Overlord, Vol. 4 (light novel): The Lizardman Heroes (Overlord, 4)

"The once popular game Yggdrasil was supposed to shut down that day. Everyone was supposed to be logged out automatically. But the players who stayed online past the moment the servers went quiet found themselves transported to a game world made real. Leading them is Momonga--a man whose love of games in the real world brought him only loneliness, now a skeletal sorcerer. The legends of Momonga and his guild begin here!"-- Provided by publisher Yggdrasil is a virtual reality game renowned for the freedom it offers its players. After a simple tutorial, players are left to explore the world and can customize anything and everything, from their classes to their weapons. However, in the year 2138, the game sees its final hours as its servers shut down at midnight. Momonga, a devoted player of Yggdrasil, decides to spend the game's last hours inside his guild, Ainz Ooal Gown. Strangely, at the stroke of midnight, the game does not log him out. Instead, Momonga finds himself transported to another world, one that is seemingly identical to that of Yggdrasil. Facing an already abnormal situation, he discovers that the NPCs have gained sentience. Trapped in his avatar's skeletal body and desperate to uncover the cause of his predicament and find other players like him, Momonga sets out to take control of the new world with the help of his loyal subjects. [Written by MAL Rewrite] "It has been a week since Momonga logged in to his favorite RPG one last time and stranded himself there. Now he leads his guild as the Ainz Ooal Gown overlord. Finding himself in dire need of better information, he travels disguised as an adventurer to the Fortress City of E-Rantel, with Narberal, one of the Pleiades combat maids, at his side. The pair accepts a mission to retrieve medicinal herbs, making for a forest said to be the home of a great and wise beast. But the sinister influence of a fanatical cabal approaches E-Rantal, and the armor-clad Ainz will face both a ruthless warrior and a legion of the undead!"--Book flap For twelve years, the virtual world of Yggdrasil has served as the playground and battlefield for the skeletal overlord Momonga and his guild of of fellow monsters, Ainz Ooal Gown. But the guild's glory days are over, and the game is shutting down permanently. When Mononga logs in one last time just to be there when the servers go dark, something happens--and suddenly, fantasy is reality. A rogues' gallery of fanatically devoted NPCs is ready to obey his every order, but the world Momonga now inhabits is not the one he remembers. The game may be over, but the epic tale of Ainz Ooal Gown is only beginning The game Yggdrasil is supposed to be shut down, but when players stay logged in after the servers go dark, the alternate reality becomes the actual reality, allowing the skeletal Momonga to take control After the lizardman villages receive a warning that they will soon be destroyed, Zaryusu journeys to each village hoping to form an alliance against Ainz Ooal Gown and his undead army. While having success moonlighting as the great hero, Momon, Lord Ainz learns of a rebellion back home and returns to honor his guild not as Momon, but as Ainz Ooal Gown.