Ainz - Anti-detection Magic + Stronger than Flunder

“...If Ainz Ooal Gown really exists, then he is in possession of some rather powerful magic items. Or if he’s avoiding detection with his own power, I’d wager he has at least as good a command of magic as I, possibly even greater.”

The room grew nervous, excepting the emperor and the old man.

Had they really just heard that? Someone was equal to Fluder Paradyne, the most elite caster in all the empire’s history, principal court wizard, and the great sage known as “Triad Caster”?

“Aha! So that’s why you seem so happy, huh, old man?”

“As I should! I haven’t met an arcane caster equal to or better than me in two hundred years.”

“Did you meet one two hundred years ago?” the emperor asked, propelled by curiosity, and the principal court wizard recalled the distant past.

“Hmm. The fairy-tale Thirteen Heroes... I met one of them, tamer of the dead Ligritte Belzú Kaurau. She was the only one. Well, the other casters of the Thirteen Heroes may have been superior to her, but...”

“So do you think there are any arcane casters more powerful than you now?”

Fluder’s eyes were distant. “Hmm... I’ve probably come further than Kaurau did, so... But I have no proof... Magic isn’t the kind of discipline where superiority is easily decided.” The emotion behind his words as he slowly stroked his long beard suggested he was confident in that. Then he raised an eyebrow. “I do hope this Ainz Ooal Gown can be counted as more powerful than me.”

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Volume 6, Intermission