Time Capsule

by Skryb

The previous reincarnate in line must've really hated her, because she's been forced to go to an dystopian world and play a game for a decade. Fortunately though, the game and the people in it aren't that bad.

2. A Worm, A Cocoon, A Butterfly

Almost immediately after Vagisilious's request was put in, a large argument immediately came up on the topic of her joining.

As it turns out, her appearance was their biggest issue here, since Nine's Own Goal was a heteromorphic clan, and while technically, there were no rules against different races partying up together, most guilds only allowed certain categories of races into their guilds.

And she looks pretty human, in contrast to the mostly grotesque forms of Nine's Own Goal, which was the main thing they were arguing about. Which, to be honest, sounded very petty to her.

"I think her addition would be perfectly fine for the clan!" Touch Me, some kind of insect with an absolutely bizarre name, was leading the voices for allowing her to join, seemingly glaring at the goat looking demon, though his face was covered by his helmet.

"Absolutely not! Fairies are just demi-humans that the devs are trying to disguise as heteromorphs!" Ulbert argued passionately, "We have a set style we're trying to keep up! If we let her in, we might as well just let the demi-humans in too!"

Peroroncino, a bird guy, stepped in to argue on her side, "Look! We definitely need more girls in our clan anyways! Who cares how they look, they're technically heteromorphs!"

Bukubukuchagama hit her brother with a part of her slime body, causing him to shout a bit while she supported the argument, "I agree with him for different reasons! We definitely need more girls here other than Yamaiko and I!"

Bellriver, some weird blood type race, shook his head, "Why are we talking about gender, here? The simple fact of the matter is, we have a standard that she doesn't meet, so she shouldn't be here."

Momonga, literally a skeleton, raised his hand to offer his two cents, "Ah, how about we start with what she can offer to our clan? Though she's just level 81, I'm sure she can fulfill some niche that we don't have yet."

Everyone seemed to agree with Momonga's suggestion, so Touch Me looked back towards her, "Okay then, Vagisil… I'm just going to call you Vagis, alright? Vagis, what classes did you choose?"

She stood up a bit more straight, a bit wary of all the eyes on her, and tried to get her way as diplomatically as possible, "It's pronounced Vag-is-il-ious, my racial classes are fey, fairy, pixie, and high fairy, all maxed out. And my job classes are spiritualist, diviner, evoker, and herald of spirits."

Tabula, some kind of eldritch tentacle monster, then asked, "What are you trying to do with those classes? Fairies usually specialize in some type of nature type magic. Why are you trying to use soul-type magic and divination magic, and didn't even pick up a secret racial class for that type of playstyle?"

…A secret racial class? Those are a thing? She just thought there was only the racial classes available in the menu that pops up asking for which racial class she wanted to pick! How would she have even known that?

"I was unaware that there were secret racial classes in the game, seeing as I'm a fairly casual player-" She said, trying to explain her incompetence away, but as soon as the word 'casual' came out of her mouth, many of the gathered players groaned.

…She made a blunder, hasn't she?

"Punitto! What are you doing bringing a casual player to the hardcore clan?!" Ulbert had loudly complained in his direction.

Tabula nodded, seemingly sure of his decision, "Yep, doesn't make the cut."

Punitto Moe finally stepped in to defend her, "Hey! I've seen her PvP before! She's pretty good at fighting other players!"

"Really, what is her record, then? Did she pick on some low level noobs?" Flatfoot, some tiny weird green goblin, asked, seemingly amused by his own sentence.

Immediately, her experience of being in PR alerted her to an opportunity to try and bring this conversation back into her favor.

Instead of trying to respond to the allegations of being a casual player, she instead decided to respond to Flatfoot's question of her record, "Ah, my PvP record currently stands at 9 wins and 5 losses. My 5 losses were mostly due to being either too underleveled in comparison to my opponents, or being ganged up on. My 9 wins were mostly 1v1s against similarly leveled enemies. Though I did win a 1v2 against 2 level 46 opponents while I was level 53."

Some of the dissent quieted down when hearing of her pretty decent record. It sounds like her record was pretty good, all things considered.

Flatfoot, the one who questioned her in the first place, nodded in approval, "For a casual, that's pretty good! I approve her entry now, we can make a hardcore player out of her."

Only a few members swung to approval, but that puts her only at 10-13. Still not a majority.

Deciding to go back to her build, she coughed to gain everyone's attention, "As I was previously mentioning about my classes, I want to move my build into a more support oriented build, and-"

"I am overruling all of the naysayers here, we need another support player!" Touch Me immediately shouted out, causing the dissenters to shout out as well.

"Wha- Hey! You can't just do that! Isn't that half the reason why Saibandoke left the clan?!" Amanomahitosu, a big crab, had said, alerting her to someone already leaving the clan, though she had no idea who or why. Although, she could likely make a sound hypothesis on the why.

Ancient One, some dragonoid or something, disagreed with Touch Me as well, "While I am in favor of allowing her in, I do recommend letting the majority rule on this."

Ulbert piled on the dissent, "Of course you're trying to overrule all of us! Who do you see us as, your pawns?"

Touch Me immediately backtracked seeing no one support him, "Fine! Fine! I won't do that! Vagis, please continue."

Seeing the lights back on her, she immediately continued her explanation, "As I was saying, I was headed for a more support oriented role. My job classes in the spiritualist, evoker, and herald of souls have talisman style gameplays, which allows me to use them for healing and buffing, as well as attacking. Additionally, I went for a job in the diviner tree in order to act as the scout, as Punitto Moe was complaining how difficult it was to track players, and I wished to fill a niche that he didn't seem to have. In my next 19 levels, I will level up my herald class to 10, as well as to hopefully find more job classes that will follow up on my support lean and divination job."

She felt pretty confident in her explanation. She said all of the things she needed to say, and she emphasized the fact that she was a diviner as well, so hopefully, if they didn't have a diviner already, they would recruit her just to fill that niche they need.

Tabula spoke again, "Hm, aren't the soul classes usually attack classes?"

Ah, she knew this one. The soul classes had a lot of variety to them, seeing as souls were heavily prevalent in almost all mythology, and thus had a lot of variety on how to use them in their job classes.

So, she said, "The soul classes I chose mainly use talismans as their mediums to use souls, which are dual support and attack. My bread and butter has me putting healing talismans on other people, and attacking my enemies to make them proc to heal. However, as a general overall rule, yes, the soul classes do have an attack bias, though I did not choose any of those that do."

Tabula accepted her answer, before asking another, "Alright, but then why didn't you take an intermediate divination class? Why take both the herald and evoker classes?"

This one she was able to answer fairly easily, "That's because I've been playing solo for the majority of my time playing, and I thus wanted the extra spells from the herald class to ensure I would not be at a disadvantage in combat."

Truthfully, she was just enamored with the dope description of the herald class, and after leveling the herald class a bit more, she realized it was way more combat focused than the evoker class, so she'll probably dump it for the much less cool 'scryer' class later in the future.

Seeing Tabula being satisfied with her answer, Momonga then asked, "Do your talismans cost resources to make, or are they free?"

"Ah, they're craftables, but they are rather cheap to make." She answered.

Momonga asked again, "How cheap?"

"Cheap enough to have 138 in my inventory currently."

Momonga nodded, accepting this answer. What he didn't know, however, was the fact that there were different qualities of talismans, and 124 of the talismans in her inventory were the dirt cheap ones and not the higher quality variants. Hopefully though, they'll come to understand her minor deception.

Then, Peroroconcino asked him own question, "How old are you? Do you have a job?"

Seeing nobody interrupting him, she assumed that this was an actual question in the interview process, so she answered truthfully, "I'm 25 years old, and I work as a PR spokesperson at Fujitsu."

Ulbert and a few others immediately sneered, "You work at a megacorp?"

Ah, right.

Megacorps are hardly popular these days, obviously, considering that the dystopia was carefully handcrafted by them. Not for any good reason either, they literally just wanted the money.

Even working at a mega corp, she thought that one day, all their mountains of green would one day be shattered by some greater power, but at the moment, those are just fantasies.

For now, she needed to address these allegations and alleviate their thoughts, "Hey! Just because I work at a megacorp doesn't mean I like working at one!"

To be frankly honest, she was lying. She did enjoy writing up a bunch of propaganda and twisting things to her liking, even if her liking was really just her superior's liking. And she most definitely liked the PR job far more than the factory.

Though, obviously, she wouldn't tell any of them that. After all, that was a sizable portion of Nine's Own Goal that just sneered, and no need to needlessly upset them and prevent her from joining.

Also, she was decently certain that they were working for megacorps too. They just didn't like to advertise it like she did.

The other members calmed down after her explanation, but Ulbert was still upset, though he didn't speak any further about it.

Eventually, Touch Me spoke up again, "Alright, now that we know more about her, let's hold a vote; Do we allow Vagisil- Gosh, I just can't say your name correctly, sorry, her into the clan?"

And so, a vote was conducted, and the results were…

14-9, in favor of her joining.

Everyone in the clan accepted the ruling, as Touch Me stated, "Then, we warmly welcome you to Nine's Own Goal!"

[Touch Me has invited you into the clan: Nine's Own Goal]

[Do you Accept?]

[Y/N]

Vagisilious smiled, though her avatar could not reflect it, "Thank you for accepting me, I promise you won't regret this!"

[Vagisilious has joined Nine's Own Goal]

---

Everyone welcomed Vagisilious fairly decently. There wasn't any place to call home just yet, so the clan was really more of just a group that got together often currently.

Though, she does suspect that the clan will eventually turn into Ainz Ooal Gown at some point, because she has no idea what she's going to do if it doesn't.

Actually, she does know, she'll just follow Momonga and hope he knows what he's doing, since he's the main character of the story she's in.

Worst case scenario, she leaves the clan and finds somewhere else to pass the decade by.

Though, she is fairly certain that won't happen. But as her position in PR has taught her, it's best to make backup plans, because everyone could use a backup plan.

Speaking of plans, she hasn't caught up to date on what happened to that higher-up who asked for her notes when he was caught doing something that he really shouldn't have and heard of her notes from her co-workers.

Ugh, yeah, that scared her a lot. Seriously, those sell-outs. How was she going to react when a suit showed up to her desk and asked for her notes that detailed all of the possible scenarios that could warrant an PR excuse, and a list of PR excuses for those situations? She told them her little cheat book with the confidence they wouldn't gossip about it and sell her out!

At the very least, that guy didn't take her propaganda sketches away from her… God, losing that would really suck. Unlike the notes, she can't easily just recall and remake the sketches. Well, she could recall them, but remaking them would be a pain, considering her drawings are split between her propaganda posters and selling the weird old rich guys her 'authentic' drawings.

Hm, what was that guy in trouble for anyway? Was she even told? Hm, well, if it was so serious to need her notes, then it's probably something unusual to get caught by…

Hm, murder maybe? Or maybe he broke some obscure law or unwritten rule, which she also wrote about in her notes. Though, she's not sure how far 'I didn't know they existed' or 'It was a serious lapse in judgment.' would get him, considering that the Nuremberg defense didn't get the Nazis very far in real life. Hm, how would she manage to weasel her way out of that one? She didn't take very detailed notes on that topic…

…Where was she anyway? Ah, right Ainz Ooal Gown and Nine's Own Goal.

They offered her to help her level up to level 100 so she could fully flesh out her starting build, and obviously, she took their offer.

Which was why she was currently killing a bunch of spirits in Helheim for a repeatable quest while chatting with Ulbert, who had died in PvP and also needed to level back up to 100, Momonga, who just wanted to get along with the new member, Tabula, who was coaching her on what classes she could pick for her last 2 slots, and Touch Me, who was just being nice.

Tabula was currently explaining to her about secret classes, and how she should probably go find some because all of the secret classes are basically better than the default ones.

She nodded along, and asked some questions about where she could find secret classes suited for her, and got the answer of 'I don't know, that's why it's called secret, dumbo.'

So, basically, she's going to have to find some better classes, through dumb luck or paying for information from other players, and then kill herself so she could level up again to unlock those classes.

…God, she just realized that she's going to have to kill herself all the way back to the 60s to replace her high fairy racial class. And probably her herald class as well to respec that into a divination class.

Relaying this to her newfound friends, Momonga was the first to reply with sympathy, "Ooh, that's rough. If you want, I can also find the time to help you with that, probably."

Ulbert followed up with mockery, "Hah! Idiot, that's why you don't level up your racial classes first! You'd rather lose your race before your actual job classes!"

Of course, that ignored the fact that heteromorphs needed a racial class of an equivalent tier to get the job class they wanted, such as needing an advanced racial class to get an advanced job class. Though he was technically right to say that she probably should've gotten 1 level into her racial class, leveled up her job classes first, and then returned back to her racial class.

