Overlord: Start from the Goblin Lair.

what is that?
Ron looked at the snake-like cylindrical object in shock. It seemed like a living thing, moving rapidly towards Ron and the Nighthounds at a speed that was difficult for ordinary people to understand. Everything along the way was being easily destroyed by the object, and next, it would be them!

What Ron noticed next was that underneath the invincible object, a blue humanoid creature was running fast and fleeing towards them.

“Damn it, why did we encounter an ether hurricane here?!”

A string of common language with a strong accent roared out from the creature's mouth or body. As it shouted, its speed seemed to increase a lot, but even so, in Ron's opinion, it still seemed unable to get rid of the influence behind it. Its speed was getting slower and slower. If it continued like this, it would most likely be sucked into the object behind it - what it called the "ether hurricane".

But...what does this have to do with Ron? He can't even protect himself now.

Ron vaguely remembered something about etheric hurricanes, serpentine columnar cyclones that would appear suddenly and destroy etheric forms along their path, while travelers who could not reach a veil or portal to travel elsewhere would be affected by the whirlwind.

Normally, this kind of natural disaster in the etheric plane is not fatal. It will only blow the traveler away from the original path, making his travel time in the etheric plane longer. In slightly worse cases, he will be blown to the etheric border of a random plane. In extremely rare cases, the traveler may be directly blown into the astral plane - this is a very dangerous thing for those who are not prepared for astral travel.

Ron was not going to the astral plane, and he had no reason to lend a helping hand to the unfortunate guy in this situation - he had no ability to deal with the ether hurricane. The Nighthound might be familiar with this situation and could take him out of danger in time, provided he did not meddle in other people's business.

Ron reached out and stroked the fur on the back of the hound he was riding. The hound immediately understood and increased its speed again with a series of nervous barks, rushing forward.

However, just as Ron was about to escape from the range of the dangerous hurricane, the common language with a strong accent sounded again behind him, as if following him.

"Hey! My friend, please wait for me! Can you give me a ride?"

No. Ron responded in his heart and urged the hounds to speed up. But just two or three minutes later, the voice sounded again behind him, even closer:
"Stranger friend, don't abandon me! Please wait a moment! Just a moment is enough!"

Ron still ignored the strange guy. On the contrary, he couldn't help but feel a little resentful in his heart. The other party was approaching them closely, and behind the creature, a strong whirlwind was chasing it closely. It looked like the other party had attracted the ether hurricane!
"Friend! Save me! As long as you can save me, I am willing to serve you! I can fulfill your three wishes!"

"Don't come near me! Are you a magic lamp?" Ron couldn't stand it any longer for the third time, and he shouted back. But when he turned around and saw the creature's appearance clearly, Ron found out that -

This is really a magic lamp!
To be precise, this is a genie of a magic lamp, or to be more professional: it seems to be an air djinn. It has a charming, tall and muscular humanoid body, black eyes and blue skin. It is not easy to tell its gender from its appearance. It is dressed in light and shiny silk, and the style of the silk looks like it is deliberately designed to be close-fitting to show off its muscle lines.

The clothes of this air giant were even more gorgeous, with two long swallowtails trailing behind its silk robe. It was this meaningless decoration that dragged it down, making it unable to get rid of the influence of the ether hurricane behind it despite its several sprints. On the contrary, as its physical strength gradually depleted, the hurricane behind it was only a swallowtail's length away from tearing it into pieces!
"My friend, you finally turned back!" When the djinn saw Ron turning around, his black eyes suddenly lit up. Even at this critical moment, he did not forget to open his arms and try to hug Ron. "Your animal companions can't get rid of the influence of this big guy! I can help you!"

"You'd better help yourself first! If you have the ability, then stop letting it chase me!"

"This is not something I can decide, my friend." Although the djinn kept calling him friend, Ron really didn't feel any more kindness from its words beyond the literal meaning. "The situation is urgent now, I can only place my hope on you."

"Help me, and help yourself!"

"What on earth are you going to do?"

"I'm so glad you asked!" A big smile appeared on the handsome face of the djinn. A whirlwind rose from under it, helping it to speed up again so that it could throw a brass ring to Ron. "Use this, it can transfer all the creatures around it out of the etheric plane together - don't forget to bring me along!"

"Why don't you use it yourself?"

"The ether hurricane will interfere with its target!" The whirlwind under the air djinn quickly disappeared, and it seemed to be closer to being swept away by the ether hurricane. "If you delay any longer, we don't know where we will be swept away!"

Ron carefully examined the brass ring in his hand, his fingertips stroking the strange patterns on it. He seemed to have seen similar patterns before. Based on the knowledge of enchantment he had learned, this should be related to space transfer or plane travel, and can cover multiple transfer objects.

However, the wear and tear on it is quite serious. According to Ron's judgment, this ring can only be used once at most before it will be completely written off.

The djinn probably didn't lie to him, Ron made a rough judgment, and when the hurricane got closer to swallowing the djinn, he decisively activated the ring. As the surrounding space shook violently, the ether hurricane behind him seemed to be enraged and burst out with even more powerful power, and its volume instantly increased to about twice its previous size!
Fortunately, the djinn did not deceive Ron. As a huge suction force came from a newly opened unstable portal, Ron, the entire group of Yethis hounds, and the strange djinn were immediately pulled out of the edge of the hurricane by the portal and landed steadily on the snow in the Delusion Land. (End of this chapter)