Chapter 2: the battle of Cairn village
I will be making the events follow what happened in the anime just with a couple alterations to incorporate Harito. So yeah enjoy.
I slowly opened my eyes groggily, taking in my surroundings, momentarily confused by my sleep-addled brain as to wear I was, sitting up a rubbed the sleep out of my eyes and confirmed that it was all real, I was really in the body of my character in Yggdrasil. Why wasn't I panicked or affected by this fact at all? Did I change into my character not just physically? What is happening to my real body? Do I even want to go back to the real world?
My internal struggles were interrupted by gentle knocks on the door.
"lord Harito, are you awake?". Asked a voice from beyond the door.
"Yes" I responded, opening the door to reveal a maid.
"Lord Momonga has requested your presence in his office, my Lord" she finished with a bow and then taking her leave.
'strange, I wonder what Momonga wants?' I questioned internally before using my guild ring to teleport to the entrance of his office.
The door was open, revealing a seated Momonga who appeared to be attempting to use a mirror of some kind, Sebas was dutifully standing next to him providing praise to his lord.
"good morning" I said and was answered with a bow from Sebas and a casual "good morning from Momonga".
"sooo…. Whatcha ya doing?" I asked curious as to what the skeleton was currently trying to achieve with the mirror. When suddenly the mirror activated, showing us a lively town in a forest.
"Well done, my Lord" proclaimed Sebas. I started to zone out the rest of the conversation, focusing my eyes on the current events occurring in the village.
"Is it a festival of some sort?" I asked.
Momonga begun to zoom in on the village to show soldiers where chasing around the people and slaying them. Rage, horror and disgust filled my head, the cowards were striking down the unarmed, it was a slaughter. The scene then shifted to 2 sisters fleeing from the soldiers only to be caught, the elder being struck on the back by one of their swords as she shielded her sister using her body.
Momonga stood up and started instructing Sebas to inform the others of the current situation and to ask Albedo to arrive fully equipped to aid us if required. He then turned to face the wall and created a [Gate] for us to travel there through.
"I believe it is time to test the strength of this world, don't you agree Harito?" asked the near emotionless voice of his comrade.
"Yes, I do" was all I responded with, reaching into my pocket dimension I grabbed a mask to mask my identity, before following the skeleton into the portal.
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The soldiers stood over the 2 defenseless girls, laughing as they prepared to end their lives, one of the soldiers stepped forward, bringing his sword up to end their lives. The elder sister tried to calm and reassure her weeping sister that everything was going to be alright, as she closed her eyes waiting for her death as the soldier begun to swing his sword down.
Right before blade met flesh, something appeared before them, it took the form of a swirling mass of purple and black, the soldier backstepped before readying himself for anything. A skeletal hand breached the portal, followed by a golden staff, a skeleton and a small boy with animal features and a face-mask.
The skeleton stepped forward, approaching the now cowering soldiers before him. His empty sockets appeared as if they had a raging inferno in them as glared at the once cocky soldiers before him.
"What's wrong, you can take the lives of innocents, what's with this fear" the undead king's eyes seemed to burn even brighter, as if his rage had taken the form of a raging flame and was coursing throughout his body.
One of the soldiers, be it stupidity or bravery, charged the skeletal figure. His only response to the charging warrior was raising his hand towards him.
"pathetic, [Grasp Heart]" the undead chanted, making a clenching his fist on the phantom heart that had been created. The approaching soldier instantly fell, dead. His friend looked on the new figures with fear, attempting to flee from their power as he begged for them not to kill him.
"[Lightning chain dragon]" as the words left his undead lips, electricity begun to appear in his hand before it lunged itself at the fleeing soldier, roasting the soldier, a smoking burnt corpse fell to the ground as the spell finished.
"[create greater undead: death knight]" from his hands fell a living blob of night black colour, the creature invading the 1st soldier's corpse, morphing it into the creature known as death knight.
"go into town and kill all that wear this amour". Instructed its creator pointing at the roasted corpse of the soldier that cowered and fled. Instantly the knight charged towards the village to fulfill its mission.
