Mr. Gong is not only good at cooking

"How scary! Isn't that hero here?!"

The villagers are now extremely nervous, fearing that they might lose their lives at any moment.

Meanwhile, Demiurge was extremely anxious. Such a huge incident had occurred, yet he couldn't contact the Supreme Being!

Indeed, the restaurant only allows one-way communication; Ainz can contact Demiurge, but Demiurge cannot contact him.

Just as Shirou Emiya was about to speak and tell Ainz Ooal Gown what was going on, the restaurant door was suddenly pushed open, and a black-clad swordsman rushed in in a panic.

"Hey! It's this restaurant again!"

Ainz Ooal Gown realized that this was the human he had treated to dinner that night.

Kirito was in a panic. One second he was being babbled on by some idiot named Ya-o, and the next second that bastard got his head blown off by an arrow from some unknown direction. He didn't die, but his health was instantly low. Then a barrage of arrows swept in, leaving the entire plaza in ruins.

Meanwhile, a group of expert players quickly scattered to avoid becoming the next Fang King. Kirito re-entered the restaurant while trying to avoid them.

At the first level of the BOSS maze, the door to the BOSS room, which should have been opened by the players, was cleaved open by a sword, and a man covered in red armor walked out, carrying half of the kobold lord's corpse in his hand.

Strangely, in the game, Ilfang, who should have turned into fragments and disappeared, somehow retained his physical form, with large amounts of blood splattered all over the ground.

Outside the maze stood nearly a hundred people dressed similarly to the man, each holding a large black bow that exuded an ominous aura. Clearly, the rain of arrows earlier was their doing.

"Strange, isn't this newbie village a bit too weak? Aren't all these people's levels too low?"

The swordsman felt very strange; he even suspected that he and his group had been teleported to the wrong place.

Didn't we agree to ambush the hero and the goddess?

Good heavens, if General Magina knew that this group of people had even teleported to the wrong place, he would probably be ground to dust!

Forget it, I doubt the hero and goddess will appear here. Let's search one more time, leave a few people to guard the area, and the rest of us can retreat.

On the first floor, in a secluded corner, Kayaba Akihiko, disguised as Heathcliff, displayed a rather interesting expression.

He never expected that, with the game he designed and developed under his leadership, and even as the game administrator and GM, a bunch of things he didn't even know existed would suddenly appear.

According to the level classification set in their own game, these people are all close to level 60. Any one of them is comparable to the gatekeeper BOSS of the Aincrad's high-level players.

Such terrifying levels and power, even rewriting game data—could SAO have been hacked? Does the government actually have talent in this area?!

But that shouldn't be the case! SAO players are all living people; the government can't just stand by and watch them die!

Kayaba Akihiko was completely dumbfounded. As the GM, he couldn't even remove these people and could only temporarily use other methods to block them.

Inside the restaurant, after listening to Kirito's description, Shirou Emiya felt that there might be more than one world that had been invaded, but based on what Kirito had seen, he couldn't tell at all which world had been invaded.

“Mr. Ainz Ooal Gown, in Carne Village above your Great Tomb, Aincrad from Kirito’s world has appeared, while enemies from another world have appeared in Aincrad from Kirito’s world.”

Think carefully, have you come into contact with or discovered anything suspicious recently?

After briefly informing Kirito about the new restaurant, Emiya Shirou asked them questions.

“Something suspicious?” Ainz Ooal Gown turned to look at the Grand Eunuch Albedo.

"Have I come into contact with anything suspicious?" Kirito began to think.

Albedo immediately said, "Lord Ainz, we actually wanted to report to you today. In the past few days, we have been receiving reports of people disappearing from Nazarick, but those who are about to disappear are all very low-level creatures, so we did not dare to disturb you."

Ainz Ooal Gown was stunned. No, he had to get back immediately!

He immediately stood up and said to Shirou Emiya, "Manager Emiya, I'm very sorry, I have to go back and deal with this!"

"It's okay, I understand. I'm also worried about this issue. Please feel free to ask if there's anything we can help you with."

"Well then, we'll take our leave for now."

After seeing off Ainz Ooal Gown and his companions, Shirou Emiya looked at Kirito: "Do you have any clues?"

