English is not my first language .

Ainz in this fanfic is very op.

I do not own overlord.

Chapter 2

The 7 th floor of the great underground tomb of nazarick was a perfect description of hell. It has crimson lava flowing like a river,with numerous bubbles in these currents bursting as they reach the surface. These rivers were connected with each other in an intricate manner further enhancing the 'Hellish' beauty of the floor. This was home of the archdevil demiurge.

Demiurge was patrolling the area around 'Blazing Temple' ,his residence on the 7 th floor. Along with him his subordinates, the seven evil lords, were also on patrolling duty. The 'Blazing Temple' was one of the most important areas on this floor as it had the entrance to the eighth floor through it. He would guard it with his life.

He had just returned from his farm after finishing his work. He had acquired new sheep from the conquests of Theocracy and Argland council state. But he was more interested in the sheep acquired from Argland council state. As humans were weak, the scrolls created from their skin could hold only low tier spell. But on the other hand, the scrolls created from skin and scales of dragons could hold up to 8 th tier spells. So now the nazarick had steady influx of high tier scrolls in its treasury.

But the arrival of new sheep created many problems due to overpopulation. First, he needed more space to accommodate the large creatures. So he had to increase the size of his farm,nearly doubling his operational area. Second, the appetite of dragons far exceeded that of humans and demihumans. Before that he would create food from the sheep itself and feed them. And at last after healing them he could work without using any resources. But that was not the case with dragons.

Due to such problems, now-a-days , his workload has increased considerably. But how could he, the archdevil, the perfectionist slack in his work. This would mean grave insult to the supreme beings who in their infinite mercy had created him to serve them. There was no other reason for his existence than to serve them. So he could not make any mistakes. And he would not tolerate any mistakes.

He was sure that other supreme beings had left them because they had somehow displeased them. But he would make sure that this does not happen with the last supreme being who had remained with them until the end. He dreaded the thought that the last remaining supreme being would also leave them just like the others. If that happened, then to whom would they pledge their loyalty? To whom would they serve?

He was sure that lord Ainz would abandon them when shalltear had rebelled against Nazarick. On the contrary, Lord Ainz in his infinite mercy had forgiven her. But he will not forgive her ever. How could he? Lord Ainz has always been very merciful towards them, forgiving their every mistake. He knew Lord Ainz must have his limits, one day he would get tired of their mistakes and leave us on our own.

To avoid this , he had offered to give this world to his master. Even then, Lord Ainz had graciously helped him on various occasions. He still marvelled at how quickly his lord had brought the Dwarven nation and Baharuth empire under the vassalage of the sorcerers kingdom. He had predicted that it would at least take a few years for them to agree to vassalisation.

Demiurge sighed, Every time Lord Ainz fascinates me with his intellect. It seems the whole world dances within his palms. I am sure he also knows what I am thinking now. It is evident that I could not reach his level of intelligence. All I can do is to try to improve myself. But now I must concentrate on the new task assigned to me by lord Ainz.I will discover this new continent and conquer it in his name. All the treasures of this world belong to the supreme beings, and I as a servant must make it so.

As demiurge was lost in his thoughts, he received a message.

+Demiurge ,where are you? Are you free now?+

After recognizing the voice he gave a slight bow and addressed the voice.

+Lord Ainz, I am currently patrolling the 7 th floor. I am always free for you.+

+ meet me at my office in ten minutes .+

+As you wish my lord, I will not be late.+

As he said this ,the message was cut from the other lord has summoned him,so he needed to prepare to present himself before him.

Demiurge glanced at the evil lords accompanying him and said

"Lord Ainz has ordered my presence, so I will be leaving sure the floor is safe, I will not tolerate any mistakes"

Saying this ,demiurge teleported away.

