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It seemed that their adventure was coming to an end as they were already on the first floor.

He saw the light that came from the entrance and knew that this adventure was coming to an end for now. It seemed that they were about to finally reach the surface.

After they got out he felt a lot of powerful presence. 'Have they been found out, did the gods know that they were beings that did not belong here?

'Why else would they be surrounded like this? It seemed that the gods didn't do anything to those demiurge, albedo and pandora's actor as they knew that more beings were coming, So they waited for them so they could ambush them. Is that why they were surrounding them at this very moment when they were all gathered here?'

The last time he got in contact with demiurge was this morning. It seemed that he fell for the enemy trap. That was the only conclusion he got.

As he was ready to activate all his countermeasures and escape. He recognized three figures among the crowd of people.

After they came forward and explained what had happened he understood that he was just being overly paranoid.

"We came here to pick you up, my children. I'm happy that you returned safely from your mission." A robbed person came forward and gave them a warm welcome.

The subordinates of Ainz Ooal gown were not sure how to respond. As they knew that he was Pandora's actor, that had transformed as their master. If they respected him as if he was their real master it would be rude as Momon (Ainz) was the real master and was present at the moment. So they waited for Momon to respond. After that, they would see what response was appropriate.

"Ainz-Sama we are honored. For you to come personally and trouble yourself like that we are very grateful." After Momon said that the others seemed to get a grasp as to how to respond.

So they all responded as they saw fit.

"We will meet again, right" The Loki Familia began to say their goodbyes

"see ya then, Momon-san"

"Thanks for the help there, we will repay you when we can."

"Have a good day then."

"lad, In a few days we will have a party at the hostess of fertility be sure to come."

"tch, thanks for the help I guess.

The Loki Familia began to leave as they had a lively atmosphere that they had finally returned to the surface.

"Ahh, I want a good rest" " Me too" " I just want to eat as all that crappy food made me sick"

They all left in a good mood while Ainz and co were left behind to figure out what they would do next.

They heard the surrounding people murmur.

"Whoa, those were from the Loki Familia right?"

"Yeah, I could swear that they were from the Loki Familia."

"Who are those people?"

"didn't you hear about the commotion caused yesterday?"

"They were the people that caused it. It seems that they just arrived yesterday. They say that the woman with black wings is as beautiful as Freya-sama"

"Really!? I can't see her right now as she is facing the adventurers that came with the Loki Familia."

"Why do you think a lot of people are gathered here. It's because they want to see who she is. It seems that the ones that came from the dungeon are her companions and they are all beauties too."

"But... didn't they arrive yesterday? How were they in the dungeon, they even looked to be on friendly terms with the Loki Familia. How is that possible?"

"Idiot, how am I supposed to know."

"Hey look at that red-head girl, she looks beautiful." "Naw man, I prefer that ice queen with black hair." " what race is that winged woman?"

That type of voice came out of the crowd. Ainz then understood why there were a lot of people gathered here. It seemed as if they were exotic animals here.

He looked around and saw that behind him was an extremely large tower that pierced the skies. People were entering and emerging from it.

'Ah, Is this supposed to be a cheap copy from the tower in Yggdrasil that was located in Asgard? How was It called again? Tower of mongrel?...babel, Ah right The tower of babel! that's what the players called it.'

It was then that Ainz remembered that they had to register or else they would have to pay a very big fee according to the Loki Familia

"Ainz-sama can you lead us to the guild so that we can register."

Pandora's actor began to guide them to the guild so that they could register.

He and pandora's actor switched roles along the way as he transformed in his usual form while pandora's actor took momon's form.

"Ainz-sama, it seems that you will need to remove the ring that suppresses your aura, or people will not trust you."

"Remove my ring?" "mhm"

'It seems that gods here didn't hide their aura, Was it some sort of symbol to show that there were gods and not normal beings?'

He began to inspect the streets and houses on the way. He saw that the economy of this city was well-developed as the roads were well made, there were street lamps, and the houses didn't look all that shabby.

On the way to the guild, he saw various shops with weapons displayed. He also saw a lot of street stalls selling food and beverages.