Kirito said uncertainly, "I think a few days ago, when I was leveling up in the wild, I saw a button switch in the grass that was emitting a strange purple glow. I didn't press it, really."

Ah, this.

Emiya Shirou understood.

The case is solved! The culprit was definitely this button. The plot seems a bit familiar: a quartet from another world.

But if I remember correctly, what does Kirito have to do with this?

It's one thing to appear in SAO, but why does it also emit a strange purple aura?

Shouldn't this button take people to a strange academy?

Why do they appear in their respective worlds, and even manage to teleport the entire Aincrad to another world?

That's weird, so weird.

Emiya Shirou felt that this matter needed to be handled properly, otherwise it would become increasingly chaotic and really not fun.

Our team's strength is still pretty weak!

This must be nipped in the bud!

"Manager, do you have any solutions?" Kirito asked.

"It's hard to say. Do you remember where you found this thing?" Emiya Shirou thought he should start with the button.

Kirito nodded, glanced at his interface, and said, "I remember, because this thing seemed really weird, I even marked it on the map. What do you need me to do?"

Emiya Shirou said, "Well, it's really hard to say whether it's still in the same place, but just in case, you should go and check it out first."

"I'm going right now!" Kirito immediately pushed open the glass door and ran out.

CC asked, "What is Shirou worried about?"

"No, I wouldn't say I'm worried, but I find it very strange and I'm very curious. In my memory, if it were the thing Kirito was talking about, it shouldn't have such an exaggerated effect."

“Since his world has already shown abnormalities, this thing should have already been used. It is unlikely that it will remain in the same place. However, if in their eyes it is just something that looks good but is useless, then it is possible that it is still in the same place.”

"After all, they're a game world, and everything should be digitized and displayed on the interface. But it's also possible that it won't display, or that it might be accidentally triggered by small animals or monsters in the wild," Meruet-chan analyzed.

Soon, Kirito returned, holding a rusty red button switch, but it wouldn't press no matter how hard he tried.

"This is it, but when I found it it was already like this, it looks like it has been used."

Emiya Shirou put on his gloves, picked up the mechanism, and examined it repeatedly, asking in his mind, "Yui, analyze this."

"Okay, store manager, please wait a moment."

After a short while, Yui said, "The appearance and design are indeed completely unrelated to a restaurant. Although I didn't find any strange purple aura on it, it still emits a faint energy that is very evil, like something made by demon kings or evil gods."

Demon King, Evil God?

Well, there are a lot of these things.

Doesn't that mean we still don't know where it came from?

Sigh, I was planning to discuss with Ainz Ooal Gown today about borrowing a few Guardians to handle the affairs of the Tatsumi world, but it seems I'll have to postpone that decision.

Emiya Shirou asked Kirito, "You just went back. How is the situation now? Are there any casualties?"

"No, but the first-floor BOSS was instantly killed by them, and it's possible that Kayaba Akihiko intervened. He set up a confinement area in the plaza and BOSS room, trapping all these people inside."

Grandpa Tong still felt lingering fear when he recalled the scene. The other party may have just been testing the waters. If they had really aimed, every single player present would have died.

The King of Fangs wasn't low-level either, almost level 9, but he was reduced to red blood after just being grazed by an arrow to the head.

Luckily he was fortunate; otherwise, if it had really hit his forehead, he would have died on the spot, and there would be nothing more to say.

Meanwhile, at the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Ainz Ooal Gown mobilized everyone in the entire Great Tomb, and anyone who found anything suspicious was immediately brought up. Before long, the dark elf siblings carefully carried up a switch button that looked almost exactly like Kirito's description, emitting a purple aura.

"Supreme Ruler! We've discovered this!"

Ainz Ooal Gown cast an appraisal spell, only to find that, like the restaurant, it couldn't identify anything. The evil power emanating from it made even him feel slightly uncomfortable.

"What exactly is this thing, and why is it in Nazarick? Has anyone else found the same thing?"

Soon after, the other guardians arrived, each carrying the same switch. However, unlike the others, these switches had already been used and were now unusable.

