Hoping for a miracle.

Chapter 1

The year is 2126, the era of virtual reality gaming in thriving with different DMMO-RPGs taking over the gaming world. The most popular and evolved of these games goes by the name of YGGDRASIL. Its mechanics, as well as the gameplay, stood far above the rest of the competitors, which only increased its popularity across the globe.

After an intense 12-year run, thanks to the extremely high server maintenance costs as well as the decreasing number of players, the game developers were forced to make a difficult and heartbreaking decision of closing YGGDRASIL for good.

However, something completely unexpected, yet very amazing happened on that final day of YGGDRASIL, for the last of the remaining players at least.

22:57 pm

On the last day of YGGDRASIL, an hour before the shutdown, the one hailed as the Demon of Great Disaster, Ulbert Alain Odle, one of the 41 members of the infamous heteromorph guild of Ainz Ooal Gown, was walking calmly through the 10th floor of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, which was the guild base of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Ulbert Alain Odle was, obviously a human player, but in the game his avatar was a level 100 demonic magician boasting with extremely high firepower.

Ulbert's game avatar was a grey humanoid goat with beautiful S shaped horns, and in place of his fingers were very sharp claws. He was clothed in a dark red suit and half pants of the same material and color, the right side of his face was covered by a red mask and on top of his head laid a dark beau. As he walked, he was joyfully swinging around the beautiful black cane with golden ornaments on its tip.

All of his clothes and even his staff were divine class equipment, which was the most powerful rank of any item that a simple player of the highest level could possibly make, this rank was only outranked by guild weapons, world champion equipment and world items that were the most powerful by far in the entire game for world items were items born from entire worlds.

Obviously, Ulbert wasn't just a simple level 100 player, he was actually a wielder of a rare class known as [World Disaster], which gave him access to world disaster magic, which outclassed every other spell in the game, including Super Tier magic, which was the highest tier of magic a pure type magic caster could possibly hope to achieve. This fact alone made him a very dangerous and powerful player. Of course, among all the [World Disaster] class wielders of YGGDRASIL, Ulbert was known as the most powerful user of this particular class.

But that doesn't mean that he is automatically the 'strongest'. Far from it, actually. There were far greater monsters in the great sea known as YGGDRASIL, they were players who wielded powerful classes such as [World Champion], [Holy Banisher], [Ragnarok] and even [Eclipse]. and those were only players, the true monsters of this game were known as [World Enemies], immensely powerful boss monsters that could destroy entire worlds by their lonesome.

If all of those beings were included in a ranking of strength, then Ulbert would amount to 4/10 in strength, with the [World Eater], the mightiest of the world enemies, being 15/10. But that does not mean that victory is impossible. Ulbert, with his 40 comrades from Ainz Ooal Gown have battled many of these mighty monsters and even defeated them, including a world enemy, though he was not the strongest, the boss was still very powerful for it had done something that even a legion of 1500 strong high level players and NPCs could not do, the boss had nearly destroyed Nazarick, and that alone said the strength of such a creature.

But those were just facts and memories of the past, currently none of these achievements mattered to Ulbert, what he was after was something else, he had just returned to the game after a very long time and now, after having returned his old equipment from the treasury of Nazarick, and having had his laugh after seeing for the first time his leader's creation, the level 100 doppelganger NPC, Pandora's Actor, Ulbert was now thinking of going to his own floor within the great tomb to find his own created NPCs and spend his time with them before the server shut down, which would follow in but a single hour's time.

''Hmm... right.'' muttered Ulbert quietly as he recalled an item that was currently collecting dust in his inventory. He stretched out his hand and reached into what seemed to be an empty space, but then his hand disappeared into a dark mist, which was his item box where unlimited storage existed for player to store their items in. He soon recalled his arm out of the now gone mist of darkness, and in his hand now he held a golden ring with a crimson ruby on its head. It was an item, which some of the members of the guild called the 'bullshit ring', though its real name was [Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown]. The guild had created 100 such rings with a single ring given out to each of the members of the guild, the rest of the 59 rings were meant for other players that might some day join the guild, which never really happened.

