[Fireball] Yggdrasil Magic or Skill
[Item] Yggdrasil/Re:Zero Item
(Al Huma) Re:Zero Magic
{Message} Message Spell
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2 Days before the Server Shutdown
A particular salary man known as Suzuki Satoru had just send 40 e-mails. These e-mails were Invitations to a last goodbye party, planned to take place in the famous VRMMO-RPG game of the 22nd century known as Yggdrasil. Reason for this was that this salary man wasn't just any ordinary person, but the leader of the most infamous heteromorphic guild in Yggdrasil, Ainz Ooal Gown. Yes, this person was indeed Momonga, an undead overlord who, with his guild, ruled the world of Helheim.
But those days of glory had long pass and now the individual known as Momonga put on his game device and logged into Yggdrasil. He mostly spend his days doing maintenance or raiding empty guild bases.
As Momonga sat on the throne of kings after his daily work and a guild base raided, which to no one's suprise was empty, he sighed.
'I hope my friends got the e-mail. It would be embarrassing if I forgot to press send.'
But his worries were cut short as he heard a high-pitched sound, a ping, that notified him that another player from his guild came online. A feeling of excitement went through Momonga as he quickly looked at the list who it was and to his delight, it was none other than Yamaiko. 'YAMAIKO! She is online! Did she maybe get my e-mail? But the invitation was for the end of Yggdrasil, this is 2 days to early, but I'm not complaining.'. He quickly looked at the map to see in which part of Nazarick she currently is.
After seeing that she is currently located in the Grand Library of Ashurbanipal, the overlord quickly used his [Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown] and disappeared in a blue light.
He finds himself standing about 2 feet away from the Nephilim. Without wasting another minute, he quickly spoke up. "Yamaiko! It's so good to see you again!" The undead said in excitement with an icon of a smiley popping up besides Momonga's Head. To this, Yamaiko turned around to see the excited overlord standing there. "Momonga! It's nice to see you too after so much time. How have you been?" She inquired in a soft voice while glancing at the friends list, seeing that it's been almost a year and a half since someone else was online, and of course this sparked a bit of guilt in her.'He's been alone in Nazarick for all this time... I should later make sure that he is still mentally ok.'. Even though she wasn't a psychiatrist, she knew a thing or two about psychology due to her working with so many children.
Momonga, who didn't know of his friend's worry, proceeded to to tell her about his work and what he was up to in Yggdrasil, like the maintenance process of Nazarick or the guild base raids, until he got an Idea. "Oh, now that I remember, if you want, we could go and grab your old stuff from the treasury.". The Nephilim was positively surprised to know that her stuff was still here and not sold. 'He didn't sold our stuff? Why should he-- Oh...he hoped we would come back…'. After a brief pause, she agreed and after receiving a [Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown], they both teleported to the treasury.
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Arriving in the treasury, Yamaiko was in for a shock to see a huge pile of gold and Items. 'I don't remember us having so many?! Where did this all come from-- Oh, the guild raids Momonga had told me about, right. But still, isn't this a bit much? How long has he been doing this?'. But there was something that was bugging the Nephilim, the items weren't sorted in any way, but she chose to ignore it for his sake. And so they walked deeper into the treasury, heading to the mausoleum where the Items were located.
As they walked the long hallway, consisting of dark colored stone walls and purple lighting, they finally reached the Area of Pandora's Actor. Yamaiko looked at the Doppelganger, being a bit confused. "Who's NPC is this? I don't remember seeing him.". She turned to Momonga who was holding both hands up to his face in shame and embarrassment. 'Why is he so shy all of a sudden. Could it be that this NPC is his?'. She chuckled at the Idea of Momonga creating something so edgy looking. Even though she must admit the yellowish military clothes he was wearing didn't look bad at all. It reminded her of the kids she was teaching, showing her their newest creation to her but being ashamed for anyone else to see it
Soon the undead leader spoke up. "Y-You can just ignore him, he is just anarea guardian I made for the treasury". Trying to not laugh, Yamaiko just nodded and after giving Pandora's Actor both of their Rings, they made their way into the mausoleum. After a bit of walking, the Nephilim came face to face with strange looking statues, wearing the equipment of the guild members. 'Are these statues supposed to look like us?'. She couldn't help it to let out a chuckle, but was also happy to see how much he valued each and every guild member which further made her see just how alone or abandoned he must've felt.