What surprised him, was that even gods sold in food stalls, as he had already seen a small goddess selling some sort of food.

It seemed that the people here were more or less good in an economic situation. And it seemed that the technology was roughly well developed as the street lamps looked modern, the street stalls he saw had something resembling small stoves.

The way the gods lived here made them look like they were living a humble life, and they didn't seem ambitious as the gods in Yggdrasil.

'hmm, I'm liking this city already. now we just need to register the guardians, after that we will go see where our base will be built. Oh, and we also need to find an inn for our cover.'

"Ainz-sama we are almost there, It's just ahead of that building," Albedo said as she was looked at her surroundings and pointed to a specific place.

As they came closer to the building they saw that there were a lot of armed people in a line inside it.

"it seems like the adventurers are back and it seems that they are exchanging the goods they gathered in the dungeon," Demiurge concluded as he had some information about what time they came back from the dungeon, at what time they entered, and some other information.

"It can't be helped then, we will have to wait in line," Ainz stated as they entered the building. As soon as they entered they caused a commotion.

some Adventurers that were lined up quickly moved to a side as they saw who entered.

'Oh, so this is the privilege of a god. people even move aside so that a god doesn't have to wait.' Ainz didn't know that some of the adventurers were here yesterday and they remembered what happened when his group entered last time so they moved as they didn't want the same thing happening today.

Although some of them did it out of respect as they looked at them with grateful eyes. Ainz was just creeped out as he did nothing for them to be grateful, alas, it was all a misunderstanding as they were grateful for the potions (failed experiment) Albedo gave out.

Ainz went to the line that was now empty, when he got near the counter he saw a half-elf. Although she was good-looking she didn't have the perfect beauty from the elves he had seen from this world.

"Ah, Ainz Ooal Gown-sama you're here again. It looks like you came to register your familia, you left yesterday without registering the two that accompanied you."

"Ah, aha...mhm, yeah I left as we had something important to do, also I thought it would be better for all of them to be registered in one can call me Ainz"

"that's fine I guess, and I'm Eina Tulle you can call me Eina. Although-" some adventurers entered the guild and caused another commotion yet.

"eh, aren't those the guys that came from the dungeon!?" The newcomers pointed at Ainz and his familia.

'eh, why did those newcomers have to tell that, I wanted to come out of here without paying any fee. Ha, it looks like it will be impossible now." Ainz thought as he saw that Eina's face distorted. 'Ah, I'm going to be scolded because I tried to hide that'

"Eeehh, are you stupid!? why did you send them there!? do they even have any information about the dungeon? I know that the two that stayed are strong but are the others strong like them? Even if they are strong it doesn't matter, as even strong people succumb in the dungeon. Now you send your children without them knowing any information. that's stupid of you to do you know. Yesterday it was more dangerous than other days you know. Please don't do such reckless things without my consent, because from now on I will be their adviser, and I will give them information about the floors and monsters." Eina began scolding Ainz at first then some tears came out of her eyes as she thought how some of them could die at the dungeon. She strengthened her resolve and said "she would teach them so that none of them died.

"ehh,?" Ainz just let out a stupefied voice as he didn't think that he would be scolded... well he thought he would be scolded but for another thing, not for sending his children to the dungeon. she didn't even know them and she was already scolding him for making something reckless. still, it wasn't that bad as it felt that she was a good person, And it looked like they would gain information about the dungeon more easily than he thought.

The guardians and the others wanted to attack her but Ainz swiftly calmed them down.

After Eina came to reason she understood that she disrespected a god. so she swiftly bowed down and apologized profoundly.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to disrespect you like that Ainz-sama"

"eh, Don't mind it as it was because of my foolishness that my children could get killed."

He didn't mind as he never thought that someone would be worried about the NPCs. He thought that if given the opportunity they could be friends.

After all the awkwardness passed, they began to register themselves and it took a lot of time

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The Afternoon was coming to an end as the sun was coming down from its wake and the cloudless sky was a blood orange and black showing that the sun was already going in its slumber, While the moon was about to rise.