Touch Me simply nodded, "Yeah, I did the same mistake too and had to kill myself all the way back to respec into a race that helped my paladin build."

Tabula just shrugged, "It's part of the grind. You'll get better at leveling up once you know all of the routes and methods, Vaggy."

Ah, right. They eventually decided that "Vagis" wasn't "cute enough" for Vagisilious, so they ended up just resorting to Vaggy. Which, in her own opinion, was a humiliating reminder that her 14 and 25 year old selves had a terrible naming ability.

Vagisilious sighed, equally thankful and bristled at their replies, "Yeah, thanks for the advice and sympathy, guys."

Still, that did make her feel better about the fact that suicide was essentially a tradition in Yggdrasil. It was a pretty funny tradition, all things considered… If you didn't realize the hours that were going to be spent just leveling back up to 100.

Eventually, her herald of souls class eventually got to its max level after an hour, and they were now discussing what to do for the last 10 levels.

"I would say it's better for you to pick up your last support job class now, and then pick your last divination job class at level 95 so when you die, you're not losing any core spells," Tabula suggested, likely taking his advice from pure experience from dying one too many times.

The other 3 also nodded at this, so she just took their advice and when level 91 came around, she took a look at her available job classes.

…Oh, wait, she has a secret job class already?

Overseer of Souls (Secret advanced job class)

Unlocked by the control over both souls and mind. Overseers are masters at the divination of souls, able to keep track of thousands of souls at once and gaze into those souls to gain information about anything they know, be it information or power.

Huh, so there are just secret job classes you get from picking different job classes? That's cool.

"Say, I apparently have the overseer secret job class. I think I just got it from picking up a divination class while also having a soul class," She relayed to her friends, getting some small amount of shock back.

Though, Tabula wasn't that surprised, "Oh, well, I suppose that souls and spiritual divinations are pretty closely linked. I'm not at all surprised that there's a class for that type of thing. Though, you only took the starting divination job class and just went for two intermediate soul classes, right? I'm mildly surprised the devs just let you ignore not having an intermediate divination class."

She sent a shrug emoji, "I dunno, I think that means I'll just be behind any dedicated divination user, but still be just fine."

As she said, not picking up an intermediate job class will put her behind someone who chose to have 3 job classes in them, but she also gets 4 soul classes to boost her base build in, which is fine for her.

Most players also just end up taking 2 different trees, such as Ulbert who chose an offensive fire tree and a demon summoning tree, because it fits his style. Tabula, she's pretty sure, took some levels in alchemy alongside his abyssal tree.

Speaking of which, some of these spell animations that they get are really cool, and she slightly wishes that she chose something like that, though she still thought talismans and their shiny white soul effects are still cool.

Momonga agreed with her statement, adding his own two cents, "Hm, well, I still have no idea what's the difference between a full diviner and you, but it's probably for the best that we end up finding someone with the full divination tree unlocked."

She couldn't really make an argument against it, so she ended up nodding along, "Sure, go ahead. It's not like we can go wrong having an extra pair of eyes on everything. I'm picking up Overseer now, by the way."

And with that, she ended up getting 3 new divination spells, the first in a while. Testing one of them out, a 10th tier spell named [Soul Sight] , which was basically a better version of her 5th tier spell [Scry], she checked the distance of the spell, only to find…

"Huh, I can reach all the way to Tyr's Bridge from here, and all of the… living players. NPCs, and monsters are highlighted," She said, looking at the players casually talking to each other, likely taking a break.

She also noted that she should likely pick up the 9th tier spell [Identify Soul] , as that sounds like a better version of [Identify Player] , which basically allowed for players to take a peek into another player's status sheet. While doing that, she ended up choosing [Infiltrate Soul] as her last spell for this level.

Touch Me sounded surprised, "All the way to Tyr's Bridge? That's crazy! Do you think it has any downsides?"

She shrugged, noting something down, "The mechanical and undead characters apparently don't have souls, or at the very least, souls I can detect. Though I think every player has a soul, so that's something."

Momonga sent an excited emoji, "That's fine! An scry spell that goes that far is still great!"

"Hold on, let me try to use [Soul Sight] real quickly," She said, immediately activating the spell.

Her vision suddenly shifted and now, she was looking out of the eyes of a player she was quietly observing before.

And that was sort of trippy. She could hear every word they spoke to their friend.

Then suddenly, she heard a mechanical voice.

[Cracaslama's Anti-Divination spell activated! Activating 8th tier spell, [Explosion]!]

Hang on-

---

After losing a chunk of her health to a [Explosion] that hadn't even come from the player she was observing, but actually someone nearby who happened to be walking by, she ended up calling it a day, and the members of Nine's Own Goal who were helping her split up.

And now, Lauren was back in her office the following day, listening to the office gossip.

Or rather, she was going to listen to office gossip before one of her higher-ups came into their office and asked for her, much to every one of her co-worker's expectations, considering her note book was 'borrowed' not that long ago.

As she got up to follow the superior, many of her co-workers sent her glances of pity and signs of good-luck.

On the outside, she seemed completely calm, seemingly in control of any situation that's about to come her way. A persona built as soon as she decided she wanted to become a PR girl, as a nervous person would never be able to get into PR.

On the inside, however…

'HOLY SHIT I AM SO SCREWED WHAT DID I WRITE IN THERE?!' She was panicking, completely unaware of what she had done in order to deserve this.

Was it something in her notebook that someone saw when they took it?! If so, what made them upset?! Is she about to be fired?! Did something go wrong and one of her notes didn't work?! Why is this happening to her!?

As she reached the office, her superior sat down on the other side of the chair, back facing towards the window, and she sat down opposite of him, keeping her fears and nervousness in check.

Fortunately, her superior started the conversation first, taking out the notebook he had taken from her, "I must say, I am quite impressed with the list of options you have in this notebook. The gossip didn't quite do you justice."

She swallowed some spit as quietly as she could, as she replied, "Thank you, sir, but I must ask what's the occasion for bringing me here."

Her superior, whom she just recalled is named Tatsuma, smiled as warmly as he could, which wasn't very warmly, and then proceeded to drop a bombshell on her, "Well, when my 5th mistress went out and murdered a company rival, my last personal PR aide was completely unable to come up with anything to help me. He made it quite easy to figure out what to do with him, the floundering fish that he was. And so, I needed a new PR aide."

Without even allowing her to process that, he held up the notebook, "So, I asked around and I found out that you kept a little book filled with odd situations with solutions in it, so as you know, I borrowed this."

Handing the notebook back to her, which she quickly took, he continued, "And my, it is quite the miracle! I just copied whatever you wrote down, and all of a sudden, that very same company is sending me their regards! You truly do have a way with deceiving people, and allowing others to copy you."

She blinked.

What was just dropped on her? This guy's mistress murdered a company rival? How? Why? He has 5 mistresses? The last guy got fired? Is she being commended?

She… Could vaguely recall writing something about a mistress murdering somebody important, but that must've been months ago, and months ago she was just writing what she could remember from TV shows instead of coming up with original things. Of course, she was writing original things now, but a lot of those ideas weren't actually tested yet…

…Well, if it works, it works, so she bowed her body, "Thank you, sir."

"Of course. Unfortunately, all of the good, reliable people are already servicing the higher ups, but fortunately, a new gem has appeared, and it seems for the moment, you're all mine. So, I congratulate your promotion into my personal PR aide. I'm sure you know what you're doing already."

…Wait, she's being promoted? Hey that's actually goo-

Oh wait- He has mistresses… and she's part of the 50% population that isn't a male…

Is there any way to decline this sudden promotion?

Noticing that he seemed to want a reply, she quickly cobbled up something on the spot, "I thank you for your kind words, sir, however, I am unsure if I am able to… Ahem, keep up with any other activities other than to, ah, handle your PR."

Tatsuma grinned, getting the meaning behind her words, "I hear that it's hard to speak and write on your knees behind a desk, so I am fine with you not keeping up with those 'activities.' as you describe them."

Then, Tatsuma leaned forward, directly into Lauren's face, dragging a finger down her neck, sending a chill down her body, "Though, if you fail me, I have no issue with finding someone else to do your new job for you, while you keep my bed warm."

Getting the warning, all she says is, "Yes, sir."

"Good. Your hours are the same, and… Hm, I feel a bit generous, you can have a small raise."

She does briefly entertain the idea of reporting him for sexual assault, or for threatening her, but quite frankly, the deal of 'do good, or else' works out for her. After all, she doesn't want to gamble on the next manager being worse than him, no matter how low that bar is.

At the very least, the raise should be nice…

---

"The pay raise was 5%! I have to deal with this scumbag holding the sword of damocles over my head, and all I get is a 5% raise within the same hours!" Vagisilious loudly complained to Bukubukuchagama and Peroroncino, as well as Yamaiko, as they were available and online when she had logged back in to Yggdrasil.

It's been a few days since her induction into Nine's Own Goal, and she quickly made friends with the other 2 female members of NOG, and then the brother of one of them. As it stands right now, she hasn't made any deeper connection with the other members, but since Nine's Own Goal is made of all adults, we're able to complain to each other about the harsh realities of life.

That is to say, the 3 of them allowed her to trauma dump a little.

Bukubukuchagama sent a sympathy emoji as she said, "Yikes, that really sucks. It makes me feel a lot better about working as a voice actor…"

Peroroncino also nodded, "Yeah, that's messed up. At least he didn't do anything to you yet, maybe you should find somewhere else to work?"

Vagisilious groaned at the thought, "And get blacklisted from every company? No, I can't just leave. I don't think I can even afford to move out yet!"

And god, moving out was an herculean effort in this society. Nowadays, once you got an apartment, that was likely the place you and the next 10 generations of your children were going to live.

If somebody wants to move out, they first need to clear their room of all of their belongings, which for most people who work for longer than 12 hours and sleep less than 7 hours, simply don't have the energy to do so. Not to mention how expensive shipping companies are these days, as no madman is going to carry how-many boxes through the entirety of Japan to get to their new place.

If they manage to have that all worked out, another question that needs to be asked is where they're going to work; because missing a day of work likely means you're fired. And being fired for longer than 3 days will force you onto the streets. And if you're on the streets, you might as well dig your own grave because there's no way anyone is going to survive an extended period of time out in the muck and acid rain without a gas mask that's regularly filtered out, something that only a stable home can provide.

Of course, it was still possible to move out… It was just totally absurd and for most people, an impossibility.

Yamaiko sent a sympathy emoji, "Yeah, that sucks a lot. My own superior is also like that, but I'm not his type so I'm passed over… Not to mention, I work at an elementary school, so it's a bit better since the high ups have to keep the decorum of educating the children."

Peroroncino wisely nodded, "Hmm, well, if you ever need an escape route, just know that we have a spare futon in our apartment you could borrow!"

Vagisilious was oddly touched by her new friend's compassion, but apparently Bukubukuchagama was not, "Wha- Don't just invite people into our place! I know you just want someone to ogle!"

Peroroncino indignantly hawked at his sister, "What?! That's not the entire reason! Is it bad for me to care for our fellow clan members?!"

Yamaiko didn't buy into Peroroncino's argument, though, "Vaggy, just so you know, he made the same offer for me the first time I spoke with him."

Ah, so he's a womanizer.

Vagisilious chuckled a bit at the theatrics, "Well, you know what, Pero, if I ever happen to need somewhere to go to…"

Perororoncino and the others leaned in to hear her words, which she deliberately slowed down to get this exact effect, and then immediately shatter it, "I'll let the police know you drove me to suicide."

Immediately, all the suspense in the room broke with laughter, as Pero retaliated, "Oh come on! I can't be that bad, can I?!"

Bukubukuchagama, still laughing, clapped Peroroncino's back, "Yes, you are!" Eventually, she got her game face back on and asked about another topic, "Oh, yeah, you're joining us in the Fountain of Shattered Lies dungeon tomorrow, right?"

Ah, right, the dungeons.

Dungeons were pretty common in Yggdrasil, but they all needed at least 5 players to go through. But most dungeons in the game did scale so you could theoretically bring 100 players into a dungeon, the max amount of players a group can go to, and still have a difficult time.

She ended up not doing a single dungeon on her way to level 94, mostly because she didn't feel like doing dungeons when she could just be questing, but now that she's at a high enough level, she probably should go get the gear from doing dungeons to make her character better.

Speaking of, because of the level scaling, she could enter any dungeon she wants with any team she wants, and the enemies inside of them will always be at the very least, her level. Though, that's not counting the difficulty, as not all enemies were created equal and some dungeons just have easy bosses, or their stats are low because they're meant to be 'easy' dungeons.

