Ainz - Debuff Touch

Ainz lightly touched the martial king’s armor with his free left hand. The martial king abruptly spasmed as if he’d been struck by lightning, and the club swung around.

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Meanwhile, the martial king was moving through molasses.

Ainz chuckled to himself.

This was a good show.

Amid the growing murmur, Ainz returned to his previous position. The suspicious voice of the martial king reached him there.

“Wh-what…? This isn’t…poison, I don’t think? So what in the world…?”

“I wouldn’t break the rules like that. This fight is fair and square. That said, although poison isn’t correct, it’s not so far off, either. I can pour negative energy into someone via touch. But you should be able to heal it with your regeneration power as a troll.”

Ainz gave the fingers on the hand he used to touch him a threatening wiggle.

“But there’s one other power I can use via touch, and that is to harm a person’s physical ability. I injured your strength and agility. You probably can’t heal that, can you?”

As far as Ainz knew, a troll’s regeneration ability was only good for healing damage. It couldn’t fix debuffs.

“In other words, King, the more I touch you, the weaker you’ll get. And eventually you’ll be crawling around like a caterpillar.”

Of course, that was a lie.

It was true that he could subtract points from an opponent’s stats, but there was a limit. They would never hit zero. But there was no way for the martial king to know that.

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And that was the correct way to think. Ainz’s experiments had yielded the result that touching with any body part activated the attack. He could even do it with a head-butt if he wanted.

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Volume 10, Chapter 3.4