Zongman: A Traveling Journey Starting From The Supreme

In 2138 AD, the technology of the human world has been very advanced.

However, under the change of human technology, there is still an important issue that is difficult to break through, and that is energy.

Even now in 2138, human beings are still unable to master the energy technology that can satisfy human beings for long-term space travel.

Unable to enter the universe to grab the resources of the entire universe, more than 10 billion human beings are trapped on the earth, and the energy crisis is coming as promised.

The shortage of energy has caused severe stratification, the unemployment rate has increased year by year, and the whole world is in turmoil.

In this predicament, careerists are ready to move, and a new world war seems to come at any time.

To solve today's predicament, the easiest way is to master the new energy technology that allows human beings to enter the interstellar age.

And if the legendary "perpetual motion machine of the third type" can be created, I am afraid that the entire human civilization will undergo earth-shaking changes.

However, that is only a fantasy technology after all.

In desperation, virtual reality technology based on network and nanotechnology is widely used.

Every citizen can buy nanomechanical nutrient solution with very little money by virtue of his citizenship certificate.

By allowing citizens to inject nanomechanical nutrient solution into the virtual world, the human body's metabolism can be reduced as much as possible, thereby reducing excessive waste of resources.

This is the method chosen by various countries to deal with the energy crisis at this stage, but this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent cure.

As for the ecology of the entire society, there was a vocabulary to describe it more than a hundred years ago-cyberpunk!

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Yggdrasills, the game named after the Nordic world tree, was one of the many virtual reality games launched when the new policy was implemented twelve years ago.

At the same time, it was also the most watched game at the time.

However, that was only twelve years ago.

"Are you kidding me? This is the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick built by everyone working together. Why can you just abandon it so easily!"

A total of forty-two luxurious chairs were placed around the huge round table exuding obsidian brilliance.

A skeleton figure wearing a gorgeous robe that gave people infinite terror was screaming with extreme anger at this moment.

Momonga slowly swept across the forty-one seats except himself with his terrifying eyes emitting scarlet light.

Opening the list of guild members, I saw that there were only five members left on it, and the remaining four members were also not online in gray.

Momonga's anger immediately dissipated, leaving only endless emptiness and loneliness.

Thirty-seven people had already left the guild completely, and the remaining four were also offline for a long time, leaving only Feishu in the entire guild.

Ainz Ur Gong, a game guild established by forty-two "alien" players, ranked seventh in the world at its peak in the ranking of game guilds.

The reason why it was seventh was because Ainz Ooal Gown only recruited 'alien' players, and the entire guild only had forty-two members.

Compared to those big guilds with hundreds of people at every turn, Ainz Ooal Gown was really a small group in the game.

But it is precisely because of the small number of people, and because the "alien" players are always persecuted and condemned as symbols of evil.

Only then did the members of the entire guild become more united and with great enthusiasm, created this incredible achievement.

But now the guild has long passed its peak period, and is already outside the 20th place in the world rankings.

The reason why there are still more than twenty guild members in the guild ranking when there are only five members left.

In addition to the rich legacy left by the members who lost A, it was also because the game was about to die, and there were not many people on the entire server.

Today is also the day the server will be shut down.

Momonga held an ornate scepter in his bone-like hand.

The appearance of the scepter imitates the staff of Hermes, with seven snakes wrapped around it, each holding a gem of a different color in the mouth of the struggling snake.

This is the only guild weapon for each guild, and it is also the symbol of Ainz Ooal Gown. As long as the staff is destroyed, the entire guild will disintegrate.

So although this weapon is powerful, Momonga, who is the nominal president, has never used it, but has been adorned in the meeting room of the "Supreme Supremes".

The cyberpunk life in reality is numb, and only the virtual world can bring happiness and passion.

The game has been running for twelve years so far, and Momonga has also spent the most precious youthful time as a human being in this game.

Because of this, Momonga has strong feelings for the Great Tomb of Nazarick and all members of the guild.

Those friends who fought together were treated by him as his only family members and relatives.

After all, in reality, he was alone.

Momonga didn't allow himself to do anything that would bring danger to the guild, even though this staff was extremely powerful, he would never allow himself to use it.

