Overlord meets the Elemental Nations
Sorry about Part 1 being so boring. I seriously thought I might just skip the whole first test but just included it anyways~ But hey, the battle scenes everyone has been waiting for are finally here! Though, I'm not good at them by any means so don't have high expectations haha.
Chapter 2: The Chunin Exams
Part 2
"Eh?!"
Momonga had no idea what just happened. He was quite sure the tenth question had not been handed out yet, but he had passed the test? What was going on?
Although his illusionary face showed no emotions, Momonga was actually in an emotional turmoil. His passive had activated three times already, keeping him from making any noises after his first outburst.
Looking around, Momonga saw that nobody was paying any attention to him and relaxed a bit. He had thought he had lost a bit of face with his outburst, but with everyone else panicking as well, there didn't seem to be any reason to be worried.
Still, he had passed the test? What did that mean? Turning his attention to the proctor, Morino Ibiki, Momonga had a revelation. If his illusionary face could show emotions, there would have been a face of sudden enlightenment. However, since the face never changed emotions, he looked to not actually care about the result.
Momonga's revelation was that the test, in fact, had been all a ruse. His first thought then was, had the test been to see how the contestants would cheat? Information gathering was an important aspect to a ninja's life, so his studies had shown, and cheating might constitute for that information gathering. But, then again, even if one had done absolutely nothing, they would have still passed. So, did that mean that the information gathering was all a ruse as well?
During his ponderings, Momonga heard the man, Ibiki, go on and on about what information gathering was and what ninja life would be like. Throughout this, Momonga simply stayed relaxed, not caring about the speech. Instead, he was busy trying out his skill [Dark Wisdom] on the man before him, trying to steal whatever knowledge he could.
The problem with doing such a task was that the skill seemed to have a limit. That was, the skill could only find him answers on what he wanted to know and could not be on a topic completely random.
For example, Momonga was able to see things like what the man's name and age was, what sorts of jutsu he knew, and how many people he had killed in the last war. He could not, however, find anything on YGGDRASIL spells because the man would not know them himself nor could he find any information on ninja tactics since Momonga didn't know a lot about them.
It would seem then that the limit to Dark Wisdom was that he could gleam information he already had some knowledge of himself, or at least the basis of, and he could not find information the other person did not know himself.
CRASH!
Momonga was brought out of his thoughts as Ibiki was moved from his line of sight, cutting his connection to the man's mind. Instead, what was in front of him now was a woman standing before a black banner.
/
Narbarel Gamma sat in her seat, looking as bored as she had throughout the whole test. It would seem to her that Momonga-sama had passed. With suppressed glee, Narbarel stared at the Supreme Beings back, wishing he would turn around and acknowledge her presence.
CRASH!
Startled by the sudden crash through the window, Narbarel was ready to leap into action to save her Momonga-sama, who sat almost directly before the woman who had suddenly appeared. The only thing that stopped her were her master's words before, to 'not cause a disturbance'.
The woman talked about starting the second part of the exam, which she was looking forward to. According to Aura, who had messaged her just before the test, the second part of the exam would be a free-for-all fight for some scrolls.
With a small smile, she looked around at the people around her.
This would be a massacre.
/
Giant trees loomed before Team Kakashi and the other people who had passed the first part of the chunin exams. Standing before the gate, the group couldn't help but shudder as they heard the sound of a scream, sounding not so much human as a dying bird, on the other side of the gate.
A gate that had but a single sign on it, 'Danger! Stay Out!'
"Welcome to the stage for the second test, practice arena 44. Also known as… "The Forest of Death!"
Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura could all feel the malicious feeling of despair oozing out beyond the fenced area, one they hadn't felt since they encountered the black robed ninja in Wave.
Practice arena 44, they were sure, was not a place to fool around. Even the boisterous Naruto was quiet.
The rules were explained by the female proctor, Anko Mitarashi, which was to steal a scroll of the opposite type from their opponent before five days passed and report to the tower in the center.
After hearing the rules, the three ninja signed their waivers and turned them in before being assigned to their gate. Staying quiet the whole time, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura noted once more which ninjas had passed, who to look out for, and who might be worth trying to ambush.
