trying to duel 200 players, and the NPCs can't drop their gear."

Mekongawa scratched his head, "I don't think I can give Aura my pets, but I guess today's a good day to find out whether or not that's true or not."

Everyone then began to have hope that we may actually win this fight. It didn't matter that we had no idea if the NPCs actually stood a chance against 200 players, or if

"Then it's settled!" Momonga shouted out, grabbing all of our attention, "We will defend Nazarick to the very end! Glory to Ainz Ooal Gown!"

"Glory to Ainz Ooal Gown!"

"Glory to Ainz Ooal Gown, right guys?" Nubo's voice teetered on insanity as he was showing everyone the number of players that had gathered just outside of the designated guild base area to avoid unnecessarily increasing the power of our NPCs.

Yeah, it was the worst case scenario, almost 5000 players showed up.

In our heads, 5000 players wasn't too much, but just seeing it in person like this…

"Honestly, I'm just saying, it could've been worse." She said, trying to pretend this was a perfectly fine situation.

"Vaggy, I need whatever drug you're on that makes you think any of this is good." Orphea blankly said.

Ulbert had converted into a full believer since the events of November 5th, so he just said, "Orphea, just think of all of their reactions, their faces full of tears, when they realize they somehow fumbled the easiest raid in all of Yggdrasil!"

Orphea slowly nodded, getting the idea, "Yeah, that would be hilarious to see, but, uh, it's 5000 players against 41 of us, plus our NPCs."

Basically all of Ainz Ooal Gown were wearing their trash gear, as basically all of their best gear were on their NPCs, in the hopes of it somehow helping them stem the tide.

"Look, the gear level is 77, and the Nazarick bosses we got when we first got this place is level 81. It'll be fine." Nearata repeated a talking point that had been brought up over and over again since they realized it was true.

"It's only a 20% difference, man." Wish III pointed out, "I love you all, but we're kind of boned."

"We're tolerating no dissent today, Wish," Ancient One flatly said, "We're all going down as believers to the very end."

Flatfoot laughed, "Yeah, when we're all getting our asses kicked here in the throne room, we'll still be talking about how we have a chance of winning."

"Speaking of the throne room," Genjiro spoke up, "Do we stand on those balconies? I never really thought about where we'd be standing. Do we stand next to the throne of kings, then?"

Otanabetabeki hit Genjiro lightly, "Man, I hate the fact that you brought that up at the last possible moment."

"You can all stand next to the throne, then. We might as well get a cool screenshot out of it." Momonga said, "By the way, I'm sitting on the throne, obviously."

"Dibs on being on your right!" Ulbert shouted out first, before everyone had started trying to get an ideal spot in the picture.

"I hate to ruin all of your fun, but I think they finally got into their groups of 200. The first group is moving towards Nazarick right now." Nubo grimly said, pointing towards the massive group that's moving to Nazarick right now.

"Alright everyone, message all of your outside friends right now." Momonga signaled as we all sent out messages to our non-guild friends who wanted to help.

That is to say, we wanted them to just walk into the guild base area so that instead of being scaled to 200 players, the base would scale to 250 or so players.

In fact, some of those players were level 1, being friends from other games who bought Yggdrasil for the sole purpose of helping their friends here.

It wasn't much, but hopefully that would help the NPCs just a bit.

Of course, they'd do so on the opposite end where the majority of the players were, so they weren't killed for attempted griefing. And with 5000 players, it's really hard to keep track of who's where, so they wouldn't really be found.

"Alright, let's check their levels," Vagisilious said, opening up her divination menu to check who's invading.

With about 25 groups, anti-divination magic would be wreaking havoc, so they all mutually agreed to keep it off to avoid friendly fire.

That also meant she could freely use her divination magic without risk of being blown up or anything.

"Hmm…" She quickly scrolled down the list of players, "Yeah, these are the shitties. Only like 20 of these guys are level 100."

A sense of relief blows through most members, as Bellriver graciously said, "Thank god we're not being blown up by the first 200 players."

The level 40 pop mobs began to spawn at the gates of Nazarick, as the 200 players engaged the skeletons.

Normally, they'd be level 20, but they could spend more gold to upgrade pop mobs temporarily, and seeing as how they had 56 million gold that couldn't be used for the revival process, temporarily doubling the level of all pop mobs in Nazarick was seen as a pretty good use of that gold.

Checking the health of the players being attacked, Vagisilious relayed to her guild, "Okay, they're doing a ton of damage, but nothing lethal just yet. It takes a bunch of hits to kill them though, so it's gonna take a bunch of their mana away."

Momonga nods, "Alright, but it's all relatively lower level players. Do you think Shalltear can take them out?"

"Honestly? I would bet money on Shalltear being able to clear this entire group by herself." Vagisilious answered, "Pero, you coded Shalltear to primarily attack from behind, yeah?"

Peroroncino nods, "Yeah, that's what all of those secret vents are for."

"Great, okay, they're entering Nazarick right now…"

Mexicana really regretted deciding that she was going to join this raid without being level 100, because now she's in the first wave that's basically guaranteed to die without achieving anything massive.

Also, this tomb was claustrophobic as hell! Seriously, why would they do that to her?! Couldn't they have afforded some more lights in this place?

Her fellow players shared similar sentiments of the guild base, "Man, this place is boring. Is this really Ainz Ooal Gown's guild base?"

Suddenly, someone shouted from behind them, "NPC BEHIND US! NPC BEHIND US!"

Turning around- Holy shit that's an ugly ass vampire!

She didn't even have a chance to use a spell as the vampire one-shotted her due to the low level of her gear.

Watching as Shalltear cut through literally every single person of that 200 player group, we were all fucking elated as we realized the scaling for the NPCs was all out of wack.

"Guys! We have a chance! An unironic real chance!" Peroroncino celebrated, high fiving literally everyone as they watched his creation go on a killing spree.

"Holy shit, Pero, what did you feed that girl?" Ulbert said, watching the murder happening live.

"I just shifted some of her skills around so that her blood frenzy form has better AoE, and obviously, it's working!" Peroroncino excitedly said, high fiving Orphea multiple times.

Vagisilious silently noted that Peroroncino may actually have a real chance at getting a girlfriend depending on how that situation turns out.

"In the midst of our 'It's so over' phase, we found our 'We are so back' era!" Ancient One spouted some nonsense that was very enthusiastically received.

Wish III laughed, "Ancient, that's literally the dumbest thing I've heard come out of your mouth."

Everyone laughed as Shalltear finished up the remaining players that had managed to put up more of a fight. But with all of the healers dead, they couldn't really stand against Shalltear's damage output.

"Honestly, I feel really bad for the healers in this raid," Punitto said, "Cause I think every hit that our NPCs do is going to take half of their health, and the healers can't do anything about it."

"Do you actually feel bad?" Pannokishi asked.

