CH 6: Ogre gone

[9th Floor] [Momonga's office]

"Good job Mare."

"Y-Yes!" Mare frightened voice resounded in the room.

'Is he scared of me?— It's a 'she' now dammit! Ha~ Nevermind.'

I am thanking Mare now because she had just finished the task of blending the Nazarick to its surroundings.

Anyway, I am now sitting in my comfy chair in my office looking at the floor guardians who genuflected and looking at me.

"Umu... What happened to 'those' guys?" I said.

"The people we kidnapped are currently on Neuronist's place for questioning, Momonga-sama." Albedo replied who is beside me; I am of course referring to the Sunlight Scripture we just snatched.

"Avoid killing a lot of them, but never kill the strongest one there. Anyway, what is the progress for the next operation?" I reminded. I had already said this yesterday but there's nothing wrong with reminding right? On which Albedo replied with affirmative and then she added:

"All is set now Momonga-sama, we've already briefed 100 operatives. We are just waiting for the green light."

The process of gathering information is important after all, the 100 doppelgangers will assassinate, infiltrate, and compile information from important positions of selected nations. Besides that, the doppelgangers are also accompanied by Shadow Demons of equal numbers. Creating a web of Shadow demons network in other countries, for communication and other purposes.

[Message scrolls] are scarce, I am still contemplating on sending Demiurge for the task.

'Umu.' Just as I am thinking about someone spoke.

"Momonga-sama," Demiurge said.

"Ah. Yes, Demiurge. What is it?"

"Momonga-sama should check this prototype religious text that has been requested by your esteemed self." Demiurge bowed and produced a book that has a black-cover. And Albedo who is on my side pick it and then gave it to me.

'This fast?! I had just talked about this 2 days ago?!' And then my emotions are forcefully calmed down. 'Of course, It's still a prototype.'

I had talked about invading the world via faith, I do think It's easy and will give us more advantages over the invasion by force.

'Creating a religion just for that? Not bad. Of course, I proposed the idea of 'Strength is Justice' to Demiurge last time because It's just that cool.'

"...I see, then I must look into this later."

"Thank you for listening to this one's request Momonga-sama," Demiurge said

"Umu, then Aura, what is your status?"

"I am still in the process of scouting the forest, Momonga-sama!" Aura answered, full of energy.

"I read the report, I've seen that you found some demihuman tribes?"

"Yes! There are toadman, Lizardmen tribes..." Aura listed the races she had found. And after that I replied.

"I see. Excellent job Aura, do continue your work." On which Aura replied with loud "Yes!!" just as expected from her. "Then Cocytus."

"Yes. Momonga-sama."

"In 30 days, you will invade the Lizardman tribes. I will give them hope and let them unite themselves. I want you to command the troops that I will give you. You are not allowed to participate in the battle nor any of your vassals."

"Understood. Momonga-sama."

"And now. Listen, Guardians." I said and the guardians replied "Yes!" in unison.

"Our first step in this world will be made today, but always remember that we are not in a rush, and knowledge is power! We must gather information first in the neighboring countries..."

"Operation Blackout shall begin!"

***

Hundreds of forces of the Great Tomb of Nazarick are sent to many designated places to gather information and infiltrate. No matter how trivial the information is. Stories about the thirteen heroes, myths of dragons, important notable figures, and other information at the national level.

The raw information that is gathered will be sent first to the assigned intellectual Overlords — the 50 summoned Overlords by Momonga — that are under the three geniuses of Nazarick to be filtered. The operation started today.

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(Next day)

[E-rantel Adventurer's guild]

'Hmmm.' I am currently in the guild and looking for a job in the Quest board.

'I can't read any of this.' I thought. It's just that I can't understand a thing here.

'Well, whatever.' I thought since I have let Lupusregina handle this stuff, I gave her that translating magic glass item to let her find a suitable job for us.

Since that incident from the guild 3 days ago, no one has tried to bother us anymore. Our 3-man team has a reputation now because of that.

While standing there for a couple of minutes, a team of Silver-plates adventurers invited us to go on a mission.

"Hello, would you like to team with us for a mission?"

*

'T-This is Sword of Darkness.' I thought. We just finished our introduction when I realized this. And they are now in the process of introducing themselves.

"... This is Ninya, the spell caster," Peter Mauk said.

"That's embarrassing Peter-san..." Ninya said with an embarrassed face. 'He' has brown hair and blue eyes with a face that looked childish, the best-looking face of the group. 'His' skin was pale and wore leather clothes.

Peter Moak had blonde hair and blue eyes, both of which were common in the kingdom, while his unremarkable face had smooth features. He wore a chainmail armor with numerous chains of rings forming a mesh, which was worn on top of a leather shirt.

"... there is someone who possessed better talent than me in this city," Ninya added.

"Oh, Bareare-sama?" Another man chimed in, he has a groomed beard covering his mouth, and coupled with his bulky body, he looked like a barbarian. He is Dyne Woodwonder

He also had the faint smell of grass on him, which seemingly came from the pouches on his waist.

"Yea..." Ninya replied.

"I have a question Momon-san." Lukrut suddenly spoke and the whole table goes quiet.

"What are your relations?" Lukrut asked while looking at the three of us.

'Ah— If I said anything that is not confirming that we are 'in love' this little shit will be annoying. So—'

"They are my wives." Both of my companions are of course startled as well.

"They are your WHAT?! Ehem. I-I see."

"H-Hey Lukrut-san! Stop peeking into someone's life! A-Apologies Momon-san..." Peter intervened.

