Ainz looked tiredly at Maple who was slowly humming a song while flying over a sea of clouds.

Ainz for his part had already said on several occasions that he could also fly with a flight spell so there was no need to be carried... this way, but Maple, for her part, argued that it was much faster to travel with her mecha form.

Yet, being carried princes-style was still too much for Ainz, feeling too big and uncomfortable but not daring to move much, Ainz hung his head while looking at the horizon with a nostalgic look.

The pretty light of the evening was beautifully diffused through the mist of that sea of clouds.

At that moment Maple stopped for a second to admire the landscape before turning off the suit's engines and diving into the sea of clouds. Ainz was not scared by this apparently suicidal act for one simple reason, she had already done it before, in fact, she had done it so many times that Ainz had lost count of how many times she did the same shit, this was an easy way to check below them for the presence of the village they were looking for.

They descended quickly, Ainz did not expect this time to be different from the previous ones, but Maple, there was always light in her eyes when they went down, and even when only forests, mountains or rivers were below them she never lost that light. Although Ainz truly hoped that this would not last for all eternity, a couple of hours had passed since they saw Emperor Jircniv and with the speed at which they were going, Ainz felt that they would easily go around the world if Maple left lost in her thoughts.

The daylight faded as the sun was obscured by clouds and there, beneath them, was a cloudy and humid plain, Maple's engines slowly lowered as the girl's eyes opened looking at something in the distance.

"A city! "

Ainz looked into the distance, confirming Maple's words, a large city stood on the plains, and while this was interesting, Ainz was somewhat curious about the presence of undead on the plains and, furthermore, he was somewhat worried that What happened in the empire was repeated with the fact of having to present himself in an uncomfortable way... the only thing he wanted was to return to Nazarick, and in fact he could do it at any time with Ainz Ooal Gown's ring but maybe. ..no, definitely, leaving Maple alone in this world was not a good idea at all. Ainz swallowed imaginary saliva just thinking about the chaos that could happen... On the other hand he was also ... desolate in some way, two hours had already passed and he had not received any message from the NPCs of Nazarick, he had not I had told them he was out so they would probably be very worried, or it could be that they were even angry, feeling betrayed and thought that he had abandoned them in the middle of the night.

Ainz fiddled with the message spell before finally sending a message to Albedo.

["I'm on my way, wait for me where you are"]

"Ainz-san! This place is huge! "

Ainz was finally left on the ground as Maple deactivated her transformation and walked excitedly towards the door. At the entrance a pair of guards looked on in disbelief. Ainz put a hand to his chin in thought and noticed the obvious lack of a mask covering his skeletal features, his red eyes locked onto those pale-faced guards as Maple grabbed his skeletal hand and dragged him towards the door.

Ainz came to a conclusion: this was the moment that the world would learn of the existence of the supreme overlord, the one with the power to conquer this world, and the way they were finding out about him... was being dragged by the hand by something even worse, something with an innocent face and a power of destruction that could only be overshadowed by its infinitely monstrous Vitality stat.

Ainz looked at the guards who were too terrified to react as Maple approached waving.

"Hello! Um... Could you give us directions? We are somewhat lost."

Maple smiled as she walked in front of the door, the guards frozen in their positions.

Hearts beating at full speed as the girl got closer and closer to them.

That inhuman thing approaching them, the grip on their spears, the feel of their armor on their bodies, the breath coming heavily from their mouths, they were completely frozen in their places not knowing what to do. Maple walking slowly with one hand in the air smiling ignorantly at the guards' feelings.

A couple of minutes had already passed since they saw the couple descend from the sky and approach the door and the alarm had already been raised, but still, even if they had been told that they had to defend the door until reinforcements arrived, no one He could avoid the shaking legs and the inevitable feeling of wanting to close the door and hide.

"Stay where you are!" shouted one of the dens who let out a sigh when he noticed Maple stopping for a moment.

"HELLOOOOO !" Maple shouted from her position. "This ... WE NEED DIRECTIONS TO VILLAGGE GOBLIN!"

The guard who shouted first gulped and looked at the other figure who had stayed behind, those luxurious clothes, that large staff... However, even though he was lightly covered by a hood, his face and skeletal hands were painfully obvious, along with the skeletal box that demonstrated his open robe. The guard trembled in fear in his position.

"HELLOOOOOOO? DO YOU HEAR ME FROM THERE?"

Maple looked back at Ainz and the two seemed to share a look.

At that moment, from inside the wall, adventurers and soldiers came out, taking a position in front of the gate.