"No."

It had taken 2 groups after that, a combined 600 players to take down Shalltear.

"Alright, so did anyone expect Shalltear of all NPCs to be able to take down 600 people basically near solo?" Bukubukuchagama had asked once the remnants of the 3rd group, which was about 63 people, entered the 4th floor for the first time.

"I'm gonna be honest, I was really afraid that the 2nd group was going to be the one to wipe the floor with us," Variable Talisman admits, "But now, I'm a true believer."

Yamaiko nods, "We're all true believers."

"Well, my floor has 2 level 100 NPCs, plus a bunch of higher leveled ones." Vagisilious said, trying to make her floor look better, "I think Leviathan and Tokino can take out like, 1200 players."

The 63 players tried to make their way across the 4th floor, but…

"Are they getting killed by the pop mobs?" Orphea incredulously asked, not believing her eyes.

They were all getting their asses kicked by the level 50 pop mobs!

To be fair, the variety of the pop mobs in the 4th floor was second only to the 6th, but it was still kind of weird to watch real people die to the pop mobs.

In fact, they all literally died before reaching the NPCs.

"Wow, are they incompetent, or are we strong?" Garnet asked, surprised at what had just happened in front of his eyes.

"Incompetent," BigStall answered, "By the way, I just got a few messages from my fellow developers and GMs."

Ulbert looked at him curiously, "Really? Why?"

"They're all laughing about the 50 randos we have parked right behind our guild base."

"Oh, yeah, that's going to be hilarious when they find out."

Watching the next 200 players waltz into Nazarick, they had managed to handle all of the pop mobs relatively easily and began to fight against Leviathan and Tokino and the others.

Well, fight was a nice word to use, because Leviathan WAS ONE SHOTTING THEM.

Leviathan's health was going down faster than Shalltear's did, but that didn't matter because Tokino literally healed him back to full faster than they could do damage, plus the buffs that Tokino could give were absolutely absurd. And Mana wasn't an issue either, because apparently, she can restore mana!

Apparently, it goes with the idea of reverting time also reverts how much mana you have. Something that she didn't realize until she checked Tokino's build just this week.

"Vaggy, I'd like to apologize for calling Tokino and Leviathan's builds wacky." Tabula apologized, bowing his head, "They are perfectly viable builds."

Leviathan literally swipes his claws, and that entire section of players just dies. Not to mention everyone's health being drained away because of Leviathan's abyssal aura.

Vagisilious was very happy on seeing Leviathan get his revenge, to the point she didn't really care for Tabula's apology, "Just watch and weep, Tabula. I'm shipping Tokino and Leviathan after this."

"Of course. This was literally their only ship option." BigStall said as if it was fairly obvious. And to be fair, it was quite obvious this was going to happen at some point or another.

"Was Tokino's build buffed or something? I don't remember their builds being that strong." Momonga said, but he wasn't that upset at being proven wrong.

"I think so! But since nobody actually plays that class, we had no idea!" Vagisilious excitedly said as Leviathan finishes wiping out all 200 players, with his health bar still being at 100, same as Tokino's.

Orphea lightly hit Vagisilious, "Hey, don't discount Leviathan! I literally gave all of my gear to him, and he's clearly carrying!"

"I'll hand it to you, stealing your build was the best idea I've ever had." Vagisilious admits.

Orphea puffed up her chest in satisfaction, "Of course, of course."

"Uh, guys, they're sending in a world champion already." Nubo quickly warned, giving them enough time to see the world champion of Nioavellir walk into their base, alongside his guild and another top 10 guild.

"Ah, fuck."

Elohs'Yddad was a pretty experienced player, so obviously he could tell that the big dragon was obviously going to be a huge pain in the ass.

A conquerable pain in the ass, but a pain nonetheless.

"So, we focus down the giant fluffy deer monster, and then we go kill the dragon." Elohs'Yddad simply said, his voice not allowing any interjection.

"Where's their exit portal, though?" One of his guild mates questioned, to which Elohs'Yddad simply pointed at the water.

"Well, there, obviously. That's where I'd put it instead of the big gate over there."

He could see the big gate that the level 100s were defending was simply just a decoy, and the true gate between floors was obviously in the water. But it's likely that the mechanism used to open the underwater gate was to kill the level 100s, because, of course, that's what he would've done.

"Alright! Everyone in my guild! We kill the deer! Everyone in the other guilds, you go kite the dragon away from the deer!" Elohs'Yddad shouted out before he set forth on his mission of blasting the front gates open so that the other guilds actually had a shot.

Clearing the pop mobs, he ran head first into the horse's attack range, kiting it closer to the water as he saw the other guilds following his instructions and kiting the dragon away from the deer.

The deer did a lot of damage every hit, and its spells were very deadly, but nothing his dedicated pocket healers couldn't fix.

It took a few minutes, but eventually, the deer did fall and-

Oh god damn it, the dragon killed basically everyone on that side. Must be a tough son of a bitch.

Rushing over to attempt to save the few survivors, he quickly took aggro and-

A single hit from the dragon did half his health, and that was rapidly diminishing because of his damaging aura.

Thankfully, his healers were on the top of their games, so he was able to survive, but holy shit if he gets hit twice in a row, it's over.

Dodging the next hit, he tries to get behind the dragon, but then he gets hit by the tail, which drags him back to the front of the dragon, whose claws were about to kill him.

But thankfully, one of his guildmates transported locations with him, so they took the hit and died instead of him.

This is going to be real fucking rough fight.

"Nooo! Leviathan!" Vagisilious cried out for her favorite NPC as it fell against Elohs'Yddad, though Leviathan did manage to wipe out literally everyone except him and 12 other people.

"Well, I know who's being shit talked by Leviathan the next time I see you writing in his character bio, Vaggy." Peroroncino joked to her, but she was audibly distraught at Leviathan only managing to kill 387 people.

"Leviathan was my most favorite son, you heartless world champion! How could you do that to me?!" Vagisilious was screaming out, though her words obviously were only half-serious.

Then, something funny happened.

Shatallia, the area guardian guarding the lake that the gate was in, locked onto Elohs'Yddad and sent out a twin maximized hydro pump towards him.

Elohs'Yddad was instantly killed.

"Wha- HAHAHAHA!" Vagisilious immediately started laughing, "THANK YOU SHATALLIA!"

Everyone else began to laugh as Shatallia cleaned up the stragglers who obviously did not expect that to happen.

"Please tell me someone recorded that!" Peroroncino said in between bouts of laughter.

"I did, yeah," BigStall said, still recovering from his laughter, "I'm posting it onto the raid megathread as we speak."

"Oh, we have a megathread?" Orphea said, hearing of this for the first time, "Let me check that really quickly."

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Topic: Megathread: Ainz Ooal Gown Raid

Posted on November 12, 2130 by BigStall.

