This is one of the last chapters that follows the canon so closely. Next chapter Ainz will do the same as the LN/Anime, but Olga will be going to Baharuth Empire before searching for the Elf country.
'Message Spell'
[Magic Spell or Skill]
A green glow covered the girl, and the wound vanished at a visible rate.
The girl reached around to feel her back as her younger sister looked on, surprised. Olga was glad that she had drunk the potion without any more complaining or Olga was sure that Albedo would have killed them both in an instant.
Olga would have to have a chat with not just Albedo but all of the floor guardians and let them know they shouldn't kill humans for no reason or small reasons as this world was still unknown to them. For all, they knew there were people at level 150 or maybe a World Eater class monster at level 400. Olga shivered at the idea of such a monster being in this new world. Even in Yggdrasil, there had only been a total of 3 World Eater bosses with a 4th one planned, but it never actually happened.
If the game hadn´t been close to the end, Olga was sure they would have added the announced leviathan-boss Jormungundr into the game, though there wasn't a ton of people that sailed when you could just teleport and fly, so she was unsure if it ever would have been defeated. Still, Olga was a bit sad that they never added it. Fighting world bosses was one of the best things in the entire game.
"The pain is gone?" Olga heard Momonga ask, breaking her out of her memories and fantasy of an epic sea serpent battle.
"Y-yes, it is..." The Elder sister said stiffly as if she couldn't believe that she had been healed so easily.
Olga made a mental note to find some potions and have them deconstructed and examined. If the low tier potions of Yggdrasil were way better than potions of this world, they would have to be careful handing them out. High tier potions wouldn't be able to be handed out at all, or it would cause all the eyes of the world to be focused on them.
It reminded Olga a bit of the Philosopher stone due to how rare and powerful it was. Everyone wanted it, and many would do anything to try and acquire it.
"Well, we should head to the village. I am sure the death knight has killed most, if not all, of them by now. I hope a few are left alive to interrogate them." Olga said, giving one last look at the two sisters. Olga was sure they would both be safe. There were only two knights that chased them, and the Death Knight would have killed the rest of them that were near here first.
"Yes, Olga-sama," Chloe said and moved next to her. Olga hadn't noticed that Chloe had returned, an oversight she would not make again. Olga guessed her awareness had dropped while being deep in thought.
Momonga started walking before looking back at the two sisters and casting two spells on them.
"[Anti-Life Cocoon]."
"[Wall of Protection From Arrows]."
"I have placed protection spells on you. Just in case, take these." Momonga said and threw them two horns that Olga recognised as the trash item Horn of the Goblin General. The guild had many thousands of them from monster drops and lucky boxes that the guild members bought.
Olga wondered if they could be useful in this new world, unlike in the game where the summoning only lasted one hour. Would that carry over to the new world? And even if it did, the Goblins would all be lvl 20. For players; they were useless, but if knights here were weak enough to die from 2nd tier magic, maybe level 20 would be pretty strong in this new world.
In the end, it all came down to information and their lack of it.
Olga, Chloe, Momonga and Albedo made their way through the forest. As they walked to the centre of the Town, Olga noticed that a few of the knights were still alive, which surprised Olga after all the Death Knight was level 35, which seemed quite above what the two Knights they encountered had seemed to be, so Olga guessed it was taking some kind of pleasure in slowly killing them and letting them feel despair.
"You should order it to stop so we have more people to interrogate," Olga said, looking over at Momonga, who had put on a mask that Olga always thought was creepy.
"Done, let's go." Momonga said as he flew off. Olga followed after him with Chloe, and Albedo caught up a second later.
The centre of the village was filled with the stench of blood and shit. Olga saw that four of the knights were still alive and were on the ground, seeming to have given up the will to live. Olga was glad to see that one of them looked to be the leader given his slightly more extravagant armour, something Olga never understood why call attention to yourself like that. Sure, it was necessary to keep the chain of command clear in war, but in small scale engagements like this, it was really just a way to make yourself a target.
"Death Knight. That will be all for now."
Momonga called out as they all slowly walked to the Village-centre. Olga noticed that the knights were glaring at both her and Chloe and guessed they had something against elves, given that they ignored Albedo with her boob-armor. The false knights quickly stared at Ainz with mouths agape though. They had been hoping for a rescue, but what had come was the man responsible for everything and his arrival shattered their hopes.
"Greetings, gentlemen. My name is Ainz Ooal Gown." Momonga said, shocking Olga as he never said he planned on changing his name. Olga didn't mind that he was changing his name but a spur of the moment decision like what it seemed to be caught not only her off guard but no doubt Chloe and Albedo as well.
Nobody answered, and the silence was deafening.
Olga felt Ainz open a message to her.
'I am planning on letting them go free to send a message to their boss', Ainz said to Olga.
'What free are you mad? If you let them go back, they will have information on us while we are getting nothing from them. Let's say we are letting them go free for the goodwill of the people in the village and then have Eight-Edge Assassins take them back for interrogation.' Olga replied back after thinking about it.
'Hmm, okay, we will do it your way', Ainz said, cutting off the connection.
"I will permit you to leave with your lives. In exchange, tell your master no your owner this." Ainz said while walking close to one of the knights, and then he removed his helmet with the hand that was not holding the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown.
"Do not make trouble around here. If you make a disturbance here, I will slay you with the rest of your country." Ainz said in a cold voice that made the knights start shivering while they kneeled on the floor. Olga guessed that Ainz had used the skill Aura of Despair to drive the point home.
Not that it mattered. They would never be going home. As soon as they were far enough from the world they would be taken by the Eight-Edge Assassin to Nazarick, where they would be tortured for all the information they had and then given to the Demons for entertainment till they were killed once they were bored of the humans.
