Ainz Ooal Gown (Web Novel)

Ainz Ooal Gown (アインズ・ウール・ゴウン), formerly known as Momonga (モモンガ), is the main protagonist of the Overlord Web Novel series. He is the guildmaster of Ainz Ooal Gown, Overlord of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and the creator of Pandora's Actor. He is regarded as the highest of the Almighty Forty-One Supreme Beings by the NPCs of Nazarick. After making his debut in the New World he accepts an invitation to join the Baharuth Empire and becomes the newest Archduke.

Background
Out of the forty-one guild members of Ainz Ooal Gown, thirty-seven of his fellows had quit. Three still remained, but by the time of YGGDRASIL's shut-down Momonga could scarcely remember seeing them.

Overlord First Half Arc
On the last day of the game YGGDRASIL, only two members of Ainz Ooal Gown came to the Great Tomb of Nazarick: Momonga and Herohero. However the latter decides to leave as he has pressing real-life issue. Now alone, Momonga decides to wait until the very end in the Throne Room. The first thing he grabs is the symbol of hid guild, the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Momonga encounters the Non-Playable Characters, Sebas Tian and the combat maids, and has them follow him to the Throne Room. There he has them be on standby and sits on the throne. As the clock counts down, Momonga briefly closes his eyes. However when he reopens them he finds that the shut-down has already passed. But for some reason he is still in his game avatar and none of the game systems are working. Even stranger he is greeted by Sebas Tian.

Momonga was dumbfounded and his thoughts were in disarray, but he slowly returned back to reality. After confirming that the GM Call is not working Momonga realizes that the NPCs have gained self-awareness. He slightly recovers and orders Sebas Tian to investigate the outside of the dungeon. He then addresses to have all the Floor Guardians meet in the Amphitheater on the 6th Floor. He stops one maid from departing and he conducts an experiment to touch one of the maids, but soon realizes us lack of feeling and sees his skeletal hand. He orders the maid to raise her skirt, who though confused complies. Momonga just confirmed that he is not in YGGDRASIL, as the system would ban such behavior. He wonders if he is in YGGDRASIL II. However he sees that the maid has begun crying and quickly apologizes before dismissing her.

Once at the Amphitheater, Momonga meets the Floor Guardian, Aura Debay Fiora. Together with her he decides to run a few tests like summoning magic and summons three Moonlight Wolves. After finishing their experiments the two ptiently wait for the other Floor Guardians. To kill time, Momoga tests out his magic using scarecrows brought by Aura's Dragonkin. To further test the extent of his abilities, Momonga summons a Primal Fire Elemental and has Aura combat it. As he wactches her fight, he manages to connect with his Item Box. Now confirming he has all this power Momonga wonders what he should do now.

Momonga makes small talk with Aura offering her a glass of water from the Pitcher of Endless Water. They are joined by Shalltear Bloodfallen, Demiurge, and Cocytus. Now that the have gathered, save for Gargantua, he asks if any of them experience any unusual activity but none can provide any information. Sebas Tian returns to report that the tomb had been transported from the poison swamp to an area of grassland. In an unknown territory Momonga orders the NPCs to send out several scouts to make a detailed report with the goal in collecting.

While looking through the Mirror of Remote Viewing, Momonga sees the knights attack on Carne Village. While he wants to stay out of the conflict, upon witnessing a dying man who somehow sees him via the magic mirror, decides to intervene in order to gain information on the world. He appears just in time to save a pair of young girls from a knight. Using his magic he turns the corpse into a Death Knight and has it attack the knights slaughtering the villagers. Turning to the girls, they are frightened of him but gives them a Minor Healing Potion to drink to heal their wounds and places magical protection upon them. When asked his named, Momonga delclares himself Ainz Ooal Gown intending to make the name a legend for his comrades.

Abilities and Powers
Described as an Undead, Momonga was an Overlord, an existence beyond death. He was capable of high class undead creation of eight undead per day; low class undead creation of twelve per day, Negative Energy Touch, Desperation Aura, Cold, Acid, Electric Immunity, High Class: Damage Immunity, High Class: Magic Resistance, Wave of Death, Impure Protection, High Class: Retreating Resistance, Physical Damage, Reduction in Strengthen Magic.

Also, he had his class levels as well—-For example, Momonga had his Master of Death instant death strengthening magic, his True Necromancer’s Undead Ruler and Undead strengthening skill.

He also had Undead special base abilities such as immunity to critical hits, immune to status change, food and drink unnecessary, poison, sickness, sleep, paralysis, instant death immunity. Death magic strengthening, oxygen unnecessary. Ability cost damage immunity?, energy drain immunity, recovery with negative energy, nightvision. And there was more.

Of course, he had weaknesses, though these were the basic abilities of being an Undead, he could also gain them from leveling up as well. Frailness against Light or Holy Damage, Fire Damage Increase. Naturally, he could remove these with items.

Thanks to his cash items, Momonga had learned more than a hundred spells. In addition, due to his repeated PKs [Player Killer], and participating in special events, another three hundred eighteen more. In total, he had learnt seven hundred eighteen spells. Rather than simple destruction spells, he had a specialization in binding magic and death magic. In addition, he chose a class that matched them, boosting the abilities. And for that reason, he would lose to a battle-focused magic caster in terms of damage, and the destruction level was also a problem. Conversely, investigation and searching magic were very important but there were few of those so it could not be compared. For Mana Power, Momonga currently had 1980 points and his level was 100.

Momonga owned quite a few scrolls, wands and staffs. He was the type of person that hoarded everything. Even when he was facing the final boss in a video game, he did not use them. It was more miserly than carefulness.

Active

 * Greater Teleportation
 * Grasp Heart
 * High Tier Undead Creation: Death Knight
 * Anti-life Cocoon>



Trivia

 * Unlike in the Light Novel, Sebas Tian is the one who greets Ainz when he comes into the New World, not Albedo as she doesn't exist in this continuum.