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Chapter-11
Valhalla Dungeon – Asgard,
Yggdrasil,
Earth – Year 2127,
Overlord Verse;
Up ahead of Kai, Wandering Soul had started laying out the preliminary strategy, hands gesturing wildly, her upbeat tone contrasting with Shouko's sharper, practical logic. Indomitable Wall nodded in agreement, while Nameless Shadow offered a single nod here and there—more absorbed in on the discussion. Manabu, ever the politician, chimed in, clearly trying to sound capable without overstepping. Hitoshi remained quiet beside him.
Kai lingered behind, hands tucked behind Zhongli-styled coat of his.
Their backs blurred slightly as his vision shifted—not with system effects, but from memory.
The scene reminded him of a different moment. A different dungeon. A different fight. The first time he had faced a World Enemy.
A cavern cloaked in shadows. The sound of ice crackling beneath boots. A howl—long and dreadful—echoing through a glacial wind, bounded inside a dungeon.
Fenrir.
The first World Enemy raid he had taken part in. The first in all of Yggdrasil to be discovered and successfully challenged.
'We lost the first time. Got utterly wiped.'
The memory was sharp—three full party wipes before they even got Fenrir to 50% HP. It hadn't been an open raid either. Hidden deep in Niflheim, in the centre of a lake, on a lone island.
It was only after Kai had questioned Kayaba about there being any raid events in the game that Kayaba had mentioned to him about the existence of the other World Enemies that weren't part of raid mechanics and about the existence of others beside the World Devourer – who would appear later. His talk on the famous monsters and beasts that killed gods and those slayed by legendary heroes jogged his memory about Fenrir.
Kai started researching the myths—digging into Fenrir's fate in Norse lore. Lake Amsvartnir. On the Lyngvi island on that lake. A glitched texture that wasn't quite part of the map.
He travelled alone to his destination. Niflheim's cold bit deep, the zone mechanics applying constant HP drain, with visibility cut to a mere few meters. And yet—there it was. A dark cave like dungeon – situated on the Lyngvi island.
Kai hadn't expected himself to find the dungeon with a World Enemy. So, it did fill him with pride.
He later regrouped with Shouko, gathered Wandering Soul, Indomitable Soul, Nameless Shadow, and even contacted a mid-sized clan they had once allied with. Kai had been offered to join that clan more than once, but he always declined. Starting his own guild was still on the table—but he was holding off until he found players he could actually trust.
Guilds or Clan required a base, participating in Guild Wars or Clan Wars to defending the base and numbers to make it possible. He planned to hold it off, until he found a group of players he could actually trust. Not just to play with, but to hold ground alongside.
Still, the raid needed numbers. So, with the clan's help, they formed a temporary alliance.
It had taken three tries, endless strategies, and a crash course in resurrection cooldowns time and experience penalty—but they did it.
'The moment it happened, the entire server got the alert. A World Enemy had been defeated. Fenrir had been beaten. And the location was added to the map. It was no longer a grey area – a glitched out region in the map.'
The loot had been generous. But there was one thing that stood out.
A World Item.
It was a wonder to them. Kai and Shouko already had two World Items in their possession by then, though the rest of the party hadn't known that. They had only heard or seen World Items in tutorial sites or in Yggdrasil forum.
As discoverer of the dungeon, Kai was granted first pick. And rather than fight for it, he offered to purchase the item outright—with real cash.
The clan had agreed. Reluctantly at first, but eventually, they realized the deal was worth it.
And that single transaction had changed everything.
'That clan started calling themselves a merchant guild after that. Turned their focus to rare items, off-market deals, under-the-radar trades. They had even recruited a couple of retired pro gamers. Then came the invite-only club. Then the private forum after Yggdrasil's company went after them.'
It snowballed from there.
So much so, Yggdrasil'c parent company tried to shut it down. Kayaba himself had apparently planned to blacklist their entire group.
'But then he found out Shouko and I were VVIP members of the club…I am not sure of his source, lest I leaked it him. But who cares about it now.'
That stopped him cold. And Kayaba — half tired, half begrudging— let it go for a while.
Kai, meanwhile, became their biggest patron. Whenever they had something rare, or information about unlisted dungeons, they approached him first.
To this day.
The whole thing had overwhelmed him, as much as it had shocked him. The whole situation was ridiculous as he watched the company crack down on them – he felt an ache in heart from the treasure trove he had amassed using their service, and considering the future prospect with his continued patronage.
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As Kai stood now, watching the rest finalize their formations in the distance, he casually flicked through his inventory—gearing up, picking items, readying the essentials like HP and MP potion and magic scrolls.
Many of the more unique but weak weapons and gears he had were stored with the now supposed merchant or explorer guild for safekeeping. 'Ahh. The space limitations for inventory in Yggdrasil is limited. One day soon, I will have to ask them to make it infinite with either World Items like
Kai quietly waved as the group stepped forward, standing in-front of the Valhalla Dungeon. Shouko turned briefly to glance at him, her face unreadable, then followed the others.
She would be helping Wandering Soul, Indomitable Wall, and Nameless Shadow clear the earlier floors with Manabu and Hitoshi who were now added to the party. Unlike Kai, they hadn't made any progress yet.
But Shouko had. She'd reached Floor 17 before she capped her level during pre-release. Kai himself had cleared up to 14th Floor.