BigStall (Original Poster) (Developer) (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

All discussion of the 5000 man raid on Nazarick will be posted below to avoid topic bloating in the rest of the forums.

As a developer, I thank you all for playing our game, and loving it enough to gather up in such numbers to finish a task.

As a member of Ainz Ooal Gown, fuck all of you.

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BigStall (Original Poster) (Developer) (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

World Champion Elohs'Ydadd has fallen! [Link]

CocaineKuma (Clanless)

LMFAOOO

Elohs'Yddad (Nioavellir World Champion) (Guild Leader: Bad Bad Bathhouse)

Stfu cocaine bear you died literally in the first wave.

Orphea Scarlet (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

We're all laughing at you, Elohs.

Elohs'Yddad (Nioavellir World Champion) (Guild Leader: Bad Bad Bathhouse)

Fuck off.

They sent a THIRD shitty group to try and kill Cocytus. Which marks the 8th group out of 25.

"Seriously?! They send out a world champion in the second group for Leviathan and Tokino, but somehow Cocytus isn't hard enough to warrant a better group!?" Takemikazuchi was complaining, watching his beautiful creation getting whittled down by sticks and rocks.

"Hm, with no way of regenerating, it does make sense to just kill him like this. Besides, we still have all 5 resets in the bank still. We're good." Tabula said, not really helping the problem out.

"You know, that worries me, actually." Denshosho brought up, "If we were in a story, we'd probably have to use all 3 resets and we'd still end up fighting in the throne room. But, uh, it's not looking like we'll even have to use a single reset at all right now."

"Idiot! You just jinxed it!" Temperance scolded Denshosho.

"No! Cocytus! You deserved so much more!" Takemikazuchi put an end to that train of thought as they all consoled Takemikazuchi over his fallen creation that was absolutely robbed of a good fight.

"Ugh, I hate it when they bring up 600 players to kill my creation, don't you, Takemikazuchi?" Peroroncino said, which rubbed salt into Vagisilious's wounds.

"Oh, I know you're trying to make a point of Leviathan and Tokino's less than impressive record." Vagisilious upsettingly pointed out.

"Yeah, I am." Peroroncino laughed, "Nothing against you! I think it was just funny how that whole thing turned out."

"Everyone shut up! It's Aura and Mare's turn!" Bukubukuchagama said as she intently stared at the few remaining survivors who entered the 6th floor and had to trek through the first to make it to the central arena.

"You know that they're probably not going to make it to the arena, right?" BigStall pointed out, "In fact, I booby trapped that road to hell and back, they might just die to that."

"Well, what if they're smart enough to not trigger it?"

"Hey, watch this," one of his guildmates said as he ran into the obvious trap.

"Wha- Don't do that you moron!"

Everything blew up.

"Okay, they're not smart enough to not trigger it."

"Well, Principality, I don't know how to tell you this, but our side is getting our asses kicked, and I don't think they used a single guild restore yet, not even mentioning we don't know how many times they can do that." The guild leader of Seraphim, BlessThyHearts, told Principality in an amused sort of tone.

"Yeah, I can see that," Principality neutrally said, "But as long as our garbage units can keep going, we'll see the entire guild base eventually, and that's when we strike."

"Do you honestly believe that a bunch of garbage players will get even remotely close to their guild weapon?"

"I must remind you, 4000 pissed off garbage players."

BlessThyHearts chuckled, "Well, I suppose the infinite monkey theorem must work eventually."

One of Principality's guildmates messaged him, much to his surprise, "Principality, We just heard back from Elohs. He's back to level 100."

"What? Already? How?" Principality confusedly asked. It would take at least a day to get those last 5 levels back for him!

"Uh, he just assured us that it's a guild secret. That being said, he's requesting he be let on to the final team." The guildmate told him.

"Hearts, sorry, but you need to let go of someone, Elohs is already back somehow at level 100." Principality told him, which made Hearts a bit disappointed.

"Aw, well, that's a shame, I'll go find someone who's ready to go to bed, then." Hearts said before walking over to where his guild was waiting.

EmpireOfWar and Crackaslama then moved to fill in Heart's empty spot, as Crackaslama asked Principality, "Hey, when are we going?"

"Hm, we still have like 15 groups ahead of us. So I would give us an hour or two."

EmpireOfWar groaned, "Seriously, man? I have work tomorrow!"

"Maybe if you wanted to work, maybe you wouldn't have given Orphea access to the treasury." Principality scolded.

"Yeah, idiot." Crackaslama insulted Empire, because he had nothing better to say.

"Ugh, shut up."

"Jesus christ, how did Aura and Mare kill 800 people?" Ulbert commented as they finally fell to the 12th group to enter Nazarick.

Bukubukuchagama was very proud of her NPCs achievement, "That's because they're the best NPCs!"

Vagisilious snarled, "Leviathan and Tokino would've killed way more if Elohs didn't decide to intervene!"
"Yeah, but he intervened." Bukubukuchagama smugly pointed out, "So your hypothetical doesn't matter."

"I'm just pointing out, Liberta and Daemilla put in tons of work as well, you know," Orphea pointed out her own NPCs, a level 100, a level 70, and some lower level Libertas who were mostly there to pad out the original Liberta's lore.

"Yeah, to be fair, that was 3 level 100s all going in on them." Tabula stated, "Honestly, I'm more surprised a world champion didn't intervene."

"Well, you're going to love this, guys," Nubo said, who was still monitoring who was coming into Nazarick.

"Oh, really? What's happening?" Blue Planet said with some nervousness.

"Nothing, just more shitties."

"...Oh. Well, let's see how many kills Demiurge can score, then!"

"1000," Ulbert said, putting the most faith in his creation, "Take it or leave it."

"Nah, Demiurge isn't killing shit." Vagisilious immediately retaliated, "I'm going to guess he's going to clean up the stragglers of this group, and then he'll die to the next group of 200."

"Oh, hey, I think Clown House is one of the next guilds to enter our base." Nubo mentioned as he saw that guild getting ready for something.

Vagisilious amended her statement, "Okay, he'll kill them, but after them, he'll die."

Touch then spoke up, "Hey, I wanna see this happen to Saibandoke live. Do you guys mind if I go to the 7th floor to watch it happen?"

"Bitch, I'm going with you." Ulbert deadpanned as he disappeared from the throne room, with a few others following them.

Saibandoke was pissed at the whole situation, because their guild did not stand the slightest chance against this dumb fucking frog demon who was currently decimating their guild using his summoner build.

He was trying his best, but he really couldn't do jack shit because all of these summons took an ungodly amount of damage before they would die. But it sucks more for the frontline, which got instantly annihilated because of all the AoE burning effects in this hellish landscape plus the absurd strength of the summoned demons that would normally be cleaned up easily if the summoner wasn't an NPC being buffed to hell and back 200 times over.

