Monster Syers. Meraries. Heroes. Legends.

  There were a myriad of ways for someone who would hunt down monsters, provide prote for important figures, collect rare material, and many more uhe request of the guild. But, they were normally called “Adventurers”.

  They were a varied group of people with various races, skillset, age, and strength ranging from only being slightly more skilled with ons ic than a regur person, to legendary warriors capable of quelling grand camities that would befall a nation.

  However, every adventurer had ohing in on; they were all managed by an anization called “Adventurer's Guild”.

  Adventurers received and solved requests accepted by the Adventurer’s guild, which served as a middlemaween the people and adventurers. In exge, they would be rewarded for their skills, granted various bes as an adventurer, and granted prote by the guild.

  Requests accepted by the guild varied iypes and also difficulty. An easier request might pertain to colleg various herbs from the edges of the forest near a vilge. While a more difficult request might stitute defeating aremely powerful monster or finding a rare herb that could only go within a harsh enviro filled with monsters.

  Thus, to ensure a way that an adventurer pick a request that befit their strength, adventurers were cssified by the ranked given to them officially by the guild.

  The naming of the rank followed the varyials used in the adventurer’s lise pte, which was in the shape of a dog-tag like pte, with the retive rarity of the metal indig their rank and strength.

  In increasing order, Adventurer’s ranks included Copper, Iron, Silver, Gold, Ptinum, Mithril, Orichalcum, and Adamantite.

  All adventurers started at Copper rank, and by pleting requests and passing a test, they would be able to climb up the ranks. Of course, if the adventurer achieved a major feat several ranks above, they would be able to jump several ranks above.

  Despite its dangers, many young people dreamed of being a high-ranking adventurer, as it would assure better ine, rewards, fame, and social position. A oner could even be granted a le if they were to achieve a great feat in favor of a kingdom. And the highest rahe Adamantite ranked adventurers, were heroes and treated as such, regardless of nationality.

  Of course, to reach Adamantite rank was not only difficult; they were impossible for many. Hundreds of thousands have tried and ground their boo dust just to be able to bee an Adamantite rank adventurer, but iy, there were only a handful of adventurers who reached such a rank.

  And one of the missions Yuuji, Aika, Lelouch, and Momonga had to achieve was being an Adamantite ranked adventurer.

  “Who would like to bee adventurers?”

  Immediately after the question was asked, Yuuji and Aika raised their hands.

  “I’d like to join, if possible. I’ve always been ied in being an adventurer in this world.”

  “Me too!!! I want to walk around ahis world!”

  If not for his inability to smile with his skeletal face, Momonga would’ve smiled warmly as he looked at the two young kids before him.

  With the intelligence, eloquence, and strength surpassing himself that Yuuji and Aika normally dispyed, Momonga often fot that they were still a couple of first-year highschool students.

  But now, their eyes were filled with a rare, childish excitement that they rarely show but teeheir age should have.

  He couldn’t help but feel a warmth filling his heart as he owards them, like a father would to his children.

  Theurowards Lelouch who was, in parison, calm.

  “What about you, Lelouch?”

  “...I don’t think I would join you and bee an adventurer.”

  “Oh? Why?”

  “As I said before, I pn on joining Shalltear, Sebas, and Solution iize and posing as a fn noble. So, I won’t be able to bee an adventurer as well.”

  “Ah, I see. I uand.”

  Momonga nodded in uanding. While it was a shame that they wouldn’t be able to go adventuring together, Lelouch’s reasoning was uandable. Moreover, he didn’t seem too excited to bee an adventurer as well.

  If he didn’t wish for it, then Momonga wouldn’t force him just for his selfish want to go on an adveh all of his friends again.

  “I would like to go as well. So I guess it would be me, Yuuji-kun, and Aika-san that would bee adventurers.”

  In terms of party build, the party of three seemed to be quite banow with a powerful warrior in the front, capable of dishing tremendous damage as well as healing while having tremendous defense as well, aremely powerful offensive magic caster, and an adaptable aile magic caster who was capable of using a myriad of different spells acc to the situation.

  “And to plete the party… Perhaps we also have Lupusregia e with us.”

  Knowing Albedo, Demiurge, and the many denizens of Nazarick, Momonga could already imagihe resistance he would face if he were to say that he, Yuuji, and Aika would go to the outside world by themselves without ao protect them or be their “meat shield” in case a dangerous situation befell them.

  Even going outside of Nazarick to peer into the night sky for a few moments, Momonga had to be apanied by Demiurge for prote. And when he went out to be an adventurer, he had t Naberal to apany him and protect him just in case.

  Even though they were powerful, he khe fluardians would never accept them going out on their own without any prote.

  ‘Hah…’

  He was gd that his children cared for his safety immensely… But at the same time, he would’ve appreciated it more if they could give him a bit of room to breathe.

  Momonga hoped, by having Lupusregina apany them as adventurers, the fluardians would let them go to be adventurers and make them acquiesce to their request.

  “Mm, that’s a good idea. And with our current party line up, having a cleric would plete our party nicely.”

  “Uhn~! No problems here~!”

  Momonga nodded.

  “Then, is there something else you’d like to discuss about this.”