The Fountain of Shattered Lies dungeon was a pretty medium difficulty dungeon, and was probably meant to be fought around level 55. But considering the gear in the game only went on to level 60 right now, that basically the Fountain of Shattered Lies was basically end game content that wasn't a raid, which went to level 60.

It was in Midgard, a very human-centric realm, considering that it's just a generic fantasy world and where all human players spawned. So it's going to be a pain to get to the dungeon in the first place if we have to dodge a lot of human players.

Speaking of human players, over the past 8 months she's played the game, she's grown to absolutely hate the developer in charge of balancing them.

So unlike the heteromorph races that she chose, who can pick up 40 levels in their racial classes and 60 levels in job classes, a completely fair and normal amount of levels in her opinion, human players don't actually obey the laws of reality in Yggdrasil and for some reason, the human race is actually 0 levels in total, meaning they get to place all 100 levels in their job classes!

That's completely absurd! Who let that happen?! Because of that, basically every human player has an absolute LIBRARY of spells and skills to choose from to kick heteromorph asses with!

The only good thing about this situation is that the devs were nice enough to cap human stats at 600, and most heteromorph players reach at least 70 points higher than that. Though, from what she saw from Momonga's status, she saw that some players reached above 700 points. Maybe she'll be lucky to have picked a build that has 700 points?

Well, Yggdrasil stats mostly come from gear anyhow, so these are minor percentages being changed at best.

Ah, right, anyways, "Oh, of course I'm going to tag along! I haven't actually run a dungeon yet, because I've just been focusing on leveling to 100."

Yamaiko nodded, "Sweet, anyways you need help on getting to 100?"

Vagisilious shook her head, "No, I actually want to look to see if I can find a class I can use for my last 5 levels first. I was thinking of scouting out Asgard a bit, since I recall running into some sort of Chinese temple ruin there and I remembered Tabula talking about how he found his secret racial class by reading a book in some ruin or something."

Yeah, apparently, she needs to read to find her last job class. And that's not even 100% confirmed, that's just a hunch based on somebody else finding a racial class by reading about them.

And considering that her entire class is based on Chinese talismans, hopefully she'll find something she likes in a Chinese temple.

She's also praying that said class will be a support class and not an offensive one. That would suck a lot. She's also fine with just being in a flex position, acting as both the offense and support.

Her little support group nodded in understanding, as Bukubukuchagama said, "Alrighty then, see you later! Good luck on finding your class!"

Thanking them for their support, Vagisilious used [Gate] to teleport herself to the neutral hub city to use one of the portals that lead her to Asgard, which for some reason, using these neutral city hubs was the only way to reliably go in between Yggdrasil's 9 worlds.

Afterwards, she quickly used my newly gained overseer class to quickly find the ruin she was looking for.

It was a bit out of the way, considering that it was in the middle of the forest, time clearly having its toll as nature basically overtook the temple.

Using another [Gate], she lands in the correct location, and after double checking all of her gear was on, just in case if there were any enemies in the Chinese ruin, she entered the ruins.

Firstly, there were a lot of scrolls here, please god don't let them all be readable. She does not enjoy reading lore that much.

Secondly, there are level 60 spirits here, whether they were common enemies, who were tuned to the player level, or elite enemies, who were tuned to the gear level of the game, was unknown to her.

Speaking of gear level, not all equipment was created equal, and obviously there were gear rarities to consider as well. After all, a common level 60 gear was way less powerful than a legendary one. That was probably how they balance the game each expansion and create incentives to keep players doing the raids and dungeons, but considering that this is the base game, it's probably going to change sooner or later.

For now, though, she had to just attack a spirit and pray to god that they're just overworld enemies, rather than a dungeon enemy who would actually be tough to defeat.

After using [Greater Exorcism] A few times, she figured out that, god damn it, they were elite enemies, and so she had to kite them around for a while until they died. But overall, there weren't that many spirits around, so she was able to clear them all out to go through the scrolls.

Also considering that this place seemed important for having dungeon-tier enemies, She wrote down the location of this temple in her virtual notepad that every player gets for free. Just in case if the information ever becomes valuable.

Then, Vagisilious flied over to a shelf and picked out a grabbable scroll by random and started reading.

Hmm… This reads something about how… The Jingshen being ruled by the Supreme Sovereign of Spirits?

She'll be honest, she has no interest in a lot of the lore. Some of the quests were really sad and she definitely felt bad about doing some of the quests, but for the most part, this game was too big for her to care about most of it.

Still, kudos to the devs for adding in a tyrannical Chinese empire. Truly the Japanese of all time.

Still, she didn't get a notification about getting a new class or quest or anything, so she assumed she picked up the wrong one and put the scroll away into her inventory, considering it'll probably just respawn anyways, and grabbed another one and started reading that one.

This one read about how cruel this supposed emperor was, though she did note that it didn't sound like the last guy she just read about. This one was just the Iron Emperor?

Either way, no class, no care. She chucked it into the inventory just in case if one of her guild members was a lore junky and wanted to read it, and found another scroll to read.

This one was about… a hat? Supposedly, when the great spirit emperor died or something, he was so angry he made a hat that ended up in a 'place where spirits burnt.'

That place was probably Muspelheim, considering that's where half the world was basically a demon's playground.

Still, not about her job class, so she doesn't really care.

Picking up another scroll, she starts reading it and… Oh, this one seemed to have promise.

Apparently, the 'Supreme Sovereign of Spirits' was so good at soul magic, that he ended up creating a whole new sect of classes. One of these was the sect of mercy, that he used to create obedience in the lower classes because the SSS was able to use it to revive people and communicate with the dead.

In other words, literally the thing she was looking for.

As she put it into her inventory, she was rewarded with a notification.

You have unlocked the Secret Advanced Job Class: Merciful Spiritual Sovereign.

…Merciful Spiritual Sovereign?

Damn, that merciful part sort of ruins it, but that Supreme Sovereign of Spirits guy had a hard name. And being a spiritual sovereign sounds so cool!

Well, even if it's just a merciful one. Which does sound like a healing class alright. So she got what she came here for.

Now, she needs to level up to level 96 really quickly…

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Merciful Spiritual Sovereign (Secret Advanced Job Class)

The most merciful teachings of the Supreme Spiritual Sovereign. These arts were taught in order to teach his subjects to devote themselves to his might, for only he and his most devoted followers could bring back their loved ones from the brink of death, or sometimes, from the realm of the dead itself.

Vagisilious

Level: 96

Race:

Fey (15)

Fairy (10)

Pixie (10)

High Fairy (5)

Job:

Spiritualist (15)

Diviner (15)

Evoker (10)

Herald of Spirits (10)

Overseer (10)

Merciful Spiritual Sovereign (1)

Karma: -75 Neutral-Evil

Approximate Status

HP 75

MP 92

Phy. Atk. 20

Phy. Def. 55

Agility 60

Mag. Atk. 90

Mag. Def. 78

Resistance. 67

Special Ability. 95

Total: 652.

Spells and Skills: [Expand]

Racial Specialties: [Expand]

"Tada!" Vagisilious showed off to her guild mates joining her on the dungeon run, just a simple 10 man team, using the clan feature that allowed for members of the same clan to see their status, "I managed to get a secret advanced job class! Pretty nifty, huh?"

Some of her party members clapped, but most were just nodding.

"Hm, what can you do with it?" Tabula then broke her mood by asking his question.

Vagisilious sent an angry emoji, just to screw with him, "It's literally my first level! I literally have 3 spells!"

"You wanna enlighten us on what those 3 spells do?" Asked Variable Talisman, who wasn't even playing a talisman class.

Vagisilious crossed her arms and said, "It's literally just buffing and healing spells, I don't know what else you want me to say."

Everyone else shrugged, as Touch Me, the leader of the small group got everyone together, "Alright, anyways we're going to do this dungeon, we'll use a master loot system so we can sort it out later! If anyone wants any of the loot, bring it up and we'll discuss who gets it!"

Yeah, that makes sense. Though, she has no idea if there's something she should be praying for to drop.

As Vagisilious was getting used to being in Nine's Own Goal, she questioned everyone, "So, what's everyone's builds? Do I have to know them?"

Momonga shook his head, "Eh, you'll figure it out when we get into the raid. Just remember the roles of your fellow healers, okay? They can heal themselves, after all."

Bellriver raised his hand, "Oh! Be sure to heal me too, I'm tanking!"

Ulbert snorted, "Not with that build."

Vagisilious tilted her head, "Eh? What build is Bellriver using?"

From her perspective, it looked like fairly simple warrior's gear…

Wait, on closer inspection… Is Bellriver equipped with a mage staff?

Bellriver proudly announced, "I am a DPS mage and warrior tank hybrid!"

The entire clan went silent for a moment.

Flatfoot spoke up, "Bellriver, I told you this earlier, but I think it bears repeating. That build is ass."

Tabula nodded in agreement, "Yeah, I don't even know why you're here."

Bellriver angrily defended himself, "Hey! You'll rue the day you make fun of me! Because one day, I'll carry!"

Vagisilious was still a casual player, so she had to ask, "Uh, what's the issue with the hybrid build Bellriver has?"

Touch Me began to explain, "So, you know how your gear has stats, right? And they're all usually either magic, or physical stats. So they're less effective when they have to do both. Same goes for Bellriver's build. He's trying to double dip in classes, but they're not complimentary at all. If he tries to tank, he doesn't have enough magic damage to justify wasting classes on mage classes. If he tries to DPS as a mage, then his tank classes are basically useless."

Ah. She gets it. Being a hybrid of a warrior and a mage isn't very effective in this game, is it?

That's kind of a shame. Spellswords are a very cool thing in fantasy stories.

"Huh, well, I wish you good luck in getting buffed then, Bellriver," Vagisilious said.

"I don't need to be buffed! I'm good as is!" Bellriver puffed, but then immediately backtracking, "But you know, being buffed would be nice…"

The clan had a good laugh at that as they set off into the dungeon.

After fighting through trash mobs and practicing her healing on a larger scale that wasn't just scripted quests where she was able to play with a team of NPCs acting as players, she realized one thing.

She was super toxic while healing.

"Stop standing in the acidic water!" She shouted at Bukubukuchagama, who was currently eating up all of the damage from both the boss, and his gimmick of making some of the water on the floor do damage.

You know what else Bukubukuchagama was eating? HER MANA.

"Oh! Whoops! My bad!" Bukubukuchagama apologized, immediately moving off.

Using one of her new spells, [Sovereign's Blessing] , which was basically a better version of her previous 9th tier healing spell, she marked Momonga who had accidentally gotten hit by one of the bosses AoE for healing, and then she used an [Spiritual Sanctify] to attack the boss to make her talismans proc for extra healing.

"Oh, I didn't know that your talisman healings don't count as non-light healing," Momonga commented before he said, "Thanks!"

"No problem, stop getting hit by strays," Vagisilious answered back, having to heal Touch Me who had taken aggro from Bukubukuchagama because she had to go do a mechanic.

Her talismans had a small healing over time effect, so people who get healed will be fine for a little while, so Wish III and Punitto Moe can focus on other stuff while her talismans keep people alive for a little longer.

That being said though, Vagisilious had to brag to those 2, "Hey! Punitto! Wish! Heal more, I'm topping the charts!"

Wish III, that stupid idiotic genie, immediately shot back, "Sorry! I'm too busy buffing people to heal! Maybe if you used some critical thinking, you'd know that!"

Yeah, that's fair, he was playing a buffing build after all. Not that that's going to show up on any charts.

Punitto Moe also retaliated, "My bad! I was too busy helping the team out with making sure his mechanics don't kill us all to heal! Maybe you could be more useful?"

Yeah, that's also fair, Punitto Moe was playing a hybrid build anyways, so his attention was split between attacking when the times were good and healing when the times were bad. Still not very visible on the charts.

Vagisilious cackled at the non-serious backlash, "Okay! Okay! Whatever! I'm just saying-"

"Can you guys stop bickering?" Yamaiko asked, dodging one of the bosses AoE attacks, "You guys are getting a bit distracting back there!"

"You turn into a gremlin whenever you fight, huh, Vaggy?" Peroroncino added, shooting the boss with his bow from halfway across the arena, "Hey Tabula, isn't that one of those gap moe things I heard you talk about?"

"Hm, very casual outside of battle, only to turn into a chart whore in combat? Yeah, that's a gap moe," Tabula confirmed, making her eyes twitch.

"Hey! Why are you talking about me like I'm an anime character?!" she shouted, taking a look at the bosses health and seeing it was almost dead, she deliberately canceled her buffing talismans for Tabula and Perorocino.

"If you act like it- Wha- Hey! Why am I doing less- VAGGY! GIVE ME MY BUFFS BACK!" Peroroncino indignantly shouted, "I'M NOT LOSING MY 3RD PLACE SPOT TO TABULA!"

