Information.

  That was the single most important thing within a game such as Yggdrasil, where all pyers are enced to explore the world and find information on their own.

  And its importance was especially magnified when it es to battle.

  If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know her the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

  This was one of, if not, the most famous quote by Sun Tzu that had been written and immortalized within his book “The Art of War”. And Momonga could not agree more.

  If he could know his enemy’s races and job csses, he would be able to know what kind of skills and racial traits they would have, and in turn, predict their every move and behavior.

  Preparing for them before the battle and tering them during battle would then be very simple, and his victory would be all but guaranteed.

  And this didn’t only apply for a duel.

  A single information about the enemy guild’s stro pyer’s job css could easily ge the tides of battle and increase his ces of victory drastically in a guild war.

  This was why Momonga had always been keen on learning about other races and job csses, the skills and spells they have within their repertoire, their racial traits, etd within Ainz Ooal Gown, he erhaps one of the most knowledgeable pyers when it es to spells, job csses, and races.

  However…

  “My rad my css… I think they’re simply too… “special”. I think it’s not even something from Yggdrasil, but from the Group Chat itself. And maybe… it’s a hint to the kind of being behind the Group Chat.”

  Throughout all the years he had spent pying Yggdrasil, he had never heard of a job css or race that would give a pyer the appearance of a Half Demon and Half Angel.

  There might not even be any pyer with su appearance. After all, if there was, they won’t be able to hide it for long given its fshy and reizable appearanbsp;

  Pyers might not have found this type of race or job css yet. It might still be hidden within a yet to be know or raid boss that would reward them with Yuuji’s css or race upon pletion or defeat.

  However… After more than a decade sihe game unched, hundreds of thousands of pyers expl every nook and y of the world, Momonga started to doubt it eveed within the game…

  Perhaps, it was as Aika and Yuuji said.

  The job csses and race Yuuji, Aika, and Lelouch got from the group chat might within the game.

  “... you tell us what they are?”

  The crimson wisp of light within Momonga’s orbital bones focused on Yuuji, bated in anticipation. Lelouch, who had already been given “memories” from the group chat, was already aware of the races and job csses Yuuji had. Thus, he was now thinking about the st part of what Yuuji had said before.

  While Aika, she was staring at Yuuji with sparkling eyes filled with excitement, pride, and love. She couldn’t wait to hear how awesome her hubby was, even though she already knew every single aspect about it!

  “I… am both a Seraphim as well as a Demon Prince. But that’s not all. I am also… a “Desdant of the First Light”.”

  “Desdant of the First Light…”

  As Momonga expected… He had never heard of a pyer having those races. And this ted his belief that the “special” races and job csses Yuuji, Aika, and Lelouch received did in Yggdrasil.

  It was impossible for a pyer to have both an angelic rad a demonic race at the same time. And it wasn’t due to a having found a quest or ahat could grant them an angelid demonic race at the same time.

  Once a pyer chose to py as an angelid demonic race, the other path would be forever unavaible to them. It was… simply impossible to choose the other race they’ve chosen one.

  Many pyers have actually tried to do it. To biwo unlikely races in hopes to create a new raever to be had before and gain additional powers no one had.

  But the most they could achieve was the creation of the “Nephilim” race, which was a bination of Angel and Human races. By doing this however, while they would be strohan a Human el pyer at first, they would be uo advance further into each of its advanced races. A Nephilim would never be able to gain the race Argel, Seraphim, h Human. They would simply stay as Nephilim and perhaps advao Greater Nephilim, which would still be weaker than a Seraphim and barely equal to High Human iain circumstances.

  That is why, most pyers opted to focus on one rad adva as far as they could, or use their levels to level up their job csses.

  Moreover, while he did not have any evidence, Momonga was quite certain that the “Desdant of the First Light” race did in Yggdrasil.

  The only “True Light” it might allude to within hology, whionga deeply read about to try and find any hints about yet to be known pces, items, characters, races, etc. within the game, was a man named “Aurvandill the Valiant”.

  The man was quite a minor character within the hology. He was only mentioned ohin the hology where he was described as the husband of the witch Groa.

  And the only reason why “True Light” might allude to such a minor character, was due to his name having the most semantically pusible interpretation as a pound word which meant “Ray of Light”.

  There was nothing more aside from that. And Momonga doubted that was what Yuuji’s race referred to.

  To him, “Desdant of the First Light” sounded like he was a desdant of… a God.

  Baldr, the son of the Allfather Odin, was the God of Light. But he was not the “True Light”. And there were no ods described specifically as “True Light” within Yggdrasil nor the hology.

  And sihe race did within Yggdrasil, then it might not be referring to anythied to the game or the hology.

