Clatter!
Viscous, pitch-black mud covered the ground. Ainz Ooal Gown, who was warily watching the many demons opposite him, lowered his head slightly to look at the black mud that had spread to his feet at some point. Strands of black aura filled the air.
The black mud at his feet was visibly wriggling and spreading towards his body. Substantial 'evil' continuously eroded Ainz Ooal Gown's skeletal body and soul. Even with the racial characteristics of a top-tier undead, Ainz Ooal Gown had not yet suffered any damage, but he began to feel a trace of unease in his heart.
Most importantly, when Ainz Ooal Gown raised his head, all that entered his eyes was darkness. Even the originally azure sky was gradually darkening, as if the sun's light was being continuously devoured by the endless abyss beneath his feet.
"Hmm?"
Just as Ainz Ooal Gown was observing everything around him, suddenly the guy who had raised his hand earlier, seemingly the demon leader, moved again. Instantly, Ainz Ooal Gown's heart was on high alert, as for attacking preemptively.
After Ainz Ooal Gown analyzed the current battle strength of both sides, the current situation was very unfavorable to him, but as time passed, this unfavorable situation would gradually change. Not to mention the various enhancement magic he had been secretly casting on himself during this period of vigilance.
As long as he could delay until Albedo received the message that Narberal had transmitted back, the Great Tomb of Nazarick's army would soon arrive with many World Items. At that time, the battle strength of both sides would even be in a position favorable to him.
Therefore, for the time being, Ainz Ooal Gown didn't mind delaying a little time. Of course, if the situation reached a point where he had to attack, he wouldn't hesitate in the slightest.
"Don't be nervous, Ainz Ooal Gown. Also, I must say that the teleportation method used by your subordinates is quite good. We couldn't interrupt it, at most we could only interfere a little."
Opposite him, the demon leader codenamed 'One' looked at the wary Ainz Ooal Gown and smiled lightly. Earlier, it had asked the demons with spatial abilities behind it to try to interrupt Narberal's teleportation, but it had unexpectedly failed. According to that demon, it could at most shift Narberal's teleportation location a little.
"Hmph, who exactly are you? Since you dare to provoke Ainz Ooal Gown, don't think you'll get away with it easily!"
Looking at the demon leader opposite him, who was so calm and composed, as if he had him all figured out, Ainz Ooal Gown's indifferent voice rang out. At the same time, a large amount of despair aura surged out of his body, even dispelling the substantial 'evil' surrounding him.
"Of course, we don't think it will be so easy to get away with it. Also, are you ready yet?"
"It seems you've already noticed."
The moment he heard the demon leader's words, the two scarlet lights in Ainz Ooal Gown's empty eye sockets flickered slightly. He understood that the other party had already noticed his purpose of delaying time, and even noticed that he was secretly casting enhancement magic on himself.
"After all, the aura on Your Excellency's body has been constantly increasing, how could we not have noticed!"
Suddenly, a cold, emotionless voice rang out in Ainz Ooal Gown's ear. Relying on his powerful dynamic vision, he barely managed to see a black shadow suddenly窜 out of the black mud beneath his feet. In its crimson vertical pupils, there was only pure killing intent as it looked at him.
The next second, two pitch-black blades flashed in front of Ainz Ooal Gown. In an instant, the defensive magic that Ainz Ooal Gown had cast on himself was easily shattered like an eggshell. At the same time, a figure appeared again behind Ainz Ooal Gown, and its long leg, already filled with power, kicked fiercely towards Ainz Ooal Gown's back.
Boom!
Instantly, a huge roar sounded, accompanied by a crisp sound of bones breaking. Ainz Ooal Gown's body flew into the sky like a cannonball. A visible shockwave enveloped Ainz Ooal Gown's body, until it finally became a black dot that was difficult to see with the naked eye.
"Hey, Three, if you do this, won't he take the opportunity to escape?"
The demon leader codenamed 'One' looked at Ainz Ooal Gown, who had turned into a black dot and flown into the sky. On its humanoid, eerie face, there was a trace of helplessness as it looked at the demon leader codenamed 'Three'. If Ainz Ooal Gown successfully escaped by relying on Three's power, then the master would definitely be disappointed in them.
This time was their first mission since their birth. Although it was just a mission born because the master wanted to have some fun, it couldn't end so hastily, could it?
