My family runs an adventurer's guild.

Therefore, Phil thought of finding something for Ainz Ooal Gown to do, so that he wouldn't get idle and start overthinking and causing trouble.

Anyway, as long as we can maintain this until midnight, when the entire Great Tomb of Nazarick is successfully traversed, that should be enough.

"...Uh, Mr. Suzuki Satoru, while I don't have any prejudice against necromancer characters, you'll be serving as the village chief of the beginner's village, not the final boss, so it's best not to be too scary in appearance. Users are all about looks..."

While pondering the usage of "Ainz Ooal Gown's Staff" on his system interface, Firi casually remarked to Ainz Ooal Gown.

"...Uh, you mean...you want me to change jobs?"

Suzuki Satoru suddenly felt a little embarrassed, because he had always played the Lich as a spellcaster and it had become second nature to him.

If you suddenly asked him to play a human character or be a warrior, he would probably be completely lost.

"...Ah, there's no need to change jobs! Anyway, the village chief in the starting village usually doesn't need to PK with players under normal circumstances."

Phil replied, "...I just hope that in addition to your current identity, you have another appearance that looks like a living person, so that players who are not in the evil faction don't have to talk to a skeleton as soon as they log in—our game map is not hell or the abyss!"

You can create a character's face that you like, or buy a humanoid skin from the system shop or player trading platform. However, I suggest you create a human or elf character yourself! This will better suit your taste, and you can fine-tune it if you find any flaws later.

“…Uh, I think I’ll make it myself!” Suzuki Satoru said. “…Are there any more specific requirements?”

"...I just hope they're kind and gentle, not too fierce. Simply put, I want them to look like a village chief from a newbie village..."

—And so, Ainz Ooal Gown was tricked into focusing on character customization, while Firi began trying to modify the settings of the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

But then, looking at the rows of enigmatic and impressive text on the system interface, Phil was completely bewildered.

"...How exactly should this setting be modified? There's even a risk of self-destruction? Why can't I understand it at all?"

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As mentioned earlier, Ainz Ooal Gown traveled to the year 2138 in the game.

The game he played, 【YGGDRASIL】, was launched in the year 2126 AD.

However, Phil traveled to a time a century before the birth of [YGGDRASIL].

Therefore, having Phil, a "21st-century ancient person," play YGGDRASIL is roughly the same as having a 1980s Famicom expert play the early 21st-century Elder Scrolls online game.

This is still taking into account the "dystopian" era of Ainz Ooal Gown, where the economy is depressed, technology is stagnant, and game updates are very slow.

Anyway, after such a long period of time, many terms and concepts in the gaming industry have changed.

As a result, looking at the system interface for modifying various settings in the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Firi quickly became confused.

—Although I recognize each individual character and word, I don't recognize them when they're put together.

Even more problematic is that, seemingly to enhance the game's realism, in [YGGDRASIL], there is a failure rate for producing anything. For example, the success rate of forging a high-level magical weapon is about 90%, depending on the crafter's skill level.

Creating NPCs in [YGGDRASIL] is an even more complex and precise undertaking. The various data points, skills, and talents are not set arbitrarily; they are interconnected. If drastic changes are made, the NPC's design will collapse and self-destruct...

While 22nd-century YGGDRASIL players might be very familiar with this and can do it with ease, Phil was completely dumbfounded, not knowing where to start, and could not achieve the classic miracle of creating flamethrowers and fighter jets in a medieval game like Siege players.

What should I do if I suddenly realize that I, a StarCraft player, have become a "mummy-level" relic in the online gaming world?

Of course, the game [YGGDRASIL] is not a difficult textbook or professional engineering software, but just an online game aimed at the general public. Although the skills of expert duels are many and complex, the difficulty of basic operations cannot be set too high.

Even someone with an elementary school education like Ainz Ooal Gown can easily master the game [YGGDRASIL].

If Phil can calm down and explore carefully, she will be able to master the gameplay of [YGGDRASIL] in a short time.

But the problem is, where does Phily have so much time to slowly learn from scratch?

There's only a little over an hour left before the game [YGGDRASIL] shuts down!