  Yuuji received this character with the race “Desdant of the First Light” from the Group Chat when he came to participate in the mission.

  Which meant… it was most likely that the God referred to as the “True Light” was the being who created the Group Chat…

  ‘No, I’m going too far… Let’s hear what Yuuji has to say first.”

  Momonga shook his head and turned his attention back to Yuuji.

  “I see… I certainly haven’t heard of it before.”

  Yuuji nodded, having expected his words as a matter of fabsp;

  “Actually, this race is the reason why I doubt the races and job csses existed in Yggdrasil.”

  “Oh? Why?”

  “...Because it gives me infiential. Including the potential to go beyond level 100 and the ability to gain experiewice as fast as others would.”

  If the room was quiet before, it has bee a vacuum now as Momonga sat frozen in shobsp;

  “I-I-Is that true…?”

  Despite seeing the small nod from Yuuji, Momonga still could not believe it…

  The trust he had in Yuuji was, needless to say, infallible. Having known them inside and out and f a bond with them, all members of the group chat were like family to him…

  If he couldn’t trust them, then there would be no one in any world that he would trust.

  But, that just made Yuuji’s words even more astonishing.

  In Yggdrasil, the level cap was 100. And although he wouldn’t know if the same level cap existed within the new world, having it would essentially guarahat he would be able to level up and bee stronger infinitely, giveime.

  Moreover, Yuuji was also capable of gaining experiewice as fast. It was essentially a perma double exp buff…

  “...Just how broken is your character?”

  Momonga didn’t know if he should be happy, shocked, or envious, because he was feeling everything all at the same time.

  But in the end, he felt… proud and happy for him.

  After having bonded with Yuuji and going through a quest with him, he had bee somewhat of a little brother to him.

  In fact, perhaps aside from C.C ay older than him and who he had spent the least time with, he sidered all members of the group chat to be his little brothers and sisters.

  And seeing them be this powerful, he couldn’t help but feel proud and relieved sihey would be able to take care of themselves iure.

  Yuuji smiled sheepishly, having sehe helpless smile Momonga rojeg, though his skeletal face could not form any sort of expression.

  “What else does it give you?”

  “It gives me tremendous physical attad defense, several immunities, and a huge increase to my mana pool. It also gives me several quite powerful spells. Moreover, I also fully turn iher a demon or an angel.”

  “What? R-Really…?”

  Yuuji hen slowly, his form ged into that of a demon prinbsp;

  All six pairs of his wings were now fully bd crimson. The white half of his attire and holy armor which denoted his angelic side were now fully bck, as the darkness from his left side seemed to encroa the holy side of his being and fully enraptured it.

  The halo, which reviously golden, now turned jet-bck with bloody thorny viwisting around it, dripping with fresh, crimson-red blood that disappeared into crimson particles of light.

  And his right eye, which reviously golden, had now turned crimson red, just like his left eye.

  The jet-bck horn with crag-pattern that radiated a crimslow that only emerged from the left side of his head, now also emerged from the right side of his head.

  And finally, his hair, which reviously half with and half bck, was now fully b color with crimsoreaks.

  “Kyaa~ Hubby, you’re so hot~! Ah, as expected, your demon form looks so sexy~!!! I think I love this oer than yel form~!!!”

  Aika hugged his arm even harder, her eyes shining with excitement, admiration, and affe which would soon turn to lust. Her wings enveloped Yuuji even more as it began shaking iement.

  Meanwhile, Momonga could not help but stare at his transformation in awed shobsp;

  “Amazing… Does turning into this frant you a boost to your more demonic spells and skills?”

  “It does. And in my angeli, it gives me a boost to my light-base skills and healing spells. It also unlocks some skills and spells that I only access in a specifi.”

  Yuuji answered after he gave Aika a kiss on her head and rubbed her hands holding him softly.

  “I see… That’s certainly iing.”

  Momonga’s gamer side was fully intrigued by the unique and iing system. This was the first time he had ever seen anything like this.

  “What about your job csses?”

  “I have the Prince of Darkness job css, which I believe Demiurge also has. Apart from that, the most notable ones are Champion of the First Light, Wuardian, Sword Saint, and True Light.”

  Once again, aside from the Prince of Darkness job css, these were csses he had never heard of before. And from its name… Momonga could imagine what kind of broken csses they were.

  Then, there was the “True Light” once again, this time as a Job Css…

  Momonga was now being more and more vihat this “True Light” being was the one behind the Group Chat…

  A being who could ect people from different universes and transport them to each other…

  A being beyond any God he ever knew.

  “Yuuji… I would like to see your csses and races in a. Would you mind going to the Amphitheatre for a demonstration?”

