Overlord - The Lizardmen Heroes - Куганэ Маруяма (читать книги без txt) 📗

In fact, if you ignore the material he was using, anyone would be impressed by the quality of his work.

The other items displayed in this tentage, such as the bronze bust of the master cast from lava, all sort of chairs and clamps are all made by Demiurge. They might be for practical use and lack decorations, but they were all excellent pieces.

As Demiurge was studying a material he picked up from a corner of the tent, he felt some movement near the entrance.

Demiurge put the bone in his hands back gently and held the item bestowed to him by his master that might not be replaceable, focusing on what was happening outside. Normally, the one outside should be his underling or colleague. No one could have broken through all three layer of Demiurge’s defences without him noticing, but he had to be wary of the one who had controlled Shalltear.

Several seconds later, someone opened the entrance of the tent. He was dressed in pure white, wearing a mask with a long beak like a bird.

Peruchinera.

He was a clown, a creation of the Supreme Being just like Demiurge. For this operation, he had been assigned to assist Demiurge.

Confirming that he was not under mind control, the tension in Demiurge’s eyes dispersed, and he relaxed the grip on the item in his hand.

“Demiurge-sama, the skin has been peeled.”

These words made Demiurge felt that it was a shame.

Demiurge wanted to enjoy this work himself, but in order to guard against the mysterious enemies, he couldn’t leave his post most of the time and had to assign the task to Peruchinera.

Demiurge did not express his emotions and gave new instructions to Peruchinera.

“Good work. Well then, begin the next phase. It would be disrespectful if we give that thing to Ainz-sama like this.”

Demiurge asked Peruchinera who was bowing gracefully.

“So, how many died?”

“None. Thanks to the tormentor, they only lost consciousness, therefore we can continue peeling their skin soon. A few were unwilling to be healed… but that was within expectation, so there is no issue.”

“That is splendid.”

It took a lot of effort to collect the materials, they had to peel few more times for it to be worthwhile. That might be so, but he didn’t want to peel the skins in a painless fashion or drug them.

“I want everyone to be happy.”

Peruchinera said suddenly, making Demiurge remember his personality.

Peruchinera was known throughout Nazarick for his gentleness and mercy. He was created for the purpose of making everyone happy, and his action was based on this belief.

“The people in the Great Tomb of Nazarick find happiness in serving Ainz-sama.”

Demiurge nodded in agreement.

“I see. Let me ask you, Peruchinera, do you mean that other people will feel happy when they serve Nazarick?”

“How could that be, I don’t mean that. Serving Ainz-sama makes us so happy that we could cry tears of joy. But if they were forced to do the same, that’s not happiness.”

“Ohh, then what should we do about this?”

“Simple, just pick one person and cut off his arms. That way, the others will compare themselves with him and know that they are more fortunate. How wonderful. And to make the one whose arms were chopped off feel blessed, we just need to chop off another person’s legs. Ahh, I made so many people happy!”

Demiurge looked with satisfaction at the clown that was throwing his head back in laughter.

“I see, you are right.”

Part 2

It felt long if you spend all your time waiting, but when you prepare for something with a deadline, you would feel that time passes by in a flash.

The promised time had come.

That day, the burning sun crawled up in the sky as slow as a tortoise, the sky was blue and devoid of clouds. There was no sound from the wind, the world seemed so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

The tension was so thick that you could cut it with a knife.

Some of them gulped, others breath in deeply.

An unknown amount of time passed since the gathered lizardmen had turned silent.

Suddenly, a dark cloud that seemed to appear from a hole in the sky spread speedily across the blue sky just like it did before.

Shortly after, the cloud blocked out the entire sky, and the surrounding dimmed with the absence of sunlight—

The lizardmen saw countless undead march slowly from the border dividing the forest from the wetlands. With the trees in the way, it was impossible to tell how many of them there were, they just kept emerging like an endless flood.

The invaders included 2,200 zombies, 2,200 skeletons, 300 undead beasts, 150 skeleton archers, 100 skeleton riders. An army of 4,950, not including the commander and its guards.

Opposing them was the five tribe alliance of lizardmen.

‘Green Claw’ has 103 warriors, 4 druids, 7 hunters, 124 male lizardmen, and 105 female lizardmen.

‘Small Fang’ has 65 warriors, 1 druid, 16 hunters, 111 male lizardmen, and 94 female lizardmen.

‘Razor Tail’ has 89 heavy armor warriors, 3 druids, 6 hunters, 99 male lizardmen, and 81 female lizardmen.

‘Dragon Tusk’ has 125 warriors, 2 druids, 10 hunters, 98 male lizardmen, and 32 female lizardmen.

‘Red Eye’ has 47 warriors, 15 druids, 6 hunters, 59 male lizardmen, and 77 female lizardmen.

Their combined strength were 429 warriors, 26 druids, 45 hunters, 491 male lizardmen, and 389 female lizardmen. A total of 1,380 troops, excluding the tribal chiefs and Zaryusu.

The battle where one side outnumbers the other by three to one thus began.

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It was a house made from wood.

There were no decorations, the wooden structure was plain to see and the design was as plain as a cabin. But the ceiling was five meters from the floor while the length and breadth were more than twenty meters either way.

There were barely any furniture inside, just a giant mirror on the wall, a huge and sturdy table as well as the chairs around it.

Several people were seated on the chairs, and parchments rolled into scrolls were placed on the table before them— scrolls imbued with magic.