Olga was a little upset that none of the knights were female or attractive man. Now that she had promoted all the slaves to servants her Dark Elf army had no pleasure slaves, and while she knew they wouldn't rebel, she did want to keep them happy, so she needed some new pleasure slaves for her army.
The knights stood up and ran away like rabbits being hunted. They didn't even bother taking their swords with them Olga noticed with disdain.
Olga and Ainz made their way over to the villagers who were still kneeling in the centre of the village. Olga saw that many of them were confused and still looked scared; no doubt the aura of the Death Knight was quite intimidating to them. Olga noticed they were also giving her and Chloe some curious looks but noticed that they lacked the hate that the knights had. There were also looks that were clearly lustful given many of the woman and mens blushing at her and Chloe. While feeling a bit weirded out, given her former status as male, she did feel some understanding for them as from what she saw the Enri girl was clearly the best looking woman in the Village and while rather beautiful and easily hitting Olgas tastes, she still only managed the "cute farmer girl" vibe while Olga and Chloe literally had inhuman beauty that would make ANYONE attracted to woman give them atleast some passing glances.
"You have been saved. Be at ease." Ainz said in what Olga guessed was a kind tone, but his voice still carried power in it that made the villagers scared.
Eventually, one of the villagers managed to gather enough courage to ask.
"You are…" he asked while never taking his eyes of the Death Knight that was now collecting the bodies of the dead knights and taking them outside of the village. Olga made a note to pretend to have them burned, and then Ainz could turn them into more death knights.
"We saw your village being attacked and simply wanted to help." Olga said to the villager.
"Ohh..."
As the noises spilt out, looks of relief dawned on the villagers' faces.
Even so, they were not completely at ease. Olga guessed they thought they would ask for something.
"That said, we would be happy if you could help us. We are new to this part of the world so know very little about it. In exchange for us saving you, would you be able to help us understand where we are?" Olga asked.
Olga didn't think that it was worth asking for money from a small village like this. There was no way they would be able to pay for their services and from the armour and clothing they were wearing, it would be easy for the villagers to see they were no doubt rich and most likely came from nobility in a far off land. Given that, asking for money would make them feel even more panicked as if they couldn't pay enough, then we could take it as an insult.
"You just want information?" The villager asked carefully.
"Yes, we come from a faraway country so know nothing about the area, and you can no doubt tell from our clothing and armour that we have more than enough money," Olga said.
'You are not going to ask for money?' Ainz asked her via message.
'No, they are a small remote village. I doubt they could even scrape together 2 or 3 gold coins. We can still trade one of our gold coins to see what it is worth in this world.' Olga told Ainz.
'Hmmm, a fair point they most likely have very little money'. Ainz said after thinking about it.
Olga knew that getting money wouldn't be a real problem for them. They could just sell a ton of raw iron they had, or maybe some of the gemstones they had that had no purpose other than jewellery and decoration. Olga had in her Castle a full 16 rooms filled with Jewelry, beautiful medieval Clothes of various styles, fancy armors of various materials and a Treasure-room filled with Gold Coins where she had taken to emulate Scrooge McDuck by trying to swim in it. All of these would allow Nazarick to get loads of money. That was also only her stuff. She had convinced all the members of Ainz Ooal Gown who left a warning about quitting the game to store all their items no matter what they were in the Treasury and other rooms.
Ainz raised his hand to silence the other man before continuing.
"We'll discuss that later. I rescued a pair of sisters before I came here. I will go bring them over now. My two friends will stay here just in case any of the Knights come back," Ainz said and flew off towards the two sisters.
Olga guessed that he would change their memories so that the Village didn't know that he was an undead. Olga guessed from the looks that the Death Knight was getting that an Undead was not exactly a welcomed sight.
It turned out that the villager that had spoken up was actually the Village chief which Olga guessed shouldn't have been a big surprise, but Olga expected the Village chief to be an old man and not around 50 years old as the man in front of Olga was, though she supposed that people here tended to die earlier like in Earths medieval times. The adults in the village quickly got up and started to clean up the village and gather their dead. Thankfully the Death Knight only took the deceased Knights and hadn't touched any of the dead villagers.
Ainz returned to the village ten minutes later with the two sisters who ran to the corpses of their dead parents, and both of them broke down crying.
"Please, let's talk in my house," the Village chief said and led the way to his house.
The village chief's house wasn't anything extravagant and was only a tiny bit bigger than the houses nearby. Upon entering, one would be greeted by a large living room with a kitchen off to one side. A rickety old table and several chairs occupied the centre of the room and on the other side was a small shelf that had a few books that Olga would guess were the accounting books for taxes.
There were no premade goods in the house at all. The table and chairs were clearly handmade and no doubt done by the village chief himself, given the quality of the craftsmanship. Olga was sure that she made the right call not to ask for money even if they could pay. It would no doubt leave them with next to no money to buy food, and they may even not have been able to pay taxes.
'They seem to be far more poor than I thought given the existence of magic', Ainz said to Olga confused.
'Maybe magic isn't widespread after all. None of the knights used magic or had enchanted magic items, and they didn't even have the 3rd tier magic spell Anti-information magic wall, which was the most basic of basic anti-scarying spells, 'Olga said.
'Maybe they were weak or didn't care', Ainz said.
'Maybe, but I think they were more likely bait to attract attention. There is no reason for Knights to attack a village like this even if they come from a different country, that is unless you are trying to get the country's attention.'Olga replied after thinking about it a bit more.
'Of course, this is only if most of the world can cast tier 3 magic and higher. If they can't cast tier 3 magic and higher, that would be why they didn't' Olga added.
'You really think they couldn't cast tier 3 magic? They would only need to be level 26 to get the first few tier 3 spells; Ainz said sceptically.