  The crimson-red light orbs that were Momonga’s eyes glowed brighter in anticipation aement.

  Leaving aside the matter regarding the true being behind the Group Chat, as a true gamer, he simply couldn’t wait to learn more about Yuuji’s unique and amazing races and csses, ahem in a!

  “Alright. I’d like to test a few things out myself as well.”

  “I’ll join too~!!! I wanna have some a too!”

  “I’ll e and watch. We will be meeting there with the Fluardians anyway, so I might as well e early.”

  “The us depart.”

  With that, the four Supreme Beings of Nazarick simultaneously activated their Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown, and disappeared from the Round Table Room.

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  The world before them instantly turned bck the moment they unleashed the rings’ power.

  And in the moment, the sery before them ged, and their surroundings were now a dark tunnel lit solely flickering torches that made their shadows dahin the darkness. At the end of the tuhey could see what seemed like a giant lowered portcullis.

  With Momonga in the lead, Lelouch, Yuuji, and Aika, alking while hugging her hubby’s arm, walked down the wide and high passage towards the portcullis ahead.

  The stone floor beh their feet amplified the sound of their footsteps, eg it throughout the length of the dark tunnel.

  As they he portcullis, they noticed a st. Even Momonga, whose nose should’ve been a little more than ay hole in his skull, was able to smell it. The strong st of the earth, trees, and grass. The smell of a jungle.

  And as though sensing the arrival of the Supreme Beings, the portcullis swiftly raised itself into the ceiling just at the right moment to let them through.

  Passing the barrier, a whole new sery weled them as they saw a circur arena, surrounded on all sides by many tiers of audience seats.

  It was a colosseum, a gigantie. Oval in shape, it spanned 180 meters on its long axis and 150 meters on its shorter ohe height of it, measured from its ground to its highest point, was around 40 meters, with a familiar architectural style.

  It was a colosseum modeled after the arenas of the Roman Empire.

  Lights created by the spell [tinual Light] were everywhere, illuminating the grounds with bright light to allow the audieo observe the entire colosseum like it was day.

  The audience seats were y. However, they were not filled with actual audiences. Instead, there were cy dolls, golems to be more exact, that filled the audience seat with no sign of activity.

  In this Colosseum, the intruders who dared ihe Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick would be the star of the show, while members of Ainz Ooal Gown will be watg rexedly within the VIP Box.

  The mai, a brutal melee.

  Apart from the 1500-man invasion, every single invader had met their ends here. If pyers in Yggdrasil would shed blood, the earthen ground of this arena would’ve been soaked red.

  “Woaah~ So pretty~”

  Yuuji looked up into the sky along with Aika, and they saw a bck expanse of a starry night sky. They were quite dim that even with their enhanced sehey could only see the brightest one. Perhaps if there were no lights around them, they could’ve seears.

  The night sky was one of the greatest wonders of the 6th Floor of the Underground Tomb of Nazarick. Though merely a virtual imitation, it was still a sight to behold.

  Blue Pruly outdid himself with this. Even though it required a massive amount of data, he was able to create a sky that would ge with the time of day, even showing an actual sun with appropriate daylight effects.

  Yuuji and Aika both smiled softly as they looked up into the night sky. In the “memories” given to them by the group chat, they’ve had spent quite some time together withih floor to enjoy the nature around them.

  And if they could do sexual as in the game, Aika would’ve persuaded Yuuji into doing public sex py and exhibitionism py where he would have Aika walk naked around the 6th floor and have his way with her whenever he wanted.

  Thankfully, eve of kissing and toug certain body parts were forbidden and could not be dohus, Aika had to be satisfied simply by holding his hands as they walked around like a wholesome couple.

  A few moments ter, the four Supreme Beings noticed something.

  “Tooooh!!!”

  From the VIP box, a figure leapt with aic shout.

  The figure jumped down from the height of six storeys, somersaulted in mid air, and nded with the gracefulness aleness of a butterfly desding on a flower.

  A feat done by pure physical prowess without any magical and physical enha skills.

  “V~!”

  Then, the figure smiled widely and made a double v-sign of victory.

  A cute, dark-elven child of about 11 years old had desded from such a height, and immediately ran towards Yuuji and the others like a child would upoing their parents.

  Her face bore a wide smile of excitement, bright as the sun. Her hair resembled threads spun of gold that reached her shoulders. Her mismatched eyes, one blue and one red, seemed eager and filled with excitement and happiness as they gazed upon the group of supreme beings.

  She wore a shirt of light leather armor that was reinforced by crimson red dragon scales with the emblem of Ainz Ooal Gown proudly dispyed on her vest, stitched in gold onto the white background.

