Looking Forward to Another World

On the outskirts of E-Rantel, near the edge of the forest.

Unlike the fortress city with the magical lighting of [permanent light], there is only darkness on the outskirts of the city. Although it can't be said that you can't see your fingers, it is not an environment that is convenient for human activities.

In such a dark suburb, there is a place that is glowing with fire.

It was a camp.

A side is about 20 meters long, which is considered a wide camp.

There are horse-drawn carriages parked in the camp, as well as tents for resting. Wooden stakes are nailed around the tents. Between the stakes, there are strings with bells attached to each other. It is obviously used as a warning to tell the people in the camp, Is it a design for creatures to approach?

The bonfire that was the source of the fire was burning in the middle of the camp, surrounded by armed adventurers.

While eating simple food, they chatted casually, and from time to time, they would turn their eyes to the corner of the camp, looking at a man and a woman staying there.

A man and a woman, one was wearing a full-body black armor, and the other was wearing a dark brown robe.

It was Ainz and Narberal.

At this moment, Ainz stayed in a corner far away from the camp for some reason, pressing a finger on the temple, as if he was closing his eyes and resting his mind.

Narberal looked at Ainz like this, and quietly stayed aside without saying a word.

After a while passed like this, Ainz suddenly put down his hand and said something.

"The eight-limb knife assassins sent to monitor are all dead."

Ainz calmly said these words in a voice without any emotional ups and downs.

"Are they all dead?" Narberal frowned, lowered her voice, and asked, "Who did it?"

"That's right." Ainz said with certainty: "Until he was about to die, the eight-limb knife assassins did not disconnect the [message] connection, I could hear their voices, and knew they were fighting that person. "

Narberal suddenly didn't know what to say.

Because, that means one thing.

"Lige Brihot, this man is indeed not an ordinary person."

Ainz calmly stated such a conclusion.

"According to our understanding, it would be very difficult for ordinary people to deal with servants like the Octopus Assassins."

"At least, in this country, on the surface, no one can deal with the Octopus Assassin."

"That man was able to easily defeat them. This kind of strength is really not like the natives we know."

Ainz confirmed this fact through the death of the Octopus Assassin.

Li Ge didn't know that when the eight-limb knife assassins were exposed and were about to retreat, they made a final contact with Ainz.

This was also Ainz's arrangement. Once something was wrong, he would immediately report the situation to Ainz using the one-time props he had given to the Octopus Assassin.

Therefore, Ainz learned of the incident almost as soon as the eight-limb knife assassins were exposed, and after calm thinking, he gave an instruction to the eight-limb knife assassins.

That is, take advantage of the situation to fight against Li Ge, and find out his strength.

Because of this instruction, the Eight-Limbed Sword Assassin suddenly stopped fleeing, and instead headed back towards Li Ge.

As a result, they died heroically, and Ainz also learned part of Li Ge's strength.

Narberal, who knew Ainz's arrangement, asked in a voice full of vigilance.

"So, is that bug a player?"

According to their understanding of the world, there should be no other possibility for a human being who can kill four level 49 eight-limbed sword assassins in such a short period of time other than being a player.

At least, Ainz thought so.

The issue is……

"If Rieger Brihot is a player, what position is he acting on now?"

Ainz whispered as if talking to himself.

"He came to our door not long after we first appeared in this world. Was that behavior premeditated?"

"If there was a premeditated plan, then why did he come here alone? And why did he know so much information about this world before us?"

"Or, he came to this world earlier than us?"

"If he came to this world earlier than us, how would he know that Nazarick would appear there?"

Not only did the doubts not decrease, but they increased.

Ainz really couldn't understand the meaning of Li Ge's previous behavior.

After he met himself, he never mentioned "YGGDRASIL" from the beginning to the end. Instead, he told himself information about this world, and what he took away as a price was information about magic that had no value in "YGGDRASIL". .

Does that act itself make sense?

What kind of considerations did he have for doing that?

Ainz felt that he was about to be overwhelmed by these questions.

Moreover, if Li Ge is a player of "YGGDRASIL", why is there no trace of "YGGDRASIL" on his body?

"There was almost no equipment on him, and he only wore a pendant when we met for the first time, and that pendant didn't seem to be a prop of "YGGDRASIL". "

"The second time I met in Ye Rantil, he had an extra ring on his hand and a knife on his waist, but neither the ring nor the knife, I have never seen in "YGGDRASIL". "

"Also, I have never heard of the name of Li Ge Brihot, which is the character name of any player."

