Ainz - Super-Tier Magic 2

But Ainz cast a super-tier spell as his first move. There was no panic or confusion on his face. A cold gleam radiated inside his vacant orbits.

A huge 3-D magic circle, a dome thirty feet across, radiated outward with Ainz at its center. The construct let off a pale-blue glow as patterns like translucent letters or symbols appeared across it. These latter changed at a dizzying rate, the same pattern never lingering for more than an instant.

Had he employed a cash store item, he could have cast immediately, but he didn’t. He took his eyes off Shalltear and scanned the area. “So there was...no ambush? Or do we wait and see? This would be a good chance to attack me, though...”

Casters unleashing a super-tier spell had low defense. And super-tier spells were set up so that if the caster took over a certain amount of damage during the implementation, the cast would be canceled. That was why it was basic strategy to have any caster using a super-tier spell under the protection of a few teammates. In other words, if someone was going to attack Ainz, otherwise defenseless, this would be the perfect chance.

But there was no change in his surroundings. “Are they just being careful?” Ainz laughed and shrugged.

Somehow or another, he was convinced that Shalltear hadn’t been positioned there as a trap but rather just abandoned. “Man, what is going on, though? Well, I’m not omniscient, so I can’t know everything. And if I were, I wouldn’t be in this mess, anyway.” He mumbled to himself and awkwardly rotated his shoulders.

While casting a super-tier spell, it wasn’t possible to move around much, so in a way, it involved standing around waiting like an idiot for time to pass.

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Volume 3, Chapter 4.2