Ainz - 10 Scrolls

He reached into an Infinity Haversack and pulled out a scroll. “It’s Locate Object. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you what we’re looking for.”

“Understood.”

The moment she unrolled the scroll and was about to cast the spell, Ainz grabbed her hand. She was caught by surprise. “...You fool,” he declared icily.

His level tone made her shoulders jump. “M-my apologies!”

“When you’re using intelligence-gathering magic, preparing adequately to guard against your enemy’s potential counterspells before casting is an iron rule. Considering your opponent could be using Detect Locate, protecting yourself with Fake Cover and Counter Detect is the most basic of the basics. Then you have—” Ainz had prepared ten scrolls. He went on to explain the rest of them to Narberal as if he were lecturing at a university.

When collecting intelligence using magic, it was necessary to take elaborate defensive measures. That was fundamental.

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“—and that’s it. Really, it’s also basic to use skills for boosts and counters, as well, but we probably don’t need to go that far against these guys. If they had casters able to do anything stronger than this, they wouldn’t have cast such low-level spells on those corpses. Okay, Narberal, do it.”

Finally free to act, Narberal unfurled each scroll in order, naming each spell as she went. The scrolls burst into heatless flames and burned up in a matter of seconds to release the magic sealed inside. Once she had used them all and was protected by numerous defensive spells, she cast Locate Object. Then, she pointed at the map. “They’re here.”

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Volume 2, Chapter 4.2