"Did he, like me, change his name for a certain purpose?"

"It's really... there are too many things I don't understand."

Ainz rubbed the gap between his brows that no longer existed through the helmet, and felt the stomach pain and headache that should also not exist.

He really cared too much about that man, always felt that there were many secrets about him, and he was closely related to Nazarick.

Ainz was really not sure whether Nazarick would be threatened if these secrets were not solved.

"No, there is still too little information." Ainz thought about it, and said, "It seems that we have to find an opportunity to approach him proactively."

Hearing this, Narberal immediately suggested.

"Should the guardians be dispatched?"

This proposal was rejected by Ainz without even thinking about it.

"No, the guardian is the strongest defensive force in Nazarick. Before confirming that Li Ge Brihot will be detrimental to Nazarick, he should not be allowed to contact the guardian rashly to avoid any accidents." Ann Zi said in a deep voice: "For the time being, it is better not to conflict with him. It would be best if we can maintain a friendly relationship with him. It will not be too late to decide how to deal with him after collecting enough information and confirming his purpose."

"Yes." Narberal said very unwillingly: "What about the eight-limbed knife assassin who was killed?"

Hearing this, the non-existent eyes under Ainz's helmet also began to flicker.

As the headquarters of the game guild "Ainz Ooal Gown", in the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, except for the forty-one supreme beings, the rest of the members are all NPCs.

In Nazarick today, except for Ainz, the rest are not players, but servants who have gained life.

But servants are also differentiated.

As I said before, the game called "YGGDRASIL" has a very high degree of freedom. This degree of freedom is not only reflected in occupations, magic, races, and various armed props, but also in other places.

For example, when the player's guild has a higher-level base than the castle, the players of the guild can obtain several special rights and interests.

One of them is the NPC who can have a protection base.

There are two types of NPCs.

One is that even if it is eliminated, it will automatically resurrect after a period of time without paying any price, that is, an NPC that can automatically refresh.

One is a completely original NPC designed and built from scratch by the player himself.

Compared with the former, the latter can not only be designed to a higher level, but also can be allocated by the player with weapons and props. As long as there is intention, the NPC created by the player must be stronger than the automatically refreshed NPC, and it is stronger than the NPC. many.

This is how the NPCs of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick came to be, and gained life after coming to this world with Ainz.

As a matter of course, the NPCs designed and created by the forty-one supreme beings are far from being comparable to the automatic refresh NPCs in terms of status and preciousness.

Such NPCs as Albedo, Demiurge, and Narberal were all designed by members of "Ainz Ooal Gown". In Ainz's view, they were The painstaking efforts of the former companions are the crystallization of the companions, the children of the companions.

Compared to this, those NPCs that automatically refresh in the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick are just a group of insignificant servants, far inferior to the NPCs created by their companions.

The Octopus Assassin was a servant, not an NPC like a Guardian, so even if he died, Ainz would not be angry.

but……

"Even if it's just a servant, it's still a servant of Nazarick, and it's not something that can be eliminated casually."

The eye sockets under Ainz's helmet flickered with a red light of unknown emotion.

"If you have a chance, ask him to recover this debt."

Hearing this, Narberal had no further objection.

"Let's go, it's time to go back to everyone."

Ainz stood up.

"Don't forget, we are now the adventurer Feifei and his companion Nabe, we have to finish the work we have been given."

"Yes, great Ainz..."

"Um?"

"Ah, no, Mr. Feifei."

"very good."

After speaking, the two returned to the campfire together and joined the camp of those adventurers.

…………

At the same time, in a vast area of ​​the outer city wall of E-Rantel.

There is a very large cemetery here.

E-Rantel is a fortress city, the front line of the battlefield where the Kingdom, the Empire, and Theocracy confront each other, and the city closest to these two neighboring countries.

As a fortress so close to the battlefield, people died in battle all year round, so a large enough cemetery was needed to house the dead so that the dead would not become undead.

This cemetery is where Ye Lantel used to place a large number of dead, and there is a temple-like spiritual temple in the middle, which looks gloomy at night.

Not long after the fierce battle that shocked many people occurred in Ye Lantel, someone appeared here.

"Oh, it's terrible."

A female voice resembling a carnivorous beast rang out, revealing a bit of ferocity.