Details of Nazarick Great Tomb

"YGGDRASIL" was an extremely free virtual reality game.

It had over two thousand basic and advanced job classes. Since each class could be raised to a maximum of fifteen levels, reaching the overall level cap of one hundred required at least seven different classes. Unless they deliberately tried, it was difficult for any two players to end up with identical builds.

Of course, that conclusion only applied to human races. Players who created heteromorphic races also had racial levels, but heteromorphic races had always been rejected by the majority of players because their appearances simply did not suit human aesthetics.

Ainz Ooal Gown's guild base, the tenth underground floor of Nazarick Great Tomb, Throne Room.

Ryan wore a white mage's robe. In his ring-covered hand, he held the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown, the guild's symbol, as he sat alone upon the world-class item, the Throne of Kings.

If this world had followed its original course of development, Suzuki Satoru should have been sitting here right now. After midnight tonight, he would have crossed into another world with this guild base and begun his journey as the supreme undead overlord.

But now, Ryan was the one sitting here.

Suzuki Satoru was probably wracking his brain over the company's sudden accident right now. Ryan had also used his authority as guildmaster to kick the other guild members out, ensuring that whether anyone logged in during this final moment or not, they would be unable to affect the final outcome.

"The final moment."

Ryan murmured softly, feeling a rare sense of nervousness.

He had spent a full ten years preparing for this moment!

Over those ten years, he had never slept more than six hours a day. He had poured every ounce of his energy into figuring out how to gain the greatest possible benefits without affecting the transmigration.

He had made countless guesses and preparations, yet now that the moment had arrived, he could not help feeling nervous.

"Nothing should go wrong, right?"

Ryan thought back over everything and could not help feeling a little uneasy.

Three months ago, he had merely used the world-class item known as one of the Twenty, the "Endless Serpent Ring," to request that the operators increase every material in the guild warehouse to 999,999,999 units. He had also created a functional building, the Tower Spirit, and had the operators connect all data from the entire game to it.

At the same time, he had the operators remove the level limits and every other restriction on all personnel belonging to Nazarick Great Tomb. Finally, he had asked for the locations of every world-class item in the game and the methods for obtaining them, then spent money hiring people to acquire those world-class items according to the guides. That was all.

He had followed the game rules completely. Sure, he had spent money to bribe the operators, but it was still within the rules, wasn't it? The Endless Serpent Ring's function was to make requests of the operators. Although they had the right to refuse excessive demands, they had not refused this one.

Besides, it was already quite restrained of him not to ask the operators to create something capable of destroying planets or even the universe with a single blow. Of course, the main reason was that he feared going too far and making transmigration impossible.

According to his guesses, the principle behind the transmigration was still unknown, but YGGDRASIL's rules were definitely a crucial factor. Bringing more things along during transmigration should not matter, but if even the fundamental rules changed, whether transmigration could still occur would truly be hard to say.

"There shouldn't be any problems. I followed the rules strictly!"

As time ticked away second by second, Ryan encouraged himself inwardly.

The composure tempered over ten years finally came into play. He raised his head and checked the time.

23:17:52

"Forty-two minutes left. That's enough."

Ryan had long since gathered the Floor Guardians of Nazarick Great Tomb beneath the throne. Although the Guardians' loyalty was beyond question, he still intended to make some adjustments to their settings so that future development would proceed more smoothly.

For example, he would add traits such as peerless genius.

First was Albedo, a beautiful woman of the imp race.

This Guardian Overseer, created by the guild member Tabula Smaragdina, possessed a world-class item that Tabula Smaragdina had privately bestowed upon her: Hell's Abyss. It had extremely destructive effects against buildings and objects, capable of destroying an entire city in one strike, though it was somewhat less effective against living creatures. She also wore the divine-class armor Hermes Trismegistus, a three-layered suit of armor, making her the strongest shield in all of Nazarick Great Tomb.

This divine-class armor had also been created by Tabula Smaragdina. In YGGDRASIL, monsters did not drop weapons. Instead, they dropped data crystals, which players used alongside in-game materials to craft the weapons and items they wanted.

Weapons and items were distinguished by the amount of data they contained. The more data an item held, the higher its rank.

