Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 80

Ains looked at the approaching ship -The Argo - and began contemplating.

'The Argonauts...' - Ainz strained his memory once again. In Yggdrasil, The Argo existed as a rarely seen wandering boss, the ship was like the Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship. Many uninformed players on their first battle with The Argo would begin the fight by attacking the rather weak mobs spawned by the wandering boss, the 'Argonauts'. The killing of which would take almost no time and effort, this of course was a trap killing these spawned mobs would slowly deplete the attacking players resources. As these same mobs, these 'Argonauts', would spawn endlessly as long as the ship itself is intact. In fact, the main target of this boss encounter was not the ghost ship's mobs, but rather the ship itself, The Argo. Which, after receiving a certain level of damage, would transform into something like an undead golem, starting the real battle with the players... And although The Argo itself was a very weak boss - actually the same level as Cainabel - given that usually before people realize that the ship was the real enemy they had to spend considerable resources killing the endlessly spawning mobs - many players considered The Argo a disgusting boss... Although, given the shitty devs' nature - every second boss was somehow disgusting in something... Oh, how much Ainz cursed the developers during Ainz Ooal Gown's first battle with Shub-Niggurath - he was even ashamed of how quickly they were TPK'ed when they tried a new unknown boss without any scouting or using any guidelines...

'But,' Ainz shook his head. 'I'm thinking about pointless things.'

As far as Drake herself had told him, in this world The Argo was not a ghost ship at all and was hardly the same existence as the one in the game, a ship created with the help of technologies taken from Romulusremus, the new defender of civilization. So, at least on this side, Ainz was calm.

On the other hand, as Drake herself told him, in this world the "Argonauts" themselves were much more important. That in this world they were not just mobs for the Player to mow down, but were Servants themselves. And one of these Servants had kept the Grail with him. Just what Ainz needed at the moment, that was sarcasm by the way.

"Hah," Ainz sighed and shook his head.

Ainz initially planned for Baal to manage all the new Servants and for him to be the first contact with any other Servants - but this plan was instantly spoiled by Cainabel's complaints. She, for some reason, was against Baal doing these tasks - and even specifically asked Ainz for more work to be just as busy as Baal. If Ainz instructs Baal to do one more job, then Cainabel is unlikely to be happy with such a thing. Especially so considering that Ainz created the task given to her at random and that she may well suspect something is wrong if Ainz simply sends her to some other island as her next job.

'How difficult it is to be a good boss!' - Ainz then looked around to his Servants.

Unlike Cainabel and Baal, the other Servants had not demonstrated any desire to do additional work. And Ainz's authority, which had finally begun to take form, would clearly crumble if he immediately began to transfer all his duties to his subordinates. Not to mention that none of them could teleport. So...

"I'll go to them alone," Ainz nodded.

"Yo, admiral," Drake who stood next to him drew attention to herself, "You have proved that you can stand up for yourself, and I respect courage - but do not confuse courage with stupidity. These are the Argonauts!"

Ainz nodded. "I'll be careful."

For a few seconds, Drake thoughtfully scrunched her eyebrows, and then shrugged. "Do what you want, but do keep in mind that I do not want to change Admirals for the second time today."

Ainz nodded.

'If the Argonauts themselves were not even given any special notice in Yggdrasil, then it is unlikely that they were anyone significant' - Ainz grunted 'I mean, like Heracles... Oh, I remember the battle with him - it took us twelve attempts before we were able to kill him...'