The Abellion Hills, located in the western region of the Holy Kingdom, are known for their complex terrain and are home to a large number of demihumans, beings who naturally possess formidable combat power compared to humans.
If only the subhuman races in the hills were not so fragmented and difficult to unite, they might have already formed a powerful enough alliance to attack the Holy Kingdom's fortress to the west, or even to destroy the Holy Kingdom itself.
Among the demihumans in the hills, there are ten powerful beings who have reached the realm of heroes. They are known as the "Ten Heroes," the proud leaders of all the great races.
However, today, all ten of those heroes gathered and prostrated themselves on the ground, serving one figure as obedient subordinates.
A man in a bright red business suit and glasses, who else but Demiurge, the Guardian of the Seventh Floor of the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick.
"Lord Demiurge, all of our tribes have gathered here. What is our next objective?"
The representative demihuman who spoke was a figure with a snake's head, human-like arms, and the lower body of a snake—Snake King Lokesh. He was a mutant from the serpent-man race. The scales on his body had various colors, were extremely hard, and had a high resistance to magic. Due to his exceptional strength, he was appointed by Demiurge as a temporary commander, managing the demihumans' domestic affairs while his master was away.
Hearing Lokesh's question, Demiurge pushed his glasses up his nose, a cunning smile never fading from his face. "Stay here for now. I will give you new orders after all my arrangements are complete."
"Yes, My Lord!"
Although bewildered, Lokesh immediately accepted the order without daring to show the slightest bit of resistance. Wasn't it obvious? The demon before him had shown such terrifying power when he subdued the main tribes. Before him, Lokesh and the others couldn't even control their own bodies, let alone resist. Submission to the strong was not a shameful thing for demihumans, it was the most sensible way to survive.
Still too weak.
Demiurge looked at the ten demihumans before him. The cunning smile on his face didn't fade in the least, but he sighed inwardly. These demihumans in the hills might be very strong for the humans of the New World, but in front of Nazarick and the Church of Destiny, they were just small fry that couldn't provide much help.
There were two ways to make them shine, but he still needed to figure out which to choose.
"Let's go back to Nazarick and report to Lord Ainz first. Bring the Dark Night Mage as well."
With that thought, Demiurge activated his [Greater Teleportation] magic and returned to the edge of the Great Forest of Tob, roughly two kilometers from the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick.
The area around the cave was very quiet. Nazarick had stationed guards to prevent wild beasts in the forest and human adventurers from finding the fortress. The reason they didn't teleport directly outside Nazarick, of course, was because the 'disturbers' from the Church of Destiny had not yet been evacuated. If they were to be discovered, they could be directly attacked by the enemy.
"In that case, next, I'll contact Mare to come pick me up."
Nazarick itself had a special isolation mechanism. Without the Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown, it was impossible to return directly to the Great Tomb.
Demiurge sent a magical message to the remaining guardians as usual, but to his surprise, the magic seemed to be isolated and had no effect at all.
Not good!
There was no need to guess who could cause this phenomenon. Anxiously, Demiurge quickly rushed out of the cave and flew into the sky, heading toward the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick.
Time rewinds to a few minutes ago.
The plains where the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick was located were filled with a gentle breeze, and the green grass swayed, as if releasing fresh oxygen under the sun.
Suddenly, four deep, dark spherical portals opened to the east, west, south, and north of the tomb. The Church of Destiny's army, dressed in uniform, emerged from the portals and quickly formed a siege formation with the tomb at its center.
The battle priests, who had received the order, took their positions like knots in a spider's web, and activated their special skills together, covering an area of five kilometers with a barrier. For the next ten hours, all magical communication and transmission in that area would be prohibited, forming a deadly battlefield.
After all, the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick was not an ordinary country, and its members were not human soldiers. If the battlefield wasn't blocked, the enemy could open portals behind them, and they would be attacked from two sides. There was another objective: to force all the monsters in this tomb to come out the front and never allow a single one to escape!
"Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick. Today, you will become history!"
Lakyus, wearing a military uniform, used [Flight] magic to hover in the air. With a cold gaze, she looked down at the tomb. She drew Kilineiram and swung it down. "Forest Priests, Earth Magic Chanters, Attack!!!"
The order was transmitted to the entire army through a loudspeaker magic item. One by one, the magic chanters leapt out of the army's formation and slowly gathered into a huge "dark cloud" above the tomb.
In the next second, the forest priests and earth mages exerted their power. The earth immediately became like a sea, spreading outward with the tomb as its center. The grassland was peeled away from its roots, the clay peeled off, and the Nazarick building located beneath it was exposed to the sunlight in all its glory, no longer having any cover.
"Fluder, if you please."
"Leave it to me."
Following Lakyus's signal, Fluder Paradyne opened his arms without hesitation, and a complex magic array quickly spread around him.
Super-Tier Magic was a powerful magic that could only be learned by YGGDRASIL magic players after their single-system magic level reached LV70. After the level of people like Fluder reached LV100, this kind of magic naturally entered their skill list. Among the many Super-Tier Magic spells, there was one type that Kael required everyone to master.
Terrifying magical energy gathered directly above the Great Underground Tomb of Nazarick. As the light bloomed, a gigantic energy sword appeared in everyone's view.
Super-Tier Magic: [Sky Sword]!
Launch!!!
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