their geographical conditions.
Beginning with the closest ones, Re-Estize Kingdom and Baharuth Empire. These two countries
were separated by the Azellerisia mountains. To the south of the mountains was a large vast
forest which belonged to the Kingdom. This village and the nearby fortress city were both
located at the edge of the forest.
These two countries were constantly fighting against each other and there were skirmishes
almost every year in the wilderness near the fortress city.
As for the country in the south, that was the Silian Theocracy.
To explain the relationship between these three countries in simpler term, it was like drawing a
circle and putting a “T” in the center. This explanation might be a bit vague but it should be easy
to understand. The Kingdom of Re-Estize on the left, the Baharuth Empire on the right and the
Silian Theocracy to the south. There appeared to be other countries but the village chief only
knew only about those three.
As for political events, there was no way for the chief of a small village to know more.
Which means ───
"... just now I made a fool of myself."
Just because the armor of the knights bore the emblem of the Baharuth empire, the village chief
had assumed they were Baharuthian knights. But since this place was bordering the Silian
Theocracy, they might have just as well been Silian knights in disguise.
Releasing all the knights had been a mistake, he should’ve kept at least one person to ask
some questions. Now it was too late for that.
If this had really been the doing of the Silian Theocracy, then maybe he should warn the Empire.
As for the Kingdom, since the villagers had been saved everything should be alright.
Ainz was deep in thought.
Was he the only one who came to this world?
That was impossible, the chances for other players to be here as well should be high. Perhaps
Meromero also came here. The next step should be considering what to do in case he
encountered other players.
From a Japanese person’s point of view, if other players got transported here as well then they
should stick together. It would be best to cooperate as much as possible with each other when
that happened. As long it had nothing to do with Ainz Ooal Gown, it wouldn’t matter what of
concessions he would have to make.
The only problem would be if the other party considered him as an enemy. Although the
probability for that to happen was very small, it wasn’t completely impossible.
Ainz Ooal Gown had always played the role of the bad guys and had been PKing all the time.
As a result they were generally disliked. It wasn’t clear if that resentment has disappeared or not.
Maybe the other party would try to bring him to justice, driven by their anger and hate.
In order to prevent being hated, he first had to try to avoid hostile behaviors in the surrounding
area. Massacring the local residents, especially innocent people, would very likely enrage other
players who had yet to lose their humanity. Of course, if he could provide the other side with a
good reason for his acts, it might become a different matter. Saving attacked villagers from
being killed for example.
All his future actions had to be justified with commendable reasonings rather than convenience.
In other words, it was possible that next time he had to do things he didn’t want to do, but there
was no way around it.
Still, if the other party still felt lingering resentment towards Ainz Ooal Gown because of the past, then fighting would become unavoidable. So he must draft out a countermeasure for that
situation.
As for the fighting force of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, if the opponent had around thirty level
100 players, he should be able to easily destroy them. Since he was also to use the legendary
stored inside the Great Tomb of Nazarick, it could be compared to an impregnable fortress. If
the enemies were only just as strong as those knights, the it should be easy for Nazarick to
repel them.
But as one could imagine, fighting in a fortress without receiving reinforcements would be a very
disadvantageous situation. Using Ainz Ooal Gown’s legendary items would make it very easy to
kil them, but Ainz’ level would be reduced every time he released its maximum power. If he
used it to repel every attack, there would be a day when he became unable to use them.
Ainz understood how easy it was to make mistakes or to not notice certain things when he just
concentrated on fighting. But Ainz wasn’t a child, and so he would take the worse case
scenarios into account before he started to act. That way he could think of counter-measures
before the problem even occurred.
If he just wanted to live, then he wouldn’t need to think so much. He could just be like a beast
and live in the forest. But because of his strength and the proud name he was wearing right now
he couldn’t allow himself to do so.
If he wanted to live peacefully with others, he would just have to improvise.
Therefore it became an important as to how he would face combat in the future. He had to
properly expand his military strength. Next he had to gather information about this world,
including any news about other players.
“... This should be sufficient.”
“Is there anything wrong?”
“No, it’s nothing. It’s just that my predictions were different from reality, so I forgot myself. Right, are there any other matters you can tell me about?”
“Ah, yes I understand.”
The Vil age Chief’s talk changed to the subject of monsters.
This world was the same as in YGGDRASIL in the aspect that they both have monsters. Inside
forests, there were Magical Beasts as well, in particular in the area called “Forest of the Sage
Kings”. There were also Dwarves, Forest Sprites or Fairies, Goblins, Orcs, Ogres and other
demi-humans. There was even a demi-human country established somewhere.
TL/Editor Note:The RAW uses the words for “Asian”, but iheartz pointed out that in this context it could just as well mean “demi-human”. That makes more sense than our version, so we’ll go with that until it can be Proofed properly. Thanks iheartz!
There were those called ‘Adventurers’, who receive rewards for defeating these creatures.
Among them there were many Magic Chanters. They also established an Adventurers Guild
within the city.
In addition, there seems to be a way to gather the relevant information in the Fortress City of
Eae Rantel.
According to the Village Chief, Eae Rantel appeared to be the largest nearby city, even if it was
unclear exactly how many people lived there. If he wanted to gather information, that would be
the place.
Even though the information shared by the Village Chief were useful, there were still many
things he didn’t know about. In order to clarify this, it would be faster to just send someone there to check.
Finally about the language. Although this seemed to be another world, it was strange how they
could still understand japanese. So Ainz carefully looked at the Village Chief’s mouth and
realised they were not speaking Japanese at all.
The shape of the mouth and the resulting sounds, all of them didn’t seem to be Japanese.
He should experiment on this later.
In conclusion, it appeared the people of this world once ate some kind of food called
‘Translation Konjac’. It was just that there was no idea who fed it to them.
It seemed like the languages of this world would be translated automatically before it was