Demiurge was the first to kneel on one knee, his face filled with fear: "Supreme Ruler, please punish us! We failed to discover these traps in time!"

A group of guardians also knelt down, their faces extremely grim, a mixture of regret and self-reproach.

"Supreme Ruler, please punish us without mercy!"

Ainz Ooal Gown discovered that he could no longer control his emotions as before, and his innate ability to calm down had not taken effect automatically.

What on earth is going on?!

Ainz Ooal Gown then realized that his passive ability had disappeared!

This is outrageous! This is a total rip-off!

Without this passive ability, I'd play snake!

Putting aside whether I'll be driven crazy by these guardians, I can't handle those two girls alone!

However, in the eyes of Demiurge and his group, Ainz's appearance transformed from panic and unease into anger and disappointment, which made these loyal guardians even more fearful and remorseful.

What to do? The Supreme Being is truly angry!

Is the Supreme Being disappointed in us?!

Why didn't we discover this sooner!

These things must have seriously threatened Nazarick, which is why the Supreme Being was so enraged!

In the Bahars Empire, in the capital city of Owentar, a group of wounded knights rode their horses with tense expressions along the main road leading to the imperial city.

Tourists and pedestrians on the street had no choice but to make way.

"What happened?!"

"These must be the empire's elite troops, right? How come they're in such a sorry state? Has a foreign enemy invaded?"

About twenty minutes later, Gilkenif Rune Farod El, known as the Blood Emperor, received the group of knights at his palace.

He frowned and asked, "Shouldn't you be guarding the border? What happened?"

"Your Majesty... the border is gone..."

"What!!"

Gilkenif thought he'd misheard: "What did you say?!"

The knight wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with difficulty and said with difficulty, "Several towns on the border of the empire have fallen. The enemy claims to be from the demon realm, puh~ waah!"

Before he could finish speaking, he coughed up blood and collapsed to the ground, dying.

Fruda Parade, who was standing nearby, stepped forward to examine it, shook his head, and said, "It is an extremely evil power. It is beyond saving. I believe it was left behind by the enemy. Even I cannot completely eliminate it. Your Majesty, cremation is the only option."

"What is this Demon Realm?! He is the strongest person guarding the border. Even he failed. Wouldn't the enemy be able to enter as if there were no one there?!"

“Your Majesty need not worry, I will lead the army to suppress it!” Bajud Peshumer, the uncle codenamed Lightning, comforted him.

“Indeed, I will go with Knight Bajud. I will not allow evil to run rampant in the Empire!”

This scene not only occurred in the Bahars Empire, but also on the borders of the Slane Theocracy and the Kingdom of Ri Yestize.

However, Ainz Ooal Gown is not aware of this yet.

He's still outwitting his subordinates, and without his forced composure, it's incredibly difficult for him.

In the restaurant, Shirou Emiya began to try hard to recall a world related to evil gods and demon kings, and they had to be the kind that were extremely powerful.

After much deliberation, they still couldn't come up with a plausible solution, so they had no choice but to give up and wait for further news.

Kirito also returned to Aincrad and reunited with a group of top-tier players.

"Kirito, are you alright?" Klein asked worriedly.

"I'm fine. How about you? Are you all alright?"

"Akiel and I are both fine, and the others are unharmed, except for that big idiot who wasted a lot of healing potions. It's really gratifying."

Seriously, what's wrong with closed beta testers? The information they have wasn't provided to them for free by the closed beta testers. Ungrateful bastards, what a nuisance!

"But Kirito, what exactly are these things? They're supposedly monsters that never even appeared in SAO!"

Kirito shook his head with a wry smile. How could he possibly know something that even Shirou Emiya didn't know?

"Klein, you all need to be extra careful lately, and don't touch anything or anything that seems suspicious!"

Klein looked around and, finding no one paying attention to the two of them, immediately whispered in Kirito's ear, "Did you discover something?"

Kirito said worriedly, "The information is very outdated and bizarre. I don't know how to tell you, but these people might be real, not just game data."

"What—!" Klein wanted to exclaim, but he immediately covered his mouth. Noticing a group of people looking at him, he quickly forced a laugh and said, "Nothing!"