I spent the next hour talking to him and his wife about everything that they knew. I learned about the currency and where everything was located. I learned about the current conflicts and rumors as well as about the strongest people in the area. I even learned about how the villages and other places worked. I knew everything I needed to know about the world that wasn't either secret or only known to the people in their specific areas, and even those I had some clue about since information and rumors were things that frontier towns enjoyed learning and spreading around.
I thanked him and was about to leave when one of the townsmen came rushing in a panic and told us that soldiers were coming. I asked the village head to have all of the women, children, and those who were either wounded or to afraid to fight taken to hide in his storehouse. He quickly agreed and had the villager go spread the word.
I walked out and found Ainz standing by the village square while looking at a dust cloud in the distance.
"Are they the ones you let go earlier returning with reinforcements?" I asked him calmly.
"No, these ones actually look like mercenaries. They don't seem to have any matching uniforms and the only two who look like they have any proper training is the ones in front." He told me before casting a buff on my eyes so that I could see in the distance.
"I see, they certainly aren't the ones from before, but it would be pretty pathetic if that was who this kingdom sent to protect the villages out here. It could be bandits, but they look pretty determined and I doubt bandits would be that upset about a village being attacked." I said before using my ki to remove the spell.
"Lets wait and see who they are."
"I agree, hopefully they're friendlies and not enemies."
After that Gazef and his men showed up and Gazef found out that we had saved the village. Albedo almost told him how I hadn't done anything but was stopped by Ainz since if she said that it would cause inconsistencies to the story we had built.
Nigun showed up and Gazef tried to get Ainz to join in the fight with Ainz turning him down.
I however told Gazef and Ainz that I would take care of it.
The village head and Gazef looked at me strangely before I said. "The ways of heaven are often filled with those who would draw you down a path of evil. It is best to smite down the wicked with a heavy hand than to stray from the path and darken ones heart by ignoring the evils that are committed. These people have been killing innocent villagers and have not even spared the children. It is my duty to send them to be judged. I would ask that Gazef san wait here since leading tired men and horses into battle would be no different than killing them yourself."
Gazef got down on his knees and bowed down to me with tears. I simply cupped my hands and walked off towards where Nigun was. I'm sure Ainz and Albedo were a little miffed at my whole monk act since that was only my class and not something I actually was, but it was fun spouting bullshit like that.
Ainz had an almost constant green light flashing from him from his emotion suppression system going off. I wish I could see his face right now.
Nigun of course mocked me for coming alone and tried to insult me and Gazef only to stop when I laughed and told him that his gods were a bunch of cowards who couldn't hack it in the heavens and had to come down to show off to a bunch of weak ass humans just so that way someone would finally treat them as more than the worthless bunch of turds that they were.
Nigun and all of the priests sent their angels at me and started sending spells at me like they were throwing candy in a parade. I just turned on my Darkness aura to max and watched as every angel that got near me died immediately. I picked up a rock and crushed it into pieces before tossing each piece with enough force that it caused each priests head to vaporize. I was working my way clockwise when nigun had his weak angel attack me with its bludgeon. I simply reached up and grabbed the bludgeon and crushed it before throwing another stone and vaporizing that angels head. I had made sure to imbue that stone with darkness energy to make sure the angel died.
Nigun looked at the angel as it slowly vaporized from dying with a look of shocked horror. I just smiled at his terror.
I then went on using the stones to kill more priests. At a certain point the priests began to turn tail and run, but I would kill anyone I saw turn their back to me on the spot. Nigun decided to summon the last angel from his seal stone and I do admit that it looked impressive, but it was only level 60 and would barely scratch me even with all my buffs turned off.
I let the attack hit me before laughing as I tossed all of my rocks I had left over and wiping out the entire left side of their circle. I had already got the ones to the right and behind me. The only ones left were 8 priests and Nigun.
"That sort of tickled, but now it's time to die." I laughed out before rushing forward and punching the angel while imbuing my fist with death energy. It would be funny to see the angel turn into a zombie and watch the faces of the priests and Nigun turn to looks of horror. Unfortunately the angel was too weak and just exploded when I hit it.
"Well that was disappointing." I muttered before rushing over and killing the priests. I called out to the EEA that was nearby and had him have people bring the corpses back to resurrect and interrogate for any information I didn't have.
He just nodded before leaving. At least I think it's a he, maybe a she? Well whatever they are.
"As for you." I said to Nigun. "I think that we will have some fun once I get you back to the tomb, but first I need to take you to meet with Gazef so he can ask some questions."
