Momonga sat on the luxurious throne, waiting for the final deadline to occur. The popular DMMO-RPG YGGDRASIL was finally coming to an end. He looked on at the butler and women before him, all in kneeling position.

"So this is what it's all come to huh?" he muttered to himself, looking at the timer in his HUD that slowly counted towards midnight, the end of The Great Tomb of Nazarick. All the hard work him and his guild-members had done would end.

23:59:00

The woman kneeling beside Momonga, the NPC known as Albedo was the creation of his guild mate Tabula Smaragdina. He felt guilty having altered her settings, although the game was coming to an end he still felt he had defiled his friends creation after adding in that she was "completely in love with Momonga".

As the last seconds counted down to server shutdown Momonga closed his eyes, remembering the faces of his guild-mates, waiting for the eventual forced logout.

23:59:57

23:59:58

23:59:59

00:00:00

00:00:01

Albedo felt the heavy pressure that had compelled her head down was lifted.

"Momonga-sama?" she asked raising her head to discover the empty throne. A moment passed before Albedo realized he was gone.

"Momonga-sama!" she cried out in anguish, alerting the still kneeling butler and Pleiades. Albedo collapsed to the floor, hugging her knees to her chest and sobbing loudly. Sebas knelt at the bottom of the steps in silence, the members of the Pleiades sat behind him, unable to fathom another of their masters disappearance. Silence descended upon the throne room, broken only by the soft crying.

"He's gone" Sebas whispered, letting his arms fall beside him. Momonga had disappeared, just like the rest of the Supreme Beings, despite staying in Nazarick the longest, he too, was gone. Yuri-Alpha, the lead maid huddled her subordinates into a circle, comforting them as they wept.

Demiurge appeared at the end of the throne room, having heard the distressed cry. After seeing the state of Albedo and Sebas he too fell to his knees, wings sprouting out of his back as he transformed into his half-demon form and cried out.

The room fell into silence as Albedo looked up at Demiurge whom had regained his composure, a single tear streaking down his face.

"Sebas" Demiurge called out, stirring the butler.

"Gather the rest of the guardians here"

Sebas nodded, slowly climbing to his feet and hurrying out of the throne room.

"Why did they abandon us?" Albedo whimpered, blowing her nose into her gown. Demiurge could not reply, even he who boasted the highest intelligence within Nazarick was unable to answer that question. When the first Supreme Beings had disappeared, Demiurge had heard the others talking about "quitting", whether they had just moved elsewhere or passed on, Demiurge hoped it was not the latter. But judging by their late master Momonga's expression whenever a Supreme Being disappeared, he could only fear the worst.

Demiurge crouched down next to Albedo, resting a hand on her shoulder as she broke down again.

"He stayed with us until the end, why did he have to leave now?" she cried out, gripping the throne as if it would bring her master back. The rest of the guardians filed into the throne room, alerted by the empty throne and the state of Albedo they feared the worst. Cocytus followed by Shalltear approached the weeping overseer. Aura and Mare arrived last. Apart from three, the rest had gathered in the throne room.

Demiurge rose from his crouching position to greet the rest of the guardians who shuffled into the room in solemn silence.

"As you may or may not be aware, The last Supreme Being, Momonga-sama is gone"

Demiurge avoided using the word 'died', partly because he was unsure if an undead was even able to die, and it was better to give the floor guardians some hope.

Shalltear calmly sat on the other side of the throne to Albedo before breaking down. Aura and Mare followed by collapsing to the ground, unable to even cry. Cocytus remained unchanged, however the atmosphere around him grew much colder. Demiurge looked on at the sad sight before him, it took almost all of his willpower to remain in control of his emotions, wishing for nothing more than to join the other guardians as they mourned the loss of the last of the Supreme Beings.

"Where did it go wrong?" Shalltear mumbled, nobody was able to respond.

"Was it because of us?" Albedo added. Still no response. Their situation seemed hopeless, no longer able to depend on the orders of the Supreme Beings. The two dark elf twins lay motionless on the ground like corpses, none of their usual enthusiasm present.

Demiurge racked his brain for any kind of indication as to what might have happened, whether the Supreme Beings were displeased with the guardians or if they actually had passed away.

"For now, we need to prepare" Demiurge spoke, although his voice was hoarse and broken. The rest of the guardians slowly nodded, barely managing to stand.

"We must maintain the Great Tomb of Nazarick as such that the Supreme Beings may return, wherever they may have gone"

The two twins, shoulders slumped, returned to their floor. Demiurge pulled Cocytus aside.

