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"I really am not a qualified leader."

Ainz sighed inwardly as he looked at the respectful floor guardian below. The enemy had kidnapped Narberal in front of him, and undoubtedly slapped him severely.

Is he not cautious enough?

Or, is this world too dangerous?

Thinking of this, the red light in Ainz's eyes dimmed. If he hadn't believed too much in his own strength, Narberal would not have been taken away.

Sure enough, he was still not cautious enough. After Narberal was rescued, he had to be more cautious when going out.

"Ainz-sama!"

Suddenly, a sweet call came from Ainz's ear, pulling him back from his self-condemnation.

"What's the matter, Albedo?"

Ainz raised his head, and Albedo beside the throne could not let go of the previous ease at this moment, her beautiful face was full of solemnity.

"There's something wrong with Narberal."

"what!"

Hearing this, Ainz opened his mouth wide in astonishment, and streaks of green light lit up from his body.

He didn't doubt Albedo's words, because Albedo was the chief floor guardian of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, responsible for managing a total of seven floor guardian NPCs.

In other words, she is the character above all NPCs in the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick.

Because of this, she can also roughly feel the status of all NPCs.

Thinking of this, Ainz sat on the throne with a solemn expression, and chanted the prescribed code words.

"Turn on the main power."

In the blink of an eye, a semi-transparent window that looked a bit like a console but was completely different opened in front of Ainz's eyes.

The window is divided into several pages with labels, and the pages are filled with densely packed words. This is the management system in the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick.

It records the management fee required for one day, the current type and quantity of servants, and various magical traps that are being activated.

In the "YGGDRASIL" game, you can watch it anytime and anywhere, but Ainz knew through experiments that this system can only work in the Throne Hall in the heart of this world.

After opening the console, Ainz skillfully opened the NPC tab inside.

This page records the list of NPC names created jointly with guild members.

After changing the display method from the original katakana order to the order of rank, Ainz browsed the list from top to bottom until he saw Narberal's name.

"..."

After a few seconds of silence, Ainz silently shifted his gaze to Albedo's face.

Albedo's complexion wasn't very good either, because among a series of names displayed in white characters, only Narberal Gamma's name turned black.

After watching it three or four times, Ainz confirmed that he was not dazzled. He couldn't help saying in his heart that it was impossible. If he could still make an expression now, he must be showing a shocked expression.

"Is... dead?"

Ainz, who couldn't help feeling pain in his heart, asked Albedo a little bit unwillingly.

He expected in his heart that perhaps some unknown change in the system caused the color to be wrong due to traveling through another world.

However, the facts that Albedo said were extremely cruel: "If you die, the text will disappear and turn black... This probably means betrayal."

"That's... yes."

Ainz replied dully, recalling the text change he saw in "YGGDRASIL" again. Thinking about it carefully, this change is not so much a betrayal, but it actually has a slightly different meaning from the system.

In a broad sense, it may be similar to betrayal, but it is the result of being controlled by a third party. If the enemy forces a friendly NPC to take hostile actions temporarily, its name will have this color change.

So... Narberal was under mind control?
impossible!
Ainz couldn't help but deny it in his heart. He was obviously just taken away by the wise king of the forest, so how could he be subject to mind control!

Could it be that the wise king of the forest can also mind control?

No, that slime-like appearance, and the electromagnetic gun that looks more like technology than magic, seem to be telling the forest king that there is a problem!

Isn't that the wise king of the forest? !

It wasn't until this moment that Ainz suddenly realized that something was wrong. Following his guess, Ainz suddenly looked at the dark elf girl below.

It was one of the twin guardians of the sixth floor of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick, Aura Bella Fiora.

Before he went to E-Rantel, he gave different orders to various guardians.

Among them, he ordered Yaura to explore and control the interior of the great forest, to confirm whether there were creatures willing to surrender to Nazarick, and to set up a material warehouse by the way.

However, it is more correct to say that it is setting up a material warehouse, rather than setting up a shelter.