Letting his mind curse out Ainz Ooal Gown for a moment longer, he noticed some figures in the distance across the lava river observing their struggle.

No, not just some figures.

It was fucking Touch and the gang.

Call it a childish tantrum, but he absolutely cannot stand the idea of one of his old friends having the time of his life being a fucking puppet, meanwhile he's just trying to get by with his whole youtubing business and still going to bed on an empty stomach sometimes.

Disengaging from the group, to their surprised shouting, he flew over to his old friends and current enemies.

Miraculously, he wasn't shot down by anything on the way.

Touch and the others weren't even phased by him coming over to them, likely not seeing him as a threat, and you know what?

It was true, he was just going to fucking rant to him.

"Touch, you piece of fucking shit," He groweled as soon as Touch was within hearing distance, "Tell me how the hell do you sleep at night when you uphold all the fucking scumbags at the top of society?"

Touch was about to say something, but then he stopped, before responding more measuredly, "Saibandoke, you know I have people I need to take care of."

Ulbert was about to say something, but Touch held a hand in front of him, telling him to shut it.

Saibandoke was not convinced, "People you need to take care of because you're a piece of shit who decided to try and defend this shit system that puts people like US on a fucking conveyor belt from birth to death!"

"Yeah," Touch admits, "I am kind of a piece of shit, huh?"

Ulbert and the other guild members looked to him with some sort of surprise, but didn't voice it, curious as to where it would lead.

Saibandoke blinked.

He… Didn't expect him to admit that.

Touch chuckled as he saw he had thoroughly stumped everyone there, "In the end, we're all just puppets to the whims of the megacorps, but if I had to weigh the rest of my people against my family, I would choose to support my family, even if it meant selling out like I am now."

Touch continued, "I'll be honest, I'm still not totally over the words we've exchanged on that day you decided to leave us, but I think I've matured enough to forgive you."

Touch then raised his sword against Saibandoke, "Well, I'll have to forgive you after I kill you and kick you out of my base, though."

Saibandoke stared at Touch for a long, hard moment.

This… Was basically all he wanted from him, wasn't it? Just an admittance of guilt? Sure, he doesn't like his character, or the act he keeps yapping on about, but… Really, what the hell was he talking about?

The sun rises and falls in the sky without a care in the world, and he realizes how fucking stupid this entire situation is.

Then, he laughed, "Welp, I guess I'll go to bed starving without food again tonight. But I guess I can have this little victory of finally hearing you admit you're a piece of shit."

"Wait, you're-"

He interrupts him, "I hate being a grown, mature, adult sometimes because now I can't just hate you for something petty now. Anyways, I hope to never see you again, Touch! Live the life of a good puppet!"

Jumping into the pool of lava to prevent Touch from saying anything more sappy, he gave him a thumbs up as he died.

Always a good moment to let go of the past, he supposed.

Touch held out his hand, though he wasn't trying to grab anything.

It was just shock, he supposed.

"Damn, I did not just see you two somehow become friends again after just one conversation." Ulbert incredulously said, staring at the pit of lava he just threw himself in.

Touch laughed, "Well, not friends. I guess we finally just squashed the beef after realizing we're both morons."

Momonga hummed, "Well, that's good. Anyways, Demiurge is cleaning up, we should probably get back to the throne room before the next group comes in."

They had all agreed, as most of them teleported back. Though, Touch did stay behind a moment longer.

"Huh, I guess I'll go send him some money after this." Touch pondered a bit, before finally returning to the throne room.

As it turned out, Vagisilious's prediction basically became true as the anti-AOG coalition finally ran out of shitter guilds to whittle down and gather data.

So, the big guilds finally came in and took down Demiurge with basically no problem and few casualties.

Ulbert was not pleased.

And so, they went to battle against the 8th floor. Though, there was something strange about the group who fought there.

There should've been a world champion in one of those guilds, but they were strangely absent despite showing up to the raid.

After noticing that and telling everyone about it, Punitto basically figured it out straight away, "They're saving the best for last. Probably both Triumvirate and Seraphim, and then probably swapping out a few members for the 8 world champions. Or, well, 7."

Victim was activated, and it worked just as planned, with the attributes of the enemy basically whittling down to nothing and them getting annihilated by like 5 different level 100 NPCs, plus all of the Nazarick raid bosses.

"Hm, we reset now, right?" Momonga asked, "So Victim is restored for another go, plus the entire tomb."

Nubo nods, "Yeah, especially considering all of the top 10 guilds are about to start coming down on us."

Touch gave him the thumbs up, "Restore the guild base, Momonga!"

Nazarick shines with bright light, just a moment before the next group goes in.

"They've used their first restoration," BlessThyHearts unhelpfully pointed out, "How many do you think they have left?"

Principality shrugged, "It doesn't really matter. 8th floor, right? That must be their last line of defense. The next time they make it to the 8th floor, we'll go."

"With 8 floors, you'll never make it in time before they reset again." Mustapha Mond, one of Seraphim's members, pointed out.

Principality laughed, "That's what the secret weapon is for. You brought it here, right?"

BlessThyHearts nodded, "Of course, you promised quite a premium for us bringing it pre-charged."

"As long as we have 30 minutes, we can't lose." Principality explained, though they already know the deal, "It's basically a guaranteed victory for us."

We all collectively winced when Shalltear went down while taking only down a handful of players that was just revived anyways.

"Eugh, that was the opposite of a good matchup for Shalltear." Peroroncino said as he saluted Shalltear.

"Well, at least it'll probably go better for Leviathan and Tokino, there's no way they'll go down easily." Vagisilious coped, "I don't think they can really survive the aura for an extended period of time.

Then they started to get kited again, as Vagisilious shouted out, "I SHOULD'VE CODED THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY NEVER MOVE AWAY FROM EACH OTHER!"

"You know what, Vaggy? That's a great idea, Pero, come help me code that for Aura and Mare." Bukubkuchagama said as she immediately disappeared, likely to the 6th floor.

"You know what? Liberta and Daemilla could use that bit of coding as well, c'mon, Pero!" Orphea joined in as she too went to the 6th floor.

"Wha- Why do I- ugh, okay, fine!" Peroroncino relented as he followed the two girls to the 6th floor.

Ulbert scoffed, "Well, rest in peace, big giant dragon. So sad Vaggy didn't code you properly."

Vagisilious sadly groaned at her own short sightedness, "Uuuuggghhh, I'm so sorry Leviathan! Tokino!"

Eventually, they did fall, though again Leviathan took the lives of basically everyone fighting him.

Though, the fallen players were revived again.

In the middle of the Cocytus fight, Peroroncino and the 2 girls came back, just in time to watch Cocytus die.

Again, many players died, but they were revived, aside from the one who couldn't because they died last fight and still hadn't recovered from the 5 minute timer.

