Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 178

Doing good deeds was good, Ainz was absolutely certain of this.

The servants around Ainz were his subordinates, for whom Ainz was personally responsible for. Ainz was absolutely sure of that as well.

The problem was that Ainz had a habit of saving up his items with the unhealthy zeal of a player who collected all of the potions or scrolls 'for when I need it'. And when faced with the conditions in which he should use his accumulated items he always said 'no, I can handle it on my own now, I'd rather save it for when I really require it'. Inevitably, that actually means never.

Needless to say, his inventory ends up cluttered with hundreds of useless potions only suitable for newbie players, which had become entirely useless to a player of Ainz's level long ago.

If that were all, a simple intervention would be enough for Ainz to free up some room in his inventory, though even then he would still keep some of the items, just in case. God knows the developers were sadistic enough to create a dungeon where the item's characteristics were reversed, where end-game items were as useful as starting items and vice-versa.

The problem, however, was that Ainz was very protective of those items, even the useless ones.

So, then, how would he react to ones that were particularly powerful or rare in their own right?

For example, the Shooting Star rings.

One of the rarest items that players could get in the game, excluding, of course, unique items like World Class Items. Ainz had to spin the gacha all day for a year before he could even glimpse the coveted flicker of the simple ring engraved with three shooting stars on it among the hundreds, thousands of 'consolation prizes'.

And then, when he was showing it off, Yamaiko proceeded to spin the wheel of the heartless gacha just for fun to get rid of some pocket money thrown into her account.

She got the ring on the second try... To say that he was green with envy was like saying the sun was somewhat hot.

Ainz didn't throw a tantrum – but that moment was the second time in his life that he came dangerously close to that line...

In any case, it was a long time ago, and now Yamaiko's ring that he had glared with envy even when he had the same one had been given to him when she left the game.

Ainz didn't know what exactly had happened – but judging by the whispers thrown around the forum of how prolonged immersion in virtual reality was a possible danger for pregnant women – he could well imagine the reason why.

Anyway, now Ainz had two of those rings, an artifact, each sealed with three uses of Wish Upon A Star super-tier magic – the most powerful magic of all.

Or rather, it would have been one of the most powerful spells available to the player, if not for the twisted sadism of YGGDRASIL's developers.

As far as Ainz himself knew – technically speaking, actually implementing the full extent of the lore accurate abilities of this spell was possible if almost requiring constant work, but the developers took a different route altogether. The spell, which could have two hundred different effects, chose a few random ones when it was used, and then gave the player the choice of which of the chosen effects he wished to use at that moment.

Sure, all of the possible effects were still ridiculously powerful magic – Ainz had personally seen posts of players wiped in a full party of five or even ten players after a single use. But those posts were lost amid thousands of threads about how a cornered character had used the spell, wishing for the 'deal a hundred thousand percent damage magic attack' option, but getting a list of cosmetic effects he could apply to himself at that moment for the next hour – or something equally useless.