If there is an emergency and you cannot return to Nazarick, you can use the forest as a hiding place.

In addition, in order to avoid the exposure of Nazarick, it is safer to have an alternative stronghold. Of course, it can also be used as a warehouse for storing various resources.

As for asking her to find out if there are any creatures that are willing to submit to Nazarick, she wants to confirm whether accelerated upgrades can be performed, and to know how this world is upgraded, and so on.

It is impossible for Yaura, who is performing these tasks, to be unaware of the existence of this monster, the Wise King of the Forest.

Thinking of this, Ainz looked at Aura and asked, "Aura, do you know the Wise King of the Forest, a magical beast?"

"know."

Suddenly being called, Yaura quickly knelt down and responded with the courtesy of a courtier: "I went to the forest to meet the wise king of the forest, but I didn't communicate with him, I just confirmed his location."

"Then, Yaura, what do you think of the strength of the Wise King of the Forest?"

"Hmm..." Hearing this, Yaura thought for a while, and replied: "The Wise King of the Forest is weak compared to my monster and has no value, but because it is a monster that I don't know, I have some thoughts. subdue it."

Sure enough!

At this moment, Ainz's body lit up with green light one after another. Under the effect of compulsion to not panic, he confirmed again: "Aura, since you have met the wise king of the forest, does the other party have a body like a slime?"

Hearing this, Yaura shook her head: "No, I'm pretty sure it's just an ordinary four-legged beast, and it can't even defeat any of my monsters."

creak creak!

Hearing this, Ainz squeezed his joints and palms together.

The clues were already so clear, how could he still not be able to guess that the kidnapper of Narberal was not the wise king of the forest at all, but a creature he didn't know!

Do not!
That kind of thing can't be called a living thing at all. Without a heart, it is invalid to die. It is more like a dead thing to say it is a living thing.

But how can a dead thing move?
Ainz, who fell into a misunderstanding for a while, was a little at a loss. No matter how he guessed, he couldn't imagine that the so-called wise king of the forest was actually a liquid robot.

After all, the appearance of electromagnetic guns in the fantasy middle ages is already very unreasonable. If he didn't see it with his own eyes, he wouldn't even think of it on the robot.

But it doesn't matter what the Wise King of the Forest is, what is important is that Ainz knows that there is definitely a conspiracy in it!

The moment he saw that Narberal's name was black, he almost lost his composure. Fortunately, he is an undead, and no matter how big his mental activities are, he will not show it on his face.

Now that he knew that Narberal might be forcibly controlled, he had to find a way to deal with it. He had to solve the problem as the absolute ruler of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick.

A boss who can't help his subordinates when they encounter difficulties, and who puts on a great face, is not a qualified leader at all.

Thinking of this, Ainz looked at Albedo again: "I thought of a possibility. In order to find out about Narberal's whereabouts, I should go to your sister first."

"Yes, Ainz-sama."

……

At the same time, deep underground.

In the underground space dug out by the mercury hamster, Xia Yu looked at Narberal who was kneeling in front of him and made his allegiance to him, and nodded with satisfaction.

As expected, he could forcibly enslave and control these NPCs through mental power.

Today's Narberal has become his shape, and it is still the kind that even the cognition in the brain has been forcibly changed.

It's a pity that the friendly NPC is under mind control, and the system in the Nazarick Tomb will immediately update the name status. Maybe the Bone King already knows that Narberal has rebelled.

Otherwise, he could have arranged for Narberal to act as an undercover agent to nibble away at Nazarick little by little.

Thinking of this, Xia Yu shook his head regretfully, but he was not too depressed.

Now that the feasibility of enslavement has been confirmed, it seems that it is not impossible to snatch all the NPCs from Nazarick.

Now the bone king is really going to be a lonely old bone.

As for why he directly chose hostility when there was no conflict, because he knew that hostility was inevitable.

Since Nazarick set the goal of world domination, there has been an irreconcilable conflict between him and the Bone King.

Because he is human, and members of Nazarick are generally alien races, and most of them look down on humans.

