Warhammer 30k and the Great Tomb of Nazarick

Chapter 117 Sacrifice to the Blood God

Ainz's true level has never been high, and he is even inferior to General Enri in terms of leadership.

The main reason why he has been regarded as unfathomable for so long is that he possesses overwhelming strength. In this case, even his simple stupid behaviors will be interpreted from many aspects.

Ainz was also lucky. His occasionally whimsical actions would produce unexpected results for everyone, and the Great Tomb of Nazarick cast dozens of layers of filters over Ainz.

Under the powerful filter of Ainz, these NPCs often make Ainz's orders, which were originally intended to be bad, even worse.

Of course, Ainz is not without his merits. He has always been cautious and does not have any of the so-called baggage of being a strong man.

Gather as much intelligence as possible, show weakness to the enemy, and finally destroy the enemy with perfect equipment.

This is Ainz's purpose, and it is also the internal reason why he has been fighting wits and courage with the air for many years since coming to this world.

However, even in the spin-off, when Ainz traveled to the world alone, the enemies he faced were not ones that he could not defeat with his own strength.

It's different now. When Ainz came to this world, he had imagined the worst case scenario: world bosses were everywhere, world champions were no better than dogs, and four-digit enemies were possible.

This idea was proven to be groundless by its repeated attempts, but now the power from other worlds brought a situation that was even more terrifying than the most dangerous situation in Ainz's imagination.

That was a power that Ainz could not comprehend at all, and a power that he could never defeat.

At this moment, Ainz realized that all his previous attempts to accumulate strength were meaningless.

In the face of a force that uses the entire planet as a battlefield and can burn mountains and boil seas at will, the growth of the Great Tomb's power in recent years can be completely ignored.

So Ainz panicked. If he hadn't been forced to remain calm, he probably wouldn't be able to handle things normally now, and would have been overwhelmed by fear long ago.

But even with forced calmness, it only controlled his emotions within a threshold, rather than completely eliminating them. In fact, precisely because of the function of forced calmness, Ainz couldn't even trigger his instinctive self-protection mechanism when facing great fear.

It cannot be escaped by fainting, it cannot be temporarily forgotten.

Hence, ever since returning from that horrific battlefield, Ainz has been controlled by emotions such as fear and anxiety at all times.

This state of being like a blunt knife cutting flesh also seriously affected Ainz's judgment.

Under normal circumstances, the ritual that the Golden Princess came up with would be problematic no matter how you look at it. Even Ainz knew that the Golden Princess Lana could come up with such a thing, and it was not right no matter how you looked at it.

But now it has no other choice. The enemy is too powerful, and it is impossible to hold on even if it relies on the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

In this case, we can only hope to obtain external forces.

Of course, Ainz's cautious nature made him take some precautions.

This time, the sacrifice mobilized all the high-level units that could be deployed in the Great Tomb of Nazarick. Even Gao Kangda and Victim came, and they also brought all the remaining world-class props from the Great Tomb except the throne.

He even asked the combat maids and some high-level mercenaries to take away the treasures from the Great Tomb of Nazarick in advance. If a huge and unsolvable problem really arose here, they would just give up and run away.

Although it was hard for Ainz to abandon the Great Tomb of Nazarick, it was better than death. As long as his former companions' belongings were left behind, it would be fine.

At worst, we can find a way to retake the Great Tomb of Nazarick later.

As for the units that actually bore the force this time, they were actually units summoned by Ainz using item scrolls, and in fact, they were used as cannon fodder.

According to the information sent back by Pandora, the army of the Human Empire is about to arrive, and this time their strength is far beyond what it was before.

There was no time left in the Great Tomb of Nazarick; the ritual had to begin immediately.

Although he had no lungs, Ainz took a deep breath, then he knocked the staff of Ainz Ooal Gown on the ground and gave an order.

"The sacrificial ceremony is being held. The skull is used to please the Lord of the Skull, and the blood is offered to the God of Blood, begging the Lord of War to bestow His power!"

Albedo wanted to say something, but in the end she just moved her mouth and said nothing.

In the end, its loyalty overwhelmed its doubts, and it began the ceremony as Ainz requested.

Humans, elves, lizardmen, naga, frost giants, frost dragons, dwarves, and various other sub-humans, all intelligent creatures in the city of E-Rantel were being taken to the city square, and the only thing that greeted them was the road of sacrifice.

One by one, the Death Knights drew their greatswords and began to chop off the heads of the creatures brought to the scene, collecting their flowing blood.

Then they drew a huge eight-pointed star on the ground with blood, and began to pile up human heads at the eight corners of the star.

Faced with the undead army that suddenly changed its attitude and began to kill people wantonly, the residents who were used to living with the undead had no time to react. For a while, there were constant cries and pleas for mercy.

Some people tried to escape in the chaos, while others tried to resist to protect their families, and then they were all beheaded.

“Why is this happening?! Sorcerer King, you lied to us!”

Ainzach, who was a man of some ability and arrived later, was not killed immediately.