"The boss is almost dead anyways, and she took away my buffs as well." Tabula said, right before the boss died.

"Okay! Good work everyone! I'll show what dropped in the group chat!" Touch Me shouted out, getting a cheer from everyone.

The clan checked what dropped… Trash, trash, and trash.

One item immediately went to Peroroncino, because he was the only one who could use it, the next item went to Bukubukuchagama because apparently Touch Me and her had some sort of an agreement between them, and the last item had Momonga, Tabula, and Wish III fighting for it, because apparently they all wanted the extra special ability they get from the item.

While they fought, Vagisilious chatted up Punitto, "So, Punitto, you have anything you wanna talk about?"

Punitto nodded, "Yeah, I read in the Yggdrasil forums that someone found a world item in Vanaheim recently. Didn't find out what world item though."

Ah, yes, the Yggdrasil forums, the most deranged place on the entire internet. Personally, she hasn't been on there often, but considering she's trying to become a more hardcore player, she probably should make herself a regular of the forums.

That being said, world items are still a very cool concept… But where is her world item? She found the group that's going to become Ainz Ooal Gown, so her world item that does…

…What does her world item do again? It's been a long year… Ah, whatever, she's sure her past self did a great job designing it. That being said, it did bother her that she's going to have to manually search for it. Hopefully it won't be that hard.

Still, she had a conversation to have, "Oh, really? Do you think we'll get a world item one day?"

Punitto sent a praying emoji, "God, I hope so. I read that world items give a bit of protection from other world items, so hopefully we'll have one of our own to get protection from."

…She didn't know that. Not that she's going to snitch on herself again. So instead she said, "Yeah, I hope so too. Anyways, I think they're done arguing now…"

Looking over at the 3 who were arguing, it sounds like Wish III lost because he was at the bottom of the healing charts, and Ulbert also lost because he got the last item in some previous dungeon, so Momonga ended up getting what he wanted. Good for him, honestly.

Afterwards, the dungeon continued on as usual with only minor hiccups, such as Wish III dying because he didn't recognize a mechanic that happened, which also has an insta-kill mechanic attached to it.

Yes, of course they made fun of him for it, how could you tell?

Because of that, Wish III lost 2 levels for the rest of the dungeon, because even with 7th tier revival spells, the most she could do because she didn't take a revival spell with her 3 spells from her first level in merciful spiritual sovereign, this game still took levels from players when they die.

Apparently, it didn't get better at level 100 either, because even with a 10th tier revival spell, you're guaranteed to lose 1 level.

Man, these devs suck ass.

But actually, something did drop for Vagisilious from the last boss, which was a very good book, which was her main weapon.

No spells came from the book itself, it kind of just acted as a floating stat stick because her talismans were actually the one doing the heavy lifting. Even from the generic spells like [Gate] or [Grand Fireball], the spells just came from her hands.

Kind of sad if you ask her, but either way, Vagisilious had to fight Wish III for the book because the other spellcasters in the group used staffs.

"Okay, I basically topped the healing charts for the entire dungeon, of course I deserve the book, right?" Vagisilious said, making her intentions clear.

Wish III immediately counter attacked, "Yeah, that's why I should get the book! We can't just have all of our healing placed in one person!"

"You can just have my old book," She bargained, though she fully knew her old book sucked ass, "It's not like you need a new one right now, right?"

"Your current book is straight trash! And I'm still losing out on healing! You're just playing an OP class and I need all of the help I can get!" Wish III said, trying to play the 'you're playing an OP class' card.

Very valiant, however, "The only help you can get is to get good."

Touch Me then asked a question, "Hey, Wish, Vaggy, can you show the stats of both your weapons?"

…Where is he going with this.

Doing as he said, Touch Me made a decision, "Alright, the book can go to Wish, and Wish can just give his old book to Vaggy."

"Wha-" Vagisilious gasped, while Wish III cheered as he got the book, "You traitors! I didn't get anything this run!"

Well, aside from leveling up to level 97. And Wish III's old book, which was leagues better than her old one.

But basically nothing this run!

Wish III gave her a tongue out emoji, "Hah! Suck it! Your charts didn't help you at all, didn't it!"

"You literally died!"

"Wahh wahh wahh, keep crying!"

"Alright, break it up, you two," Momonga interjected, "We'll just give the next item to Vagisilious."

Respecting the verdict, we both backed off, but then she noticed, "Wait, did you just pronounce my name correctly?"

She literally hasn't seen a single person say her name correctly, it's always just been 'Vaggy.' since apparently Japanese people can't pronounce the soft L's that Vagisilious has.

Momonga sent a guilty emoji, "Yeah, I spent like a night learning the English for L just to pronounce it."

Oh, she's… Oddly touched by that, "...Okay, uh, I am very grateful for that, Momonga, but you can just skip that and call me Vaggy like everyone else does."

Momonga nods, "If you want, sure."

Yeah, no wonder why he became the leader later. He definitely has her vote.

After we left the dungeon, though, things went south as we found another group that was about to run the dungeon.

Not just any group, but a human group.

They both awkwardly stare each other down, as each of them decide on how to deal with the situation.

Overworld PvP is always on, so theoretically, we could just start attacking now, but most people avoided fighting other players, mostly because loot dropping from other players were rare because most of the gear only scaled up to level 60, and loot only drops from players if they're incapable of wearing it anymore. Of course, as gear starts to increase in level as later expansions come, that'll likely change, but for now, the only reason to kill players is either because there's a quest or secret class that could only be unlocked by bloodshed, or you just wanted to have fun.

The 20 people gathered in front of these are PvPers by nature.

The leader of the human group immediately took up a fighting position, and the rest of them followed, as Vagisilious immediately threw her buffs on her entire party, getting her best talismans ready to do the best healing of her life.

Almost immediately, Tabula used [Group Secret] to silence their group's voices from the other party, because for some god forsaken reason, this game has open world comms where they can hear other people's real, actual voices.

"Okay, who are we targeting?" Peroroncino asked, immediately aiming his bow vaguely at someone in the enemy's backline.

"Doesn't matter! Just charge!" Touch Me had shouted as he immediately charged the frontline of the enemy.

"What the- Okay let's go!" Bukubukuchagama charged with him, forcing our 3 supports to make sure they don't eat shit and die immediately.

Quickly taking stock of the situation, our group has 2 tanks, 3 supports, and 5 DPS, meanwhile, the other group looks like they took only 2 supports and went for 6 DPS.

That basically means that half their DPS lineup dove in for our soft and supple backline.

"Buku! BUKU! BUKU! PAY ATTENTION!" She desperately shouted at her friend, immediately trying to hide behind Momonga who was basically the biggest person in their party and healing off the damage their rogue was dealing to her. Though she basically lost half her health from their burst damage.

Buku realized the situation and charged at the 3 players in our backline as she taunted them off us for a few seconds, allowing for Momonga and Tabula to do enough damage to them to force them to fall back.

"I killed one of their supports!" Pero shouted out, having miraculously done enough burst damage to kill something in their backline.

"Wha- How?!" Wish III shouted out, still buffing the hell out of Pero and Touch Me, "That was a full health bar!"

"They were probably here to gear up that player!" Punitto Moe said, before aiding in the efforts of healing Touch Me from the brink of death, because he was wrestling against basically their entire party on his own.

God, they should've brought a melee DPS with them.

"STOP TALKING AND START HELPING ME!" Touch Me had shouted out, still getting put on the coals by the entire enemy team, despite doing his best to dodge their attacks as best as he could.

"We are helping you!" Vagisilious pointed out the fact that basically most of her heals were going to him, "I think you should've not charged in immedia-"

"SHUT UP AND HELP ME MORE!"

Well, even she knew how to take orders.

She has no idea how Touch Me did it, but miraculously, he was able to fight the entire time and after their two tanks died because they only had 1 support, the rest of the team basically fell apart and had to retreat.

Also, their last support was also picked off by Pero while they were retreating, who was very loud about the fact that he was basically the MVP in that fight.

Touch Me had threatened to kick Pero out of the clan for insinuating that the fact that he was basically solo against 7 players for at least 15 seconds while the backline was occupied with the 3 DPS players beating them up was somehow not instrumental to them winning with 0 casualties.

Pero had very wisely chosen to not take that fight.

The fallen enemies didn't drop jack shit, because of course they didn't, they were probably all in their 90s or 100 so they'd have to die like 10 more times for them to drop anything.

But that didn't really matter, because Nine's Own Goal totally just won a big fight against a rival group with 0 casualties, and that was a big point of pride for all of them.

"Jeeze, Touch, how did you live through that entire fight?" Momonga had asked Touch Me while they were moving back to the neutral hub so they could freely talk without looking over their shoulders.

"Pure. Skill," Touch Me had bragged, before adding, "Also, they were all kind of trash."

"...Yeah, they really were, huh?" Momonga said, returning to his quiet self.

They were all saddled with an EXP gain decrease for the next hour, so she wasn't going to go leveling anything for the next hour, but the hour where they simply talked about PK tactics was a great moment in her life.

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Annnd 100!

Vagisilious

Level: 100

Racial Classes:

Fey (15)

Fairy (10)

Pixie (10)

High Fairy (5)

Job Classes:

Spiritualist (15)

Diviner (15)

Evoker (10)

Herald of Spirits (10)

Overseer (5)

Merciful Spiritual Sovereign (5)

Karma: +25, Neutral

Approximate Status

HP 75

MP 100

Phy. Atk. 20

Phy. Def. 55

Agility 60

Mag. Atk. 90

Mag. Def. 80

Resistance. 70

Special Ability. 95

Total: 665.

Spells and Skills: [Expand]

Racial Specialties: [Expand]

There were no big rewards for reaching 100, but really, it was the journey that mattered to her, really.

665 stat points isn't that bad, considering that her racial classes were all generic ones, and her taking herald of spirits instead of another divination class. But overall, she was content with what she had!

Also, she tried her best to get into a negative karma value, just so she could fit in with the rest of her clan, but the positive karma she got from being a fairy and going down the route of the merciful spiritual sovereign was too much.

Either way, she knew she could probably do better. Basically half the clan had a total of 700 points or higher, and she actually paid real life cash to someone on the forums just to learn that a will-o-wisp racial class existed somewhere in Alfheim. So she'll probably find that secret advanced class sooner or later, and then, fingers crossed, she'll have figured out her final build for when the very first expansion of Yggdrasil comes out in 3 months!

Apparently, though the devs will never release patch notes for their game and leaves it up to the community to figure that one out, they'll gladly showcase all of the new features coming up in their yearly 6,000 Yen expansions.

Speaking of which, 6,000 Yen!? In what WORLD does a 6,000 Yen expansion on top of a 7,000 Yen base game with a 1,500 Yen monthly subscription make sense? That's basically half her monthly income! Even with inflation, that doesn't make any sense! Do they only want high-income earners playing their game? Because if those shitty devs haven't noticed, basically half of Japan lives in near-poverty!

Ugh, whatever, she'll pay up like a loser anyways. Hell, she'll even buy the special pre-order version just because she got the raise from being a personal PR aide now.

Now, anyways, since nobody else is online right now, probably because her hours actually ended a bit earlier than everyone else in the guild, though she had to get up especially early, she'll go and find that special racial class that should hopefully synergize well with her build…

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Will-o'-Wisp (Secret Advanced Racial Class)

Will-o'-Wisps are the highest classification an evil fae can achieve to interact with the spiritual world. It is said that Will-o'-Wisps are extremely cruel to the souls they come across, leading them to paths with no good endings, and toy with the naive.

That questline was a total pain in the ass. Not because it was hard or anything, she just thought the questline was stupid and annoying.

Seriously, doing that questline has single handedly turned her IRL karma value into -500, because holy shit she wants to absolutely eradicate every single fairy in the hidden village.

Which developer decided that a glorified fetch quest that spanned 3 worlds was in any way a good idea? And the story wasn't that good either!

The only real part she had to pay attention to was the part where she either had to do the good thing and deliver the exact words of the NPCs to unlock the Spiritual Guide racial class, or to just make the 2 villages hate each other by twisting some words around and earn the Will-o'-Wisp racial class.

Obviously, she chose the latter. Those 2 NPCs and their stupid love story between the afterlife was the dumbest thing she's ever read and had to go through.

And she's read some pretty bad fanfiction in her life before, courtesy of Emily!

'…God, I wonder how Emily is doing these days…'

Ahem, anyways, she hopes that every NPC involved in the questline go die a painful death and is forced to get NTR'd by literally anything else, as well as to witness their villages be burnt, and a very bad day.

Anyways, the rest of her clan is here, so she immediately teleports to Helheim, their unofficial base of operations, and as she meets up with them, she immediately announces her intentions.