In front of Him was a landscape that laid in ruins, the houses were in ruins, everything here was devastated. They began walking in the path that was in midst of the devastation, a church, and more rundown buildings came into sight. They were the only buildings in these devasted lands that stood out from the rest of the rubble.

The people that were surveying the place at the moment were beings from Nazarick.

Ainz checked the landscape, the place he was seeing would be where their base would be placed in the future.

"Ok, Mare us [earthquake] and bury all this rubble, tonight we will begin to move all the materials we need from nazarick. We will begin construction at the dead of the night, we have sufficient mercenary Npc that we summoned during our time when we were buildings the sorcerer kingdom. The Mercenary NPCs are all level 60-80, they specialize in building. I think we could do with them, bring them at that time so they can begin."

While Ainz was giving his speech, Mare used the spell and made all the buildings disappear except for the rundown church and other rundown buildings, as they weren't in the property they bought.

The landscape became devoid of buildings, all that was left was the ground without any trace that it contained buildings.

"Albedo communicate with Aureole Omega and tell her to open gates here so that you can transport the materials. Pandora's actor you will be the one that will pick out the best materials for the base. Demiurge you will be commanding the builders, after Albedo and Pandora's actor finish their work they will help you. Make it big enough so that even big monsters can enter or at least stay in the rooms.

"I will be gathering more information, I trust you all, that's why I'll leave you in charge of the construction while I'm gone."

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'ha, It's been an exhausting day, to say the least. They should make a good base given that they oversaw all the important buildings that were created in the sorcerer kingdom. '

Ainz kept walking without knowing where he was going as he just picked random directions.

'I shouldn't worry too much about the base as the NPC's building the base have special classes for it. They are blacksmiths that took a different class so that they can enhance buildings. Even he cannot damage the walls if he doesn't use special skills for breaking them. They are so durable that if a group of hundred-level players fights, the walls would be unscathed if they didn't use special skills specifically for breaking the surroundings. That's why the guilds that were city-based guilds or any open field guild-base always tried to get the highest blacksmiths that were specialized in construction. Gargantua was a siege golem, he was one of the strongest floor guardians. His skills were specifically to counter those types of bases as it destroyed everything built.'

When he came out of his thoughts Ainz saw that it was already night as the stars shined brightly, Illuminating everything. While the streets were dyed in a golden color reflecting the light coming from the street post.

"eh, eto, How can I help you costumer-san.

He heard someone called him out so it's then that he saw where he was. It seemed that his curiosity brought him to the stall that intrigued him. In front of him was a small goddess she was selling some sort of food.

He thought that the food she sold had some sort of buff as she was a goddess selling food. He didn't think that gods would be selling any sort of thing as the gods were very prideful to the point when they sold things it was done by one of their followers. So he thought that it had to be something very valuable that this god she didn't trust her follower to sell, and she came to sell it.

"How much does that... potatoes? Cost." Ainz said confused as he didn't think that it was potatoes that she was selling.

"it's twenty valis for a bag."

'It doesn't sound that expensive. should I buy it? does it even have a buff? or... Nah, I should buy it. It's something made by a god so it should be special.'

"give me everything you have." 'just in case it has a superpowerful buff granted by this small goddess. Now the problem lies to whom should I give it for me to see if it contains a buff.'

"R-really... you want it all!?" she sounded excited for some reason. she began to hum a tune as she packed the potatoes for him.

After packing the potatoes in a flash, she swiftly gave them to Ainz.

" Then, I'm done here so I'm going first." She immediately left, pushing her stall along the way.

"well then, it seems that I'm done here for the moment let's see what else we could buy," Ainz said as he remembered what other places he wanted to visit.

'Oh yeah, I wanted to go and check the tower, I heard that it was a market of the sort. let's go see what we could get from there.' Ainz began walking to the tower.

Along the way, he met a lot of gods and bought some items they were selling. As he was some sort of collector he bought everything that caught his interest.

It also intrigued him that the gods here were so humble that they sold on the streets. what he didn't know was that they didn't do it because they wanted to, they were poor so they were kinda forced to sell on the streets.