Back to the normal perspective
"so, it appears that some spells have changed but most remain the same as they were in Yggdrasil" I stated walking towards the village with albedo and Momonga. Momonga had decide to equip a face mask and gauntlets as well as sealing his robe in order to hide his undead nature from the people. He had also changed his name to Ainz Ooal Gown, maybe for some plan he had concocted.
Albedo on the other hand was equipped with full body armor to protect Ainz if need be. Her battle-axe ready to slay any foe of her Lords, if need be. Her dedication was slightly terrifying if I was being completely honest with myself here.
Ainz decide that he wanted to make his entrance to the village theatrical, so he flew above the village followed by Albedo and myself. As the carnage that was death knight released itself upon the barbarians, he ordered it to stop, in attempt to send a message to their leaders.
Everything after that happened quite quickly. We were accepted into the village and given some useful information about the soldier's origins, the countries, money and adventurers.
Though I felt something in me had changed ass I looked at the humans of the village, I realized what it was, I felt nothing towards them, no sympathy, no remorse, just nothing.
'so, this confirms my theory of me becoming my character on a more than physical level, it appeared I also had gained this bodies mentality, though some of my mentality still remained as I did not feel anything harsh about them either- strange, I wonder if the same happened to Ainz' a voice dragged me from my internal monologue. A hand gently begun to pat the spot behind my ears.
"Harito, there appears to be a small force of horseman approaching, although we do not know if they be friend or foe, if they are enemies you can have fun with them, it this alright with you?" Ainz asked me and a felt a sudden rush of joy as he was scratching my head. My tail started waging furiously, showing how happy it made me.
"oh… sorry" he said as he realized what he was doing and the affect that it had on me.
"its fine and sure" I replied my body sad that the affection had stopped but the abyss in me craved bloodshed.
All of the villagers- excluding the elder- hid in the storage hall, so that they could be safe in the case of conflict.
Ainz, Albedo, the death knight, the village elder and I greeted the now confirmed friendly forces, the leader of the troops was apparently a man named Gazef and he the head warrior of some kingdom as well as its kings' bodyguard. After the greetings were finished, I let the villagers out of the shed that had become their shelter.
As I walked back to Ainz, I noticed that many of the soldiers wearily looking at me, some of them were just blatantly watching me as they would the movements of a threat. Before the head warrior shouted his commands to the troops and they straightened up and prepared for the possibility of the death that they might be charging headfirst towards. They all looked at Gazef with eyes depicting pure admiration and allegiance to the man, it was as if he was a God in their eyes.
{Prepare to intervene in the battle, when things are looking bad, we'll swap places with Gazef and his troop} messaged Ainz continuing the conversation with Gazef.
{sure thing, am I to hold back against the enemy or may I kill them all} I replied
{No, we will take their leader for interrogation, let them use all their tricks, but be careful, you may kill all except their leader. Agreed?} came the reply from Ainz
{Agreed, after this I need to ask you something if that's okay with you?} my shy and childish side revealing itself once more.
{of course, remember we're in this together} came his kind-natured response.
Let the bloodshed begin.
Boring. This was the only way I could describe the wait until I could fight. Watching them fight the angels was boring as well as pointless as the only one among the horseman that could harm the creatures was Gazef. Though, there was one thing that I learnt from this battle and that was the existence of martial art skills that did not exist in Yggdrasil. They were the only cool thing that I could find while I watched the fight play out.
"its time". Stated Ainz, right before the world lurched and the scenery changed. It made me slightly dizzy but what can you do about that.
"and who, pray tell are you?" the man that could be guessed as the leader asked.
"I am a travelling hermit, and these are my companions, we have come to ask you to relinquish your arms and beg for forgiveness, do so and I while spar your insignificant lives" replied Ainz's booming voice of authority. This went answered by their mocking laughter and useless comments.
"I'll take that as a no then, I tried to be reasonable you have only yourself to blame" proclaimed Ainz as he stepped backwards allowing me to step in front of him.
"your turn" he whispered as he past me.