/
He had stayed silent this whole time, listening to these ninja rabble on about incoherent things. Even seeing his old pupil, Anko, had not fazed him. None of this bothered Orochimaru who was here for only one thing.
Team Kakashi.
Orochimaru's pursuit for knowledge of all jutsu was an all-consuming task, one he followed with a will. With his recent meeting with Momon, however, Orochimaru had learned that the world was far greater than he had expected it to be. His original pursuit to find all jutsu seemed light in comparison to these 'spells' and 'magic' that Momon and Nabe produced.
Originally, Orochimaru had wanted to betray the two sometime during the chunin exams and dissect them, to find the secret to their power. But the power, knowledge, and skill that Momon had shown was too much for him to defeat at his current state. Maybe when he finished learning the secrets of ninjutsu he would make his attempt on Momon, but he was not willing to make the same dumb mistake he had with Itachi: attacking without knowing he could truly win.
So, Orochimaru had new sights. Team Kakashi, composed of the newly discovered jinchuriki Naruto Uzumaki; the bearer of the sharingan and brother to Itachi, Sasuke Uchiha; and, according to his reports, a spy for Momon and his Nazarick, Sakura Haruno.
If he could get hold of these three using his curse mark and promises of power, he could control three more vital pawns on the chess board called life. When the gate opened before him, Orochimaru, dressed as Shiore of Kusagakure, took his two Otogakure ninjas dressed as Kusagakure ninjas with him into the Forest of Death.
"Find those brats!"
/
Momon, Nabe, and Piper stood before their gate, all three of them looking completely bored. From the look on the chunin's face before them, Momonga could tell he hadn't been expecting a group to look this bored before a test that could kill them.
Making some random hand gestures to throw off the ninja before him, Momon cast his spell, [Detect Life]. All around him Momon could sense with his spell that the ninja were starting here and there around the forest, running in as soon as their gates were opened.
Unfortunately, [Detect Life] couldn't help him find specific signatures and Momonga didn't want to make it too obvious that he was preparing in front of the unknown person, so he simply hoped Orochimaru wouldn't get killed in this test.
Orochimaru was powerful in this world's standards, probably around a level 40 ninja in YGGDRASIL. If he was killed, then that would mean that there were those higher than level 40 or there was powerful people at low levels who could kill people of a much higher level. Either way, both possibilities were a hindrance to him.
When the gate opened before Momonga's team, nobody ran in. Instead, Momonga walked in with all the splendor of a king walking to his throne. His cape flapping in the wind, Momonga took out his sword and swung it through the air, making random hand gestures with his other hand.
"[Reality Slash]"
A tenth-tier spell that drained a lot of mana, Momonga was determined to see how the opponent would react before his attack. If the opponents of this world truly were stronger than they let on, then his opponent would retaliate, or at least survive.
"Aaah!"
Like a puppet whose strings had been cut, the enemy ninja fell out of the tree where they had been hiding to try and ambush Momonga.
Seeing the body fall to the ground, split cleanly in half, Momonga's worries faded away. This world's people, they were weak and not worth his troubles after all.
"W-What the hell just happened?!"
"Shit, let's get out of here, forget the scroll!"
Seeing the two flee, Momonga decided not to chase the two, instead focusing his attention on the dead ninja before him.
"Nabe, retrieve the scroll."
"Yes, Momon-sama."
With a look of delight at seeing the dead man, something that slightly disgruntled Momonga, Narbarel squatted down and searched the dead man rather forcefully, tearing off his clothes and occasionally limbs.
Turning around, Momon saw the chunin who had let them in throwing up on the floor, Narbarel's violent desecration of the other ninja disgusting even the hardened ninja.
"Here you are, Momon-sama."
Getting to her knees, Narbarel had her head down as she raised her arms, showing a heaven scroll on her upturned hands. Grabbing the scroll and placing it into a pouch on his side, while in reality storing it into his inventory, Momonga couldn't help but smile.
They had two heaven scrolls. That meant they could still continue their hunt.
/
Finding the three genin had been easy and, even though they had put up a decent fight for genin, they had been weak.
