It was another day in Lugnica, with street vendors at every corner and people going on about their day. Today was his day off from his duties, so the knight known as Reinhard van Astrea was walking through these busy streets, as he had nothing better to do at this moment anyway.
He walked the streets of Lugnica for quite some time, and even though he isn't really exhausted from this little bit of walking, he still decided to sit down and be grateful for this peaceful atmosphere. He quickly sought out a bench and sat down, observing the people of this kingdom. But out of the blue, Reinhard felt that something was off, like something happened right at this moment. 'What was this feeling?...'. It felt as if some sort of magic, that resembled Yin Magic, had just engulfed the entire World, but it went away as quickly as it came. The flow of magical energy returned back to normal, but Reinhard knew that someone with the capabilities to cause such an event might be a danger to this Kingdom. He needed to make sure what this was and who was responsible for it.
'I should quickly search for the source and report back to the council. Hopefully it wasn't someone hostile…'. Even though it was his day off, without wasting another second, Reinhard stood up and started concentrating so he could pinpoint the source of this magical disturbance.
After just a few seconds, Reinhard tracked the source to an alleyway right here in Lugnica. With one leap, he jumped up high into the sky, landing on one of the many rooftops. After some time, he eventually arrived on the rooftop above some alleyway, where he looked down to see the source of the disturbance.
But instead of focusing on the particular individual, or on the present groups strange outfits, with one literally looking like a sack of potatoes, he instead focused on something else. There were three corpses on the ground besides the group, with the red clothed one cleaning his gloves, indicating he was the culprit that murdered the thug clothed individuals. 'I should quickly intervene befor—'. His thoughts got cut short as he finally recognized the person the group has been talking to since he arrived on that rooftop above them. It was one of the royal candidates, the half-elf lady Emilia.
Without wasting another second, Reinhard jumped off the rooftop and landed right behind the group. To his surprise, his [Dragon Sword Reid], which he can only use against opponents deemed worthy enough by the sword itself, was vibrating a bit, as if begging the Sword Saint to pull it out and use it to fight off this strange group.
The group in question with lady Emilia was looking at him, with two of the group seeming to be a bit excited, with the purple gowned excited about his sword and the potato sack looking one seemingly excited at both him and the sword. He was still cautious, but decided to speak up in a polite but commanding voice. "Could you five please identify yourselves?"
The broad one, with majestic purple robes of such high quality that even kings would be jealous, stepped forward. Reinhard was on edge, ready to take necessary action if needed, but strangely, he didn't feel any murderous intent from him or another member of this group, so he decided to not pull out his sword yet. The broad one with the purple robes spoke up in a deep but gentle voice, something fit for a King. "Umu...Very well then. I am known as Momonga. And these here are my fellow companions.". Then one after the other, each of the remaining four beings spoke up. "My Name is Yamaiko, nice to meet you.", said the female sounding being that is clothed in yellowish robes which even covered her face,
"I'm Shizyuutensuzaku, do we understand each other?" spoke up the rather rude and smug sounding individual with red golden robes, wearing a similar mask to the rest of his outfit,
"…..Variable Talisman is my name." said the broad knight looking individual, dressed in blue armor, also wearing a mask which resembled it's own outfit,
"I am Amanomahitotsu, but you can call me Amano, Sir knight." spoke up the excited, sack of potato looking one.
Afterwards, the one called Momonga spoke up again, "We are the group known as Ainz Ooal Gown, did you perhaps heard of it before?". Neither did he know any of the names mentioned, nor did he know the groups name, as he was hearing them for the first time, but that wasn't really important right now. 'They don't seem like people who would cause any trouble just for fun. And even though the scent of the Witch is on Momonga, they don't seem to be bad people...'
"It is nice to meet you all, my name is Reinhard van Astrea, a descendant of the sword saints and knight of the kingdom of Lugnica. To answer your question, Sir Momonga, no, I never heard of such group before.", he spoke in a polite and respectful way, truly fit for a knight, which seemed to excite one named Amanomahitotsu even more. "Now, could you or one of your companions please explain the 3 corpses on the ground?".
The one called Shizyuutensuzaku, who already seemed a bit rude, but not really hostile, stepped forward and spoke up. "These guys were trying to kill us…", he proceeded to point at the knife one of the corpses was holding, "...so we just defended ourselves. Got a problem with that?". That did seem like the case, and he couldn't really guilt them for defending themselves against a threat. Reinhard let out a sigh as he spoke up, "I understand the situation….But try to call for one of the patrolling knights next time to prevent something like this happening again.". He knew he would need to report this incident. 'I should ask the council about this group, maybe they know something about them...'.
Emilia finally spoke up after being left out right from this conversation, "I don't think they are bad people, Reinhard. Don't be too hard on them, ok?", with the spirit of hers speaking up as well. "I trust Lia's judgement, they don't seem like some villains.". Reinhard nodded with a smile while he made a slight bow. "I will trust Lady Emilia's and her Spirit's judgment so I'll depart for today. It was nice to meet you all.". And with that, Reinhard walked away with the intent to report what happened here and to also have the corpses removed from the alleyway.