In the end, a frantic Phil made only three changes. One was to increase the NPCs' justice values: for NPCs with positive justice values ​​that could be significantly adjusted, leave them unchanged for now, and adjust all negative NPCs to 0. If the justice value had to be negative due to the NPC's race or profession, then adjust it to the minimum allowed level—that is, keep pushing the justice value up until the system pops up a warning.

For example, the "slutty steward" of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, the "pure white female demon" Albedo, was originally set to a justice value of -500, an extremely evil level. Firi raised it to -50. With a justice value of -500, if Albedo discovers a human village ahead, her report to Ainz Ooal Gown would most likely be, "A human village has been discovered ahead. Should we send troops to slaughter these vile and lowly creatures?"

When Yarbed's Justice value is -50, the tone of her report will change to "A human village has been discovered ahead. What should we do?"

In the original *Overlord* manga, Narberal Gamma, the Pleiades battle maid who played a female adventurer alongside Ainz Ooal Gown (the "Black Swordsman Flyff"), appeared in battles against the Forest Wise King and the undead in the Graveyard. Originally, her justice rating was -400, filled with hatred for humans and a habit of calling her human teammates various insects. If Ainz Ooal Gown hadn't constantly stopped her, she probably would have been mowing down enemies like grass. After Firi raised her justice rating to -50, while Narberal still harbored no affection for humans, at least she wouldn't kill them on a whim, only glaring and muttering curses—essentially a higher level of violent tsundere.

There's also Demiurge, the strategist and "mastermind" of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, who stuffs humans into "two-legged sheep farms" to be skinned and used as feed. He originally had a justice rating of -500 and spends his days doing all sorts of inhuman and perverse things, and he enjoys it.

Ferry raised it to -100, which basically brought it to the level of the Nazi German SS. Various bloody and cruel atrocities would still be committed without hesitation by Demiurge, whose justice level was -100, if necessary, but at least he wouldn't do it for entertainment.

In short, it transforms Demiurge into an extreme Machiavellian ruthless politician, rather than a sadomasochistic enthusiast.

Another change is in the NPC character design, where some cumbersome verbal tic have been removed. For example, the vampire loli Shalltear always ends her sentences with "Arins"—some people might find these tics endearing, but to Firi, they sound superfluous. What's worse, there are several people in Totoro Town with the name "Arins." So, to avoid confusion, it's best to change them.

Thirdly, he also added the account created by his mistress, the silver dragon Lulutia, in the game to the list of Ainz Ooal Gown guild members.

Next, taking advantage of the upcoming shutdown of [YGGDRASIL], Phil went on a shopping spree in the system store and the player trading platform.

—Due to the imminent shutdown of the game 【YGGDRASIL】, various items and materials in the game are being sold off at rock-bottom prices, and even given away for free by disheartened players. It has almost reached the point of being as exaggerated as "Dragon-slaying sword, given away with a click", "Top-tier items, take them if you want them", "Healing potions, sold by the pool", "Fine gold and mithril, ten tons for one gold coin"...

Because these guys have no idea that those who were still in the [YGGDRASIL] game when it shut down not only had a certain probability of gaining the opportunity to travel to another world, but could also bring along a max-level character with divine equipment and a large group of NPC minions...

At this point, players only need to spend a tiny amount of in-game currency to buy luxurious items and materials that they never dared to dream of before.

Of course, no matter how low the prices are, Phil still has to pay if he wants to take advantage of this last window of opportunity to buy and stock up.

Although there were indeed mountains of gold coins piled up in Ainz Ooal Gown's Great Tomb of Nazarick, Firi didn't intend to use them, considering that these coins could be converted into real goods once he crossed over to another world. Instead, he used the telepathic connection between his magical pet and its master to remotely monitor his mistress in the Kingdom of Hypnos. The next moment, a trillion game gold coins were deposited into his account.

—For Lulutia, the silver dragon mistress who hacked into the online game [YGGDRASIL] using unscientific and magical means and even created accounts for herself and others, it was quite easy to create some game currency out of thin air: after all, it was just a bunch of data.

