Recaps

Roy chose to be reincarnated into Overlord’s pre-game world, planning to use Yggdrasil’s shutdown to cross into the New World with power and wealth. As his family’s heir struggle threatened to pull him in, he delayed his eldest brother’s offer and prepared to enter the game.

• Roy selected the Overlord world and was reborn as the eighth son of the wealthy Higuma Family, with ordinary talent and no desire to inherit the family business.
• Roy’s eldest brother Arthur confronted him for playing games and revealed that Roy owned three percent of the World Seed Bank’s shares.
• Arthur offered Roy a Dome City and a Robot Legion in exchange for the shares, but Roy asked for a month to investigate the other heirs and protect himself.
• Roy planned to transfer his inheritance to a charity connected to the Resistance if he died after crossing over, and intended to reject Arthur’s deal.
• With Yggdrasil due to shut down in seven days, Roy logged into the game.

Roy used his vast fortune to shape Yggdrasil without openly playing it, preserving the game’s history so he could benefit when it crossed over. He arranged a specialized level-100 build focused on unusual mechanics rather than combat stats.

• Roy logged into Yggdrasil, triggering a server-wide announcement and a rush of players seeking trades and gifts.
• Roy explained that he spent money instead of playing, and he avoided changing the game’s history because he wanted its original events to remain intact.
• Roy spent sixteen billion yen each year for ten years, earning a dedicated support team and arranging for Yggdrasil to close on schedule.
• Roy secured the unique [World's Richest Man] class and its costly [Silver Bullets of Allure] skill through his spending.
• Roy assembled a level-100 build combining merchant, recorder, observer, space, fate, time, and Immortal classes, prioritizing mechanics over combat strength.

Roy worked with Yggdrasil’s lead designer to create restricted divine items that paired with his unconventional classes, letting him exploit game mechanics without altering the 200 World Items. The chapter leaves him equipped with custom items, including armor that enables near-instant spatial teleportation, while he prepares to pursue even greater power through his guild.

• Roy rejected changes to his classes’ power and asked the designers to compensate with restricted, class-specific divine items.
• The designers created the Incredible Treasure Basin, which generated 10 billion gold coins daily, and the Incredible Flea Market, which let Roy buy items players had offered for sale.
• Roy demanded a standalone, updatable catalog of traded items, and Hideaki Matsuno agreed to turn the records into an encyclopedia despite preferring an API.
• Hideaki Matsuno presented the Incredible Armor, which teleported Roy to a castle when attacked and, with his Space Traveler class, reduced spatial teleportation time to nearly zero.
• Roy learned that the company had also prepared the Incredible Ring of Destiny, the Incredible Ring of Time, and other custom equipment.

Roy’s sons designed Incredible World City as a hidden network of ten top-tier guild bases, with Roy as the King of the World. Roy restricted the expansion’s quest triggers and then poured money into the guild, aiming to preserve every race, class, spell, and skill through its NPCs.

• Roy’s game team proposed ten guild bases across the Nine Radiant Worlds and a hidden World City on the moon, where players could eventually challenge him as a world boss.
• Roy required a Non-Aggression Pact so players could not trigger the King of the World quest until he launched an offensive, and the expansion consequently failed to attract players.
• Roy spent heavily to increase his guild’s base points, and Matsuno Hideaki showed him the World Crown, which boosted NPC capacity and made NPCs submit to Roy within World City.
• Roy learned that the World Crown had been intended as the final reward for a late-game guild quest, then asked for still more NPC points.
• Roy planned to use his NPCs to preserve examples of every race, class, spell, and skill rather than simply maximizing the guild’s fighting strength.

Roy bought 300,000 guild base points and commissioned ten thousand meticulously designed NPCs, including an elite team of researchers, while taking care not to disrupt Yggdrasil’s development. After five years of work, he turned his attention to overhauling his entire guild base.

• Roy negotiated with guilds to buy their paid base-point upgrades, using the World Merchant’s God of Contracts to enforce each deal.
• Bone King persuaded Ainz Ooal Gown not to sell its points, so Roy bought the upgrades from other guilds instead.
• Roy spent 13 billion yen to acquire 300,000 NPC points and commissioned professionals to design ten thousand NPCs.
• Roy ordered the NPC roster to include specialized researchers such as mathematicians, physicists, and AI experts, intending to explore their potential in reality.
• Matsuno Hideaki’s teams spent nearly five years completing the NPCs, while Roy rigorously reviewed their work and drove Tabula Smaragdina to exhaustion.
• Tabula Smaragdina used his generous pay to buy more NPC points and continue designing characters, while Roy began overhauling his guild base.