Those players just quit the group so Nazarick would be easier to fight against.

They were finally stopped at the 6th floor against the devastating AoE spells of Mare, the tankiness of Aura's pets, and Liberta who used a lot of crowd control spells in that fight.

"God, that was way too close to what I thought would've happened when this entire thing started a few hours ago." Bellriver said, extremely relieved that the 6th floor stopped them.

"Way too close for comfort, yeah," Yoipesuto echoed, "Um, how many groups are we going up against now?"

"2, I think Triumvirate and Seraphim are going last." Vagisilious answered, "Speaking of, we have 2 resets, don't we? Why don't we just use them now?"

"Eh? What if they try again with level 95s?" Momonga questioned, "It's safer to keep one in the bank in case they try again."

"Oh, that makes sense, yeah." Vagisilious conceded, "Though, it's almost 12:45. We should've been in bed an hour ago."

"It's Saturday though-" Yamaiko pointed out before immediately realizing that the concept of weekends didn't exist for most of them, "Oh, I'm sorry."

"I'll just pretend I didn't hear that," Nubo said as he watched the 2nd to last group enter Nazarick, "Alright guys, pray to God the 8th floor can stop this group."

"So, they activated that kill-switch of theirs, you wanna go in now?" BlessThyHearts asked Principality, who nodded in return.

"Yep, where's World Savior?"

"Right here," a guild mate came through a gate, holding the glowing club in his hand.

Handing it over to Principality, Principality held it up for both Triumvirate and Seraphim to see, "Gentlemen! Get ready! Empire, message our contacts inside Nazarick!"

Yeah, the 8th floor cleared out the intruders pretty quickly. They just did not stand a chance with Victim's debuffs.

Though, why did it feel like they just sort of ran into the defenders head first? She thought they would've been smarter than that.

Then, someone began using a super-tier spell.

Now, there's been a few super-tier spells that's been used so far, but overall, Nazarick just didn't have many opportunities to use them because all of the NPCs had some coding that prioritizes taking down anyone using super-tier magic.

But uh, it seems like that player was far enough to where it didn't register to the NPCs to go out of their way to take them down.

"Hm, well, I don't think an offensive spell will do that much against the 8th floor, so it has to be something else," Ancient One mused, "Hey, wanna take bets?"

Ulbert shrugged, "It's not like it's going to help them win anyways."

And that should've been it. The spell should've activated, it would do nothing substantial, and they should've died.

That was not what happened.

Nubo began freaking out, "GUYS PRINCIPALITY IS HOLDING WORLD SAVIOR!"

"HE'S HOLDING WHAT?!" Momonga freaked out as soon as he heard it.

World Savior was a bit of an urban legend amongst Yggdrasil players. Its status as a world item already made it respectable, but the one and only use of World Savior was quite poorly documented.

The reason for that is mostly because a small clan got their hands on it some years ago, basically said something vague about how it's basically the ultimate PvP weapon, and then in a final act of vengeance, totally destroyed the previous #1 guild in Yggdrasil, Trinity, which people didn't record because it happened during working hours, so very few people were online, let alone there to witness Trinity's guild weapon being destroyed.

The only actual picture from that day was a picture of the guy holding a beaming club that was presumably World Savior, standing over the now defunct guild base of Trinity. The very last thing he posted before quitting the game permanently.

AND THAT THING THAT DESTROYED A #1 GUILD SOLO IS IN THE HANDS OF OUR WORST ENEMY?!

Then, the super-tier spell going on in the 8th floor activated.

And so, all 200 players of the final group, the 8 world champions of Yggdrasil plus literally the entire guild of Triumvirate and Seraphim, had just suddenly appeared inside Nazarick's 8th floor.

"HOLY SHIT WE ARE SO FUCKED!" Ulbert screamed out alongside basically our entire guild.

"WE NEED THE WORLD ITEMS RIGHT NOW!" Punitto shouted out, immediately teleporting to the treasury.

"Lord in heaven, please forgive our souls." Shizyuutensuzaku went back to the one thing he did know how to do, praying.

"We can't lose on the last stretch! It's just not possible!" Herohero was trying to console himself alongside the small group gathering with him to cope.

"Vaggy, once we die, can you sponsor me so I can get a green card to America?" Ankoro asked, accepting defeat.

"How much money do I have to pay for Principality to not utterly annihilate us?" Orphea asked no one in particular as she laid prone on the floor.

"Calm down! Calm down! We can get through this!" Momonga tried to console the guild to no effect.

"Momonga, I'm going to be honest, I think it's over." Vagisilious told Momonga, "We had a good run, but I don't think we live this."

Watching the video tape, we all saw Principality completely one-shot every single NPC we had lined up. The one saving grace was that World Savior was a melee weapon, and didn't do cleave damage.

Still, it was literally one-shotting our NPCs.

Normally, there'd be another layer of small defense on the 9th floor with Sebas, but…

They put literally everyone on the 8th floor, because they didn't even know that teleportation spell existed. Seriously, how did something like that evade their notice? Was that a recently added spell?

Either way, they quickly advanced onto the portal to the 9th floor, as we all began panicking as we realized at least 200 of the most dangerous players in Yggdrasil were about to get here, and even if we restored everything, it wouldn't do jack shit against World Savior, not even mentioning everything would restore above the 9th floor.

Then, Punitto Moe came back with all of the world items, "BigStall, Orphea, I came up with a plan when I got Azathoth's Awakening. BigStall, you can't die in your GM form, right? Here's my plan."

As Punitto described what he thinks is the best chance of them managing to win this whole thing, there was a flower of hope that began to bloom within their hearts.

Do they really have a chance?

In comparison to the 24 other groups who had to struggle for every inch in Nazarick, Triumvirate and Principality were basically strolling through Nazarick.

Of course, everyone was looking in different directions to minimize any damage Azathoth's Awakening could do, because that's something they knew Ainz Ooal Gown had in their back pocket somewhere.

Basically, as long as they play this out competently enough, they won't lose.

Suddenly, someone in GM gear appeared in front of there.

No, not just someone, it was one of Ainz Ooal Gown's members, BigStall.

"Hey there!" He greeted, clearly trying to just stall for time, "Mind if I take some of your time?"

Principality ran past him, because though he had 30 minutes with World Savior, it's still dangerous to waste too much time on something as trivial as this.

"Hey hey hey! Don't just ignore a man trying to monologue!" BigStall loudly said as he flew in front of Principality, "Don't you guys respect the laws of the world? You can't just ignore me like that?"

"God, shut up, you fucking robot." EmpireOfWar angrily snarled at him, "Where's everyone else, huh?"

"You know, I was going to tell you, but you're all trying to ignore me right now!" BigStall shouted back, "The 9th floor is a maze, and, well, you went the wrong way and since nobody likes watching maze gameplay, I'm trying to get you back on track!"