The [Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown] is called the 'bullshit ring' because of its ability which allows the wielder of this item to freely teleport through out the entire Great Tomb of Nazarick, the guild base hailed as impenetrable and unreachable fortress, by even a legion of over 1500 high level players and NPCs.

'I can use this instead.' thought Ulbert before activating its ability, thus teleporting himself to the seventh floor of Nazarick, which was his own creation by the way.

What greeted his eyes was a fiery landscape of ruin and chaos, it was HELL. Ulbert puffed up his chest with pride as he gazed at his excellent masterpiece, which he had created years back, but this was not the true reason for why he had decided to come here. He had come here not to visit the floor itself, but the ones who guarded it, his own creations, his NPCs.

Soon having walked some distance, Ulbert arrived at his castle, where he entered the throne room, in which upon the golden throne sat a tall man with long ears and a metal tail behind his back, he was clothed in a red suit.

''Hello, Demiurge... my creation.'' said Ulbert immediately after entering the throne room. The NPC, Demiurge, commanded by Ulbert rose from the golden throne allowing Ulbert to sit upon it, and immediately after seeing his master seated upon the golden throne, he knelt. Ulbert commanded the rest of his NPCs to come before him as well, and after a minute or two, seven more NPCs with monstrous and demonic appearances entered the throne room. Having arrived, the NPCs all knelt before Ulbert as one.

'I could've done this on the throne room of the tenth floor of Nazarick... but that place should be reserved only for leader.' thought Ulbert as he recalled his friend, the overlord Momonga.

If every member of the guild would have to name another two members of their guild of which one they liked the most and the other one who they disliked the most, Ulbert felt like he would be able to answer this question immediately and without any problems or hesitation. Out of all the 41 members of the guild, Ulbert considered Momonga to be his best friend for he was the only one who truly understood his pain. Both of them were the trash of society, their lives sucked, their jobs were trash, their bosses were trash, their family members were all dead and the only real friends that they had were here in YGGDRASIL. These facts alone made Ulbert and Momonga like soulmates, which Ulbert enjoyed calling himself and Momonga very often.

This was also the reason why he hated the [World Champion] of their guild, Touch Me. The prick had everything in life, nice job, great family and a top spot in his fucking favorite game of all time! Life was unfair, and Ulbert knew it, but even then Touch Me was still a prick to him. He hated him, but he was still the man that brought him and Momonga together, thus he couldn't complain about everything with him.

'Still, I hate that guy.' thought Ulbert as he recalled the prick (Touch Me) who had dared saving the mighty Demon King, Ulbert Alain Odle, from a fucking low level BOSS! That was the most embarrassing moment of his life, he could still recall his friends, including Momonga, laughing and making fun of him as he, the Demon King, was saved by a heroic paladin! For fuck sake, WHY, just why did he have to princess-carry HIM like that!?

'YEAH... I REALLY HATE HIM.' thought Ulbert while gritting his teeth as he recalled perhaps the most embarrassing moment of his entire life.

After a ten or twenty minutes of anger and happiness from recalling various memories passed, Ulbert finally returned to reality where he was still seated upon the golden throne with eight of his NPCs still kneeling before him.

Each of the seven NPCs was a level 90 Evil lord, a demon of the highest order just like Ulbert and Demiurge are, the only difference between the seven Evil lords and Demiurge was that Demiurge was the only level 100 NPC that Ulbert had made.

''Perfect.'' he muttered quietly as he admired his creations, his work of art, which was the entirety of the seventh floor of Nazarick together with its denizens.

But this is not the only thing that made this entire scene perfect, the reason for his true happiness was the fact that during the final day before the server shutdown, Ulbert had found on the store three world items being sold there for cheap, seeing what these world items were, Ulbert had purchased them immediately and used one of them up already, the one known as Ouroboros.

Ouroboros, a world items of the Twenty, the Twenty are a group of the mightiest and most powerful by far world items ever found in the game. Ouroboros for one, had the ability to grant its user any single wish, which could very well change the very mechanics of the game itself. He, of course, being the crazed magic caster that he is, wished for an unlimited amount of MP, which of course was granted to him almost immediately. And as the one player who was hailed to possess the highest firepower of spells within the entire game, Ulbert, with his now unlimited amount of MP, destroyed the one guild, which he had always hated, the plague of YGGDRASIL, the reason for such a terrible nickname was the particular guild's name and overall theme, which was [Kitten Kingdom], it was the one guild that easily brought great shame upon all of the players of YGGDRASIL, especially those who traded or even conversed with the guild.

