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Bold is For Attacks

NO POV

A beautiful woman skittered about the halls of the Great Tomb on spider like legs, despite her beautiful appearance from the waist down it was hard to miss the spider like body that made up her lower half.

"Making NPCs is such a pain, but it's always worth it to make a new friend." She spoke in a sensual middle-aged voice as she walked up to a table "Her appearance is rather gruesome don't you think Stitch?"

"Yes Lady Somber." Was all it responded.

"Haa…" the Arachne sighed "Look at me talking to NPCs like they can give more than a scripted response."

She turned back to the table where she was scripting her new creation, an Insect summoning bug girl she was calling Entoma. The Guild had decided they needed one more maid for the Pleiades and since the usual maid creator was busy with work for a bit SomberEvening, the guilds Arachne Sorceress, had offered to create this NPC herself.

"Making NPCs is kinda like making a child." She hummed "If only the men I met felt the same way…I'm sick of being single!"

"I'm talking to myself again." She sighed "Stitch bring me that."

"Yes Milady." The doll brought her a bug with a mask looking back.

"You're a good boy aren't you." She patted his head "Well you're not really a boy, technically you're set to genderless…ah well don't hate me for saying that okay."

"Yes." The scarecrow nodded with another scripted response.

"I'm afraid you're a little too gruesome looking to be a maid Entoma." Somber looked at a console "So we'll use this mask bug to hide that…but don't ever think that makes you ugly okay, Mama loves you no matter what you look like."

Again SomberEvening sighed to herself, talking to NPC like they were real, treating them like family maybe she was going a little stir crazy, her job as a manager at a local coffee shop was just too draining.

Still she found something fulfilling about making an NPC like this, still the others always seemed to think her darker creepy tendencies for the NPCs she created were a bit odd.

"I hope no one is mean to Entoma since she doesn't quite fit in with the beauty of the other maids" she thought looking back "Well then I'll make sure that no one is mean to my sweet little girl."

She skittered over to Stitch and pulled up his settings

"I'm giving you an override the others won't know about Stitch, you are to look after Entoma Vasilissa Zeta at all costs consider her a priority over all the other NPCs, after all the hard work we did consider her like-." She mumbled the last bit under her breath "That's silly…hopefully no one looks at these settings it be so embarrassing."

Stitchstix POV

"Hmm." I leaned up and rubbed my face "it was that dream again…"

I looked over and saw Entoma was gone, the shack was quiet save a few skittering bugs and rats, and the fireflies buzzing around the lantern hanging on the ceiling.

"She must be eating still." I hopped up.

Most of the denizens of the Tomb don't need to sleep, though I do at least once every two weeks or so.

"Stitchstix come here quickly." Lord Ainz messaged me.

Did Albedo tell him…no…

I warped my way to the throne room and entered, kneeling near the thrown "How can I help you Lord?"

"Mind Control, what do you know of it?" he asked.

"Difficult to use, takes time to channel but when done correctly it allows you near full control of the entity in question, allowing you to command them as your own." I said "This one would also note that mind control cannot be used on the undead or a creature of sufficiently high level with a proper Inelegances. Wisdom or Charisma Stat, Mind Control magic can usually be broken when the victim dies, resurrecting them breaks the spell on them. That is how it worked in the old world, I'm afraid I have not had the chance to experiment with such hexes in this world as of yet."

I looked at Albedo and noticed she had the Master List opened for Lord Ainz.

"So that's what this is…" I mumbled "Kekeke, My Lord if that vampire hag betrayed you, may I have the body when your done dealing with it?"

"What no you can't!" he said quickly "I haven't even decided what I'm going to do about this yet. Or if Shalltear has done this betrayal because of such magic. If she was displeased I might understand-."

"Displeased?!" Albedo yelled "After all the mercy you've show her?! I'll tear her to pieces."

"That's enough." Lord Ainz said "You were all created by my friends the way they wanted good qualities and bad and I love all of you for that, so if Shalltear is dissatisfied and has betrayed us, it is simply the Peroroncino set out for her."

"Loves us?!" Albedo smiled "He…loves me…"

"Quite the fantasy you crone." I sighed.

"Shut up!" she roared at me.

"I…simply meant all of you." Lord Ainz said.

"All includes me, though right?!" she begged.

"I suppose."

"This is the greatest day of my life!"

"You are pathetic." I sighed.

"Still before we can do anything more we must find Shalltear." Lord Ainz said.

I whistled and a small moth landed on my finger "Find her, don't touch her or interact, I merely need you to lay eyes on the Vampire."