Roy spent years designing World City as a self-sufficient stronghold whose mechanics and NPCs could withstand overwhelming player attacks. He also planned to make the game’s fantastical crops and buildings real after crossing over, and concluded that he still needed to bring modern technology.

• Roy planned World City to house over ten thousand NPCs and their subordinates, with a million residents and enough resources to sustain itself.
• Roy and the game company designed elaborate defenses for the Nine Great Guilds, including mechanics that reset damage and teleport powerful intruders away.
• Roy tested the defenses against a million max-level players with help from the AI [Eve], then refined his NPCs’ tactics and equipment over several years.
• Roy planned to use the crossing to make super crops, longevity fruits, and other crafting creations real, including by accelerating time in farming areas.
• Roy filled World City with tens of thousands of crops and everyday goods, then realized that modern technology was another thing he needed to bring along.

As Yggdrasil neared shutdown, Roy met with Matsuno Hideaki and prepared to spend his final seven days collecting World Items with special items the designer had kept unreleased. Roy also ordered the company to track players buying large amounts of game items, wary that another powerful player could interfere with his plans to cross over.

• Roy finished recording human civilization's scientific knowledge in information crystals and logged in during Yggdrasil's final week.
• Matsuno Hideaki urged Roy to reveal himself as King of the World, but Roy refused, claiming he had promised to keep his palace hidden.
• Roy decided to collect the undiscovered World Items before shutdown, and Matsuno Hideaki offered him an Incredible Treasure Map with their locations.
• Roy asked for more unreleased items, and Matsuno Hideaki gave him an Incredible Monster Compendium and an Incredible Scroll of Miracles.
• Roy ordered Matsuno Hideaki to open a temporary top-up channel and track anyone spending large amounts to buy game items.

Roy acquired the Blood Oath of the Erinyes, Hall of the Valkyries, and Well of Wisdom by completing their hidden quests before the game shut down. He ended the chapter revealing that he sought the Well of Wisdom because it was connected to the World Tree Sapling.

• Roy defeated Megara the Fury and obtained the World Item Blood Oath of the Erinyes after completing the revenge quest.
• Roy used his NPCs, paid items, and hidden quest knowledge to defeat thirteen Valkyries and earn the Hall of the Valkyries.
• Roy accepted Brunhilde’s plea to save Odin, defeated Cursed Odin without striking the Head of Mimir, and received the Well of Wisdom.
• Roy explained that the Well of Wisdom let the thirteen Valkyries combine their power through Valkyries’ Bloom, then revealed that he wanted it because it was connected to the World Tree Sapling.

Roy led a party on a hidden quest to obtain the World Tree Sapling, uncovering Qin Shi Huang’s plan to escape the world’s destruction by claiming Xu Fu’s true Elixir. After Xu Fu disabled the seven required classes with his Senjutsu, Roy’s other NPCs continued the attack.

• Roy explained that the World Tree Sapling could be obtained only during the final seven days and that growing it required the Well of Wisdom.
• Roy assembled the seven required classes, including a Taoist who had previously handed an Elixir to Qin Shi Huang, and received an Imperial Edict to confront Xu Fu.
• Roy took ninety-nine NPCs into the Fusang Instance, where they overcame Xu Fu’s damage restrictions and defeated the labyrinth.
• Xu Fu offered the party more Elixirs, but Roy and the others refused and kept attacking.
• After losing his first health bar, Xu Fu used Spell-Prohibition Barrier to reduce the seven required classes’ damage to zero, so Roy relied on his other NPCs.

Roy defeated Xu Fu, obtained the Immortality Gourd, and challenged Qin Shi Huang for the World Tree Sapling. After winning the battle, Roy received Qin Shi Huang’s recognition and the Imperial Jade Seal, while claiming the sapling as the prize he sought.

• Xu Fu gave Roy the Immortality Gourd, and the Fusang Labyrinth collapsed as its core was removed.
• Xu Fu tried to merge with the World Tree Sapling, but Qin Shi Huang arrived, destroyed Xu Fu’s last remnant, and cut open the Fusang Ancient Tree to reveal the sapling.
• Qin Shi Huang demanded the World Tree Sapling, and Roy refused, agreeing to stake all his World Items in a battle for it.
• Roy summoned the Valkyries and used his knowledge of the quest to defeat Qin Shi Huang and the Great Qin Cavalry.
• Qin Shi Huang acknowledged Roy and gave him the Imperial Jade Seal, leaving Roy to examine the World Tree Sapling.

Roy planted the World Tree Sapling in World City and collected a dozen more World Items before meeting Surshana, who offered to let him experience Downfall of Castle and Country. Roy agreed to visit Surshana’s guild but clarified that he was not buying the item.