Maple raised her hands when suddenly several spears were pointed at her... Even if they were all pointing at them from several meters away.

"This... Hello, I'm Maple, a human."

Silence followed her words and a few seconds later the adventurers looked at each other before looking back at Maple and her armor that looked like it came straight out of W30K since she was wearing a skin over her world-eather armor, the reason for this was because Maple thought that this skin gave her a bonus in negotiations against the emperor and then she forgot to return the armor to the classic black armor with the red rose in the center; although of course no one in their wildest dreams would make such an assumption, so the damage had already been done, especially when Maple's armor of menacing design far surpassed in opulence any armor anyone had seen before, almost to the point of calling it a contemporary piece of art or the incarnation of the logo of a death metal band, logically, the contemporary art of that time is not exactly something similar to that armor and I doubt that they know what death metal is.

Thus someone shouted from among the adventurers.

"Why would you have to mention that you are human if you are human? Wouldn't that be obvious if you were human?"

"Well, you guys don't seem to think I'm human so I thought I'd make it clear first of all."

"She is right." Said a different voice in the crowd, a deeper voice.

"... we want proof!" The same voice as before answered.

"Huh ? How does someone prove that they are human?"Maple asked confused.

The crowd looked at each other doubtfully before whispering among themselves for a few moments.

Maple tried to listen with curiosity.

"-The armor ," "-is the armor, right?" " -yes the armor."

After careful deliberation, the crowd pushed forward the first person who opened his mouth, a tall, blonde, adventurous-looking man with a small black sword at his waist, a member of the swords of darkness Lukrut spoke with a somewhat timid tone .

"Take off your armor... please."

Maple blinked a few times in confusion before turning red.

"Eeee-wait, Wh-what?"

Lukrut looked away as one of his companions, a large druid with a wide beard, gave him a small blow in the shoulder.

Maple covered her armor and cowered in shame as her brain raced in panic.

"You can... change behind a rock I guess..." Said Ninya, one of the members of the swords of darkness and an adventurer who felt noticeably uncomfortable in this situation.

Maple looked from side to side with embarrassment looking for a rock, she approached a rock just over 20 centimeters and tried to hide behind it, after realizing that it would be impossible she looked at the adventurer who made the suggestion with a look. betrayed in his eyes.

Ninya, feeling her heart hurt, told her companions. "Hey, I don't think she's a monster, she could change inside the wall..."

The crowd began to argue amongst themselves, hesitantly, then Maple stood up.

"N-no, it's okay, if that's what it takes for them to believe in me as a human I'll do that."

Everyone became silent and then Maple pretended to take off her armor with trembling hands, but with trembling hands and a face so red it looked like it would turn into lava she shouted at them in a shrill voice. "D -don't look at me so closely! Turn around!"

Without thinking for a second that if they did so everyone would leave their backs exposed to a surprise attack, each and everyone obeyed.

The sounds of armor being slowly removed was the only thing heard for a while until.

"Y-y-you can turn around now."

The crowd gulped in unison and turned around slowly.

There, covering her body in shame was Maple in her birth attire...

Or rather, in her avatar's birth outfit.

Indeed! Underneath her armor was the game's default beginner outfit!

THAT BEAUTIFUL SUIT WITH ITS BEAUTIFUL WORN AND BEGINNER COLOR!

If it weren't for how Maple covered herself with shame she would be no different from any girl who aspired to be an adventurer, similar to Ninya in fact, but with longer hair, black eyes and hair...

The crowd watched with open mouths.

"C -can I put on the armor now? T-the looks make me very ashamed."

The crowd shared some light chatter before Lukrut nodded on behalf of the crowd.

With a sigh of relief Maple put her armor back on and regained some of her composure, even with her face red it seemed like this matter was about to be resolved as little more than a misunderstanding as everyone seemed to confirm that Maple was human, Maple smiled slightly and turned to Ainz shouting.

"Ainz, it's your turn to undress and show them that you are human!"

Silence fell in front of the walls as the large figure approached in leaps and bounds and Ainz said.

"My name is Ainz Ooal Gown, ruler of the tomb of Nazaric, and I do not think it necessary to undress to prove to you that I am an Overlord."

And no one doubted his words, in fact, some even fainted to confirm that he did not need to undress.

Authot Note.

Sorry for the lack of chapter, I had a big writing block and when I got over It I forgot to publish this chapter so you will have chapter 20 fairly quick.

Sincerly.

"I want to sleep"

J-More