The moth flew off and split into more as it flapped.

"I shall find the location swiftly Lord." I bowed.

It took a while but the moths returned.

"She's just…standing there?" I asked.

Later

"Finally my time has come." I cackled sitting in a tree.

Lord Ainz had been called by the Adventurers Guild to deal with Shalltear but some annoying man insisted on tagging along, so he was in need of convenient ambush to eliminate the problem.

"Here they come Master." Entoma said.

"Thank you my dear." I smiled wide dropping down in front of them.

"Hello there." I tilted my head.

"A Rouge Doll!" one of them yelled.

The man in black armor is Lord Ainz, and that Narberal next to him, okay I won't be able to use my wide range spells I guess.

"I'm no simple doll." I jumped over the one and landed on his back, leaning around to smile "I'm much worse! Tier Two Spell: Acid Breath!"

I coughed into his face and melted it off, I slipped forward around another and palmed his chest.

"Infinite Ringing." I smiled.

An intense vibration rang out through his armor, shattering his bones into chips.

"You're the last one!" I laughed grabbing his head "Mind Box!"

His eyes went blank and everything about his bodily functions stopped.

"Live forever in my nightmare." I smiled wide "Ah well, it's all done, there was no one else right."

Narberal shook her head.

"What a shame I was hoping they'd at lease snip a stitch." I sighed "I'll be taking the bodies with me."

"Very well, see if you can get something out of the bodies." He told me "Though I need you to examine Shalltear."

"Right." I threw the three into a pile "Entoma my dear, give me a hand would you, and no nibbling!"

"But that's the best part." She whined.

"If there's so much as a single finger missing when I get back, I'll turn your blood to acid for a week." I told her "I wouldn't want to punish you now would I?"

"No Master." She bowed.

"Let's go." Lord Ainz said.

"Right." I walked behind him.

We went out into the field and found Shalltear just…standing there.

"It's not like my mind box spell "She's not trapped in a nightmare she's just kinda in a stasis. She was effected even though she was an undead, something tried to control her and either failed, or intentionally choose to give her no orders."

"We need to break this spell without risking drawing her aggression." Lord Ainz held up a finger.

"What's that?" Albedo asked.

"A Ring known as Shooting Star, it allows the holder to cast the Wish spell three times a day." He said.

"The Wish spell is traditionally tricky." I said "It has a tendency to…backfire. Not that you would ever make such a mistake Lord."

"It's all about the wording." Lord Ainz said.

"It's truly super tier magic, I've only heard of such a thing." Albedo looked on.

"It requires the right skillset to you." Lord Ainz stepped forward.

"Using such an important item on a servant, your compassion knows no bounds!" Albedo smiled.

"Shooting Star, Cure Shalltear of all Status effects!" He casted the spell, only to have the magic circle around him suddenly shatter.

"It was canceled out?" I quickly looked around "My pets don't see anyone."

"We are leaving now!" Lord Ainz said.

We teleported away, landing in a different field.

"Someone was watching us." I hummed.

"Dammit!" Lord Ainz kicked the ground and sent a shockwave.

"Did something go wrong?" Albedo asked.

"It casted…but the wish was ungrantable?" I wondered

"Only one thing can resist a Super Tier magic spell." Lord Ainz said "I hadn't thought to see one here…a World Level Item."

"Hmm." I hummed.

"Raise the security level of Nazarick to maximum." He told Albedo "And every Guardian is to return immediately."

Later

"I am not to be tested right now." I told the beasts that roamed my floor "I don't know what's coming but I want you all ready to kill anything out of place."

"RAAA!" the worm's that lived under the swamp, and the other giant beasts roared and went off.

"Is everything alright Master?" Entoma asked.

"I am fine, I was speaking with you as well." I warned "Be ready."

"Yes." She bowed.

A world level item…could it really exist out there, things sure are getting fun!

AN

Thank you for reading. Feel free to message me any questions or concerns. Feedback is appreciated. Feel free to message me any questions or concerns.

Just wanted to touch on something again. I've noticed a few people talking about how Stitch seems too mean to some of the other guardians. It's not that it doesn't respect them, it just doesn't have any problems picking on them a bit. Stitch is a bit of a free spirit, going with its own flow and as a result has no issues with playful nicknames and petty insults. So it's not that it thinks Solution is a stupid bimbo, but that she has the body of one. Basically they aren't meant to be insults but playful jabs, though Stitch definitely thinks lower of the other Pleiades due to its higher opinion of Entoma.

Till Next Time!