Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 146

To be honest, Ainz had already managed to get used to it a little... to the feeling of being sent to the Singularity, that is. Ainz doesn't think he's going to get used to the other monumental thing that happened to him anytime soon. The moment of weightlessness, barely perceptible during his first transfer, but something he had gotten used to detecting after six such events. Before Ainz could ruminate on the cause of such a sensation, the feeling ended, and he was back on a solid surface.

Though, Ainz noted that the sensation of entering a Singularity could be compared with the sensation of a ride on an elevator. It feels like when an elevator quickly begins descending, the action counteracting gravity. For a second, one could feel a state as if one's body weight was not being tethered by gravity. And then, as suddenly as it came, the feeling subsided.

And so just like an elevator, if perhaps not as sudden, the bare gray walls of Chaldea in a dark sparkle of something unknown, were replaced by a bright sunny sky. As Ainz's eyes slowly got used to the brightness of the sun, he began inspecting his surroundings.

A scorching desert.

Ainz blinked, but the surroundings did not change at all. As far as he could see, there was a scorched desert, charred and burned black. It was not the kind of desert that a person would imagine when they heard the word 'desert'. It was not the land covered with endless yellow sand dunes.

No, it was a desert in a different sense.

It was a desert in the sense in which Ainz saw the desert outside the window of civilization.

It was black, charred, scorched, lifeless. There's no trace of life, no vegetation or animals can be seen around. In fact, the land was abnormally flat, there were no hills or even a hint of any land that jut upwards. It was a strangely familiar vista for Ainz for some reason...

"Everyone! Be careful! There's radiation in the air!" Tesla's alarmed voice made Ainz blink again.

Ah, that's why it was familiar. It was a desert after someone bombed it with nuclear bombs.

This is how Ainz could describe the scene before him.

Before he could wonder on the scene further, Ainz immediately realized that not all people are immune to radiation like him. He quickly turned to the Servants he had brought with him. "Who here is affected by radiation?"

Radiation, in YGGDRASIL, was one of the many possible - albeit quite rare - sources of damage and debuffs, and quite an unpleasant one at that. The accumulation of radiation needed to reach a deadly effect was a long process, but the number of abilities capable of removing the persistent poison was very rare. Which, combined with the fact that Radiation was an unpleasant status effect as it accumulated, reducing maximum HP and even physical parameters, becoming worse and worse until it eventually killed the Player. Worse, its affliction would continually take effect until a complete cleansing of the body.

And therefore, before anything else, he should take care of the protection of his subordinates.

Ainz himself, being undead, was protected from such an unpleasant effect. However, his Servants were a different matter entirely.

In front of Ainz eyes, Nobunaga became a little more transparent, going into her immaterial form, in which such a status effect would not affect her. Tesla lightly waved his hand and his figure also changed, one glance at his parameters told Ainz that he had acquired one of many possible skills that dealt with status effects. Mashu just shook her head, her skills and perhaps her nature as a Shielder also protected her from such influences. As Ainz turned towards the last two Servants that might be affected, Several magical signs appeared near Medea and Cú Chulainn. Ainz would guess that it was some kind of magical protection. Lastly, Angrboda... yeah, there's no need to worry about her.