NOVEL WEB 4. Overlord?
Having decided on their path of action, the members of Ainz Ooal Gown started following the spider down into the lower stratum of the Great Elroe Labyrinth. As mentioned earlier they had conducted many raids on this labyrinth. This is their routine levelling spot so they know the area pretty well, especially the upper and middle stratum. They had only been to the lower stratum a couple of times when they had slightly lower levels and never bothered going all the way down since then. All the way until now that is.
Thinking about Shiraori, it can somewhat be confirmed that she is a heteromorph due to her summon being a spider monster. Human and demihuman species don't typically have such summons, with animals at lower levels or mythical beings such as angels being common at higher levels. Even if the human and demi-human players were able to summon monsters for their use they would choose not to as it might cause them to be killed by other human players. Another one of the ploy's the shitty dev's incorporated to encourage heteromorph killing. Summoning is also a more common tactic used by heteromorphs such as Momonga who routinely summons skeletons and elder liches.
Rare as it may be, there are a few other players who have managed to create unique species and a characteristic of these summons is that they can exit permanently until killed. This is contrary to normal summons which disappear over a period of time. A special perk bestowed as an achievement for creating a unique species. Such a characteristic can be a massive boon when considering wave tactics. Although they start of low levelled and weak, they can be trained to create a massive army of high levelled monsters.
"I think we are getting closer to their nest." Ulbert said, pointing out the increasing number of Horo Neia appearing in the surroundings. Although those spiders glared at their presence, indicated by their glowing red eyes, it seems they knew about the disparity in strength between both sides. Finally the cave they were walking through led to a clearing. Upon closer inspection, the entire clearing was filled with eggs, most of them broken and spiders crawling around. And in the centre they found the player Shiraori as indicated by the ID. Her main body is that of a beautiful young girl with bleach-white skin, white hair, and red eyes from the bottom of the waist up. From the waist down, the body is connected to a large spider by the head. The spider body was entirely white. She held a scythe that had an eerie resemblance to the spider legs. This was a heteromorph that none of them had ever seen in the entire time they had played the game, granted the number of heteromorphic players were few in number. They all used appraisal on her to get to know this-
[Name: Shiraori
Race: Arachne
Level: 97
Job: Nightmare of the Labyrinth
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Sense of Justice:-350
Racial Level:
Small Lesser Taratect:15
Small Taratect: 10
Small Poison Taratect:5
Zoa Ele:5
Ede Saine:5
Zana Horowa:5
Arachne:2
Job Levels:
Poison Master: 10
Archmage: 10
Symbol of Death: 5
Ruler of Pride: 5
Ruler of Sloth: 5
Ruler of Perseverance: 5
Ruler of Wisdom: 5
Ruler of Charity: 5
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Sching, the sound of the scythe brought them back to reality as they noticed their appraisal got blocked and alerted Shiraori. It seems she thought they were going to attack her.
"We mean no harm or disrespect, we just want to talk to you." Momonga was the first to show himself and try to diffuse the situation as they were indeed the ones at fault here. And it seemed to work as Shiraori slowly lowered the scythe as she saw the rest of the Ainz Ooal Gown members. That was a good thing as even though she has not yet reached Lv100, her character is broken with multiple unique classes they have no knowledge of. Not that they could not defeat her, but being the cautious person that he was, Momonga would never fight without pre-prepared intelligence. 'So far so good.' Momonga thought, albeit confused over one thing-'Why does she seem so surprised as if she the world ending?'
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Shiraori POV:
What the hell is going on here? Isn't that Ainz? And the rest of them are Ainz Ooal Gown members right. As a senior overlord fan there's no way I can mistake them. What are they doing in this world? Am I not in 'so I'm a spider so what?' but instead some sort of crossover world? I need more information. I was just resting until I felt someone trying to appraise my status so I thought I had an enemy, but it turned out to be this. Talking it over with my parallel minds, the best course of action I can come up with is to stick with them until I get more information. Even better if I am able to join Ainz Ooal Gown and leave this world. Kumo desu ga nani ka is a world on the edge of destruction, isn't it better to go to the new world with Momonga and chill with a group of over zealous servants? It's an obvious choice as I am not some goody two shoes who wants to save the world at every turn like a classic isekai protagonist, cough ... Schlain ... cough. Parallel minds meeting adjourned.
"Ok" I replied in a barely audible voice. I think I have Kumoko disease. I can't speak as much as I want to anymore.
"Huh, one-chan what did you say?" the slime who I know is Bukubukuchagama says in a purposefully cutesy voice.
Damn I'm getting flustered, so I decide on option B. Avoid talking altogether. I pull out paper and a pencil from out of nowhere, don't ask where I stol…ahem, acquired them from. And I write OK and show it to them.
"Is there something wrong with your voice?" Momonga asks slightly bewildered by the situation. To avoid any confusion later on, its better to be truthful about this. So I wrote 'I don't know how to speak to others properly. That's why I write like this.' I am truthfully a bit embarrassed as I was not like this before. Anyway I kept a straight face which was not difficult at all after so long.
"Momonga…this is true gap moe." Said Tabula with a serious face.
"Haa?"
"Well Momonga, this is what we call a kuudere. Let's name miss Shiraori, kuudere-chan from now on." Peroronchino also said with a serious face before getting punched by yours truly out of the clearing.
"Well that bird brain deserved it." Bukubukuchagama said, to which the others shrugged as if already used to his shenanigans.
Anyway blah, blah, yada yada I spun some lies after that due to which Momonga invited me to the guild which I accepted. From their conversation and mentions of YGGDRASIL I could make out that this is in fact the in game world of YGGDRASIL on Helheim and not the world of so I'm a spider so what? Although a crossover world is not yet ruled out and will need verification, I seem to be some sort of weird blend between NPC and a player. Probably this is what the 'glitch' title meant. So playing along is the best choice. I told them a sob story that I'm terminally ill and can't move on my own as well that my parents are somewhat rich but other than paying for my medical expenses they don't care about me at all to explain me being 'in-game' all the time. Due to my circumstances they made an exception and allowed me into the guild even if I am not a working member of society. So, I finally left this hellhole I call home and took one step closer to going to the new world. Hopefully. Probably.