Ainz Ooal Gown: Noble Knight

Ainz Ooal Gown: Noble Knight

Author: writer ut7XXL

Summary:

Knowing the plot, Aragaki Tomoya made ample preparations for the upcoming mass transmigration of YGGDRASIL game players, but he never expected that he would be reborn into another world as a transmigrator.

"They've been set up by capital. How are they supposed to survive the impending arrival of Ainz Ooal Gown?"

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Chapter 1 The Eve of Transmigration

As night fell, the city skyline seemed to be blurred by a gray filter.

Thick black smoke billowed from the distant factory chimneys, obscuring the starry sky that should have been shining. The scene, which resembled the end of the world, was all too common in this world.

After finishing a day's work, Tomoya Aragaki walked briskly through the dilapidated streets, where a low-rent apartment came into view.

The dilapidated apartment seemed cheap even in this low-rent area, and most of the tenants were manual laborers with meager incomes. Aragaki Tomoya, with his high education and a decent job, was clearly an outlier.

However, Tomoya's friends generally understood the reason for his frugal lifestyle: he would spend most of his salary on a game called YGGDRASIL, a DMMO-RPG.

YGGDRASIL was launched in 2126 AD. It uses the Internet and nanotechnology to make people feel as if they are in the real world in the virtual world. Its exceptionally wide range of gameplay freedom has attracted a large number of players.

However, this glory only lasted for twelve years, and now its life is coming to an end.

Upon entering the room, Aragaki Tomoya breathed a sigh of relief after removing the disinfectant mask he always wore when going out.

“Even after more than thirty years in this world, I still don’t feel comfortable here. But all of this is about to end.” Aragaki Tomoya looked at the calendar hanging on the wall.

In this exceptionally simple room, this calendar is practically the only decoration, with the circled date clearly showing today—the day YGGDRASIL shuts down.

"I've been preparing for this day for twelve long years!" A slightly manic voice came from Tomoya's mouth. "Finally, finally I can get rid of this oppressive environment."

That's right, Aragaki Tomoya is not a native of this world, but rather a traveler from Earth.

After being transported to this world by a time-traveling semi-trailer on the road in his previous life, Tomoya always thought that this was a future timeline or a parallel world.

Thanks to his knowledge from his previous life, Tomoya successfully passed the highly competitive exams of this world and entered university. After graduation, he managed to become a mid-level manager. Even so, the high pressure and harsh environment still made Tomoya suffer greatly.

Until twelve years ago, YGGDRASIL suddenly appeared, awakening Tomoya's long-dormant memories. Since then, Tomoya has devoted almost all of his free time and money to YGGDRASIL.

After YGGDRASIL officially announced the server shutdown, he even sold his house and took advantage of the initial panic during the shutdown to buy a large amount of game resources and world-class items at low prices.

With this wave-guided, GO-level maneuver, Tomoya quickly accumulated a massive amount of game resources that would be considered enormous by the average player.

Although other players might see this as simply being a sucker, Zhi knew that these seemingly useless data codes would soon become real wealth.

After hastily finishing the last piece of bread in the house, Aragaki Tomoya put on his gaming helmet.

My consciousness went blank for a moment, and when I regained it, the world in front of me had changed from a small bedroom to a magnificent church.

The Cathedral of Faltier is a large guild that Tomoya Aragaki successfully joined in the later stages of the game. After most of the guild members quit the game, Tomoya Aragaki successfully became the guild leader.

Compared to struggling to build a small guild from the start to the end of the game, it's clearly more cost-effective to leverage existing resources, join a large guild in the late game, and then become its leader.

The best approach in the early stages is to focus on exploring the almost endless job combinations in YGGDRASIL, as well as the hidden jobs that haven't been revealed yet.

This was Tomoya's initial plan, but after Tomoya unexpectedly obtained a world-class item, an even crazier plan emerged in Tomoya's mind.

Looking at the empty guild, Tomoya touched the "Ring of the Eternal Serpent (Ouroboros)," one of the "Twenty" supreme world-class items on his hand. 'With the permissions I requested from the management, if everything goes smoothly...'

Suddenly, a message from a friend in the GM communication system interrupted Tomoya's train of thought.

"How much do they really like this game? I see the group leader every time I log in." - by Sirsana

"Didn't I tell you to get some rest after get off work? Why are you still playing?" - Judgment Knight

"Team leader, you're criticizing me, but you're clearly playing around too."

"As expected, the team leader didn't want to miss the server shutdown either." - by Sirshana

In the original work, Sirshana's ending was not good, but regardless of his actions in the original work or his performance as a member of the work group in the real world, there is no doubt that Sirshana's character is noble.

Even the most despicable person would not refuse a noble friend.

"Would you like to come over and join us?"

"Team leader, would you like to come over and join us?"

A few seconds of silence.

"Forget it, team leader, everyone's here. Why does the team leader have to insist that the guild is too weak and go to that new guild?"

"It would be so much more fun if we were all together. Team leader, you're such a power-hungry player..." - by Sirsana

Sirsana was still there, babbling on and on.

"Your salary will be deducted tomorrow." —by Judgment Knight

As the team leader in reality, Tomoya knows all too well Selshana's weaknesses.

"Ya...Ya Mie!!~~" by Sirshana

Ignoring Selshana's pleas for mercy, Tomoya glanced at the world-class resurrection item, "Yggdrasil Fruit," and said, "Dare to disobey your leader? You'll really have to be punished."

This was also a world-class item acquired when the server was shut down. Although it wasn't one of the "twenties," the strength of a world-class item was enough to revive Sirshana as long as he wasn't killed by the "Twenties" Saint-Slaying Spear.

Having made ample preparations, Aragaki Tomoya no longer considered the issue of Selshana and silently waited for time to pass.