• Roy returned to World City with six World Items, including the World Tree Sapling, and planted the sapling in the guild.
• Roy gathered the Book of Final Judgment, Heaven’s Gate, Fallen Angel Wings, Hades’ Imprisonment, the Core of the Tower of Babel, the Yata Mirror, Ame-no-Murakumo, Yasakani no Magatama, the Veil of Divine Concealment, the Fair Arena, Raziel’s Mysterious Key, and Buddha’s Bodhi Tree.
• Roy stopped at a café for bitter coffee and encountered Surshana, a fellow player who would later become one of the Six Great Gods in the New World.
• Surshana offered Roy a chance to experience his guild’s World Item, Downfall of Castle and Country, for a hundred thousand yen.
• Roy agreed to visit Surshana’s guild but told him he was not buying the item.

Roy learned how the Cat Re-Estize Kingdom had built an insurance company to fund the Resistance’s nonviolent labor campaigns, though repeated employee firings had nearly bankrupted it. He refused to buy Downfall of Castle and Country and instead prepared to tell the six members secret information, intending to keep them in the game after the servers shut down.

• Roy recalled how Surshana and the other five members disguised their Resistance work behind the Cat Re-Estize Kingdom and its cat NPCs.
• Roy had encouraged Surshana to monetize the guild’s popularity and establish insurance to support workers who joined noncooperation campaigns.
• Surshana’s campaigns had won small improvements, including longer New Year’s holidays for Bone King, but compensation for fired workers had nearly exhausted the group’s funds.
• Surshana told Roy that the Resistance had only 500,000 yen left and offered to find another item if he disliked Downfall of Castle and Country.
• Roy declined to buy the item and warned the six members not to leak the secret information he was about to share.
• Surshana promised secrecy, and Roy prepared to deceive the group so they would remain in the game when the servers shut down.

Roy fabricated a shutdown reward scheme to keep Surshana and the other guild members online, equipped, and stronger during the final seven days before the game closed. After they set to work, Roy continued collecting World Items and obtained the twentieth, [Forbidden Fruit of Eden].

• Roy lied that level-100 players who met a Saint Quartz spending requirement would receive new-game invitations and gift packs, then hired the guild members to farm items and stay online at shutdown.
• Roy paid Surshana and Shining Angel Meow, gave them useful supplies and equipment, and instructed them to bring their World Items into the guild at the final moment.
• Roy gave the Red Short-Tailed Cat a Storage Bag of divine artifacts, and Surshana and Shining Angel Meow resolved to work hard and get the other four members online.
• Roy resumed gathering World Items and collected the twentieth item, [Forbidden Fruit of Eden].

Roy collected all one hundred World Items in Yggdrasil, including Laplace's Demon, and reveled in his new treasure trove. Meanwhile, Arthur learned that Roy had spent his days gaming and decided to act despite seeing him as no threat.

• Roy examined the Forbidden Fruit of Eden, the Book of Forbidden Magic, the Eye of Cthulhu, the Bottle of the Great Flood, and Ryza's Cauldron of the Sage, judging their uses and sealing away the dangerous Eye of Cthulhu.
• Roy continued collecting World Items and, after five days, obtained the hundredth item, Laplace's Demon.
• Roy admired his hundred World Items and lost himself in the pleasure of collecting them.
• Arthur's subordinate reported that Roy had spent more than sixteen hours a day playing Yggdrasil and had done little else.
• Arthur's butler questioned why Arthur worried about Roy, but Arthur insisted that the butler did not understand.

Arthur ordered an assassination of Roy after deciding his brother was secretly powerful and would not join his side. Roy prepared to leave the world through transmigration, setting a trap for Arthur and arranging to use Eve, the Megacorporation’s strongest AI, as an Automaton.

• Arthur concluded that Roy had deliberately hidden his abilities and ordered preparations to assassinate him if he refused to join within ten days.
• Roy had the game company ban players who were buying items with borrowed money and blacklist their identifying information.
• Surshana warned Roy that someone had offered money to monitor him, and Roy told the Resistance members to sell Arthur information while keeping their allegiance secret.
• Roy recorded a video blaming Arthur for his death and arranged for a public accusation to be released if he disappeared.
• Roy told Matsuno Hideaki to prepare an interface so he could rent Eve’s unused computing power and create an Automaton-Eve before transmigration.

Roy waited with Eve for Yggdrasil’s shutdown, hoping to cross into a new world with his game account and the powerful AI at his side. At midnight, World City shook, Roy felt his essence transform, and Eve’s eyes changed as if she had come to life.

