Hey before you read please keep in main— any name that is from the main character (Momonga/Jeanne/Karna) will be talk about in their original name or when they talk to each other in the [MESSAGE] spell but when in a third person prospective or not main character it will be their fake name.
Battle of Carne Villages
The next day at early sun rises a group of men on horseback ride along the dirt trail as the sun began to rise up beyond the horizon.
One soldier ride up to the person who was in front of the group "the village is burning captain Gazef" he said as the captain gritted his teeth in anger.
They continue to race down the trail until they reach The burnt out village. Smoke filled the air as the once peaceful village was gone and in it place left a wasteland littered with corpses. Some were burned and other where clearly stabbed.
The soldiers began to look for any survivors, they lifted up broken down houses and check every nook and cranny.
"Vic chief, these people need help, make sure they get back to E-Rantel safety" Gazef said.
Gazef Stronoff was a muscular man of around thirty years old and he had southern blood in his veins. He appeared to have a sunbathed dark face with noticeable wrinkles, short, trimmed, black hair and black eyes that are as sharp as a sword. He also wears a silver armor with a red and yellow X strap, he wore light brown pants with armor plating which serve to protect his knees and he had dark brown almost red boots.
"General?" The Vic chief call out.
"what is it?" Gazef questioned.
"Something is wrong here, the king ordered us to track down and terminate the group of bandits that was piliging these village right?" The Vic chief asked.
"That correct" Gazef reply with a deep voice.
Ok, then why did they only send us out here with 50 soldiers, expressly if they think that the Baharuth empire was behind this" The Vic chief questioned.
"It a top secret operation" Gazef answer. He looked away, he'd already knew that was going on here and what his Vic chief wants to say.
"Come on sir you know who's behind this, the noblemen wants you to fail, if they can remove the king most trusted general then they would have a clear path to the throne, it so transparent" The Vic chief said grimly and angrily.
"That enough Vic chief" Gazef ordered.
"But sir, you know that I'm telling you the truth, we'd walking straight into a trap, I think our forces should head back to E-Rantel as fast as possible, if we split up now it will only weaken us!" The Vic chief said.
"A few villages may be lost, but that a small price to pay in order to keep the kingdom most powerful warrior alive" another soldier said.
"I was born a commoner, I know what it is like to live in fear of monster and bandits at every turn" Gazef said.
"Same here" The Vic chief said solemnly as he already knows where his commander was going with this.
"Then you should know what it is like to have hope, praying for someone to come and protect you" Gazef said.
Of course, I wish every single day that would happen, but in the end not a single person came"
"Then let us be that person who do come, well let these people know that there is hope and that prayers are answered, that hero excited" Gazef turn to look his Vic chief in the eyes.
—Back in the great tomb of Nazarick in Momonga work office—
Jeanne had much to catch up on, once she had returned, Karna and Ainz had spend an entire day and night to fully explain and even introduce her to the NPC who was beyond happy to see another supreme being. The entire tomb was engulfed in chaos as NPC ran all over and made arrangement for a welcome back party for Jeanne.
However Jeanne was overwhelmed by all of this. It took a several hour talk between Karna and Jeanne to make the overwhelmed girl feel better. Karna had stayed by Jeanne side and comforted her all the while she was trying to get used to her new life.
—Jeanne Room—
within the beautiful and highly decorated pure white room of the holy maiden sat two people, Karna had his arm wrapped around Jeanne as she rested her head on his chest. It had been a while, several hours in fact since their talk, Jeanne beautiful amethyst eyes were droopy and had a sad expression, she'd had come to term with all of this but it was still hard for her. Jeanne roses from her comfortable position and looked at Karna.
"s-so what now, w-hat about our family, our friends, the NPC are alive and this, this all real now, what do we do?"
"...I don't know... I don't have a family but I'd bet yours will be just fine... we need to asses the situation first and whatever happen, happens. But, as long as we stick together, no matter what happen I'll will always protect you, so don't worry okay" Karna smile and his sad tone change to that of a soft but yet serious one, he turned to Jeanne and place both of his hand on either side of Jeanne shoulder and looked her straight in the eye and said "no matter what happen I will always love you"
Jeanne smiled and pulled Karna in for a sudden kissed, it took him a second to comprehend what just transpired but he quickly kissed her back with equal passion. As the two separated from their short —to them it was a lot longer— but sweet kiss, Jeanne hugged him as tight as she could, a few stray tear fell on the king size bed sheet as the two remain still until there was a knock on the other door. It was probably Momonga or one of the NPC who'd had came to get them for Jeanne welcome back party. The two separated and looked into each other eyes and smiled. Karna got off the white King size bed and held out his hand for Jeanne to take, her smile widen and she gladly took his hand and two walk hand in hand with their fingers intertwine with one other to the door.
It has now been four days since the arrival of Nazarick in this strange new world, After the party thrown by the NPC, the three supreme being went all around each of the ten floors of Nazarick and did some experimenting and exploring on all of the old and even tested out some of the new mechanism of Nazarick.
Now within the guild master office room, Momonga, Karna and Jeanne sat on a luxurious couch with a coffee table in front of them. On the coffee table lies an ethereal mirror which was showcasing the surrounding area of the tomb.
"S-so can we even go back" Jeanne asked hesitantly.
"We don't know, there are still too many variables in this" Momonga said.
"We don't even know how we even got here or how the N.P.C can talk and move like a real "person" or what's in this world" Karna further explain.
"From what we already know and from what we have gathered, the N.P.C personality, action and thought are all based on either their background lore or their race, build and karma" Momonga explain.
"That the most likely possibility, but what if, it all of those things and maybe more" Karna said "for instance, some of our friends aren't very creative when it came to background lore, like the homunculus maids or some of the gag N.P.C made for fun, they especially don't have any detail in there background lore and yet they still developed unique characteristics as we saw from our tore".
"maybe your right, but what what else has changed since we arrive in this world?" Momonga questioned.
"Speaking of "the new world" as I will refer to this land from now on, we need to check our sounding, we already know that from a perfect circle spanning 1 kilometers all around, there is just grassland, and no sign of life but let increase that radius".
"Good idea" Jeanne commented "and we can use the mirror of remote viewing".
A while later, Momonga was trying to operate the mirror of remote viewing.
"I just need to figure out how to work things mirror of remote viewing, then we can really secure the surrounding of Nazarick" Momonga moved his hand back and forth and side to side like he was conducting a dark ritual. The mirror did not move from the area in which it had been displaying.
"Try to move the screen like you would a phone" Karna suggested.
"Okay" Momonga replied as he swip his fleshless hand over the mirror, the screen which just showcased a piece of the forests moved to a dirt trail.
"It worked" Jeanne cheers.
There was a knock at the double door and it slowly opened a few seconds later to reveal sebas who walked in and clapped his hand as he saw his master.
"Well done my lord, I'd know you could do it" Sebas said, although his face did not change from it usual serious look, it did soften.
"Thank you sebas, for you support" Momonga said.
"Of course, it is my duty as the guild master personally butler, the sole reason I was created by lord Touch-me was to carry out your orders, no matter how tedious it might seem" sebas replied with absolute loyalty in his voice.
"Now then let's see what's happening in this new world of ours" Karna began to take Momonga place of moving the mirror, a second later it landed on a town
"Is it a town festival?" Jeanne asked.
Karna began to zoom in on the town as sebas walked over to his lady side to see what was going on.
"No, definitely not my lady" Sebas said.
Fully armored knights were swinging their longswords at the villagers, who were dressed in rough clothes. The knights on horseback was chasing the villagers around and cutting them down in cold blood, women and children were being dragged out of there house and killed
It was a massacre.