The server shutdown time is getting closer and closer.

"23:59:58"

"Is it finally here?"

"23:59:59"

"My New Life"

"00:00:00"

"Hehehehehehe"

Chapter 2 New Life? Newborns!

In the 225th year of the Kingdom Calendar, the capital of the Kingdom of Rijestij.

Inside the Eindora family mansion, a six-year-old child stares blankly out the window at the azure sky, utterly dejected.

The white clouds, as light as feathers, float leisurely in the azure sky, which is vast and deep, like an endless sapphire.

"It's so beautiful, but unfortunately we don't have much time left."

The boy murmured softly, his lovely face devoid of a smile, replaced by a melancholy beyond his years. A gentle breeze ruffled his loose, golden hair, as if trying to pull his mind away from his endless worries.

The boy was none other than Aragaki Tomoya. He was supposed to be the president of a large guild with more than ten world-class items, ruling the world in a fantasy novel, but he was unexpectedly reborn into a noble family in the Kingdom of Riestie in this world.

Having lost all his power, and with combat strength comparable to that of the natives, Tomoya Aragaki is not only unlikely to become a king, but it's also questionable how he will survive in Ainz Ooal Gown's clutches.

Over the course of six years, Tomoya pondered countless reasons that led to his own downfall.

"Could it be that YGGDRASIL has a serious bug? When the servers shut down, the Asgard world I logged into had a bug, causing me to arrive here naked? Perhaps I'm not the only player experiencing this? Players who arrive at max level and with full equipment are a minority?"

"So, if I had listened to Selshana and stayed with them through the war, I would be one of the Seven Great Gods of the Theocracy," Aragaki Tomoya lamented.

Although doing this would prevent the cathedral of Faltil from being transported with us, it's still much better than being naked like this.

"So, you ended up punishing me, Hakisha?" Aragaki Tomoya forcibly stopped this train of thought, knowing he'd fall out if he kept thinking about it. "Or maybe, which old dragon king conducted some kind of primordial magic experiment and summoned me to another world?"

This is not impossible. In my previous life, no, I should say the life before that, there were rumors that the strongest Dragon Emperor accidentally opened a connection between two worlds while studying primordial magic. This was known as the "Dragon Emperor's Filth," which caused a new batch of players to descend every hundred years or so, known as the "Hundred-Year Aftershock."

There are also rumors that the Dragon Emperor deliberately opened the connection because he coveted the power of a world-class artifact. Regardless of the reason, Primal Magic is undeniably involved.

Although the new generation of dragon kings cannot use primordial magic, there are still a few old dragon kings who can.

"Maybe some Dragon King was trying to use primordial magic to shut down the connection, and just happened to trap me?" Aragaki Tomoya couldn't believe he could be that unlucky. "Could it be that chuckling really does turn you into a villain?"

However, this is already the second most likely of the many possibilities.

"It's impossible that some kind of cheat code suddenly appeared in my house and created a game for me just a second before the server shuts down." After making a daily self-deprecating remark, Aragaki Tomoya's mood improved considerably.

Fortunately, he was a nobleman; if he had been dressed as a commoner, he probably wouldn't have been able to even make a living.

As a nobleman, Zhiye—no, he should be addressed as His Excellency Lucian Alvein Dale Aindra. In this world, Lucian has a subtle connotation of dawn, and using this name usually implies that one is likely to be the heir of a family.

Therefore, as the first in line to inherit the throne of the Aindra family, one of the kingdom's oldest and most prestigious noble families, even without Rune's deliberate inquiries, he could still glean some of the corrupt practices of the nobles.

This mere glimpse, even from the tip of the iceberg of hearsay, deeply shocked Rune. How could the world become darker the more he traveled through time?

"Onii-chan, you're sleeping here again. It's time to go to class. If you don't go soon, Cecilia-sensei will scold you again." A cute and soothing voice rang out, and a delicate, doll-like face appeared before Rune's eyes.

Rune took back what he said. Where in this world is there darkness? The world is truly wonderful.

Lakyus Alvein Dale Aindra, the captain of the Blue Rose in the original work, is a future faith-based magic caster (priest-warrior) with an overall level of approximately 29, having already entered the "hero" realm.

Now she's become Rune's twin sister, Spalashi, having such a beautiful sister from another world, coupled with a noble status.

If it weren't for the fact that Ainz Ooal Gown was about to descend in thirteen years, and that the Sword of Damocles was constantly threatening him, Rune would definitely be a winner in life.

"Seriously, if you don't get up soon, Onii-chan, I'm not calling you Onii-chan anymore."

"I'm already up," Rune replied, getting up at lightning speed and straightening his clothes.

This was something we tricked her into saying when she was still young and didn't understand. We can't let this kind of perk end so soon.

"My brother is so strange. He only gets motivated when he calls me 'Onii-chan'," Su said with a hint of disdain.

Thanks to the setting of being able to communicate without barriers in this other world, Si clearly understands that Onii-chan means the same thing as her brother. Otherwise, no matter how much Rune tries to fool her, little Si will still have her own bottom line.

'Heh, wait until you go through your chuunibyou phase, and see how I record it with my recording magic,' Rune silently noted in his mind.

But for now, let's put on a sweet act. "Sis, let's hurry to the classroom. We can't keep Teacher Cecilia waiting too long," Rune said, pretending not to hear his sister's complaint.

"It's always because of you, brother, that I'm late~"

Rune grabbed his sister's hand and ran off, interrupting Silk's spellcasting. After all, a wise and powerful older brother couldn't always be the subject of his sister's complaints.

Walking through the long corridor, Rune held Silk's hand and walked briskly down the deep red carpet.

Every few steps along both sides of the corridor, there is a magic crystal wall lamp, whose soft light illuminates the entire space warmly and brightly.