There was those who were called ‘Adventurers’, who receive rewards for defeating these creatures. Many of the Adventurers were also Magic Casters. They also established an Adventurers Guild within the city.
In addition, there seems to be a way to gather the relevant information in the Fortress City of E-Rantel.
According to the Village Chief, E-Rantel appeared to be the largest nearby city, even if it was unclear exactly how many people lived there. If he wanted to gather information, that would be the place.
Even though the information shared by the Village Chief was useful, there were still many things he didn’t know about. In order to clarify this, it would be faster to just send someone there to check.
Finally about the language. Although this seemed to be another world, it was strange how they could still understand Japanese. So Ainz carefully looked at the Village Chief’s mouth and realised they were not speaking Japanese at all.
The shape of the mouth and the resulting sounds, all of them didn’t seem to be Japanese.
He should experiment on this later.
In conclusion, it appeared the people of this world once ate some kind of food called ‘Translation Konjac’. It was just that there was no idea who fed it to them.
It seemed like the languages of this world would be translated automatically before it was transmitted to the other person.
So, if everyone was able to understand each other, then it should be possible to speak to other species as well. Such as talking to dogs or cats. The only problem was that nobody knew who made it this way. But for some reason, the Village Chief didn’t think that this was strange in any way.
As if it was something completely ordinary.
— In other words, this was the common sense of this world. Thinking calmly about it, since this was a magical world, the fact that there would be a completely different common sense wasn’t strange at all.
The common sense he learnt throughout his past life and the common sense of this world was completely different. This was a fatal problem.
If he wasn’t familiar with the common sense of this world, it was possible for him to commit a fatal blunder. The trait “lack of common sense”, was definitely a bad thing.
Presently, Ainz was missing this common sense. He had to think of a solution, but since he couldn’t think of a good idea, should he just go to find a random person and get him to spit out all of his common sense to him? Of course not.
It looked like there was only one way.
"…… It seems I will have to live in a city for a while."
Many things will require him to learn about the common sense of this world. It was also important to understand the magic of this world. There were simply a lot of things you needed to know.
Deep in thought, Ainz heard the sound of gentle steps approaching the thin wooden door from outside. Although the footsteps were heavy, the time between each step indicated that they did not move quickly. They were the footsteps of a person who wasn’t in a hurry.
The moment Ainz turned his face in the direction of the door, somebody knocked on the door. The village chief couldn’t help but observe Ainz's face. Since the price for saving their lives was to explain things, he didn’t dare to leave without Ainz’s consent.
"Please go ahead. I just wanted to take a break anyway, so it doesn’t matter if you want to leave."
"I am very, very sorry about this."
The village chief gently nodded to apologize, stood up and walked towards the door. A villager appeared at the door, who first looked at the village chief and then towards Ainz:
"Chief, I'm sorry to bother you while you are talking with your guest, but the funeral is ready……"
"Oh……"
The chief’s gaze moved to Ainz, as if he was requesting his permission.
"It doesn’t matter, don’t mind me."
"Thank you. Tell everyone I'll be right there."
Part 2
The funeral was held in the cemetery at the outskirts of the village. The cemetery itself consisted of a shabby fence which enclosed an open space, with several vertical round stones that had names engraved on them.
The village chief read an epitaph to console the souls of the recently departed. He spoke of gods who didn’t exist in Yggdrasil and prayed that the souls may rest in peace.
Apparently they couldn't bury all the bodies due to a shortage of manpower, so they only buried a portion of them. From Ainz’s perspective, burying someone on the same day they died was a bit premature. Perhaps this world had religious practices unknown to Ainz and burying someone quickly was considered normal.
The villagers were all gathered inside the cemetery, among them Ainz also saw the two sisters he rescued — Enri and Nemu Emmott. Ainz confirmed that the two corpses over there are their parents; apparently their burial would take place soon.
Ainz observed them from a nearby position while embracing a thirty centimeter wand beneath his robe. The wand was made from ivory, decorated with gold at the tip. Its grip was engraved with runes and gave off a divine scent.
The wand's name was [Resurrection Wand].
With this magic item it was possible to bring the dead back to live. Ainz obviously had more than one wand. He even had enough of them to resurrect all the dead in this village and leftovers to spare.
According to the village chief, there was no magic in this world that could revive the dead. If Ainz were to use the resurrection wand, he could create a miracle in this village. But after the prayers were concluded and the funeral was coming to an end, Ainz slowly put the wand back into the Item Box.
He could resurrect the dead, but did not do so. It wasn’t because he believed that it was God’s job to manage deceased spirits, but rather because there was no point in doing so.
Consider the two types of Magic Casters, those who could use magic to kill and those who could use magic to resurrect others. It’s easy to imagine which one would be more likely to be involved with trouble. Even if they were resurrected with the condition to not tell anyone about it, the chances of keeping everything secret were small.
Everyone longed for the ability to defy death, right?
Under different circumstances he might’ve been able to cast Resurrection. But at the moment he didn’t have enough information; it was better to not use the wand.
"Just the act of saving their village should be enough to make them happy."
Ainz whispered a silent prayer while gazing at the Death Knight standing behind him.
The Death Knight was another mystery.
While inside YGGDRASIL, summoned Magical Beings expire unless they were called forth by special summoning methods. This Death Knight wasn’t summoned with such methods. It ought to have expired, but it didn’t.
Although Ainz speculated as to why, he couldn’t find an explanation due to his lack of information. While Ainz was still deep in thought, two figures appeared next him.
It was Albedo and a Magical Being with a human-like body shape that wore a black spider ninja costume which had eight legs that were like keen blades.
"An Eight-legged Spiderblade Assassin[1]? Albedo, this is……"
Ainz looks around him. The villagers do not seem to have noticed. For now let’s disregard Albedo. If you saw such a Magical Being, even if you were in the middle of a funeral, it’s still something you would normally stare at.