While dodging the undead's attacks, he questioned Ainz angrily.

Ainz on the platform did notice Ainzach, but the moment his eyes met Ainzach’s, he subconsciously turned his face away.

This was a very embarrassing situation for Ainz.

It had made promises to the residents of this city and emphasized the need to vigorously develop the adventurer business, but now that was gone, it was killing them as a sacrifice. From Ainz's personal subjective perspective, it was like making an appointment with friends for dinner but then standing them up. It was embarrassing.

As for more feelings, obviously there are none.

Ainz's principle has always been to give absolute priority to the Great Tomb of Nazarick. When it can provide benefits to the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Ainz does not mind showing some mercy.

However, if the interests of the Great Tomb of Nazarick were to be damaged, that would be absolutely unacceptable. On the other hand, if the interests of the Great Tomb of Nazarick could be improved by infringing upon others, even if it was only a tiny increase, but it would require others to pay a thousand times the price, Ainz would choose the interests of Nazarick without hesitation.

It has raised these creatures for so many years and spent so much effort, and now it is time to use them.

Noticing that Ainz ignored him, Ainzach continued to shout, grasping at straws.

"Fei Fei! Where is Fei Fei!?"

As Ainzach shouted, other people also took notice and began to shout as well. Thousands and tens of thousands of people began to shout the name of the dark hero Momon in fear and despair.

"Great hero Fei Fei! Save us!"

“The Sorcerer King has broken his promise! Momon, save me!”

"Where are you, Dark Hero!?"

These people don't know that Momon is actually a character that Ainz disguised as to satisfy his own desire for adventure, and their calls for help are doomed to be in vain.

In the end, Ainzach never waited for the dark hero Momon, and out of anger towards the Sorcerer King and regret for himself, his head was cut off by the Death Knight.

There was also a small problem with the subsequent sacrificial ceremony.

Because frost dragons were also sacrificial objects, the earliest frost dragon that took refuge in the Great Tomb, Hekimar, desperately crawled to the bottom of Ainz's platform and knelt on the ground begging for mercy.

“Ainz-sama, please, have mercy.”

Although Hekimal didn't know what happened and why Ainz wanted to kill them, he knew that Ainz couldn't be wrong, so when he was begging for mercy, he didn't even dare to ask Ainz to give him another chance.

Upon seeing Hekimal, Ainz hesitated.

Hekimar is a frost dragon, but he is not an ordinary frost dragon. He is a fat frost dragon wearing glasses.

Although Haikimal had lost a lot of weight due to his work, he also knew that the only reason he was able to survive before was that he knelt quickly and his appearance was different from that of ordinary frost dragons, so he ate desperately and gained a lot of weight back.

Looking at the rare frost dragon in front of him, Ainz was indeed a little reluctant to let it go. After all, unlike ordinary humans, this special individual of frost dragon was indeed hard to find.

The surrounding undead saw Ainz's hesitation and simply surrounded Hekimal temporarily without taking direct action, which made Hekimal very grateful.

Luckily, I knelt down directly this time, so there should be no problem.

Just when Hekimal was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard Ainz's voice.

"It's a pity, but never mind. Let's just kill him."

"Varied……"

Before he could say anything else, Hekimal's head was chopped off and placed on the top floor of a Jingguan.

Ainz turned his face away with a look of heartache. For him, a rare item was gone just like that.

Soon, all the intelligent life in the city of Ye-Rantel was killed, blood flowed in the city, and eight huge Jingguans rose from the ground.

As the ceremony progressed, the Blood God's gaze was also projected here, or rather, the power of Khorne's finger was projected here.

This set of sacrificial rituals was naturally taught by Ivel to the Golden Princess Lana. As for why she chose Khorne.

In fact, it is because in this alien world only Khorne threw a part of his origin here, the great demons under the other three gods are more like rootless water here, and cannot get the blessing and replenishment from the gods of the Most High.

Therefore, it would be a waste to not use the power of Khorne, since Khorne himself has no objection anyway.

It just so happens that since there is only one finger coming over here, the criteria for judging the sacrificial ceremony are much easier to fool than the authentic Khorne.

Ainz felt an extremely huge ancient gaze watching them from an infinite height.

The power was so great, so terrible, just as it was felt on the other side of the portal.

Ainz almost fell to his knees, but he forced himself to remain calm at the last moment and pulled himself back.

The blessing from Khorne has already arrived, and the high-level mercenary troops located inside the octagon that received the blessing have begun terrible changes.

Their muscles began to swell, and many even broke through the constraints of the skin. A layer of blood mist enveloped these mutated units.

In front of these monsters, a tall figure wearing black armor and holding a sword in each hand slowly emerged from the sea of ​​blood.

That was the dark hero Feifei that people called for, and Khorne's severed finger fulfilled these people's wishes before they died. He collected the echoes of their screams in the Warp when they were on the verge of death.

By pinching them together, he created a great demon called Fei Fei.

(End of this chapter)