"We must not leave Shalltear or Albedo alone" he told the giant mantis, Cocytus nodded his head, picking up the small vampire in his arms and carrying her off. Only Demiurge, Sebas, the maids and Albedo remained in the throne room.

"I shall inspect our surroundings" Sebas declared, bringing Demiurge out of his thoughts. Demiurge nodded, watching as Sebas exited, followed by the plethora of maids.

"Albed-"

"Please. Just leave me alone" Albedo whispered, she appeared to have taken Momonga's disappearance the hardest. He left the throne room, pacing around outside before punching the wall in rage. A small damage indicator popped up showing that he had not damaged the structural integrity. One of the non-combatant maids approached him, afraid there might have been an intrusion. Demiurge breathed in heavily, expelling the air to calm him self down.

"Don't leave Albedo alone in there" he told the maid. After she scurried into the throne room Demiurge began to think.

"I need to find Momongas creation" Demiurge whispered to himself, trying to remember the name of the being that he had created. He could only remember it as the treasure rooms guardian, some kind of doppelganger.

Demiurge stopped, looking at the way out of the 10th floor. The only way for him to be able to access the treasury was via teleportation, with the rings of Ainz Ooal Gown being gone the only other hope he had was the Guardian of the Cherry
Blossom, the one who controlled teleporting with Nazarick. However, she was located on the 8th floor. The only floor forbidden for other guardians to visit. He would have to find another way in.

However, not knowing her name he would be unable to access the floor. He snatched by one of the homonculus maids that were passing by.

"What is the Guardian of the Cherry Blossoms name?" he asked. The maid smiled, telling the others to continue on.

"Her name is Mikoto, lastborn of the Pleiades." she said, bowing to Demiurge and rejoining the others.

"Mikoto"

"Yes Demiurge-sama" came the reply, her voice was smooth and arousing.

"I require teleportation to the treasury"

"I'm afraid I cannot do that without the permission of the Supreme Bein-"

"They're all gone."

Demiurge could hear her gasp and fall to the ground.

"U-understood"

The device used to travel between floors glowed a golden color and Demiurge stepped through, flinching at the sudden increase in light. The piles of gold reflected the continual light that sat in the center. A maid appeared behind Demiurge.

He recognized her as CZ2128 Delta or CZ for short.

"Why are you here?" he asked, looking down at the emotionless automaton.

"Mikoto requested I aid you through here" she replied. Demiurge nodded slowly, taking a step towards the entrance.

"You can't go in there" she said, tugging on Demiurges arm. He glared at her coldly.

"Why?" He asked.

"There's a poison trap" she replied nonchalantly, Demiurge sighed asking her to explain more. She told him about the poison toxins that stopped people from entering any deeper.

"I can deactivate it if you get permission from Momonga-sama"

Demiurge flinched, realizing she had not heard the bad news.

"Momonga-sama is gone" he said reluctantly. CZ did not seem to respond, perhaps due to her being an automaton she was not capable of feeling emotion.

"Then you are the next most capable leader, very well, I shall deactivate the trap" she finally said, disappearing without a trace. A minute later she stood inside the treasury, beckoning for Demiurge to follow her. Making his way across the glittering floor they came across the entry to the Mausoleum. CZ spoke the password, gesturing for Demiurge to enter before her. He could feel the power drifting off the walls from the weapons and armour that adorned them. Spears, pikes, katanas, wands, staves, bows. They sat mounted on the wall shining with imbued magic.

Finally Demiurge came across a lounge type area, finding the guardian of the Treasury.

"Pandora's Actor" He called out, having remembered the name.

"He's gone, isn't he" the eggheaded man asked, not even looking over.

"Yes"

"Would you permit me from leaving my post for a while?" The saddened military dressed doppelganger asked, his head drooping low.

Demiurge nodded, moving aside to let Pandora's Actor out.

Opening the entrance to a deeper part of the treasury Demiurge gasped, faced with the golems of the Supreme Beings that lined the wall. He slowly walked through, inspecting the armour and becoming nauseous as he realized they were real.

"This can't be real" he whispered, finally reaching the avatar of his own creator. Ulbert Alain Odle. Unable to stand anymore Demiurge fell to his knees, sucking in the glory of his creator. The weapons and armour were certainly real, and although the golem was only a crude representation of his creator's form. It was undeniable that it radiated with power.

"Are they all… dead?" he asked himself, shivering at the thought of it. He looked to his side, realizing CZ was still with him.

