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Overlord of biblical proportions: Return of the Biblical God (6)

The blade Momonga had previously seen in the young man's hands was, according to his magical assessment, a [Legendary] artifact – a worthy prize even for a level 100 Player… Still, in the grand scheme of Yggdrasil or even Nazarick, it wasn't something entirely priceless, as in not an item that would be hard to put a price on. Even if the price was indeed quite the kingly sum.

A proper level 100 Player should have a couple of them, with a Player fully bedecked with [Legendary] equipm...

Admin: City, War and Paladins (3)

Double wasn’t particularly worried that Sturm didn’t trust him or his continued employment among Captain Signia’s small crew – because their distrust was just a human’s natural behavior. The first, because no one would easily trust a past traitor, what if they betray their new ‘friend’ after all? It would take time before Sturm could feel comfortable trusting Double. 

The latter however was simply a numbers game.

Unlike the other pirate crews that recruited thou...

Mother (250)

Perhaps if Ainz possessed a normal human mind, the perception of traveling through the mind —  or more accurately the dream — of Tiamat would have been a colorful and incredibly vivid event for him. An indescribable event that defied all possible sensations. 

But there were two reasons why that wasn’t the case and why it was a good thing. 

Firstly, if he was able to experience it fully, Ainz would have likely gone mad. It was only due to the fact that Ainz's m...

Overlord of biblical proportions: Return of the Biblical God (5)

Silently, Momonga continued to observe the young man standing before him – not for any special reason like he was spotting the young man’s potential or anything strange like that. No, he was just noting the strangeness of the fact that he kept on encountering teenagers as representatives of the paranormal world. Perhaps there was some meaning to this beyond a mere coincidence? Or did Momonga simply somehow get lucky, no matter how strange that might sound, to constantly run into such oppo...

Admin: City, War and Paladins (2)

Signia's airship thudded into a halt as it reached their destination, the makeshift machine powering the boat, making sure to remind the people on board that the repair was very much not finished. Still, as the ship floated above the new lands, Sturm made sure to survey his arrival point. Though, rather than focusing on the beauty of the new location before him, he focused instead on possible signs of enemy presence, like flickering shadows or the red-orange of demon’s skins.

Sturm d...

Chaldea and Staff: If Freud was a Servant (249)

Karna silently observed the approaching spear aimed at his head before dodging, moving his head slightly aside. Of course, a strike of this level couldn't pierce his armor – or rather, his skin that essentially was his armor fused with his body. However, during this sparring match, he had to pretend he didn't have his protection. Theoretically speaking, if he chose to ignore his opponent's attack and just take it, she could punish him for such a mistake. 

Not kill him outright, m...

Overlord of biblical proportions: Return of the Biblical God (4)

Shalltear was in such a blissful mood that not even Albedo being in an equally blissful state could dampen her spirits. The fact that Albedo was so elated for exactly the same reason as Shalltear herself did, didn't even register in her mind. So what if Lord Momonga had bestowed his love not just on Shalltear but on Albedo too – as a Supreme Being, no single creature could fully comprehend all his thoughts, actions or emotions, including love and carnal pleasures. The fact that afterwards L...

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The awakening of an Angel from stone had become, if not routine for Jabberwocky, then at least no longer as shocking to him as it did before. Indeed, the statue, gradually turning from stone to flesh, covered in golden light and slowly revealing its facial features, making any observer see a living being in what was recently lifeless stone, looked impressive.

Given that this wasn't just an image on a screen, but something Jabberwocky could see with his own eyes and even touch if he rea...

Tiamat's Dream (248)

Ainz's dive into the rolling Black Sea turned out to be quite the mundane experience. Insofar as it could be expressed in such a way, anyway – Ainz hadn’t found himself drawn into some kind of incredible maelstrom of magical events, for instance. 

Instead, he felt exactly what he expected to feel from such an immersion into the thick, black oily liquid; it felt quite unpleasant as the liquid immediately seemed to grip his body, pulling him down deeper into its depths. But nothi...

Overlord of biblical proportions: Return of the Biblical God (3)

Fortunately for Momonga’s paranoia, Pandora's Actor had assured him that the ordinary exorcists would be unable to detect his Undead nature through his human disguise. So, this time in his infiltration, Momonga decided to try going without his ring that completely blocks any effect or ability that would, as his friends put it, detect his ‘power levels’.

