They had a dragon’s face, a tail thick like a tree and no wings. They looked like a dragon on two feet. Their upper arms were thicker than any man's and about as half as long as their body — holding a thick sword that resembles a shield.
These two Monsters were from the Dragon lineage and were summoned by Aura. As a beast tamer, she had the ability to control them and she used them to organize the Arena games.
Although their level were only fifty five with almost no special abilities, they attacked with endless stamina while using these robust arms. It was enough to rival against a high-tier Monster.
Momonga sighed and moved his sight back to the scarecrow again.
His eyes were looking towards the scarecrow and if you look closely, you could see that he was quite nervous. His aim was to confirm that he was still able to use magic.
By allowing Aura and Mare to see this “magical experiment”, his main purpose is to demonstrate his power and let them know that making an enemies out of him is a stupid thing to do. He had to do this before the other guardian arrive.
These two kids do not seem to have slightest sign of betrayal and he does not think they would betray him. However, if he loses the ability to use magic, Momonga is not confidant that they will keep their allegiance.
Aura’s attitude towards Momonga feels like as if she knew him for a long time. For him however, it feels like their first meeting. It can be seen that the role setting of these two children are all carefully crafted out. They were the brainchildren of the guild.
However, emotional reaction and behaviour pattern to various conditions were not perfect and had some flaws. But now, them becoming intelligent beings with their own thinking, these flaws will probably affect their behaviour somehow.
If it did not make the loyalty condition weak, then what could have changed? On another note, the amount of their loyalty were never clearly documented in their program. Thus whether or not they obey orders, can also vary. If it were simply not obeying orders, it can still handled. However what to do if they betray him immediately after they find out that he doesn’t have enough power……?
Although being too paranoid is bad, it is not wise to trust them completely. In short, at this moment for Momonga the best idea is to be cautious. Another reason for this experiment is, if he can not use magic, he could discuss it with Aura and Mare. These two children believe that this experiment is to confirm the power of the staff, so the magic power would depend on the item itself. If there was a problem with his magic he could easily use the staff as excuse. The plan was perfect.
Momonga can not help but praise himself. In the past, was his mind always so calm and flexible? No one could answer this question for Momonga.
The doubts inside his brain were thrown out the window and he began to think about magic used in Yggdrasil. Inside the game, magic spell strength was rated from one to ten and there were easy to over six thousand spells in total. The spell were separated between different types of systems. There were seven hundred spells from eighteen different systems that can be used by Momonga. In general, level 100 players can usually only use three hundred kinds of spell, so the number of spells Momonga can use is quite unusual.
Almost all of these spells are store inside Momonga’s brain and he is searching for the most appropriate spell to use right now.
Because the prohibition of friendly fire has been lifted, he must know the exact effect range of the spell. It is therefore important, for the magic attacks not to select numbers of individuals, but range of effect. The next goal is to take into account the scarecrow, so ───
In Yggdrasil, just pressing the icon will activate the magic spell.
However, in the absence of the Interface, we must use other methods.
Although a bit uncertain, he has a little understanding of how to start it.
He feels the power hidden inside his body. It seems like the contact is not properly established. Momonga concentrates. He illustrates it floating in the air ─── Momonga smiles quite happily.
He already knows the approximate range of effects and how long the cool down takes to launch the next spell. These have been thoroughly mastered in the past. After confirming his ability, a new kind of excitement overcame him. He feels satisfied because he knows that magic is now a part of his own strength, which he did not experience inside Yggdrasil.
The emergence of the inner joy — although it will rapidly cooled down, he was able to feel his excitement — at his fingertips, he gathers his force and then with a word:
"Fireball."
He points his finger towards the Scarecrow and the expanding fireball flew where he is pointing. As expected, the fireball hit the scarecrow impartially. A fireball formed of hot flame flew and hit the scarecrow. After the hit, a bursting of flames from inside followed and let the earth around the scarecrow become a sea of fire.
It all happened in a twinkling of an eye. Apart from the burning scarecrow, the was nothing left anymore.
"Ohhhh……"
Aura and Mare looked with puzzled eyes and could not help but giggle at Momonga.
"— Aura, prepare a new scarecrow."
"Ah, yes, will do immediately! Go make it ready!"
A dragon holding another scarecrow, placed it next to the charred scarecrow.
Momonga walked beside the scarecrow and face it and launches a spelclass="underline"
"Razing flames."
A sudden pillar of fire surrounded the scarecrow. Momonga continues to cast spells on the wrecked scarecrow:
"Fireball."
The scarecrow got hit by a fireball and turned into ashes.
The intervals between chanting of different types of magic was just like Yggdrasil. No, it might have actually become faster from start to launch. In the game, you must first select the range of the cast, then move with the cursor to indicates the scope of it.
"Perfect."
Because of this quite satisfactory experimental results, Momonga can not help but send a contented sound.
"Momonga-sama, do you want me to prepare some more scarecrow?"
Aura still look puzzled. She knew Momonga is a powerful magician, so she does not think this level of performance of anything special. But Momonga wants to give to the twins the impression that this was still the case. The purpose of this illustration has been achieved."…… No, I want to make another experiment."
After denying Aura's proposal, Momonga continue with the next test.
"Message."
The primary contact object to GM. When you use "message" magic inside Yggdrasil, as long as the other person is ingame, you can hear a phone ringing sound. If there is no sound, the contact will immediately cut off.
Right now, it feels like he hears and listen in the middle of his mind. It feels like there was a continuous thread extending in search for the contacted person. For Momonga it is the first time ever experiencing this feeling, it is very difficult to describe it.
This feeling last for some time, but if finally there is no indication of contact, the effect of "message" will end. A strong sense of disappointment rose inside. Momonga repeats the same cast of magic. The selected person is not a GM, but his past companions — Ainz Ooal Gown guild members.
After ninety-nine tries and with nothing happening he was in mood to give up. He did “send message to all” to all of the forty members, but there was no contact. After this confirmation, Momonga gently shook his head.
Even if he knew he had been long abandoned, once the facts was before him, he still felt very disappointed.
Finally, He uses magic to contact Sebas.
── on contact.
This way he can determine that the "message" magic is still usable and that it was not limited to the people in this world.