Orochimaru had thought to separate the three before his attack but decided last second to attack without doing so. In this manner, he had the three surrounded by himself and his two underlings before they could even react.
The genin had then used shadow clones to try and distract them, while using an assortment of ninjutsu and genjutsu to fight back. It was impressive for these three and they managed to kill Orochimaru's two pawns who had underestimated the genin.
Orochimaru, on the other hand, was still far too skilled for lowly genin to defeat, and managed to bite Sasuke before making his retreat when he felt Anbu presences approach. Sure he hadn't been able to get to the jinchuriki and Momon's spy, but he was content with his capture.
He would be patient, like a snake that hid by the bird nest. If there was a hurt baby bird, the other babies would first go to the other side of the nest in fear, but would later approach out of curiosity. That's when the snake would strike out and take all three for his own.
As a reward for their strength, however, Orochimaru decided to leave the three with the earth scroll in his possession instead of destroying it, allowing the three to progress into the next part of the exam. He wasn't planning on losing his pawns already, and they didn't look to be in any shape to fight any further.
/
"Psh! All of this was useless…"
Murmuring to himself, Momonga and crew continued their trek through the forest towards the tower at the center of the field. The problem?
Currently, Momonga's team had four heaven scrolls but no earth scrolls.
The previous battles weren't even worth mentioning in his point of view.
After acquiring the first scroll with his [Reality Slash], Momonga had let Nabe and Piper do all the work while he observed.
The second scroll had come into their possession when Piper had walked off to the side for a few minutes during their walk before they heard multiple screams. Piper had then walked back with a bloody heaven scroll, saying the three had killed one another using their bare hands while under the effects of genjutsu.
The third scroll was acquired by Narbarel, who used [Lightning] to kill three ninjas hiding behind a bush, the bolt of lightning passing through one before going on to the next and so on to kill all three.
And with the heaven scroll they started with, that made four heaven scrolls.
"Is something wrong, Momon-sama?"
"No, Piper. Everything is going according to predictions, other than the fact that all we have are heaven scrolls."
"Heaven scrolls huh?"
Turning around, Momonga saw that there were now three ninjas there. These three seemed to be from Konohagakure as their leaf headband showed. One was a boy wearing a green spandex suit and had thick eyebrows, the same boy who was hit by that other candidate before the first exam. The second was a girl wrapped in a dress like thing. The third was a boy wearing a white robe with pure white eyes, veins bulging around his eyes.
Of course, Momonga had long since detected them with his [Detect Life] skill so he wasn't surprised to see them at all. Looking to his left and right, he noticed his comrades also didn't seem to care.
Narbarel didn't react to the other ninja, either she had sensed them coming or simply didn't acknowledge them due to them being weak.
Piper had one hand to her hip and was fiddling her hair with the other, obviously bored and not even bothering to grab her flute.
"Kusagakure ninja huh? Our information shows you guys are just a small village without any strong ninja. How about you hand over your heaven scroll and we'll let you walk away?" the girl arrogantly said.
"Sigh. [Magic Arrow]."
An arrow wrapped in blue light flew out from Momonga's outstretched palm, flying over towards the green one at breakneck speeds. Momonga was sure that the kid would get pierced through the heart, but was surprised when the green clad boy dodged.
'Impressive. This one is faster than the others.'
"That was quite un-youthful, to engage in battle before stating out the terms of surrender. Hand over your scroll or you will feel the full degree of youth!"
"Hmph. I've never seen that jutsu before, but I can see through your tricks. Nothing gets past these eyes."
"Okay, playtime's over! I'm not going easy on someone who attacks my teammates unprovoked!"
The three split up to each take an opponent, which Momonga's group reluctantly accepted.
Thus, the three were separated and ready to fight their own battles: Narbarel on Lee, Piper on Tenten, and Momonga on Neji.
/
Getting to the tower was going to have to wait. Pulling out a healing scroll, Sakura got to work trying to heal Naruto and Sasuke.
Orochimaru's attack on Team Kakashi had nearly killed the three of them. Sakura had barely managed to survive because of the health potion Aura had given her two weeks ago. She had rejected taking more than one of the vials of red liquid in case they were dangerous or addictive, but that had been a mistake.
