Owls? Magic? Skeletons? Oh my!

Chapter 3: Snails? Demons? Isles?

"Talking"

'Thoughts'

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Momonga was lost.

It had been nearly 3 hours since he started to fly in a random direction in search of a town. The sheer size of the titan's corpse was starting to sink in, as the undead had only barely cleared the ankle when the sun started to rise above the horizon. Signifying Momonga's first day in this new world. He had put the Staff of Ainz Ooal Gown away to avoid the chance of it being destroyed.

'Mmh, I hope there are towns on this island. I must have flown at least 100 km by now and all I've seen so far is this never-ending orange pine forest. It'll be some pretty bad luck if I fly to the head only to find out that nobody even lives in this place. Uwah, that'll be such a pain.'

But just as the undead finished that thought his superior eyesight caught something in the far distance.

"Smoke?"

Small black smoke columns were slowly rising above the treeline, hidden slightly just behind a bone mound. When Momonga flew closer he could start to make out the distinct shapes of medieval-styled rooftops and chimneys.

'Yes! So people do live on this island. But I shouldn't just wander into town unprepared, I need to observe how the people here live and act so I don't stand out too much.'

Nodding to himself, Momonga landed just a way out on a hill that overlooked the small village. From here the undead could even make out the silhouettes of the residence of the town going along with their morning routine.

The undead reached his hand into a small black portal and pulled out a 1 meter tall, oval mirror with a bronze frame covering its sides and edges. It's an item called Mirror of Remote Viewing, and it allows the user to see and observe any known or unknown location. Like a touch screen, the user can manipulate the image being shown, enlarging or minimizing the view using specific hand gestures to move through what the mirror is displaying. It could be counted with low-level anti-spying spells but even still it's a very valuable scouting and surveillance tool. So much so that Momonga himself keeps several copies on his person at all times.

Activating the item, Momonga was met with a crystal clear reflection of his undead self. Waving his right hand, the image in the mirror suddenly turned around to face the town, with another wave the image then started to fly at an extremely high speed towards the town's gate. But before it crashed right into the big doors Momonga raised his hands suddenly, bringing the image to a halt.

Satisfied with his handling, the undead gestured lightly and the image in the mirror started to fly gently through the small village's main road.

"Interesting"

The undead overlord purred with interest. The sight he was seeing through the mirror was extremely bizarre and had caught the skeleton by some surprise.

Momonga had been expecting the usual sight of a medieval village or town when he saw the old title-styled rooftops. But the living buildings he was seeing how had certainly dashed that idea. horns, eyes, and even mouths stuck out from the buildings in this town at odd angles, sometimes even completely consuming it.

'How does that even work? Is it like a golem that's built into a house? Or are the eyes and mouths sticking out from the sides of the houses merely for show?'.

As if the universe had heard his question, Momonga saw a small bird fly a little too close to one of the houses with a jaw as a wall and eyes on the roof. The mismatched eyes immediately locked onto the small thing and it began to bite the air with its horrible jaws in an attempt to catch the bird.