'It's a new world for all we know. The average level of this world could be level 20 or the concept of levels might not exist at all. On the other hand, it could be level 90 for soldiers we simply don't know.' Olga said as the Village chief placed a cup of tea in front of the four of them.
Olga and Chloe picked up their cup and tasted the tea which had a muddy and dirt taste to it, nothing like what real tea should taste like. After taking a sip, they both placed the tea back down.
"Sorry to keep you waiting." The village chief said as he took a seat across from them with his wife standing behind him.
His skin was dark and covered in wrinkles. His body was very muscular, and it was obvious that those muscles had been honed through heavy labour, no doubt working in the fields and general day to day tasks like getting firewood. More than half of his hair was white. Though while his crudely made cotton shirt was stained by dirt, it did not stink, so general cleanliness was clearly a thing, that was a bit of a surprise for Olga.
From what Olga knew of history, peasants usually weren't very clean and often didn't care about hygiene. Of course Nobles didn´t either as they only covered up the smells with perfumes if she recalled correctly.
Ainz and the Village chief talked about the surrounding areas. Unfortunately, the village chief didn't really know the entire surrounding area very well. He knew of the closest city, E-Rantel, and that was about it, as for other countries around them, he only knew the names of the countries.
To the North-east was Baharuth Empire, which was in open conflict with Re-Estize Kingdom and would have a large scale fight every year. To the south was the Slane Theocracy, Olga noticed that he gave a quick look to both her and Chloe as he talked about them.
If Olga had to guess, the Slane Theocracy undoubtedly didn't like Elves.
The last country that the Village chief knew was called the Roble Holy Kingdom to the South-west, but he didn't really know anything about the Kingdom other than that it was to the south-west and that Re-estize traded with the country. In the end, it was more than what she and Ainz knew before saving the village but still not much more then the basics.
Next, they moved on to money. All the countries used the same currency. Copper being the lowest and Platinum being the highest. 13 copper made one silver, and so on, 13 silver was 1 gold and 13 gold was one platinum. Olga was happy it was way more straightforward than wizarding money.
Ainz also had them check the value of a gold coin from Yggdrasil, which seemed to be worth two times the price of a standard gold coin based on the weight of the Yggdrasil coin. Olga was glad as that would make it easy for them to turn it into the money of this world. All they would need to do is melt it down into a bar of gold and sell that for money.
That was the best option as the coins from Yggdrasil could be known to other players who had come to this world before them, and if they were the first people to come to this world, it would give other people a way to track them.
After finishing talking with the Village chief, both Ainz and Olga left the house and watched as the rest of the village started to bury the dead from the attack.
'We could resurrect them', Ainz suggested
'No, we have no idea how that would work on people from this world. We can run tests when we are not in public, and even if it worked would the villagers trust something that returned from the dead.' Olga told Ainz.
Not to mention, given her history with Voldemort she was generally of the opinion that the dead should be left to rest in peace. Using their Corpses was one thing, dragging their souls from the Afterlife was far different.
"Olga-sama, Ainz-sama, the knights you let go have been caught and taken to Nazarick", Albedo said quietly to the both of them.
"Good, hopefully, they will have much more information. Tell Neuronist that she doesn't need to be gentle with them." Olga said as she watched the village say their last goodbyes.
At least they had gotten some information. They knew the best options for scouting now were E-Rantel and the Baharuth Empire. They would have to avoid the Roble Holy Kingdom and Slane Theocracy. Given how close they were to each other, it was likely they shared a lot of viewpoints, and from the reaction of the chief, Olga and Chole would not be welcomed there at all. Not to mention, after reading about the Witch-burnings during her time at Hogwarts she felt incredibly leery at the idea of going anywhere near a Country that was ruled by their religious community and both the Holy Kingdom and the Theocracy were like that, given their names. While she didn´t hate Religion as a whole, Earths history made it clear that where Religion was to strong, you would also always find Corruption and Zealotry in masses.
While Olga was sure that she and Chloe were more than able to beat another level 100 player in a one v one fight, for all they knew, there could be ten-level one-hundred players, and the guild Ainz Ooal Gown was not well-liked by most of the players of Yggdrasil. For some reason, most played human-based characters like Humans, Dwarves and Elves or angel based ones. No imagination in those people...
So Heteromorphic Race characters were usually discriminated against unless they were Angels, and then add on the fact that Ainz Ooal Gown was one of the top guilds in the game. They spent a lot of time doing PK events in retaliation and attacked practically every other guild at some point. The chances were that any other players in the world would be people they had attacked before and most likely killed in the game.
"Well, let's head back to the village before we make out next move. Olga seems to think that this is a plot to lure someone in." Ainz said as they started walking back to the village.
"Understood." Albedo's reply sounded very tense which confused Olga slightly. There should be no reason for her to be so on edge in a harmless place like the village.
"Do you hate humans?" Olga heard Ainz ask Albedo and maybe even her and Chole.
"I detest them. Humans are weak and inferior lifeforms. They would look so pretty if I squashed them like bugs... besides that girl."
Olga guessed that Albedo was referencing Aureole Omega, who was the leader of the Pleiades and the Area Guardian of the Cherry Blossom Sanctuary as well as one of the few level 100 NPC's in Nazarick. From what Olga knew the rest of the Pleiades loved and deeply cared for Aureole even if as an immortal human she still was technically human.
"Well, as long as they don't go against us, I couldn't care either way about them," Chole said as they walked back to the town. That answer didn´t surprise Olga as most of her NPCs were either True neutrals or had a negative Karma of -100 at most.
"Well, we should tell the chief we are leaving." Ainz said.