Ainz's room was situated on the ninth floor of the Great Tomb of Nazarick. The room, which had been converted from bedroom to an office, was positioned closest to the corridor. Inside it were two equally exceptional desks next to each other, one was smaller than the other. Some distance away from the desks, a homunculus maid named cixious was standing silently ,trying to erase her presence as much as she could so as not to disturb the person who was working on the bigger desk. The said person was none other than the overlord of death, Ainz Ooal Gown.

Glancing at the smaller desk , Ainz sighed. The smaller desk belonged to the Guardian Overseer , Albedo. Ainz had already assigned a separate office for her to use with facilities similar to his own office. At first she had used that office for a few weeks. Yet the day came when she no longer could suppress her desire to work in the same room as her master. So she started bothering him with her request to work beside him in his office.

Ainz knew this would not end well with him. After his mistake of changing her description, he had continuously tried to distance himself from her. Every Time he saw her ,he would remember his mistake. So he would be with her only when needed and then excuse himself with appropriate reasons. But when she made her sincere pleas on the practical advantages of her proposal, he could not deny her request. If he had rejected her obvious request, then he would sound like a bad boss, which he did not want to become one. At last , he agreed to her request.

Staring at the vacant seat, Ainz lowered his head and ordered the maid who was attending him today.

"Cixious, bring me that pile of documents ." Ainz said , pointing at one of the many piles of documents sitting on Albedo's desk.

Hearing her master's voice, cixious perked up. She was created as a maid to serve the supreme beings, she felt utmost joy to serve her master, to be useful for him. So she did as she was ordered and placed the pile of documents on Ainz's desk. She bowed to her master and returned to her silent duty.

Ainz could have easily done this by himself, but he knew that all of his subordinates were workaholics ,especially the maids. He wondered if they had some kind of work fetish. If he did not order them to do something they would get sad and think that they have somehow displeased him. To avoid this situation he had started ordering them to do some insignificant chores. This was a win-win situation for both parties.

Glancing at the pile of documents , he took out the first document to read. At the beginning, he barely read any documents , but with time he understood their importance, the hard way. At many occasions he had unknowingly ordered complete annihilation of whole cities. Some of them were saved by him in time but the others were unfortunate. So he had started to pay a little bit more attention to the reports.

The document he held had reports about the financial situation of the sorcerous kingdom and the Great Tomb of Nazarick. The financial situation of the sorcerous kingdom was quite good. He knew he had no hand in it, this was all possible only because of the hard work of Albedo. He wondered what would have happened if he had decided to manage the financial affairs. But he was sure about one thing that the kingdom would have gone bankrupt in a few weeks.

Reading the report further, he arrived at the section showing the financial situation of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, and his jaw dropped. He could not believe what he was reading, he had heard that the financial situation of the Tomb was good but he had never thought it to be so good. The treasury of the tomb had received 200 million YGGDRASIL gold coins through the 'Item exchanger'. It seemed that they had started dumping everything unnecessary in it. Curious to know more about it , he started to read the report.

After reading the report , Ainz thought to himself

OH! I would have never imagined it to be like this. So they have been dumping excess grain in it. Well, there is no harm in it, we have a lot of excess grain in our warehouses. But this is interesting, they have been cutting parts of unimportant summons and POP monsters and healing them instantly so as not to kill them,and they are dumping these parts in the item exchanger. This is a very good idea , but what will be the exchange rate of the parts of summoned mercenaries

As soon as he thought about the mercenaries , he realised that he had an important task to finish.

So he quickly cast a message spell to demiurge and summoned him to his office after fifteen minutes.

Then he got up from his chair and turned towards the maid and addressed her

"I will be heading to the Library of Ashurbanipal for a few minutes. You stay here and if demiurge arrives before me keep him here until I return." Ainz ordered.

"As you wish my Lord." Cixious acknowledged her master's orders.

Not wanting to waste any more time, Ainz started heading towards the library with his escort of several Eight Edge Assassins.

Eight Edge Assassins are summoned mercenaries of level leader is level 95.