"Nobody can know about this" he said, the maid nodded in response. Surely the sight of this would be the final nail in the coffin for the other guardians. It's like a tomb Demiurge thought. Something struck him as odd however, despite looking through all of the avatars, he could not seem to find one of Momonga.

"Does that mean he's still alive?" Demiurge gasped, looking at the four empty spots that had yet to contain anything. Unaware that the golems had been created and equipped by Momonga himself as a token of remembrance to his guild mates, not as a sign that they were dead. A spark of hope ignited within the demon, perhaps Momonga was still among them, somewhere.

We can safely assume he's not on any of the floors we've contacted already. Anything above and including 7 contain no trace of him, the only other floor to check is…

Victim, was designated as the 8th floor guardian, although Demiurge had never contacted him before. It would certainly be better than exploring the floor myself.

"CZ2128 Delta contact Victim on the 8th floor and notify him to come to the throne room immediately" Demiurge said, watching as the maid disappeared back down the hallway they had came from. He frowned, afraid at what he might find further in. Yet still he carried on, determined to explore every inch of the facility for any traces of the Supreme Beings, Momonga or elsewise.

Upon exiting the hallway on the other side of the Mausoleum, he came across the last room in Nazarick, where only the strongest of items was held, World Class Items. Even Demiurge was afraid to enter the room, no guardian had entered the room except maybe for Pandora's Actor. Begrudgingly he pushed the door open, a cold chill running down his spine. Only seven items sat in the room, but it felt like thousands. Each items power was incomparable to the rest of the items within the treasury. Although four were missing Demiurge knew where they were and was relieved that the one Momonga had been carrying was mysteriously transported back here after his disappearance. Having confirmed that there was nothing else within the room Demiurge exited quickly, straightening his suit and tie.

"Demiurge" a voice called out in Demiurges head.

"Sebas?" He replied, hearing an affirmative grunt.

"We're not in a swamp"

Demiurges eyes widened, hurrying his pace up to the entrance to the tomb.

"I shall be up shortly" he told the butler, cutting the connection. Sprouting his wings, Demiurge flew over the piles of treasure after exiting the Mausoleum. The maid CZ greeted him, telling him that Victim had arrived in the throne room. Reluctant to keep either guardian waiting, Demiurge notified Sebas he would be delayed. Entering the throne room he noticed the still distraught Albedo clinging onto the fleshy pink fetus tightly.

"egruimeD ,dog doolb eht rof doolB" [I heard the news, Demiurge]

Demiurge nodded, approaching the throne with caution. Albedos eyes cast angrily onto him.

"You must let Victim return to his floor Albedo" he spoke softly, stopping just at the bottom of the steps. She looked at the angelic guardian she had attached herself to and reluctantly let go. Victim floated back into the air. The two of them left the throne room before conversing, passing by the maids shaken by Albedo's anger.

"siht ekil toN" [So he's gone?]

Demiurge only nodded, watching as the fetus vibrated softly.

"How goes the 8th floor?" Demiurged asked.

"ybab eci ecI" [Nothing new]

With nothing else to talk about Victim said farewell, floating back to the 8th floor. Demiurge followed shortly after, having to pass through on his way to the surface.

What Sebas had said was true, no longer surrounded by the usual swamplands the area around The Great Tomb of Nazarick was lush grasslands. No buildings or signs of life in sight. Demiurge spotted Sebas making his way towards him, only one maid behind him.

"I have Narberal and Entoma scouting by air and Lupusregina and Solution on the ground" Sebas said, bowing to Demiurge.

"How far have you gone?" Demiurge asked, looking up at the dark night sky.

"A kilometre radius" Sebas replied, holding a ear to his hand suddenly.

"I'll be there shortly" he whispered, bowing to Demiurge.

"We've discovered a village of humans, not too far away. It seems they are under attack" Sebas declared, reluctant to tell Demiurge.

"Is that so? I assume you wish to aid them?"

Sebas hesitated, looking at the dangerous glint in Demiurges eyes.

"That would be correct." Sebas replied. Demiurge looked past Sebas at the maid behind him, Yuri did not seem phased by Demiurge, nor seemed eager to assist the village.

"Well, I am no Supreme Being so I cannot order you to stay here. Go" Demiurge sighed, waving the butler away. Sebas bowed again, dashing in the opposite direction of the tomb. Yuri followed behind him. A scream sounded from the tomb alerting Demiurge.

It was Albedo.