"Are you a noble Momon-san?" Ninya suddenly asked. I could feel a hidden hatred coming from her. And his fellow companions' faces changed with worried looks.

Seconds felt long as I pondered what is the correct answer to this question. I mean I am king, right? Technically. But Am I noble? Well.

"I am not a noble Ninya-san, why do you ask?" I answered.

"N-nothing."

"Then anyway let's do our job, shall we?"

Before we set out, we bought some rations and other stuff that are needed in case of emergency.

I am proud of my solution on stopping Lukrut annoying advances to Narberal, 'I'm such a big-brain.'

*

[Outside of E-rantel]

We've been patrolling for 20 minutes now and It's quiet. Unusually quiet even Lupusregina is quiet.

'Haa~ where is this awkward atmosphere coming from?'

And then someone spoke first.

"You're quiet now Lukrut-san, you're the noisiest on our team. What happened to you?" Peter said to Lukrut but Lukrut didn't reply.

I decided to speak too.

"Ninya-san."

"Yes? Momon-san?" Ninya said while looking at me questioningly.

"Sorry for asking but I am curious about your talent. What is that?" I said sorry at first because It's common for people to not tell their talents since sometimes it can be their trump card.

"No, It's fine. My talent is making learning faster than an average caster." 'He' said.

"Yes. Ninya learned spells that would normally take 8 years, but Ninya only did 4," Dyne chimed in.

"Hoh? You're amazing Ninya-san."

"Eh. Er. It's not. really."

And because of that, the awkward atmosphere is gone and everyone became talkative, Lupusregina started talking with Ninya about various legends like the dragons from the Mountains, etc.

I, too also talked with both Dyne and Peter. Only Lukrut and Narberal stayed quiet the entire time. Well, Narberal is naturally quiet, so yeah.

And then suddenly "Shhh." This is the first time he made a noise after a while. Lukrut then gestures us to be quiet. And put his hand on his ear.

We are currently in the northern outskirts of E-Rantel. Kinda close to the forest.

Peter, Ninya, and Dyne's expressions turned serious.

"Lot of goblins, and a few ogres." The Sword of Darkness members is shocked for a second.

"I see."

"A tribe migration?"

And so the Sword of Darkness gone to their positions facing the forest. Moments later, three 8 feet to 10 feet ugly ass creatures. Mostly resembling large shaved gorillas with warty brown skin, but with a sinister aura and a greater deal of muscle mass came outside the forest with 15 goblins.

"We could not handle this. Tactical retreat?" Lukrut said.

"My team could handle the ogres."

"E-Eh?" The other team's dumbfounded faces look at me like "Are you kidding me?"

"Just handle the goblins," I added.

"O-Okay, I trust you Momon-san," Peter said.

The ugly faces and tribal wear of goblins are disgusting. This is something you could find in a 'Images you could smell' memes.

And so the battle started with Lukrut baiting the dumb goblins.

Lukrut loosed an arrow but purposedly made it not hit, and the dumb goblins laugh before charging.

"They fell on it again," Lukrut said.

The goblins charged to the Sword of darkness, and Peter immediately assumed the frontline and had been given buff by Lupusregina and his teammates.

"Gina, support them on fighting the goblins. Nabe and I will kill the ogres."

"Okay~"

Of course, the Sword of Darkness had an incredulous expression on their faces before resuming their job fighting the goblins.

'Yosh!'

I ran towards the slow Ogres with my unsheathed bastard sword with Nabe trailing behind my back.

The moment one of the Ogres entered my range.

I powerfully swung my sword that is enough to cut an ogre.

"GRHHH—" The ogre roared in agony after I cleaved him. Cutting half of his body.

The other two Ogres are of course shock and the furthest in the back is already trying to run.

"Nabe! Do not let that one escape alive."

"Yes, Momon-sama. [Lightning]" Narberal cast a 3rd-tier spell to the Ogre, instantly killing him.

And It's my turn now, I jumped to the last remaining Ogre because it entered my range, I readied my sword to swung it down.

The Ogre instinctively used the club weapon he has to block the sword but — I swung the sword down and cleaved him in half.

*thud* *thud*

The ogres fell one by one like puppets whose strings had been cut.

I could hear the words leaving the mouth of the Sword of Darkness.

"S... Strong."

"A-Are you sure he's a C-Copper-plate?"

"T-That's why he got two beauties by his side."

The other team muttered as they just finished fighting all the goblins with Lupusregina healing them.

"Oy, you guys are fine there?" I shouted at them. On which Peter replied: "Yeah, We're fine here Momon-san!"

"Let's start some cutting parts."

"Y-Yeah."

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(Earlier)

Narberal does not understand why her master — A great Supreme Being needs to lower himself with these insects that are called "Humans".

While her sister is tasked with looking through quests on the board in the Adventurer's Guild, a group of maggots had approached their master asking for "teaming-up", her master accepts their request to which still confuses her till now.

Now in the present, these crickets are introducing their names. In her thought, there is no need to remembering the names of these puny ants.

She cannot understand how her sister — Lupusregina — did it.

'How could Lupusregina remember their names? I don't understand.' Narberal thought.

Then one of these Phasmids has the guts to question his master. This infuriated her.

"What are your relations?" The Phasmid asked.

'We are servants of the Supre—' Her thoughts stopped when her master said something she didn't expect.

"They are my wives."

"They are your WHAT?! Ehem. I-I see."

Narberal's short-circuited for seconds. The same could be said with her sister.

'W-Wife?!'