After all, as Momonga himself had discovered, sometimes the fact that an opponent could not get any information about him, would...

Admin: Main Quest (8)

Beze felt her body being pulled somewhere, a momentary sensation that had become familiar over the past week. Accompanied by the loading screen of her now rapidly becoming favorite game, a tab that would lead her to the community board and then one that would connect her to the servers… Well, singular.

As she logged in to the singular server for the game, something that would change very soon in the future, most probably, as more people join in the game. [Titanomachy] is being strange...

Journey to Tiamat (247)

Ainz were hovering in place, staring at the figure of the Medusas – two versions of his own Medusa, sealed in a constant agonizing paroxysm, unsure on what he should do about it.

In Ainz's view, stopping the killing of one Medusa by the other Medusa seemed quite simple. Even if in the end the solution involved something more than just picking one up, the smaller Medusa that is, and just flying away, Ainz was confident that he would be able to do it. In the most extreme case, here, in ...

Overlord of biblical proportions: Return of the Biblical God (2)

Life was a paradoxically strange and surprising thing in Momonga's perception – it could both be mundane, and almost eldritch in how it could turn into the strange on a dime. And no, at the moment he was not talking about the fact that he suddenly found himself in another world in the body of his game avatar… Or, at least, not only about that.

After arriving into this new world, somehow, Momonga quickly felt the pressure, the burden of expectations as he was showered with adoration ...

Admin: Main Quest (7)

Speaking of the starting zone…

Should I add something magical to the starting zone? Well, nothing too outstanding, at least. Well, at least more magical than they already are. No, of course, in theory, if I have already decided to create something magical, I can create any place, but some astral desert with tears in reality is not very suitable for a ‘starting zone’.

How will I be able to jump higher than that in the future, creating something more significant, more suitabl...

Chaldea and Staff: Difficulties of Friendship (246)

Everyone knew that Chaldea would become home to Servants – powerful and sometimes terrifying Heroes, and villains, from human history and mythology. Even when Chaldea was nothing more than an extremely ambitious plan of Marisbury Animusphere, Olga-Marie's father, such a thing was already known.

Therefore, it would be strange to complain that the strangest of Servants unexpectedly gathered in Chaldea – it was, in fact, completely expected. What was unexpected was how imperceptibly Ch...

Overlord of biblical proportions: Return of the Biblical God (1)

Ajuka Beelzebub does not smoke. Rationally speaking, such an activity seems… pointless to him. His physique, as a Super Devil, a term that was not coined by himself but by others so he could not vouch for its truthfulness one hundred percent. He would need to observe and experiment with one to make sure of the difference between a ‘Super’ Devil and a normal Devil.

And since the only Super Devils around are, one, himself, and he was made to promise not to carry out invasive surgeri...

Admin: Main Quest (6)

After some consideration, I set aside the forest distorted by the effects of demonic corruption I created earlier for the future. And instead focusing on introducing the vastly scattered Shelter slash Vaults as a new location for the Players to explore. A location I created in order to complete two goals – to close the logical inconsistency that had arisen ‘why would pirates be here in the first place and are fighting each other’. Also, to conduct the first test of my emergency Player E...

Merlin's Actions (245)

Ainz had found himself buried in something that felt like… A thick slime? It was a black, thick, viscous liquid that immediately tried to drag his body down like quicksand. Well, it was at least something different from the empty void before, and Ainz has an easy fix for this situation.

A moment, and a flight spell later, and his body was quickly rising up, away from the grasp of what he soon discovered was the same Black Sea that he had seen above ground. Although he couldn't say wit...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (19)

Michael stood, or more accurately, hovered in the air, looking at the Earth beneath his feet, silently scanning the millions of tiny dots below him with his gaze, each one a light. Humanity, civilization, the creation of humans, his Father’s favorite creature.

At a height of just a few kilometers, people disappeared from view entirely, cars turned into barely noticeable black dots, smaller than ants scurrying about their business, and neighborhoods, built with such diligence by people...

Admin: Main Quest (5)

Why would the sky pirates go to the local version of Paradise after the divine apocalypse? It is one of the questions that would undoubtedly prop up.

Hmm, well, consulting my lore bible, I’ve determined a little earlier that they were battered and scattered around the local world as a result of some event, let's say, a storm. But, if this storm did not form out of nowhere, and, judging by the behavior of the pirates, it was not some incredibly rare event, I need to figure out why the...

