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Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (15)

Although many lay people outside the church would criticize the Holy Church and the Holy See for its dogmatism and ossification – this was not the case at all. Or, to be more precise, not entirely so for the whole of it.

The Church was certainly ossified in its religious dogmas and rituals, how could it not be, if their religion was originally created as it was presented by the angels according to their Lord’s will? What was the point of changing the order of His veneration, in lit...

Admin: Main Quest (1)

Players, one by one, logged out of my world. A bit presumptuous, perhaps, but it is what it is.

Gradually the number of those online decreased, even if they want to play for twenty-four hours in a row, to play in the game to end all games, they could not. Connecting to the game by the capsule might have guaranteed the absence of issues that would make such long time gaming impossible, like having to go to the toilet, eat or drink water.

But it was only to an extent.

The c...

Goddesses (240)

Ainz, waiting for a few seconds, as if checking to see whether what the gates said was a stupid joke, eventually could no longer wait for any sign of such an answer. Therefore, only shifting his gaze back to the gates, he would have his answer, one way or another. “What?”

“Wh-what!?” The gates again spoke in their thundering voice, but still choking on its words, as if a little nervous from Ainz's questioning gaze, only to then immediately try to explain themselves. 

...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (14) (18+)

The boundless dark-blue sea shining under the moonlight looked like a sea of mercury. Shimmering with a silvery light, it creates a wonderful picture that one wanted to preserve in their memory. Especially with the sight of numerous large stars glimmering reflected on its surface, the sight of which took one's breath away…

Momonga wanted to continue looking at the sea before him, enjoying the feeling of calm the sight seemed to endear to him. He tried to imagine that each of the stars...

Admin: First Day (3)

I was greatly disappointed that I hadn't presented myself to the players as some sort of demon. With that guise, I could have ‘lost’ my temper and just finished off all the players who had asked me for power. There are even already an ironclad excuse like ‘what did you expect, trying to beg for power from a powerful demon?!’

But my past decision led me to my current situation, I was an angel – or something similar. And the player had just asked me for help, my protection. I co...

World of the dead (239)

The scorched gray wasteland emanated an icy cold air, and even without any wind blowing, the cold penetrated inside the body and sucked out any warmth from it. Worse, even with cold, which should have been refreshing when compared to the hot heat of the above, it did not carry any freshness, as if the air itself was stale, musty, and dusty. The air that belongs in a tomb that hasn’t been opened for generations. It was as if the air itself was dead. Combined with the oppressiveness of the st...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (13)

Albedo was certainly a maestro, in fact, divinely inspired when it came to management and documentation, however… Why was that?

Because that's what the Supreme Beings have decided.

For the creatures of Nazarick, their whole being, function and existence was as a result of the Supreme Beings’ hands, and there was no greater joy. If the Supreme Beings have decided, then it was the final and absolute truth. It could not be desecrated by calling it something petty like ‘faith’...

Admin: First Day (2)

There's no way I'm going to give fast travel to the players.

While I had no such systems yet, and wouldn't be making it anytime soon, I wouldn’t. Just seeing the Players spread around like ants, there’s no way I would have time to keep track of my players if I give them a method of fast travel.

I was distracted for just a second – well, okay, a minute watching the first players logging in, and almost missed the first battle in my created world!

As it turns out, one of ...

Reaching for answers (238)

Arthur and Angrboda are literal polar opposites in many things, but not more so than their attitude towards monsters. At least, it would be extremely logical to assume so. One was the strongest paladin and the great teacher of many Yggdrasil players playing human races, a race who find hunting monsters, players or not, to be a long time hobby. Arthur is a Paladin, an occupation where one dedicated their life to eradicating all the monsters of Yggdrasil, she even has her own castle and army of...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (12)

Momonga never had a love for dancing. It's not that he was a complete klutz and couldn't learn to dance, it's just that up until this point, Momonga didn't really have a use for this knowledge. After all, did he have many reasons to dance before now?

However, when Momonga found out that by learning it he could postpone going to school, Momonga became acutely interested in the noble art of dance. To be more precise, the victory dance.