A villager fell with every swing of a knight's sword. The villagers could not resist them, and could only run away. The knights pursued and killed the fleeing villagers. There were horses eating the grain in the field. Those horses must have belonged to the knights.
"Those men don't appear to be bandits" Momonga said.
Momonga scoffed, intending to change the image. This village had no value to him. If he could extract more information from it, perhaps he might have a reason to save them. But as things stood, there was no reason to save this village.
He should abandon them.
Momonga was taken aback by how he could make such a heartless decision. A cruel slaughter was occurring before his eyes, but the only thing he could think of was the good of Nazarick. There was nothing like pity, anger, or worry, basic human emotions anyone should have.
It felt like he was watching a TV show about animals and insects, where the strong eat the weak.
Could it be that as one of the undead, he no longer considered himself part of humanity?
No, how could that be?
Momonga struggled to find an excuse to justify his thinking.
He was not an agent of justice.
He was level one hundred, but like he had told Mare, this world's commoners might well be level one hundred as well. Therefore, he could not tread blindly into this unknown world. Although it looked like the knights were conducting a one-sided slaughter of the villagers, there might be other reasons at work here which he did not know about. Reasons like "illness, judgement, setting an example," and others like them kept appearing in his mind. And if he stepped in and defeated the knights, he might earn the ire of the country they belonged to.
Momonga stretched out his bony hand and rubbed his skull as he thought. Could it be that after becoming an undead being who was immune to mind-affecting effects, he had become inured to scenes like this? Definitely not.
He waved his hand again, showing a scene from another part of the village.
It seemed like two knights were trying to pull a violently struggling villager off another knight. The man was pulled away, his arms were held, and he was rendered motionless where he stood. Before Momonga's eyes, the man was stabbed with a sword. The blade entered his body and exited from the other side of him. It should have been a fatal blow, but the longsword did not stop. One, two, three strikes — the knight seemed to be taking out his anger on the villager as he hacked at the man's body.
In the end, the knight kicked away the villagers, who collapsed to the ground while spurting his blood into the air.
—The villager looked straight at Momonga. No, this might have just been a coincidence.
It was definitely a coincidence.
There was no way for anyone to detect the mirror's surveillance apart from anti-divination spells.
Frothy blood leaked from the villager's mouth as he tried to open his mouth. His eyes were unfocused, and Momonga could not tell where he was looking. Even so, with what may have been his dying breaths, he gasped his last words:
—Please save my daughter—
'What is wrong with me, how can I watch violent so calmly!?" Momonga though 'I would've passed out at the mere sight of this back in the real world!'
'This is wrong!' Jeanne gasped as she covered her mouth with her hand 'I'm not even flinching at the sight of this, instead I'm just sitting here feeling...pity?! ...could it be my racial class? Even though I have a high positive karma, Im still an angel which is a heteromorph, but I'm an Angel of sacrifice, is that whats affecting me right now?'
'I don't feel a thing even though I'm watching a massacre going on' Karna narrow his bright bluish green eyes 'I guess my mentality has changed, though I'm not a good example, looking at Jeanne and Momonga it probably the same for them too, Jeanne would've passed out or at the very least scream if this was the IRL her'
Sebas slightly tighten his closed fist "What are your orders my lords" Sebas said calmly but with stern force behind his word.
"Leave them be, I see no good reason to interfere in their affairs" Momonga said without a second thought. This causes Jeanne and Karna to look at Momonga with slight shock.
'So I was right, we not only change physically but mentally as well'
'Momonga how could-' Jeanne stop and logical think 'I'm compelled to help them and yet at the same time, I don't see benefit to do so, is this the same for everyone?'
"As you wish my lord" Sebas said with a hint of sadness.
Momonga turns to look at sebas as he sense something was troubling him, instead he saw his friend that had saved him long ago from being PKed and was the one who brought him in to Ainz Ooal Gown to begin with.
Karna chuckles "reminds you of Touch-me doesn't it" Karna said.
FLASHBACK
Within the forest of helheim one of the 9 worlds that were left of YGGDRASIL. A group of humans in different armor knocks a certain overlord over which caused him to land on a rock.
"What'd easy encounters!" One of the armor humans said.
"Just two more XP and I get to level up!"
"Then hurry up and kill him already!"
"Damn inhuman I'll fix his mugs"
One of the armor humans raised up his axe to land the finishing blow on the overlord which so happens to be Momonga until…
Four slashes cut through all four of the armor humans, and soon after they dropped dead and their equipment was dropped behind. Momonga look up to see who has saved him and see the famous World Champion, Touch Me wears a shining white armor with a matching helm.
He also has a huge sapphire embedded in the middle of his chest, radiating with pure and divine light. He is also adorned with a reddish cape attached around his left shoulder. Additionally, he is armed with both a sword and shield.
Touch Me was among the only nine players who can use the special class, "World Champion." Being a "World Champion" Touch Me who wielded both a sword and shield was evaluated to be one of the strongest players as well as greatest warriors in YGGDRASIL. He is the most powerful warrior of Ainz Ooal Gown. His armor was bonus equipment he received for taking this special class. The armor equipped by Touch Me is known as Compliance with Law and it has the power which surpassed that of Divine Class items, rivaling even Guild weapons too.
Within Ainz Ooal Gown, the only 3 top-class player who could not only deflect a boss' attacks without harm but even respond with a counterattack of their own is Touch Me, Karna and Jeanne. In other words, they were super-tier players who could serve as a tank even though they was an attackers. When in battle, Touch Me could instantly sense an opponent's intentions, thus evading their attacks from touching him. Touch Me had to relied on using his real-world reflexes to duel with top-class warriors
Touch Me is in a different league as a bewildering cheat. He has outstanding motor reflexes while playing as a warrior in the game. Related to this, he was among one of the top three players in YGGDRASIL. Touch Me and Karna and Jeanne are the only one powerful enough to deal with all the Floor Guardians which are all level 100 simultaneously and roughly win.
Upon reaching the maximum level of "World Champion," he was able to obtain a skill by the name of World Break in his arsenal. It is considered to be the most powerful skill possessed by Touch Me who wields the strongest warrior class, "World Champion."
World Break: This ultimate skill attacks the target by slashing the space and reaching the opponent from afar and dealing massive amounts of damage. It is also capable of tearing the very fabric of space and time. Comparably, this skill itself is like the superior version to the 10th tier spell, [Reality Slash]
"Why did you save me?" Momonga asked.
"BECAUSE SAVING SOMEONE IS ALWAYS THE RIGHT THING TO DO!" Touch-me exclaimed as the word 'Justice has arrived' appeared behind him.
And from that day forward Momonga soon joined the guild Ainz Ooal Gown and made history.
END FLASHBACKS
"...hem, haahaa!" Momonga laugh which slightly shocked and confused sebas.
Jeanne begins to giggle cutely as she too remember Touch-me and all his justice antics.
"Well since we have arrived in a new world shouldn't we test out our powers, eventually we'd have to do it anyway to see where we stand in this world?" Karna said.
"Your right and bonus we'd be saving someone too" Jeanne said "this will also be in the memory of Touch-me and in the words of the man himself —saving someone who is in trouble is always the right thing to do— right?".
"Right" Momonga said as he, Karna and Jeanne stood up.
Sebas lets out a small smile as he saw his masters determination.
"Sebas, we're paying them a visit so raise the security of Nazarick to maximum while we're away and send out a reserved, I want soldiers trained in stealth or be able to use the invisibility spell, ready to move in at a moments notice" Momonga said.