Nigun did something that I didn't think he had the guts for. He actually killed himself using a poison pellet in his mouth.
"Well that was pointless." I said as I dragged his body towards the village. I used a wand of resurrection on him right as we were about to enter the village. The wand crumbled away into ashes after my use and Nigun made some slight groans before stiffening in shock.
"Why, why am I not dead?" He started screaming out in terror.
"You didn't think that you could escape me simply by dying did you?" I told him with a grin as I looked into his eyes and used my Otherman skill to transform my eyes into deep black holes and whispered to him in as evil a voice as I could make. "You will suffer for the evils you have done Nigun."
He ended up screaming before passing out in terror. He also pissed and shit himself, though I'm not sure if that was because he killed himself or if I had literally scared the shit out of him.
"Alex you have returned with a prisoner." Gazef boomed out with a smile before frowning in worry. "Did the others with this one flee."
"No, they are all dead. I unfortunately was much to destructive and did not leave any bodies behind. It would seem that some of my anger at their evils and their taunts leaked through and caused me to use too much force on them. I was able to control myself and did manage to capture their leader for you to interrogate." I said as I threw Nigun on the ground next to Gazef as Ainz and Albedo stood behind him while looking at him in curiosity.
"I did find out that he calls himself Nigun, the leader of the Sunlight scripture from the Slane Theocracy and that they were attempting to lure out Gazef san in order to kill him and weaken the Kingdom."
"Thank you Alex dono." Gazef said while bowing his head. "The Sunlight scripture is one of the Slane Theocracy's main forces and would have definitely have killed many of my men before we could have broken through. If not for you and your companions it is possible that many more lives would have been lost." Gazef also bowed down to Ainz and Albedo.
"You are welcome Gazef san. It is however time for me and the others to leave. It would appear that we need to make plans if we wish to wander in these lands." I told him while looking at each other.
"Indeed, Alex." Ainz said with a nod. "It is time for us to go. Gazef san, my full name is Ainz Ooal Gown. Please remember it and hopefully the next time that we meet it will be on better terms."
"I hope so as well." Gazef nodded. "If any of you find yourselves at the capital you can come find me and I will make sure to show you all the gratitude that I can't show you in this situation. I am also sure that his majesty would be very happy to meet with you and thank you himself for helping his people."
"Yes, well good bye until then Gazef san." Ainz said while I nodded to him and we all walked out of the village.
I called an EEA and said. Keep an eye on Nigun. If he somehow manages to escape from Gazef or dies and has his corpse left behind take him back to Nazarick. Otherwise just let them handle him.
"Yes sir." The EEA said before disappearing again.
"So Alex, did we get the information we needed?" Ainz asked.
"Sure thing Ainz." I chuckled.
"Sorry about using our guilds name like this without asking if it was okay, I just felt that this was the best way to spread our name if any of our guild managed to come back online at the last second and got sent here with us."
"I understand that." I said while patting him on the shoulder. "It is fine and I'm sure the others would also be fine if you used our name as an alias to spread it wide and far with your actions. Do keep in mind though that since you are using the name of our guild that we won't forgive you if you make it into some sort of joke."
"Of course not, our guild will never be allowed to be a joke." Ainz said before having the system forcefully calm him down.
"In any case I found out about borders, alliances, wars, nationalities, world build, species, areas of concern, currencies, life styles, how the countries are currently set up, histories, magics and other skills, and even notable individuals. I have a lot more, but it will take a while to explain since a portion of what I learned is also from my own conclusions based off of what we know so far."
"Okay, can I get you to write out what you found out and your thoughts so that I can read them later and share them with Albedo and the others?" Ainz asked me with a quiet voice like he was thinking of something.
"Sure thing man, just make sure you don't overthink anything without knowing the facts first." I told him with a grin. "I know you have a habit of trying to make everything perfect and wearing yourself down when things don't work out right, but life is always changing and evolving, so don't worry to much about things that you can't control and just focus on what you can do now. Plus it'll hopefully give you a better picture of the world and our situation once you've gotten my report. Nobody can make proper plans with no information." I said while putting my hands behind my head.
"The world should just bow down to the whims of Ainz sama." Albedo said angrily." How dare anything try to go against the glorious plans of the man I love. I'll destroy anything that hinders his plans." She said as she swung her halberd through the air as if the air itself was the one acting as a hinderance.