"Hey, I need to kill myself, do you guys mind if you hold my gear?"

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Dear lord, suicide was never the answer.

It's literally 2 weeks before the new expansion drops, and she JUST made it to level 100.

Vagisilious

Level: 100

Racial Classes:

Fey (15)

Fairy (10)

Pixie (10)

Will-o'-Wisp (5)

Job Classes:

Spiritualist (15)

Diviner (15)

Evoker (10)

Soul Scryer (10)

Overseer of Souls (5)

Merciful Spiritual Sovereign (5)

Karma: -75, Evil-Neutral

Approximate Status

HP 70

MP 100

Phy. Atk. 20

Phy. Def. 55

Agility 70

Mag. Atk. 95

Mag. Def. 90

Resistance. 85

Special Ability. 100

Total: 685.

Spells and Skills: [Expand]

Racial Specialties: [Expand]

Yeah, the next time Vagisilious needed to level up, she's going to have a better route. Because that SUCKED.

She has no idea how she reached 685 points in her stats, a whole 15 above average, considering she's speccing into 2 entirely different skill sets. Maybe it's the fact that she managed to unlock 4 secret classes?

She managed to find out that they hand out soul scryer and overseer of souls like candy, because the only thing people need to do to unlock those classes are to literally just have 1 soul class and 1 divination class, something she easily could do.

She's kind of salty the game wouldn't let her get 100 into magic attack, which would maximize her healing and damage output, but beggars can't be choosers, she supposed.

Her newfound appearance as a Will-o'-Wisp was basically the fairy/pixie avatar she had before, which was a kind of human-like body, with flowing pink hair, 2 antennae coming out of her forehead, and in homage to her fey past, she added orange fox ears to make herself look cuter. And her face was as cute as she could make it, despite her having some scales acting as freckles and her sclera being pitch black, which was kind of nice to go along with her blue eyes. And of course, she kept the blue claws that basically acted as her nails, and in typical fairy fashion, she was like 4 feet tall despite looking like an adult woman. She also still has her translucent purple wings still intact. The part where her Will-o'-Wisp showed up was her skin being a sort of transparent white, which she thought made her look a bit albino, but whatever.

Her racial class being made up of fairies and tricksters, she had illusion spells that could change her appearance whenever she wants, or to just make her look like a human, but then she'd have to sacrifice some of her mana every few hours to keep up the illusion, and the worst part of that is that she'll have to hear about Ulbert whining about how 'Fairies aren't real heteromorphs!'...

Also, being part spirit herself now, she now took extra damage from her own spell type, which was kind of funny to her. Though she did keep all of the resistances and weaknesses from her other classes, like being weak to fire or being resistant to nature.

Most importantly though, she looked cute while still having a viable build, so who cares? Now all she needed to do was get through these next 2 weeks!

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Vagisilious looked oddly at Momonga, "So you pretend to be characters who you're not, and make up a story and just roll with it? And being fully in-character as if you're in a movie?"

Momonga nodded, "I mean, it sounds kind of embarrassing when you put it like that, but trust me, it's fun! Besides, we have these cool avatars, why would we not use them?"

Ulbert wisely nodded from the side, "Yes, little Vagisila- Vagisilus- Vagiso- Vagi-FUCK!"

Vagisilious looked amusedly at Ulbert as he tried to pronounce her name fully in character.

Eventually, Ulbert gave up, "Ugh, fine! Vaggy! You're an evil fairy, right? Just play that up and try to trick everyone!"

Vagisilious sent a frown emoji, "I don't know, guys. This entire concept of roleplaying is kind of weird to me…"

Touch Me patted her on the back, "Don't worry, Vaggy. You'll be one of us sooner or later. C'mon, we're going to make some stuff up in Dafistem in Muspelheim!"

Vagisilious tilted her head, "Eh? Where's that?"

"It's a big role play hub!" Touch explained, "So, we'll find some people there, and we can go have some fun making up stories together!"

Vagisilious sighed, "Okay guys, I'm going to trust you… But if I feel stupid, I'm going to complain about it."

Wish III chuckled, "Don't worry, it'll be fun!"

Vagisilious took their word for it, and so she willingly went to Dafistem.

---

Her friends were all liars and she should've never trusted them.

Her friends had all gone ahead with some other people, claiming that they were going to kill a dragon that she wasn't even sure existed.

And because she was the mischievous fairy, her attempts at trying to 'protect' the dragon had gone awry, and actually just revealed where the dragon was.

It was Ancient One, probably. Hiding in a tree somewhere.

Vagisilious looked to the side to another roleplayer who had gotten left behind with her.

Nubo, a biblically accurate angel, and the one who started their whole quest.

"So, uh…" Vagisilious tried to strike a conversation.

Nubo quickly reminded her, "Character?"

Why does she have to stay in character during a casual conversation after everyone else left? This sucks.

She wasn't going to be a loser, however, so she agreed, speaking as mischievously and arrogantly as she did earlier, "Hmph, very well, then. O' 'Grand Sage' Nubo. It seems as though our heroes have ventured off into defeating my master. Do you truly believe they shall emerge alive?"

Nubo chuckled, "Young Vaggy, you are inexperienced in the ways of connection. They have forged a bond unbreakable by the terror of any higher power. They will succeed. This, I have foreseen."

Geeze, insulting her straight away? That's just straight up rude.

She crossed her arms, "How foolish. There are no such things as unbreakable bonds. Everything can be crushed, all there is to question is how difficult will it be to crush?"

Nubo amusedly told her, "Then come, allow me to show you the results of their friendship."

Nubo pulled up a divination screen.

She looked at him unimpressed as she silently brought up her own divination screen.

"Oh," Nubo broke character, "Damn."

She took that as permission to finally break character, "Yeah, you look stupid now, don't you? I was just trying to make you look dumb this entire time!"

Nubo laughed, "Hahaha! You got me!"

They ended up joking around together as they watched the fairly anti-climactic way that Ancient One was defeated.

It was the power of friendship and justice, yes.

Vagisilious smiled as she regrouped with her friends.

"So, I know we kind of abandoned you halfway through, but how was it?" Momonga asked.

Vagisilious sent a thumbs up emoji as she replied, "Aha! I'll definitely join up with you guys again!"

Momonga sent a smiling emoji, "That's great! Nubo must've been good to you."

She nodded, "Yeah, can we invite him, by the way?"

"Sure, why not? I'll go ask him right now."

---

Anyhow, 2 weeks go by pretty fast, and eventually, the very first expansion of Yggdrasil, Calamitas's Remains, is released.

"Congratulations on being able to splurge 6,000 Yen whole dollars today guys!" One of the newer members of Nine's Own Goal, Nubo, an biblically accurate angel who was also the 2nd divination player in the clan, had said when they all got together to do one of the newer dungeons that was available to them in Helheim.

He had gotten in from Vagisilious's recommendation, of course.

"Yeah, thanks. I'm not going to be eating tomorrow though," Garnet gloomily said, sending out a sad emoji.

Gosh, yeah, that absolutely sucks. Vagisilious was rich enough to be able to afford synth paste with added flavors, but even that pales in comparison to a McDonalds happy meal from her old life.

God, she would kill for a McDonald's Happy Meal right now. She never thought the day would come where she would be wishing for an actual real McDonalds…

Ulbert had laughed when he heard Garnet, "Pssh, same. But starving for a few days is way better than eating that garbage paste."

Oh, great, was half her clan going to go hungry for the next few days? She was going to maybe give her friends some of her spare cash so they don't go hungry, but even she doesn't have the funds to keep her entire clan from starvation.

"Don't you guys have savings or anything?" Blue Planet asked the ones who said they were also probably not eating for a while, which was exactly what she was thinking.

HeroHero sent out a sad emoji, "My savings were eaten by Yggdrasil."

"My apologies," Blue Planet had said immediately, not missing a beat.

"Guys, you're all making me depressed, can we just run this dungeon?" Vagisilious asked, doing circles in the air using her floating passive.

Everyone confirmed that they were done moping around, and as we were about to set out to the area where the dungeon is, knowing fully well that it's probably packed right now because it's launch day, Momonga said something that would change the course of history forever.

"Uh, guys, there's a pay to win ability in the Yggdrasil Store," Momonga had pointed out, right before we were about to set out.

The Yggdrasil store was basically all cosmetic items, so Vagisilious never ended up buying anything from it. Though she did know that Touch Me ended up buying a few emotes from it to roleplay a bit as a warrior of justice.

But apparently, the sales from the store must've been too low, because when she checked the store, there was a new ability that allowed players to equip up to TEN RINGS.

THE FREE TO PLAY LIMIT IS TWO.

IT'S FIFTEEN DOLLARS.

Everyone must've seen it at the same time, because they all collectively groaned at the sight of it.

You know what? She's just going to buy that straight away, she has a ton of good rings just sitting in her inventory right now.

So, while everyone was complaining about the direction of the game, Vagisilious spent 1,500 whole Yen on the perk, as she announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, I am now a pay to win player."

She equipped her 10 rings and showed them off.

Looking at her stats… Yeah, that was super pay to win. Her stats just went up by like, a few hundred. And that was just using her leftover rings from her lower levels.

Ulbert, of course, was the first to make fun of Vagisilious, "Look at you, paying money to make yourself think you're better than others."

"You know you're going to pay the same thing I did anyways," Vagisilious shot back, sending a smug emoji.

"Yeah, but at least I'm not going to announce it like you did." Ulbert said, which was fair.

Suratan, also being a metawhore with some disposable income to spare, sighed, "Yeah, I just bought it too. It's a massive upgrade. I'm probably working overtime for that."

"Wow, can't believe that the tryhard PvP clan is going pay to win," Bellriver joked, gaining some laughs.

After we all finished jesting about the devs making the game pay to win, we entered the new dungeon, Draedon's Observatory.

She has no clue about the lore of the dungeon, especially considering that it's day 1 and the entire clan hasn't done a single new quest yet. But she's sure that this Draedon fellow is nice.

Probably.

Since we were entering the dungeon with 26 whole people, every single trash mob took an ungodly amount of effort to kill, and the mages of the group needed to regenerate mana for every fight. So they had a lot of time to kill.

Which lead to Vagisilious and Nubo both coming up with a gag.

[Dispel Illusion] was a rather basic 2nd tier spell that both of them picked up along the way in their racial classes.

Being a 2nd tier spell, it was cheap to cast, and it made a cool sound and had an obnoxiously bright animation.

Obviously, it was meant to be used to dispel low level illusions that might occasionally pop up in quests, but they were using it for a more righteous reason.

They were just annoying their team.

"Hey Ulbert, is that a smile on your face?" Vagisilious said, making him look at her, "That can't be right, you're always grumpy with me! I think you need a bit of [Dispel Illusion]!"

Ulbert was covered in light, and out of the light came out an Ulbert that was completely the same, because obviously this AAA game can't afford to upgrade the models to show any facial expressions in anything other than the emotes, or if a particular race was lucky, an emoji.

The group had a quick laugh at Ulbert's expense, who was not very pleased with her, and probably on his top 10 least favorite people of all time list.

Actually, she had faith in him, his top 10 was probably filled with big name executives and CEOs. She probably makes the top 20, though.

Nubo then picked up on the joke, "Hey, Touch Me, you're looking a bit bugged there, maybe you need an [Dispel Illusion]!"

Again, Touch Me was blinded by light, and all he said was, "Ha. Ha. It was funny when Vaggy did it a second ago, but it's not as funny the second time."

So, naturally, Vagisilious said, "Aw, what's the matter, Touch? I think your life needs to [Dispel Illusion]!"

That one got a laugh out of everyone again. And thus proving that it was always funnier the third time.

And so after every fight, Nubo and her spammed [Dispel Illusion] on random things and people, just to pass the time.

"Hey Nubo, you see that telescope over there?" Vagisilious pointed out, grabbing his and a few other people's attention, "I think it could use a little bit of [Dispel Illusion]!"

The telescope was covered in light, obviously nothing happened to it.

Which obviously made it the funniest thing we've ever seen.

Nubo was giggling as he made the next installment of the [Dispel Illusion] saga, "Yeah I think that helped. Do you see that window over there? I think it needs a bit of [Dispel Illusion]!"

Nothing happened, and we all collectively laughed again.

When they pulled up to the 3rd boss out of 5, Mammodon which was a giant robotic wooly mammoth, which nobody had any idea why it was the way it was, Nubo made a legendary remark, "Hey, Mammodon, I think you need a bit of [Dispel Illusion]!"

And so, Nubo pulled the boss before everybody was ready, and everyone was laughing as they went into battle.