"Tell Albedo to meet us there armed and ready for battle" Jeanne said. Albedo's levels were in the defense focused Dark Knight class. As a result, among the three level one hundred warriors of Nazarick — Sebas, Cocytus, and Albedo — Albedo possessed the greatest defensive ability.
In other words, she was the strongest shield in Nazarick.
"Oh and tell her not to bring her world class item or the ring of Ainz Ooal Gown alonge" Karna said.
"Yes my lords" Sebas bowed.
Momonga them summons a fake staff of Ainz Ooal Gown. He did this because although it is face it can cast a few spells without the lost of MP and also in YGGDRASIL when you form a guild it is required of you to build a guild weapon.
Jeanne entire body glowed as a dark purple cape appear with a silver cross display on it back. Her silver gauntlet hand glowed a brilliant gold as she summon a spear and at her waist was a sword.
Karna red fur coat burst in flame as his red ethereal energy cape appear and floating on his shoulder was a gold ring that resemble an eye. Spike began to grew out of his golden armor as his hand glowed a dark red, the light took shape and became a solid golden lance. At the lance end it look like a sun which fit Karna character.
"Don't you guys think that a bit overkill" Momonga ask.
"A little, but we need to be prepared just in case the inhabitant of this world is stronger than we think they are" Jeanne said.
"She right, being a little bit course doesn't hurt" Karna replied "so let go"
[GATE] Momonga said, then a thin circle of swirling black and purple energy appears and Karna, Jeanne And Momonga walk into it.
—A few hours ago—
Carne Village.
It was located on the border of the Kingdom at the Empire, near the southern tip of the Azellerisia Mountain Range, just outside a patch of woodland named the Great Forest of Tob.
For a frontier village of the Re-Estize Kingdom, its population was unexceptional — a hundred and twenty souls, distributed among twenty five families.
The village made its living from the resources of the forest and agriculture. Apart from doctors and herbalists who came to collect herbs, the only visitors to the village were the yearly tax collectors. Time seemed to stand still for the few residents of this village.
Village life was very busy even in the early hours of the morning. Villages did not possess the magical illumination of 「Continual Light」 which could be found in cities, so the villagers would rise with the sun and work hard all day until the sun went down.
The first thing Enri Emmot did after getting up extra early in the morning was to carry water from the nearby well. Hauling water was a woman's job, and once she finished filling the big water tank in the house, that chore was complete. By this time, her mother would have prepared breakfast for their family of four.
Breakfast was barley or wheat porridge, as well as cooked vegetables. Sometimes, they would have dried fruit as well.
After breakfast, she would tend the fields with her parents. Her ten year old sister would go into the forest to gather firewood or help with the field work. When the bell in the middle of the village — the village square — rang to signal noon, everyone would break for lunch.
Lunch would be black bread baked several days before, as well as soup with some shredded meat jerky sprinkled in.
Field work would resume after lunch, and when the sun set they would return home for dinner.
For dinner, they would have the same black bread that they had for lunch, as well as bean soup. If the village's hunters managed to bag any prey, they might be able to get some meat to go with their dinner. After dinner, the family would gather around the light of the hearth-fire to take care of household chores, such as mending worn or damaged clothes.
They would go to sleep around eight.
The girl Enri Emmot was born sixteen years ago and had become a part of the village since then. She had lived these days all her life. In her heart, she wondered, How much longer will these unchanging days continue?
Today was no different from any other. After waking up, Enri went to the well to carry water.
After filling her buckets at the well, she would need three trips to fill the house's water tank.
"Yosh~"
Enri rolled up her sleeves, exposing her untanned skin, which was pale and stood out. Long years of farm life ensured that although her arms looked slender and frail, they were actually very strong, with just a hint of muscle on them.
The filled buckets were very heavy, but Enri hoisted them up like she always did.
If the buckets were bigger, I could make fewer trips, wouldn't that make things easier? Then again, if the buckets were bigger, I probably wouldn't be able to lift them…
As Enri thought about that issue on her way back home, she heard a sound and turned to look at it. There was tension in the air over there, and the seeds of fear began sprouting in her heart.
Her ears seemed to pick up something like wood being broken, and after that—
"A scream—?"
It sounded like a strangled bird, but there was no way it could be a bird's call.
A chill ran down Enri's spine. Unbelievable. There must be some kind of mistake. It couldn't be a human's voice. She tried to erase her unease with these thoughts, and then they vanished.
She had to run to the source of the scream, because it was coming from the direction of her home.
Enri cast aside the water buckets. She could not run while carrying that heavy burden.
Although she nearly tripped over her long skirt, she managed to keep her balance by some stroke of luck.
The sound rang through the air once more.
Enri's heart lurched in her chest.
There was no mistake about it — it was a human scream.
She ran, and ran, and ran.
Enri could not recall going faster than this in her life. She was running so fast that her legs were about to tangle each other up.
The neighs of horses. The screams of people, and shouts.
These sounds were becoming clearer and clearer.
In the distance, Enri could see an unfamiliar man in armor swinging his sword at a villager.
The villager collapsed to the ground with a howl of pain, like a puppet whose strings had been cut, and a swift thrust from the sword dealt him a fatal blow.
"Morga-san…"
There were no strangers in a small village like this. Everyone was as close as kin. As such, Enri knew exactly who had been killed before her eyes.
Mr. Morga was a loud but pleasant man. He had done nothing wrong, and did not deserve to die like this. Enri wanted to stop — but in the end she gritted her teeth and ran on.
The distance that felt fairly close while carrying water now felt like an endless stretch. As the sounds of shouts and cursing filtered into her ears, she finally saw her home before her.
"Dad! Mom! Nemu!"
Enri opened the door as she shouted for her family.
She found three familiar faces with unfamiliar looks of fear. They were motionless. However, when Enri opened the door and entered, their faces softened, the fear replaced by relief.
"Enri! Are you all right?"
Her father hugged her in his strong arms, which were brawny and tough from field work.
"Ahhh, Enri…"
Her mother's gentle arms embraced her.
"Good, Enri's back, then we'd better flee too!"
The Emmot family was in grave danger. They had stayed at home because they were worried about leaving Enri behind, and so they had missed the best chance to escape. The threat to their lives would be catching up with them any moment now.
As she thought about that fear, it became a reality.
Just as the family was about to run, a human figure appeared in the house's doorway. The man silhouetted by sunlight, glittered. He was a fully-armored knight whose breastplate bore the insignia of the Baharuth Empire. He held a longsword in his hand.
The Baharuth Empire was a neighbor of the Re-Estize Kingdom, and the two of them had waged frequent wars against each other. Until recently, the flames of war were mostly limited to the region around the Fortress City of E-Rantel, and had not spread to this village.
However, the quiet life they had enjoyed would end here.
Enri could feel the man's cold eyes on her from between the vision slits of his helmet, as though he were counting up how many people were in Enri's family. It frightened her.
The knight clenched the gauntlet holding his sword, and a creaking sound came from where metal rubbed against metal.
And then, just as he was about to enter the house—
"RUN!"
"Bastard!"
—Her father lunged at the man, tackling him out of the doorway and out of the house with his momentum.
"Hurry up and run!"
"Damn you!"
Blood streamed from a small cut on her father's face. He must have gotten hurt while bull-rushing the knight.
Enri's father was rolling around as he grappled with the knight on the ground. The knight grabbed the hand of Enri's father which was holding a knife, while he in turn kept the knight from drawing his shortsword.