"Today, let me be a little willful, everyone..."

Momonga muttered to the empty room, even though he only had a skeleton appearance, people could feel his sadness and loneliness from the bottom of his heart.

The departure of the guild members and the downfall of Ainz Ooal Gown, to Momonga, it was as painful as if his relatives abandoned him and made him lose his home.

In the past, when no one was online, he liked to talk to himself here alone, recalling the past by himself, like an empty-nest old man without relatives.

"However, Zaratul and Cui Yulu said that the scepter was designed according to the appearance of the 'Hermes staff', but what is the 'Hermes staff'?"

Momonga played with the staff in his hand, whispering with some doubts.

Zaratul and Cuiyulu are also like-minded.

In this numb era, those two guys who also like classical myths always have a lot of topics to talk about.

Momonga fell into dementia-like memories again.

Everyone used to sit here talking and laughing, Ur Bell and Taqi Mi were always arguing with each other, Zaratul and Cuiyulu were talking about myths that everyone didn't know.

And he and Peroroncino were talking about GALGAME in a low voice, and from time to time they laughed so that people looked at them with contempt.

They used to forge guild weapons together, and every day everyone worked together to take risks.

They have faced powerful enemies together and solved difficulties together. Even in the most critical moment, the entire guild was almost destroyed.

That was the most glorious and prosperous period of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Little by little memories were recalled in Momonga's mind, he was afraid that he would forget all these and engraved them in his mind.

After sitting like this for an indeterminate amount of time, Momonga stood up and left the round table shaking that gorgeous robe.

Momonga decided that at the last moment when the server was about to be shut down, he would walk through the entire Nazarick tomb again, as the best memory of his youth.

Walking through the hall where the round table is, the first thing you come to after that is a hemispherical hall.

There are four-color crystals shining on the ceiling of the main hall, and there are seventy-two holes in the wall, and seventy-two statues are placed inside.

Each statue imitates the appearance of a demon, and this hall is called the 'Key of Solomon'.

And those statues correspond to the seventy-two pillars of demons, Golems made of ultra-rare magic metal.

These demon statues were made by Jade Tape, the great alchemist, and several demon players.

But when more than 60 pieces were produced, they gave up because they thought it was troublesome.

Still, Zaratul couldn't stand it anymore, and felt that he couldn't give up halfway, so he took the initiative to complete the remaining few demon statues.

"I remember that the statues completed by Zaratul are Baal, Barbatos, Baimon, Morax, Asmodeus, Cain, and Gremory. What else?"

"...Well, the names of these demons are really hard to remember."

Momonga complained and scratched his bald head.

Cui Yulu is the only one who likes this sense of ritual and setting.

Walking through this hall, Momonga appeared in front of a stone door with engravings of angels and demons on the door.

Pushing open the door, a grand hall greets you.

The hall is vast, even if it can accommodate hundreds of people, it will not be crowded. The Roman-style stone pillars are staggered and fall, supporting a dome sky.

The walls are based on white, embellished with gorgeous gold-based decorations, and the unimaginable crystal lamps are made of colorful gemstones, exuding dreamlike colors.

Huge flags with different patterns are hung on the wall, and there are a total of forty-two flags flying from the ceiling to the floor.

Under each flag is a throne with a towering back, symbolizing the forty-two members of the guild.

This is the deepest and most important place in the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick—the Hall of the Throne!

Although Momonga is the guild leader, his guild leader is no different from others.

Momonga clearly knows that he is not the strongest person in the guild, he is not the most expensive person, and he is not the smartest and most knowledgeable person.

The reason why he was able to become the president of the guild was only because of his gentle personality, and he was also very serious and responsible, so he was recommended by everyone.

It is precisely because he is too serious and responsible that he feels lonely and unwilling after the guild has fallen into such a state.

Momonga stared blankly at the throne hall, red light flickered in his skeletal skull, his mood fluctuated.

In the end, he sighed regretfully, and began to look carefully at the hall.

His gaze first fell on a book floating in front of Ainz Ooal Gown's banner.

The book exudes a hazy light, looking very simple and mysterious.

This is a world-class prop!