After walking for a while he was in front of the majestic building that pierced the night sky.

After he entered he was paralyzed.

'What is an elevator doing here, have players been transported here? or is it a god that came up with that idea, it looks like they are close to modern society in terms of technology.'

'let's go to the elevator and see where it goes.' after entering an empty elevator he just selected a random number. ' I forgot that I had this item. They were created in the new world by Fluder, it was specifically made to translate unknown texts. It seems that it could also translate the language spoken.

Beep, the elevator made a noise as it stopped on an unknown floor. The door opened and Ainz saw a group of people coming in the passage. He got off the elevator and began to walk, just to hear the group talking about something that caught his interest.

"We already have the magic potions ready for tomorrow, now all we need are the potions"

"Yeah, but we could get the potions with Miach-sama. He sells them cheaper and it is the same quality."

what caught Ainz's attention was the mention of a magic potion, the same thing that the magic stone said it could be used for. It seems that the gods already knew about it, but Ainz was thinking if they were really stupid.

'why do they sell potions that could be dangerous if used by the wrong hands. or is it that the gods have something more powerful than magic potions that they considered mana potions as trash? If they have something like an upgraded magic potion specifically used by them, I should be very careful as gods were very powerful in Yggdrasil.' He didn't know what level they were in this world but they ought to be very powerful if they sell something like magic potions without care.' who knows maybe I could get some to experiment.'

"Hey, can you tell me where you bought those potions?" Ainz went and asked the people who were adventurers ( well by their form of clothing he deduced).

"We bought it from the fifth shop from here Kami-sama!" The adventurers' voice was a bit high-pitched. 'He was probably surprised that I abruptly spoke to him.'

"oh... ok, thanks for the information." Ainz gave his thanks and was about to leave when a voice made him halt his steps.

"If... if you'd like us to..." "we could accompany you." The adventurers gave him a suspicious deal. 'Why would they want to accompany me, did they want to get information from. Did a god send them as spies? He shouldn't have talked to them.' Ainz regretted initiating the conversation. He began adding buffs and protection magic to himself while deciding to mentally prepare himself to ask them a question. If he found their answers a bit suspicious and deceitful he would activate all the spells he already had in place and escape.

"Why do you want to accompany me? you don't even know me, and this is our first meeting, so why do you see the need to accompany me? Do you want something from me?" His questions kept coming out like bullets coming out from a machine gun.

"We're sorry kami-sama. We wanted to get close to you so that you could maybe introduce us to some of your members." They said their true thoughts as they knew that gods could detect lies and they didn't want to come off as liars to a god who had a lot of beautiful members in his familia."This afternoon we heard some rumors about the beauty of your members so we went to confirm it and we were smitten by their beauty."

"Ah, eh... hmm" Ainz seemed to be dumbfounded by their answer. 'eh, they seem to be saying the truth. so they are just perverts, that want to do me a favor so that I owe them a favor and introduce some of my members to them as payment. It seems that I have been overly paranoid since coming to this world, even though I am powerful enough to be considered a powerful raid boss.' When Ainz used the caloric stone to remove the restriction placed for his level limit he became a sort of raid boss. He even got a world-class job named [World Conqueror]. The skills and magic he gained while getting this class were very powerful that it even surprised him. He was something like a super-powerful boss as even all the guardians (except for gargantuan and victim of course) combined couldn't defeat him. To take him down it would need in between 8-10 100lv players.

He wondered that if he had a more powerful wish-granting world-class item he could turn into a world boss like some player did back in Yggdrasil. If he did that it would need 30 or more players to defeat him.

'Ah, it seems that I was immersed in thought. Still, I don't want them to accompany me as I want to go around without anyone following me.'

"Oh, it seems that it would be difficult to introduce you to some of my members as they don't want anything to do with romance right now, and there is no need to trouble yourself to accompany me." He turned them down in a kind manner as he didn't want any problem with adventurers if there wasn't any immediate danger. Also, it seems that a lot of gods were on this building as he felt their presence.

After he turned them down they took their leave.