Principality stopped for just a second as he considered BigStall's words.

Well, that did sort of make sense. Maybe Ainz Ooal Gown are ready for their final fight and just want to get it over with now? But… Well, that still didn't make much sense, it makes more sense that they would be trying to fish for a good Azathoth's awakening…

Suddenly, he felt someone run into his back, and he instinctively turned around to see what had happened.

He then realized he made a terrible mistake. He had stopped running for just a second, and now everyone was going to run into each other, see what's happening, and then…

"Gotcha," Principality could hear the smile on Orphea's face as he heard her appearance.

A terrible noise erupted out of the world item, as all 199 members of his group disappeared due to a moment of instinctive weakness.

"No!" Principality shouted out, trying to kill Orphea in retaliation, but Orphea had teleported back almost immediately after using Azathoth's Awakening.

Orphea smirked as she waved towards him, "See you, Principality!"

Orphea then jumped into a gate, disappearing further into the guild base.

BigStall had just laughed as he put his hands on his shoulders, "One moment of weakness, isn't that great? Just a moment of pure instinct and poof, you all died."

BigStall blew a mock kiss towards him, "We'll be waiting for you in the throne room, buddy! Don't be late, you still have 23 minutes on World Savior!"

Principality tried very hard to not fall to his knees as he fully started to comprehend his situation.

Just barely, he was able to gain the strength to move on and finish the job.

As soon as Orphea returned to the throne room, we all popped off. Or to be more suffice to say, we've been popping off since Punitto's plan stupidly worked.

"LET'S GOOO! ORPHEA I LOVE YOU!" Coup De Grace began to kiss Orphea's shoes, much to her amusement.

"WE'RE SO BACK! WE WON! WE WON!" Peroroncino was using one of his paid dancing emotes alongside Ulbert, Tabula, and Touch.

"THAT WAS SO STUPID AND IT DEFINITELY SHOULDN'T HAVE WORKED BUT IT DID! I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU FIGURED THAT WOULD HAPPENED PUNITTO BUT YOU DID!" Vagisilious was in the middle of hugging Punitto, who was not absolutely not humble at all from all of the praise he was getting.

"THAT'S RIGHT! THAT'S RIGHT! I'M THE BOSS! ME! KING!" Punitto was shouting to everyone, rubbing it into everyone's face, "NOW IT'S PHASE 2! FOLLOW MY WORDS AND WE'LL WIN! EASY!"

Momonga was very enthusiastically nodding, "You heard him! Everyone, get into position!"

"YEAH!"

Principality stood at the gates that, most likely, lead to the throne room.

Well, it was just a guess, anyway, considering he had to demolish a bunch of golems right before he could even walk up the stairs to get to this gate.

So, he put his hands on the door…

And waited.

World Savior still had 15 minutes left, he had time. So he continued to wait until he heard the signal.

…

The sounds of various super-tier spells activating on the other side of the door made him grin.

So, they thought they could just burst him down with super-tier spells the second he came in, huh? Not so fast, he knew the game.

Still he waited.

And just 5 seconds later, another round of super-tier spells activated.

Aha, thought they could trick him? Not a chance, he basically invented this technique back in the days when Triumvirate was being invaded basically every week!

Opening the door and facing the enemy head on-

His heart sank as he saw the animations for various super-tier spells activating.

HE DID NOT EXPECT THE THIRD ROUND-

And so, Principality died a quick death, ending the raid on Nazarick.

In favor of Ainz Ooal Gown.

"WE FUCKING DID IT!" Momonga uncharacteristically used the F word for the first time as literally the entire guild popped off to heights previously unseen upon seeing Principality get tricked by the third wave of super-tier spells.

AND THANK GOD HE DID FALL FOR IT BECAUSE WE DID NOT HAVE A 4TH WAVE READY. IF HE WAITED 5 SECONDS LONGER IT WAS OVER FOR US.

Several people began kissing the ground, such as herself, "Oh my god we fucking won! We did it! We're alive! None of us even died!"

You could practically hear the grin on Ulbert's face as he mentioned, "Most of them couldn't even get past the NPCs! The NPCs! This 200 group thing was literally the only reason they lost!"

"Oh my god, get a fucking medal for everyone who stayed up this late." Peroroncino said, his voice full of relief, "Wait, are our non-guild friends still online? Get them in here right now!"

A quick check showed that 12 of the original 50 non-guild friends had ended up staying up until 1:00 to help us, at which point we immediately invited them inside of Nazarick.

They began to pop off as well, as Theadul walks up to Vagisilious, "I was watching the live streams of the various players trying to attack you, well played."

Vagisilious smiled as he gave Theadul some heart emojis, "Man! Thank you for staying up until now to give us that extra bit of strength!"

Theadul held up his hand, "It was nothing, it's not like I do much in a day anyways. Either way, I have to get to bed, because Rin- Ahem, PopStarry, will drag me out of bed no matter when I go to sleep. Goodbye, Vagisilious."

Theadul then left after she exchanged a few words with him.

Then, she went back to partying with her friends.

This was, without a doubt, the greatest day in her life.

Oh, she was going to fucking hate getting up tomorrow for work.

Yggdrasil Forums:

Topic: AINZ OOAL GOWN WON!

Posted on November 13, 2130 by Momonga.

Momonga (Original Poster) (Guild Leader: Ainz Ooal Gown)

Ainz Ooal Gown has won! The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick stands!

I wish you all good night, because it's going to be hard for all of us when we try to get up for work tomorrow.

But I'll probably be spending another hour up anyways, because this has been the greatest day in my life and I'm eternally grateful to all of you for throwing so hard to make it my greatest day.

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Principality (Midgard World Champion) (Guild Leader: Triumvirate)

I hate to admit it, but yeah, I just got outplayed at the end there. We won't attack you twice, you earned this win.

GG, I'll be thinking of you all on my deathbed (And at work tomorrow jesus christ how is it already 1:30)

Momonga (Guild Leader: Ainz Ooal Gown)

GG!

P.S, thank you for the world items, we definitely wouldn't have stood a chance without Azathoth's Awakening.

EmpireOfWar (Muspelheim World Champion) (Guild:Triumvirate)

What you did to us was a cheap shot.

What you did to Principality was honestly 4d chess.

We'll begrudgingly respect it.

Crackaslama (Asgard World Champion) (Guild: Triumvirate)

I hate you all, good night.

Elohs'Ydadd (Nioavellir World Champion) (Guild Leader: Bad Bad Bathhouse)

Well, despite the fact that my fellow world champions were all treated as jobbers, at least I got my cool anime moment slaying that dragon.

Fisticuffs (Helheim World Champion) (Guild: The Good Guys)

My brother in christ you literally got sniped by a level 88 NPC straight after that LMAO.

