Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 136

If we exclude all the very creative curses, the self-professed desire to destroy the world, the barely held hatred and vitriol from Ainz's outburst, one could say that he was quite silent. Terribly silent, perhaps even to the point of suspecting that he's mute.

Ainz's silence continued for the next few minutes, before Ainz suddenly took a deep breath, slowly drawing in air, and then became silent again. The silence was almost deafening. Which is quite funny, since not 10 minutes before, the cacophony of Ainz's battle was quite literally deafening.

If Solomon was here, he would definitely be surprised at the ingenuity of the human mind as he became an audience to very creative curses and lingoes created by the minds of millions of frustrated gamers of the twenty-second century. He could even mistake them as some sort of very esoteric curses as Ainz almost started chanting curses in twenty-six different languages, mostly Japanese, English, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, French...

Curses truly are the universal language.

In his long life as an avid net-gamer, Ainz had never even thought about just how many unique and distinct phrases expressing the emotions of sadness and anger he had remembered during his long life.

In the end, when his second tirade, second only to the one after Tesla's death, came to an end and his suppression of emotion, which had barely kept Ainz from going after Solomon, was finally able to tamp his raging emotions, Ainz was finally able to calm himself down. Still with anger coursing through him, Ainz rubbed his temples, the bridge of his nose, all to refrain from spitting viciously on the ground, he had to keep his image as a good team leader after all!

And so, with his mind sufficiently calm, Ainz headed back to his Servants.

The Servants, they didn't even dare to move when Ainz approached, watching their Master approach with bated breath... Who was their Master? Their mind simply caught in a rut when they watched the 'battle' between Solomon and their Master.

Is he God?

Of those present, the closest to understanding what divine nature, of course, was Da Vinci, and she knows that her Master was not a god, he is something more. However, whether their Master was God or some kind of Divine Spirit was neither here nor there. All the Servants present all agree about one thing on this matter.

They didn't understand a thing about their Master.

The Servants looked at Ainz with... an emotion completely unknown to them before.

Fear? Surprise? Adoration? Horror? Fascination?

Even Da Vinci could not parse what emotion exactly the other Servants were feeling at the moment.

What a strange peculiarity. As soon as everyone had come to a certain conclusion regarding Ainz, creating an outline in their minds of some frames and boundaries about his capabilities, each and every time Ainz broke them with ease and a perverse grace.

When he first appeared in this world, and participated in the very first Singularity, during Lev's betrayal and the destruction of Chaldea, he was perceived as the most ordinary, undistinguished, if not at all exemplary, magus in the service of Chaldea.

Then he killed Flauros in an instant, and that worldview was destroyed in a flash of unrestrained power.

The people present in Chaldea at that time remembered the experience quite vividly, as they felt and saw Ainz unrestrained might first hand.

And even then, they still unconsciously underestimated Ainz.

This was followed by their first true Singularity where Ainz actively started participating. There Ainz showed himself to be... a very pragmatic, if not completely indifferent Master, where he regarded his Servants as pawns on a game board, played and sacrificed as necessary to complete the goal. A line of thought that was reinforced by the summoned Cainabel.