Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 193

Ainz didn't even know what was the worst part of his current situation. The fact that he had to face his copy from this world, that it was a necessary part of Medb's plan, or that it was supposed to be a part of his plan! Or the fact that he didn't even know who exactly he was looking for and where he was supposed to go!

Why couldn't Medb have been more specific in telling him of his plan? No, Ainz supposes that it would have been illogical for Medb to tell him his own plan... Maybe he should call Medb and have her tell all the other Servants about his 'wonderful plan'? Saying something like 'in order to keep all the Servants on the same page' should work...

But what if her plan, which was part of his plan, which doesn't exist, relied on the other Servants not knowing about the plan? She had said something about Scáthach's part and something she didn't see coming? Argh, why was this so complicated!

Even now, he essentially didn't know where he had to go! Should he hang around the Assassins' base?! Should he go to Camelot?! Or was he supposed to go back to his summoning ground in Egypt?!

Ainz was essentially just teleporting at random now, just looking around to see if he could see anything unusual around him. And if he didn't? Well, he was practically rolling a die and picking at random the random side he teleported to next! He was literally like a teleporting rabbit, jumping from place to place. At this point he's just doing something for the sake of just doing it, he has no idea where to go, hoping for a miracle.

After all, he didn't even know exactly what he was looking for, just scurrying around the desert like a hapless spirit.

"I even sent some undead around – but they found absolutely nothing... Maybe I should dump my body and use something like Blessing of Titania?" Ainz shook his head, while the prospect of using higher tiered magic is culpable, showing his hand this early is inadvisable.

"But, even if I do it, will it show me the way to my copy or not? Last time when I used that in the very first Singularity, it led me to Olga, but where will it lead me now?"

The desert had long ago changed from the usual rocky terrain where he had been a little earlier back to the black scorched desert, then to the comparatively ordinary steppe, where Ainz could even see the setting sun.

"I've been wandering this desert for hours... " Ainz let out a defeated sigh before suddenly righting himself up in alert.

"Wait, wait a second! One of the connections to the summoned undead has been severed?"

Ainz had summoned several types of undead with scouting abilities, so he wasn't immediately able to know exactly which was destroyed – and in one hit at that. The undead had been killed without having time to relay information about exactly who it was and how it was destroyed.

Of course, he hadn't summoned his strongest creatures, and the creatures he had summoned specialized primarily in searching rather than fighting, so losing one from an enemy wasn't unusual. But for it to happen so unexpectedly, without any whips of information about the assailant?

"Well, at least I found someone relatively high level – a Servant, I suppose, that should be a good enough find, right?" Ainz shrugged.

"Not sure if that's what I was supposed to find, but it's better than nothing. It doesn't seem that, judging by the slain undead, to be someone friendly to me – but I can at least try to capture the Servant and ask them about someone who looks like me... Good thing I can trace where the last summon died."

Moments later, another of Ainz summons died, and that wouldn't have been unusual, except for the fact that the slain undead were at an extremely decent distance away from the first killed undead.