During his journey, Ainz discovered that the situation in the principality was much more serious than what he had heard. He saw all kinds of things that caused public dissatisfaction and was very satisfied with it.
It is much easier to develop your reputation, connections and influence in a bad country than in a good country.
But he couldn't just kill a large number of powerful monsters to show off.
However, it is also very cumbersome to contact and negotiate with the Adventurer's Guild to cooperate with them in providing information. The main reason is that the Adventurer's Guild is not an organization serving the country.
Although the Grand Duke ordered the elimination of alien threats within the Principality, the Adventurer's Guild had many things to consider.
Many extraterrestrial species in this world are important parts of the ecological cycle and food chain. Rough killing or expelling them can easily cause imbalance and destruction. It seems that there will be no short-term impact, but this is not the case. For example, ogres are known to eat humans.
They are called so, but in fact they are just pure carnivores. They will also hunt some herbivorous animals and monsters. If all the ogres are killed, the outbreak of herbivorous monsters may destroy human farmland; some plant-based monsters are very harmful to humans.
The growth of the required wild herbs has an impact. Even if the monster itself is harmful to humans and can be rewarded for killing it, it is prohibited to kill indiscriminately for reward; etc.
If he just slaughtered or expelled a few demihuman communities and kingdoms, Ainz could do it in a short time. The others were all good human beings. If they planned the battle carefully, they could give the opponent the desired effect in ten days and a half.
Those who escaped were lost.
However, the Adventurer's Guild needs various investigations to prove what impact this approach will have on the local ecology and even the future distribution of monsters and demi-humans in the surrounding area.
During this period, Ainz tried his best to help some villages and towns sporadically eliminate new monster lairs that had appeared nearby due to the lack of temple functions. In order to gain fame and not arouse the doubts of ordinary people and as a profit-oriented black worker, Ainz
Due to the embarrassment of his teammates, he would still receive some reward, but Ainz requested that the reward be given in the form of ecological information on abnormal changes in the local area.
Ainz had no intention of breaking the rules before his identity came to a showdown. After all, these rules were all in place. Breaking good rules would always lead to a bad reputation. Even if he used his merits to pay for it, it would leave more excuses.
As a result, several months passed like this.
Fortunately, Ainz was not uninterested in traveling to strange places. It was quite refreshing to live this kind of life without the pressure of being a noble.
The feeling of being gathered together after a long absence also felt quite new to Ainz, who was a human in his previous life, and even made him feel a little jealous.
Of course that's all.
However, Ainz decided to treat these people better while they still had value as companions.
Ainz was also among the team observing the surface structures of the ruins from a distance.
It should be a somewhat dilapidated temple from the outside, surrounded by walls, the bricks and stones are closely arranged but not neatly arranged, there is an arch on each side, and there are reliefs on the doorposts. Although the area is equivalent to that of a metropolitan church, the dome is
It is even lower, surrounded by some irregularly arranged stone tablets and stone pillars also painted with reliefs.
The overall layout does not have any sense of beauty, but the overall layout is very neat and clean, which is somewhat incompatible with the somewhat messy layout. Someone is obviously taking care of it. There are shrubs, weeds and even large trees and vines emerging from the cracks in the bricks and stones.
The plants are more like they were intentionally left behind. Everything is so incongruous, as if the caretakers want to retain a sense of history and weirdness but also love cleanliness.
Of course, experienced adventurers can see this. It is not strange for someone to take care of and repair the ruins. It may be occupied by other humans or outsiders, or it may be that the people who were originally here have become undead and follow them.
Instinct before death, and possibly an automatic cleaning unit with magical properties.
If it is the first possibility, the country would generally rather kill it by mistake than eliminate it by mistake. After all, the possibility of criminal organizations and dangerous species is very high, and the danger of occupying mysterious areas such as ruins is even greater; the second possibility is even greater;
The possibility must be eliminated as soon as possible to avoid the emergence of more powerful undead among the crowd of undead; if it is the third possibility, it may become an exciting archeology.
In fact, Ainz put in some low-level undead below level 15 last night for fire reconnaissance, and they were all wiped out, completely ruling out the third possibility.
There are quite a few humans and undead inside.
Those races are not able to live in harmony according to the common sense of this world, which shows that there are high-ranking beings above them who can control them.
It is still unknown whether he has reached Ainz's level.
Since I discovered a pretty good warning barrier, I felt that it was of a low level but was one that Ainz didn't recognize. The gloomy lighting method inside was similar to some mazes in "yggdrasil". In order to avoid unnecessary complications, I didn't go any further.
of temptation.
At the same time, it also made Ainz a little excited and nervous about the possibility of seeing the time traveler again.
"Mr. Feifei, have you accepted the reality?" Francesca read.
"Don't worry, it's been years." Ainz said calmly.
But to be honest, it seems to be the "peak season" recently. In addition, what he talked about with Ruo Luji and Sunny some time ago made him have to go through his former guild partners from beginning to end in his mind. Now
He really had some expectations for the possibility of seeing his old friend.
He shook his head, drove away the useless thoughts at this time, and said: "Let's not talk about this anymore. In short, we must explore this ruins without destroying the function as much as possible. For this reason, these people will have more uses."
Francesca's tone of voice suddenly became fiery: "Alas, it's so pitiful. I don't know how many of them can come out alive."
"They will still be useful later, but we won't let them die too many times."
"Oh, isn't this more evil? It's like giving them a Russian turntable gun." When Francesca said this, her body seemed to have a rhythm like a sacred ritual of procreation.
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Ainz just expressed that he would not compromise his own rules and safety for the lives of these people, but this made him feel happy. He simply did not reply and went to the other three teams to exchange views.
"Although the location of this ruins is far away from cities and villages, adventurers, hunters and pharmacists who enter the forest to collect materials may still pass by. Why were the ruins only recently discovered?" He asked the experienced captains.
"Mr. Feifei, don't you know something?" The captain of "Five Whistle" pointed to the towering snow-white mountain peaks that could still be seen clearly through the jungle not far away...
