The Dark Warrior

“He was born with an innate talent, the famous ‘genius magic chanter’.”

“Oh——”

Ainz was impressed and sighed; ‘Innate Talent’ was an information he got after

torturing 3 members of the Sunlight Scripture to death, and he was excited to

have a real life example in front of him.

Narberal only made a ‘Hmmp’ noise in contempt, but luckily the other party

didn’t hear that and Ainz relaxed. During a negotiation, an inept subordinate’s

weird actions would affect the boss’ mood, and Ainz was a bit angered by it. But

it would be bad to start a fight right now, so Ainz kept his composure.

“Nothing impressive. It’s just a coincidence that my innate talent belonged to that

system.”

“Ohh.”

Now Ainz was even more interested. He leaned forward and listened carefully.

‘Innate talents’ were similar to martial arts, they were special skil s unique to this world and didn’t exist in YGGDRASIL. About 1 in 200 possessed this special

ability. An innate talent wasn’t rare, but the special skil s differs widely. There

were strong and weak types, with plenty of variations.

Like predicting tomorrow’s weather with 70% accuracy, strengthening

summoned creatures, the ability to harvest plants a few days earlier, using the

magic of dragons which existed in the past and so on.

Since this power was determined from birth, there was no way to choose or

change it. There were many cases of people unable to harness its full power.

For example, the innate talent to increase the destructive power of magic, if the

person was unable to use magic, then the innate talent would be wasted.

Only the lucky few are able to use their innate talent to its full extent. Aside from

people with powerful innate talent, innate talents that could decide the entire life

of a person were rare.

A warrior like Gazef Strolonoff didn’t have innate talent, proving this point.

Those with a combat oriented innate talent tended to choose adventuring as a

career. That’s why you could find many people with innate talents among them.

The innate talent possessor before him just happened to be one of the lucky

ones who could make full use of his.

“I think your innate talent ‘Magic Talent' allows you to learn a spell that would

normally take eight years in just four years? I’m not a magic chanter, so I’m not

sure how great that is.”

Since Ainz had a magic related class, he was curious and desired to collect this

information. Getting abilities not available to the Great Tomb of Nazarick would

be useful for his guild. If there was a way to steal this ability, it would be worth

the risk even if he had to make enemies.

The ability to shorten learning time should be a type of level surpassing magic,

.

The two of them continue to converse, unaware of Ainz’s menacing look under

his helmet:

“... I am lucky to possess this ability from birth, it allows me to take the first step for my dream. If it wasn’t for this ability, I would be just a commoner spending his

whole life busily.”

The low voice contained gloom and heaviness. Peter tried to change the mood

and spoke in a different tone:

“No matter what, you are a famous innate talent possessor in this city.”

“But there is someone more famous than me.”

“The leader of 'Blue Rose’?”

“That person is famous too, but I am talking about this city.”

“You mean Bareal!”

This name was loudly exclaimed by the last man who hadn’t been introduced

yet. Ainz was interested about this name and asked:

“... What innate talent does this person have?”

The four of them looked surprised, it appeared that this was an obvious matter.

Ainz slipped up because of his curiosity and his desire to obtain this ability and

strengthen Nazarick. He regretted his mistake, telling himself he can recover

from a mistake of this level.

But before Ainz could explain, the other party came to their own conclusion:

“I see, wearing such flashy armor and bringing such a beauty with you. No

wonder we know nothing about you, it’s because you’re not from here, right?”

This helpful response caused Ainz to nod:

“That’s it, you are right. We just arrived here yesterday.”

“Oh, so you don’t know? He’s a famous person in this city, but it looks like his

name didn’t spread to the other cities yet, right?”

“Yes, I’ve never heard of him. Would you mind telling me?”

“His name is Enfrea Bareal, he’s the grandson of a famous pharmacist. His

innate talent is the ability to use any magic item. Not just scrolls from a different

magical system, but also items restricted to races other than humans. Items that

are restricted to royalty should be fine as well.”

“... Oh.”

Ainz tries to suppress the alarm in his voice and sigh.

He could use his innate talent to that extent? The [Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown]——

barring rare conditions, it was an item only the guildmaster could use, and a

legendary item as well. Could this person use all of them? Or was there a limit?

This was a person he should be wary of, but his value as a pawn was also high.

Narberal felt the same. She moved her mouth close to where his ear would be

under the helmet, and said in a wary tone: