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On the day the MMORPG Yggdrasil shuts down, guild master Momonga stays logged in to the end. The servers don't go offline — he wakes up as his skeleton avatar in a real world, surrounded by loyal NPC servants who have become real beings.
Momonga renames himself Ainz Ooal Gown after his guild and declares the Great Tomb of Nazarick's conquest of the New World. His most powerful guardian, Albedo, is fanatically devoted to him — because Momonga edited her settings to love him before the game ended.
Ainz confronts an armed army and erases it with the spell "Grasp Heart" — stopping every heart in the force simultaneously. The gap between his power level and anything the New World can field becomes viscerally clear.
Gazef Stronoff, the most powerful warrior of the Re-Estize Kingdom, challenges Ainz to a duel knowing he will die. He wants to die as a warrior, not old in bed. Ainz kills him with a single spell. The most honourable death in the series.
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