CH. 169: Blunder

Ainz gets up, leaving his office. "My Lord, do you want me to take initiative?" The maid at the corner of the room said. Ainz slightly turned his skeletal head and looked at her with his intimidating red dots serving as eyes, "Umu. Go ahead, Cixous. I give your permission to start." He says.

Then, using his ring of Ainz Ooal Gown, Momonga leaves the office and onto his throne room, where most of his loyal servants where kneeling, listening and smiling in respect.

"I have assembled all floor guardians for your emergency meeting, Lord Ainz. We're all here, ready to listen to your wisdom and to exauce all your wishes and orders." Albedo said, kneeling before Ainz with all floor guardians, even the ones on mission had to return to Nazzarick for this formal audience.

"Fantastic. I see everyone's here." Ainz says. Then, he lifts his hands and shouts happily, "My dear floor guardians! I am happy to see you all united once again here before me!" This sentence made his loyal servants smile in all honesty and joy.

"Thanks to your hard work, we were able to identify the culprits who were behind the recent events in the forest. For those who just returned from their mission and didn't have enough time to read Albedo's report, I'll make a quick summary." Ainz says. Now, with everyone's attention targeted towards him, he takes a sigh as he starts the explanation.

"The suspected culprits are a group of adventur–... I mean, workers named Foresight. There just humans with weak strength, so we doubt they were responsible for the massive explosion. It was confirmed by our sources that no artifact was used, or is in their possession. The chances of it being a World-Class Item is also significantly reduced, which only leaves one possible option..." Ainz explains, his tone getting more solemn and serious.

"It was provoked by an entity. In other words, it was a show of power." He concluded.

Everyone gasped at the conclusion, "Huh? Someone so powerful really exists?" Aura Bella Fiora –the child dark elf– asked in surprise.

"Haha~ Not something our Lord can't handle. He has already proved to us many times that HE was the most powerful being in this world." Shalltear Bloodfallen, the vampire, replied.

"In. Any. Case... This. Person. Is. A. Force. To. Reckon. With..." Cocytus –the frost warrior– added.

"Ahem." Ainz wasn't done speaking, everyone's gaze falling towards him simultaneously again.

"As I said, this person surely wasn't a member of Foresight, rather a temporary alliance. Under attack, the group of workers weren't powerful enough to repell the invaders, so the entity created an explosion powerful enough, to obliterate all hostilities without question, or remorse... A single spell, supposed to be a Super-Tier, was enough to wipe out everything. The entity, with the guidance of Foresight's members, traveled to Baharuth."

"Ha!!" Demiurge –the wise archdemon– finally made the connections and understood what was going on.

"That's the same day as the emergence of the gold-ranked adventurer in Baharuth!" Demiruge said, shocked.

Ainz nods. "Indeed. And it's also hours away from the death of the Death Knight. After being recognized as a phenomenonal being, the adventurer was probably ordered to experiment with the Death Knight; a fatal experiment that killed my summon." Ainz explains.

Then, he gets up from his throne and reveals the final conclusion. "We are facing an outsider. Someone who's not originating from this world, but was rather transported here, abruptly." Ainz ends.

'We're finally facing another Yggdrasil player. And a high-leveled one at that... It could be something else, another game or something completely different. But we lack information, and all what I said was completely theoretical... So for the tike being, it's an Yggdrasil player, until confirmation.' Ainz thinks in his mind.

"Lastly, we've captured a member of Foresight. A girl. She's in the torture chamber as we speak, I'll leave the extraction of information to you, Mare. Kyouhukou." Ainz says.

Mare Bello Fiore, the innocent brother of Mare, agrees without question, "I–I'll try my best, Lord Ainz...! I–I may not be very experimented but I won't disappoint!" He shouts, holding his wand, and determined.

"Umu. Inform me about anything you get. In the meantime..." Ainz's majestic robe, transforms into an epic, full armor of adamantite, the extremely durable and luxurious metal.

"I'll be taking a closer look, as Momon, the legendary adventurer of E-Rantel." Ainz announces.

"But. Wouldn't. An. Adventurer. Of. E-Rantel. In. Baharuth. Be. Considered. As. Treason." Cocytus asks.

"Don't be ridiculous, Cocytus. Momon is an adventurer known for his justice and righteousness. Therefore, I am—... I mean, Momon isn't affiliated to any particular Empire or Kingdom. Wherever there's danger, Momon shall prevail!" Ainz says, bravely. His courage was impressive to everyone.

'Touch-Me would be proud...' He thinks.

Then, the first move started. The initiative was taken. And Hiro was in danger of checkmate, something Akira surely isn't gonna love.

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"With that, I conclude the audience. Everyone's dismissed." Jircniv announces. His audience with Hiro was finished. Having congratulated him for his ascendance as a gold-ranked on his first day, he was promised the title of noble if his work was as impressive as his talents. Everyone started leaving, but then, Hiro was told to go to the behind the scenes for a more casual, and confidential talk.

Faced with Jircniv, Hiro didn't flinch. "First of all, I'd like you to forget everything you've heard during the audience. It was nothing more than an act to get those nobles off my back concerning your matter." He says.

"..." Jircniv stays quiet for a moment. Getting his composure straight before revealing an important matter, a source of torment that's been hunting him for quite some time now.

Suddenly his serious expression shifts into one filled with anxiety and stress. Fear overtook Jircniv as he reached his breaking point, quickly shouting, "Sir Hiro please help me! The master of that Death Knigjt is going to destroy my Baharuth!!" He shouted, dread covering his entire being.

The imperial knights were as shocked as Hiro. It's not the first time they see their Lord in such a pitiful state, but it's undoubtedly the first time he's ever let go of what's been taunting him all this time.

It seems like Baharuth was target of a war that no one knew how to stop or even fight it.

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