"....."
Opposite him, the demon leader codenamed 'Three' glanced expressionlessly at 'One', who was complaining, and didn't choose to answer its question. It just squatted down slightly, and terrifying magic power turned into substance and surged out, continuously gathering towards the horn on its head. A black magic cannon with a diameter of nearly ten meters slowly floated up.
Moreover, as Three poured in more and more magic power, the huge black magic cannon began to compress little by little. Black lines scattered and filled the surface of the magic cannon, until finally the magic cannon, which was originally nearly ten meters in diameter, became the size of a grain of rice, but its power became incredibly terrifying. Just the aura it emitted caused the space around Three to continuously ripple.
At the same time, Ainz Ooal Gown, who had been successfully ambushed by Three and Two in mid-air, was still continuing to fly upwards. The bursts of stabbing pain coming from his back and chest made Ainz Ooal Gown's already terrifying skull face become even more terrifying.
"So strong, their strength is even stronger than I expected, coupled with that method of movement."
Muttering to himself, Ainz Ooal Gown lowered his head and looked at the wound on his chest that had been completely pierced. If it were an ordinary human, they would have died countless times under such an injury, but for him, as an undead, it was at most a minor injury.
"Magic Power Maximization · Gravity Vortex!"
Suddenly, Ainz Ooal Gown, who was still muttering to himself the previous second, suddenly raised his hand. A black vortex condensed in the center of his palm. Under the pull of the powerful gravity, even the clouds in the distance began to shatter. Ainz Ooal Gown didn't pay any attention to this, he just aimed the attack in his hand forward and swung it out.
"Was I discovered?"
The Gravity Vortex exploded the moment it flew out. The air in the center of the vortex, which was originally empty, began to twist, and a petite figure emerged from it, but that was all. The surrounding attacks didn't hurt it at all.
"Hmph! Don't think the same trick can work on Ainz Ooal Gown."
Looking at the demon leader codenamed 'Four' who had been exposed, Ainz Ooal Gown snorted coldly and said. Earlier, when he was knocked away by Three, he did consider taking advantage of this force to escape from here, but on second thought, how could the other party have such an obvious loophole? Therefore, he had already guessed that there were still ambushing enemies in the air.
For this reason, Ainz Ooal Gown maximized his perception, and finally sensed a trace of fluctuation just as Four was about to attack, and directly launched an attack.
"Is that so?"
Across from him, Four muttered to himself, using a voice only he could hear, as he looked at the indifferent Ainz Ooal Gown. At the same time, Three, who had been gathering power on the ground to its maximum, suddenly raised his head to look at the sky. His crimson vertical pupils seemed to see Ainz Ooal Gown confronting Four tens of thousands of meters in the sky. With a slight movement of Three's mind.
In the next second, a black beam of light flashed across the sky in an instant. The extreme speed even caused ripples in the space.
"Not good!"
Above, Ainz Ooal Gown noticed something was wrong immediately, but it was too late to defend at this point. He could only frantically cast various magical defenses on himself in the final moments.
"Bye-bye!"
Across from him, Four stared expressionlessly at Ainz Ooal Gown, who was struggling to defend himself. As the words fell, he disappeared into the air, leaving only Ainz Ooal Gown, whose body was flashing with magical light.
Boom!
In the instant that Four left, a dark beam of light easily pierced through all of Ainz Ooal Gown's defenses. If someone were to observe closely in slow motion at this moment, they would notice something: Ainz Ooal Gown's eyes, which were originally filled with anger and fear, had become incomparably indifferent.
He even completely ignored the impending attack. His scarlet eyes were only fixed on the demon army in the endless abyss below, and a chilling aura of despair surged around his body.
In the next instant, the black beam pierced through Ainz Ooal Gown's head. In an instant, the scarlet light in Ainz Ooal Gown's empty eye sockets dissipated. But that wasn't the end. After piercing through Ainz Ooal Gown's head, the black beam began to expand rapidly.
In less than a second, Ainz Ooal Gown's body was submerged. Immediately afterward, a black sun with a diameter of ten thousand meters appeared in the sky. Instantly, under the powerful magical fluctuations, the clouds within a hundred miles gathered towards this side, forming a huge black cloud vortex.
Boom!