  “Ah, ohing.”

  The skeletal overlord turowards the handsome half angel and half devil figure of Yuuji. A look of intrigue fshed within his crimson red bzing eyes.

  “Momonga, since you will appear in this form when you save e, I think you should use your human form while we pose as adventurers. It’ll be better if no one knows the retioween “Momonga” and “Satoru”. Or, you also be “Momon” a the front lines with me.”

  By casting the spell “Perfect Warrior”, Momonga would be able to temporarily ge his css into a level-100 warrior and be from being able to use certain pieces of arms and armor that will normally require specific job csses to access without penalty, including reely utilizing any ons and its abilities.

  However, such a powerful spell would, of course, have its drawbacks.

  For one, while in his warrior form, Momonga would not be able to cast other spells. In addition, he won’t gain any special warrior skills from the spell, and his recalcuted ability scores will be lower than an actual warrior.

  Sedly, sustaining the transformation spell and ic will both lower his mana and mana recovery rates to zero.

  This form would be suffit to match bdes with sed-rate batants, such as priests or ic casters. But, he would stand no ce of winning against an oppo who had dedicated themselves as a warrior.

  If he were to use “Perfect Warrior” and bee a warrior in their party, his presend effectiveness would be overshadowed by Yuuji, who was a warrior that surpassed even Touch Me. It would be akin to having a stick-wielding child fight in battle alongside a seasoned swordmaster.

  However, if he decided to be a magic caster for his party, he would have a myriad of spells that could help his party and affect the battle more profoundly than he would as a warrior.

  Moreover… With how powerful Yuuji’s build was, Momonga doubted he’d need him in his warrior form to help him. In fact, he might even hinder Yuuji instead with his ckluster skills as a warrior.

  However, there as one problem…

  “Hm… I agree with you. But… I still cast my spells in human form…?”

  Satained all of his magic, spells, resistances, immunities, and traits when he became “Momonga”, an Overlord and the epitome of Undead beings. If he were to revert to his human form, he might lose them, or at least the useful traits he’d gain from being an Undead.

  “I’ll o try this…”

  Satoru closed his eyes, and for the first time, willed himself to use the skill he had bought from the Multiverse Chat Group shop before – “Double Life” – which would allow him to set oher form of himself, and alter between it at will.

  However, no matter how long, nothing seemed to ge…

  ‘Eh…? Why isn’t this w…? W-Was it a scam item? Did I just got rob of 2000 GCP?!’

  He ched his eyes tighter and willed himself even harder. But nothing ged.

  Letting out a sigh, he opened his eyes… And his line of vision seemed to ge.

  He was now… shorter than he was before.

  “Eh?”

  Looking down to his hands, he saair of familiar human hands instead of the pure white bones of his skeletal form.

  He looked around his body, and finally at the refle of himself shown through the smooth, reflective surface of the marbled table.

  “Ah, I did it…”

  He didn’t feel anything ge at first. But as soon as he realized he had returo his human form, he began to feel the temperature of the air around him that he couldn’t feel before.

  , he could smell and almost taste the crips, cold air of the room through his nose and mouth.

  Although he had only turned into Momonga for less than a day, it felt almost… nostalgic, being able to feel these sensations once more.

  Satoru took in a few deep breaths before exhaling, something he hought he’d miss doing, and focused his attention back to his inal iion for ging into his human form.

  “[Twin Magic] Acid Arrow.”

  He raised his hands and willed himself to cast a simple first-tier spell enhanced slightly with metamagic to test if he still retained his ability to cast a spell.

  Thankfully, two glowing greenish liquid shaped like an icicle appeared before him, giving him all the firmation he needed.

  “It seems like I still retain my abilities to cast spells. Though, I think I do lose the features and bes of being an Undead.”

  Yuuji nodded.

  “It seems so. Are you fortable being an adventurer in your human form?”

  Satoru thought for a moment.

  “Hm… It will be fine. I have several gears which would enhance my defense and keep myself safe. I’ll als several magic items that would revive me automatically if I somehow die.”

  “Alright. Don't worry, Satoru-san, I won’t let any danger fall upon you.”

  “Thank you, Yuuji-kun.”

  Satoru nodded gratefully, before he returo his Overlord form once again. Just in case someone came to the room for whatever reason.

  While he did not io keep this human form a secret from his children forever, he’d hide it at least until he could vihe fluardians that he’d be safe even if he was in his human form. Otherwise… he was sure none of the children of Nazarick would let him venture eveep outside of the tomb.

  “Alright. Then that settles it. Do we have anything else we’d like to talk about?”

  “Ah, I do!!!”

  Aika raised her hand up in the air, and all eyes turowards her, encio tinue.

  “Momonga, I have this ability called the [Fallen Seed of Lust]. It is an exclusive skill from my Harbinger of Depravity job css which would allow me to transform anyone 20 levels below me into a succubus.”

  A look of shock fshed aomonga’s expression as the crimson pyre within his eye sockets bzing brighter.