"Here, you can just take your stuff so we can---". He was unexpectantly interrupted by another ping and after taking a closer look, he saw that another player came online. To be more precise, it was Amanomahitotsu. Yamaiko quickly spoke up to this situation. "You can go greet him, I'll just ltaje a look at the new pile of Items after putting on my equipment". And with that, she saw the undead disappear.
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'Two in one day! It's been so long since more than one member besides me was online, I can't believe it! Is this a dream? Am I hallucinating? Did I finally go insanse'. As Momonga pondered if this was just all a dream or mental projection, he appeared in the blacksmith section of Nazarick, coming face to face with the yellowish giant crab. "Amano, it's so good to see you again! Is there a reason you came online?"
The crab looked at him and the Icon of a smiley face appeared besides his head. "Momonga! It's been so long. Well, to be honest, I was quite bored after reading my favorite Hero novel again for the 11th time, so I looked through my phone and saw the e-mail you had send for the goodbye party in 2 days, which led me to just come online today aswell. How have you been?". The crab asked, happy to see the old guild leader again.
Momonga told him about his life and what he did in Yggdrasil like he did with Yamaiko, while everyone was gone until this deja vu like feeling made him remember that Yamaiko was still in the treasury. "By the way, Yamaiko is online too, so if you want, we could go to the treasury. You could even take your items while we are there.". Seeing the crab quickly agree qith excitement to get his old stuff back, Momonga gave him a [Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown], both teleporting to the treasury.
The moment both appeared in a flash of a light blue light, Momonga saw how Yamaiko was looking at different items he obtained. He was about to say something, but suddenly got interrupted by the crab. "WHAT THE--- Where did all these items come from?!". Momonga watched with amusement as the giant crab practically jumped into the pile, looking at different metals and crystals, raw and good material that would make every blacksmiths cold heart warm up. "These are the items I had told you about. Even though I had to retreat several times due to the NPCs still being active, I managed to get quite a lot of stuff. But some of them are from the item shops. The prices dropped really low in hopes that players would still buy stuff in the last days."
Seeing both his guild mates looking at his collected pile with awe, he felt a bit proud. "How about we get your stuff while Yamaiko continues to look at the Items here?". Even though hesitant about leaving such good resources, he agreed in hopes to see them again later. As they walked towards the mausoleum, Yamaiko grabbed some of the Items and put them in her Inventory for 'safe keeping', even though deep in her heart, she knew it was because of greed.
Both Amanomahitotsu and Momonga walked down the dark corridor, Momonga walking it the second time today. As they arrived at the area guardian's domain, Momonga expected to hear something from Amanomahitotsu, but unlike Yamaiko, Amanomahitotsu had no reaction to Pandora's Actor as he already knew of him due to him being still online while Momonga was making him He was even one of the Guild members who criticized Momonga for wanting to Name Pandora's Actor something along the lines of 'Mystery Box'. After their short pause, they walked and the reaction Amanomahitotsu showed towards the statures was just one. 'Uwaah.'. They quickly grabbed Amanomahitotsu's stuff and went back to Yamaiko. Meeting back up with Yamaiko, they grabbed some items from the pile either support or greed and made their way out to hunt or raid some more. Just to have some fun
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In the darkness, there was a certain being. A being who was feared in it's own world. It felt so alone, so abandoned, so depraved of love. This being was known as the Witch of Envy, a being so feared that it was imprisoned, and so, it was left alone. It wanted to find someone who felt just as alone as she was feeling, so abandoned. With this goal in mind, she searched and searched, until she saw a small light, a teenage boy who was just as alone as he was. And she was about reach out for him, until he saw another light. A light far more brighter than this boys. This light was so bright, she instantly fell in love. The love she was so depraved of.
Without hesitating, she reached out towards this light and was just about to grab it to claim it as her own, but something unexpected happened. Some kind of otherworldly Magic started to surround the light. It was blocking her, blocking her to reach her love. This was unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable unacceptable.
With this word constantly in her mind and the deep love surrounding her, she began to claw and tear at this magic which was preventing her to reach the light and she didn't care how long it would take.