The four of them headed off looking for the chief. Though they the chief almost immediately, talking to some of the villagers. He had a stern look on his face, but it did not seem normal. Instead, he appeared to be quite wound up.
'This is where the trap will be sprung no doubt someone from the Re-Estize kingdom has come, and the other side will attack when they are boxed in with the real attack force,' Olga said to Ainz over the message spell.
Olga had a small satisfied smile on her face. It was always nice to know that you were right.
"What's wrong, Chief-dono?" Ainz asked.
The chief's face lit up as though he had glimpsed the light of salvation.
"Oh, Ainz-sama, Olga-sama. It would seem there are some mounted people who look to be warriors who are approaching us..." the Chief said, trailing off at the end.
'Don't say anything', Ainz messaged back to Olga.
"I see well, don't worry, we will deal with this if they have come to cause any harm", Olga said to the villagers, who all let out a sigh of relief.
Olga and Ainz walked to the entrance of the village and could see a group of people on horses making their way to the village.
"Why are we still helping them?" Albedo asked, confused.
"Simple, we don't know how strong the people of this world are, so the more warriors we see, the better we will be able to judge the power levels of the world", Olga answered.
"They don't look like high ranking knights, do they?" Chole said confused as they arrived at the entrance of the village.
Olga had to admit that Chole had a point the warriors that had arrived all had mismatched armour and equipment, and just like the Knight, none of the stuff they were wearing was enchanted. Some of them wore helmets, while some went bareheaded. The only thing they had in common was that they each showed their faces. They all had swords of similar make, but apart from that, they also carried bows, spears, maces, and other backup weapons.
One could say that they looked like hardened veterans of the battlefield. A less polite way would be to say that they were a ragtag bunch of sellswords. They didn't look like elite knights from some special-unit and that made Olga wonder if she was actually wrong. None of the people looked like they were worth the effort of tricking them into a trap.
The riders finally arrived at the entrance to the village. There were about twenty of them in total Olga noticed that they kept sending nervous glances to the death knight before they formed up neatly before Ainz, Olga and the village chief. The speed and discipline that they did so was far beyond a sellsword, but Olga still couldn't work out why the gear they were wearing was of such poor quality.
After getting off his horse, a man stepped forward from the rest of the force. He seemed to be the leader of the men. He did look the fiercest and most eye-catching out of all twenty of the men. Despite being herself Olga found herself looking appreciatly at the mans muscular form before she removed those thoughts from her mind. Grimacing inwardly Olga wondered if her new body was fault at her new interest in the Male gender...
The leader's eyes rested briefly on the village chief, no doubt looking to see if he was panicked or trying to see if Olga and Ainz were holding the village hostage. His eyes then flicked to the Death knight before moving on to Albedo and Chloe and then finally looking at Olga and Ainz.
Olga was happy to see that the man didn't seem to care that she and Chloe were elves or if he did, he was amazing at hiding it, which Olga doubted as hate was one of the most challenging emotions to hide as humans find hate easy. Olga often wondered if humanity was pre-wired to hate things.
Although the man looking at her seemed to be the type of man who made his living through violence, his eyes couldn't have any effect on Olga, who had lived through the second wizarding war and had come face to face with Voldemort many times. Their gaze was just leagues apart.
The man, looking satisfied, spoke in a clear, strong tone:
"I am the Warrior-Captain of the Re-Estize Kingdom, Gazef Stronoff. By order of the King, I have been visiting each of the frontier villages to exterminate knights from enemy countries who have been making trouble here."
His voice echoed through the village, and there was some commotion from the chief's house behind Olga and Ainz as they all walked into the village square.
Olga wondered if he really was the Warrior-Captain of the Kingdom. Looking at his gear, it was nothing more than trash. Is that really the gear they would give to the highest ranking warrior of the kingdom? If so, how poor was the kingdom? Olga wondered inwardly.
"What sort of man is he?" Ainz asked the chief.
"According to the traders, he was a man who claimed the championship of the martial arts tournament held before the King, and now he leads the elite warriors who are loyal to the King." the Chief told Ainz.
He is under the personal command of the king, and he looks like a sellsword so either the kingdom is poor beyond belief, or the king must dislike him, and that is why his gear is so pathetic. Olga noted in her mind.
Gazef looked at the chief and said, "You must be the chief of this village. Can you tell me, who are the people beside you?"
Ainz interrupted the chief, who was about to answer, before nodding to Gazef and introducing himself.
"There is no need for that. Pleased to meet you, Warrior-Captain-dono of the Kingdom. My name is Ainz Ooal Gown. Next to me is Olga Ooal Gown. We are magic casters. This Village was being attacked by some knights, so we stepped in to save them."
'Olga Ooal Gown?' Olga asked Ainz per telepathy flatly. (She had worked hard in coming up with her lastname of Discordia. Though the name was a bit to sinister to just tell the Warrior Captain she supposed.)
'It just came out' Ainz replied back, embarrassed as Olga giggled through the message spell.
Gazef bowed deeply. "Thank you for saving this village. I have no words that can adequately praise your kindness."
Olga was a little surprised by this. Usually, such a high ranking member would be rude and stuck up, or they were in the wizarding world at least, but this warrior seemed quite humble.
"Please, do not stand on ceremony. In truth, we did what was right. Our friend always said to help people." Ainz said to Gazef.
"Are you both adventurers?" Gazef asked hesitantly.
Olga could tell where he was coming from. They were both dressed in what was clearly noble if not royal quality clothing, something that adventures wouldn't be able to afford, and even if they could, they would definitely not wear it.
"No, we are travellers that came from a far off country across the sea." Olga replied.
