Overlord (book 1)

After Momonga had finished talking to his friend who was not here, he enlarged the view of the

village until it was fully visible. His purpose was to find any surviving villagers.

“Sebastian, raise Nazarick’s alert level to the highest. I wil go ahead first, notify Albedo that she should follow me fully armed. However, there is no need to bring Hell’s Abyss. Then go and

prepare some backup troops. We have to prepare for any unforeseen events that might render

me to be unable to escape,

so prepare some people with stealth abilities in case we need to deal with the enemies in this

vil age.”

“Yes mylord, but protecting Momonga-sama is the duty that was passed to me.”

“Who gave you that kind of order... Those knights are razing that vil age, which means that there

may be knights capable of invading Nazarick nearby. So you must stay behind.”

The scene changed, the image of a young girl punching a knight entered into his eyes. The girl

held another younger girl, who must have been her sister, and they attempted to run. Momonga

quickly opened his Item chest, and took out the staff of Ainz Ooal Gown.

The moment the girl tried to run, her back was slashed. Since time was of the essence,

Momonga invoked the word of power:

“「Portal」.”

No distance limitations, transfer failure rate 0%.

During the time that Momonga played YGGDRASIL, this was the most accurate teleportation

magic.

The scene in front of his eyes changed.

Seeing the teleportation magic hindered by nothing, Momonga breathed a sigh of relief. To be

captured instead of saving someone would be the worse outcome.

The scene in front of his eyes was exactly the same as before.

In front of his eyes were two girls cowering in fear.

Looking at the younger sister, he saw a head full of chestnut colored hair, braided into pigtails.

Her healthy skin that were constantly exposed to the sun, now lost all color due to fear, her dark

eyes overflowing with tears.

The younger sister was burying her face in the waist of her sister and shivered with fear. With

cold eyes, Momonga stared at the knight in front of the two girls.

It was unclear whether it was because of Momonga’s sudden appearance, but the knight turned

towards Momonga, forgetting about the sword that he was brandishing.

From young, Momonga had led a life bereft of violence. Regarding the current world that he was

in, he was sure that it was not the virtual world, but instead the real world. Even so, looking into the eyes of the sword wielding knight in front of him, he was not in the least bit scared.

With that, he made a calm judgement.

Momonga stretched out his hands and activated his magic:

“「Grasp Heart」.”

CoCayn: Why didn’t Darth Vader thought of it…

Namorax: After Vaders “divorce”, he just wasn’t comfortable dealing with the hearts of other people.

This magic wil crush the enemy’s heart, out of the ten levels of magic, this magic was ranked at

level nine of Necromancy magic. Of the Necromancy spells that Momonga had, many of them

contained the property of death, this magic was one such spell.

The reason why he chose this spell was because even if the enemy managed to resist the spell,

it will still cause him to become hazy as a negative side effect.

If it was resisted, he intended to take the two girls and jump into the open 『Portal』. During a

situation where he has yet to find out the details of his opponent, it would be better to have a

plan where he could easily advance and retreat.

Just that he was completely unable to execute that plan.

With the feeling of crushing something soft, the knight went limp and fell silent.

Momonga coldly looked at the fallen knight.

His heart knew that his prediction came true... even after killing a person he felt nothing.

His heart felt no guilt, fear or confusion, it was as tranquil as the undisturbed surface of a lake.

Why was that?

“So it seems… Its not just the body, but also my heart has stopped being human…”

Momonga walked forward.

While walking pass the two girls, it could be fear due to the way that the knight died, but the

younger sister, suspicious of Momonga, let out a sound.

Momonga obviously came to save her. Even so, the way that the girl reacted to him was strange,

exactly what was she thinking?

Although he was skeptical, right now Momonga did not have much time. Confirming that the girl

still had a bloody wound on her back, Momonga stood in front of the two girls and sharply

watched the other knight exiting from the nearby house.

The knight, seeing Momonga, fearfully took a step back.

“... You dare to chase little girls, but don’t have the courage to stand against enemies?”

Momonga faced the knight who was filled with fear, and started to choose what magic he

wanted to use.

Previously, Momonga had used a spell, the high level 「Heart Grasp」. This was in a field of

magic that he was well versed in. Because Momonga was an expert specialised in death spells,

and because of his Undead Overlord class, the effect of 「Grasp Heart」 was greatly improved.

However, with that he was unable to measure the real strength of the knights.