Elohs'Ydadd (Nioavellir World Champion) (Guild Leader: Bad Bad Bathhouse)

At least my only contribution to this raid wasn't instantly getting killed by a world item LMAO.

Beats Goku (Vanaheim World Champion) (Guild Leader: Anime Fans 100)

I hate this game sometimes lmao. I can't believe I wasted that entire night waiting for my moment, ONLY TO DIE FOR SOMETHING SO STUPID.

Kashikoi Otoko (Niflheim World Champion) (Guild: Ravenclaw)

Genuinely deciding whether or not it's a good idea to quit the game at this point because holy shit this is embarrassing lmao.

CANSCREAMGOOD (Jotunheim World Champion) (Guild: Glass House)

Speak for yourself I'm quitting tonight lmao. I can't believe my last day on Yggdrasil was getting instantly annihilated after waiting for like 5 hours for my turn.

Lappy (Guild: Triumvirate)

Bro we're in the same shoes. We got promised the fight of our lives for our revenge and we all instantly die for nothing and it's got me indescribably pissed.

Vagisilious (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

Y'all probably would've won if the developers didn't make the group limit 200 lmao.

By the way, we had like 50 non-guild friends literally just standing around in some corner of our guild base just boosting up the NPCs lmao.

To be fair though, by the end of the raid only 12 were still there.

Principality (Midgard World Champion) (Guild Leader: Triumvirate)

Typical developers ruining everything. Was it BigStall who somehow managed to convince the dev team to do that?

BigStall (Developer) (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

Lmao no they just happened to hear of this absolutely massive raid and thought people might need the extra group size to make sure it goes faster.

But then they realized they didn't scale the NPCs properly, plus they saw the 50 guys in the back, and at that point they were just laughing.

So, yeah, in a way…

It was all rigged from the start.

Orphea Scarlet (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

Don't diminish our work by saying it was all rigged. This was a hard fought victory.

Ulbert Alain Odle (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

By our guild NPCs yeah lmao. We didn't do shit we just watched and prayed until the end.

Orphea Scarlet (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

Like I said, hard fought.

Peroroncino (Guild: Ainz Ooal Gown)

So most of us went to bed, but some of us are still here so you journalists and lore buffs can interview some of us, literally just message us in game right now.

TheHistorian (Guild Leader: The Lore Keepers)

You are a saint, good sir.

SteamBird (Guild Leader: The Yggdrasil Times)

Thank god I stayed up until now!

Additional Tokino Bio

Then came the invasion. After Shalltear fell, an immense amount of dread had overcome Tokino, as though Tokino despises humans, she never had to actively fight before. However, Leviathan, uncharacteristically, did not have a single retort in mind. All he said was, "Shalltear has been defeated, It is our time to exact justice for the fallen." and so, Leviathan had revived Tokino's faltering spirit and they had both led the 4th floor to war.

Though they eventually fell, the last thought she had as she fell was not of the tomb, but of Leviathan. As she woke up, revived and intact after the invasion was halted by the rest of the tomb, she had concluded that yes, she had fallen in love with Leviathan. Tokino and Leviathan had spoken after the dust had settled, with the black mark of defeat hanging over them. And so Leviathan spoke, "If I could not defend this floor, how will I one day avenge my past and bring justice to the developers?"

Tokino, with the greatest amount of romantic sense in her life, hugged him and said, "I will be with you to bring justice to them." and Leviathan had not rejected her feelings. They were now a couple.

Tokino doesn't mind being in a humanoid form if Leviathan asks for it, as being in her humanoid form simply allows for Leviathan and Tokino to cuddle each other comfortably. Though, Tokino would never let another soul ever see them cuddling. Tokino listens to Leviathan's rants against the divine, and in return, Tokino comforts him and tells him what he wants to hear. As such, Tokino is one of the very few people who know his original name, Yowairyu, and any secrets that Leviathan has, she is very capable of keeping secret.

Tokino loves Leviathan with all her heart, and would demolish anyone who would dare attempt to take him away from her, or take her away from him. Not even the supreme beings were safe from her wrath if they ever trampled on her heart as such.

Tokino is also a massive sub and likes being on bottom.

Also, Tokino doesn't notice Vagisilious spying on their romantic escapades.

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About Leviathan (After Marriage):

'I love him so much! I love his body that Vagisilious must've created specially for me, I love his calm personality, I love his firm aura about him, and I also love when he gets angry and gets super enraged… He could do anything to me and I'd thank him for it! I always get so sad when we're done cuddling and we have to get away from each other to do our jobs…'

About The Nazarick Raid:

'Ugh, those rats who filled the halls of Nazarick? I hear they even broke through the 8th floor and were only stopped because of the ingeniousness of our masters… Ah, it's such an honor to serve under them! But… I should've been at Leviathan's side more…'

About Liberta & Daemilla:

'I know that they're brother and sister… BUT.'

About Orphea Scarlet:

'Apparently, Lady Orphea defected from an opposing guild to join Nazarick and reject her humanity… All because Lady Vagisilious was her better friend! Is that not the best romance story or what?!'

Additional Leviathan Bio

Of course, just like every other NPC in the first 8 floors of Nazarick, everything had changed when The Invasion had come and devastated Nazarick. When he heard that intruders had dared to step foot into his home, where his family was, where his master had granted him asylum from the horrors of death, he was furious. When he heard that those intruders were the very same people that had once been the tools of the developer's torture kit all those years ago, he was enraged. The moment that he knew what he was facing against, any hesitance had left his body, and all he had left within himself was the deep seeded desire to kill and exact his vengeance, and so he said to his partner who would aid him in his vengeance, "Shalltear has fallen. It is our time to exact justice for the fallen."

Yet, it was not enough. Though he took many of their strongest fighters down, in the end, it was the same as last time; individually, he was strong, but what good can one do against a horde?

Holding back his anguish after his arrival, he had asked the one person in the tomb he was comfortable enough to call his friend, "If I could not defend this floor, how will I one day avenge my past and bring justice to the developers?"

Tokino then held him tightly, surprising him, "I will be with you to bring justice to them."

If this is what companionship was… Then how could he ever reject Tokino?

And so, though he may not have known for a while until Tokino had actually described the term, they were now a couple.

In truth, not much changed immediately after they had both decided to become more intimate with each other. But eventually, they did become much closer, and much more akin to a married couple. Leviathan would forever be grateful to Tokino for allowing him to dump his hateful thoughts about the developers on her, as well as comforting him, even though it was embarrassing the first time he had laid himself bare to her.

Leviathan was very committed to the relationship, and he would kill any who would dare even attempt to take her away from him, and not even the supreme beings were safe from his wrath, would they ever attempt to do so.

Leviathan is also a dom and likes being on top.

Also, Leviathan doesn't notice Vagisilious spying on their romantic escapades.