World-class props are the most powerful props in the entire game, and each world-class prop has a unique ability.

Among the 200 world-class props, the top 20 are specially called "Twenty".

The power of 'Twenty' even has the ability to seriously disrupt the balance of the game, and even ask the game official to change the game system.

As long as a player owns a world-class item, their popularity in Yggdrasills will rise to unimaginable heights.

And the book floating under the guild's flag in front of him is one of the world-class props, and it is also the number one world-class prop.

Its name is "Avesta", which theoretically belongs to the guild, but in fact this world-class item belongs to an individual, that is, the guild member "Zarathustra".

Thinking of this friend, Momonga fell into memory again.

Because of Momonga's personality, he has a good relationship with all members of the guild.

Zarathustra can be said to be the most famous player in the guild, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is the most famous player in the Yggdrasills game.

The other party was the first nine members of the Ainz Ooal Gong Guild, which was also one of the cornerstones of the Guild.

No one knows what Zarathustra's real name is.

No one knew what he was doing, but all members of the guild could tell that the other party should be a very successful person.

Although saying that his friend is not good, in Momonga's eyes, Zarathustra is a very cunning and smart person.

Many of the strategies developed by the guild, and even the strategies for conquering the secret realm, were formulated by him and Cui Yulu.

Moreover, Zarathustra has a good relationship with all members of the guild.

Whether it's Taki Mi with a strong sense of justice, or Ulbert who has a strange obsession with 'evil', he can do good as well as good.

Of course, relatively speaking, Zarathustra is still closer to Ur Bell.

In the beginning, everyone recommended him to be the guild president, which made all the guild members including Momonga agree.

Whether it is talent or relationship with guild members, Zaratul can do better.

But there were too many chores to manage the guild, and Zarathustra rejected the proposal on the pretext that he didn't like to take care of these chores.

But in the eyes of the guild members, he just wanted to catch fish.

The reason why Zarathustra is so famous in the game is because he is truly the strongest in the world, a title recognized by everyone in Yggdrasills.

Yggdrasills officially holds a world martial arts conference every year. Zarathustra has won five consecutive world championships since the first conference.

In the end, it was because he felt bored and stopped participating in the subsequent conferences that other world champions were born.

Among all the contestants who participated in the conference, he was even dubbed the title of 'Big Demon King'.

Like most games in Yggdrasills, there are only two options for becoming stronger: Gan and Carve.

The only fairness is in the official martial arts competition. At that time, everyone has the same attributes and equipment, and the competition is about operation and technology.

Having won five consecutive world championships in such a conference, Zarathustra's title of 'the strongest in the world' is also worthy of the name.

Winning five consecutive championships, in order to reward the 'World's Strongest', the game official personally ended.

After discussing with Zarathustra, the official personally created this No. 1 world-class prop—"Avesta" for him!

No one knew the ability and specific function of this world-class item, not even Ainz Ooal Gown's guild members.

After obtaining this world-class item, Zarathustra placed "Avesta" between the thrones.

According to him, "Avesta" will be the last guarantee of the guild.

If one day a player breaks through the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick and comes between the thrones, this most powerful item in the world will definitely bring about a reversal of the situation.

What is the role of the number one world-class item? What are its capabilities?

Momonga couldn't help but walk into "Avesta" out of curiosity.

"Well, anyway, today is the last day of the game, why don't you just take a look at the description of this item?"

Momonga stretched out his bone-like palm, and hesitantly reached out to "Avesta".

Just when his fingertips were about to touch "Avesta", Momonga's body stopped.

He shook his head hastily, withdrew his fingers, and said to himself: "... No, this is a prop that Zaratul has paid for without knowing how much hard work and effort it is."

"...The hard work of the members of Ainz Ooal Gown is condensed here."

"Even if I'm the president, even if today is the last day of the game, I can't tarnish the feelings between my friends!"

With this in mind, Momonga gave up touching that item.

Just as Momonga was whispering, behind him suddenly came a low and brisk male voice: "...It's been a long time, Momonga!"

Momonga froze when he heard this voice, he turned his head quickly, and what appeared in front of his eyes was an extremely terrifying big demon!