章 321: Chapter 50 : The Ebbing Flow Of Time

Thwack.

"Ugh...", a painful groan echoed from what appeared to be a short white haired man, stretching far in an endless expanse of darkness, after getting hit with a loud strike to the head.

"Again.", A commanding tone echoed through the same darkness, which appeared to have come from a light blue skin woman.

These two figures could be seen floating in the endless darkness, which was Rebirth's Void Space! Far off in the distance, one could see a majestic, towering black castle with several watchtowers hanging over its roof. A lush green grassy courtyard could be seen in its center. This was Hela's Castle, freshly brought inside Rebirth's Void Space! The White Palace was nowhere insight.

A couple years passed on in a blink of an eye since Nao entered the World Champion 512 Tournament. As for the figure that flew down to their death that day after they clashed with two Super tier spells, it was none other than Momonga. That's right, after that final clash, Nao officially defeated Momonga in a 1 on 1 PvP fight!

Once Nao was declared victor of that tournament, he moved on with the eight other World Champions, and fought till the last man standing. And like in the original, as well as Momonga losing, it was none other than Touch Me who won Helheim's spot. He was granted his white knight armor set, the same armor Momonga brandished against his fight against Shaltear. It was said to be a World Item armor set!

Nao even met Touch Me in battle as one of the nine World Champions. But like Momonga, even Touch Me fell to his death and couldn't keep up with Nao's spellcasting, despite being one of the best warriors in Yggdrasil.

Nao went all the way up that day, no one could match him. Not even the top three Guilds could, Trinity included. He was essentially a dark horse that was forgotten due to going into hiding before Nao's guild re-emerged.

Yet that time spent above the waters only lasted for a brief moment. After Nao won the tournament, he met with the admins. Even after being rewarded a few world items, several divine gear, and other miscellaneous goodies, the main prize was one wish from the admins themselves! This was far more valuable.

Nao had two wishes he wanted to use. He initially tested the waters with Wish Upon A Star, and that spell was indeed pretty limited, only about a list of two hundred wishes to choose from, but none of them would allow Nao to break an npc's level past 100. Nor would it let him upgrade his divine tier lamp into a world item. Most of them produced effects like preventing one from being spied on, reducing spell's cooldowns, extending inventory slots, adjusting one's job classes etc.

It made sense, since this spell couldn't affect World Items like Ainz stated while he was in the New World, and quickly came to the conclusion that Shaltear was being affected by a World Item when she got mind controlled.

So Nao tested the waters with Ouroboros. The admins were well aware he had this item, so when they came to him, they said Ouroboros could rewrite the coding of his soulfire lamp, but boosting an npc's level past its maximum was outside their coding. Yet thanks to the wish they rewarded him, they could make an exception to this, and design some coding specifically to the one npc Nao was going to create.

Nao asked if he could use Ouroboros at the same time to boost his soulfire lamp up a full tier, and the admins agreed to that too. This gave the lamp more efficacy, a wider control range, more slots to store souls and it could even house world enemies. It even boosted the damage output of its bluefire.

Not only that, it even allowed one to store three Super tier spells at once. They couldn't be fired off together, but only one at a time. One had to wait their full casting period too, but once it was stored, it could be used whenever.

As a result, Nao went on a world enemy hunting spree with his Guild, and captured a few world enemies into his lamp, enough to where they can protect the White Palace alongside the Valkyries. They would get resurrected by the time they arrive into the New World. Each of them was a world enemy, each having their own levels and stats, so Nao didn't have to worry about applying levels of his two Guild bases to the few world enemies.

Speaking of npcs, Nao officially used this passage of time to create all the npcs he wanted to with his two Guild bases. 13 Valkyrie guards. Hela. And last but not least, a body for Eve, which received the special coding to reach Lv3000. Of course the admins weren't aware of who Nao's npc was going to be. But regardless, Eve liked her new body and would pop in every now and then.

Bukubukuchagama also created the dark elf twins, and likewise, Tabula created the Albedo sisters. Tabula even wanted to go the original route, leaving Nigredo skinless. Nao was immediately against that, and gave her skin, and now she appears quite a beauty now compared to her two sisters, Albedo, and Rubedo. Of course, Rubedo would still be the strongest of the three.

Peroroncino officially had his welcome too, and joined Nao's family. He was giddy learning the fact that extraterrestrials existed, and like the two before him, he didn't stop asking questions.

Eve also officially had her talk with Nao and the girls too, and was welcomed into the family.

During these couple of years spent, besides amassing their treasury, welcoming people into the family, and hunting world items and enemies, Yggdrasil ended up meeting its downfall. The World Champion Tournament was its peak, and after that, players unfortunately started to lose interest in playing the game, after seeing all that it had to offer. Players fell off as the time went by.

So many, that the admins had to announce the shut down of Yggdrasil's servers. Guilds started to fall apart one by one. Members of Ainz Oowl Gown also left their Guild, leaving their belongings to Momonga, and chose to deal with real life. Though none of them knew that their world was going to end besides Nao's family.