The sight of blood on the body of one of her family members made Enri's mind go white. She wavered over whether to help her father or run away.
"Enri! Nemu!"
Her mother's shouts returned Enri to her senses, and as she looked at her mother, she saw the older woman shaking her head, with a heart-breaking expression on her face.
Enri grabbed her little sister's hand and ran after her mother with big strides. Guilt and hesitation clawed at her heart, but in the end, she knew they had to flee into the Great Forest of Tob.
The neighing of horses, angry shouts, the clash of steel, and the stench of burning flesh.
All these assaulted Enri's ears and nose from the direction of the village. Where had it come from? Enri ran with all her might as she tried to make sense of matters. When fleeing to an open space, she had to make her body as small as possible, or hide in the corners of houses.
The violent beating of her heart chipped away at the fear that threatened to freeze her body solid. In addition, the small hand she held in hers spurred her on.
—Her sister.
Her mother, who was running ahead of her, suddenly froze, and immediately doubled back, her hands frantically gesturing at them to run somewhere else.
As Enri realized why her mother would do that, she bit her lip, and forced back her tears.
She clenched her little sister's hand and ran, trying desperately to get away from there, because she did not want to see what would happen next.
She kept running and running but eventually she collapsed from exhaustion.
But her Instinct as an older sister kick in, she throws herself over her little sister as the knight had just caught up with her.
The knight in full plate armor stood before the girl and her little sister, his sword raised high.
His blade gleamed in the sun, and he Positioned himself, ready to end their lives in a single merciful stroke.
Enri squeezed her eyes tightly shut and bit her lower lip. She had never asked for this. She had been forced into her present circumstances. If only she had some strength, she might have resisted the enemy in front of her and fled.
However — she did not have that strength.
Thus, there could only be one outcome to this situation.
That would be her death, at this very place.
—Present time—
The knight swing his sword forward and cut enri back. Enri yelled out in pain as she desperately try to protect her sister and fight off the pain. Her back was bleeding and the wounds run deep and she was losing a lot of blood and began to feel dizzy.
The knight raised up his sword again and was prepared to deliver the finishing blow.
The [GATE] spell that Momonga used open behind Enri and yet no one stepped out.
"…Enri" The small brown hair girl wimpier in fear.
"Don't look nemu!" Enri shouted to the girl beneath her 'I have to find a way to save my little sister'. Enri did not even notice the swirling portal behind her as her only thoughts were to save her sister.
Enri waited for the pain and yet there was no pain.
Suddenly the longsword fell with clang—
The girl gingerly opened the eyes which had been squeezed shut.
The first thing she saw was the suddenly motionless longsword.
Then, she saw the sword's owner.
The knight in front of her was frozen in place, his eyes looking somewhere off to the girl's side. His completely defenseless posture clearly displayed the fear that filled him.
As though drawn by the knight's gaze, the girl could not help but turn and look in the same direction as him.
And so — the girl gazed upon despair.
What she saw was darkness.
It was an infinitesimally thin, yet unfathomably deep blackness. It was a half-oval of obsidian that seemed to protrude from the earth. It was a mysterious sight that filled the ones watching it with a powerful sense of unease.
'Was it a door?'
The girl could not help but think so after she saw what lay before her.
As her heart lurched, the girl's conjecture was confirmed.
Something seemed to be coming out of that shadowy passage.
And in the moment that it resolved itself in her eyes—
The knight standing behind the one that dropped his sword had just lowers his in fear.
In an instant, the air seemed to freeze.
It was as though time itself had stood still in the wake of a Supreme Being's advent.
The girl forgot to breathe, as if the sight had stolen her soul away.
"W-What i-is that?!" The knight stuttered in fear.
It was an opponent which humanity could not overcome.
Twin points of crimson light burned brightly within the empty eye sockets of a bleached skull. Those two points of light coldly scanned the girl and the others present, like a predator sizing up its prey. Within its fleshless hands it grasped a magic staff that seemed divine in nature, yet inspired dread in equal measure. It was like a crystallization of all the beauty in the world.
It wore an intricately detailed black robe, and it resembled nothing so much as an incarnation of death, born from the darkness of another world.
Behind the avatar of death walk out a white haired that almost appear transparent. His gaze is sharp like a steel blade, the man was of equal height to the overlord of death. His golden armor was of the finest and so polish it could used a mirror. He holds a lance of pure gold that radiate the power of the sun itself.
And from behind the godly beings of death was a gorgeous woman, who figures and aura can only be described as that of a goddess. From her head piece to her boots, every equipment on her was of the highest quality.
These avatar of death must have manifested itself in order to guide her to the land of the dead. It was only natural to think so. But then, the girl who thought this way suddenly realized that something was wrong. That was because the knight who had been planning to kill her from behind was now completely still.
"Gaaah!"
A cry that sounded like a wail crept into her ears.
From whose mouth had that sound come? It felt like it could have come from hers, or that of her little sister, shivering in fright, or from the mouth of the knight that had been about to kill her.
A skeletal hand slowly extended itself — its fingers spreading as though reaching for something, and they moved past the girl, toward the knight behind her.
She wanted to look away from it, but fear kept her gaze in place. She had the feeling that if she averted her eyes, she would see a far more horrible sight instead.
[GRASP HEART] The incarnation of death clenched its fists, and the girl heard the sound of crunching flesh and metal from behind her.
Though she was afraid to take her eyes away from the figure of death, curiosity got the better of her and the girl wrenched her eyes away, whereupon saw the body of the knight. He was sprawled motionless on the ground, like a puppet whose strings had been cut.
He was dead.
There was no doubt that he was dead.
The danger that had almost claimed the girl was no more. But this was no cause for celebration. The death that stalked her had merely taken a more concrete shape.
That death drew close to the girl, who watched it with terrified eyes.
The darkness in her field of vision grew ever larger.
It's going to swallow me up.
As the girl thought this, she clutched her sister tightly to herself.
The notion of escape no longer existed within the girl's head.
If her opponent were human, she might be able to cling to some faint hope and struggle desperately for her life. But the being before her shattered that hope like spun glass.
Please, at least let me die without any more pain.
That was all the girl could hope for.
Her shuddering sister hugged her tightly. All she could do was apologize for her weakness, for being unable to protect her sister's life. She prayed that her sister would not be lonely as they went on to the afterlife, because they would be travelling there together.
Momonga looked down upon the fallen knight.
It would seem that even killing someone did not stir any emotions within him.
There was no guilt, fear, or confusion in his heart, which was like the surface of a calm lake. Why was it like this?
The spell [GRASP HEART] was one that crushed a foe's heart, and among the ten tiers of spells, it was an instant death spell of the Ninth Tier. Many of necromantic spells which Momonga was adept with possessed instant death properties, and this was one of them.
Momonga had chosen to open with this spell because even if it was resisted, the spell would still temporarily stun his opponent.
If the spell had been resisted, his plan was to take the two girls and jump back into the still open [GATE]. He had already planned his route of retreat since he was not sure what his opponents could do.
However, it would seem those preparations would not be necessary.
A feeling of something soft crushing beneath Momonga's fingers travelled up his arm, and the knight collapsed silently to the ground.
'Well that a relief, I was afraid that 9th tire spell wouldn't work on those guys and I'd have to retreat' Momonga thought.
'Well you could've used your malay armor' Jeanne [MESSAGE].
'Yeah But I'd like to save it for another day' Momonga [MESSAGE] back.
"IT A MONSTER!" The remaining knight yield in feared. Perhaps he was shocked by Momonga's sudden appearance, but the knight simply stared at Momonga, having apparently forgotten to swing the sword he was holding.