• Roy activated Eve Aurora Cole’s full AI and explained that he had chosen her to help him master the powers of the worlds ahead.
• Eve tried to deduce Roy’s purpose, then diverted all her processing power to the puzzle despite disrupting other AI work.
• Roy reviewed Eve’s formidable commander build and watched the shutdown countdown while considering a nanite-enhancement backup plan.
• Roy confirmed with Surshana that the guild members were online, praised the sale of information, and told him the Information Crystals were for the group.
• Roy ended the message with Surshana and welcomed Eve to the New World as the server clock reached midnight.
• World City shuddered, Roy felt his essence transform, and Eve’s eyes changed as if she had gained new life.

After the game shutdown transported Roy and World City into the New World, Roy put Eve in charge of investigating their surroundings and ordered the cities to prepare for combat. Their first scan revealed an enormous Space Dragon resting outside World City’s hidden position on the moon.

• Roy's recorded confession exposed Arthur Higuma's assassination plot, and Arthur killed himself after his father abandoned him as a scapegoat for the Eve Group.
• The game shutdown and the Dragon Emperor's Wild Magic brought Roy, Eve, and other players into the New World, where Roy became ruler of World City.
• Roy ordered Eve to use the World Items [All-Seeing Eye] and [Laplace's Demon] to investigate and placed World City and the nine other great cities on combat readiness.
• Roy gave Eve the All-Seeing Eye, which revealed the barren lunar landscape surrounding World City and an enormous Space Dragon lying beside its entrance.

Roy discovered a colossal dragon on the moon that could sense the All-Seeing Eye, but it could not locate World City. He ordered Eve to gather intelligence and avoid provoking it, then went with Veronica to test his abilities in the arena.

• Roy shut down the All-Seeing Eye after the dragon sensed it, then used Time Observation to watch the dragon pretend to sleep while waiting for its unseen watcher.
• Eve reported that the dragon was about thirty kilometers long, possessed power beyond Super-Tier Magic, and might require the combined forces of all nine cities and World Items to defeat.
• Roy ordered the governors to stay alert, directed Eve to survey the surroundings and release Laplace's Demon if safe, and instructed research teams to study the world's physical constants.
• Veronica offered to probe or assassinate the dragon using her Shared Fate skill, but Roy refused to risk provoking it.
• Roy took Veronica to World City's sixteenth-floor arena to test his abilities, beginning with Silver Bullets of Allure.

Roy tested Silver Bullets of Allure against Kagura Inori in the arena and discovered that attacks behaved differently in reality than they had in the game. The experiment left him determined to gain real combat experience and master his powers.

• Veronica rebuked Kagura Inori for arriving late, but Roy forgave her and asked Veronica to teach the NPCs how to serve him properly.
• Kagura Inori activated the arena’s strongest protective barrier and prepared its pocket dimension for Roy’s experiment.
• Roy used Silver Bullets of Allure, spending a billion gold coins to unleash a storm of homing projectiles at Kagura Inori.
• Kagura Inori dodged most of the bullets, demonstrating that real combat let her reduce damage in ways the game’s fixed damage rules did not allow.
• Roy confirmed the skill retained its power and that the golden bullets remained recoverable, then recognized that he needed actual combat to master his abilities.

Roy trained with Kagura Inori to master his powers while Eve reported the nine cities’ surroundings and their governors’ plans. He ordered the cities to hold back and prioritize intelligence on the Slane Theocracy, then the Katze Plains, as he wondered how his actions had changed the world.

• Roy ordered Kagura Inori to spar with him and gradually increase the pressure as he practiced his classes, magic, and close combat.
• Eve reported that Sky City had appeared near the Slane Theocracy, and Roy approved her decision to stop Lucifer from displaying miracles without permission.
• Eve described Ocean City near the Holy Kingdom, Forest City near the Elf Country, Desert City near Eryuentiu, Mechanical City near dwarves, and Elemental City near the Orc and Giant Kingdoms, along with their governors’ proposals.
• Eve reported that Eternal Night City had appeared near the undead-filled Katze Plains, Golden City near the City-State Alliance, and Hell City in a magma-filled Underworld.
• Roy ordered the cities not to venture out yet, directing them to investigate the Slane Theocracy first and then survey the Katze Plains for powerful undead.

Roy trained with Kagura Inori to master his classes and improve his combat skills, then relaxed in the Royal Bath with Veronica. The training ended with Kagura Inori defeated, and Eve reported that her first intelligence briefing was ready.