All these worries about school, lessons, classe...

Admin: First Day (1)

So, how am I going to create smoke and mirrors for an audience of a hundred thousand hyperactive players who have been promised the most incredible game of the millennium that actually isn't there?

Apart from banning everyone and pretending it was a random glitch in the servers – or something similar? I think that would result in my plug being pulled – literally.

No, no, let's think about it seriously.

Problem number one for starters – a hundred thousand players.

Chaldea and Staff: If the world goes mad - go with it (237)

Long ago, when Olga-Marie was first just learning magecraft, in a distant past when she still had a father, when she didn’t still fully understood the reality of her curse, when she still had servants, nannies, and she goes to class, she had once read a particular book. She had forgotten the title, but she had remembered reading a particular passage. 

“There are years about which they make statistics and days about which they write books.” 

At that time, as a child...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (11)

If Asia said that the tea she drank helped her figure out everything that was currently happening in her life, she would certainly be committing a sin against the truth. Neither the first nor the second, nor the tenth cup of tea brought her any understanding of her current lot in life.

Fallen angels were no longer fallen. The Biblical God, His Son, and the new Virgin Mary, all of whom died in the past but got better, once again walk the Earth. The Apocalypse will come soon, in her lifet...

Admin: Prologue

So, I died. I know, I’m shocked as well… heh.

Okay, by the tenth time I repeated the joke, it had lost much of its luster. By the hundredth, such a thing stopped giving me a sardonic grin and a nervous chuckle, and I was even able to figure out exactly what was happening…

I was really dead.

But, rather than the void I was expecting, or even some kind of celestial judgment, it was like I was stuck in purgatory or even limbo. Not dead and yet not alive either, I was co...

Plans and Admin

Although reaction to the Admin wasn't exactly a stellar example of support, so far as DxD supports me - and you, readers - I want to try my hand in it, given that some people were interested in after all. Although no one of us knows what we would have in the future - as was once said by the mathematician - “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
So, I will try my hand in posting Admin that ...

Strange situation (236)

Perhaps Ainz was influenced by his prejudice, created by his poor education in the past, in which speaking of ancient civilizations he imagined the poor of Yggdrasil, at least what little the developer was allowed to portray. Cities brimming with poor peasants, barely able to feed themselves, but twice as bad because this society was ‘ancient’, unlike their modern one. Where rather than being allowed to starve to death, they are humanely turned into compost instead.

Instead, in one ...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (10)

Genshiro Saji did not live the best life one could imagine. He was not born into a family of multibillionaires, was not a great athlete and had a fairly humble, if realistic, view on his own intellectual capabilities. But Genshiro was not unhappy.

His parents had died in a traffic incident, but despite all the pain this event brought him, Genshiro did not become a misanthrope, hating the world for the unfairness of it. Because, even with the loss of his parents, Genshiro's life still ha...

After Merlin (235)

After receiving Ainz’s question, Merlin thought about it for a moment, glancing at Ainz as if trying to figure out if he should trust Ainz's abilities before answering with a slow nod of his head. "It is possible, however… Why?"

Faced with a response like that, something that Ainz had not expected, the last Master of Chaldea blinked in surprise before looking at Merlin, "I beg your pardon?"

"I'm saying it's possible," Merlin broke out into his usual joking smile again for a mo...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (9)

The information that the Hanzo had found on Katase and Murayama had pleased and reassured Momonga for about two seconds. Just enough time for Momonga to compare the information he was receiving with the manner in which Hanzo had delivered it to him. The Hanzo had spoken of Katase and Murayama with a kind of worship, as if the Hanzo was respecting them for some reason?

While Momonga was generally fine with the creatures of Nazarick finding some sort of contact with beings from the outsi...

Asking people, learning plans

So I posted first 3 chapters of the possible future project, book with a working name of Admin. My congratulations for all the people who guessed what this book would be about.

As for the possible plans for the book, I guess, those 3 chapters gave a pretty good rough feel of what this book would be about - the plot, the humor, the pacing - but just in case I will reitirate, that this planned book would follow the usual pattern - 18 chapters ahead on Patreon, ranging by Tiers, with chapt...