  A “Fallen Seed”. It was one of the few magic items capable of ging the race of the user. However, in order to achieve this racial ge, one would o fulfill several ditions, and the ge would be irreversible. Acquiring specific items are necessary in order to shift races. Within Yggdrasil, the Fallen Seed allowed pyers to switch their racial features to a demon by sacrifig a number of lives.

  Ainz Ooal Gown had a number of “Fallen Seeds” sitting withireasury, having obtaihem long ago as rewards from demonigeons. But, as no one in the guild had any use for them and they never got the ce to sell all of it, a ill sat withireasury halls.

  From the name of Aika’s spell and her description of it, it seemed to resemble the effects of the “Fallen Seed”. However, he had never heard of a spell that was capable of ging another’s race… Even if it C.

  “I-Is that true…? Does it have any requirements aside from the target’s level? Any material cost? Or a specific ritual?”

  Aika shook her head.

  “No. It’s just a spell I cast and I only use it several times a day si’s a seventh-tier spell.”

  Momonga could not believe it… A race ging spell that almost doesn’t have any requirement, any material cost, or ritual.

  A pletely free race ge that be done several times a day.

  “That’s… amazing. W-What other effects does it have? Are there aive effects?”

  “Well, for ohe person I turn into a succubus will bee a member of my “household” and gain an undying loyalty to me. And a fra of the life essend energy they gather will also e to me.

  In Yggdrasil, it simply means that all of their attacks against me will be halved and every time they do damage while I’m in their presence, I’ll recover some health and mana.”

  If he was only looking at Aika in shock before, his skeletal jaws were now wide open as he listeo her description of the skill.

  Of course, the use of it would be quite limited in the game as he doubted any pyer would want to essentially be a servant to another pyer, except if they have a peculiar… i in such a thing.

  But in this world… she would be able to create an army of succubus with undying loyalty to her that could stantly supply her with magid energy. Such a thing…

  Momonga had to admit it now… Every single one of the “Special Job Css and Race” the group chat had grahem was beyond broken.

  “I-I see… Then, what do you wish to do with it?”

  “I want to turn the maids… the 41 homunculus maids into succubi. That way, they would beore powerful than they are now and be more capable of proteg themselves just in case something happens.”

  “Eh?”

  Silence fell as Momonga looked at her in shock. He… He truly didn’t expect this to be the pn Aika wao propose…

  He thought she’d try it to people outside of Nazarid use them as her spies. But instead, she wao use it on the homunculus maids.

  “I know how you feel about leaving the legacy of your friends and guildmates as they are… But the homunculus maids are only a bit strohan a regur human! In this new world, although we know some of the things that could happen iure thanks to the ahere’s no guarahey’ll always be safe!

  If they turn into a succubus, they’d at least gain spells that give them the ce to run and protect themselves. Also! I think this spell will let me add the Succubus race’s features on top of their inal race’s features! So they’ll gain the best of both worlds!

  But of course… I’d only do it if you let me, Momonga.”

  Momonga froze. His mind raced through at dizzying speed as he tried to uand Aika’s words…

  Firstly, he was shocked at the fact that Aika’s spell, incredible as it already was, might actually add the succubus rato their existing build, essentially giving them free level ups instantly.

  He had a hard time ing his head around such a game-breaking mei a simple seventh-tier spell.

  However… His attention immediately tched upon the fact that Aika’s spell might be able to increase the strength and perhaps… the level of the 41 homunculus maids within Nazaribsp;

  A guild base was divided in several ranks acc to its size, the dungeon difficulty prior to its capture, and various other factors. And the rank of the guild determihe amount of levels that could be distributed to the NPbsp;

  If a guild possessed a castle-grade guild base, the owning guild would be allowed 700 levels to be distributed between any number of NPCs they wanted.

  This limited the amount of NPC that they could create and forced guilds to sider the baween quality and quantity of their NPbsp;

  The restri, however, could be bypassed by either spending real money in-game, using a World Item, having the Guild master plete a special quest, and various other methods.

  And Ainz Ooal Gown had done much of them to create such powerful NPCs within Nazaribsp;

  Still, a limit still existed. But with Aika’s spell… it might be possible to break past that limit and increase the strength of their NPbsp;

  If Aika could indeed add onto their existing build and make them strohere would be no downside.

  They will gain the special bes from being a succubus while also gaining access to spells such as [Charm], various mind-trolling spells, and the natural ability to fly.

  This would keep them safer in this new world…

  ‘I’m sorry Whitebrim-san, Herohero-san, Coup De Grace-san…’

  Momonga apologized to his dear friends; the creators of the 41 homunculus maids. However, this was a new world with plenty of unknown dangers…

  And knowing them… they wouldn’t mind this ge if it meant that their daughters would gain the ability to protect themselves.

  Their loyalty belonging to Aika did not bother him for a bit, as he knew he could trust her. As members of the Multiverse Group Chat who had seen each others’ “story”, there would be no one he could trust if he did not trust his fellow members.

  “...I’ll be ting on you. And thank you, Aika.”

  At this moment, he was not a guild master worried for the sake of his subordinates. But a father worried for his children.

  Momonga lowered his head towards Aika, and gave her his heartfelt gratitude.

  Aika responded back with a nod and a bright smile.

  “Uhn~! I’ll do my best!”

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