Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 190

Ainz's slow walk through the wasteland, devoid of any sign of life except for the guide moving ahead, was not particularly productive of new information. At the very least, it gave abundant time for Ainz to organize his mind, something that was very ill-supplied as of late as he kept running headlong into his subordinates' troubles.

'Not that I'm not pleased to find myself involved in the lives of my subordinates, the Servants.' Ainz sighed – 'But a little time to myself isn't bad either...'

In recent days – weeks even - Ainz had barely found time to do anything on his personal list of things he wanted or needed to do, while the list of things just kept getting longer and longer.

The very first item on that list, one that he had planned to do many weeks ago, was the need for Ainz to find some book on personnel management. He had found a couple of them in the past – but still could never find the time to study them. He was constantly either being caught up in his subordinates' problems or being distracted by other things – like traveling through Singularity in the past. While traveling through Singularities was an enjoyable pastime, if one wrought in danger, he didn't consider it time badly spent.

He could go back to studying the books at any time, but he couldn't always enjoy the vista of the past in person.

Furthermore, since every Singularity took him to a different time period, he had only one chance to enjoy his travels, and he would lose that chance once he solved the Singularity. Something which made him even more reluctant to waste his time in the Singularity reading books.

'Huh, I guess this guy Ainz, who everyone says so much about, that he's incredibly smart and all his plans work like clockwork, really did have amazing foresight.' Ainz chuckled slightly at his joke, whose humor would probably have been lost if he had told someone else about it.

'Besides, let's just consider this as all part of my paid vacation. After all, I'd worked for weeks on end and deserved at least a day off... I hope I will be getting paid for this. Not that I'm saving the world for profit, but I wouldn't want to end up penniless either! Especially with his many romantic entanglements, he would need a good egg nest for the future, lest he end up bankrupt in short order after he finished his work with Chaldea. After all, there's no way that another World Ending Event would happen so shortly after the previous one, if there's even another one, right?'

Ainz imagined a situation in which he would not be offered even a modest payment for his actions in saving the world and sighed. What would he do in such a case?

Selling his items... If they were items from his inventory, if he could find things that he could sell, he could get some money that way, right? At the very least, if he got rid of the most useless items, he could earn some – selling items from Nazarick was completely forbidden, however... As silly as using such a powerful spell for such a mundane job would be, it still could be a profitable endeavor, he wouldn't do it though.

After all, how would Nazarick react to something like that? What would happen if he sold an item from Nazarick, once it had manifested itself in this world, and then removed Nazarick's presence afterward? Will the item he sold disappear? Will it disappear if Ainz doesn't sell it, but just gives it away or leaves it lying on the ground outside Nazarick? What about if he sold some furniture from Nazarick? The tomb would restore some of his interior daily as a method of self-repair, depending on the price of what exactly he had to restore, what would happen?

Ainz imagined himself as a home furnishing salesman for a second and shook his head, dispelling the thought.

Maybe he could perform magic as a method of gaining employment? Ainz rated himself highly competent relative to the current overall level of strength of the world so far, his ignorance of how his magic work notwithstanding – so what if he offers some magic services? Ainz's mana reserves allowed him to use numerous spells, some of which could be useful outside of combat, his various buff spells, for instance. Though, as a YGGDRASIL player was supposed to be, he was far more suited to combat than anything more peaceful, as even the Production specialists needed some firepower.