And at the moment the cloud vortex formed, the entire sky fell into stillness. The rotating clouds stopped flowing, the air became deathly silent, and in the next second, a black light lit up, followed by an earth-shattering roar.
The huge shockwave destroyed everything. Visible layers of shockwaves spread towards the surrounding sky. At the same time, the ground below began to shake, and mountains collapsed into ruins, and countless trees were shattered and blown into the distance.
And in the nearby fortress city of E-Rantel, ninety-nine percent of the residents simultaneously raised their heads to look in this direction. The adventurers and residents who had recently arrived here wanted to flee in terror because they had personally witnessed the collapse of mountains and the cracking of the earth not far outside the city.
However, before these normal residents and adventurers could run a few steps, they suddenly discovered that the stone ground beneath their feet was constantly changing. The originally hard ground began to soften, and they could even clearly feel the ground wriggling beneath their feet.
Around them, a large number of flesh and blood growths appeared on the originally ordinary houses. Huge pupils or fanged maws emerged. Then, in the horrified gazes of these normal residents and adventurers, those houses actually stood up like living things.
"Hey, hey, hey! I'm dreaming, right? I must be dreaming!"
A blond middle-aged adventurer who looked to be in his thirties looked at everything in front of him. His footsteps, which had been running towards the city gate, stopped. A broken smile appeared on his face as he began to mutter to himself. At the same time, indescribable whispers began to emerge in his mind, and his skin began to squirm, with a large number of body tissues beginning to mutate.
And this was not happening to him alone. Throughout the fortress city of E-Rantel, many of the adventurers and residents who had recently arrived were undergoing different mutations. Many people had even walked into the fanged houses with gaping maws on their own.
Apart from those who had recently arrived in the fortress city of E-Rantel, the remaining ninety-nine percent of the already mutated residents were now revealing their original appearances, and their bodies were constantly and completely merging into the entire city.
Before the first wave of impact arrived, everyone and all life in the fortress city of E-Rantel disappeared, leaving only a city of animated flesh and blood.
Only after nearly ten minutes did the black sun in the sky slowly dissipate, and everything returned to calm again. And the animated flesh and blood city of E-Rantel, which was undamaged by the shockwave, once again separated the residents and adventurers who had merged inside, and the entire city returned to its previous bustling state.
If one didn't look at the collapsing mountains and the earth filled with canyon-like cracks outside, it would be as if everything before had never happened.
"Is he dead?"
On the other side, the demon leader codenamed One, from the center of the previous battle, raised his head and casually glanced at the empty sky above before turning to look at Three, who was expressionless, and asked.
"....."
Across from him, Three, who was being looked at by One, still had that indifferent, expressionless look, with no intention of paying attention to One's thoughts. At the same time, the black mud that had covered the entire plain began to surge and shrink continuously.
During this process, the demons also began to disappear one by one, leaving only 'One' standing in place, looking at the empty wilderness.
"Tch!"
Looking at the demon army that had abandoned him and left, a displeased look appeared on the sinister face of the demon One, then his body gradually merged into the black mud under his feet and disappeared.
At the same time, on the great plains on the border of the kingdom, Narberal Gamma had finally rushed back to the Great Tomb of Nazarick. Previously, due to interference during the teleportation, she, who should have been teleported directly back to the Great Tomb of Nazarick, was teleported to a forest a hundred miles away from the Great Tomb of Nazarick.
Only now had she returned to the Great Tomb of Nazarick at her fastest speed.
"Eh? Narberal, why are you back? Weren't you and Ainz-sama disguised as adventurers in the human world?"
At the entrance of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Beta, a member of the Pleiades Battle Maidens, looked curiously at Narberal and asked. Her energetic voice seemed to make the originally gloomy and terrifying environment less frightening.
"Beta... Beta... quickly inform Albedo-sama, Ainz... Ainz-sama was attacked by enemies, and the enemies are incredibly powerful!"
Looking at Beta in front of her, Narberal, who was already extremely anxious, rushed up and grabbed her, almost shouting at the top of her lungs about Ainz-sama being attacked.
"What! Ainz-sama was attacked!"
Across from her, Beta, who had a smiling face just a second ago, suddenly became incomparably indifferent and angry. A rampaging killing intent surged out of her body like a storm, then she directly pulled Narberal in front of her and rushed into the Great Tomb of Nazarick at the fastest speed.