From lowest to highest, the ranks were low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, top-grade, legacy-grade, relic-grade, legendary-grade, divine-grade, and finally world-class, along with guild weapons capable of rivaling world-class items.

Among them, world-class items were the most special items in the game, with only two hundred in existence.

The strongest among them were known as the Twenty. Each possessed the power to disrupt the system's balance and even contact the operators to alter the game system. However, because they were too powerful, the world-class items known as the Twenty were all single-use items.

Ryan had collected a total of 137 world-class items, including twelve of the Twenty. The rest either could not be bought regardless of how much money he offered, or were simply too difficult to obtain. Even with guides, he could not acquire them within three months.

Still, Ryan was already quite satisfied. After exaggerating Albedo's talents to the heavens in her settings, he looked at the final line—"also a slut"—hesitated, and deleted it.

After all, she was one of the top executives of his future faction. Having such a trait would be far too embarrassing.

The second NPC to be modified was Shalltear Bloodfallen. She was the Guardian of the first through third floors of Nazarick Great Tomb, a True Ancestor who wielded the divine-class weapon Spuit Lance. Her combat power ranked among the best of all the Guardians.

She looked like a cute little girl, but when she became excited, she revealed her true terrifying appearance. Given the characteristics of True Ancestors, having her guard the graveyards of the first through third floors was quite fitting.

The Guardian of the fourth floor was a strategic siege golem named Gargantua by the guild members. Over thirty meters tall, it had yet to gain self-awareness and was the only Floor Guardian not created by guild members. However, its strength was not to be underestimated. It was the number one powerhouse in Nazarick Great Tomb!

Cocytus was the third NPC to be modified. He was an Insect King and one of the few beings in Nazarick Great Tomb with a positive karma value.

He could skillfully use every weapon and unleash tremendous power with them. Among the four NPCs of Nazarick most proficient in close combat, he possessed the highest attack power. He was also the Floor Guardian of the fifth floor's glacier, so Ryan added the setting of commander to him.

The fourth and fifth NPCs to be modified were Aura Bella Fiora and Mare Bello Fiore, the Floor Guardians of the sixth-floor forest.

They were dark elves, each skilled at commanding magical beasts and controlling earth and nature magic. Bukubukuchagama had given them a gap-moe setting: a girl dressed like a boy and a boy dressed in women's clothing.

Ryan merely added the trait of magical genius to them before turning his gaze to the next Guardian.

Demiurge was a highest-tier demon with an exceptionally evil character setting. He was also the most intelligent person in all of Nazarick Great Tomb. In the original story, he was extremely loyal to Suzuki Satoru, the protagonist, but he tended to wildly overinterpret even ordinary remarks, earning him the online nickname "Demiurge the Overthinker."

Besides strengthening his existing settings, Ryan also slightly restricted his ability to overthink. He did not want some casual remark of his to make this fellow imagine something outrageous and cause a huge commotion someday.

According to the original story, the Guardian of the eighth floor should have been Victim, a Great Angel of only level thirty-five. However, Ryan's arrival had changed that setting. Alva, the level one hundred NPC personally designed by Ryan, replaced the original Guardian.

In Ryan's settings, Alva was a mind flayer who appeared as an elderly human man. He was an extraordinary genius in research, capable of quickly learning any field of study and developing new ideas from it.

The entire eighth floor was both his laboratory and Nazarick Great Tomb's final line of defense. Calling its mechanisms and traps utterly insane would not be an exaggeration.

The final NPC to be modified was Sebas Tian, a dragonkin butler. Under Touch Me's settings, he possessed an extremely kind nature. He normally managed the royal suites on the ninth floor and the Throne Room on the tenth floor of Nazarick Great Tomb. His subordinates included the Pleiades and forty-one maids. He himself possessed tremendous combat power, and his unarmed fighting could even be called the best. Ryan deliberately added settings such as martial arts genius, mastery of multiple martial arts styles, and perfect butler.

Huu—

Letting out a long breath, Ryan looked at the less than ten seconds remaining, closed his eyes, and silently counted down.

The other NPCs had already been modified a month ago. The ones he had just modified were deliberately saved for this final stretch, the hardest period to endure.

And now, all he could do was wait for fate to pass judgment.

The ten seconds passed quickly. When Ryan opened his eyes again, the corners of his mouth curled into an uncontrollable smile.