"Travelling, you say, could you please tell me about the blackguards who attacked this Village?" Gazef asked Ainz no doubt, thinking that he was the main power and did most of the work. Olga could see where he was coming from. She was a soft, delicate-looking big-tittied female elf. Even if Gazef himself didn't hate elves, he was no doubt preconditioned to look down on woman like all medieval societies tended to do.
Though Olga knew that she was more than capable of beating Ainz in a one v one as Ainz build was more for group fights and large scale damage in PKs compared to Olga who's build was built for one v one or fighting a small group of people at the time in large scale group fights Olga knew her build was not the best. Most of her more powerful spells were area of effect and could harm fellow fighting comrades if used carelessly.
When it came to PVP, Olga would find one or two players and blitz them before moving on to the next one or two players. Thanks to this, Olga had won the World champion title for two years in a row, while in the 3rd year her future guildmate Touch Me beat her and took the title.
Olga tuned out Ainz and Gazef talking to each other, having lost interest in Gazef for the time being. While she would love to know how strong the man was in terms of levels at the moment, there wasn't really a good way for Olga to find out his levels. Olga didn't think that Ainz would set the death knight on him just to see if he could beat it or not, and the rest of his men would no doubt jump in if the Death knight attacked him.
The best option was to learn what level each rank of adventure was equivalent to and then see where Gazef would be in terms of adventure rank.
In the middle of Olga's thoughts, one of the horsemen ran into the square. He was panting heavily, and had an urgent report. In a high-pitched voice, the horseman said:
"Warrior-Captain! We've sighted a lot of people around the village! They've surrounded the village, and they're closing in!"
'Are we sticking around?' Ainz asked Olga.
'Yes, I am curious to see how strong someone under the kings direct command is, and I am sure you are as well' Olga replied while looking at Gazef.
Olga thought that someone under the king should be at least lvl 55 to lvl 65 after all the Pleiades maids were all lvl 50 to 60 apart from the leader Aureole Omega who was level 100, but she was an area guardian as well.
The entire village took shelter inside a large barn that was used to hold all the farm animals of the village, with Ainz and Olga following alongside them.
'See told you it's a trap for Gazef. Maybe he is actually strong after all; this is far too much work to kill anything below lvl 40 to 45, Olga said to Ainz.
'Maybe or maybe everyone one in this world is around lvl 25, and Gazef is lvl 30, so that is why they had to set up all this to kill him, Momonga said.
Olga and Ainz looked at the window to see the people surrounding the village. They were unarmed and were not wearing heavy armour. Suggesting to Olga that they were actually magic casters but the nuggets give away was the winged monsters floating beside them which confirmed their vocations.
Angels.
They were clearly Archangel Flames summoned by 3rd tier magic, meaning that these people were at least lvl 16 and could be up to lvl 21as Olga had yet to see a Principality Observation or Principality Peace, which required 4th tier magic to summon.
Ainz turned and looked at Gazef.
"Who are these people? What do they want? I don't think there should be anything that valuable in this village, and I doubt they are here for us as we only just arrived at the village, and this looked like it was well planned."
"Gown-dono, you do not know either? Well, if it is not wealth they seek, then there can only be one other answer." Gazef said with a sad smile of his face.
"They must really hate you, Warrior-Captain." Olga said, looking at the group around the village. They were still getting closer, but with the forest behind, there was no way for Gazef to escape and would the warriors of the kingdom really run away when the villagers would be attacked once they left.
"It comes with the job of Warrior-Captain. However... this is troubling. Judging by the way the other side has so many people who can summon angels, they must be from the Slaine Theocracy." Gazef said, his eyes drifting to Olga and Chloe.
"Im guessing they don't like Elves?" Olga asked, amused.
"No, they don't. They not only wage war against them but also have a massive slave trade in Elves for work and other things." Gazef said, looking away. Olga knew what Gazef meant by other things, and given the look of rage and hate on Chloe's face, she also knew what he was hinting at. Olga had forgotten that Chole's background story had her being an elf slave to humans.
She wasn't exactly sure how that was filled in now that Chloe was real as Olga herself didn't go into that much detail, but given the look on her face, she could guess at some of Chloe's backstory.
"it's clear that the people carrying out this operation must be a special operations unit... the legendary Six Scriptures. It would seem that both in numbers or ability, the opposition is superior to us." Gazef said lamentingly
"Well, they've certainly gone through a lot of trouble, using the Noble faction to strip me of my gear. Still, I didn't expect the Slaine Theocracy to have their eyes on me..." Gazef said as he shrugged.
Gazef turned to look at Ainz and Olga and asked: "Gown-dono, if it is alright with you, would you be willing to let me hire you four?"
"You may name your price, and I will meet it," Gazef said after there was no reply.
"Please permit me to refuse. You just told me they hate and enslave elves, and two of my companions are elves so if they were caught…" Ainz said, trailing off.
"Even the loan of that knight you summoned would be fine." Gazef said desperately.
"The knight only obeys Ainz, and once it goes too far away from him, it can no longer be controlled and would then just become another foe for you to fight," Olga said, adding sadness to her voice.
"Not to mention that the Slaine Theocracy are all magic casters, and they are all at least in the third tier, so they possibly could take control of it for themselves and use it against all of us", Ainz added, which Olga thought was a really good lie.
Gazef narrowed his eyes and looked at Ainz and looked at Ainz's strange mask.
"What's wrong? Is there something on my mask?" Ainz asked.
"Ah, no. I simply felt that mask was exceptional. Since that mask is used to control that monster, it must be a very powerful magic item... am I correct?"
"Well, about that... I would say that it's a very rare and valuable item. One could even say that it was exclusive." Ainz replied.
"I see that it's meaningless to keep going on about this. Then, Gown-dono, please take care of yourself. Once again, thank you for saving this village." Gazef asked as he stood up.
