Overlord (book 1)

But why did such a thing happen? Even though he was pierced with swords, he didn’t even look

bothered by them.

“...There must be some kind of il usion here.”

“Yeah, it must be like that! How could anyone be fine after being stabbed by swords!?”

shouted the Theocracy’s special forces embarrassingly loud. Although they were all used to

danger and survived countless battles, they had never seen something like this before. Even

Nigan and the summoned Angels couldn’t believe it.

A dull sound without a hint of pain, entered the ears of the doubtful Nigan and the other men.

“This is a high level physical negation special passive skill, this would render the damage of low

level weapons and some low level spells completely ineffective. At most it would let attacks

below level 60 ineffective, in other words, any attack about level 60 would still hurt me. It is an 0

or 1 ability… I didn’t expect that this would be useful this time. So… these Angels real y do just

get in the way.”

Suddenly, Ainz slammed the Angels he was still clutching in his hands into the ground. The

ground shook with a loud noise ─── the power behind that blow seemed to be beyond common

sense.

The Angels died, turning into countless balls of light. Of course, so did the swords pierced into

Ainz’s body.

“If I learn the names for these angels, then maybe I can understand why you know how to use

YGGDRASIL’s magic… but this is a matter for another time.”

Slowly getting up, Ainz still spoke about incomprehensible things.

But it made people even more afraid of his mysterious strength.

Nigan swallowed heavily.

“Alright, this game is getting boring. Did you already have enough? Since it appears that you are

unwil ing to accept my deal, it looks like it’s my turn now.”

Finishing off the Angels, Ainz once again slowly opened his arms. Seemingly to prove that he

held nothing in his hands.

An eerie quiet passed and Ainz’s voice was heard clearly by everyone.

“Now it’s my turn to ─── kil everyone.”

It was like icicles stabbing into their backs, a feeling that made people nauseous. The seasoned

killer Nigan, had never experienced anything like that before.

Must retreat. With the absence of any way to win this battle, any fights against Ainz would be extremely dangerous.

But Nigan tried to ignore his intuition. Since they finally managed to corner their prey Gazef with

their trap, how could they just let him escape?

Ignoring the instinctive warnings from his gut, Nigan loudly ordered:

“Al the Angels attack! Quickly!”

Like bullets, all the Archangels of Fire flew towards Ainz.

“Real y what a frisky group of people… Albedo, stand down.”

His voice was calm and collected despite the Angel's impending attacks. Ainz was completely

surrounded by angels, but he didn't act worried despite having no gaps to escape through.

When it looked like he was about to be pierced by their swords ── Ainz had already finished

casted his spell.

“「Negative Burst」”

The air shook violently.

Black light came from every direction and gathered around Ainz. It was only for a moment, but

the results became immediately obvious.

“Im-impossible…”

A voice came, carried by the wind. The scene in front of their eyes was just that unbelievable.

Almost forty Angels were destroyed after getting engulfed by the wave of darkness.

His opponent didn’t use some kind of spel that banished summons. After getting hit by the black

wave, the Angels looked hurt. To put it simply, Ainz had casted some powerful magic and swept

away all the Angels.

Nigan couldn’t help but shiver in terror. In his mind he remembered the words the Kingdom’s

strongest warrior, Gazef Strolonoff, had said.

“...Heh, you're the foolish one. In that vil age… there’s stil someone stronger than me. That manis unfathomable, he’l be able to defeat all of you by himself... thinking about kil ing… the

vil agers he’s protecting, is an impossible task….”

The scene in front of him confirmed those words.

Nigan tried to get rid of the words in his mind, desperately trying to convince himself.

As far as he knew, the members of the strongest branch, the Black Scripture, could also deal

with this many Angels. It will be fine if you just think of Ainz as an opponent of that level. Even if his strength equaled the Black Scripture, there was still a chance of victory using their superior

numbers.

But even among the members of the Black Scripture, would any single one of them be able to

defeat all those Angels using just a single spell?

Nigan shook his head to get rid of his doubts. He must not think about this question. If he gets

an answer, he would really be helpless. That's why Nigan reached inside his pocket, gaining

courage from the magic item kept there.

He was convinced that as long as he had item, everything would be fine.