Well, everyone was laughing for a second before they went to battle and realized they hadn't fully regenerated their cooldowns yet, leading to a few of them dying and causing Nubo to get yelled at for a bit, and consequently her as well for coming up with the idea.

In return, when they pulled up to the 5th boss, Vagisilious had absolutely no hesitation as she shouted out, "Hey! Clone of Draedon! I think you need a bit of [Dispel Illusion]!"

As the clone immediately rushed over to her, and the entire group was pissed at her actions, Nubo patted her on the back, as they both said at the same time, "Worth it."

As we revived everyone who died to the boss once we defeated it, Punitto Moe gave the two of them another tongue lashing, which, wow, he was really good at making them feel guilty over their joke, and the party began to leave.

Well, Nubo had one last card up his sleeve, "Hey, Vaggy"

Vagisilious tilted her head as she sent out a questioning emoji, "Yeah, Nubo?"

"Don't you think this place needs a bit of some…" Nubo trailed off, making it obvious where he was going with it, making her smile as she immediately prepared the spell.

"[Dispel Illusion]!" Nubo shouted.

"[True Banishment Illusion]!" She shouted.

Nubo's head immediately whipped to her, "Wha- Why would we use a different spell for the gag?!"

Vagisilious immediately came to her own defense, "Huh?! I thought we'd obviously save the best for last!"

As they argued, suddenly, something in the room changed. A wall had suddenly changed into a door.

The new door opened up, and the two of them stared blankly at the new path.

"Uh, nevermind, that was the right move, Vaggy," Nubo said, before quickly messaging the group that they found something.

"Of course I'm right, I'm Vagisilious," She boasted, as she immediately made her way into the opening without any care of what she was potentially getting into.

Obviously it was completely dumb luck that she found the secret passageway, but if anyone asked her, it was always the plan to use [True Banishment Illusion] at the end of every dungeon and raid.

Of course, now that she knew this was a possibility, she was most definitely going to use [True Banishment Illusion] at the end of every dungeon and raid.

Entering the room, Vagisilious found a staircase that, presumably, leads to the very top of the observatory.

So, naturally, she followed the staircase up, didn't find any enemies on the way there, and found a massive telescope that she realized was missing from the room they just fought the final boss in, but was visible from outside.

And next to the giant telescope was some sort of charging cable, from the looks of it. And if that was true, then they would be getting power from the weirdly massive book that was floating in a ring of iron, likely taking power from the book.

So, naturally, curiosity struck and she used "[Final Item Identification]!" Which was the 10th tier spell for identifying items, and as it turned out… She struck gold.

[Atlas - World Class Item - "Map Of The Gods" - A book forged from the ruins of an old world by Draedon. This book allows its users to see every world in its pages from a bird's eye's view. - (Lore) - (World Item Rules)]

A WORLD ITEM IN THE FIRST DUNGEON OF THE EXPANSION?!

Vagisilious immediately went to snatch it up, and the telescope immediately depowered as the lights on it faded, probably signaling that nobody else could get Atlas now.

Reading through the text, this definitely has the ability of a world item.

Normally, players don't have an omniscient map, because of course they don't, the devs keep talking about how they want players to explore, and this forces players to make their own maps. She knows that one guild, The Cartographers, literally makes real life money from making maps and selling them to players and spend all their time in-game just mapping out the 9 worlds.

And this item basically makes all of their work irrelevant!

Opening the book, she gets a perfect view of Helheim, and she even realizes she can zoom in on things! She can even get coordinates so she could use [Gate] to teleport anywhere if she wants!

She can't see players, and nothing was labeled on the map, but that wasn't really a big deal. The developers probably have this exact same system when they're making their game too.

She was about to click on the world item rules, but her clan came up to where she was before she could press it.

So, naturally, before they could ask a question, Vagisilious announced to everybody, "Hey! We have a world item now!"

Everyone was shocked and gave off various reactions, such as Momonga saying, "What?! Really?!" Punitto Moe saying, "That Dispel Illusion gag actually did something?!" and Ulbert shouting, "OH WHY IS IT YOU THAT FINDS IT?!"

Vagisilious took in some silent delight at making Ulbert's life a little worse.

You know, as a friend.

Eventually, Touch Me asked her, "Okay, can you tell us more about it?"

Instead of telling them about it, Vagisilious just handed it off to Touch Me, saying, "Nah, just pull up a public menu and we can read through it together."

As Nine's Own Goal read through the description of the world item and tried a few things with it, and then immediately theorycraft ways they could use it, there was a lot of discussion about a very important subject.

Where were they even going to put the thing?

There were only 2 general rules to world items.

1: The world item cannot be put into your inventory, but if you log off with it in your hands, it will log off with you. If you do not log back in in 30 days, it will disappear from your character and it will randomly appear somewhere else in Yggdrasil for someone else to find.

2: All world items give protection from other world items, such as being immune to their effects or making you a blank spot in their effects.
And the more important rule was the first one. Which meant hiding it was basically impossible unless if they wanted to put the book somewhere and cross their fingers nobody found and stole it.

Also, making it so that the world item would have to be held at all times meant that they couldn't use their primary weapon unless if they dropped Atlas temporarily, which, again, would make it vulnerable to stealing.

The one solace that they did have is that, from Genjiro's and Punitto's quick testing, Atlas couldn't be stolen like lower tier items could be stolen through the use of rogue skills.

Normally, a world item would stay inside of a guild base so they could be protected 24/7, but obviously, there's a problem with that.

They have no guild base.

They've been trying to find a guild base, but every location they found belonged to another guild that they didn't want to fight for, because then their location would be immediately found, or they were too close to the neutral hubs and it'd be raided too often.

So after discussing it with everyone, Nine's Own Goal came up with a new goal pretty fast.

Before they could step foot in another dungeon or raid, they needed to find a guild base, fast.

Preferably before Atlas gets stolen.

And so, through the use of scouting and taking advantage that dungeons are completely separate from the overworld, they manage to sneak Atlas out of Draedon's Observatory without being spotted.

Thank you for the world item, Draedon, but at the same time…

Screw you for giving this to us too early!

---

2, long, difficult, and downright frustrating months had passed since they found Atlas.

Almost 3 times, they lost Atlas, and it was basically public knowledge that they had a world item at this point.

The first time, another guild had ambushed them and nearly beat them to take Atlas, and they outnumbered us by 11 players. But they were all free to play, and we were not. And although Garnet had to make a purchase literally mid-fight to buy the 10 rings perk and thus was not able to eat for the next 4 days, before Vagisilious loaned him some money so Garnet wouldn't starve to death, they were able to just barely squeeze out a victory and make it out with Atlas.

The next time Atlas was nearly taken from them was when Punitto Moe had to work overtime at his job "For the next few days." and so everyone thought it would be safe to give him Atlas for a while to keep it out of Yggdrasil while they searched for a guild base.

Punitto Moe logged back in 29 days later. He was working overtime and immediately collapsed into bed everyday for 29 days straight.

As his self-described best friend, Vagisilious was absolutely furious that he was forced to work 29 days of overtime! The next time she sees the name Mizuho, she's going to… Well, she has no idea what she's going to do, but rest assured, she'll be very upset!

The last time Atlas was nearly taken from them was a few days ago, where the holder of Atlas at the time, Wish III, died and Atlas was given to the enemy. But through the use of a lot of [Dimensional Lock], a lot of burst damage, and a lot of shouting and screaming, they were able to just barely win that fight and take it back.

They totally would've lost that fight if she wasn't there. She CARRIED that fight because of her healing. Thank god that her classes are so good!

It would also be good to note that they were severely undergeared, as they haven't run a single new dungeon since they got Atlas. On the Yggdrasil forums, they actually made some calculations and figured out that the top gear of vanilla, the level 60 gear that they slaved over doing raid after raid for, was actually 7% weaker than the basic level 61 raid gear that dropped when the expansion did.

7% was a lot, as they learned, when they kept narrowly winning fights that should not have been that close. They flat out had to retreat when they learnt someone went through the effort of raiding the new raid enough times to get the full set of level 61 gear and tried to go after them.

But finally, Nishikienrai found something when all 30 members of Nine's Own Goal were still online.

"Guys, guys! I found something that looks like it could be good for us!" Nishiki had announced in the group chat, "It's in Helheim, so I'll just ping my location and we can use Atlas to TP to me!"

It sounds like we finally found that guild base from the anime she couldn't recall anymore!

She's been waiting for this day for a very long time. She's seen countless videos about guild bases in Yggdrasil, and the amount of character customizations she could do with the NPCs…

It makes a former digital artist like her very, very happy. Hell, with the knowledge that the NPCs will one day become real, maybe she'll make a real effort in trying to write their character descriptions!

But of course, that dream can't come into fruition if they can't clear the dungeon that will soon become our home.

As she took the [Gate] from Tabula, who had taken it upon himself to transport everyone to Flatfoot, we gazed upon a massive tomb, conveniently hidden in a massive toxic swamp.

Using [Soul Sight], she quickly checked the distance from here to Tyr's Bridge, and…

"Holy crap, Nishiki, this place is almost at the edge of the map!" Vagisilious said, completely shocked on how the hell Nishikienrai found this place.

Yeah, no wonder why they live forever, this place is the equivalent of being in Wyoming! Is there even a reason to be this far from the neutral hub yet?

Nishikienrai looked pretty proud of himself, "Yeah, I spent basically the entire 2 months just walking around the edge of the map to see what I can find."

Momonga nodded, "2 months well spent then. So, we're going to raid this place?"

Touch Me used a thumbs up emoji, "Absolutely! Let me just pull up a public menu of this place real quick, though."

Ah, yes, the clan leader's god-given right to be the one to pull up the public menu.

Crowding around this place, they learn this place's real name…

[The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick - Divine Tier Guild Base Dungeon - Recommended Gear level: 81]

"GEAR LEVEL 81?! THAT'S LITERALLY 4 EXPANSIONS FROM NOW?!" Vagisilious shouted out in complete surprise, with many of her companions essentially saying the same thing.

"Nishiki, you moron! This is way too hard for us!" Peroroncino shouted at his friend, though it didn't have any bite or conviction to it.

"Welp, this is a waste of time," Tabula sighed, but his feet didn't end up moving.

"Yeah, we'd no doubt die if we tried to go through this in our level 60 and level 61 gear," Momonga chuckled, yet his words were almost definitely sarcastic.

"I can basically taste the tears we'll shed if we try to run through this dungeon right now," Punitto Moe said, still looking at the tomb.

"I think if we tried to clear this dungeon right now, we'd be lauded as the dumbest players in Yggdrasil," Vagisilious said, already knowing fully well what they'd be doing.

Yes, we truly were the stupidest idiots in the world.

"Okay! I've heard all of your words!" Touch Me shouted out, grabbing all of our attention, "I would like to make an announcement!"

"We will conquer The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick!" Touch Me boisterously announced, holding his sword in the air, and we all shouted in applause.

"But!" Touch Me continued, quieting us down as we hung on his every word, "I recognize that half of you really don't like me as the clan leader. In fact, one of our founding members left because he didn't like me that much."

Well, okay, yeah that's true. But does he really have to bring it up- Oh wait, is this the moment where Momonga becomes the leader?

Touch continued to speak in a loud tone, "Therefore, before we continue, I would like to propose one last vote in the history of Nine's Own Goal."

Touch pointed at Momonga, much to the overlord's surprise, "Who would like to disband Nine's Own Goal and create a new guild, under the leadership of Momonga?"

"Wha- Hey, what are you saying?!" Momonga immediately shouted out, him looking totally out of his element.

"Aye! Momonga has never done me wrong!" Peroroncino had casted his vote, his sister quickly following alongside him.

"Aye, Momonga is a lot smarter than you are, Touch," Ulbert said, still unable to resist the ability to jab Touch.

"Aye. I've spoken like a single digit number of words to most of you guys, but I like Momonga," said Tigris Euphrates, who, as he self-described as being a man of few words, she almost forgot existed.

"Aye aye, I like Momonga, I don't mind this," Vagisilious said, not saying much because the way it was going, every other clan member was going to say something.

Momonga had tried all his might to try and resist the position, but eventually, all 29 voting members had casted their vote.

Unanimously, they wanted Momonga as their leader.

"Ahh?" Momonga had stuttered out, not knowing what to say.

"Well, it's unanimous! Momonga, have anything to say before I disband?" Touch asked a clearly baffled Momonga.

"I…" Momonga started, trying to find words, before settling on something polite and corny, "I'm honored that you all trust me for this position, and I hope to lead our new guild to new heights!"

That was super corny, but we all cheered anyways. And then a new discussion formed about the name of the new guild.

Well, we had to start out as a clan, but the moment we conquer Nazarick, it's our guild base and we get to become a guild.

