Chapter 24: A World-Class Boss?
At the same time, the Great Tomb of Nassalik, the ninth floor.
The flying squirrel, no, Ainz, was sitting in a chair, and in front of him, there was a mirror.
This is the in-game item, the Mirror of Remote Viewing, which observes the surroundings of Nassalik.
It's not a great prop, it's just a way to show the scene of a specific location, and you only need to use simple counterintelligence skills to block prying eyes, and, if you have an offensive wall, it's a counterattack defense, and you can even directly counterattack the wielder.
It can only be said that it is not up to props.
Ainz's skeletal palms waved left and right above the mirror, scrolling the image, and the mirror of the grassland outside Karn Village flashed on the mirror like a movie image.
Until the screen cuts to the village of Karn.
A group of humanoids, apparently demonic monsters, are roaming around the village, and there are humans in the village.
"Demons and humans live together?"
"No, Lord Ainz, probably not."
Sebas, beside him, shook his head.
Sebas's gaze swept over the mirror, and the humans in the picture were consciously moving away from the demons.
Under his reminder, Ainz also discovered this situation:
"Slaves?"
In the World Tree game, some story missions and side quests also have plots of humans being enslaved by non-human races or humans enslaved by non-human races.
"No, if it's a slave, it's too lenient."
There was no expression on the face of the Anz skull, and he thought to himself:
"Those who work are demons, and humans don't work......."
Ainz took a closer look.
Looking at the entire village, there are only demons working, and humans basically have no work, just with a look of fear, looking at a young girl with a complicated look.
Demons are more like slaves.....
Is it a summoned servant?
The setting of the World Tree is similar to that of DND, and there is also a Warlock class that can summon demons.
However, in the same way, the inertion of a demon warlock requires more or less conditions such as a purgatory contract and possession of demon blood.
Just like Ulbert and the Dimiugos he created, they themselves are a demonic race, and they can directly become demon warlocks and obtain the skills to summon demons.
However, Ulbert is similar to himself, he has specialized the necromancy, and the other party has stacked all his skills into offensive and destructive skills, and he has never seen Ulbert use skills such as summoning demons.
Maybe there is, maybe not.
After a moment of confusion, Ainz's focus returned to the village itself.
These demons should be summoned by people who have a demon summoning profession.
STRENGTH ASIDE, HE HADN'T SEEN THESE DEMONS IN THE GAME, WHICH MEANT THEY WEREN'T MONSTERS IN YGGDRASIL.
Through the telescope, he couldn't directly determine the strength of these demons, but they looked pretty strong.
The masters of these demons should not be of low rank.
Fortunately, he had already taken precautions before snooping-
"Counter Detect." Protect the prying behavior itself so that the other party can't detect it.
"Fake cover." When the other side conducts counter-reconnaissance, it can only obtain forged and false information.
Ainz prepared a magic scroll of up to ten scrolls for defense.
Although he is not as good as Bu Niumeng himself, he still learns some things, such as "When using magic to gather information, you must be prepared in advance, which is the most basic".
Turning his gaze, Ainz finally determined from the sight of the human villagers that the summoner of these demons was a young girl.
Demon......
"This village needs to be looked at closely."
This village is located not too far beyond the Great Tomb of Nasalik, and requires the highest level of vigilance.
"Lord Ainz, I think so too, and there is another place ......."
Under Sebas's guidance, Ainz scrolls the scene to the grassland outside the village.
Here, there are traces of battle, and it doesn't look weak.
On the originally empty grassland, a huge crater appeared, and the area around the pit was full of scorched black marks, which should have been bombarded by lightning or flame skills.
But now, it's empty.
But what is certain is that it happened not so long ago, that is, today or yesterday.
However, it was at this time that a picture appeared in the telescope.
A black object suddenly appeared on the left edge of the telescope, obscuring nearly one-fifth of the mirror.
"What is this!?"
Ainz immediately swung his wrist and scrolled the image, turning the telescope perspective to the north.
In the back, in the middle of a forest, a giant tree, swinging its branches.
"Is this a world-class boss?"
Adjusting the perspective of the telescope, Anz made a rough estimate of the size of the giant tree in his mind, and after finally determining that the height of the giant tree was a kilometer, he opened his mouth.
You must know that the largest NPC in the Great Tomb of Nasalik is the guardian of the Great Tomb of Nasalik before it was occupied by the Guild of Anzi Urgon - the guardian of the fourth estate, Gao Kangda, who is thirty meters tall.
Kilometers, what is this concept.
From the memories of the past games, Ainz found some big events in the official update a few years ago when YGGDRASIL was still quite hot.
World-class bosses named after mythical monsters and mythical beasts, such as "World Destruction Crisis!" The world boss Nidhogg, who appeared in the event plot of the series, has this body type.
What an exaggeration.
Because of becoming an undead, even if because of Satoru Suzuki's character, Ainz had some surprised emotions, but soon because of the characteristics of the undead, the fluctuating emotions quickly became stable.
"Sebas, raise Nasalik's alert level to the maximum level, and get Yarbede to come over."
Ainz hesitated.
Would you like to take a look?
If you say 100 meters, even if it is some money dungeons, he has seen those golden slimes of tens of meters, or even 100 meters, but kilometers are so exaggerated......
If there really is a world-class boss spawning near a certain guild, it will be a big problem for which guild.
It's an opportunity, but it can also lead to trouble.
"By the way, by the way, inform Dimiugos, let him check the situation in the small village with demons, let him see what the situation is, focus on safety, once you encounter any situation, leave immediately, don't fight."
"Yes!"
That village was too close to Nasalik, so it was necessary to carefully determine the situation, and the person who determined the situation was naturally Dimiugos, an NPC who was the most high-level demonic monster.
"I don't know where Ulbert has gone, it's better to leave this kind of thing to him, it's so cunning, throw all the work to me....."
After complaining to Ulbert with a smile in his heart, the expressionless Ainz continued to command Sebas:
"In the event of an invasion while Dimiugos and Yarbede leave, you will be in charge of Sebas, until we rush back."
"Yes, Lord Ainz."
At the same time, outside the Great Tomb of Nasalik, Dimiugos, who was directing Gorem to repair the details of Mare's concealment of the Great Tomb of Nasalik, also saw a giant tree suddenly appearing in the distance.