That is to take over Re-estize Kingdom." Soon added Albedo.
Hu-huh…. Huhhhhhhhhhhhh what do you mean taking over Re-estize Kingdom?! We just took the Holy Kingdom.! It hasn't been a month since they declared their vassalization and we are taking over another Kingdom already!.. It took his emotion suppressor a couple of seconds to calm his panic down.
"Fufufu, To think that Ainz-sama had laid such cunning plans… It hasn't been a month since we vassalized the Holy Kingdom and Ainz-sama already prepared to take over Re-estize Kingdom. Surely, Your unparallel wisdom knows no bounds."
Demiurge bowed his head even deeper in respect and admiration of the being in front of him. Supreme Being Ainz Ooal Gown-sama.
"Uhhh n-no… Demiurge, If it's you, I am sure you will be able to surpass me."
More likely, you already have. Thought Ainz after being forced to calm down by his emotion suppressor.
"I can never imagine myself surpassing your infinite wisdom. However, As a loyal servant of 41 Supreme Beings, I shall reach to the solution of the puzzle Ainz-sama presented to me with." Said Demiurge with bow at the end of the sentence. Demiurge was happy to be presented a puzzle by the leader of Supreme Beings Ainz himself. Although Ainz himself didn't intend on giving Demiurge a puzzle of any kind by that sentence.
"Ah no. I really mean it." Muttered Ainz in a low voice but unfortunately that muttering only met deaf ears.
Coughed Ainz to bring the topic back to Re-estize Kingdom.
"Albedo, So, what do you think we should do now?" Asked Ainz in a pretending curious tone. But that pretending wasn't actually 'pretending' on Ainz half. He was in a way actually curious to know the answers of question marks in his head. Like who is 'she' ? What did 'she' unlock? And what next phase? We Just vassalized the Holy Kingdom and are we going to capture Re-estize Kingdom right now? His doubts were that they HAD plan to capture Re-estize Kingdom but were they really this early? Or is just that he didn't remember and they really were THIS early?.. however his biggest question mark was why would Albedo [ MESSAGE ] him to inform him of this when she knew that he was on his way to Nazarick.
By asking her what she thinks we should do now?. He was trying to get the answers of his question marks without letting her know that he actually doesn't know all this. So, in a way, he actually was curious to know her answer. But to Albedo this seems a test of her abilities. To her, Ainz is asking her: what she thinks about what we should do now? To test her abilities as a Guardian Of Great Tomb Of Nazarick. Because to her, Ainz already knows all this and he actually has a plan in his mind but he is still asking her about her view to test what answer she would arrive at. Ahhh to think Ainz-sama would be this generous… This was Albedo's first thought after arriving at the conclusion that Ainz is testing her abilities as a Guardian Of Great Tomb Of Nazarick to see how far she has evolved in this span of time. But this also was a great deal of pressure in itself. To be tested by a Supreme Being. No. The leader of Supreme Beings contains a huge amount of pressure while also being very pleasing.
"Considering that she still has one final requirement to 'fully' unlock the item and receive its contains. However, when we gave her this item, we had thought that it would take her at least two-three more months to fulfill its tough requirement. But she has surpassed our expectations and has fulfilled its tough requirement before we had expected and also before she fulfill its easy requirement…. I think she has proved herself worthy to have granted that… Even before we had expected and planned. Normally, this sudden change would have interfered with Ainz's plan of cream and whip a little. But fortunately the easy requirement would be fulfilled in a month or half. Which is also in time for our puppet to be made. So I think this all eventually worked in our favor.. maybe a little too much in our favour-" she then giggled and muttered-"maybe Ainz-sama had also predicted it too."
She faked a cough and then returned to the main topic at hand "So, Your loyal servant thinks we should proceed with expectations of capturing Re-estize Kingdom before we initially planned it to be. Your loyal servant thinks we should fasten some work to match this new movement."
Ah! Why can't they just explain things in simple human language instead of these codes which only they could understand?! 'she' but who is she? Item but which item?.. thought Ainz but didn't voice his thoughts.
Ainz was still perplexed as to who this she might be?. Ainz wouldn't have minded even if he didn't find out her identity if not for Albedo to use spell [ MESSAGE ] to inform him of this information as quickly as possible and she has done it precisely because she thinks this piece of information is very important and she should inform him of this information as quickly as possible and hence, she used a spell like [ MESSAGE ] to inform him immediately even though she knew he is returning to Nazarick. And because she thinks that this information is very important, he too thinks he should know of it to avoid major issues. One of those issues includes for Ainz to avoid them-Demiurge and Albedo-know of Ainz real intelligence which Ainz believe to be very, very low in comparison to them.
However, Ainz himself didn't realise but his constant involvement of world politics, economic, politics in general and all of his acting. He has actually acquired a level of sense for all of these, especially his way of talking and his thought process which has become a-lot like ruler. His words have become very, very majestic from all of his constant talks like a majestic Overlord, even many rulers would find themselves at shame when they hear him talk. It's just that Ainz always compares himself with Albedo and Demiurge that he hasn't realised how far he has improved or he hasn't realised how intelligent he has become. He just compares himself with wrong beings. And whenever no matter how little time but whenever he does actually compare himself with other rulers like the Ruler of Baharuth Empire, he doesn't see himself with their perspective, he always sees their performance and just assumes that his performance is bad.