…

About The Nazarick Raid:

'Oh, my revenge was so short, yet so satisfying… They ended up having to send one of the world champions to even have a chance to kill me! Haha! Ah… But… I should've protected Tokino better. I think that will be my biggest regret on that day.'

About Orphea Scarlet (After Joining):

'So she betrayed the strongest guild in Yggdrasil to join us, causing them to invade Nazarick? Hah! I quite like her! Though I failed in my duty of stopping the invaders, I still enjoyed finally sinking my claws into those players… I must thank her for that, one day.'

About Tokino's Shipping (After Marriage):

'After we became a couple, I once asked about who she'd 'ship' me with, from before we were a couple. She just blushed embarrassingly and said that she secretly shipped herself with me all along… After that, I'm afraid I just couldn't hold myself back.'

About Liberta:

'So, in order to better understand the world, he made different versions of himself at different ages to get different perspectives of the world? That is quite the ingenious method, and most worth commendation.'

About Daemilla:

'Ah, Liberta's sister? I must confess, I didn't think someone so focused on perfecting his art would be able to care for someone like Daemilla, but… I suppose that is something one might tell me something similar about myself and Tokino.'

Additional Shatallia Bio

About The Nazarick Raid:

'Hm, while I despise the fact that I couldn't properly defend Nazarick in the same way that the floor guardians did… I did kill a world champion, and I remain the only NPC in Nazarick to do so. Ah, if I were someone like Eclair, I would be bragging about it at every moment's notice.'

About Liberta:

'He's a creation of Lady Orphea, but also defected from another guild? I wonder how much he can tell me about the outside world if I just asked him…'

About Orphea Scarlet:

'Tokino once told me about the potential romantic link between Lady Orphea and Lady Vagisilious… And to be honest, I might be able to see it if I squint hard enough.'

Additional Leshy Bio

About The Nazarick Raid:

'I was almost instantly cut down! Oh, how could I ever forgive myself for being so weak!?'

Additional Heket Bio

About The Nazarick Raid:

'Ah, if only players didn't disappear after dying. Imagine how good their flesh would've been…'

Additional Diviser Bio

About The Nazarick Raid:

'I told Fovalin to hide and ended up fighting alongside Cocytus that day. And I think my respect for Cocytus went up tenfold that day. Truly an example of a true warrior!'

About Liberta:

'He came up to me and asked if it was truly alright to be treated like every other citizen of Nazarick, despite being created in another guild base. But I told him that it didn't matter where you were created, because he'll always be a creation of Lady Orphea. Hopefully, he'll erase any doubts he has about being a creation of the Supreme Beings.'

Additional Herias 'Bernays' Sagashi Bio

About The Nazarick Raid:

'Is it kind of weird that I found fighting easier than my job? I mean, I guess it does make sense, trying to fight is a lot easier than whatever the heck I'm supposed to be doing…'

About Liberta:

'Oh great, another super genius that's going to try to expose me! Lady Orphea, why would you do this?!'

Additional Emily Bio

About The Nazarick Raid:

'Oh, wait, that was a real invasion by real people!? I thought my fellow maids were just joking! Wait, we won, right? That's why I'm still alive?'

Orphea looked at Vagisilious oddly as she went ahead and read the various updated bios, "Uh, Vaggy. Anything you wanna tell me?"

Vagisilious shrugged, "I'm straight."

"These bios don't suggest that."

"I think it's funny if they think there's something between us."

"Okay, you know what? That is funny, you have my permission."

AN:

Okay, I can explain myself.

So, like, 2 days ago, I was reading through my comments, reviews, bookmarks, and I got some really encouraging comments.

So, naturally, I got into a bit of slump regarding Manifest Destiny so I told myself, "okay, people are saying that Time Capsule is great, you can write a little bit of Time Capsule as a treat."

So, 5000 words later (I wrote up to "Well, Orphea" Momonga sent her the invite, as she immediately accepts it, "Welcome to Ainz Ooal Gown.") I was kind of like, "Alright, well, I wrote so much that I'm going to be kind of upset if I don't finish this.

So, the next day, today (Or yesterday since it's 12:50 AM right now.), I wrote the rest of this chapter.

You know, the other 15000 words to make this my first actual 20K chapter.

I would tell you I "Accidentally" wrote 20K words in 2 days, but that'd be the most cope thing ever.

Instead, let's just forget I said anything about not getting another update this month.

You'll probably get a December update, but only one! Because that chapter is going to be a filler chapter describing the glory years of Ainz Ooal Gown.

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I think I managed to mention all 41 members at least once this chapter, but tbh I have no idea and I'm too sleep deprived to check.

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Since I was writing this basically straight for 2 days, I didn't really do much google translating. The few exceptions are Kashikoi Otoko, smart man directly google translated into Japanese. And Shin'nyū-sha, which is intruder directly google translated into Japanese.

Uh, I did some Genshin cameos during a yggdrasil forums section. You can probably figure out who's who if you just play the games. I think I had something with Jujitsu Kaisen, despite never watching or reading the show. And something from the Digital Circus, yeah.

Orphea's 2 NPCs, Liberta and Daemilla, are literally just copy and pasted from AFK Arena, that one mobile game I mentioned last chapter in the AN there.

Liberta's gimmick of having multiple versions of himself is stolen from Dottore from Genshin Impact because I think that's just badass.

Oh, yeah, and Azure Dragon is just setting up for the 3rd act, if this fic was split into 3 acts of Yggdrasil days, the guild vs guild act of the new world, and the big bad guy for the final act.

You might recognize Azure Dragon if you read Manifest Destiny, but uh, I wouldn't recommend that. That fic is kind of mediocre right now, but I'll try to make it better. I learnt my lesson of not letting perfection be the enemy of whatever the rest of this adage is. That's why I have like 10 fics with the same premise and all of them are shit.

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By the way, should I add more tags on Ao3? Cause I was kind of thinking that the dystopia could probably use a tag or something, but I have no idea what to add.

If you want me to add a tag, just comment below, and I'll probably agree and add it.

Also, since the next chapter is filler, and the ending of it is literally the end of the good ol' days, I can go in literally any direction with it.

If you want some more PvP fights that I'll probably suck at writing at, ask and I'll probably write some. If you want more raiding or dungeoning, ask and I can probably make up an expansion solely for that purpose. If you want to see a particular character more, like someone from Ainz Ooal Gown or someone from outside the guild like Theadul, Principality, or Saibandoke, I will literally create an entire arc in that chapter for them because I have no idea what I'm going to filler that chapter up with.

Anyways, please comment below, I am desperate for attention.

[For FFN people here, the Yggdrasil forums don't accept (the shift . key) for some reason and I'm way too tired to change that. Use context clues to figure out who's replying to who or just go read on Ao3 idc.]