Abyss (244)

The surrounding darkness around Ainz is impenetrable, as if the concept of light itself doesn’t exist where he is. That is — if it weren't for his undead nature allowing him to see in the dark, if he was a normal human, Ainz wouldn't even be able to see his own hands. 

However, even with the ability to see, it doesn't bring much comfort, as nothing else around him is visible. The hole that he had jumped from, the red figure of Ereshkigal, quickly disappeared from sight, leaving...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (18)

Vali Lucifer never followed the rules. What else could be expected from an heir of the oldest demonic family, under the guardianship of fallen angels, the owner of the strongest class of [Sacred Gears], a [Longinus]. A person, who from birth, surpassed other devils like the sky towering over the earth?

Raised in his family as a Lucifer, before falling under the tutelage of the Fallen Angels, Vali did not learn to break the rules – rather, they never truly existed for him. There were t...

Admin: Main Quest (4)

Fortunately, due to the fantasy setting of the game, it didn’t take me too long to create the design for the jungle. It’s unlikely that a bunch of botany professors will suddenly appear in my game and start seriously studying the flora of the jungle and start demanding that it match real-world examples. After all, it's still all fantasy.

So, for the jungle, I used my rough idea of tall trees, vines, a bunch of small bushes, and lots of roots to create the flora of it. There’s ano...

Thinking about the resolution of Singularity (243)

Ereshkigal's tale was intriguing, not so much from the standpoint of providing clarification necessary for Ainz to determine his next course of action, but at least as a source of valuable information on its own. It wasn't that Ainz particularly enjoyed chatting about life situations with people he was unfamiliar with, at least not unless they were his Servants for whom Ainz, within his capabilities, strove to be a good boss. 

However, any information, especially under such complic...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (17)

Miki Hyoudou’s current life is a very idyllic one. After all, how else could it be? Miki Hyoudou had met God, His Son, and had received answers to all the questions that a person could have, now she served God and was protected by His infinite mercy from the impending end of the world. What, in this scenario, could be less than perfect?

Though Miki couldn't remember anything before she turned into a vessel for God's commandments and guidance, she knows better.

While she physica...

Admin: Main Quest (3)

So, a trading system! What does it need…

Obviously, I didn't prescribe anything resembling currency to the mobs players killed so that they would drop it upon death. Let's be honest with myself, I didn’t design the mob to drop anything at all. This whole Imp’s skins and blood thing had been me just letting the Players ‘discover’ the usefulness of the Imps and hurryingly implementing it like a patch over a bleeding wound.

At the start of the game, I was much more focused ...

Plan for the resolution of Singularity (242)

Having made it through the second gate using the same answer he did for the first gate, Ainz had to admit that he was really expecting a trap by this point. After all, that was the usual trick, right? Lull him into a sense of complacency before striking, and so, when he emerged from the second gate to see a third gate, Ainz was prepared for everything.

Only to soon be disappointed when he heard the same question only worded differently, requiring only the same answer. Ereshkigal.

...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (16)

Michael, revered Seraphim and Keeper of His Throne in the temporary absence of the Heavenly Father, was deep in thought.

It was an action that Michael had found he has been doing more and more. To the great regret of most holy Michael, his current role as the appointed commander of the Heavenly Host and guardian of Heaven and humanity, it was an action that was severely required of him.

It was a self-evident truth, that the roles Michael was forced to play, in his own opinion, w...

Admin: Main Quest (2)

As an excuse for the lack of activatable abilities, I had shoved whatever scraps I created into the Systems tab, the most useful tab in the world! I clearly had a stroke of genius when I came up with it.

It was the tab that stored everything in general, and most importantly, without any problems!

No one can tell me that ‘activated skills do not belong in the Systems tab’ because no one really knew what, in fact, should be in a normal ‘Systems’ tab. So no one would be com...

Chaldea and Staff: Rules of Conduct in Chaldea (241)

There were never that many doctors in Chaldea. Of course, as a relatively large institution located far from the rest of civilization, Chaldea could not function completely without a medical wing, but it was not very large. Never mind the fact that the Magi’s body themselves contained secrets that each family of Magi would prefer to keep secret.

After all, most magi could take care of themselves with their own powers, that's one of the reasons why, for example, the Masters of Chaldea ...