"I will do my best, but if they are so strong that we can't stand a chance in a fight against them, we will help the villagers flee as we do. After all, I have my two friends to think about I´m sure you could imagine the future that would await them as slaves."
Gazef removed his metal gauntlet and shook Ainz's hand. "If you should ever visit the Royal Capital, I will give you anything you desire. I swear this on the name of Gazef Stronoff."
Olga thought that he would have to live through this first, and if it wasn't for the fact that she and Ainz were here, then Olga knew he would be a dead man.
"...Before that, please take this with you." Ainz took out an item and handed it to the smiling Gazef. It was a small, strangely carved statuette. Olga recognised it as an Exchange Puppet that would allow them to swap places with Gazef.
"If it is a gift from your good self, I will gladly accept it. Then, Gown-dono. Time grows short, but I must now leave."
"Then, I wish you all the best, Warrior-Captain-dono." Ainz said.
Ainz quietly watched Gazef's back shrinking into the distance as he rode off.
"You plan on swapping places with him?" Olga asked.
"Only as long as Slaine Theocracy magic casters are not able to cast 8th or 9th tier magic," Ainz said.
"I doubt they are able to cast magic of that tier or why use 3rd tier angels summons. They could just summon a group of Dominion Authorities as they only need 7th tier magic", Olga said.
"Doesn't hurt to be careful. Albedo, order the servants to search out the ambushers around us and knock them out once they are found." Ainz ordered.
"I will do so at once... Ainz-sama, the village chief and the others are here."
They reached Ainz's side, panting heavily. Filled with tension and unease, the chief spoke immediately, as though breathing were a luxury he could not Afford.
"Ainz-sama, Olga-sama, what should we do? Why did the Warrior-Captain leave us behind and not protect us?"
"They are not here for you, chief-dono. You were just bait to lure in the Warrior-Captain, nothing more. If he had stayed here, they would have attacked the village, and they definitely wouldn't let you live to tell the tale," Olga explained to the chief.
"So, are we safe?" the village chief said.
Olga scoffed. "Of course not. They will come to kill you. Afterall they can't afford to let the world know what they have done here today. As long as you remain within their encirclement, you have nowhere to run. But at the moment, they are busy dealing with the Warrior-Captian, so you have the best chance of escaping now."
"Village chief-dono, there is no more time. You must move quickly so as not to waste the Warrior-Captain's determination." Ainz said to the chief.
"I see... then, Ainz-sama, Olga-sama, what will you do?"
"We will wait here and observe the situation, and then wait for a good time to escort you away if they are too strong for us to defeat," Olga said.
Both Olga and Ainz were watching the fight. They were both taken by surprise by the skills that Gazef was using as they were not part of the game, so they must be unique to the new world.
"So, what level do you think he is?" Ainz asked Olga.
"Hmm, given that the Archangel Flame is around level 20 to 25 depending on the proficiency of the person summoning it. I would guess he is around level 27 at the very best level 30," Olga said after watching him kill six angels with one skill.
"If he had his real gear, then it could boost him to around level 33. Not very impressive for the top Warrior of the kingdom, but maybe the highest level Warrior stays next to the king 24/7," Olga said.
"What about the Slaine Theocracy?"
"Well, they have summoned a Principality Observation which needs 4th tier magic, so at least one of them is lvl 22 to 28 at best", Olga reasoned.
"We can deal with them easily. Hell, the four of us could undoubtedly fight against 6 level 100's and not have to worry too much about losing." Olga added.
The scenery before the four of them changed in an instant from the barn they were all in to the battleground where the Warrior-Captain was just about to die.
The light of the orange setting sun covered up the blood staining the grass, and the stench of blood and death was blown away by the wind.
There were four figures on the plains that shouldn't have been there.
Nigun of the Slaine Theocracy's special operations unit — the Sunlight Scripture — looked at two of them with perturbation in his eyes. And the other two, he looked at them with lust; they were without a doubt the most beautiful and erotic looking elves that he had ever seen. His eyes were especially lingering on the black-haired Dark Elves large bust.
Looking back at the other two, one of them was dressed like an arcane magic caster and was wearing an evil looking mask that hid his face, and the other was dressed in a suit of jet-black full plate armour. Gazef and his men were gone without a trace and replaced with these four. Nigun guessed it was some form of teleportation magic, but he had no idea what type of magic it was as he only knew the very basics of 4th tier magic.
Nigun wasn't able to use 5th tier magic, so he wasn't qualified to meet and learn magic from the guardian deities of the Slane Theocracy.
"Pleased to meet you, gentlemen of the Slaine Theocracy. I am Ainz Ooal Gown. I would be glad if you could call me Ainz, and my friend is Olga Ooal Gown."
Nigun did not respond, and thus the mysterious man called Ainz continued:
"The person behind me is called Albedo. And the person behind Olga is called Chloe. I would like to make a deal with you. Might I have a moment of your time?"
Nigun paused for a moment and tried to recall if the name Ainz Ooal Gown had any meaning, for he felt like he had heard of it before but couldn't remember where from. So Nigun raised his chin and gave a nod to indicate that Ainz should continue.
"Wonderful. Thank you for taking the time to listen to me. Then, I would like to start by making one thing clear to you, gentlemen. You have no chance of defeating us, and my two elvish friends would not treat you well if they got their hands on you." Ainz said, his voice full of absolute confidence in his statement.
Nigun furrowed his brows. Olga could tell he was angry at the idea that what he no doubt assumed was simple elves could ever defeat him and his men.
Olga looked around. There were over 30 people here, with 20 of them being men and the other ten females, which was fortunate for Olga as her army needed some pleasure slaves and how poetic it was that they would come from a country that enslaved and used elves as pleasure slaves.