Looking over Naruto and Sasuke's forms, beaten and bloody, Sakura could only hope this scroll could do the type of healing that mysterious red liquid had done for her.
Suddenly, the scroll flashed brightly before disappearing into the air in a shower of light. If it had been any other situation, Sakura might have appreciated the sparkle of lights, but this was not the time.
Looking at the two before her, Sakura gasped as she saw the two boys' twisted limbs start to go back to the right places and wounds all over their bodies disappear.
With a bit of hope, Sakura looked at Sasuke's neck, but was disappointed. The strange mark that Orochimaru had left on Sasuke did not disappear, though Sasuke seemed to settle down a bit.
Sakura pulled out a kunai and another scroll before walking outside, prepared to risk her life to protect her teammates.
/
Narbarel Gamma, member of the Pleiades and protector of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, could only scoff at the weak human before her. Even without a stat determining skill active, Narbarel could tell the green clothed human was far below her, even with the handicap Momonga-sama placed on her.
"I do not like to hit girls, so I will ask that you surrender."
"Quiet, lesser being (worm). I will kill you and feed you to the birds."
"I see. Then, I hope this will be a youthful fight."
Narbarel watched as the green-clad human took some strange looking tags off his legs, throwing them to the side to make a bunch of smoke as the ground broke under their weight. Then, he flashed away from her vision, coming towards her at a rate most demons would be proud of, one that was supposedly beyond a human's abilities. Luckily, Narbarel wasn't human and could still track the boy's movements.
The boy approached Narbarel, thinking she hadn't been able to react yet due to his speed, and planned to finish things with a kick to the head.
"Leaf Hurricane!"
When the boy's leg was three inches from her head, Narbarel moved her hand up and caught the boy's leg from behind, stopping it in its tracks.
"What? How?"
Then, she threw the boy by his leg at a nearby tree. A frown came over to her face when the boy, instead of dying, did a somersault in midair and landed on top of a branch of the tree.
Wanting to end things quickly and get back to her Momonga-sama, Narbarel then began to launch a series of lightning bolts at the green boy, which he managed to annoyingly dodge.
A sneer coming to her face, Narbarel found that with her handicap of being limited to low-level physical attacks and third tier spells, this boy might prove to be some form of challenge.
The only thing that the boy did though was attack physically. There was no annoying kunai throwing or fireball spitting. So, Narbarel decided on a new plan. Standing perfectly still, she closed her eyes and waited for the boy to get closer.
He could probably tell that this was a trick as he didn't move for a full fifteen seconds. Then, suddenly, there was a burst of energy that made Narbarel open her eyes and look over at the boy's direction.
"First Gate, Gate of Opening, Open!"
"Second Gate, Gate of Healing, Open!"
"Third Gate, Gate of Life, Open!"
During the time the boy was having his levels go up somehow, Narbarel had decided it was prudent to boost herself as well, just in case, thus she cast [Blessing of the Magic Caster], [Infinity Wall], [Life Essence], [Freedom], [Stoneskin], [Triplet Maximize Magic: Greater Magic Seal], and [Triplet Maximize Magic: Greater Lightning] on herself. She wasn't as great a magic caster as Momonga-sama, but this would do.
In a flash, the boy disappeared from his position and appeared beside her, kicking her in the side and sending her flying.
Narbarel righted herself, brushing off the hit. It wasn't enough to even do one percent damage to her health bar. Pathetic, her preparations were probably for nothing then.
"[Triple Maximize Magic: Lighting Wave]!"
A wave of lightning spread from her body, a spell that was unavoidable to anyone in a certain area.
"Gah!"
It worked. She smiled and left for Momonga-sama before the boy even hit the ground. He would recover from the paralysis in, say, two hours. The destruction of his muscles and nerves might never be healed though.
/
"Tsk. That all you know how to do!"
As loathe as she was to admit it, Piper was losing. Her genjutsu were second to none, she was sure she was even better than Tayuya-sama in most aspects of the art, but against an opponent who could throw them off? It was a bit annoying.
Another aspect of this fight that was annoying was the shuriken, kunai, swords, maces, and all sorts of other weapons the girl was constantly throwing at her. With all the weapons flying around, there was no time for her to concentrate on playing her flute!