'Did anyone feel anything after seeing that guy got killed?' Karna joined the [MESSAGE].
'No, nothing and I'm the one that killed him' Momonga repled.
'Same here' Jeanne said.
'Interesting, this only further my hypothesis, it seems we'd stop being human in both the physical and mental capacity' Karna conducted.
"What kind of man can murder women and children but don't have nerve to face me" Momonga said in a dark intimidating voice.
"Well were here now and you are going to help us test out our power whether you like it or not" Karna matched Momonga intimidating voice.
[Divine Flame of Incineration] The air suddenly grew scorching hot. Both of Karna arms was set ablaze in crimson flame and in a split second, the crimson flame shoot forward and completely devoured the knight. Scream was heard but not for long, soon not even a piece of ash was left of the knight.
"Let try making an undead" Momonga said "[CREATE—MID— TIER—UNDEAD: DEATH KNIGHT]" the knight who'd heart was crushed by Momonga a moment earlier began to raise and black liquids oozed out his eyes mouth and ears until it covers his entire body.
'Hem interesting, it taking over a dead body, it didn't work like that in YGGDRASIL' Karna thought.
A moment later he'd had transformed into a death knight level 35 undead creatures he stands at 2 meters tall with a crooked body. It was already equipped with both hands, a rippled sword called a Flamberge and a huge shield known as a Tower Shield. The Death Knights looked upon as huge creatures equipped with an armor made of black metal with red bloodlines engraved on it. Moreover, the armor has sharp thorns everywhere and looks like an incarnation of violence. Two demonic horns are protruded from the helmet, with the face being visible underneath. It has a disgusting, rotted face whose empty eye sockets are filled with hate and killing intent, glowing with a flashing red light.
"Death knight kill anyone in that village who is wearing silver armor" Momonga commanded.
"RAWRRRR!" The Death knight scream and charged into the village.
'You really need to think your order through, what the point of summoning a defensive monster if your just going to send it away' Jeanne [MESSAGE].
'Yeah, yeah I know…' Momonga reply slightly dum founded.
A full armor plate Albedo stepped out of the portal that was still open behind Enri.
Albedo was clad in the armor that her creator gave, Hermes Trismegistus: A Divine Item. It is full plate mail consisting of three layers of armor designed to repel physical damage it is very sturdy and can tank 3 of the most powerful attack with only the cost of one of the armor layers. There armored is a three-part suit of pitch-black metal crafted in the resemblance of a devil. A pair of horns would sprout across both sides of the helm while the exterior surface of the suit is covered with spikes. Aside from the thinly carved slit that serves as a visor, the armor does not reveal even the tiniest exposure of flesh. The innermost layer is an assimilation armor in liquid form which fits the body perfectly and enhances physical abilities. The next layer is a complete full-body armor layer, like an undershirt. And finally, the outermost layer covers the inner layers and increases defenses even more. In order, the layers break by: 1) additional armor, 2) full-body armor, and 3) assimilation armor she also carries a battle-ax with her.
Though classified as a Divine Class Item, it specializes solely in physical defense with no other abilities. Due to its three layers, it would take three attacks to break the armor. If Albedo uses her trump card or skill to defend against a player's super-tier spell, the damage will be absorbed by this armor instead, and it might break from that blow even if it was enchanted with strengthening spells. This metallic armor was noted to have high defense, but low HP.
"It took longer than expected but I'm here now my lord, please forgive my lateness" Albedo said in a sweet voice, but due to her helmet, her sweet voice was somewhat lessened and instead it echoed demonic like.
"It okay Albedo, you don't have to apologize" Jeanne said with a smile.
"Thank you my lady" under her helmet, Albedo was smiling the brightest of smile.
"Now then, how would you like me to deal with these lower life form" Albedo voice was dripping with disgusted as she looked over to enri who hold her little sister tighter.
'Is that how she think of humans' the 3 supreme beings thought.
"These 2 are no threat, the human wearing the armor are the one we are after" Karna said 'lower life form huh, I need to keep this in mind, in case I ever need to send her out on her own one of these days'
"I understand my lord" Albedo turn her attention away from the human girl and look at Karna.
"It looks like your bleeding pretty badly, here…" Jeanne reaches out her hand to use healing magic but was stopped by the nemu.
"No please don't hurt my sister!" The little girl scream as she beak out of her sister tight embrace and ran in front of enri and spread out her arms to shield her beloved's sister.
"please, spare my sister" nemu eyes were filled with tears as she bravely stood her grounds.
"nemu!" Enri yelled as try to grab nemu, but the pain that stemmed from her back made it very difficult.
Momonga watched the little sister weeping as she tried to defend her elder sister, while the elder sister grab her little sister and was trying to protect her. Their reactions confused Momonga.
After all, he had saved them in a tight spot, and had even offered them a potion. Why were they acting like this in front of him? What was going on here?
They don't trust me at all. Even though I wanted to leave them to their fate at first, I ended up being their saviour in the end. They should be crying and hugging me in gratitude. Isn't this sort of thing common in manga and movies? But the exact opposite is happening now.
Where did I go wrong? Could it be that being instantly accepted is a privilege of the beautiful?
'what the heck is going on, did they forget we just save their lives, why don't they trust us' Momonga though.
'I don't know, maybe it is the fact that you are a 2 meter tall skeleton and that red orb floating inside your rib cage give off a negative energy of fear, but na that can't be the reason' Karna sarcastically reply.
"HOW DARE YOU TREAT A SUPREME BEING ACT OF KINDNESS THAT WAY YOU LITTLE LOWLY LIVE FORM INSECT!" Albedo scream as she raises up her axe to kill the lower life form who dare to behave in such a way before a supreme beings, especially when the supreme beings was offering to heal them, an honor that they don't even deserve in her eyes.
Enri force herself to move, despite the pain she lunges forward and grab her sister.
"NO, calm down Albedo, lower your weapon at once!" Momonga quickly orders in panic.
"As you wish my lord" Albedo tone took a 180 turn.
"It ok, I'm not going to hurt you alright, I'm just going to heal you with magic" Jeanne smile. Enri was remaining silent 'her beauty is so holy, she's like an angel of God, in all my life I have never met someone as beautiful as her before, and her voice it calming and beautiful'
"T-thank y-you my lady" enri said nervously.
Jeanne gauntlet hand extended forward and glowed in a bright gold.
A second later her back which had a huge sword wound was gone.
"I assume the pain is gone now" Jeanne ask in a sweet motherly tone.
"Yes it is" enri said as she tries to look behind her back to see that the blood that had soaked her clothes was also gone.
'Hem, so magic also is this world, otherwise those girls wouldn't be so trusting when Jeanne offer to heal them'
"tell me something, have you ever known someone using magic before?" Karna asked.
"Um, y-yes, I have a friend who frequent our village, he's a pharmacist who practices magic" enri explains.
'So magic is common in this world, if that is the case we need to be extra careful, I wonder how strong are the magic in this world compared to YGGDRASIL?'
"Perfect, then this is not hard to understand, we are magic caster as well" Momonga said. He then raised his hand a magic green circle appears "[ANTI-LIFE COCOON]—[PROTECTION FROM ARROWS WALL]" Momonga chanted "there, I have caste 2 protection magic around you, you'll be safe as long as you stay put, but just in case take these as well" Momonga through 2 horn into the green circle that had appeared around the two girls.
"If you blow the horn then an army of goblin with appear and do you bidding, do not hesitate to use them" Momonga said as he, Karna, Jeanne and Albedo turn and walk away.