'It seems that acting kind is a path for us to blend in, as we would be recognized for our benevolence.' Ainz didn't know that pandora's actor had already begun this plan.

The reason pandora's actor told albedo to give the potions to the injured adventurers was that he already understood a little how Ainz liked to do things. Even albedo knew that's why she gave potions without a problem even if said potions were failed experiments.

"well let's see what is in store for me." Ainz began walking through the corridors made out of white marbles. The walls had many small lights illuminating through the corridors, they were even glass panels showing the Items the store had. said items ranged from fancy swords to cool-looking armors.

'The more I look like it, the more it appears I'm in a modern world. I would like to buy some armor, but... I'm on my way to buy some magic potions and I don't want to make an unnecessary purchase.'

After walking a while, Ainz finally reached the store where they sold the potions.

Ding, the door made a noise after Ainz pushed it to enter.

He saw all the fancy shelves packed with different kinds of exotic colored potions, colors such as highlight purple, dark green, sky blue, citrus orange, and highlighted green.

'It seems that they sell all kinds of potions. Oh! there is the potion I want.' Ainz went to the shelves that contained the citrus orange potion, right in the middle of the shelves it wrote:

Magic potions

9,000 V

As Ainz was about to go and grab the potion a voice behind him stopped him in his track.

"Sorry for not attending to you immediately, Dear customer, I was at the back a bit busy sorting the new stack of dual potions that came today." The one who called him was a young girl that looked like in her 16s. she was wearing a red and white apron-like costume. It seemed that she was the store clerk.

'Daul potion? Another term that was in the description of the magic stone. So they already knew how to make the things listed on the description.'

"I would like to buy all the magic potions you have available, and if possible I would want the dual potions too." Ainz declared as he wanted to experiment with the magic also wanted to know if the dual potion damaged him as it was a healing and magic restoring item.

"eh!? can you repeat that sir? "

"I would like to buy all the magic potions you have available and if possible a would like to buy some dual potions too."

"mm, mhm" She nodded but she looked confused as if she didn't understand what was said to her. She was dumbfounded at first she didn't want to believe it but the customer was a god so she didn't want to sound rude either. " can you wait a minute please." She went to the back of the store where a door was located and she entered it.

After waiting a while, Ainz saw that another person was coming out with her. 'It seems that she had to discuss it with her superior first. Maybe they can only sell a limited number of potions per person, that's why the need to discuss it with her superior?'

"kami-sama you said that you want to buy all the potions we currently have right? I wouldn't believe what you said if you weren't a god as most of the customers who buy a lot mostly are bigger familia's that are going on an expedition. It seems that you are the god that just came the other day right."

"We currently have hundred magic potions, fifty high magic potions, and seventy-five dual potions. The magic potions sell for 9,000 valis each so that would be 900,000 valis. While the high magic potion is 45,000 valis each so that would be a cost of 2,250,000 valis. And the dual potions' value is 30,000 each which will be the equivalent value of 2,250,00 valis. If we sum it all, the value for the things you want will be an eye-popping amount of 5,400,000 valis. Just because you are a new customer and to commemorate your arrival at Orario I will give you a discount of 50,000 valis. So after my benevolent discount, I will leave it at an astonishingly low price of 5,350,000 valis."

'what a greedy businesswoman, although the discount isn't much it doesn't matter. I don't want to risk haggling and lose the chance to buy all the magic potions, so let's leave it like that."

"Alright, I will buy it." After Ainz confirmed his purchase the clerks' superior pumped her fist and made a victory cry "yeah!" it seemed she was gleeful that she sold a good amount of potions in one transaction.

"Oh, but dear customer-"

"No need to call me that my name is Ainz Ooal Gown. you can call me Ainz." Ainz gave his name as he realized that during their transaction they didn't even learn each others' names.

"I'm sorry, I hadn't realized we didn't introduce ourselves. I'm Dahlia and she is Fleur." The boss/superior introduced herself and her worker.

"Ainz-sama let's begin the transaction over there. Also, will you need help with the items? If you need any we will call our supporters to help you and take it to the location you want. Oh, and the help will be free of charge so don't worry,tehee." Dahlia said with a mischievous face.

