Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 17

"Wyverns are not dragons!" сoncluded Ainz once more, more calmly when the suppression of emotions cut off his outrage completely.

"Master!" - despite the fact that Archer obviously wanted to object to Ainz, his tone was more panicked than opposing - "But wyverns are one of the subspecies of dragons!"

With these words, Ainz almost bursted out in fire, but a moment later the suppression of emotions left him calm again, allowing him to carefully reflect on what was said.

"Okay," he finally said, "Okay..."

Dragons were among the - if not the most - powerful adversaries and allies in Yggdrasil, while the wyverns, being a separate type of creature, usually reached no higher than the fortieth level. Of course, there were a few exceptions and high-level lizards, reaching the eightieth level, however, on average, they were opponents who were not worth even a superfluous look from a player of the hundredth level. In addition, the wyverns were not dragons, because special anti-dragon abilities did not work against them, however, it was necessary to recognize that there existed at least some similarity to dragons in appearance, which could be confused by an inexperienced player...

'Wrong' - however, Ainz shook his head, then reminded himself - 'It's a completely different world ...Yggdrasil Wyverns can be very different from wyverns here- perhaps in this world they are one of the subspecies of dragons - and if these wyverns turned out to be other, more powerful creatures than I knew from Yggdrasil, while I keep comparing them with those wyverns that I knew from the game, then I could suffer a lot ...'

"I beg your pardon" - in the end, Ainz came to a definite conclusion and said in a maintained connection - "I reacted too sharply. Please, the next time if the wyvern approaches, warn me in this way, and not with words about a dragon. "

"Okay...," Archer said to that, forcing Ainz to breathe in. Neither his real skeletal body, nor his current fake body demanded such actions from him, however, this was one of the signs that Ainz had once needed to breathe — another sign of his not completely gone humanity — like the emotional explosion that had happened just now.

'Why did I do this?' - Ainz just shook his head at these thoughts. Even if he knew about the approach of a wyvern, he would still need to prepare for a battle with an enemy of an unknown force, and therefore assume the worst. Of course, in this case, the final battle plan would be a bit different, but the changes themselves would be quite minor - and in any case he should not have responded in this way to Archer's words.

'I am really not suited for being a boss ...' The memory of a white-haired girl, who at the moment was probably tearing the hair off the head of an unfortunate doctor, made Ainz sigh.

"Being around such people is clearly a bad influence on my qualities as a person and as a boss ..." - the lich shook his head, after which he finally emerged from his thoughts.

The lizard body ceased to twitch a long time ago, and those who were bolder already managed to not only verify the death of the creature, and, just in case, poke it with their spears from a safe distance. Almost all the soldiers looked at the body of the beast with a mixture of interest and horror - however, they did not spare Ainz any of their attention, rewarding him with glances full of admiration, envy, fear and wonder.

Ainz needed only to take a couple steps to invoke fear around him. The soldiers around him jerked, as if nervously trying to escape from under his gaze. The only one who, it would seem, ignored such a pattern was the commander of the fortress, who, after observing the creature's death, instantly rushed to the mage.

"Little bit of magic, haha!" - the commandant, who rushed to Ainz, smiled at his fullest, but Ainz himself was not sure whether his smile was real or forced, - "Well, you sure broke some legs, of course!"