knights, knights and mages
Prepare for battle. And with a final battle cry, he charges forward right into his beheading.
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"Stop death knight, you have served me well." Momonga ordered while floating up in the air. Akabaru and Albedo standing on nothing by his side.
Momonga had changed his outfit to hide his undead self while Akabaru had changed his whole appearance to suit the need to hide his identity and race. As they landed Ainz began to speak.
"My name is Ainz Ooal Gown, it is a pleasure to meet all of you…. Don't worry about my death knight no harm will come to you now. Tell your sup. No I mean Owner of my kindness, however next time you commit such heinous acts in this area. I will bring death to your entire kingdom. Leave, make sure you speak my name to everyone." The knight ran away dropping their weapons while screaming at Momonga's proclamation.
Akabaru couldn't help but commending Ainz on his acting. Thinking that such an imposing mage would certainly be threatening.
"Are you sure that is wise Ainz?" Sadly letting everyone run would mean that no one was there to explain who and why they were there.
"It was, they will spread my name and bring fear to those who see us as hostile." His reasoning seemed to be somewhat flawed as being feared wasn't the best way to spread his name upon introduction.
"Pardon me, sir. Why did you come here?" a villager interrupted the conversation between Akabaru and Ainz.
"I could not stand by and watch innocent people be murdered, call it a moral obligation." The Villager seemed unconvinced at his reasoning likely expecting an ulterior motive.
"Be at ease this village is now under our watch, we will stop anyone that tries to kill you..." Akabaru tried to relieve some of their fears but failed as his words didn't change the despair on their faces.
Seeing the fear still lingering on their faces Ainz adds. "We don't do this kind of work for free do, I expect us to be compensated for our efforts."
The villagers looked a bit more relieved after Ainz said that, but Akabaru found it strange, not understanding who would be happy to have to pay for someone doing the right thing by saving them.
[Message] Akaabru received a spell accepted it and immediately received Ainz's thoughts "{Akabaru we need to erase the image of our race from those two girls?}"
"{I understand what you mean Ainz, it wouldn't be good if they would know we are non-human. It would draw unnecessary criticism.}" The immediate reaction upon the undead was fear, not to mention likely not even knowing that genies existed.
"{'ll contact Sebas and let him deal with the girls and bring them to the village.}" Momonga closed the spell after, leaving AKabaru alone to mull over the thoughts he had.
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Ainz requested money from the village, so as to not arouse any suspicions, but information was what he was truly after. So, while Ainz was digging everything out of the village chief and his wife Akabaru decided to split up and explore the surroundings. He got the help of some eight-edged assassins, while Ainz had Albedo to guard him in the village.
Ainz warned Akabaru to be careful. Because the eight-edged assassins are helpful, but can not stop a level 100 being, only slow them down.
Akabaru thought that that would be strange and while they were in an unfamiliar new world and needed to learn everything about the surrounding area, and not be scared to advance through diversity.
The normal population is around level 5, the knights were of a higher level but even then, they were weak by his standards. so there shouldn't be a problem. not in Akabaru's mind at least.
'If knights were that powerful how powerful do their enemies possibly get.' Akabaru thought as he walked around the village
His opinion was that there was no real difference between one shotting a level 5 and one shotting a level 10 and Akabaru further reinforced the idea that if there were powerful monsters in the area then there wouldn't be a village.
Strong monsters meant that there needed to be strong people to fight them, otherwise, they would just be overrun, if there weren't strong knights then it meant that protection only needed such a level of knights to be effective. the higher the requirement the higher the danger that they would face.
While wandering Akabaru spotted a group of knights on horseback approaching the village, he decided to [message] Ainz before he stopped them in their track... casting a single spell could likely wipe them all out. the only somewhat strong one he could sense was the leader of the soldiers and even he was not close to his strength.
"{Momonga there is a group of knights riding to the village, they are wearing different armor and look to be in a hurry.}" The armor they wore was lackluster, only amounting to basic standard equipment with rust all over the plates of steel.
"{understood, I will meet them at the entrance of the village.}" Akabaru doubted that that would be smart, if they were hostile then letting them spread would only cause an inconvenience.
"{you sure I could stop them in their tracks with one spell?}" Even if not outright killing, stopping them before they arrived would surely be better.
"{they are probably friendly, even if they are not we will eliminate them when they come to us.}" Akabaru cut the connection deciding that this was now Momonga's problem and to further explore because he liked the scenic forest, although he was already starting to get bored.
Getting bored of something like this seemed strange to Akabaru, but he attributed it to his increasing need for adventure that he had been craving.
As Akabaru was wandering around an eight-edged assassin came to him informing him that another group was approaching the village. This time not any form of knights but mages.
"Huh, interesting. Let's check them out." He patted the eight-edged assassin on the head letting it lead him to the mages
Following the eight-edged assassin that brought you the information. Akabaru found this new group of people. He had moved true some forestation spotting the mages wide in the open.
"Interesting strategy, quite bold if I say so myself. Not sure if it will work out for them." Akabaru mumbled as he observed them, not even feeling the slightest threat from them.
Akabaru had moved closer with an item that was in his inventory, now standing right beside them as he looked at the mages and how they didn't have any cover to hide behind.
'Do they not fear ranged attacks or are they that confident.' any good archer or mage would see a flaw in staying out in the open, only if you have an immense advantage could they use such a strategy.
With his item, no sound would escape the area of effect as it worked by, how the item described it as, cutting a hole in space for privacy.
The item was called Cupid's hole and was a Valentine's special gotcha item, the rarest to be precise, as the items described it was the hiding place of Cupid and only a strong detection spell could see it in the area of effect.
"[message]"
"{Ainz, I am currently looking at some mages that are approaching the village. Do you want me to take care of them?}" A small battle would do wonders to his boredom. maybe play with them a little for fun.
"{no, it is most likely an ambush for the knights that have just arrived, if you were to deal with them then the knights would get suspicious, and it would be a wasted effort.}" The knights turned out to be the good guys of some sort, meaning that they had to do some kind of favor.
"{I understand what you mean, I'll observe them but will not engage.}"
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A while before that with Ainz
The warriors that Akabaru had spotted turned out to be the royal knights of the Kingdom that they were currently in, as Ainz was discussing what had happened with the royal warrior Gazef he received a [message] from Akabaru.
"{I understand what you mean, I'll observe them but will not engage.}"
"Did you say something Ainz-san?" The royal warrior who had just heard the report from his subordinate had heard the mage mutter something but didn't quite hear what he said.
"It's nothing, what is something is how you will deal with these attackers of yours.." Momomga could pick out the words the subordinate had said confirming that the royal warrior had also been informed