"Ignorance is truly deplorable. You will pay the price for your foolishness, and your two friends will be put in their place as nothing more than slaves for their betters," Nigun said darkly.
Chloe loudly snorted at what he said.
"You won't be so haughty when you're on your knees for my men, you filthy slave," Nigun said to the laughter of his men who were looking at Chloe and Olga with a perverted and dark lust in their eyes.
"Somehow, I think it will be the other way around. You will be begging us for mercy. After all, we watched your fight earlier, why would we swap places with him unless we knew for a fact that we could win. If we weren't sure we could win, we would have left him to die," Olga said with a dark smile on her face that clearly unsettled a few of the priests.
Nigun's eye twitched, and Olga guessed that he also came to the same conclusion.
After a period of silence, Ainz spoke again: "I have a question for you if you can understand it. The angels you have brought with you should have been summoned by 3rd-tier magic, and the large one behind you is summoned via 4th tier magic. Am I correct?"
Ainz went on, ignoring Nigun's puzzled expression:
"The monsters you summoned are similar to those in YGGDRASIL, so I was curious as to whether the names were the same. Many of YGGDRASIL's monsters were derived from mythology... monsters like angels or demons should be no exception. The mythology that came from my world... that would mean someone like myself must exist in this world."
"That's enough of your self-absorbed prattle. Now tell me; where is Stronoff?" Nigun said in anger.
'You didn't think he would just spill the beans about one of his secrets, did you?' Olga asked Ainz via message.
'No, but it was worth a try im sure after being tortured, he will talk,' Ainz replied.
'I will leave this up to you and Chloe unless you need my help.'
"We teleported him to the village," Olga told him, holding her hands out in a what can you do pose.
"How foolish. Even if you tell a lie like that, a quick search of the village will prove it."
"It's not a lie. I do not need to lie. You are already dead men walking no matter what you learn or how you struggle you have already lost," Olga said explained to Nigun as if he was a little kid.
"How dear you a dirty fucking elf talk to me as if you're my better. I will make sure every single man in our country fucks you like the useless fuck hole you are." Nigun roared in hate, his spit flying out of his mouth.
Nigun got even angrier seeing that Olga didn't even pay any attention to his threat, unlike the other elf slaves that he had raped or been given as a reward for doing a hard mission.
"Ainz mentioned a deal before. These are the terms. You will hand yourselves over now, and the suffering of your men will be short. However, if you put up a fight, your suffering will be beyond your dreams, and I will make sure to let each and every one of you know what the poor elves enslaved by your nation feel like," Olga said, her voice getting as cold as the arctic by the end.
Olga took a step forward while activating the skill Aura of Magic.
The skill would project her magical aura out and would feel like a crushing force to anyone that was twenty levels lower than her. The single step made the men of the Sunlight scripture feel like a mountain was crushing them to death, and some of the lowest level people of the Sunlight scripture fell to the ground and started to cough up blood.
Several hoarse cries came from around Nigun. The first time ever, Nigun was scared of the elf in front of him; Nigun was a powerful individual himself, a veteran of many battles who had grazed the edge of death countless times. And even he was sacred of the potent pressure that was radiating from the Dark elf who stood in front of him.
Could this really be an elf? Were Dark Elves so much stronger than their Forest Elf counterparts?
No! There was no way elves were this strong…
Nigun thought to himself angrily. Yes, it must be a trick with the magic caster actually using magic to make the elf look more powerful.
"Have the angel's attack break her legs and arms. Don't fall for the trick of that magic caster. There is no way that a dirty lowly elf could ever be that strong," Nigun shouted in rage for falling for a trick.
Nigun's shout calmed his men down and boosted their spirits and hate for thinking an elf could ever be strong.
Two Archangel Flames flapped their wings in response to Nigun's command, launching an attack aiming for Olga's legs.
"4th tier magic [Frozen ground]", Olga said as the angels got within range and 15-meter circle around her turned to ice, and the Archangel Flames froze and shattered into a thousand pieces.
Nigun could not comprehend the sight before him. An elf had just cast 4th tier magic. With ease, not only that, but it was a spell that Nigun had never heard of, meaning it was most likely a mid-tier spell. The strongest spell caster that Nigun knew could only cast 6th tier magic, and he had never heard of an elf being able to cast 4th tier magic.
"Impossible", one of Nigun's subordinates moaned, giving voice to the words in Nigun's heart.
Nigun gulped.
"Are you ready? Now it's my turn," Olga said with a demonic-looking smile.
A sudden spike of terror filled Nigun.
"All angels, attack! Hurry!" Nigun shouted in desperation.
"5th tier magic" [Maximize Magic: Sodom's Fire and Brimstone]
The area in front of Olga erupted into a massive firestorm that engulfed all the angels. The heat coming off the firestorm started to melt the ground before and turned dusk into midday from the glow it put out before it faded.
Not even ash remained from the angels that were caught in the firestorm.
"Im-impossible..."
Olga heard someone mutter, and the voice was carried over the wind as silence fell. Nigun could not help but tremble.
"U-uwaaaah!"
"What, what the hell!"
"It's a monster!"
Once they realised their angels were useless, they wailed and fell back upon the spells that they knew and trusted in the hope of killing the Dark elf.
[Iron Hammer of Righteousness], [Hold], [Fire Rain],[Emerald Sarcophagus], [Holy Ray], [Shockwave], [Confusion], [Acid Arrow], [Anti-Evil Protection], [Thunderlance], [Holy Light]
All kinds of spells rained down on Olga but even as the storm of spells smashed against her, Olga was unmoved. Spells of tier 6 and lower were next to useless the level difference made it next to impossible for them to deal any damage to Olga.