So, they discussed that while Vagisilious took stock of her talismans.

And to be honest chief, the situation is not looking good.

Almost all of her best talismans were used in the defense of Atlas, and she hasn't had the time to farm materials to craft them back up to acceptable numbers.

She still had a bunch of crap ones, but the healing and DPS difference was about 60% from her worst to her best.

And we're trying to conquer a gear level 81 dungeon? Absolute insanity. She has no chance to outdo any one of their supports in healing. Luckily, there are 8 healers for 6 tanks, so even if she falls a bit, the others can pick up her slack.

Unluckily, this is the one dungeon where every single member has to do their work. And she's going to have to break the news that she does not have the materials to craft all her talismans.

Eventually, the old clan was disbanded, and the new clan was created, as she was sent the invite that she most absolutely took a photo of and put in her permanent collection.

[You have been kicked out of the clan Nine's Own Goal due to: Disbandment.]

[Momonga has invited you into the clan: Ainz Ooal Gown]

[Do you accept?]

[Y/N]

Vagisilious grinned, if she could get through this, anything was possible.

[You have joined the clan: Ainz Ooal Gown]

---

"Momonga, I have 2 questions. 1, why are you holding all of these spare materials? 2, please marry me," Vagisilious blankly told Momonga, gaining a surprised look from him.

She just informed the clan of her massive skill issue, and suddenly, Momonga just opened his inventory and apparently, he had TONS of materials she needed to make her best talismans.

"Uh, for the first question, I've been grinding data crystals and I heard that you needed these materials for your talismans, so I've just been farming them while doing my data crystal grind and saving them for a rainy day like today. 2, Um, I'll have to decline." Momonga answered, still handing out an absolute mountain of materials to her.

"I knew making you the leader was a good idea!" Vagisilious gleefully said as she immediately began to create her talismans, which was made at about 1 every second, and she could make- Holy cow, 82?! Yeah, she's set for life!

"Woah, did you happen to farm up some materials for my sunfire arrows as well?" Peroroncino had asked him, looking at the mountain of goods that she now had.

Momonga nodded, "Not as much, but do you need them now?"

Pero shook his head, "Nah, I think I have enough for this run. But wow, I agree with Vaggy, definitely a good idea electing you leader!"

After the final preparations, Momonga lead the guild into the tomb, as we began a long journey.

---

The very first group of trash mobs they fought nearly brought them to their knees.

Touch Me, the group's main tank, got absolutely DEMOLISHED by the Nazarick Old Guards.

Despite them bringing only 30 players out of a possible 100, the max number a single group can have, the scaling on the enemies were just unfair.

"Christ, was that a mini boss or something?" Asked Mekongawa, whose pets were currently super dead. That's what he gets for trying to play a hybrid warrior/beast tamer build, Vagisilious supposed. Though it's very nice to have extra health bars that aren't us to take damage.

"No, that was literally a trash mob. No, WE were the trash mobs, man!" Wailed Peroroncino, who was lamenting the loss of many arrows that were just completely blocked.

"At least we won with 0 casualties?" She offered it as a consolation prize. Though, the fact that 3 tanks nearly died to trash mobs was depressing enough to demoralize the group despite the feat of nobody dying.

Momonga, though, didn't sound so down, as he launched into a motivational speech, "Enough of our moping! The name Ainz Ooal Gown shall know no defeat! We will press forward!"

That was super corny, but it worked to arouse their spirits, therefore it wasn't corny.

Ulbert, being Momonga's hype man, told him, "That was very cool, leader."

"Thank you, that does remove some of my embarrassment…"

---

"HEAL ME! HEAL ME! HEALERS DO YOUR JOB!" Bellriver desperately shouted at them, his ass knowing full well that the only reason he wasn't dead right now due to failing the first boss's mechanic was because of THEM.

"Bellriver if I hear your dumb ass piss off our HEALERS right now I AM GOING TO KILL YOU MYSELF!" Bukubukuchagama shouted at him, the textbook method of keeping the healers happy with her so she gets more healing.

Vagisilious had enough time to internally scowl at Bellriver, but didn't say a word because right now, the entire party was on low health because the Dracula wannabe's AoE was absurdly unfair. So if she, or any one of her fellow supports wasn't fully focused, everyone dies.

They ended up losing a few of their tanks to bullshit gimmicks that have absolutely no right to exist in this game, but eventually the boss was killed, to rigorous applause.

"Woo! We did it! Let's fucking gooooo!" Peroroncino shouted alongside with what seemed to be half of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Touch used one of his emotes to look cool over the fallen boss, while HeroHero took a picture of them.

"We have a chance to actually clear this dungeon! We are so good at this game!" Vagisilious merrily cheered, just happy at the fact they had a chance.

We celebrated for a while, already exhausted at the fact that the raid has taken 41 minutes so far, and this was just the first boss.

But we still had faith that our journey was not over!

---

"It's so fucking over," Vagisilious wept, staring at the massive fucking rock named Gargantua who was the next boss of Nazarick.

HeroHero, being equally as defeatist as her, sat down on a nearby rock, saying, "There is nothing we can do."

"Vaggy, HeroHero, if you keep spouting this defeatist shit near me, I'm going to kill you," Punitto threatened, scaring the wits out of the both of them.

"Yes Sir!" They immediately said, not wanting to piss off the scary strategist.

"I will do a thousand percent of my maximum potential!" Vagisilious said, trying to hype herself up despite feeling completely doomed. That giant stupid rock just SCREAMS 'I'm going to AoE you to death.' How are we supposed to heal through that?!

"That giant stupid rock will topple over before our might! Glory to Ainz Ooal Gown!" HeroHero said as well, probably trying to hype ourselves up.

To HeroHero's surprise, the rest of the clan shouted out, "Glory to Ainz Ooal Gown!"

"Wha- Oh, you guys are right! I really did come up with a really cool one-liner!" HeroHero said, sounding very proud of himself.

Momonga nodded to HeroHero, sending him a thumbs up emote, "Yeah, we're taking that as our official saying. Glory to Ainz Ooal Gown!"

At his signal, we all charged Gargantua.

---

Dying was a very odd experience in Yggdrasil. On one hand, it's pretty basic, following the tried and true formula used since the dawn of humanity. When you die, you fall over.

In Yggdrasil, being a DMMORPG, which uses the first person view, though, when you die, your body falls over, and then you just keep moving with your spirit, and unlike with basically every other game on the market, the game doesn't tell you that you've died.

You just have to look down and realize you're dead.

The devs, in their infinite generosity, permits the dead player to have to open up a menu to decide whether they should revive at the neutral hub, costing them 5 levels, or being revived by another player or their self-revival item that's pretty rare.

Now, this entire segment was mostly just a distraction for herself BECAUSE HER TEAM IS ALMOST WIPED OUT.

It was literally just Pero kiting Gargantua around, with Gargantua being on 4% HP left because Gargantua did too much damage they couldn't heal away, so Gargantua continuously ate away at their health until all of the tanks just died and he began to tear through the DPS and supports.

Which was how they had Peroroncino, perverted meta shitlord bird archer, kiting Gargantua around the whoever the hell's paying attention floor of Nazarick.

Now, here's a cool thing about being dead.

You can't communicate with the living while dead, but you could communicate with your other dead party members.

Most of the clan was basically shouting "YOU GOT THIS PERO!" At the top of their lungs, in the vain hopes that Pero would somehow actually manage to clutch this one out.

"Pero! If you win this, I'll sit on your face!" Vagisilious shouted, mostly as a joke in between her shouts of actually encouraging him.

But then suddenly, Gargantua's health ticked down to 3%.

A lot of us shouted in pure disbelief that Pero managed to kite him for that long.

And then Gargantua kept being unable to hit Peroroncino, and he kept hitting Gargantua with his arrows.

"HOW IS HE DOING IT?!" Bukubukuchagama shouted, not actually believing that her brother could somehow clutch this out.

"HE'S- NO- WE'RE ALL BEGINNING TO BELIEVE!" Ulbert shouted out, literally following Peroroncino around, shouting words of encouragement that Peroroncino literally can't hear.

"VAGGY! YOU SHOULD BEGIN TO PREPARE YOURSELF TO SIT ON HIS FACE!" Ankoro Mocchi Mocchi, the last female member of the clan shouted at her, as she too followed Pero around and shouting words of encouragement.

"IF HE ACTUALLY DOES IT HE'LL GET HIS OWN DAMN HAREM!" Vagisilious shouted out, still high on disbelief.

In-between the shouts of everyone, the one thing we were all thinking was, 'Is he actually going to do it?'

Gargantua's health ticked to 2%.

"LET'S GO PERORONCINO!" Momonga shouted as loud as he could for his best friend.

"I can't believe that stupid idiot bird is actually going to do it!" Tablua said, his voice hoarse from all of the uncharacteristically loud shouting he's done today.

"I'VE BEEN AN ARDENT PERO SUPPORTER FROM DAY 1!" Nubo shouted, literally on his angelic knees praying.

Gargantua's health ticked to 1%.

Pero was literally shouting out as he flew around the arena, desperately firing arrows at the giant behemoth chasing after him, "YOU GUYS ALL SUCK FOR MAKING ME CARRY YOU GUYS!"

"WE ALL SUCK!" Vagisilious loudly agreed, and a lot of her clanmates followed up with the sentiment.

"WE'RE UNWORTHY!"

"PERORO SWEEP!"

"WE ARE SO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU ON OUR SIDE!"

Finally, Gargantua's health reached 0, as he fell down with a gargantuan thud, marking his death.

"HE ACTUALLY DID IT!"

"WE ARE SO BACK!"

"PERO YOU LEGEND!"

Peroroncino, for his part, acted very humble, when he used his revival scroll given to him to revive the nearest healer, her, to get everyone else revived using her [True Spiritual Return] to minimize level loss, starting with Nearata as he also had a tier 10 revival spell.

Oh, what was she saying, Pero was bragging for the entire revival process.

"Am I not the greatest player in all of Yggdrasil?" Pero boasted to Touch Me when he was revived, Touch just chuckling in return.

"Pero, my friend, you've proved yourself a thousand-fold today." He said, simply patting him on the back.

Pero continued to brag to basically everyone, and everyone just had to let him have his time in the sun, because everyone, including Buku, had to admit what he just did was undoubtedly 100% worthy of their respect.

"Hey, Pero, did you know that Vaggy offered to sit on your face if you won?" HeroHero said to Pero, completely betraying her very public secret.

"Wha- HeroHero! You traitor! I told you and all 28 of you that with full confidence none of you would force me to pay up!" Vagisilious unseriously shouted back, knowing full well that Yggdrasil ToS wouldn't even allow an action like that.

Peroroncino immediately jumped on the opportunity, "Oh? Miss Vaggy, would you like to pay up, Ma'am?"

Vagisilious sent out an unimpressed emoji, as she bargained, "Alright, what about this, since we'd both get banned in Yggdrasil, I'll do it if I ever meet you IRL."

Both of them knew fully well that the chances of them meeting IRL in a country like theirs was basically impossible, but Pero being the guy he is, immediately without hesitation said, "Deal!"

They both had a quick laugh before they both went to talk with some other people while cooldowns and mana were still regenerating.

Then a thought hit her.

…Wait a second, if the game becomes real and Pero comes along with them, wouldn't that be considered IRL?

Ah, shit, she really hopes everyone forgets about that in the future…

Well, anyways, they eventually got all ready to go, as they ventured further down Nazarick.

Thankfully, since Gargantua was probably designed to be an AoE machine, nothing as stressful as this will never happen again!

---

"WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AGAIN MY POOR HEART CAN'T HANDLE IT ANYMORE!" Vagisilious cried out in despair as this time, Momonga was the last one standing against the last boss of Nazarick.

Well, that is to say the last boss of Nazarick was, well, a skeleton king named Nazarick.

Funnily enough, the reason why they died this time was actually just a skill issue on their part. They didn't know how a certain special mechanic worked, so the consequences of failing the mechanic was that the entire party died, with the exception of any undead players.

Momonga was the only undead player in our clan.

Nazarick was still at 41% HP.

"IT'S SO OVER! IT'S SO OVER!" Punitto uncharacteristically cried out, which was really worrying. Normally he'd be the first one to assure everyone that they still had a chance.

This was basically the equivalent of the smart kid crying on the test, which made everyone else as defeatist as she was on a regular day.

"There's nothing we can do," Tabula already accepted defeat, sitting down next to a pillar nearby, not even watching the fight. Which she will creatively interpret as being unable to watch as his friend gets slaughtered.

"SHITTY DEVS! I'LL SPEND THE REST OF MY YGGDRASIL CAREER DEFENDING YOUR STUPID DECISIONS IF YOU SOMEHOW MAKE MOMONGA WIN THIS FIGHT!" Her fellow Talisman buddy, Shizyuutensuzaku, shouted out, literally on his hands and knees praying.

