Chapter 30: Lizardman

After resolving the issue with the giant Basilisk, Peroroncino learned that Nazarick would soon launch an attack on a lizardman tribe, with Cocytus as the commander. He would lead a legion of low-level undead in the assault, though Peroroncino himself was not allowed to participate.

"Is it to train Cocytus's command abilities?"

"I'm already level 23; maybe I should go test the lizardmen's strength myself."

"Yulia, take Hamsuke and Nana to bring the giant Basilisk's corpse back. I'm heading back to Nazarick."

"Understood!"

"Chino-nii, don't you want Nana anymore?"

"Why would you say that?"

"Because when Mom said she was just going out, she never came back."

Peroroncino patted Nana's head and said, "Don't worry. Chino-nii will never break his word."

"Be sure to listen to Yulia, okay?"

"Mm-hmm! Nana will listen to Yulia-neesan!"

"You know, Supreme One, you really seem like a father," Hamsuke commented.

"Do I?" Peroroncino mused.

"Nana, say 'Papa.'"

"Papa~"

"Good girl, Nana" Peroroncino patted her head.

"Being a father feels pretty nice."

Peroroncino glanced at Yulia. She immediately caught on to his intention.

"Daddy"

"Not bad." Peroroncino symbolically patted—(cough, a tactical cough).

"Daddy Nooo!"

After Peroroncino withdrew his hand, Yulia's expression instantly reverted to normal, as though she were performing a face-changing act. This made him wonder if her earlier expressions were staged. After all, Yulia was quite emotionally intelligent.

Peroroncino's gaze instinctively shifted to Hamsuke.

"Pa—"

"No, you don't. I don't want to hear a hamster calling me dad." Peroroncino immediately cut Hamsuke off.

Then he teleported directly to the ninth floor.

By asking the maids one by one, he found Pestonya and inquired about Shalltear's situation.

"Peroroncino-sama, as per your orders, I have disguised Shalltear-sama as a newly recruited maid. She is now called 'Yati.'

"I have been closely monitoring Shalltear-sama these past few days."

"On the first day, Shalltear got into an argument with the maid assigned to train her due to differing opinions. But later, she seemed to think of something and stopped arguing with the other maids.

"However, I could clearly sense that Shalltear-sama was suppressing her anger. Woof!"

Because most maids were non-combat units and couldn't sense Shalltear's powerful killing intent, they didn't feel intimidated by her.

"Good. Inform Aura about Shalltear becoming a maid, and tell her I instructed you to do so. Ideally, get Aura to give Shalltear some trouble."

"May I ask why, Peroroncino-sama? Woof!"

"To train Shalltear's restraint over her blood frenzy."

"Thank you for clarifying my doubts. Do you have any other orders, Peroroncino-sama?"

"Not for now."

"I will immediately inform Aura-sama. Woof."

After Pestonya left, Peroroncino teleported to the door of Momonga's study. He knocked.

"Come in!"

Entering, he overheard Albedo reporting to Momonga about the pocket watch given to Aura.

"Momonga, aren't you planning to reward Albedo, who has also been working hard?" Peroroncino asked casually.

"Ah, you're right. Albedo has been so dedicated; I should reward her. How did I forget about this?"

Albedo gave Peroroncino a grateful look.

"Thank you, Peroroncino-sama!" she said, bowing to him.

"Albedo, please leave for now. Momonga and I have some things to discuss," Peroroncino said.

"Understood!"

"Albedo, during this time, think about what reward you'd like," Momonga added as she left.

"Understood. I will think carefully. Thank you, Ainz-sama."

"She'll probably want your underwear," Peroroncino joked after the door closed.

Unfortunately, Albedo overheard this from behind the door. Her expression turned ecstatic, and her face flushed red. It was clear she found Peroroncino's remark very appealing. However, Momonga likely didn't have such things, given he was a skeleton.

"Peroroncino, stop making such jokes. It's not funny."

"Just trying to lighten the mood. It's exhausting keeping up this Supreme Being image around these NPCs."

"True enough. So, what brings you here?"

"I heard you're planning to let Cocytus lead low-level undead to attack the lizardman tribe."

"You're trying to train Cocytus's command abilities, right?"

"That's right. I want to see if the Guardians can learn anything from this. Whatever they learn will be a gain."

"Then I'd like to head out with Cocytus and conduct a teaching demonstration after his defeat."

"That's an excellent idea. It will allow Cocytus to see where his issues lie. But won't it hurt his confidence?"

"You're such a worrywart, fretting over everything like a mother hen. You're overthinking this."

"Failure leads to growth. In many cases, the lessons learned from failure outweigh those gained from victory."

"Take Shalltear, for instance. As everyone knows, her blood frenzy makes her prone to anger. I've had her hide her identity and work as a maid on the ninth floor to train her self-control over this blood frenzy."

"Thanks to her previous rebellion, the training has been surprisingly effective."

"You're right—without experiencing failure, one cannot grow."

"By the way, where's Sebas? I feel like I haven't seen him in a while."

"I've assigned Sebas to gather intelligence in the royal capital. Considering the possibility of hidden enemies targeting him, I've stationed people to keep a close watch."

"You've thought it through, as always. What's your plan next?"

"I still have a few adventurer tasks to complete."

"Leave them to me. I've got a new member in my team—a little girl I picked up. She needs these tasks to rank up her adventurer's plate."

"Could she be a spy sent by the enemy?"

"You're too cautious. But you're not wrong. I'll have Shalltear use her control abilities to question her casually."

"No harm in keeping busy. Let's check out the strength of the lizardmen. I'm planning to fight using an humanoid; it would be too dull if I used my real body. Without a weapon, a single basic attack from me would kill a lizardman—it'd be boring."

Unlike Momonga, who was a magic caster, Peroroncino, as an archer, possessed strength more than ten times that of Momonga. Units below level 30 couldn't withstand even a single basic attack from him.

Through a remote-viewing mirror, Peroroncino observed a group of lizardmen surrounding two others. The surrounding lizardmen were cheering.

"They're probably having a duel."

"Judging by their skin colors, they don't seem to be from the same tribe."

"It looks like they're forming an alliance with other tribes."

"I didn't expect lizardmen to have intelligent individuals!"

"That weapon looks pretty unique—seems to be a magical weapon."

"Once we've wiped out the lizardmen, let's take it back for research!"

End of chapter

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