• Roy practiced with Armed Merchant and learned to switch weapons while Kagura Inori corrected his combat mistakes.
• Roy trained in Gold Dominator, using Kagura Inori’s advice to develop ways to attack and defend with gold.
• Roy tested Observer and other classes, including how his Mysterious Battle Cloak made him harder to target.
• Roy stopped training and went to the bath with Veronica, leaving Kagura Inori bitter after her defeat in the Arena.
• Eve sent word that the first intelligence report had been compiled and asked Roy whether he wanted to hear it immediately.

Roy learned that the Slane Theocracy and other human nations had grown far stronger and more populous than in the original story because of changes he had set in motion. Eve suspected the Six Great Gods had been eliminated by a hidden enemy after investigating the destruction of the Inveria Kingdom, and Roy turned to ask about activity on the Katze Plains.

• Eve reported that the Slane Theocracy had more than forty million people, advanced agriculture, food reserves, and universal education, which Roy attributed to resources he had left behind.
• Eve recounted the Six Great Gods’ history, including their dealings with the Eight Greed Kings and the Death God’s disappearance after investigating the destruction of the Inveria Kingdom.
• Eve theorized that the Six Great Gods had been targeted after the Eight Greed Kings’ downfall, since investigating the deaths of millions in the Inveria Kingdom exposed them to a hidden enemy.
• Roy considered how the altered history had strengthened humanity while also increasing the number of people vulnerable to heteromorphs, then heard population figures for the Re-Estize Kingdom, Baharuth Empire, Roble Holy Kingdom, and Draconic Kingdom.
• Eve suggested secretly contacting the Slane Theocracy, but Roy asked whether the butterfly effect had caused any corresponding activity on the Katze Plains.

Roy investigated how his changes had altered the New World, learning that the Re-Estize Kingdom’s Warrior Captain, Gazef, had reached level 35 and was heading to subjugate the Wise King of the Forest. The chapter left Gazef and Brain at the troops’ camp in the Great Tob Forest as Gazef hesitated before the mission.

• Roy ordered Hela to secretly monitor the Katze Plains and the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and assigned Eve and Lucifer to investigate the Re-Estize Kingdom and Slane Theocracy.
• Eve reported that the Sunlight Scripture had split its forces between the Abelion Hills and the Draconic Kingdom, while Gazef had been sent to clear magical beasts from the Great Tob Forest.
• Eve explained that Slane Theocracy fertilizer had increased food production, lowered grain prices, and intensified the Re-Estize Kingdom’s land and refugee disputes.
• Eve revealed that Laplace’s Demon assessed Gazef at level 35 and that the Re-Estize Kingdom now had four Adamantite-ranked teams, prompting Roy to request information on all human Hero Realm fighters.
• At the Great Tob Forest camp near Carne Village, Brain asked Gazef what was troubling him before the mission to subjugate the Wise King of the Forest.

Gazef and Brain prepared to lead the Re-Estize Kingdom's effort to subjugate the Wise King of the Forest and develop the Great Tob Forest, despite rumors of other powerful beasts and a sealed Catastrophe Dragon Lord. As the army set out, an unseen magic caster watched their advance.

• Gazef and Brain discussed the Wise King of the Forest and their strength as hero-class warriors, while Brain agreed to join the mission partly to challenge Gazef again.
• The chapter explained how Surshana’s long-lived rule had helped establish training methods that allowed Gazef and Brain to reach the hero realm.
• Gazef warned Brain that the Great Tob Forest also held the Eastern Giant, the Western Demon Serpent, and a sealed monster known as the Dragon Lord of Destruction.
• Gazef explained that Rambasa III intended to use the forest’s development to support new nobles and strengthen the royal family’s authority.
• Gazef proposed locating the Catastrophe Dragon Lord’s seal and establishing a restricted zone around it before proceeding.
• The Re-Estize Kingdom’s army began moving into the forest while an unidentified magic caster watched them.

Ainz watched the Re-Estize Kingdom’s army and planned to rescue them if the forest’s monsters threatened them. After Gazef’s forces defeated and recruited the Wise King of the Forest, Ainz ordered Aura to send monsters against the army, while Laplace’s Demon secretly observed Ainz.

• Ainz rejected Albedo’s suggestion to capture soldiers and chose to observe the army before intervening.
• Gazef and Brain led the kingdom’s troops to challenge the Wise King of the Forest, and Gazef held it in place while Brain and the soldiers attacked.
• The Wise King of the Forest surrendered, and Gazef secured its pledge to serve the king and guard the forest.
• Brain reflected on Gazef’s willingness to take on difficult work and recognized how it had helped him grow.
• Ainz ordered Albedo to have Aura send monsters to pressure the army without causing excessive casualties.
• Laplace’s Demon watched Ainz as Ainz observed the Warrior Captain.