Overlord: Ancient One

It's already been a month since Momonga joined Nines Own Goal and They made their clan official.

Due to Momonga's low level, The clan members occasionally form a party with him. In order to raise his level to standard and not be PKed by some low-level players.

Normally, they form a party of three or four but when it comes to Touch Me and Ancient One—they form a party of two with Momonga as both Touch Me and Ancient One can be considered strongest in YGGDRASILL and there should be no one who is able to kill them in the beginner hunt zone.

They also helped him to grind EXPs, finish some quests and missions, find some dungeons, trash every PK party they will encounter, and of course, play some Campaign together.

And in the past weeks, Momonga was also able to break free from his gloomy aura. Now he looks like he is truly enjoying his time in YGGDRASILL.

Even if Momonga didn't enter YGGDRASILL daily, he still was able to become friends with everyone in the clan. Arthur has to say—this is an envious trait that Momonga possesses.

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"Um, Ancient-san... if I might ask... why are you laying on a pile of rocks?" Momonga asked as he came inside the lobby with Touch Me.

Arthur glanced down. "Because they're an unpolished treasure and I'm waiting for them to turn into treasure."

"What?" If a skeleton could look confused without expressions, Momonga nailed the image perfectly.

Arthur chuckled. "You'll understand one day. Let's just say I have a knack for finding bizarre loopholes in the game and leave it at that. Besides." he puffed out his chest. "I am one of the oldest players in YGGDRASIL, some tricks are needed."

"Weren't you planning to go mapping today?" Touch Me prodded jokingly.

Arthur huffed at him. "I'll have you know that someone else is there already and it's annoying to have to fight over a dungeon. I'm waiting a few minutes for a new instance of the dungeon to open up when the reset timer runs down."

"Ah, Ancient-san," Momonga interrupted before we could begin to fight in earnest. "If you're going EXP hunting, could we tag along? Touch Me-san said he needs to test the new skill he obtained, and I need to get strong enough to move my own."

"Oh, then let's go together the stone does need time to change into treasure and I know a perfect spot for you to level up and for Touch Me to freely use his skill." Arthur said as three of them moved out of the base.

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Arthur was at HELHEIM in his {Demon Golem} form while holding an unusual Crystal white stone—which looks like a tear drop that is made up of light.

It is one of the World class items, called Caloric Stone.

In YGGDRASIL, World Items are the most powerful and legendary items. They possess massive power that could potentially threaten the game's balance, thus, earning them the term "Balance Breakers." They are also known to be called the "crapped out."

In the game lore of YGGDRASIL, the World Tree was once covered with countless leaves, but one day a gigantic monster appeared and devoured these leaves. The leaves were destroyed one by one, until only nine were left, making the Nine Worlds of YGGDRASIL. These World Items are said to be made from remnants of those leaves, each equivalent to a world in power.

The monster that devoured the original leaves would attack the remaining realms for these items. They were integral to the background story of the game: Players would step out into the unknown and face dangers in order to protect their own world.

In all of YGGDRASIL, there were only 200 World items. Each of them had their own unique ability, and some were powerful enough to destroy the game's balance.

Of course, not all of the World Items had such game-breaking abilities. Even so, if a player managed to get hold of a World item, that player's reputation in YGGDRASIL would jump to the highest level. Effects of a World Item can be resisted in only two ways: (1) Owning another World Item. (2) Getting special Job Classes.

Caloric Stone is one such World item—it is not as powerful as the one of Twenty World class items. But it is a World class item that every crafting-related player wishes to have.

The Caloric Stone is a unique material and one of the hidden World Items of YGGDRASIL. It can be obtained by gathering and stockpiling vast quantities of certain types of prismatic ores in a single place, fulfilling the conditions to spawn the Caloric Stone in exchange for consuming all the ores.

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Taking the Caloric Stone in his hands, Arthur slowly crushed it, resulting in the system interface appearing in front of him.

"Hello, and congratulations on finding the hidden World Item 'Caloric Stone'. You have just chosen to contact the developers rather than use it manually. Would you like to make a request?" Said the person, Who spoke formally.

"Yes, I would. Am I correct in assuming that your department specializes in Crafting?" Arthur said.

"You are correct. Caloric Stone is a unique World Item that is consumed upon use, acting as a high-powered upgrade to a piece of gear and can be used for Crafting related requests."

"Wonderful. In that case, can you do me a favour and make it such that all the things that are crafted by me can also be controlled by me." Arthur said, but he was met with silence.

"Can you explain it properly, I don't quite understand what you mean." Said the person, who is chatting with Arthur.

"What I mean is—as you might know, I am a crafter so I make a lot of weapons and armour, and often I sell them via the shop. But I don't know who is buying them and wonder if the same weapon and armour that I crafted will be turned against me."

"So I want you to make it such that all the equipment and artefacts that I make can be returned to me If I wish to." His request was met with silence as if the person was thinking about his request.

Even though Arthur was one of the major shareholders of YGGDRASILL, not many know about him as his identity was kept anonymous. So only those at high positions were able to identify him—in-game or IRL.

So what the staff doing is a normal procedure of verifying the wish that Arthur requested.

After some moments later the person at the other end replied.

"What you requested is possible to be granted? But there will be some slit changes in your request so as not to affect the balance of the game."

"As you have wished you can retrieve the items, equipment and anything that you have given via 'Friend Donate'

"And you have no control over equipment and items that you gave out via 'Contract', but you can forcibly take it back by giving a price equal to that of the said items."

"And there will be a time limit to withdraw the items that you give out via 'Contract' but this condition isn't applicable to the 'Friend Donate' form."

"One additional thing we added is—not just the items you created but anything that you take out from the inventory can be labelled as your possession, thus you can call it back, from wherever they are."

"So what do you think." The person at the asked Arthur, if he was satisfied with the changes they made with the request.

"I have no problem with it. In fact, it is better than I anticipated." Arthur said to the staff.

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