The guild was disliked by many, especially roleplayers such as Ulbert Alain Odle and Momonga who were the two biggest most crazed roleplayers in the guild. Though Momonga was more of a normal type of roleplayer who only wanted to have a roleplaying character build, but Ulbert desired it all, character and personality, to which his chuuniu personality assisted him greatly.

The second world item however, brought even more joy to Ulbert, for this item had the ability to cast [World Break], the ultimate and most powerful skill of a [World Champion] class player such as Touch Me, who Ulbert truly disliked, hated even. This item's name was [Grand Breach], and it allowed user to activate the skill [World Break], the skill that could cleave through the very fabric of space and time, once per one hour. It was a truly broken item and served very well as a trump card in cases of emergencies, but the only thing that Ulbert could think about now was how he would pvp that heroic fucker and out of nowhere activate [World Break], the favored skill of that prick Touch Me, and make him rage quit the game during the last day of YGGDRASIL.

'But that won't happen, huh... well, no biggy.' thought Ulbert before shrugging his shoulders.

And now, the third world item. The item is called [Ring of Solomon], and it is one hell of an item, for it possessed the ability to reflect any and all magic, including Super Tier magic, back to the cast with three times of the spell's original power. And for someone as demonic and cruel as Ulbert Alain Odle, this item truly improved his horrific image of a Demon king.

Even now, after 6 or so hours have passed, Ulbert can still recall the outrage of the level 100 magic casters, and especially clerics, as they each bombarded Ulbert with every single high damage dealing spell that they knew, only to have them bounce back at them with triple the power.

Oh the outrage that had soon turned to fear, from which it had turned to complete and utter despair as each of the magic casters of the [Kitten Kingdom] desperately looked at their own guild base turn to nothingness by a single player, who they could do nothing about.

The fact that it happened to them on the very last day of the game had brought even more joy to Ulbert, and even more despair to the members of the [Kitten Kingdom], its just sad that the game was about to end, that was the only disappointment for Ulbert.

''Hmm...'' hummed Ulbert as he recalled the soon to come shut down of the game, and soon looked at the holographic timer on his screen.

23:58:59

''A single minute, huh?'' muttered Ulbert, before relaxing into his throne.

He was thinking of making some grand finale, but then decided that ruining the seventh floor would kinda suck, and thus he decided that having eliminated the trash of a guild was enough.

With such thoughts in his mind, Ulbert relaxed his shoulders and rested comfortably upon his golden throne of authority.

But just as he was thinking of relaxing and enjoying the last moments of YGGDRASIL. It hit him like a bullet in the heart...

''Damn it!'' he yelled slamming his hand upon the side of his throne. Only now did he realize what this meant. Only now did he understand what was about to happen to him.

''Damn that shit hole of a world.'' He muttered angrily as he recalled that after YGGDRASIL ends, he will return to his trash of a world where he will be used up by the strong oppressors and sooner or later thrown out like the rest of the 97% of trash in the world.

23:59:47

Ulbert raised his head upward with his gaze glued to the sky above, behind the ceiling of the throne room, behind the virtual sky, and behind stars themselves.

'I-If only I were Ulbert Alain Odle... for real.' he thought to himself wishfully, and despite the fact that that was just wishful thinking and that something like that would never happen, he still hoped, he dared to hope.

23:59:57, 58, 59...

And then it happened.

00:00:00, 1, 2, 3...

''Huh...?''

So yeah, another story. This time about the Demon of Great Disaster - Ulbert Alain Odle!

And I'm saying right now that he will NOT be getting transported to the New World, but instead... to the so called Demon Realm, which thus far has been but a myth among the New World inhabitants!

Ulbert shall start his conquest in the Demon Realm, hope you enjoy!

- BTW, It will take some time until the next chapter, see you then!