Bab 102: Chapter 102 - Ainz and Rimuru In Lugunica
"Ah! So, you two are Subaru's friends."
"Yes. Indeed although this is the first time we meet face to face though." Ainz replied very fluently while his Skeleton features remained exposed. "For that reason, I would appreciate it if your… people would cease their hostility."
Ainz turns his gaze to the two Oni Maid sisters and the floating cat which is a Spirit named Puck. None of them look convinced and continue to look at him warily.
"That's why I said you should come in your human form, Ainz." Rimuru sighed. "Your Overlord form looks too intimidating and brings a bad impression."
"But my human form weakens my power, Rimuru. But fine, I understand." Ainz sighed and transformed into his human form which looked exactly like him prior to being Isekai. The only thing stands out in his human form is his bionic eyes.
While Ainz is in his human form. They still look wary at him but a little less. Baby step.
"So, about why we are here…" Rimuru quickly changed the topic to divert their attention from Ainz. "Subaru told us about his trouble with the Witch Cult and we came to help eliminate them. Isn't that right, Subaru?"
"Ah? Oh, yeah. That's true.". Subaru quickly nodded after recovering from his distraction.
"The Witch Cult?" Puck mutters while the Oni Maid twin jolted a little when the Witch Cult was mentioned. "You two wish to hunt them down? Do you two know how dangerous they are? This Ainz fellow looks strong enough to handle himself. But what about you?" Puck flew and floated in front of Rimuru.
"Looking down at me?" Rimuru sighed because his appearance doesn't look that impressive to others."But your worry is unnecessary." He said and glanced at Ainz. "While I'm not as strong as Ainz with his powerful Magic, I am still not a pushover. Isn't that right?"
"Hmn. Indeed, you are the second strongest in our Chat Group if we exclude Admin. In close combat, you are even stronger than myself." Ainz vouches for Rimuru before Puck gives up on questioning them.
"Well, since you are Subaru's friends and your goal is to defeat the Witch Cult. I see no reason not to welcome the two of you." Puck verifies they are telling the truth and returns to Emilia.
"Then, I welcome you two to Roswaal mansion. The owner of the mansion is away for his business in the capital." Then Emilia turns to Ram and Rem. "Please treat them as guests."
"As you wish, Emilia-sama." The two bowed albeit begrudgingly for Ram.
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After being accepted as guests, Ainz and Rimuru want to get started immediately and go to the gazebo outside where Emilia and Subaru usually do their morning routine or training.
First is to gather intel. After all, they don't know anything about the Witch Cult. So, they will investigate and gather information as much as possible before assessing the danger and return with an appropriate amount to forces to take them down instead of just the two of them swagger into the front door of the Witch Cult.
"Lead of Yatagarasu" Ainz cast a spell.
The Lead of Yatagarasu when in the game is used to help players locate certain quest items or enemies, usually the boss in a dungeon. So, Ainz hopes it can help locate the Sin Archbishop since they are technically considered the Boss enemy when you think about it logically.
The three legged crow the size of an eagle appeared from the magic circle and then looked at Ainz, its summoner for order.
"Locate the Sin Archbishop of the Witch Cult." He ordered and the crow released a caw as if saying it under before it turned around to flap its wings and flew away.
Rimuru also produced a few paper familiars produced probably by Shuna. Those paper familiars turn into birds and follow after the Yatagarasu as the latter can only locate the target and send the coordinate to Ainz while the former is embedded with remote viewing magic that allow spying from distance undetected.
"Well, now we wait." Rimuru said and Ainz was about to nod when something caused him to flinch.
Ainz turned to Subaru and Emilia and asked. "Is the Witch Cult normally very close to this territory? Because I just found an Archbishop not far from the Mansion." Ainz pointed in the direction he noticed and it happened to be in the direction of a nearby village.
Hearing this, Subaru immediately widens his eyes and understands what is happening. The Witch Cult is planning an attack! It also happened when Roswaal was away. If not for Ainz and Rimuru, he dreaded imagining what would happen then with just him, Emilia, Rem and Ram to defend themselves and the village.
Ainz and Rimuru didn't need a verbal answer from Subaru. The expression of horror on his face is enough.
"Don't worry, Subaru. The two of us will definitely defeat the Witch Cult for you." Ainz taps Subaru on shoulder who turns to look at Ainz and then Rimuru very gratefully and manages to squeeze out a smile and says, "Right. I am not alone this time."
"Yeah. We can definitely defeat the Witch Cult. We now know about their existence and location while they are still in the dark about us knowing them. We can launch a surprise attack and kill the Archbishop."
"But first, we must analyze the information we obtained." Ainz requested a map of the territory before he marked the hideout of the Witch Cult cultist.
Emilia later interjected and said she wanted to evacuate the villagers of the nearby village. But Ainz said it's unnecessary as having some summons guarding them in secret is already enough and evacuation the villagers might alert the cultists that might be hiding in the village.
"What about the attacking force?"
"Do we even need any?" Rimuru questioned while looking at Ainz like he just told a dry joke. "Bro, you literally just need one Fallen Down to wipe out all the cultists. We only need to be wary about the Archbishop. We don't need more than just the two of us."
"I swear, you are just too paranoid, Ainz." Rimuru sighed.
"I am not paranoid. I am just making adequate preparations." Ainz defended.
But Rimuru chuckled. "Yeah, like last time you accidentally destroyed a dungeon killing a Dungeon Boss using Fallen Down."
Ainz decided not to comment about that statement and proceed. With a proper plan to work around, he just lacked information about the Archbishop which he turned to Emilia for help but apparently she didn't know much. Not even Puck. That means they are going in blind against the Archbishop.
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