Overlord (book 1)

But this idea wasn’t the least bit strange to Ainz. Showing a friendly attitude before they started

the negotiations was definitely a good thing.

Of course, he could always deal with it as he did with those sisters, using 「Confuse Humanoid」

or some other magic to pry out information and later use high level magic to change their

memories. But that kind of thing should only be used as a last resort because the MP

consumption for doing that would be too high.

Ainz recalled the feeling of using up MP: His body would feel oddly tired, as if it had lost

something.

After he put on the mask and gloves, he had to use a gigantic amount of MP just to change ten

seconds’ worth of memories.

“... Then let us get to the point, the discussion about my reward.”

“Yes. However, before we start the negotiation… Thank you very much!”

The Village Chief bowed in thanks, his head almost hitting the table. His wife also followed suit

and bowed:

“If it wasn’t for you, all of the vil agers would be dead. We are real y grateful!”

Ainz was surprised to receive such heartfelt gratitude.

Recalling his previous life, he never received such thanks... No, the two girls from before also

thanked him like this. It was just that he never saved anyone before, and now he felt like he did

the right thing.

He didn’t dislike receiving this kind of sincere thanks even when he was stil human, although

he still felt embarrassed——perhaps this was a remnant of his humanity.

Note: We were confused by “鈐木悟 ” and after debating this was the best we could come up with.

“Please raise your heads. Like I said before, this is nothing you should be concerned about.

Because I wasn’t helping you for free.”

“We know that, but please allow us to thank you nonetheless. Because of your help many

vil agers were able to survive.”

“... As long as they pay more. First, let’s discuss the matter of the reward. As the Vil age Chief

you should be rather busy.”

“Nothing is more important than spending some time with our saviour, however following my

principles would be the sincerest form of respect.”

The Village Chief slowly raised his head and Ainz quickly started to use his non-existent brain.

To not rely on magic, but conversation to gain his information.

───How troublesome.

How much effect would his past experiences with sales have on the situation right now? Ainz

hoped he would be able to use at least half of his old skills. Having mentally prepared himself,

he spoke:

“... Then I’l get straight to the point, how much can you pay me?”

“We cannot afford to be stingy for our savior. Regarding copper and silver coins, if we do not

collect from everyone, we are unsure how much we have, but as for copper coins, we should

have about 3000 now.”

Ainz stil didn’t know how much that was worth, so he ridiculed himself in his heart.

Asking right now would be a fatal mistake, he should take a different approach and slowly guide

the subject.

Anyways, since I was a useless salesman originally, my business skills were also very poor.

Although the number felt like a lot, but he did not know the value of the money, and thus could

not determine whether this amount was appropriate. He absolutely has to avoid accepting too

low a number or raise the number too high, otherwise he will expose his own ignorance.

No, the fact that they didn’t say that they would give him four large cows was enough to make

him breathe a sigh of relief.

About to fall deep into depression, his mental state quickly settled down. Ainz reassured himself,

he was really thankful for his undead body, at the same time he learnt something.

And that was, copper coins and silver coins was this village’s main currency. At the same time

he also wanted to know where do these two currencies stand against each other, but he had no

confidence about this information.

First he had to learn more about the value of copper coins. Not knowing something basic could

become rather troublesome. But to know nothing about the value of currency would be

extremely suspicious.

Before he started wanting to learn more about this world, he wanted to keep a low profile.

So that was why he kept on thinking, trying to avoid an even greater failure.

“It would be hard to carry so many small coins, I hope can be exchanged with coins of a bigger

value.”

“Forgive us, it would be great if we could use gold coins to pay you. But… our vil age doesn’t

have any gold coins…”

Ainz suppressed the urge to heave a sigh of relief.

The vil age chief’s answer turned the conversation into the direction Ainz wanted. So Ainz

thought harder about his next question:

“So it’s like that. In that case, I simply wish to use the money I receive to buy goods from the

vil age, I just want you to give me enough for that purpose.”

Ainz secretly opened his Item Chest from within his robes and removed two YGGDRASIL gold