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The three Guild members returned to Nazarick, still laughing."This was soo funny. The way this NPC just attcked Momonga out of the blue…" spoke the Nephilim as they chuckled, but the jokes slowly died down as they all looked at the UI clock. It was 01:12 AM already. "Oh shit, it's so late already. Then I'll be off for today, see you at the goodbye party, Momonga." Said the giant crab as he logged out, disappearing from view with a notification that Amanomahitotsu logged out. "Yeah, I need to log off too, see you at the end, Momonga.". And with that, Momonga was alone again, but he wasn't sad at all, as he knew that at least 2 Guild members would be attending the small party. And with that thought in mind, the undead overlord logged off too.
Day of the Server Shutdown
Momonga had been online for quite some time now as there were just 3 and a half hours left until the servers would shut down. Yesterday, the day after both Yamaiko and Amanomahitotsu came online, nothing really happened other than HeroHero, confimring with e-mail, would also come online. 'Even though not everyone, like I hoped, would come online at least those three will.'
As Momonga was heading to the [Throne of Kings], he suddenly got a ping. While expecting to see either Yamaiko, Amanomahitotsu or HeroHero's name pop up in the friends list, the name that actually appeared to be online caught Momonga completely off guard. 'What the….Oh my god, he came online too!' It was Shizuutensuzaku who had come online. Momonga quickly teleported to the meeting hall where his friend was located according to the in-game map.
As Momonga appeared in the meeting room using his [Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown], he came face to face with the monkey faced nue. "Shizuuten! It's so good to see you accept my invitation, how have you been?" The undead asked, though the nue was clearly showing signs of stress.
The nue sighed as he looked at his undead friend. "Well, if it wasn't illegal, I swear, I would bash the heads of my students with the thickest book I could find.". Shizuutensuzaku, being a University Professor and the oldest member of the guild, often liked to rant about his students and how annoying they are.
Momonga patted him on his virtual exposed tiger back. "Well, anyway, for your information, Yamaiko, Amanomahitotsu and HeroHero also plan to come online today. You can go grab your items from the mausoleum while they are still offline, afterwards we could maybe play a game of Shogi?.". The nue was positivly surprised and agreed. "Oh? Alright then, let's see if you are still so good in Shogi like last time.". After giving him a [Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown], Shizuutensuzaku disappeared.
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Appearing in the treasury, Shizuutensuzaku looked shocked. "W-What the!? Where did all these Items come from?! I need to ask Momonga about this pile…."
After Shizuutensuzaku grabbed some Items and put them into his inventory, probably out of greed, he walked to the mausoleum for his stuff. He walked past Pandora's Actor while putting [The Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown] on the dark wood table. Seeing the statues, he let out a laugh. "Are these the guild members? Was Momonga so bored?". After quickly equipping his items from his statue which he found to be the funniest out of all, as the face looked more like that of a gorillas, he went back, grabbed the ring and disappeared.
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Momonga watches as Shizuutensuzaku appears back in the meeting room 'Wow, that was faster than I expected…'. Watching the nue sit down besides him, Shizuutensuzaku pulled out a Shogi set he 'borrowed' from the treasury and both of them started to play a bit. But their game got cut short due to 2 pings being heard. 'Ah, it's probably Amano, Yamaiko or HeroHero.'. And while the Undead was right about HeroHero, his slimy form appearing behind Shizuutensuzaku, the second player surprised him. The second surprise he was completely not prepared for. It was the player known as Variable Talisman.
While Shizuutensuzaku talks to the slime behind him, Momonga looks at the map, only to see that Variable Talisman was indeed online, and located on the arena ground of the 6th floor of Nazarick. "Hey guys, I'll just quickly go bring Variable back here, don't wait for me, ok?.". And with both of them nodding, even though it was just an icon in HeroHero's case, Momonga used his [Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown] and disappeared from both their views.
As Momonga materialized on the arena, he saw how the broad centipede was laying on the ground and looking up to the fake sky of the 6th, floor. "Variable…? What are you doing there?". Hearing the undead's voice, Variable Talisman sat up straight and looked at the overlord, a bored icon appearing besides his centipede head. "Nothing much. Was just bored and remembered your e-mail, so I came online.". ' No, that wasn't what I meant.',thought the overlord while staring at the sitting blob.
