Warhammer 30k and the Great Tomb of Nazarick

Chapter 84: The Gloomy Tomb
The Deepest Room on the Fifth Floor of the Great Tomb of Nazarick
This is the glacier area belonging to Cocytus, with extremely low temperatures all year round. Now Demiurge is also under house arrest here.

Although he was under house arrest, Demiurge was treated very well. He was just not allowed to leave the deepest room, which was about 50 square meters. It contained basic daily necessities and many books. Even though Demiurge did not need to eat, three meals a day were still delivered on time by servants.

Demiurge could also get various food and drinks at any time if needed.

In the past few days, Demiurge has been thinking about how to prove himself and how to help the Great Tomb of Nazarick deal with the problems that may arise next.

Today, Demiurge's thoughts were interrupted as he sensed a strange atmosphere.

Its room had windows, allowing for observation outside. Demiurge had previously seen an army of high-ranking servants gathered inside the tomb.

But now these senior servants have not been seen returning. Although the fifth floor itself is deserted, it now seems even more empty and lonely.

The four taciturn snow girls standing guard outside the room stopped talking completely at some point.

The servant who came to deliver the meal also had a solemn expression on his face, as if he was thinking about something.

Demiurge called out to the servant.

This is a very common humanoid insect servant of the fifth level, about level 40, and has no name of its own.

"What happened?"

"I'm sorry, Master Demiurge, I can't tell you that."

The servant replied carefully that although Demiurge was under house arrest, he was still the guardian of the class created by the Supreme Being, and before the Supreme Being deprived him of his identity, he was still an existence that the servants summoned through props or mechanisms had to look up to.

In response to Demiurge's questions, the servant answered very humbly, but refused to reveal any useful information.

“Damn it, what’s going on? Everyone’s reactions are wrong. Wait! Is Ainz-sama in danger!?”

Thinking of the worst possibility, Demiurge immediately rushed to the window and reached out to grab the servant who was delivering food outside. At this time, the four snow maidens moved.

This humanoid monster dressed in kimono and looking like a beautiful woman is actually Cocytus's guard, with a level over eighty.

Although the four snow maidens were unable to stop Demiurge, they were enough to hold him back for a short period of time while waiting for reinforcements.

Now the four snow maidens came to the window together and stopped Demiurge's hand.

“Damn it! Damn it! Forget about everything else, can you at least tell me how Lord Ainz is doing? I beg you.”

Demiurge said this, then he took three steps back and bowed at a ninety-degree angle toward the outside of the window.

Faced with Demiurge's humble attitude, the servants seemed a little overwhelmed. Finally, the four snow maidens looked at each other, and the leader stood up and said,

"Master Demiurge, we are under the orders of Master Ainz. We cannot reveal any information from the outside world to you. This is Master Ainz's order."

The Snow Woman placed emphasis on Ainz-sama.

"Great, Lord Ainz is alright. I feel relieved. I feel relieved."

Demiurge, who understood the other party's signal, breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to think about the situation at hand. However, due to the lack of too much key information, his thinking was doomed to be fruitless.

The Great Tomb of Nazarick, the throne room on the tenth floor
Originally, this was the place where Ainz, the Supreme Being, and the Guardians held meetings, but now even this place was filled with an ominous atmosphere.

Servants kept coming in and out, piling up a huge hill of gold coins on the ground. Every servant who came and went had a sad look on his face.

Ainz was still sitting on his throne. If it weren’t for the fact that his skull face couldn’t show any expression, it would have looked uglier than crying.

The losses this time were too great, hundreds of high-level servants over level 60 were wiped out in this battle.

The Hell Abyss, a world-class item, was taken away. Counting the previously stolen Mountain and River State Map, the Great Tomb of Nazarick has lost two world-class items. None of the class guardians, except Albedo, came back alive. Among them, Mare's condition was the strangest. Looking at Mare's ever-changing condition in the system bar, Ainz really couldn't imagine what Mare was going through now.

The system bar also showed that Shalltear was alive, but Ainz had no idea what was going on with Shalltear. He was afraid that she would call him through the network, so he didn't contact Shalltear at all.

However, considering that the last time Ainz saw Shalltear, it was impaled on a spear as a sacrifice, it is obviously in danger now.

The remaining Sebastian, Cocytus, Aura and Pandora are all dead.

The Angsu star cluster that followed was also completely destroyed.

Oh, the loss is heavy. To directly revive four level 100 NPCs and a large number of high-level units, the money is far more than the wealth Ainz has collected in the other world. Many years of savings are gone in an instant.

Now the Great Tomb of Nazarick has officially entered the era of living off its past wealth. Although the guild has accumulated a lot of wealth during the gaming era, it cannot withstand a few more turmoils like this.

Ainz kept muttering to himself as he started the resurrection ceremony.

The ocean of gold coins that originally covered the ground began to melt, and then gathered together to form units one after another.

After a brief period of confusion after their resurrection from the dead, Sebastian, Cocytus, Pandora, and Aura officially returned to the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

Aura searched the throne room several times but could not find any trace of her brother Mare, which made her come up with a very undesirable guess.

Aura asked Ainz very carefully:

“Ainz-sama, has Mare been sent out on a mission by you?”

Aura's voice was very soft, and she kept her head down while speaking, with her pair of elf-like pointed ears drooping, for fear of hearing a negative answer from Ainz.

Ainz originally wanted to comfort Aura, but the scene reminded him of how his guildmates had left him one after another. Forced calm was triggered, and after regaining his composure, Ainz told Aura the truth he knew.

"We may have lost Mare."

Aura burst into tears. Ainz consoled her and she finally stopped crying. However, she continued to sob in a corner.

"Let's think about what to do next. This time we are facing an unprecedentedly strong enemy. Even the world-class bosses look cute in comparison to them."

After he finished speaking, Ainz looked at everyone. Honestly, without Demiurge coming out to support him, Ainz felt like something was missing.

"We should fight with all our might until the very end."

After a brief silence, Cocytus spoke first, speaking like a typical warrior who valued honor more than life.

However, Ainz did not want to fight an unbeatable opponent.

"Perhaps we can draw on the wisdom of the Golden Princess."

The Golden Princess Lana Tierre Shardun Lair Vansef made a significant contribution to the Great Tomb during the destruction of the kingdom, so the Great Tomb rewarded this naturally sick witch and gave her the props to transform her race.

It transformed her from a human into a demon, and also gave her a status equivalent to that of a class guardian in the great tomb. Of course, it was only a status equivalent to that of a class guardian, but she actually had no real power. The so-called guardian only had one room in her territory.

Sebastian hated this former princess who betrayed her father, brother and country, but even he had to admit that the Golden Princess was the most intelligent person he had met in the Great Tomb of Nazarick so far.

"They are not trustworthy. Right now, the Great Tomb of Nazarick is facing a crisis of life and death. Such people can be used but cannot be completely trusted."

Ainz gave his comments, and then after listening to the suggestions of several other NPCs, Ainz made up his mind.

They completely contracted the Great Tomb's defenses, built a fake Great Tomb of Nazarick to draw attention, and actively prepared for war, but were ready to flee at any time.

(End of this chapter)