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 leveled up to fifteen, reaching the maximum overall level of one hundred required at least seven classes. Unless they deliberately tried, it was difficult for any two players to end up with identical attributes.

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 general player base. After all, their appearances were hardly in line with human standards of beauty.

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

Ryan wore a white mage's robe. His ring-covered hand held the guild weapon that symbolized the guild, the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown, as he sat alone upon the World Item, the Throne of Kings.

If things had followed this world's original course, Suzuki Satoru should have been sitting here now. After midnight tonight, he would have traveled to another world with this guild base and begun his journey as the unrivaled Skeleton Overlord.

But now, Ryan was the one sitting here.

Suzuki Satoru was probably racking his brains over the company's sudden accident right now. Ryan had also used his authority as guild leader 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, rare tension rising within him.

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 all 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 still could not help feeling nervous.

"Nothing should go wrong, right?"

Ryan thought back over everything, and unease crept into his heart.

Three months ago, he had merely used one of the Twenty World Items, the Endless Serpent Ring, to request that the game operators increase every material in the guild warehouse to 999,999 units. He had also created a functional building, the Tower Spirit, and had the operators connect all the game's data to it.

At the same time, he had the operators remove level restrictions and every other limitation from all personnel belonging to Nazarick Great Tomb. Finally, he had asked for the locations of every World Item in the game and the methods for obtaining them, then spent money hiring people to acquire those World Items according to the guides. That was all.

He had followed the game rules completely. Sure, he had thrown money around to bribe the operators, but that was still within the rules, wasn't it? The Endless Serpent Ring's purpose was to make requests of the operators. Though they had the right to refuse excessive demands, they had not refused his.

Besides, it was already quite restrained of him not to have the operators create something capable of destroying stars or the universe with a single blow. More importantly, he was afraid that going too far would prevent the transmigration altogether.

According to his speculation, the principle behind the transmigration was still unknown, but YGGDRASIL's rules were definitely a crucial factor. Bringing along more items during the transmigration would not matter, but if even the fundamental rules changed, whether transmigration could still happen was impossible to say.

"There shouldn't be a problem. I followed the rules strictly!"

As the seconds ticked away, Ryan encouraged himself inwardly.

The temperament forged over ten years came into play at this moment. 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. Though the Guardians' loyalty was beyond doubt, Ryan still intended to modify their settings to ensure smoother future development.

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

First was Albedo, a beautiful woman whose race was that of an imp.

This Guardian Overseer, created by the guild member Tabula Smaragdina, possessed a World Item privately bestowed by him: Hell's Abyss. It had extremely powerful destructive effects against buildings and objects, capable of destroying a city in one blow, though it was somewhat less effective against living beings. She also wore the divine-class armor Hermes Trismegistus, a three-layered suit of armor, making her the strongest shield of all 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 together with in-game materials to craft whatever weapons and items they wanted.

Weapons and items were categorized according to their data size. The larger the data size, the higher their rank.

From lowest to highest, they 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 Items.

World 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 balance of the system and even contact the operators to alter the game's systems. Yet because they were too powerful, World Items known as the Twenty were all single-use items.

Ryan had currently collected a total of 137 World 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 praising Albedo's various talents to the heavens in her settings, he saw the final line—"also a slut"—and hesitated before deleting it.

She was one of the highest-ranking figures in his future faction. Having such a trait was simply too embarrassing.

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

She looked like an adorable little girl, but when she grew excited, she revealed her truly terrifying appearance. Given the innate characteristics of a True Ancestor, having her guard the graveyard spanning the first through third floors was a perfect fit.

The Guardian of the fourth floor was a strategic siege golem named Gargantua by the guild members. It stood over thirty meters tall and had no self-awareness. It was also the only Floor Guardian not created by guild members, but 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. His race was Insect King, and he was one of the few in Nazarick Great Tomb with a positive justice value.

He could skillfully wield every weapon and unleash tremendous power with them. Among Nazarick's four NPCs most proficient in close combat, he possessed the strongest offensive power. He was also the Floor Guardian of the fifth-floor glacier, and Ryan added the setting of a 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 manipulating earth and nature magic. Bukubukuchagama had given them a gap-moe setting: a girl dressed as a boy and a boy dressed in women's clothing.

Ryan merely added the trait of magical genius to them before turning his attention 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 extraordinarily loyal to the protagonist, Suzuki Satoru, but he had a habit of wildly overinterpreting ordinary remarks, earning him the online nickname Demiurge the Overthinker.

Besides strengthening his base settings, Ryan also slightly limited his tendency to overthink. He did not want this fellow to someday make a huge fuss because he had spun one of Ryan's casual remarks into something outrageous.

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

In Ryan's settings, Alva was a Mind Flayer who looked like an elderly human man, an unparalleled genius in research. He could rapidly learn any field of study and develop new ideas from it.

The entire eighth floor was both his laboratory and Nazarick Great Tomb's final line of defense. The mechanisms and traps within were so insane that calling them deranged would not be an exaggeration.

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

Huu—

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

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

And now, it was time to await fate's judgment.

Ten seconds passed quickly. When Ryan opened his eyes again, the corners of his lips could not help but curl into a smile.