They had done the first four floors together, when the dungeon first opened, waiting for others to clear the challenge.
Valhalla had changed since then. Difficulty level had scaled upward, rewards changed. 'From what Shouko had observed of the floor levels they cleared together. The difficulty has been increased by a lot…' He mused.
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As they stood before the towering gate of the Valhalla Dungeon, its monumental stone doors humming faintly with smooth animation, the group instinctively fell into silence.
Kai stood a few steps behind them, quiet and unreadable. Unbeknownst to the others, he reached into his inventory and, with a fluid flick of his wrist, placed a polished monocle across his right eye. It settled into place with a soft shimmer, its obsidian frame subtle enough to pass off as ornamentation—though its purpose was anything but an ordinary item – it was a World Item.
The monocle's faint glyphs activated in his peripheral vision as it locked onto Manabu Hojou.
"Level 100... Vampire," Kai murmured to himself, eyes narrowing. "Huh. That's a surprise." A soft hum left him as he examined the details. 'He has quite a few interesting classes – for both the racial and the job.' He mused.
Kai leaned slightly to one side, shifting the monocle's focus toward the shorter player standing beside Manabu.
"And the dwarf—Hitoshi. Level 93. Obvious from the build, but…" his gaze swept over the character's oddly customized equipment. 'Just like his build suggests, it leans towards building or creating things – may be a hobby of his.' He mused.
Kai clicked his tongue softly and dismissed the monocle with a blink, the lens vanishing as discreetly as it had appeared. He slipped his hand back down into his coat pocket, watching the group in front of him with what he imagined to be a warm, relaxed smile.
In reality, his expression—a result of his chosen avatar's regal design—looked more like the serene calm.
Still, it amused him. The contrast. The absurdity. The quiet truth behind this little gathering.
'A child of Hoshina, an heir of Hojou, and me… the discarded child of the Kurenai family… all standing here, pretending to be adventurers.' His shoulders shifted with a soundless chuckle. 'Oh! Dragon Emperor do show mercy at the team working behind Yggdrasil. If anything happens to one of us, their whole company might get buried overnight.' As he quipped himself with humour to… fend of his imaginary loneliness that he remained oblivious to. As, his past affected his perception with his current environment growing up. As, it subconsciously forced him to question everything – loyalty, friendship, familial bond, trust and his humanity. Where he unknowingly projected his unsure self and compared it to his past, targeting and tearing down everything. While he lived under the illusion he had cast on himself – where he was in power and everything was alright.
Still, the smile lingered on his lips. The events in Yggdrasil were increasing in good number with the rising player base.
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The air was thick with smoke and cinders, the battlefield a crumbling cliff of a broken frost. Pillars of black ice jutted from the ground like jagged fangs.
Garmr snarled—his crimson maw dripping with venom as a frostbitten mist oozed from between his jagged fangs. His massive lupine frame was cloaked in chains of flame and frost, each link glowing with an unnatural, pulsing light. Standing nearly ten times the size of a regular direwolf, he moved like a phantom predator.
Everything on-screen was screaming danger.
Kai ducked a sweeping claw, rolling to the side as a
Kai gritted his teeth as he slid back across the battlefield, the remnants of a magic shield fragmenting in front of him like cracked glass from the consecutive attacks.
"He's fast," Kai muttered. As a monocle adorned his right eye.
[Garmr - HP: 38%]
[Status: Enraged Phase Active]
As Garmr closed the gap, Kai's stance shifted. The moment claws met his spear, a shockwave rippled outwards—Kai's counter spell
Kai didn't waste the window.
His screen pulsed gold.
Chains of divine origin surged up from beneath the arena, ghostly and ethereal—
The chain wrapped around Garmr's neck and limbs, halting his charge mid-air. Kai narrowed his eyes. The world shimmered, waiting for his follow-up.
Kai switched his weapon to
With a sweep of the trident, the frozen battlefield was rewritten into a maelstrom—water surged from beneath, geysers erupting as the Poseidon Field took dominance.
Kai's eyes sharpened. "Time to get this battle over with."
He raised the trident.
The water took on a form of a large spear or lance, as it crashed into Garmr.
As, multiple gigantic hands made of earth and molten rocks with solidified lava that appeared as veins of the hands – began their onslaught. With his spells, doing their work.
From above, a jagged rift in space tore open—Reality Slash—a guaranteed-hit spell that ignored evasion and resistances. It struck first, cleaving through Garmr's drowned leg, pinning him. Next, Kai hurled Obsidian Lance, an armour-penetrating Tier VIII spell. It hit Garmr's chest like a warhead, detonating in waves of energy.
The health bar dropped.
[Garmr - HP: 26%]
The chain of Gleipnir cracked—shattering as it fell on the battlefield.
Kai narrowed his eyes.
The wolf bellowed again, now unchained and seething, and cast
The screen darkens. The arena rumbles.
Kai's vision pans upward toward the sky—where a pale moon hangs. Suddenly, Garmr's massive shadow stretches unnaturally, twisting and rising until it towers above him. The elongated shadow snaps its jaws shut over the moon, as if devouring it whole.
A crimson pulse bursts from the impact—turning the moon blood red and blanketing the arena in eternal twilight.
A chilling whisper follows:
[ "The moon has fallen… and the gates of Hel now stir." ]
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**The End**
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