Ainz Oowl Gown was soon left with but a few members. Touch Me and even Herohero decided to remain. Peroroncino also announced his leave which disappointed Ainz, but he wanted to join his sister. That was the pretext he used, but he would actually join Nao's family. Momonga thought he would leave to deal with real life, but learning otherwise, he was interested, but Momonga didn't stop him.

As mentioned earlier, it was from here Peroroncino was welcomed into Nao's family. Shortly after, he created Shaltear Bloodfallen, designing her to be as kinky as he wanted to suit his tastes he had from his favorite eroge. But Nao was also against this, and he adjusted her settings to be acceptable. Peroroncino couldn't help but accept this outcome.

Nao enjoyed everything Yggdrasil had to offer. He had met many new family members too. He and his family would be the ones to stick with Momonga until Yggdrasil "shut down" its servers.

Moving back to the present, in these three to last four years, Nao had spent time training daily with Vados. The two could currently be seen in their training session, deep within Rebirth's Void Space. It no longer had the White Palace either, it was successfully translocated into Yggdrasil. Hela's Castle replaced it inside the void space.

Vados could currently be seen manipulating her staff, letting it freely move around her body while spinning it at the same time. Earlier, she had sent it toward Nao, striking Nao in the head. He had tried to make a slight movement in attempt to dodge it, but it still struck him, creating a thwacking sound.

The staff spun and rotated quickly, flying out in front of him, before it circled around. Nao opened his eyes, only to see the staff fly right back at Vados. Vados didn't move an inch. Just as it was a breadth away, Vados gracefully tilted her neck, dodging the staff completely. It flew back beyond her body.

Nao was not quite at this point yet, but he had made a lot of progress. He then saw the staff spin once more, and as if it had a mind of its own, it landed back in Vados's hand.

"We will end it here for today. You've come quite a long ways, Nao."

"I can still go on for more though."

Yet right after Nao said that, Vados denied him.

"Ohoho, one mustn't rush to learn Ultra Instinct. Goku's case was special, he was under extreme pressure during it. One's heart must remain calm and conscious clear while practicing it. You've noticed your movements have gotten more fluid, haven't you?"

"Indeed I have. My reaction speed has not reached that level yet."

"That will come in due time. Goku also equated Ultra Instinct to a transformation, which causes a strain of excess energy. This releases huge amounts of heat, but on the upside, every sense and reaction of his is heightened to godly levels. The downside is he loses stamina very quickly.", Vados said as she approached Nao.

"But we're taking the proper method, learning Ultra Instinct while not equating it to a transformation. This way your body will receive its full benefits, without any losses."

"Yeah. And I guess rushing it could always cause something bad to happen."

"Exactly. And if you do develop the transformation after learning it, it is best to keep it as a trump card."

"Got it. Do you think I can finish learning it in these last couple of months before Yggdrasil is shut down for good? I want to give Goku and Vegeta a surprise, haha!"

"What would normally take a god countless years to learn, you've done so in just three. That alone is amazing progress, without being put under extreme pressure. A few more of our sessions would ought to do it."

"Excellent. The shut down is fast approaching, so let's use this time efficiently. It's only a couple months away."

"Understood. we will kick it up a notch then.", Vados replied with a smile.

She then approached Nao, leaning her head in. Nao soon found his lips pressed against hers, and Vados let her tongue dance around in his mouth for a few seconds. Nao was surprised by this sudden kiss, but he accepted, as it felt great. With a 'pop', she broke free.

"It won't be long until you've learned Ultra Instinct, so take that as a reward for your progress. A lot more will come after, hohoho.", Vados smiled with a laugh.

Nao simply nodded with a smile of his own. The two's training session was over, and they flew back to the black castle, which was their temporary residence until the transfer happened.

Yggdrasil's server was now set to shut down in just two month's time! Momonga was brooding over this fact as he continued to maintain Ainz Oowl Gown. He did consider leaving as an option as he had to deal with real life like everyone else did, but he would be the one to stay until the end.

Nao and his family would also stay until the end. Nao had lots of fun in these last eleven to twelve years, but time is relentless as always. The next part of their adventure would soon begin in the New World!

But before they would enter the New World, Nao was going to traverse back into the DBZ Plane with a select few of his family to catch up Goku, Vegeta, and the others!

After that, they would start the next part of their adventure. But little did Nao and his family would know that they would meet an unexpected guest. An unexpected guest who would hint towards planes beyond the next two he plans to travel in after Overlord...

Yggdrasil Arc FIN

A/N :Aht here! Note down here today!

This is the last chapter of the Yggdrasil Arc, yay!

I tried to wrap everything up but if I missed something, let me know!

Next couple of chapters will be side chapters which was explained previously. And one of them may or me not be a lemon scene featuring Nao, Caulifla and Kale, hehehe. These two are next in line.

Can you all guess who the unexpected character will be? I will give a hint : It is a girl from a vrmmo world, and is part of a popular anime/manga. But she herself is not part of said anime, she is only a game character. If I say she is an Integrity Knight, is that revealing too much? Haha.

The New World will soon be here!

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