Many of her clan followed his lead, as everyone, even the ones with weird avatars that had a hard time bending down, like Whitebrim and Temperance, praying to the devs that someone was listening.

Then, like God appearing from the heavens and gracing the land with his presence, a miracle occurs.

The boss's health bar suddenly drops from 41% to 5%.

Shock just goes through EVERYONE'S bodies, as we all witness a miracle.

Those shitty Devs, or at least a GM, was listening to them and created a fighting chance for Momonga.

Momonga was only off beat for a split second, before he regained his focus as he shouted, "THANK YOU, DEVS!"

Momonga then proceeded to play the best Yggdrasil of his life, as he began to follow in the footsteps of Pero as he kited Nazarick in his throne room, with his undead minions taking aggro occasionally to get him out of sticky situations.

Nazarick's health bar ticked to 4%, then 3%, then to 2%, and finally to 1% as Momonga was without a doubt so absorbed into the game that he quite literally forgot it was a game.

"MOMONGA WE LOVE YOU!" Ankoro shouted out, literally on all 4s.

"GLORY TO AINZ OOAL GOWN!" Ulbert followed, literally repeating the group mantra as loud as he could, knowing damn well it was super corny.

"THANK YOU DEVS! THANK YOU MOMONGA!" Vagisilious thanked as loud as possible, knowing damn well this was a life-changing moment for her.

That new life for her was not a dream! It's going to become reality!

Momonga used a 10th tier spell, knowing it was about to die to the slightest breeze, his final generic necromancy damage spell, [Supreme Ray of Death], as he shouted out the most chuunibyou thing in his life, "I, as the master of all undead, command you to bow before me!"

Nazarick was struck down before the might of Ainz Ooal Gown.

HE DID IT!

We all cheered Momonga's name despite his inability to hear us. Momonga didn't immediately rush to revive them, because he was busy basking in his own success.

And then suddenly, we were all forcibly revived in front of Momonga without notice.

"Huh? Wait, how are you guys all alive?" Momonga said, utterly confused at our sudden revival.

We were all a bit stumped for a moment before realizing who revived us.

"Man, I love it when the developers are cool like this." Vagisilious said, giving a smiley face emoji to nobody in particular, but hopefully that dev was watching.

Peroroncino energetically nodded, probably still high on dopamine and adrenaline from just watching the fight, "Yeah! Thank you random developer!"

"Yeah, no problem, doing cool things like this is literally why I'm still working here," A sudden, tired sounding voice said, startling us.

As we stared in that general direction…

Oh, that's the GM gear!

There was a huge robot in GM gear waving at us, and as civilized people, we all gave a friendly wave back as Momonga said, "Man, thank you so much for deleting Nazarick's HP for us, I thought we were done for!"

Touch Me just laughed at his comment, "If you thought that you thought you were done for, you should've listened to us! Even Punitto was saying it was all over!"

Punitto immediately came to his own defense, "In my defense, it basically was over!"

We all laughed in agreement, as Vagisilious said, "You should've been there with us! Well, in spirit, anyway. We were all saying things like 'there's nothing we can do.'"

The unnamed savior of their Nazarick run chuckled, "Yeah, I heard all of that. I got a ping that apparently a super high level dungeon's 1st boss was cleared, and we were concerned about cheating with these things, so we have an alert system whenever someone actually beats a boss from these places. Anyways, I was here since you guys defeated that 1st boss, watched Gargantua die, which, by the way, amazing job, Pero."

Peroroncino was absolutely immediately bragging about being praised by a dev the second he had the chance.

He continued, "So when I saw that you guys were about to wipe so close to the finish line, I took some uh… Creative liberties of my position as one of the developers of Yggdrasil, and just deleted most of his health to see if Momonga could outdo Peroroncino, and he did. So, in my words, you guys have earned Nazarick and all of its 1st try rewards!"

We all cheered at the approval from one of the devs, before Momonga asked an important question, "Wait, what's your name anyway? My identify player doesn't work on you."

He looked like a lightbulb went off his head, "Oh! Right! Well, my in-game name is BigStall, I'm one of the devs of Yggdrasil, I work on making a lot of the dungeons in this game."

Oh, great! This was one of the bastards that made the dungeons so ridiculously annoying to go through!

"No wonder why your name is BigStall, then. You're purposefully making them really annoying to progress through!" Ulbert accused, pointing his finger at him.

"Ah, you caught me. I enjoy people suffering through my work," BigStall conceded, looking not too bothered by that.

Then, BigStall put one of his hands behind his head, "Well, anyways, I was kind of looking for a guild to join, since I was picked as the unlucky bastard that has to actually play the game every once in a while so that the best 'feedback' can make its way to the rest of my team. I think they put me into this position because I'm too good at my job and make the dungeons really quickly…"

Wait, is he saying what she thinks he's saying?

"So, anyways, can I join up with you guys? I'm not sure about your requirements, but I probably can fit them," BigStall said, holding his hand out, waiting to be accepted.

"Uh… Hey, team, let's quickly huddle up for a moment," Momonga told everyone as we quickly huddled around each other.

Momonga whispered, "Okay, so, uh, group vote, we keep the previous rules of being one of the heteromorphic races and being an adult and having a job, right?"

We all nodded, as Momonga continued, "Okay, then do we keep the majority vote, or should we raise the bar a bit?"

Vagisilious inserted her two cents into the conversation, "Saying as someone who wouldn't have gotten in if it was a two-thirds majority, I'd say we keep the majority vote."

Momonga gave an understanding nod as he asked, "Anyone disagree?"

There was some mild disagreement, but nobody felt like arguing at the moment, so Momonga, and consequently the rest of them, exited the group huddle.

"All in favor of BigStall joining Ainz Ooal Gown?"

As expected, most people said aye. The only person who said nay was, unsurprisingly, Ulbert, who just said in his own defense, "I am morally opposed to letting the guy who designed all of those BS dungeons join our guild."

Yeah, fair point. But having a dev join the guild was massive as that meant they could have a direct in with the company, and depending on how nice BigStall was, they could have the most reliable source of information in the whole game.

In a game like Yggdrasil, where information was very valuable, that was an indescribably large boon to their soon-to-be guild.

"Very well, 29 to 1, BigStall, welcome to Ainz Ooal Gown," Momonga said, trying to send an invite to BigStall and predictably failing.

BigStall gave the group a smiley emoji, "Thanks, let me just switch characters so you can properly invite me."

Then, BigStall briefly flashed, as his GM gear was replaced by what seemed to be pretty standard level 62 gear.

"There we go, now I'm registered as a normal player. Invite me so we can claim the rewards now." BigStall said, waiting for his invite.

[BigStall has joined the clan, Ainz Ooal Gown.]

"Take a picture of that, dude. It's the last time you'll ever see the word 'clan' next to Ainz Ooal Gown ever again," Peroroncino said, before turning to Momonga, "So, Momonga, will you pull up the public menu and show us the rewards?"

Momonga eagerly nodded, "Yeah! I've been basically waiting for you guys to ask! These pop ups been in my face since the moment I won, and it was getting really annoying…"

Momonga immediately showed his menus, as we gazed at our success.

[You have cleared the Divine Tier guild base: The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick!]

[For clearing The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, you may now transform the dungeon into your guild base, starting at 3,000 NPC levels!]

[For clearing The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick while your group's average gear level was at least 15 levels lower than the recommended level, you have been given an additional 300 NPC levels!]

[For clearing The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick before the intended expansion, you've been gifted all the boss monsters as free NPCs!]

[For clearing the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick on the first try, you've been gifted the world class item: (The Throne of Kings)]

3,300 NPC levels!? That was like 1,500 higher than literally anything she's seen online!

AND THEY GOT A WORLD ITEM?!

Momonga showed off a grin emoji, "It literally took me all my might to not show off the world item we got. I think it's pretty impressive that I didn't crack!"

"We have 2 world items now!" Punitto excitedly said, "That basically makes us probably one of the top guilds in Yggdrasil already!"

"There's only 200 world items in this game, right? That basically makes us part of the 1%!" Vagisilious excitedly added, very excited at seeing yet another mythical item.

"Ha! Yeah, we are part of the 1% now! Man, can you believe we were being hunted for Atlas just a day ago?" Blue Planet happily said, holding said Atlas in his hands.

"Alright, I'm claiming the guild base right now!" Momonga said, pressing on a few buttons, before a popup appeared on her screen.

[Ainz Ooal Gown has transformed into a guild! Its guild base is: The Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick. You may now respawn at the guild base.]

Ahh!

"BigStall, I just want to thank you like 10 more times real quickly before I start making a bunch of NPCs!" She quickly said, going straight into BigStall's face.

BigStall pushed her away gently, "No problem. I'm not big into NPC creation, I'm more of an environment and trap guy. If you need help trying to design the base, hit me up."

"Thank you!"

Momonga placed down the throne of kings, and sat down on it. Naturally, we all looked at him and quieted down.

"...I don't actually know what to say now," Momonga admitted, immediately ruining the mood, "Uh, glory to Ainz Ooal Gown!"

You know what? We'll take it!

"Glory to Ainz Ooal Gown!"

---

AN:

"Oh, this chapter will probably be shorter than the last chapter. Oh, I'll just skim through a bunch of stuff until we create Ainz Ooal Gown. Don't worry, Skryb, this chapter will be done just as quickly as the first one did so you can work on Manifest Destiny some more."

Oh, how foolish I was.

19,000 words in the span of around 1 week later, I weep at my lack of control.

Well, at least it was almost a month, it's only like a few days early. I was just terribly wrong in saying that this chapter would have fewer words than the last chapter.

That being said, I intend for next chapter to just be all about making Nazarick, so that DEFINITELY can't be more than 10K words. And I have to catch up on writing Manifest Destiny because I'm way too behind on that for comfort.

So, this time, I'll see you in like 3 months.

Well, I hope to see you here in 3 months with a new chapter, because if it's any sooner than that, Manifest Destiny is going to have to skip an upload and that would be mega embarrassing after saying I would stick to a schedule.

x

There's like 10 unidentified members of AOG, and since this is an AU, I can stick whoever I want in those slots. So my 2nd guy that's not the MC is an dev of Yggdrasil, because I thought it'd be a fun role to write occasionally.

The excuse of 'it's an AU' is also the reason why AOG has to get developer assistance to win first try. But to be fair, they were basically guaranteed to get it on their second try at that rate.

I also tried very hard to mention all 30 clan members that I arbitrarily decided would participate in the guild's founding.

Also I'd like for everyone to know that I've only skimmed through some of the light novels for reference, and I haven't watched the anime in a very long time.

I had some ideas for how the other guild members would be, for example, Ancient One is a dragonoid in a nod to Chaotic Good. Nubo is like the same one from a theory on godhood because I had no good ideas for him. I'm sure I imagined some of the designs for the guild members off of some other game's character designs or something but it's too late at night for me to recall them.

Anyways, I have a question for the rest of you on the direction of this fic when we reach the new world.

So, spoiler alert, it'll just be more than Vaggy and Momonga coming along to the new world, I'm not writing all of these mfs only to leave them out to die. But what happens in the New World I'm not that sure on.

I have like, a few options without going into too much spoiler territory on what I have planned.

So would you like to see:

A: Canon style, where it's basically Hydrogen Bomb Vs Coughing Baby, where Nazarick enters the new world unopposed and the fic becomes slice of life where everyone in Nazarick is basically larping.

B: Theory on Godhood style, where there'd be like a singular, ultimate endgoal villain for the guild to beat up. Then it's slice of life + mystery as the guild tries to find out who tf the bad guy is.

C: What I just cooked up in my head style, where there'll be a Yggdrasil guild that arrived in the New World that's already taken over the world, and Nazarick has to compete against them, because that Yggdrasil guild doesn't like them.

A sounds pretty easy to do, but I think I'd lose motivation after a while maybe. But I can probably make it work with some ideas I have lying in the back.

If C is what you prefer, I think a human-centric guild is what's best, but if someone makes a good argument for it, I might be interested in like making it a utopia that Nazarick wants to destroy for like, idk, Nazarick NPCs are crazy, or they have a grudge against that guild in particular.

Anyways, please leave a review or comment for this, because if nobody replies, I'll be really sad and I'll probably just choose B and use my self-insert as the big bad, and I'm sure most of you reading are gonna be really pissed about it and I'll laugh about it.

Yeah, but anyways, it's 11:30 PM right now on a Tuesday night, so I'll just quickly upload this without reading through it and hope that I didn't make a blunder while making this.

Also jesus christ this google doc is 77 pages long.

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