In YGGDRASIL, electronic data crystals dropped from monsters could be slotted into almost any sort of item (apart from certain expendable items), in order to create just about any item a player could think of. In addition there were certain artifacts which could not be created by players and had fixed stats. These horns were examples of them.
Momonga had used the horn before, and at that time it managed to summon a Goblin Troop, twelve or so Goblins with some measure of ability. There were two Goblin Archers, one Goblin Mage, a Goblin Cleric, two Goblin Riders and their wolf mounts, as well as one Goblin Leader.
Although it was called a Goblin Troop, their numbers were few and they were very weak.
This was a trash item for Momonga. The surprise was why he had not disposed of it yet.
Another good point about this item was that the summoned Goblins would linger until they were killed instead of vanishing after a while. That could at least buy the girls some time.
"Excuse me, we want to say thank you so much, we are forever in you diet so may I know the name of the people who save me and my sister?" Enri asked.
'A name, yes they should all know' Momonga thought.
"You shall remember it well and tell everyone of my powers, I am Ainz Ooal Gown!" Momonga turned and said with a majestic grace and a confident tone.
"And I am Sieg" Karna also turned and said.
"And you may know me as Laeticia D'Arc" Jeanne said.
-In The Village-
"OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The mighty roar shattered the air.
It was the signal for a slaughter to become a massacre of a different sort.
In the blink of an eye, the hunters had become the hunted.
Londes Di Gelanpo had probably cursed his gods more times in the past ten seconds than he had in the rest of his life. If the gods really did exist, then they should defeat that evil being right now. Londes was a faithful man — why had the gods abandoned him?
The gods did not exist.
In the past, he had looked down on those people who did not believe in the gods as fools. After all, if the gods did not exist, how could the priests work their magic? And now, he realised that he was the foolish one.
The monster before him — a Death Knight, for lack of a better word — drew closer.
He took two steps back in response, trying to get away from it.
A shrill creaking noise came from his armor, and the sword he clutched in both hands were trembling uncontrollably. He was not the only one; the other eighteen knights surrounding the Death Knight were all acting the same way.
Although they were filled with fear, none of them ran. This was not courage — the grinding of their teeth could attest to that. If they could, they would run as fast and as far as they could.
It was because they knew there was no escape.
Londes's eyes shifted, pleading for help.
This square was at the center of the village, where Londes and his men had gathered sixty or so villagers. They looked fearfully at Londes and his men, while a group of children were hiding behind a wooden watchtower.
Some of the children held sticks, but none of them was in a fighting stance. It was all they could do not to drop their sticks.
During Londes's attack on the village, they had chased the villagers to the central square. They searched the houses, and then, in order to root out anyone who was hiding in the cellars, they poured in alchemical oils and set them on fire.
There were four knights standing guard around the village with bows, and their job was to shoot down anyone who tried to escape the village. They had done this several times now, and it could be said that they were old hands at this sort of thing.
The massacre had taken a fair bit of time, but it had been successful, and they had gathered the surviving villagers into one place. After that, they would release some of the prisoners as bait.
It should have been like that, but—
Londes still remembered that moment.
The sight of Erion flying through the air, after the last few villagers fled into the square.
It should have been impossible. Nobody knew what was going on. How could they understand the reason why a trained, grown man in full plate armor — which still had some weight even if it was lightened by magic — could fly through the air like a ball?
After soaring about seven meters through the air, he fell to the earth with a thunderous crash and lay still.
A bone-chilling monster stood where Erion had been. The hair-raising undead being called a Death Knight lowered the tower shield that had bashed Erion and stood before them.
This was when their despair began.
"Aiiieeeee!"
Their panicked squeals echoed through the air. One of the men huddled together with his comrades could not bear the oppressive terror and fled with a scream.
Under these extreme circumstances, it was only natural that — when stretched to the breaking point — people would snap. However, among all of the fleeing man's comrades, not one of them joined him. The reason was that would soon be evident.
A black gale whirled past the field of Londes's vision.
The Death Knight's body was larger than a normal human's, but its nimble grace was far beyond anyone's expectations.
The fleeing man only managed to take three steps.
Just as he was about to take his fourth step, an arc of silver brilliance cleaved his body in two. The bisected left and right halves of his body collapsed in opposite directions. A sour stench filled the air as his pink internal organs spilled out.
"GUWOOOOOOOOOOHHH!" the blood-covered Death Knight roared as it swung its sword.
It was a roar of joy.
The look of delight was unmistakable, even on its rotted face. As an overwhelmingly superior slaughterer, it savored the despair and terror of the pitiful humans who could not even survive a single one of its blows.
Nobody dared attack, though they had swords in hand.
At first, they had tried an attack, though they were afraid. But even those blades which had made it past their foe's defense could not strike a telling blow through the Death Knight's armor.
In contrast, the Death Knight did not use its sword, but sent Londes flying with a shield bash, and it did so without using enough force to kill.
It was clearly toying with them, given the way it did not use its full strength. It was plain to see that the Death Knight wanted to enjoy the dying struggles of these humans.
The Death Knight only dealt fatal blows in earnest when the knights tried to escape.
The first knight to run was Ririk. He was a nice guy but a bad drunk. His limbs were chopped off, followed by his head.
After seeing the two deaths, the other knights knew the score, so they did not dare to flee.
Their attacks were ineffective, and they would be killed if they tried to run.
The only thing they could do was wait their turn to be tortured to death.
Although there was no way to see their faces below the full helms they wore, everyone present was keenly aware of their fate. The wails of grown men reduced to children echoed throughout the village. These men who had always oppressed the weak had not thought that one day, they would be on the receiving end of that treatment.
"Oh God, please save me…"
"Oh god…"
After hearing these cries for salvation, the strength left Londes's legs and he almost fell to his knees. He loudly cursed the gods — or was it a prayer to them?
"You, you lot, go hold that monster back!" a desperate knight shouted. He knew that his fate was sealed. His words sounded like an off-key psalm.
The man who spoke was standing next to the Death Knight. The way he was stumbling back on his tiptoes to back away from the corpse of his comrade was quite comical.
Londes frowned as he looked on that man in his pathetic state. It was hard to tell who had spoken those words because their closed helmets covered their faces and their voices were distorted by fear. Still, he knew that only one man would speak like that.
...Captain Belius.
Londes's frown deepened.
Overcome by his lewd desires, he had tried to rape a village girl and then sought help from others after he got into a fight with her father. After he was pulled off the other man, he vented his anger by stabbing the father with his sword. That was the kind of man he was. However, his family was quite wealthy in their country, and he had joined this unit because of his family's riches.
Everything had gone wrong because he had been made their leader.
"I'm not someone who should die here! All of you, hurry up and protect me! Be my shields!"
Nobody moved. He might have been appointed their leader, but he was not popular at all. Nobody would throw their lives away for a man like this.
However, the Death Knight responded to his shouting, and it slowly turned to face Belius.
"Ahhhaaaaa!"
The only thing praiseworthy about him was that he could make so much noise while standing in front of the Death Knight.
Just as Londes began to respect this odd quality of Belius's, he heard the man shriek in terror:
"Money, I'll give you money! Two hundred gold pieces! No, five hundred gold pieces!"
Those were considerable amounts he was talking about. However, right now, it was like telling them that he would pay them to jump off a five hundred meter cliff.
Although nobody responded, one person — no, half a person moved as though in reply to him.
"Uuuuaahuu"
The right half of the bisected corpse gripped Belius's ankles firmly. The bloody gargling from its mouth hardly sounded like words.