A proof of his intelligence is the fact he understood the purpose of Albedo immediately using a spell like [ MESSAGE ] to inform him of something with just that little interaction.
"Hmm..-" Ainz then put his fist on his chin to assume the pose of him in deep thinking. After sometime he spoke "-we can decide after listening to the piece of information Demiurge is here for."
"fufufu… Ainz-sama already knows what I am here for?... fufufu to think Ainz-sama has predicted for it to happen too… I am once again in complete awe of your unfathomable intellectual."Demiurge then bowed his head in respect.
To his statement, Ainz was left confused. To Ainz, he only asked for the information which Demiurge is here for. And mainly to delay his answer to Albedo. But while his main purpose of asking that was to delay his answer and to gather time to collect his thoughts for his answer to Albedo, he did want to know why Demiurge was here. He was only informed of Albedo being here not Demiurge but since Ainz was actually going to have a discussion of the vassalization of the Holy Kingdom after returning to Nazarick with Albedo as Demiurge was working outside and he didn't want to trouble him more than he had to, he assumed that Demiurge too got something to tell him immediately and decided to return to Nazarick immediately and joined the discussion with Albedo.
But while Ainz was confused, he did manage to lift his right hand as if ordering to lift his head and continue.
Demiurge then lifted his head and said "Ainz-sama, 38 minutes and 29 seconds ago I received a [ MESSAGE ] from one of my subordinates and reported that he spotted a white beam of ray while he was in the Holy Kingdom. He said that this beam of ray lasted less than a second but he managed to locate its origin. When he got close to its origin he spotted two high-level Angels and three normal kneeling humans. And he believed that they were wearing Divine-class items from Yggdrasil. I judged that this information is very valuable and immediately returned to Nazarick to inform Ainz-sama… However, it seems Ainz-sama has predicted for it to happen."
Demiurge's words visibly shook Albedo a little. But the most shook person from that information was Ainz.
"Divine-class items… could those beings be Players?" asking Albedo in a careful and low voice.
"However, according to those tales, Players arrive every 200 hundred years. And it hasn't been that long yet."
while Demiurge and Albedo were discussing all this possibility, Ainz was thinking about the information Demiurge informed him of. But this doesn't meant that he wasn't listening to their this little interchange at all. His subordinate must be talking about that 'ray'... They 'ray' which looked similar to a weaker Angel summoning spell… But his servant spotted high-level Angels wearing Divine-class items. They could be Players from Yggdrasil… however, like Demiurge said. It hasn't been 200 years yet.. but what if the whole thing about a new Player arriving every 200 years is just a speculation and Players CAN arrive in this world before 200 years have been completed… that also a possibility.. but first I have to confirm that those are the Players I know of or not.
"Demiurge, what do they look like?"
"Yes! Ainz-sama, my subordinate reported that…."
After discussing about all the possibilities for a while. An idea came into Ainz's head that maybe that ray is a powerful version of the Yggdrasil Angel summoning spell he is familiar with. And those angels might be summoned creatures and those kneeling humans which Demiurge's subordinate also spotted summon them. But then, why would those humans kneel to creatures they summoned and have complete control over?.. to confirm his doubt Ainz asked demiurge if his subordinate heard the conversation between them but unfortunately, he told that his subordinate spotted some hazaron coming to his way and he immediately flew as to avoid being spotted by those Hazons and immediately after he informed all this to Demiurge.
In the end, they decided to not uselessly speculate anymore and gather more information about them. And about Re-estize Kingdom they decided that they would fasten some work by which time their puppet too would be perfectly ready. By this new progress they should be able to capture Re-estize Kingdom in a month or so.
Three days after the Cardinal meeting.
In a dark and isolated cave. An old lady calmly walked toward the dragon instead of fearing the dragon in front of her. After reaching a close enough distance to hold the conversation, the dragon addressed the old lady.
"I thought it would take you more time."
"I haven't completed my investigation. I stumbled upon a very important piece of news that I thought I should inform you of first as it may be enough to defeat that."
At her words. The dragon was visibly confused and curious to know as to what kind of news she deemed so important that it may very well be enough to defeat that.
He signaled her to continue with his head.
"Three days ago, I was in Slane Theocracy for …. And then, I heard the news of a certain sector of capital to remain closed that day, so I decided to find out what they were doing in that sector by isolating it a bit."
Old lady stopped and wore an expression which seems to say you want to know it don't you. Or like a friend who tells you something and knows that you would be extremely interested in it and creates suspense and to tease you… yeah like that..
Old lady then re-affirmed "You want to know. Don't you?... Hahahaha" she then burst out of laughter seeing Dragon's expression.
"Okay, okay.. no messing around. I saw … Angels ….. literal God… "
TO BE CONTINUED