Of course, under normal circumstances, such a barbaric and greedy act would be detected by the operating company's programmers immediately. However, with only a little over an hour left before the system shutdown, the operators of the [YGGDRASIL] game simply didn't have the time or inclination to manage such a trivial matter.

Just like when the Soviet Union collapsed, hundreds and thousands of warships, planes, and tanks were left lying around unattended, and some were even dragged home by ordinary people.

Anyway, in less than two hours, everything in the game will be wiped out, so who would be so bored as to meddle?

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PS: It's almost the end of the month, still asking for votes and encouragement!

Chapter 111, This is our company's newly developed game, "Overlord".

In short, taking advantage of the uncontrolled state of the game [YGGDRASIL] before its shutdown, Firi enjoyed a crazy shopping spree in the game. After happily humming a tune and sweeping up a large number of various goods, filling her inventory to the brim, she also filled up several warehouses in the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

Ferry had originally planned to further modify the surface architecture of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, transforming it from a shrine into a temple for the god of sleep, Momo. However, before he could put this idea into action, the future Ainz Ooal Gown, now the salaryman Suzuki Satoru, had already completed his character creation, donned a new human "skin," and came to ask Ferry's opinion, "...Mr. Ferry, what do you think of this appearance?"

—Black hair and black eyes, fair complexion, medium build, unremarkable, seemingly based on Suzuki Satoru's real-world prototype.

Since Ainz Ooal Gown himself wasn't very good at creating props and NPCs, he spent a lot of time creating a new face for himself.

"...Hmm, it seems like there shouldn't be any problems! I've finished making the changes on my end as well, mainly by increasing the justice values ​​of several key NPCs."

Firi nodded in reply, returning the "Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown" to the other person. "...We can't let them become too evil, and we've also modified some of the settings that are hostile to humans...After all, the starting village should be a basically neutral place, and the factions shouldn't be too extreme. Otherwise, it will make many players resentful. And we game developers have to cater to the preferences of the widest possible consumer group."

"...Uh, I can understand that, let's change it then."

The future Overlord, now the office worker Satoru Suzuki, did not dwell on what he considered trivial matters.

"...And then, as the village chief of the beginner's village, isn't your own sense of justice a little too evil, Mr. Suzuki Satoru?"

—As a lich archmage, Ainz Ooal Gown's own justice level is also an off-the-charts -500.

"...Um...you want me to adjust my justice level to neutral as well? But many necromancy spells have alignment requirements, and you can't cast them if your evil stat isn't high enough! Besides, I'm the one controlling this NPC who plays the village chief of the starting village, so his justice level shouldn't matter, right?"

Satoru Suzuki, who still has the mindset of an office worker, said, "...It's not controlled by intelligent AI, it's just a number."

—But once you've traversed the Great Tomb of Nazarick with the entire Nazarick, this justice value will no longer be just a number!

Furthermore, the control interface for adjusting character attributes will disappear, so you won't be able to change them even if you wanted to! Okay?

Phil was internally ranting like crazy, but he couldn't say it directly, nor did he dare to make a forceful request, lest he anger the terrifying giant skeleton in front of him. After thinking it over, he had no choice but to move on to the next topic.

"...Also, could you perhaps change Mr. Suzuki's game name as well?"

"...Change your name? Why? I've been using this game name for over ten years!" the future Ainz Ooal Gown said, somewhat displeased.

"...First of all, our company's new game is set in a Western European fantasy world. Your use of 'Flying Squirrel' as a name feels a bit out of place and sounds more like a nickname. We hope you can change to a name with a more Western style."

Secondly, our company emblem is a dormice, while your game name is a flying squirrel; they're somewhat similar, both being small rodents. If you were to use that as the name for the village chief NPC in the starting area, the company's board of directors (the Temple of the Sleeping God) might not approve.

Firi, whose deception skills had improved dramatically, was completely unfazed by Ainz Ooal Gown's future complaints. Instead, she calmly and eloquently spoke up, "...So, here's a perhaps immature suggestion—once the Great Tomb of Nazarick becomes the starting area for the new game, your Ainz Ooal Gown guild will naturally cease to exist. You seem to value your friends a lot, so why don't you just use the guild name as your real name? It has a Western fantasy feel and is also quite meaningful to you..."