"—Aaaaahhhhh!" Belius screamed in an unnaturally high-pitched voice. The onlooking knights and villagers were frozen in fear, their skin covered in goosebumps.
Squire Zombies.
In YGGDRASIL, creatures killed by the Death Knight would become undead of comparable power, haunting the place where they were killed. According to the game's rules, those damned souls who fell to the Death Knight's blade would become its slaves for all eternity.
Belius stopped screaming, and fell like a puppet whose strings had been cut, facing the sky. He must have passed out. The Death Knight drew closer to the defenseless man and stabbed its wavy-blade flamberge down.
Belius's body twitched, and—
"Gaaaaaaaaaargh!"
Woken by the incredible pain, Belius screamed, "Leh, leh me guh! Ah begging-g-ing eh! A- i'll duh-do anything!"
Using both hands, Belius desperately grabbed the flamberge that had already penetrated his body, but the Death Knight paid his futile struggles no heed and worked the flamberge like a saw. His flesh and armor were cruelly torn open, and fresh blood flew everywhere.
"—Aah—ah—ah giv ya monee, le-t, m-ee me go!"
Belius's body shuddered, and then he breathed his last. Only then was the Death Knight satisfied, and it stepped away from Belius's corpse.
"No… no… please, no…"
"Oh god!"
Their screams came from seeing the ghastly sight before them. If they ran, they would die swiftly, but if they stayed, they would die horribly. They knew that perfectly well, but still, they could not bring themselves to move.
"—Get a grip!"
Londes's shout tore through their wailing. The world was filled with silence, as though time was standing still.
"—Fall back! Sound the horn for the horsemen and archers to come here! The rest of you, do your best to buy some time for the hornblower! I'd rather not die like that, if you don't mind! Now move!"
Everyone moved in an instant.
There was no sign of their earlier panic. Everyone moved in silent unison, like a raging waterfall.
Their mechanical obedience to their orders without thinking created a miracle. There was no way they could move so immaculately again.
The knights each did what they were supposed to do. They had to protect the knight who would blow the horn and signal the others.
One of the soldiers who had taken several steps back lowered his sword and withdrew his horn from his bag.
"OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The Death Knight charged, as though reacting to the horn being taken out. Everyone was shocked. Could it be that the Death Knight wanted to destroy their means of escape so he could kill them to the last man?
The flood of darkness drew closer and closer, and everyone knew that stepping forward to try and stop it was certain death. However, the knights still climbed over each other to block the Death Knight one after the other. Their fear was wiped away by an even greater fear and they surged forward to become obstacles.
Every time its shield moved, a knight was smashed through the air.
Every time its blade flashed, a knight was cut in two.
"Dezun! Morett! Behead the fallen! Hurry, before they come back as monsters!"
The named knights hurriedly ran toward their murdered comrades.
The shield swung, and a knight was thrown into the air. His body was bisected by the flamberge.
Four men had lost their lives in the blink of an eye. Though Londes was still gripped with fear, he readied his sword against the coming of the jet-black storm, like a martyr preparing to give his life for his faith.
"Ohhhh!"
It might have been a meaningless gesture, but Londes did not intend to wait for death. Giving voice to a battlecry, he swung his sword with all his strength at the oncoming Death Knight.
Perhaps it was because of his circumstances, but Londes's muscles broke their limit and surprised him. It might have been the best blow Londes had ever struck in his life.
The Death Knight swung its flamberge as well.
Time itself felt like it had slowed.
In an instant, the world before Londes spun—
And he saw his decapitated corpse collapse to the ground, as his sword swung through thin air.
Just then, at that moment, the horn rang out—
"Stop Death Knight, you've served me well!" The deep commanding voice of Momonga/Ainz ranged through the village square.
The villager was all huddling together in one area as they did not know what was going on. They looked up to the sky and saw four figures floating several feet above them.
An envy masked Momonga/Ainz Ooal Gown landed with Karna who was now sieg and Laeticia D'Arc who is Jeanne D'arc along with Albedo.
Ainz turn to the knights "My name Ainz Ooal Gown, It is a pleasure to meet all of you" Ainz calmly said, the knight just stood there, still frozen in fear "Don't worry about my Death Knight, no harm will come to you now, so tell your Supervi- i mean owner of my kindness, however if you commit such a heinous act in this area again, I will bring death to your entire kingdom" Ainz said.
"So leave now and make sure you speak the name of Ainz Ooal Gown to everyone you know" sieg ordered and with that the knights flee as fast as they can.
'Hhha, acting as a tough gig' Ainz wince in annoyance.
"Um, pardon me sir…" the village chief said hesitantly "b-but why did you saved us?".
"We just can't stand by and watch innocent people be murdered when we have the strength to help" Laeticia sweet and kindly voice put all the villagers at ease.
"So be at ease, from this point on this village will be under our protection" Ainz reassured.
But the villagers look at eachother confused, Sieg seeing this was also confused 'hem, weird in the old world, when people do something to help you and say it was out of the kindness of their heart, you just leave it as that, but these villagers are expecting something deeper…'
"But we don't do this kind of work for free, we expect to be compensated for our work" Sieg said shocking Ainz and Laeticia.
'Um Karna what are you doing?' Ainz [MESSAGE].
'Yeah, what are you doing' Laeticia joined in.
'Just look at them' Karna calmly replied.
The villagers looked at each other with a smile on their faces 'as I suspected the villagers won't question my intentions if they think I'm doing this for financial gain' Sieg though.
'That is weird' Momonga though.
'Think about it, there are knight and villages, the house look like they are made out of wood and straw, and their clothing and speech style are old, like medieval era old where we are from. So the logical conclusion I came up with is that we are stuck in a world where technology and culture are around the dark ages' Sieg explains.
'So if go by things in our world, money is everything in these time' Laeticia concluded.
'Yep, if you have the money, your essentially invincible and before I forget, Momonga make sure to wipe the two girls memories that we'd save back there' Sieg said.
'Why, OH dammit, if only I had thought to conceal my face!'
Laeticia sigh 'well I guess we'll just have to use a spell to keep those girls quiet, I hope memory magic work in this new world'.
A few hours have passed since Ainz, Sieg and Laeticia had saved the village. Ainz was currently trying to get some information about the new world. While Sieg and Laeticia was out exploring the village alone with Albedo.
'I requested money from the village as to not arouse any suspicions but information was what I was truly after, since we are unfamiliar with this new world, we'd need to learn everything we can about the area, failing to educate ourselves will only make us weak to an enemy' Ainz silently [MESSAGE] Sieg and Laeticia.
Said two where currently outside with Albedo very close by since she processed on being near the supreme beings at all times to protect them since she was built as a tank.
'Right, so what happens next, did you get any good information out of the village chief?' Sieg asked.
'The village chief and his wife believe my story about us being hermit who was very Knowledgeable about magic but knows nothing of the outside world, so they were strangely very eager to educate me about the village and the surrounding areas' Ainz explained.
'I wonder though, what kind of people practices magic in this world that would make these people trust us so easily?' Sieg asked 'even though Momonga is wearing a mask of jealousy that concealed his face, they dropped their guard just because he claimed to be a magic caster'.
'In YGGDRASIL even beginners could get this thing if they stay in on christmas night, so that mean these people don't know about YGGDRASIL' Laeticia concluded.
'Maybe, and this fact is further strengthened by the fact that all of our YGGDRASIL currencies was useless here, but gold itself did hold some value' Momonga said.
'If that the case then flashing theses coin around might be dangerous, until we know more about this world we should keep a very low profile' Sieg said.
'Your right, so anything else Momonga?' Laeticia asked.
