The Bloody Valkyrie

I don’t know how the situation turned out like this, but I should better alter the memories of those survivors. This isn’t good, I have to quickly find an opportunity.

As Ainz furrowed his illusionary eyebrows, the discussion continued.

“So that’s how it is. I’m not too clear on this incident either, but then explaining solely for my sake would be too much a waste of everyone’s time, therefore if there is another opportunity please allow me to listen, and I shall come ask you if I have any further questions.”

“Understood. Then everybody, are there any questions?”

“Where is the concerned area?”

“Beyond the city's northern gate, you can find a large forest after walking for three hours. It's just inside that forest.”

“What class were those adventurers?”

“Iron class.”

“... Please tell me, is it only because of a vampire that so many adventurers have been gathered? Are we intended to use a bidding approach for this?”

“That’s right, if it’s vampires, platinum class adventurers should be sufficient to handle it. right? I absolutely don’t understand why so many mithril class adventurers were called.”

“The reason is simple, that vampire is very powerful.”

Rakesheer interrupted with his answer, and everyone showed surprise as they looked at him.

“A very powerful vampire…?”

“Could you mean that the opponent is a higher class vampire… the one who appeared in the tale of the thirteen heroes, the vampire lord ‘Landfall’?”

“We don’t know whether or not the opponent is that vampire lord, but when the adventurers encountered the vampire, the opponent used the 3^rd tier spell 「Create Undead」. What this means, I shouldn’t have to explain to you adventurers right?”

There was nothing more to say. Not only that, their stiff expressions spoke volumes.

“Well—— I absolutely do not understand what it means. Can you explain it to me?”

“I am really sorry, Mayor.”

“Being able to use magic of that kind of realm, if we were to make a simple evaluation, we can treat the opponent as having platinum class capability.”

Panasolei who roughly understood this explanation frowned.

“That also goes to say… I will stop talking in such a way.”

The light in Panasolei’s eyes sharpened, this was one of the changes that the others felt. From the lazy, sloth-like expression just now, it became a savage wild boar expression. No, this was Panasolei’s true appearance.

“In other words, Magician Guild Leader, your meaning is as such: a monster with the strength rivaling a platinum team, has skills that match a platinum team as well.”

“What you say is correct.”

“So simply put, it just got stronger?”

“Thinking about it in this way isn’t wrong either.”

“If we consider in terms of military strength, what is the equivalent?”

“Military… this question is rather difficult.”

Rakesheer was vexed for a moment, then spoke.

“This is roughly my personal way of viewing this. I should say this first, this view is not absolute. If we take the opponent as an army for evaluation, undead do not tire or require food… grudgingly I’d say it should be equivalent to about an army size of ten thousand.”

“What did you say!”

Hearing this conclusion, Panasolei let out a shocked expression, as if seeking the opinions of the other adventurers. Apart from Ainz, the others nodded in agreement with the Magician Guild Leader’s statement.

Issac opened his mouth to indicate “I will continue from what Theo said——”, and as if receiving the baton from Rakesheer he proceeded to say:

“Generally speaking, approximately twenty percent of the country’s adventurers are above platinum ranking. Within the Kingdom there are about three thousand adventurers, therefore in all of the Kingdom’s lands which consists of more than eight million inhabitants, there are only around six hundred adventurers of platinum ranking or above. Do you understand this? Adventurers of platinum rank or higher are that rare.”

“If it’s like this, even if I do not wish to understand, I already have. Then to counter this situation, I would like to ask you adventurers. Do you have the confidence to go ahead with the subjugation? If there is no way… how about seeking the assistance of Warrior Captain Gazef-san?

Gazef Stronoff—— the Kingdom’s most powerful warrior, exceeding adamantium class adventurers. He could be considered the Kingdom’s final trump card.

However Issac immediately denied this.

“Indeed, perhaps no warrior is able to defeat Stronoff-san. However in a situation where Stronoff-san faced off against an adventurer team weaker than him, the victor would be the adventurer team. This is because the adventurer team would have different methods of attacking—— taking Stronoff-san for example, the amount of magic and martial skills used by the adventurer team would be four times that of Stronoff-san. Against a monster possessing special abilities, the truth is that this difference is enormous.”

“Well…”