"...Uh, what you said seems to make some sense. So, I'll change my name to Ainz Ooal Gown from now on...you can call me Ainz from now on!"

The future Ainz Ooal Gown rested his chin on his bone hand and pondered for a moment before bringing up the interface and readily changing his name. "...However, you've always been the one making requests and explaining things to me. Now I have some questions, and if it's convenient, I'd like to ask you to answer them."

“…No problem, please ask away! Suzuki, no, Mr. Ainz,” Firi replied readily, adding a smiling emoticon.

"...You've been saying you'd replicate the Great Tomb of Nazarick as a starting area for a new game. So what kind of game is your company actually going to release? I'm really curious about that!"

Upon hearing Ainz Ooal Gown's question, Phil couldn't help but secretly give himself a thumbs up.

—That's exactly what I've been waiting for! Now I can show off again!

Thinking about this, Phil, who had previously felt incredibly frustrated as a pet, felt triumphant and full of pride.

"...Oh, so that's what you wanted to ask... Uh, Mr. Suzuki, it seems I neglected my job. I should have introduced this to you at the beginning—look, this is the map for our company's newly released game! A war adventure game set in a magical medieval world!"

With a casual wave of his hand, Ferry spread out a background map of "OVERLORD" on the conference table in front of Ainz Ooal Gown.

"...As for the name of this game...it's tentatively set as 'Overlord'!"

Pointing to the map spread out on the obsidian conference table, Phil announced to Ainz Ooal Gown with an arrogant and pretentious air.

"..."over...lord"?"

The company named their new game... "Overlord"?

What does this mean?

The greatest lord? The overlord?

In short, the Great Tomb of Nazarick, which originally belonged to me, is going to be moved to that Overlord game to serve as a starting village.

Ainz, the Overlord from the future, is currently still the harmless otaku office worker Satoru Suzuki. He is looking down at the "game map" spread out on the table while pondering the meaning of the "game name" that Firi just told him.

However, he didn't connect the meaning of this word with his status as the highest-ranking necromancer in the game [YGGDRASIL] (the ruler of death, or [overlord] in a simplified translation).

Come to think of it, why would a company use its own player level and identity as its game name?

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P.S.: Some readers believe that relying on hype is unreliable, such as how powerful Ainz Ooal Gown is.

The problem is that Ainz Ooal Gown himself didn't know he was very strong at first, and mistakenly thought that his transmigration was due to being controlled by Firi's forces.

First, by using the temporary access granted through deception, Firi and his mistress became one of the supreme beings of the Great Tomb of Nazarick after their transmigration. Because Ainz Ooal Gown's control panel disappeared after the transmigration, he was unable to kick Firi out, and it was also difficult for him to launch an attack on the Guardians.

Secondly, after transmigrating, there will naturally be ways to further control Ainz Ooal Gown. He won't have time to become arrogant.

Third, there was generous compensation afterwards to appease Ainz Ooal Gown's dissatisfaction.

The ending of this volume was written in advance, and overall it should be considered a bright one.

Furthermore, it's said that Ainz Ooal Gown absolutely refused to let outsiders touch the Great Tomb of Nazarick before his transmigration. According to his understanding at the time, the other party had already colluded with the game operators, and he couldn't stop them at all! Why be so strict about something that's about to disappear?

In the hospital, no matter how much we love our loved ones, we will eventually send them into the operating room to undergo surgery.

Chapter 112, Listening to Phil tell that made-up story

The term "overlord," literally translated, means "the greatest lord" or "the overlord." The individual "lord" part, more precisely, means "lord of a manor," signifying "the owner of a manor."

In medieval Europe, the manor system was a crucial foundation of the feudal system.

Because the Mediterranean trade network of the Roman Empire collapsed with the Arab invasions, the commodity economy of Europe as a whole became extremely underdeveloped. In that era, the vast majority of Europeans could only rely on agriculture for a living. The manor was the smallest basic unit for maintaining agricultural production.

In most feudal aristocratic kingdoms of medieval Europe, any ruling class had to own a manor to support knights. Only by owning a manor, knights, and a castle could one be considered a lord, that is, a "true medieval nobleman."