The taunts that she was using also didn't seem to shake the rival kunoichi at all. Even making her flush for a few seconds and become distracted would have been more than enough.
She would have to use her trump card then. Orochimaru-sama had given her permission to use it only if she thought she was going to lose. This counted as one of those times.
Tearing the skin colored paper off her neck, it revealed she had a curse mark. The reason Orochimaru-sama had told her not to use it was because she would be useless for the next twenty four hours after its use. Hers was a weaker version to what Tayuya-sama had, one of Orochimaru-sama's earlier tests.
Forcing chakra into the area, Piper felt the cursed seal begin to take effect. Unlike the other cursed seals, she did not transform into some creature, rather, her bones would become harder but more hollow while her skin would pull away from certain areas, revealing gaping holes. Her body would become her flute.
While jumping away from another kunai flying her way, Piper blew into a hole on her wrist, producing a shrill, high-pitched noise towards her target.
Instead of landing on the branch she had jumped to, the girl crashed into it and fell to the floor. Piper smiled. That was too easy.
Walking over to the other girl, Piper laughed a bit while her form turned back to normal. This had been a fast battle, so she still had enough chakra to keep herself awake. She picked up the skin colored paper she had discarded and re-placed it on her neck. She would search the girl for the scroll before going back to Momonga-sama.
Hey, Piper would play a game! If she didn't have the scroll, she would die. If she had a heaven scroll, she would die. If she had an earth scroll, she would live.
With that, Piper rummaged through the girl's clothes and, sadly, found an earth scroll. Stashing the scroll, Piper walked away a bit annoyed.
/
Momonga and the boy with the white eyes faced off across the clearing, both preferring to fight in open combat versus in the trees.
"Heh. You cannot beat me. I am destined to pass the chunin exams, I am the best of the best. You on the other hand are some no name genin from Kusagakure. Surrender now and you will live. Your friends are all probably beaten by now anyways."
"… Are you done talking now? Come, I will allow you to attack first. I wish to see your combat abilities."
That seemed to bother the boy, who got into a fighting stance. The two faced off for a couple seconds before the boy suddenly started to run towards Momonga.
"Eight Trigrams."
Momonga stood his ground as the boy neared.
"One palm. Two palm. Four palm. Eight palm."
The boy began pounding on Momonga's false body, trying to wear it down, but Momonga stood his ground. He could feel some small thing inside him becoming restricted, something he didn't even know he had, but it didn't hinder him.
"Sixteen palm. Thirty two palm. Eight Trigrams: Sixty Four Palms!"
Striking Momonga one last time, the boy turned around, confident in his victory, and walked away. When the boy was about three feet away, Momonga decided it was his turn now.
"Was that all? Very well, [Sharks Cyclone]!"
As soon as Momonga cast his spell, a burst of water popped out of the ground beneath the surprised white eyed boy, pulling him into the cyclone. Then, the illusionary sharks appeared out of the water inside the cyclone, tearing apart the boy. Or, at least, that's what was supposed to happen.
As soon as the water sucked up the boy, the boy started to spin in a circle inside the cyclone, using the cyclone's spin to his advantage. Out of his body appeared blue light, chakra according to Orochimaru and Demiurge's reports, destroying the sharks coming towards him and making enough of a gap for him to escape from. Even though the boy was about a hundred feet in the air, he landed gracefully on the ground after jumping off some trees.
Momonga, however, didn't miss a beat and cast his next spell. Being a PvP player for so long, Momonga was used to people breaking through his first attack. Although his opponents so far had been weak, Momonga never let his guard down. He had made that mistake far too many times when he first started YGGDRASIL.
"[Maximize Magic: Gravity Maelstrom]!"
A ball of negative energy flew out of Momonga's hand towards the white eyed boy who seemed to be tired. As the black ball of negative energy approached, the boy jumped away. But not fast enough. Before the boy was hit, Momonga had the ball explode, causing the boy to not be killed but only suffer the negative statuses that came with the spell.
It wouldn't do to lose the scroll, if he had one.
