Ainz - Iä Shub-Niggurath

Ainz waved an arm. In response, a gigantic dome-shaped magic circle—it must have been at least thirty feet across—suddenly appeared with Ainz at its center. The two standing to either side of him were also inside it, but nothing seemed to happen to them as a result. It must not have been something that could hurt his allies.

Even the ones who knew they were facing an emergency couldn’t help but watch the fantastic spectacle.

The magic circle glowed pale blue, and patterns like translucent letters or symbols appeared on it. These letters changed at a dizzying rate; the same pattern didn’t linger for even an instant.

A gasp of surprise went up from the kingdom. It was like the oohs or aahs one might emit while seeing a splendid show; they contained no tension. But those with sharp intuitions began looking around in confusion.

***

Ainz opened his hands, and inside was a small hourglass.

He could have used a cash store item to cast the super-tier spell immediately. The reason he hadn’t was that he was acting as bait for Yggdrasil players. But if there weren’t any, he no longer had any reason to space out during the long casting time. It was really uncool to stand around in the middle of a magic circle.

***

Ainz focused energy into his hands.

The sand falling out of the broken hourglass flowed toward the magic circle, surrounding him in a motion that was different from the wind’s.

And the super-tier spell was cast instantly.

“Iä Shub-Niggurath!”

A dark breath blew past the left wing of the kingdom’s army, which had finally finished reorganizing its formation.

No, there was no actual wind. None of the grasses on the plain nor the hairs on the kingdom’s soldiers’ heads rustled.

But all seventy thousand men of the kingdom army’s left wing…

…were robbed of their lives in an instant.

***

All the living things that made up the kingdom’s army’s left wing—not just the humans but the horses, too—fell to the ground like marionettes whose strings had been cut.

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Volume 9, Chapter 4.1