As for releasing goodwill and becoming a companion with the Bone King...

Forget it, if it is Meng Wang, that is, the slime named Limulu, he can still get along well with each other.

Because even if Limuru became the Demon King, its confused and curious attitude and kind personality in daily life still haven't changed.

In other words, Limuru is still the former Sankami Satoru, even if he becomes a slime monster, he has not become evil.

But the Bone King was different. From the moment he crossed over, the human named Suzuki Satoru had been gradually killed by the undead named Momonga.

Not to mention that the world Suzuki Satoru lived in when he was a human is still a future dystopian world, where the relationship between people in that world has become very indifferent, and almost all of them have become selfish.

There are very few people with a righteous character like Taqimi. Taqimi is also one of the former "YGGDRASIL" players and a companion of the Bone King.

Although he is in Nazarick, Takimi has a strong sense of justice, and holds the view that "you should not claim to be strong unless you save the weak".

The old butler Sebastian Tian with a justice value of +500 is an NPC made by Taqimi. From here, we can also see the difference between Taqimi and the entire Nazarick.

If it was Taqimi instead of Bone King, Xia Yu would not think of making an enemy of Nazarick, but would choose to befriend Taqimi instead.

But it is not, and besides, he is not a fast traveler, he is a time traveler, that is to say, after traveling to this world, he is equivalent to settling in this world.

However, because of an unintentional remark, Demiurge decided that Nazarick wanted to conquer the world.

Xia Yu doesn't want to live in a world ruled by evil aliens, so hostility is inevitable.

With foresight, he would naturally not allow the world to be ruled by Nazarick, so he would deal with Nazarick and the Bone King.

Of course, he is not the kind of person who doesn't like being ruled, he just doesn't like being ruled by evil aliens, if he is asked to join Limulu's "Jura Tempest Federation", he is naturally omnipotent.

Although both Limuru and Ainz are alien monsters and both established nations, they are different after all. Ainz founded the nation for the purpose of aggression, while Limuru established the nation for the purpose of protection.

"Hey, I don't know if I have traveled to the world of Mengwang, I really want to go there and have a look."

Xia Yu sighed with some melancholy, but soon came to his senses, now that Narberal is enslaved, he happened to ask the question that the Bone King once asked.

"Naberal, what kind of existence do you think human beings are?"

"Human?"

Kneeling on one knee, Narberal looked up, thought for a moment and replied: "Although human beings have bad roots, they have also created many beautiful and unique things. I think human beings are creative beings."

Hearing this, Xia Yu raised his eyebrows slightly. Although it didn't meet the excellent answer in his mind, it was at least above the passing line, which was considered a good answer.

At least it is much better than her previous view that "human beings are worthless waste", and it really has to be mind control.

A mind control at least made Narberal's good and evil values ​​reach +150. If all the NPCs in the Nazarick Tomb had positive good and evil values ​​and had no strange hobbies, why would he worry about dealing with the Bone King and Nazarick.

"By the way, do you still remember Ainz Ooal Gong?"

"My subordinates remember." Narberal nodded and replied, "Master Ainz was my former master, but now I know that it is a better choice to be loyal to Master Xia Yu."

"If you meet Lord Ainz, your subordinates will persuade Lord Ainz to be loyal to Lord Xia Yu. Only Lord Xia Yu is the true supreme being."

Uh, if you really said that in front of Ainz, even if Ainz had the "forced calm" passive, he would probably be blown up.

It was so miserable, he wanted to laugh a little bit what to do.

Holding back his smile, Xia Yu suddenly pulled out a black robe from the chat group and put it on, then looked at Narberal.

"Nabelal."

"Subordinates are here."

"I remember that you are an eighth-rank magic caster, right? Teach me all the magic you know, and don't miss any of them."

Anyway, sooner or later, you will need degree-level magic, and it is just time to learn it now. It is more convenient to have someone teach you than to learn by yourself.

Besides, studying underground will not affect others. There is simply no better learning environment than this. (end of this chapter)