Having taken on the negative statuses of [Fear] and [Paralysis], the boy collapsed, staring at Momonga with fear in his eyes.
Gathering up his mental strength, Momonga stood straight, as if he was a King before a prostrating subject who was begging for their life. It was time to start his plans to spread his name.
"I go by the name Momonga, but my true name is Ainz Ooal Gown. Once, people used to cower under my name, but it seems people have forgotten it. Remember it well, for I shall become the most powerful being of all time once again."
And with that, the boy promptly fainted. After a quick search of the body, Momonga found an earth scroll. Smiling to himself, though the smile appeared neither on his skeletal face nor his illusionary face, he took his leave.
/
"Are all the preparations ready Demiurge?"
"Yes Albedo, do not worry. I have assembled the finest team throughout Nazarick without actually harming the defenses. In fact, with your help, I believe the defenses of Nazarick have become even stronger, though that isn't truly possible as the defenses were made by the Supreme Beings themselves.
At any rate, the raiding force has been made. Leading the force is myself, you, and Shalltear. Providing backup in case it is needed is Mare, Aura, and Cocytus. The entire force consists of fifteen hundred freely-respawning units from Nazarick with the Pleiades as support. I didn't want to lose anyone actually worth of defensive value to Nazarick in the first raid after all.
If the raid is to somehow fail, then our troops should have respawned within twenty four hours. We also have powerful units on standby in the tomb in case the enemy is much more powerful than expected. Ah, also, Momonga-sama has said that World Class Items are not allowed outside of the Tomb, so the Floor Guardians leading the raid will be taking only God tier and Divine tier items. The raid will take place exactly one month from now, when the chunin exams are coming to an end so that Momonga-sama can finish his experiment."
"It seems you thought everything through Demiurge, as expected of you. Maybe you will receive a Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown someday too."
"Ah, the ring that only the Supreme Beings, you, and Sebas currently possess. It would be an honor beyond anything I could imagine."
/
By some miracle, Sasuke and Naruto woke up within an hour, both looking fully healed and calm. Sasuke looked like he was a little disturbed, but seemed fine otherwise. Sakura chalked it up to their fight with Orochimaru of the Sannin.
The fact that the three of them had escaped with their lives was a huge deal. The man had even left her with the earth scroll in his possession, though there was some saliva all over it.
With both earth and heaven scrolls in hand, the three took to the trees and ran as fast as possible to the tower.
To get past the traps that Sasuke assumed would be around the tower to take them out, Naruto made three hundred shadow clones that barreled through the forest ahead of them, destroying any traps with their bodies and allowing the three safe passage to the exam building.
Upon entering the place, Sakura noticed that nothing was set up yet. Nobody must have expected them to finish so soon, the clock on the wall showing that it had only been five hours into the test.
Team Kakashi opened their scrolls, which summoned Iruka who told them they had passed the second test and to rest up for the third test.
Giving each other a high five, Team Kakashi went into their respective rooms to rest up for a bit, the death run through the forest to the tower took a lot out of them.
/
Momon-sama, Nabe, and Piper currently had four heaven scrolls and two earth scrolls. There was no reason to have so many, it was just that that was the way things had turned out.
Piper patted her front pocket, where, inside a hidden pouch inside her vest, was an earth scroll and a heaven scroll.
She sighed and put her hands behind her head, looking completely bored of these chunin exams. After the three had taken down the team from Konohagakure, word had somehow spread about their victories and everyone was clearing away from them.
In an attempt to bring in more people, Momon had even gone out of his way to hold the earth and heaven scrolls out in public in his right hand. Now there was a man with a lot of balls. He was basically taunting all the other ninja in the forest to come and try to get them.
Unfortunately, the three had no more people to fight all the way to the tower in the center, entering in without any traps in their way. In fact, most of the traps Piper saw seemed to have already been sprung.
So, the three made it to the tower and retired to their rooms, done with the most violent yet pretty boring part of the exam. It was six hours into the exam.
Yet, Piper didn't despair. A small smile graced her lips as she lay down in her bed. The invasion of the Hidden Leaf by Orochimaru-sama was going to be just a month from now.
'Upon the whirlpools are steady tides. Run your course, you will come through. And one day find our home.'