Chloe stepped forward. "We should just finish them, and then we can begin to let them suffer." she said with a cold and cruel look on her face.
"Ngk! Puh! Principality of Observation! Get them!"
The Principality of Observation was an angel in full body armour. It held a mace in one hand and a round shield in the other. A garment that looked like a long skirt covered its legs. And it was a 4th tier summon.
As ordered the angel floated over to Olga and Chloe and raised its mace before bringing it down on Olga and Chole. Chloe simply reached out and grabbed the mace as it came down before ripping it out of the angels' grip and turning the mace back around and smashing it into the face of the angel that crumbled into motts of light as it was destroyed.
"How, how could this be."
"In just one hit..."
"Im-im-impossible!" Nigun shouted amidst his confusion.
The Principality of Observation was a high-tier angel. It boasted the strongest defence of all other angels in its tier. In addition, Nigun's natural-born talent, [Enhance Summoned Monster], could improve the stats of any monster Nigun summoned.
"It can't be what are you two you are not elves there is no way you are elves… You must be demon lords, yes, that's it. You're demons, aren't you!" Nigun screamed in fear and panic, hoping to deny the reality infrount of him.
Olga spread her hands once more. "You're just weak. Your ignorance is the idea that only humans can be powerful."
"Cap-Captain, what, what should we do...?"
"Protect me! Protect me if you want to live!" Nigun said as he brought out a crystal in his trembling hand.
"I am going to summon an angel of the highest order. Hurry up and buy me some time!"
"Oh, is that a spell-sealing crystal?" Olga asked out loud.
"Do you want some help, Olga?" Ainz asked, seeing the crystal.
"Hmm, no, at best they can summon a Seraph-class angel. Nothing to be worried about," Olga said, dismissing the idea of needing help over a Seraph class angle. She was a Dark Elf Empress with neutral Karma, so holy magic didn't deal extra damage to her as it did to Ainz, who had -500 Karma.
Nigun ritually broke the crystal in his hand, and a brilliant radiance spilt forth. As if a hidden sun had been reviled upon the land, daying the land a steller white. The legendary angel descended upon the earth, and Nigun exulted:
"Behold! The glorious visage of the highest angel! Dominion Authority!"
Olga looked at Ainz. "See how embarrassed would you have been to want to fight something that weak together."
"I was expecting something like a Cherubim Gatekeeper or Seraph Aerosphere," Ainz said, not even putting the angel in his view.
"Please! I could take a Cherubim Gatekeeper or Seraph Aerosphere on my own," Olga scoffed. Even if the Seraph Aerosphere was level 90, the 10 level difference was massive, and she doubted that Nigun knew spells of the 10th tier. She would be surprised if he knew spells of the 5th tier.
It was a mass of many shining wings, and among them were a pair of arms that held a sceptre, symbolising royal authority, but it was nothing compared to Cherubim Gatekeeper or Seraph Aerosphere, let alone the six Seraph Empyrean that the guild had to fight as a world boss.
"How can you act like that in front of the angel of the highest order?!" Nigun shouted. He could not believe that Olga and Ainz were chatting leisurely and completely ignoring Dominion Authority. He had no idea of the angels that they mentioned, this was the strongest angel other than the two guardian deities of the Slane Theocracy.
Their calm attitude of absolute superiority made the surging joy in Nigun's heart vanished. In its place was terror and unease.
"No, you're just trying to trick me. This is a being that can defeat a Demon God! In the face of a foe that humanity cannot beat — it's a bluff! It must be a bluff!" Nigun screamed again.
"Use it! Use [Holy Smite]!"
Dominion Authority shattered its sceptre in response to its summoner's wish to use its most powerful attack. The fragments rose up into the air and slowly orbited its body.
The spell was cast, and a pillar of light broke through the sky.
With a loud whoosh, a seemingly endless cascade of holy blue-white radiance flooded down from the heavens before crashing down on where both Olga and Chloe were standing.
"Hahahahaha, as expected of magic that has extra effect on evil beings and filth like elves. It's a shame that you won't have the honour that the rest of your kind have in serving humanity."
The pillar of light vanished. It had not had any effect.
"If you had used it on Ainz, you might have done a tiny amount of damage, but on me, sorry, but it wouldn't be able to do any form of damage with my current gear. My magic defence was more than enough to protect me," Olga said with a gentle smile on her face that looked demonic to the Sunlight Scripture.
"Now it's my turn, again."
"10th tier magic [Implosion]"
Enri PoV:
Enri Emmott frowned as she tried to look into the distance where Lord Ainz and Lady Olga were no doubt fighting. She barely paid any attention towards her fellow Villagers and sister who were busy with bandaging the wounded Knights of the Warrior-Captain.
Thinking about her two Saviours Enri instantly felt gratefulness towards Lord Ainz. Her feelings towards Lady Olga were more complicated.
Enri had for years planned to eventually marry her friend Nphirea Bareare from E-Rantel and she was really only waiting for him to ask for her hand. But now she for the first time felt a different yearning.
The moment she had looked at Lady Olga and her fellow Dark Elf Chloe, Enri had gotten feelings that truly surprised her. She had never thought herself to be attracted to women but those two were almost like Goddesses in terms of beauty. If either of them had asked Enri to become their Concubine, she honestly couldn´t say that she wouldn´t have accepted in a heartbeat. The only thing that would have caused her some hesitation would be if they asked her to leave her sister Nemu behind.
She actually felt a bit bad about herself. Were her feelings for Nphirea so shallow? Or was it just natural to feel attracted to such a beautiful woman?
For now, Enri would keep her thoughts to herself and wait. There was a good chance that Lady Olga and Lord Ainz would never return to Carne Village so mooning after an impossible love would do Enri little good.