The Dark Warrior

As Ainz distractedly thought about these matters, Ninya continued:

“Be as it may, my magic knowledge is quite limited. Magic Chanters sponsored

and educated by a country might be able to create such a spell. The priests in

the Silian Theocracy received a faith-based Magic Chanter education. The

Empire has mystics, warlocks and mages, Sorcery based Magic Chanter

schools. It wouldn’t be surprising if other states such as the Yagarande Republic

being able to use dragon magic.”

“I see. With the backing of an entire nation, it wouldn't be surprising for any sort

of magic to pop up.”

From the intelligence he garnered earlier, the Yagarande Republic was a state

formed by demi-humans, with council ors setting the policies. Most worthy of

note were the Five Dragon Council ors, said to be very powerful. The Republic

was a potential threat to the Silian Theocracy, which preached the principle of

human supremacy.

Ainz was interested in this country, but he was stil building his base and couldn’t

spare the effort to investigate. Just carrying out the current plans had already

depleted a lot of Nazarick’s resources.

“Can I ask about something else?”

Ainz asked Ninya other questions and felt satisfied.

Ainz asked Ninya and Peter many things, causing the Sword of Darkness

members to look at them with the kind of look that said “They are stil chatting”.

They talked about spells, martial arts, adventurers, news about the neighboring

nation, all in all a wide range of things.

Although these questions needed to be worded carefully, but the responses

were very helpful. Ainz was confident that he had learnt a lot more about this

world.

But it stil wasn’t enough. After learning one thing, more questions popped up,

especially when it came to magic. A world built with magic as a foundation was

really different, which really surprised Ainz.

The biggest difference was the level of civilization. It appeared to be at the

Middle Ages, but it was actually only a few generations behind Ainz’s world;

some things were already on the modern level. And all this development was

engendered by the existence of magic.

After knowing this, Ainz gave up researching the technology of this world. It was

impossible to compare a magically-developed world to a scientific one. There

was magic to produce salt, sugar and spices, and people also used agricultural

spells to restore nutrients to the farmlands instead of implementing crop rotation.

Believe it or not, the sea wasn't salty. This intel was completely different from

what Ainz took to be common knowledge.

Ainz carefully satisfied his curiosity. After some time:

“There’s movement.”

Lukeluther suddenly said tensely. His tone was completely different from the one

used when flirting with Narberal. Right now, he looked like a veteran

professional adventurer.

Everyone drew their weapons and looked in the direction Lukeluther was facing.

“Where?”

“There. Right there.”

Lukeluther pointed at a corner of the massive forest in response to Peter’s

question. The visibility was bad with the forest blocking the way, and there

wasn't any movement. Even so, no one doubted Lukeluther.

“What should we do?”

“Don’t force your way. If it stays inside the forest, then let’s ignore it!”

“It would be best to stick to the plan and let Enfrea fall back!”

As they were discussing loudly, there was movement in the forest. The monsters

showed themselves.

Fifteen creatures as tall as children were surrounding six giant beings.

The former were the demihuman Goblins.

Each twisted face had a flat nose, and two sharp fangs protruded from each

large mouth. Their skin was dark brown, and their messy black hair seemed to

be fixed by hair wax.

Their clothes were ragged and looked burnt brown due to either dirt or dye. They

wore tanned animal skin on the outside as armor. They had a club in one hand,

a small shield in the other.

A cross breed between apes and humans, a monster with a tinge of evil.

The giant beings were between 250-300 cm.

They looked a bit retarded with their jaws sharply protruding out.

The bulging muscles on their arms were as thick as trees, and the muscles

almost reached the ground since the giants’ backs were hunched. Each held a

tree trunk with the branches removed and they wore only an untanned animal

skin on the waist. They smelled even from this distance.

Their skin, full of warts, was burnt-brown in color. Their thick chests and

abdominal muscles seemed rather tough. They looked very strong, like shaved

twisted goril as——Demihuman monsters known as ogres.

Almost all the monsters had ragged bags, which appeared to be used for long

journeys.

The monsters looked at the group while walking onto the plains. Although there

was stil some distance, hostility emanated from their ugly faces.

“... Their numbers are a bit high. Looks like a battle is unavoidable.

“Yes, you are right. Goblins and ogres will attack when they see a smaller group.

Or rather, their intelligence tells them to gauge combat prowess by comparing

numbers, which can be a bit of a hassle.”