'After that I asked about the surrounding territory, there are 3 main territories that surround this village and Nazarick, the Re-estize kingdom, the Baharuth empire and the Slain theocracy, Nazarick and this village, which is known as carne village is apart of the Re-estize kingdom border near the what is called the katze plain where the Re-estize kingdom and the Baharuth empire do battle every year so that means those two don't get along well, on the other side of the domain adjacent to the great mountain range that runs north and south that is where the Baharuth empire lies, and the final country is the Slain theocracy which is located to the south of both provinces' Ainz explains.
'So it either the Baharuth empire or the Slain theocracy that attack this village' Laeticia concluded.
'The village chief said that he thinks the Baharuth empire did it since the crest on the knight shield has the same crested of the Baharuth empire on it'
'Hem, so it is most likely that it was the Slain theocracy that did this huh' Sieg said.
'Huh, and how do you know that?' Laeticia questioned.
'Yeah'
'Don't forget I was a high ranking military officer once, tactics like these are common, you attack a neighboring country and make them think it was their enemy country and then you just side with the country you just attack enemies' Sieg explains 'but this could also be a tactic on the Baharuth empire side to lower the trust of the Re-estize kingdom people thus making it harder for them to maintain control over their people but it most likely the theocracy did it'.
'...wow Karna' Ainz was speechless, Karna could figure out all that just by hearing a heavily shortened explanation of the situation 'Well the guy didn't make to general for nothing I guess…'
'If only we'd had taken a knight as a hostage then we would had known what had actually happened' Laeticia said.
"Is something the matter?" The village chief asked Ainz.
"No I'm fine, so is there anything else that is important that I should know about this region?" Ainz asked.
"Well the closest city to our village is the Kingdom capital city of E-rantel, goblin, orcs and ogres inhabit the area but you should be safe as long as you stay on the trail and the adventurer hunt on those lands and they are doing a good job at keeping those monster populations in check" the village chief explains.
"Adventurer?" Ainz questioned.
"They are mercenary who are in charge of dealing with those monsters in exchange for payment from their clients or the kingdom governments, if you want to hire one of them, then there is a guild in E-rantel that can offer their services".
"An adventurers guild hem, then just how big is the city of E-rantel?"
"Well it differently larger than our village"
"I can guess that"
'If we want to find out more than we'd need to make a home in the capital' Laeticia said she had listen to the whole conversation between Ainz and the village chief.
Laeticia and Sieg along with Albedo walk around the village. As they walk they saw the villagers was all gather around a small seminary to mourn over their fallen brother, sister and mother and father who was killed when the knights attack the village.
"I could use silent resurrection magic to bring the dead villagers back to life but who knows what trouble that will cause" Laeticia said sadly as she saw the two girls from before Enri and Nemu crying over there parents graves.
"They might not be so trusting of a magic caster who is as good as reversing death as well as bringing it, they should contempt by the fact that we'd had save their village" Sieg said silently 'even though I can't feel anything I still go through the act huh, hehe I guess no matter how much of a monster I became there is still a part of me that is human'
They continue on by this time the sun was about to set and Ainz had finished his conversation with the village chief and was walking with Laeticia, Sieg and Albedo who was give every human who got in front of the supreme beings a dirty and disgusted glare. Though no one could see it because her beautiful face was covered by her helmet, though people can definitely feel it.
"thanks to our good deed the story about our doing here will spread across the country side" Sieg said.
"Our reputation should grow quickly and if there are other YGGDRASIL player that are stacked here too they seek us out" Laeticia said.
"So we shouldn't kill anymore human unless necessary the last thing I want is to antagonize any players" Ainz said.
"Also, a man with a reputation need a cause one that will allow us to win the support of one of the country's" Sieg said as he took a small glance behind him to Albedo slightly confused and unsure. Thought he could not see her face because of her helmet, he sure that was what going through her head based on her body movement.
"Today's mission was a success so let head back home Albedo" Sieg said as he brock Albedo out of her confusion.
"Right away my lord" Albedo said gently.
A man carrying a decent sized wooden beam walk pass the group, immediately after this Albedo silently glared daggers at the man.
"Hem, you seem to dislike human" Sieg finally brought up the subject that was bothering him the entire time that he and Laeticia was waiting out the village chief house.
"What is it to like about them, they are weak and pathetic, just tiny insects meant to be crushed under foot" Albedo said with a disgusted and emphasize weak and pathetic.
"Listen to me Albedo I want you to at the very least act like you are showing them respect and kindness" Laeticia said as she looked back at Albedo who was slightly shocked.
'Why would a supreme being care about humans, they are The highest form of existence and their powers are absolute, so the only logical reason that Lady Jeanne would care about sniveling, lower life form these humans is that they are going to be useful someday, AH, the supreme ones are truly kind and wise!' Albedo concluded.
'It hypocritical of me to ask that of her when I don't even feelings for them either it must be a side effect of being a heteromorph, though I am an angel so my karma is high, it doesn't make that much sense that I can't feel anything for them, if the theory of karma dictates a person aliment is corrected' Laeticia though.
The group stopped their walk when they saw the villagers all gather up and some were having what looked to be a panic attack written on their faces.
'Huh, the troubles keeps coming' Sieg said tiredly.
"Village chief is something the matter?" Ainz walk up to the villagers and question.
"Lord Ainz Thank goodness, there are more soldiers on horseback heading our way at breakneck speed" the village chief said with panic.
"Is that so, then don't worry we will handle the situation, please gather all the villagers around your house and when you are done come meet me at the town square" Ainz ordered.
"Yes of course!" The village chief said with relief.
A moment later all the villagers were inside the village chief house, some were peeping out of the windows to see what was going on.
Soon a small army of only 50 men on horseback came into view. Ahead of all these men was Gazef stronoff the royal head warriors of the Re-estize kingdom.
"I am the chief royal head warriors of the Re-estize kingdom, Gazef Stronoff the king has ordered me to hunt down the knight that has been attacking surrounding villages, so you are safe now I will do everything in my power to protect you" Gazef said triumphantly like a hero has come to save the day.
"Thank you General Gazef" the village chief said great respected. Gazef was once a commoner like them but he is the strongest warriors in the kingdom so many patients looked up Gazef like a hero.
"Are you the chief of the village and who are these strong people beside you?" Gazef asked 'jugging by their clothes they don't seem to have come from the Re-estize kingdom and they are probably of noble houses as well by how fine and beautiful there clothes are'
"This people save-" the village chief was cut off by Ainz.
"That not important right now, but is great to meet you acquainted general, my name is Ainz Ooal Gown"
"And I am Sieg" Gazef gaze averted from the picoult tall man wearing strange but very expensive robe and accessory and looked over to see a very handsome man with white hair.
"It a pleasure to meet you, and I am Laeticia D'arc" Gazef was at a loss for words on how to describe her beauty. From her smooth and silky golden hair to her amethyst eyes and her perfect figured she was a thousand times more beautiful than the golden princess herself.
"And we are just a group of magic user who happen to stumble upon this village as it was being ransacked my the knights" Sieg quickly said to break up the dazed look on Gazef face 'if he look at Jeanne like that again I'm killing him' Sieg thought darkly.
'...what the hell, where did that come from?' Sieg though with slight shock.
"Hem, I see, then these villagers would have been lost without you thank you sir Ainz, sir Sieg and you as well my lady" Gazef dismount And slightly bowed in thanks.
"General, we'd spotted a large group of magic caster of unknown origins, they surrounding the village as we speak!" One of the knights ran up behind Gazef yield.