What should I do now? Urgent! Wait online! Ainz really wants to open the chat dialog box and switch to the world channel to ask for opinions!
Ainz, who had "escaped" from the Empire, was sitting in his office in Erantil, feeling very depressed.
Fortunately, Demiurge and Albedo, the two great thinkers in Nazarick, were away due to official duties, otherwise I would not have known how to face them.
My trip to the empire was just to poach people. My original intention was to recruit adventurers from the empire to my side. Unexpectedly, the emperor of the empire made an inexplicable request for affiliation.
I was so anxious that I didn't agree to him directly. I really didn't know what Gilniv was thinking. What about the alliance they agreed on? What about making friends with the emperor and discussing the emperor's studies together? Why did he become a vassal state all of a sudden?
Ainz never figured it out. He simply smuggled into the empire to poach someone, right?
At that time, when I saw Gilniv coming to watch the battle in the arena, I was shocked. Although I said that I had some friendship with Gilniv, it was really my fault for sneaking into the country and not saying hello to him.
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At that time, I just wanted to go up and say hello, and then I saw my daughter Yili, whom I had lost contact with for a long time, there. Since Yili had previously used some means to sneak into the Theocracy, the "shrewd" myself wanted to avoid it.
To interfere with his daughter's plan, he could only pretend not to recognize her. Fortunately, she was dressed in such a way that her face could not be seen at all, so she could fool around at will.
So since Yili is there, the empire-affiliated plan must be her masterpiece.
Hmm...it's such a headache to have a capable daughter!
How long has it been since this daughter left home alone to act alone? First she infiltrated the Theocracy, which had very little information, and then used some method to get the Dragon Kingdom to take the initiative to propose an alliance, and also rented many undead, so that the Sorcerous Kingdom, which had just founded the country,
Earned the first funds.
Although the two batches of undead labor were rented out at very low prices, they can throw out a lot of things with just a wave of their hands, as many as they want.
Being able to rent it out can not only make money but also play a certain role in publicity. Forget about the Dragon Kingdom... What shocked me even more now is that this time the empire of the Sorcerous Kingdom and the Allied Powers... is directly affiliated.
I really don’t know how Yi Li did this.
Moreover, it is very likely that this was Iri's idea, because the previous alliance with the Dragon Kingdom and the incident of leasing undead labor had already caused Demiurge and Albedo to come to her side to pay homage.
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However, I was completely confused at this time, okay? Even the Dragon Kingdom noticed for the first time that there was such a small country living in the cracks between the big countries in the central country, and it also caused them to misunderstand.
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The alliance of the Dragon Kingdom is also part of the so-called "Lord Ainz"'s plan. I really want to ask "Lord Ainz" what exactly is his plan?
Thinking of this, Ainz turned his attention to Dan Coleman, the maid on duty today, and saw her staring at him with a rosy face.
Uh... Ordinary maids wouldn't see me in a daze, and wouldn't think of some "great" plan. After all, the maid is not Demiurge...
After thinking about it for a while, I still couldn't figure out how my capable daughter managed to conquer two countries at the same time in such a short period of time. Forget about the small country of Dragon Kingdom, the Empire was a very powerful country in the Central Continent.
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Although they had an alliance status in the past, I heard from Demiurge that Gilniv himself was not very honest and was planning some big alliance behind the scenes.
But now there is no news about this major league, and it has been taken care of by his own daughter. Having a daughter who is too good is also a problem... The key is that the father of this daughter is very wise on the surface, but very wise on the inside.
He is a stupid dad who has nothing.
Hmm... I'm thinking wrong again. Aren't I thinking about how to explain to Demiurge and Albedo?
Demiurge is still busy with matters in the Holy Kingdom during this period, and he shouldn't be able to come back in a short time. However, Albedo is just visiting the Kingdom of Riestige and will be back in two days!
What excuses and reasons should he use to explain the problem of being affiliated with the empire? When Ainz thought about this, his non-existent stomach seemed to feel a dull pain...it was clear that his skeleton did not have that organ.
Otherwise... I can just become a hands-off shopkeeper and run away. Even if I accept the empire as a subsidiary, there are still a lot of issues that I need to make up my own mind.
To be honest, I can barely manage a trade union, but I am really not that good at running a country!
So I let the two think tanks of Nazarick do it. I happened to see "runes" in the empire, which was not in the world tree, but existed in my original world. I originally wanted to go to the dwarves.
If the kingdom is looking for rune craftsmen, it would be better to use the opportunity to visit the dwarf kingdom as an excuse to escape!
Although... it is very painful to negotiate with the dwarf kingdom, but compared to staying in Nazarick and being bombed by Demiurge and Albedo regarding the empire-affiliated incident, negotiating with the dwarf kingdom is obviously easier.
Bar!
Although I feel a little sorry for Demiurge and Albedo, and I feel even more sorry for Yili who achieved all this independently, but in order to save my face as a father, I can only choose a more relaxed life.
Well! I visited the dwarf kingdom to investigate the matter of "Run"! It's not because of fear! Absolutely not!
Ainz comforted himself by saying this, and then stood up. The maid beside him also reacted instantly. Ainz could only order her to relax with gestures, and then walked back and forth in the office.
Although he asked Fulda from the Empire about runes before returning, the information he provided only said that the Empire had transactions with the Dwarf Kingdom a long time ago and also purchased magic equipment engraved with runes.
But since a hundred years ago, there has been no contact with the dwarf kingdom. Although this is quite important information, it is of no use to me now.
The problem now is that according to various intelligence analysis, rune technology should be unique to the dwarf kingdom. If you negotiate with them based on this, there is a high probability that you will be turned away!
However, you can use magic to force the dwarves to reveal information. This is indeed very simple, but if the rune technology is related to the players behind it, it will be troublesome... so you still have to treat it with caution.
Ainz walked around his office several times, thinking that even if he wanted to go out to negotiate with other countries, he would have to consider so many issues, not to mention the piles of problems after being attached to the Empire. It seemed that he had to
Run away... no, just go on a visit!
Uh... Now that we've decided, we have to think about the people accompanying us... It's really nerve-wracking... Ainz sat on his office chair again, crossed his hands and continued to think about whether this "escape" was about other matters of the trip.