"There will be no need," Ainz said but the girls were confused as they didn't see if he was accompanied by someone who will help him.

"Okay, here is the amount you asked for." Ainz reached inside his robe and took out a small pouch. The girls thought he was going to pay with the card that the guild gives after a certain amount so that one wouldn't carry a large number of valis. But what Ainz did shock them to the core.

After taking the pouch of his inventory he made it look like it was in his robes. He opened the pouch and magically the number of valis appeared on the desked well packed. The girls finally understood as to why he said no, to the help they were giving.

Dahlia brought her head down in a thoughtful manner as she thought about the rumors she had heard but not believed. It was said that the two other members that Ainz first was seen could magically make things appear out of nowhere. It seemed that the rumors were true. When came out of thought and lifted her head she saw the shelves that were previously brimming with potions were now empty.

"Ok then, I'm done here. I will be on my way as my children will scold me for coming late home, Hahaha." Ainz said in a joking tone but it had a warm and happy feeling to his words. They thought he was happy that he was going back home.

While Ainz was happy for another reason, not the one they thought. 'I finally got it, The magic potions, Ainz was very joyful about the fact he got some magic potions.

"Bye Ainz-sama, do come again" After they gave their farewell Ainz left.

When he was outside by the door he heard a pair of joyful shouts." Yay! With this maybe we will get promoted!" " let's go drinking after we finish here." "Yeah, good idea"

Ainz went on his way to the elevator, walking by he had the desire to buy more things but he controlled his desires as he already spent a large amount of money.

He entered the elevator and pushed a number and waited for a while. He finally reached the first floor and continued his way to find another small adventure in this unknown city.

while coming out of the building he saw dwarves, elves, humans, and some animal people on the streets. The streets were illuminated by the lamp post, clearly showing that this city was in a good economic situation as all the floor was well made with cobblestone paving.

After walking a while, While taking a random direction he came on a path that was not well illuminated. Passing by a shabby house or store he heard something very, but very intriguing.

"Miach-sama, Please do not give free potions like that again. please! we will go bankrupt at this rate and we still have a debt to pay."

"Don't worry Naaza although we gods have our power restricted since we descended from heaven, we still have some of our abilities to at least make simple things from our ruling divinity. Since I am a god of healing I can make potions of the best quality. It's the same as Hephaestus, while I can make high-quality potions, she can make the high-quality weapons here in Gekai. After some time a assure you we will be able to pay our debt and not live the way we are living. Right now I'm just giving free potions to adventurers that are honest and kind when they become renowned adventurers they would know our potion quality and buy here." It seemed that the god was trying to justify his giving of free potions to a girl.

'hmm, Gods have their power restricted? To what extent do they have their powers restricted, Although I gained information I will need more information so that my movements are not restricted as I would know to what extent they can harm us.'

Ainz silently walked in front of the door and opened it.

"Welcome dear customer, can we help you with something" both of them gave their welcome in a synchronized manner.

'It seems that they are in a financial problem, I should try to convince them to work for me. Although I don't know if a god would want to work under another supposed god (me), I should give it a try like that I will kill two birds with a stone. I will get a potion maker of unknown quality and I will get information from this world. Then let's Begin the conquest of convincing them."

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Orario, somewhere on a rundown church

"Ah! What happened here!?" A small goddess yelled as she saw her neighborhood was no more. In front of her broken-down home, there were supposed to be more rundown buildings but they were no more. All that was in front of her rundown building where the other buildings were supposed to be, were construction materials.

'it seems that we will have new neighbors, I hadn't heard that they were going to reconstruct this area. How did they remove all the rubble?' Still, she was happy that they didn't destroy her house.

She entered her house (church) that didn't even have doors at the entrance. After entering she went directly to the sofa as she had a tough day today, it was only because of that good samaritan that bought all her potato croquette that she could finish her job early. As she was exhausted she went into a deep sleep immediately, that she didn't even feel when she was carried to the bed by her sole familia member.

"Sleep well kami-sama" A voice that belonged to a young boy was heard in the quiet church.