Suddenly, Ainz slammed the Angels he was still clutching in his hands into the ground. The ground shook with a loud noise ─── the power behind that blow seemed to be beyond common sense.
The Angels died, turning into countless balls of light. Of course, so did the swords pierced into Ainz’s body.
“If I learn the names for these angels, then maybe I can understand why you know how to use YGGDRASIL’s magic… but this is a matter for another time.”
Slowly getting up, Ainz still spoke about incomprehensible things.
But it made people even more afraid of his mysterious strength.
Nigan swallowed heavily.
“Alright, this game is getting boring. Did you already have enough? Since it appears that you are unwilling to accept my deal, it looks like it’s my turn now.”
Finishing off the Angels, Ainz once again slowly opened his arms. Seemingly to prove that he held nothing in his hands.
An eerie quiet passed and Ainz’s voice was heard clearly by everyone.
“Now it’s my turn to ─── kill everyone.”
It was like icicles stabbing into their backs, a feeling that made people nauseous. The seasoned killer Nigan, had never experienced anything like that before.
Must retreat. With the absence of any way to win this battle, any fights against Ainz would be extremely dangerous.
But Nigan tried to ignore his intuition. Since they finally managed to corner their prey Gazef with their trap, how could they just let him escape?
Ignoring the instinctive warnings from his gut, Nigan loudly ordered:
“All the Angels attack! Quickly!”
Like bullets, all the Archangels of Fire flew towards Ainz.
“Really what a frisky group of people… Albedo, stand down.”
His voice was calm and collected despite the Angel's impending attacks. Ainz was completely surrounded by angels, but he didn't act worried despite having no gaps to escape through.
When it looked like he was about to be pierced by their swords ── Ainz had already finished casting his spell.
“「Negative Burst」”
The air shook violently.
Black light came from every direction and gathered around Ainz. It was only for a moment, but the results became immediately obvious.
“Im-impossible…”
A voice came, carried by the wind. The scene in front of their eyes was just that unbelievable.
Almost forty Angels were destroyed after getting engulfed by the wave of darkness.
His opponent didn’t use some kind of spell that banished summons. After getting hit by the black wave, the Angels looked hurt. To put it simply, Ainz had casted some powerful magic and swept away all the Angels.
Nigan couldn’t help but shiver in terror. In his mind he remembered the words the Kingdom’s strongest warrior, Gazef Strolonoff, had said.
“…Heh, you're the foolish one. In that village… there’s still someone stronger than me. That man is unfathomable, he’ll be able to defeat all of you by himself… thinking about killing… the villagers he’s protecting, is an impossible task….”
The scene in front of him confirmed those words.
Nigan tried to get rid of the words in his mind, desperately trying to convince himself.
As far as he knew, the members of the strongest branch, the Black Scripture, could also deal with this many Angels. It will be fine if you just think of Ainz as an opponent of that level. Even if his strength equaled the Black Scripture, there was still a chance of victory using their superior numbers.
But even among the members of the Black Scripture, would any single one of them be able to defeat all those Angels using just a single spell?
Nigan shook his head to get rid of his doubts. He must not think about this question. If he gets an answer, he would really be helpless. That's why Nigan reached inside his pocket, gaining courage from the magic item kept there.
He was convinced that as long as he had that item, everything would be fine.
However, his subordinates couldn’t do the same, so they tried other methods.
“Woo, wooahh───!”
“How could this happen!”
“Monster!”
Finding the Angels useless, his subordinates screamed and began to cast the spells they were confident in.
「Confuse Human」, 「Hammer of Justice」, 「Bind」, 「Rain of Fire」, 「Jade Coffin」, 「Sacred beam」, 「Blast」, 「Stalagmite Assault」, 「Open Wounds」, 「Poison」, 「Fear」, 「Curse」, 「Blind」…
All kinds of magic hit Ainz.
Withstanding this storm of magic, Ainz still had a calm expression.
“These are all very familiar spells… Who taught them to you? Some people from the Slane Theocracy? Or someone else? Seems like there are more and more things that I have to find out.”
Not only could he kill an Angel with a single blow, he was also immune to magic.
Nigan felt like he was trapped in a nightmare world.
“Yiiii─────!”
Because none of these magic had any effect, one of his men shrieked strangely and took out an iron ball for a catapult. Nigan thought that if an Angel’s sword was unable to cause harm, what use would an iron ball be? But he still didn’t stop his subordinate’s actions.
An iron ball capable of easily crushing human bones flew accurately towards Ainz.
The sound of an explosion could be heard.
Instantly.
It really happened in a instant.
When someone is fighting, one cannot let his eyes stray from the target. But Albedo, who ought to have been standing behind Ainz, suddenly appeared in front of him. The place where she stood at from before swelled because of a strong kick, that was the reason for the sound.
Albedo, with speed that was nearly impossible to see, raised the long axe held in her hand. Drawing a beautiful faded green trail in the air.
Following that, the men carrying the iron ball fell to the ground.
“… What?”
No one knew what had happened before their eyes. They should be the ones attacking, but they as the attackers are getting beaten down.
One of the men began running to check on his comrades and finding them dead, he shouted:
“Hi-, his head was smashed by the iron ball!”
“… What? The iron ball… wasn’t that the iron ball that was just flying there!?”
Why were they being killed by the iron ball that they just launched?
At this point, the wind carried a voice into Nigan’s ear.
“Terribly sorry, it looks like my subordinate had used the two spells, Anti-missile Shield and Reflect Missile to send it back. It seems that you have casted barriers that resist projectiles, but an attack that is stronger than the defenses will still break through right? No need to be so surprised.
Ignoring Nigan after explaining what happened, Ainz then turned towards Albedo:
“However, Albedo, you should know that those kinds of ranged weaponry would not be able to hurt me. There was no need—”
“—Please wait, Ainz-sama. If they want to challenge the supreme overlord to a fight, they need to reach some standard in strength first. That iron ball attack… was too rude!”