"A-Anyway, how about we go to the others in the meeting room?". And with that question being the last word spoken, both teleported back to the meeting room, with HeroHero and Shizuutensuzaku both sitting at the giant round table. Once they noticed the arrival of the undead and the centipede, their conversation came to a halt.
"Variable! How long has it been? 2 years?". HeroHero slithered across the floor towards the centipede. "Yes…..Good to see you.". The centipede was as unenthusiastic as ever as the one sided conversation between the slime and the centipede started.
Meanwhile Shizuutensuzaku stood up from his seat and walked over to the undead. "Hey Momonga, what did you even plan for us to do today as a last gathering?" asked the nue as all 3 of them suddenly started to look at the undead. 'Why does it feel so hot all of a sudden? It's been a bit long since I spoke as a leader…'. After a brief pause, the undead finally replied. "Well, I thought we could go out and look around Helheim one last time and maybe even use some fireworks."
HeroHero spoke up to the undead's plan. "Well, if we're going to do that, maybe me and Variable should go and get our stuff. Wouldn't want to die at the last day of Yggdrasil….". And after disappearing from view, Momonga and Shizuutensuzaku continued their game they had stopped for the other 2 Guild members sudden appearance.
After about 30 minutes, a new ping appeared infront of the undead, signaling that the player Yamaiko came online. Both the overlord and the nue looked to their side as Yamaiko materialized infront of them. "Hey Momonga, I hope I wasn't late—Oh, Shizuuten, you're here too? Don't you have to correct another assignment from one of your students?". The Nephilim liked to sometimes tease Shizuutensuzaku for being so frustrated about his students as they both were teachers.
'Ahh...How I missed this. It's been so long since any one of them was online, it's like some divine being heard my plea for companionship.'. While the undead was in his thoughts and both teachers laughed together, both HeroHero and Variable Talisman appeared back inside the room.
"Oh, HeroHero, Variable, I didn't even look at the friends list, good to see you both too for today!", spoke the nephilim while turning away from Shizuutensuzaku. And as they were about to sink into another conversation, a new ping could he heard. And with it, the giant crab appeared besides them. "Ahh, Amano, you're also here now, so that means, we can go, right?", asked the nue who just stood up with the Shogi game disappearing, being moved back into Shizuutensuzaku's Inventory. "Yes, even though there are just 1 and a half hours left, we can still do our little party, where would you all like to go first?" asked the undead overlord, and after telling Amanomahitotsu and Yamaiko what they planned to do, they would eventually go out with fireworks and the [Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown] packed.
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It's been about 1 and a half hours since they went out. They were all, except HeroHero who had to log off to get some sleep, standing on top of a hill which gave them a pretty good view of Helheim with Momonga holding the [Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown], wanting to depart with their most dearest item.
And even though all of them should be standing, Variable Talisman choose to sit instead, even though he wouldn't feel any exhaustion from standing. "Yggdrasil was a good time…", vocalized the centipede, for once speaking his true emotions. "Yes, I agree, it gave me something to vent out my anger from my students!", spoke Shizuutensuzaku in a rather mocking tone. "It was the first game I enjoyed.", spoke the nephilim elementary school teacher in a somewhat somber and nostalgic tone. "Yes, I agree. Even though Nishikenrai was pushing me to play that other VRMMO, I liked this one far more.", said the blacksmith crab.
"Yes, it truly was fun…", whispered the undead overlord. Closing their eyes, they awaited the end and sensation to be forcefully logged out.
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After what felt like an eternity for the witch, clawing and punching against the barrier, she began to use all of her power to just get to their love, to the one thing that would surely bring her joy, even though she felt like the light got a bit weaker, she did not care. And at right this moment, she felt something.
Something was changing with the magic that was blocking her way to her love, which she swiftly used to finally penetrate the barrier and pull her loved one into her World, just to also pull the one's attached to her loved one. But that wasn't so important now, she could finally bring her love into this world, and she was overjoyed, protecting him at all costs.
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But that feeling of being forcefully logged out never came, instead they felt the sun on their bodies. Feeling the sun should've already been the first indication to panic. They opened their either existent or non-existent eyes, their surrounding coming into view, a street market filled with various people going about their day?
"What the…", they all spoke in unison.
End of Volume 1: Prologue