"you send a child to face us, fool, angels kill them, cleanse their pitiful existence from this world" said their leader with a cocky smile plastered across his face.
"[Hel's magic: piercing pillars]" I chanted and with the ending of my chant pillars of swirling death charged out of the ground in front of me and skewered the advancing summons, causing them instant destruction.
All were silent from what they had seen, even Ainz was surprised as the only magic that anyone has witnessed is my abyssal magic. I always liked to keep the others a secret to be kept as a last-resort.
{What the hell was that?! It wasn't Abyss magic, since when did you learn different types of magic?! It's so cool-looking as well} screamed Ainz in my head
{later} I replied, watching their leader as a predator would watch its prey.
His cocky expression had all but vanished from his face, taking its place was uncertainty and what appeared to be fear and disbelief.
"all angels attack kills them" he screeched out his commands to his troops, hoping to cling to whatever sense of control he thought he had in this fight.
"[lost magic: heavens pillars of light]" as the words left my mouth, the dark clouds blocking of the light of the sun was parted by beams of light which fell faster than anyone could perceive, each and every pillar of light struck the advancing angels, penetrating the angels and the ground beneath them. The impact of the magic against the ground cast a smokescreen of dust and debris.
As the dust settled and the cloud dispersed, the scene made the invading forces shake with terror, the ground between them and the strangers was riddled with craters, but what frightened them more was that this child had destroyed all angels -including principality observation- with a single spell.
I felt a smirk find its way upon my face at how scared they looked now, though their leader still looked like he was cocky, and this royally pissed me off. I waited for them to make their next move, I didn't have to wait long as he reached into his robe and brought out a summons crystal and a powerful one at that.
{do you need help?} came the calm and collected voice of Ainz
{no, I've got this} I answered
I wanted to know what this man thought power looked like and it obviously looked like whatever he had in that crystal.
"be honored, for I have seen you as worthy to be defeated by the highest tier of angel, Dominion Authority" he said as he summoned the angel in question, his eyes returned to their cocky appearance thinking that everything else was an illusion and they could not possibly handle the mighty power of the angel in front of him.
Laughter could be heard from behind me, I was struggling from giggling at the thought that this is all they had to give me. Sadly, this wasn't enough to test my strength against.
Disappointing.
"what are you laughing about, did you lose you mind after witnessing such overwhelming power?" said the cocky human. "go make them pay for the sins that they have committed against the slane theocracy". He ordered the angel
"I think its time to stop playing around, Harito finish this quickly so that we may go home" said Ainz revealing his loss of interest in this one-sided battle that I was currently in. To be honest this was starting to bore me as well.
"As you wish Lord Ainz" I said acknowledging his request.
"[lost magic: beam of annihilation]" at my command a small ball of magic formed in my palm which then proceeded to launch itself through the angel and into the sky before detonating in an explosion that put nukes to shame.
The angel that had been hit by this spell had already started to turn to dust, like all that the spell might hit. The spell can be detonated for crowd control but that is only if the caster deems it so, I did that to show more clearly how far the gap between strength truly was.
"impossible" came the frightful voice of the enemy, I turned around and walked back to my spot by Ainz.
"Albedo, capture 4 of them and the leader, the rest you may kill" commanded Ainz
Then the leader begun to speak and Ainz halted Albedo's movement, the leader was truly a coward, he begged for his own life in exchange for the lives of all of his soldiers. At this point Ainz had removed his mask to reveal his undead nature to them. Then he faced Albedo.
"you may resume" was all that he said before facing me.
"what was that magic?" he whispered to me
"it was my ace-in-the-hole if I ever needed something unexpected by my opponents" I replied with a sheepish smile on my face now free from the confines of the face-mask.
"Lords, your assignment has been completed" said Albedo as she kneeled before us, behind her was a swirling portal back to Nazarick.
"then let us go home" was Ainz response as we returned home through the portal.
"go and get some sleep Harito, I'll speak to you in the morning, Goodnight" said Ainz, and like the good boy that I was I teleported into my room before leaping face-first into my pillows and unconsciousness.
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