A/N: Hello everyone. This is my first Overlord fanfic, so I do apologiesthat I may have grammar mistake, so do free to point out in the reviews. And also, if there is any suggestions, do free to write it down in the review. I will try my best to reply when my work and study schedule is not so tight. So here is the summary:
What if it is not Momonga and Ainz Ooal Gown guild but another guild is being transported into the new world? This is a story of three players who stay till end of the server. Instead of force logout, they find themselves in a world where virtual becomes reality. They will face challenges ahead in the New World in the quest of achieving total unification of the world.
Disclaimer: I do not own Overlord.
Year 2138 AD, the age of advanced technologies is being used around the world. One of the famous technologies used is the Neuron. A headset that allows players to experience the interactive virtual world as real life. Thanks to its creations, many gaming companies had created games to boost entertainment throughout Japan.
Yggdrasil. One of the most popular Dive Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game or DMMORPG in short. To be more precise, DMMORPG is an interactive game where one play the virtual game just like reality. Unlike the rest of DMMORPGs, the reason that Yggdrasil became famous is because of its high level of freedom towards its players.
The classes that became the basis of this game is endless. That includes the normal and high-rank classes. Each classes have a maximum level of 15, thus a player needs to have at least 7 classes or more just to reach the overall level cap 100. As a result, this creates a variety that many players are free to explore and master it to his or her liking.
When I said this game has a high level of freedom, appearances can be changed to one's liking as well. If one used the creator tools that were sold separately, one can able to alter the appearance of equipment gears, interior data, character visuals and detailed settings of one's home.
The world in Yggdrasil is massive, with nine realms from the Norse Legends. Yggdrasil is truly one of the kind. It creates a phenomenon that set the artisan side of the players in Japan ablaze. This is what we called 'visual popularity'.
Well… That is quite a story from past now.
Alteria Aurora. One of the strongest and well-known guilds in one of the realms, Asgard. Known to be a hybrid guild, Alteria Aurora was ranked first in the guild ranking in the official data. In the meeting room of the beautiful sky temple protected by its guardians and its unbreakable shields, a grand square table with a map of the realms in the middle, surrounded by 50 white marble luxurious seats.
Despite its numbers, most of them were empty. Only five of them were being used.
"It is truly sad that the game had to close down. I guess this what people call it fate." The leader, a female human-like Angel, smiled sadly. The player who was controlling the character was a young girl not even in her twenties from a wealthy family. Her name is Fujiwara Yuki.
Her father worked as a businessman while her mother is a famous violist. Both of them have been travelling around the world and could not able to take care of her. But it didn't faze her that much. She learned how to be independent and educated herself since she was not allowed to leave the house thanks to her father's fears of her being taken away by bad people.
"That can't be helped. The company decided to disband it. This is how one can described as you do, Skekinah." One of the founders spoke with a nod. An elf whose face always covered by a white hood.
"In due honesty, there is no need to wear a hood, Aenor. Today is the last day." Skekinah sighed.
"Well, no point dwelling that, leader-san." The elf spoke bluntly which earned another sigh from the leader while the other three laughed softly at their antics.
"Well, does anyone want to come to the Throne Room and wait for the game to finally close?" Skekinah spoke to the other founders.
"I will go with you." A vampire which seemly out of place since the guild is mostly holy and neutral-based guild. His appearance is more humanoid thanks to the creator's tool funded by the Guild, much to Skekinah's relief. When he first joined into the guild, by her invitation, there were a lot of argument from one or two founders over appearance that doesn't match the Holy Guild. In due honesty, she admitted that she value more on a person's personality rather than appearance.
"Same for me." The elf stood up with a nod.
"Thank you, Damula. Aenor." The angel gave a smile before turning to the others.
"How about you two?" She asked the two founders.
"I wish to stay but my parents will disagree with me. I apologized for that." The human founder apologized with a smile.
"Same goes for me. My work starts early tomorrow at 5am. The boss of mine can be very cruel." A birdman founder whose face covered with a mask for obvious reasons sighed.
It is no surprise that most of the players in the guild complain about their daily lives. Once in a while, some member would give advice to each other. It has become an everyday occurrence and the guild has no complaints. Everyone do respect with each other after all.
Unlike the rest of the Guilds, Alteria Aurora have all three types of races as their founders. Their goal and way of thinking is to make sure that everyone, every races is working together in harmony. Very few members in the guild were heteromorphic, which is the high-tier class. In fact, out of the 800 members the guild have, only about 14 to 15 were heteromorphic. That includes the founders as well. This greatly surprised and respected by other guilds as no-one could able to do such a feat in combining various races into one due to the tension between the human and heteromorphic races since the second year after the game was released.
"Alright. I understand. Have a good day and perhaps fate allows us to meet up again one day." Skekinah nodded, understood the situation since virtually and reality don't exactly mixed. The two founders nodded with a smile and waved their final good-bye to their friends before logging out.
"Now then, shall we get going?" Skekinah turned to the founders who agreed to stay with her.
"Of course." Both males nodded and three went out of the meeting room. The angel locked the door, knowing that there is no need to use the room. She turned around and saw the knight and servant NPCs lining up along the hallway with respect.
She opened the console and saw that they have thirty minutes left till the game shut down for good. The founders looked at each other and both males shrugged on what to do with them.
"Follow me." Skekinah sighed and commanded the NPCs. Might as well bring them to throne room. Each NPCs were created by the founders except for Skekinah, since she has no knowledge of programming. But some of the NPCs are owned by her as she gave her ideas and plans to Damula and Aenor as they are masters in computer programming.
"I guess we won't be lonely." Damula spoke softly as they walked to the throne.
"Well, it is best that we gave them the respect though. They did well with defending the Sacred Garden of Eden." Skekinah explained her reasons.
It is true that most of the NPCs created were guardians that protect their Sanctuary. Since this game has high level of freedom, their guild can be dissolved by breaking the 'guild weapon' that is currently with Skekinah. The Holy Halberd of Alteria Aurora. Well, that is a well-made copy since she, herself, could not bear to remove the real one out of the main vault protected by its strongest guardians.
Despite it being a copy make by Damula who is known to be the master alchemist and an inventor, all its members and other guilds seems to mistaken it as a real one which slightly amuse her. When they had a farewell party earlier that evening, every member had their jaws dropped to the floor when she mentioned that the halberd was a fake. She did reveal the real weapon and everyone commented that they are too similar to know which is fake or not even with a Detect Enchantment spell.
As they walked to the throne room, Skekinah silently took a look at the guild ranking. When the list is shown, her guild that everyone created was at the top which make her smile softly, remembering the time that everyone worked very hard to do their best.
Well that was the past. She thought solemnly as the door to the throne room are being opened.
But what happened next when the clock strikes midnight, had created a life-changing event for these three players who will face their challenges ahead.