  Below that, she wore a pair of white, long pants, matg her vest, with a whip coiled across her waist and right shoulder and a longbow behind her.

  The moment she came close, Aika immediately stepped up and kneeled down to match her height, and opened her arms wide.

  “Oh my~!!! Aura-~ It’s so good to see you~!!!”

  “A-Aika-sama!”

  A momentary look of shock fshed across her cute yet androgynous visage as hesitation filled her heteroatic eyes.

  To be weled with such wide, open arms by a supreme being, not to mention, the closest supreme being to her own “parent” and creator, filled her entire being with utter joy, happiness, and honor.

  However, hesitation stemming from her own self-judged worthio be weled into the embrace of a supreme being made her stop iracks.

  “A-Aika-sama…”

  “e on. e here, Aura.”

  The soft, motherly look of the most beautiful supreme beied her heart, along with her own resolve aation.

  It would be… fine, right? After all, Aika-sama had “ordered” her to e. So she must e to her…

  Slowly, the guardian of the sixth-floor, no… The dark-elven child ran once again and leaped into Aika’s embrace as she ed her hands around the small child, and buried her fato her cleavage.

  “Fufufu~ I’ve missed you, Aura. Do you miss me?”

  “Y-yes… I missed you as well, Aika-sama…!”

  Aika stroked the guardian’s little head, bing her silken golden threads through her fingers as her jet-bck feathered wings enveloped the small child into its warm, protective embrabsp;

  “Where is your brother, Aura?”

  “A-Ah! H-He’s still up there, Aika-sama! I’ll call her right away!”

  “Fufufu~ It’s fine. I will call her.”

  Aika let go of Aura, though still keeping her left arm arouiny waist, before looking up to the VIP Box.

  “Mare. Would you e here, sweetie~? I’ve missed you.”

  Her voice was soft and soothing, yet it traveled a great distahat it reached her target as if they were right before her.

  A head popped up from the edge of the VIP Box. A head of spun golden threads just like his sister’s.

  “A-Aura-sama? U-Uuuh… Y-Yes! I-I-I will be there soon…! E-Eiii!!!”

  A look of hesitation and fear filled his cute visage as he respoo Aika’s call with a trembling voibsp;

  Yet, he gathered up his ce as he ched his tall staff, taller than him. Then, with a shout, more to ence himself than to do a battlecry like her sister, he leapt out from the VIP Box.

  The dark elven boy nded on the ground, much less gracefully than her sister, but with more or less the same level of effortlessness, though she appeared to be a little more wobbly.

  His clothes had the same basic white color as Aura, but a short se of flesh peeked out below his short skirt. And his legs were covered in white silk stogs.

  He was more lightly armed than Aura, with a pair of lustrous white gloves on his dainty little hands, and the gnarled bck staff in his hands.

  Then, after rec from his jump and tidying up his skirt, Mare ran towards Aika.

  The same hesitation fshed across his face the moment he saw Aika weling him with open arms.

  He looked towards his sister, saw her smiling brightly, and pushed himself to e closer to the supreme being.

  “Uwah-!”

  As soon as he got close, Aika pulled him into her embrad rested both twins’ heads above her shoulder as she hugged them tightly. Her wings enveloping both Guardians of the sixth floor like a mother bird would her children.

  “Fufu~ You’re both so cute~”

  Mare squirmed in embarrassment, yet at the same time, warmth filled his heart…

  “Bukubukuchagama- had told me to sider the two of you my own children. And I pn on doing just that. So, I would be happy if you at least treat me like your aunt~”

  She let go of the twins to meet them face to face, and what she saw was two pairs of shocked, widened eyes.

  “And this is not an order. You are free to sider me whatever you wish. But, I will be treating you as my own from now on, okay?”

  A drop of tear. Then a stream flowed doweroatic eyes of both twins.

  Aika pulled them bato her embrace, before the twins began to cry as they no their arms around Aika and pulled her, clutg onthtly.

  And as the guardians of the sixth floor cried in Aika’s embrace, Momonga watched them from the sidelines.

  The crimson wisp within his orbital bones dimmed as he closed his eyes. A mix of sadness, nostalgia, happiness, gratefulness, and ultimately, relief, filled his heart.

  ‘Thank you… Aika-san.’

  Although the twins didn’t show it, he had noticed how much Aura and Mare missed their creators from the aheir parents.

  Perhaps aside from his owion, Pandora’s Actor, every NPC within Nazarick missed their creators, who had “left” them when they quite Yggdrasil.

  And though he would not be able to grant them their greatest wish to meet their creatain, at the very least… Aika could give the twin dark elven children the best thing.

  For that, he was eternally grateful to Aika.

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