Ainz was giving off a feeling of regret with slumped shoulders while I just laughed.
"Albedo, shouldn't you instead be thinking of how to tell the other guardians about how cool Ainz was." I said as Ainz looked at me with what could only be horror at my obvious betrayal.
I just put my arm around his shoulder and whispered to him while Albedo was fan girling out behind us. "You do realize that I know what you did and that you're going to have to accept her feelings since it is now a part of her very being. Also you do the crime, you do the time." I told him before letting him go and walking off with a whistle as Ainz continued to flash repeatedly with the system trying to suppress his raging emotions.
After we returned I wrote out a history of the world we were in along with a map and any and all other information I had as well as talking about my theories about the worlds history
600 years ago dragons ruled this world using a type of magic referred to as wild magic. This magic used the power of soul to cast those magics and was only usable by those who either sacrificed the lives of others or had a powerful soul of their own. One of the dragons, commonly referred to as the dragon emperor used wild magic to summon the six great gods. These great gods are in fact Yggdrasil players. They introduced tier magic which was commonly used in Yggdrasil to the humans of this world. Because of the dragon emperor using wild magic to connect Yggdrasil and this world through time and space I believe that anyone who was still online at the time of shut down would have been sent to this world and might in fact still be being sent to this world, but due to the transfer being unstable and warping time and space it is probably releasing items and people from Yggdrasil into this world spread out over time.
After the six great gods appeared they went on to create the Slane Theocracy and the six scriptures were made based on the individual teachings of the six great gods. The six great gods were more than likely human players who ended up dying from old age which is why they are no longer around. The last surviving member of the six great gods was Shurshana who was killed 500 years ago when the eight greed kings appeared.
The eight greed kings are also likely players that appeared and were also likely human or demi human players who went on to take over most of the continent. The eight greed kings spread tier magic to the rest of the world and not just to humans in the Slane theocracy. The eight greed kings went to war with the dragon lords who had ruled over the continent and had killed most of the dragon lords. The ones who survived fled into hiding and their lands were conquered.
The eight greed kings later on built an empire that eventually was destroyed due to the eight greed kings having a conflict with each other. I believe that the conflict was based on the fact that some of the players wished to return back to their world and did not know how to do so since the one's that had caused them to be summoned here were in fact the dragons that they had all, but exterminated.
200 years ago beings referred to as the evil deities began to rampage around the continent and destroyed most of civilization. The Slane Theocracy somehow managed to survive this. It is unknown how. I believe that the evil deities were in fact the guardians for the eight greed kings or that they were another guilds guardians that got sent to this world and that when they found out that the one's they served were never going to return to them they decided to destroy the world since their creators were no longer in it nor capable of being in it.
A group referred to as the thirteen heroes went out and managed to defeat the evil deities one by one. I believe that these individuals were natives to this world who had managed to obtain the gear from Yggdrasil. The leader of the thirteen heroes and one other member was a player and after defeating the evil deities the leader killed his fellow player on accident for some reason and he refused to be revived because of this.
The Baharuth empire, Re-Estize kingdom, Roble Holy kingdom, Dragon kingdom and the adventurer guild were all formed after the destruction of the evil deities. The adventurer guild was established by the thirteen heroes. There was a player who was a minotaur and went around introducing modern technologies and ideas to the world during this time and has received the title minotaur sage. He has since died, but many of his ideas and inventions continue to be created and circulated amongst the high class.
Due to the destruction of the dwarven noble family and their capital city the dwarves have since lost much of their knowledge on a process referred to as runecrafting. This process appears to be carving magical runes into a completed item in order to imbue the item with magical properties. It is unknown what these runes look like or how their effects differ from simply enchanting an item, however I believe that it might be beneficial to learn about these runes before the craft dies out entirely.
This concludes the report on the history of the world and the effects that players have currently had on the world. Any further information on history will require speaking to the dragons who managed to survive the eight greed kings purge since the evil dieties destroyed almost all information from before 200 years ago.
Information may be redacted from any reports based on the decisions of the two supreme beings and if anyone has questions concerning missing information may bring their concerns to one of the supreme beings and will be told necessary redacted information as needed.
I made a few more reports about everything else I knew and sent them to Ainz who had called a meeting of our guardians and other key people to announce thet he was taking on the name of the guild. I was okay with it since I knew that he was trying to spread our guilds name around.
I figured it would be fine if I just left things as is. Ainz was still heading down the path he was before, but this time he was a little bit more stable and less worried about his actions.
