Alchemic Sage(Overlord/WC)-2

"So, a copper coin for your thoughts?" Nfirea, the Sage, asked her as he walked up to her and Narberal; his hound and snake playing with Enri and Nemu down at the Carne village. The young farm girl and her sister had been rather overjoyed when Nfirea had appeared and had literally jumped into his arms. It was kind of cute.

"Merely appreciating the view." Ainz said, keeping her guise as Momon but also not lying. She was appreciating the view of the village, the village that she had saved from the Theocracy knights. She had done that with the intention of honoring her memories of Touch Me, the man that had saved her during her early days in YGGDRASIL. But it would be a lie if she said that there wasn't a certain sense of pride in herself for what she did. This village stood because of her, because of her decisions and actions. It was a feeling she never had while working as a salarywoman.

It did not merely stood, it was thriving. It was bigger than the village she had left behind, it had grown in size and the goblins summoned by the Horn of Goblin General were patrolling both inside and outside of the village. One day, it could even be of proper use to Nazarick.

"To be perfectly honest, it makes me feel ashamed of myself." Nfirea said with a laugh, surprising her. She could not think of any reason for him to feel that way.

"The village was attacked by soldiers while I was just staying in E-Rantel, resting on my ass while people I knew of were getting hurt. Getting killed." Ah, he was feeling guilty due to not being at the village during the attack.

"If it hadn't been for this lady Ainz that Enri told me about, then they would all be dead right now." He said with a smile and Ainz could feel Narberal emit an aura of smugness at his words. Likely thinking something along the lines of 'Nice to see this inferior creature know how greater lady Ainz is compared to him' or something similar. Honestly, the way NPCs held her on a pedestal was rather scary.

"So, I thank you; lady Ainz." ...what?

"I... am not sure what you're talking about." She said as she discreetly gestured to Narberal to get her hand away from her sword, this situation could still be salvaged. Probably.

"There is no need to pretend. Enri told me about everything about the attack on the village, including a lady Albedo who had been with lady Ainz." He said as he rotated his head until he was looking at Narberal, who looked like she was about to pass out from the shock since it was her who had talked about Albedo in front of others when Lukrut had jokingly tried to propose to Ainz.

She should have taken Solution instead.

"I... guess there is no need to hide the truth then." Ainz said while mentally trying to think of the likelihood of Nfirea having some sort of protection from mind based spells that could make trying to erase or change his memories a little bit awkward.

"Again, I thank you from the bottom of my heart." Nfirea said as he bowed to them, this was getting kind of weird. Not bad though.

"That's why, lady Ainz, if there is any possible way for me to help you in anything; please tell me." He continued and she had to admit that she was kinda liking the way this was going. Having a person widely respected and well known as the Sage could be beneficial for Nazarick after all.

"Then how about becoming a subordinate of mine?" She asked, her tone slightly teasing as she gazed at the young man who raised his head with a look of confusion that was almost instantly replaced by a smile.

"So that's how it is." What?

"It seems that I actually have underestimated you, lady Ainz." What?

"I had thought that you would be satisfied with your own power, but you truly think so far ahead." Seriously, what?

"You act like you have a rough idea of how powerful I am." Ainz said, her voice free of the panic she was feeling inside.

"I like to consider myself a learned person, all I did was connect some dots in our histories." He said with a shrug.

"It happens once in an every few hundred years. Just like with Six Great Gods of Theocracy and the Eight Greed Kings, beings of power beyond our imagination descend upon this world." He explained and Ainz had to hold herself back, with a lot of help from her emotional suppressor glow, from latching onto Nfirea and make him tell more cause if she had understood his words correctly; the young man was talking about YGGDRASIL players!

"You are very well informed." She said, now far more interested in this Sage before her.

"I do my best and, if the offer is still open, I would be honored to be a part of your ranks." He said with another small bow.

"Though I do wonder, what will you do about those who appeared in the Dragon Kingdom and Holy Roble Kingdom?" He asked and Ainz remembered that he had mentioned news about those places. Though… Holy Roble Kingdom, wasn't Demiurge doing something there?

"I have certain plans, but I will need more information until I can make the finishing touches." She bullshitted with experience she had gotten while dealing with NPCs and their ridiculous view of her. While also thinking about how she should get Demiurge the fuck out of the Holy Roble Kingdom.

"But there is something I want to know. People talk about how you can do master anything you do, do you have a Talent?" She asked, rather curious about it since the moment the Sword of Darkness had told her about him.

"It is… complicated." Nfirea said with a sigh before looking sideways, seemingly trying to see whether there were anyone near them.

"I… do have a Talent. I call it the Talent of Gifts." He said, looking weirdly nervous about it.

"As far as I have been able to understand, it is a Talent that creates more Talents for me." Oh… yeah that would explain the nervousness.

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