Ainz - Senses

“Eh-heh, yuh found me, ’ey?” A goblin poked its head out of the field and stuck out its tongue. Apparently it had been trying to sneak up behind them, but its skills weren’t enough to fool ranger Lukrut. Still, just discovering them didn’t mean the adventurers had gained the advantage

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While appreciating the forest, he was on the lookout, of course, but detected no movement—it was very quiet. Far—quite far—away he could hear birds or some other animals twittering, but apart from that there was nothing that gave him the sense that there was anything alive in these woods.

He could see Lukrut walking cautiously at the front of the line, exercising all five senses to the fullest; the ranger seemed to have judged that there was nothing hiding in their vicinity.

But there is. Ainz thought proudly of the one who was probably silently tailing them at that very moment.

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“Sorry!” A dark elf girl peeked out from the shadows of a tree, giggling. It was one of the guardians of the sixth level of the Great Tomb of Nazarick, Aura Bella Fiora.

“How long have you been there?!”

“Hmm? Since you and Lord Ainz came into the forest.” As a beast tamer and ranger, stalking was a piece of cake for her. Lukrut was a ranger, too, but there was too big a gap in their skill levels for him to detect Aura. “So I find the magical beast known as the Wise King of the Forest and send it after you, right, Lord Ainz?”

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Volume 2, Chapter 3.3