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Inside the ball quickly materialized strange gray objects that appeared to squirm about violently. The gray creatures were barely the size of beans and only had an oval body and a small tail, but at the same time kept violently trying to break out of the ball as if just waiting to unleash their evil upon the world. Seeing this, Demiurge smiled slightly as he took out one of the creatures with his fingers and promptly threw it at the wall. At the same time, he nonchalantly gestured to Lycan that he'd best get out of the way.

Miraculously, the tiny gray creature was capable of simply floating through air as if swimming through water. As it got close to the wall, it suddenly started twitching violently as it visibly began to swell up and drastically began to expand.

Finally, that little gray bean-sized creature had inflated all the way up to the point that it was now as big as a regular sized balloon and just as round. Seeing this, Demiurge smirked as he snapped his fingers as if pulling the trigger on a bomb.

This was not far from the truth as the creature as soon as Demiurge had snapped his fingers it burst open like a chewing gum bubble.

A heavy explosion rang through the halls of the sanctum once more. This time though, a lot less strongly as to Ainz and Sebas it only looked like a small burst compared to before. As the smoke cleared, a small hole in the wall appeared that revealed that there was in fact a space hidden behind it. Lycan's sense of smell was spot on as a werewolf after all.

Seeing the hole, Demiurge nodded as he analyzed how many more of the grayish creatures he would need to use to make a big enough hole for Ainz to casually walk through.

"Four more should do the trick."

Repeating the process, he threw four more of the small gray creatures towards the wall and they likewise swelled up until they finally burst open and caused another series of explosions that rang through the sanctum.

Seeing this, Ainz nodded his head approvingly. Demiurge had made the right choice by spawning a couple of Stix Tadpoles. With no idea when one might need to fight later on, it was reasonable to conserve mana and instead use spawns like these who consumed charges instead of mana.

As the dust from the rubble cleared, a decent sized hole in the wall became visible behind which was, as expected, more guards clad in shining armor that gave off a holy aura. Evidently frightened by the fact that their secret passage was discovered and broken through so easily, they still stood their ground as their armor audibly shook from their quivering.

"More pests. Sebas, you deal with these vermin, but do it quickly; we don't have much time."

Sebas promptly walked forward as he raised his fist whilst giving off a violent killing aura that made the paladins retreat several steps back.

"As you wish, Ainz-sama. Well then everyone, please excuse my haste."

Not even ten seconds later, the path was cleared as the bodies of the guards and paladins lay on the floor, each with their heads lopped off with a clean and lightning fast cut from Sebas. Having dealt with all the hindrances, Lycan continued his tracking as Ainz, Sebas, and Demiurge closely followed behind.

Breaking through several groups of guards and doors, the four finally made it to a large glowing metal door. Evidently, this one was different from the others as it seemed to be reinforced with anti-magic seals and spells.

Lycan restlessly smelled the ground around it before finally twitching his eyes as he looked up and stared towards the door. Anger boiled inside his heart, causing him to lightly growl like the ferocious beast he was deep inside as he bared his razor sharp canines towards the door.

"Ainz-sama, that bastard should be just on the other side of the door. I can smell her scent like she was standing right in front of me."

"I see, well done, Lycan, you've made our mission that much easier. Consider your blunder from before forgotten. If there's anything you want feel free to ask as well."

Hearing his master's compassionate words, Lycan quickly knelt as he pleaded.

"No Ainz-sama, already allowing me to serve someone as powerful as you once more is already a great privilege. If there's something I want, it would be to continue to serve you and to see that bastard that made me stain your reputation by losing to her in battle suffer a hundred times more than I did."

"Huhu, well said. Well, I certainly won't allow anyone who hurt one of my comrades' creations to go unpunished. If she turns out to be an uninteresting specimen, then I'll let you have her for lunch, but if she has some sort of special power, then I'm afraid you'll have to wait until I or Demiurge are done with her."

Understanding his lord's reasoning, Lycan bowed his head deeply as he thanked Ainz.

"Well then now that that's settled, let's crack open this gate and finish this matter for good. Sebas, if you would."

"No problem, Ainz-sama, it should not be too hard to open the door."

Sebas grinned ever so slightly as he approached the door and softly knocked on it using his fist to ascertain just how dense the gate was. After confirming the degree of sturdiness, he got into position as he prepared to strike.

Steadying his footing, he assumed a balanced stance with his left foot out and his right fist behind him. This was the same stance he had taken when he tested the young knight Climb in the capital not too long ago, only the difference between how much strength he used then and how much strength he would use now was akin to heaven and earth. As he readied his strike, a violent surge of energy started streaming from his body as this was obviously not going to be a mere punch. Even Sebas would be unable to break through a solid metal gate like this one with punch. This would require a Ki strike to penetrate in one move.

Like a cannon ready to fire, Sebas balled his fist and retracted it as his fist glowed with a powerful pure white light.

Having prepared his strike, Sebas steadied his footing as he finally launched a punch that contained a hint of his true strength.

"Skill activate [Tenryu first strike]!"

As the fist of light collided with the door, a deafening explosion combined with an intense creaking of metal resounded throughout the sanctum, as not just the gate, but even a large chunk of the wall that the gate was attached to was easily blown away by the strength of one of Sebas' serious punches.

The rubble from the wall that had been obliterated caused a little dust cloud that obscured vision of what was on the other side. Not wanting to risk his master walking into a trap, Sebas entered through the breach as he had to inspect that everything was safe.

Normal people would wait before going into a dust cloud as the polluted air would cause quite a bit of stress on the lungs, but for Sebas this was nothing as he could withstand even poisonous gas to a certain degree.

As he walked out from the dust cloud on the other side of where the door had been, his eyes fell upon a young lady that wore a large black robe that covered most of her body. In her tiny white hands, she held a ridiculously long war scythe that was clearly mismatched for her. Her face was equally peculiar, as her eyes displayed heterochromia with one iris and even her pupil being completely white and the other one pitch-black with black veins extending to it from her sclera. Her hair was apparently dyed to match this discrepancy as one side of it was likewise black and the other one was silvery white.

Exactly as Lycan described.

Looking at this girl that was from the look of her face was barely a teenager, Sebas could not help but slightly pity her. Even though he would not hesitate to crush any enemy of Nazarick even without his master's orders, something about seeing this young girl made his heart uneasy. Maybe it was due to him now being responsible not only for himself but also for the young girl Tsuare.