First three chapters of the Admin book

Chapter 1

So, I died. I know, I’m shocked

Merlin's Speech (234)

"What? The story should start with that information!" Merlin resented the almost natural glare thrown at him, retaining only part of his perennial buffoonery even so, perhaps not even willingly, but only because that was his nature. "You can't talk about the Beasts without mentioning the development of human civilization! The Beasts are a product of human civilization!"

Ainz looked at Merlin and was silent for a moment, trying to figure out if he was being serious or if he was once agai...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (8)

Every creature in the service of the Forty-One Supreme Being, especially with the first among them, Lord Momonga, considered service a duty and work a blessing. Something that allowed them to express their endless love for their creators.

No matter which servant of the Forty-One it was, from the first-level Nazarick's Homunculus maid or a hundredth-level Floor Guardian, duty was a boon, and rest was nothing more than perhaps the worst of punishments.

How could those, who were un...

Chaldea and Staff: Translator to human language (233)

Of all the things in the world, Mozart loved music, good company, and relaxation the most, in that exact order. If one were to expand this list, it could include several more items, like movies, Marie Antoinette, or quality wine. In general, any good thing a person could enjoy. 

The list of things Mozart loved after the first five was actually pretty fuzzy. If something was ‘good’ or ‘exciting’, then Mozart could enjoy it. A swim in the sea, a good meal, or even going to th...

Future plans

And so, one fanfiction ended, so some exceptionally perceptive people might want to ask me - 'What now? Would you start writing something new?' And the answer to this inquiry is 'Yes!'
In the next couple of weeks I would need to take a bit of a holiday, or at least slow pace working, as I would still continue to put out new chapters, but the deal is - FGO is coming to an end.
YES, I WILL REITIRATE, I WILL CONTINUE WRITING FGO!
But not the same moment it ends. After the end of Singula...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (7)

Once inside his home, which was still technically Miki's home, Momonga could generally consider it his own given Miki's condition. Momonga looked around before approaching Miki, glancing at her shadow, which instantly rippled. 

Momonga could assume that for the Shadow Demon, it was something akin to an attempt to give a warrior's salute in his presence. 

However, Momonga could only assume this on the level of speculation, given the fact that the creatures of Yggdrasil ha...

Epilogue

Ruby stretched her body slowly, like a cat that was lounging in the sun, she tried to stretch her tense muscles before she rolled to her side of the bed and fumbled for the scroll beside her. With one quick swipe, she turned off the obnoxious trill that echoed through her room. 

Stupid technique, stupid alarm, stupid habits…

Reaching for the scroll, Ruby hit the right button to shut it off by feel alone, on her first try! Okay, it was on her third, switching off the alarm c...

Merlin (232)

Of course, the great Wizard of Camelot, Merlin, existed in YGGDRASIL, Ainz even had a hand in killing him during the siege of Camelot. He didn't fight him personally of course, the great wizard had fallen victim to Ulbert and Tabula, who decided to attack his personal tower and library during the raid and steal all possible resources and artifacts from it. 

But, during the preparation for the raid on Camelot, Ainz had become well acquainted with Merlin. Not to mention the past meet...

Overlord of biblical proportions: The new Three-Sided War (6)

Stepping inside the house behind her seemingly completely incapable of feeling fear and embarrassment friend, Murayama, Katase swallowed a nervous gulp as she looked around… To find the house looking like a perfectly ordinary house that could only be imagined for an ordinary Japanese resident. Nothing in Hyoudou's residence gave away the fact that it was in fact the residence of Kuoh's most notorious pervert, Issei. 

No pictures of up skirt shots, no shrines to the stolen panties...

So it is done

How do you kill an immortal witch who has seen the rise and fall of hundreds of civilizations? How do you kill someone who can't be killed?

Jonathan had devoted most of the past three years to researching Salem. Even if she had acted clandestinely most of the time, and she certainly hadn't, a person with her influence on the world scale could not have passed through the millennia without leaving traces in reality. Old legends, passed down oral tales, archaeological excavations, artifact...