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With the knight named Reinhard now gone, Yamaiko quickly turned back to Emilia and spoke up, "The girl you talked about before this knight came. She was jumping into that direction…". Yamaiko pointed towards the general direction of the slums. At the same time, Yamaiko used the [Message] spell to make a telepathic group call and also test if the message spell, or generally speaking, if all spells still work.
{I think we should help her.}, Yamaiko quickly telepathically said to all group members.
{Why should we help that girl? We barely know her. I think we should instead go and explore!}, Shizyuutensuzaku interjected in protest.
{Perhaps you could tell us why you want to help her?}, Momonga asked directly.
{Well, we don't really know what to do right now, nor do we know anything about this world. Building a connection to one of the locals of this world through helping could help us get insights of the workings of this world. And it wouldn't hurt to not portray ourselves as some kinds of villains.}, answered Yamaiko telepathically. Her arguments seemed pretty solid. After all of them thought a little about her statement, they chose to agree to her suggestion, Yamaiko quickly spoke up, also breaking the strange silence that occurred because of the telepathic communication between themselves."How about we help? We don't really have anything else to do right now and are pretty new to this city. You could say we just arrived here.".
The half-elf girl seemed to think about the suggestion, and then began to smile. "If it wouldn't be any trouble of course, I'd like to accept the help of you and your friends.".
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After experiencing the vast city and it's street vendors, they were now walking through the slums. As they were walking through the poor looking neighborhood, they felt the stares of the people around them. 'This place reminds me more of our old world...' thought the undead as they were walking. "We should probably ask one of the locals here about that blonde girl, or we'll just continue to wander this place without any information." said Amanomahitotsu as he approached a thin looking man who seemed to be really dehydrated. Because Amanomahitotsu was wearing rather poor looking clothes, the man wasn't as cautious as we would have been if another one of the group would have approached him.
"Hello Sir, could you maybe tell us where to find a certain blonde haired athletic short girl in these parts of the city?" Amanomahitotsu said, still keeping a bit of distance to the man to not come off as creepy. The thin looking man looked at Amanomahitotsu for some seconds with a stern face, before speaking up. "Why do you want to know?". Right after his question, the man started to cough. He was probably sick from the lack of hygiene here thought Amanomahitotsu. "Well….", Amanomahitotsu knew that if he just told the man the truth about how she stole something from Emilia, the man wouldn't tell him where she was, so he decided to lie to him. "...we want to buy something from her.", he said, his lie coming out of his mouth without a problem, which surprised him a little.
The man looked at him again. "So you want her services? Alright. She is at Rom's Loot house which is down this street to the left.", the man said, still a bit skeptical. Amanomahitotsu nodded and walked back to the group. 'We could probably heal him. But we can't risk to get unwanted attention from unknown groups or even other Yggdrasil players. I mean who says that we are the only ones here?', thought the undead as Amanomahitotsu approached the group and spoke up, "The man I spoke to said that this girl is at this Rom guys Loot house, which is down the street to the left."
As they continued their walk through the slums, they saw a sick child on the side of the road. He was probably about to die soon. 'It's sad. But we can't risk it—' before Momonga could finish his train of thought, Emilia quickly ran up to the child which surprised him a bit. "Are you ok? Can you hear me?", Emilia spoke as she kneeled, tilting the child's head up a bit with her hand. The child didn't respond, just looking at her with hopeless eyes. Emilia quickly used a healing spell with the help of her Spirit, but her Spirit was becoming translucent. "I am sorry, Lia. I don't have much energy left, I need to sleep…", and with that, the Spirit disappeared again, weakening her healing spell which in turn had almost no effect on the child. Emilia looked back at the group and asked, "C-Could one of you help this child?". They looked at each other before Yamaiko stepped forward, putting a hand on Emilia's shoulder. "Don't worry, I'll help...[Heal].".
Because of Yamaiko's specialization in healing, even the normal [Heal] spell was extraordinary, healing the child in seconds as he regained some color and his breathing became soft. But Momonga was focusing on something else. 'The healing spell Emilia used...I've never seen it before. Maybe this world is using a different Magic System than Yggdrasil? If yes, maybe we can learn to use it too?'. As Momonga pondered this question, Shizyuutensuzaku spoke up, "Can we move on? It's getting late already.". It was true, as the sun was about to set. Emilia was about to ask some questions about the unknown spell Yamaiko had used, but because of Shizyuutensuzaku's words, she choose to speak about it at another time.
After they walked a bit more, they finally reached the Loot house with was almost at the end of the road. But before they, or rather Emilia, could knock on the door old wooden door, a strangely seducing female voice spoke up from behind them.
"Ara~ Who do we have here?"