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Everyone knows the story of the necromancer who became a king.
This isn't that story.
Hinge was never the strongest player in his guild not the leader, not the raid captain, not even someone most of his own guildmates could pick out of a crowd. While the rest of Ainz Ooal Gown chased boss kills and rankings, he spent his nights alone in a glorified storage box, grinding out an economy of scale nobody else understood the value of. When the servers should have shut down for good, he woke up somewhere else entirely trapped in his own overlooked fortress, surrounded by the only things he'd ever really cared about building: six Guardians who trust him more than he ever expected to deserve, and a promise made to a friend who wasn't supposed to survive long enough to see any of it.
Somewhere out there, two more people he used to know are waking up just as lost. And not far from his own front door, the world's most feared Sorcerer King is about to discover that he isn't the only Player left in this world after all just the only one who ever wanted to be.
No throne. No conquest. Just a bug, a blowtorch, an unreasonable number of guns, and a household full of interesting figures one terrible pun at a time.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Overlord world or its canon characters. Those belong to Kugane Maruyama. I only own my OC Hinge, his six Floor Guardians, and a few original side characters. Everything else is not mine. So please don't get pissed....