Grand Foreigner (Chapters 1- 200)

Chapter 198

Ainz turned slowly toward the source of the voice. There in the dark, an undead dressed in an ornate armor loomed. While he was able to sense his presence with his passive skills, it still doesn't mean that his sudden appearance didn't make Ainz's nonexistent heart skip a beat. Well, judging by his presence here and how he looked, this must be the Old Man of the Mountain both Medb and Semiramis were talking about. Looking closely at the creature, Ainz could understand where the comparison and case of mistaken identity had come from.

'Well, at least I can see parallels between him and myself in appearance... But only that – I still don't see anything else that would make Medb compare the two of us. If he starts speaking German, I'm going to flip!'

The speaker, who introduced himself as Death, looked like Ainz if he had been a Physical Attack build... Ainz had to admit that the armor he's wearing looked really cool.

Momonga's vision, thanks to his ability, had no trouble seeing in the dark, allowing him to make out the figure of the Servant. The man wore armor that seems to be made from melded black pieces of metal with blue-purple streaks, with spikes jutting out that accentuates the armor even when hidden behind the ragged black cloak. Furthermore, the man's physique, which was not particularly inferior to Hercules and Ainz, was less intimidating than the half-skull missing a lower jaw that is his head adorned with two horns that jutted upwards.

And in that skull, blazed two blue flares of fire, contrasting Ainz's red ones.

A note of interest however was the weapon the Old man of the Mountain wields. It is a massive guardless blade, though perhaps it was too massive to be called a mere sword. With its chips and chipped edge, it looked more like a blunt saw – massive, thick, heavy and far too rough to be called a sword. It was more a hunk of iron.

Ainz wondered if that was by design, or if the Old Man of the Mountain, being seemingly alone in this fortress, lacked the proper smith to repair his weapons.

The shield he wields off-hand made much more sense in Ainz's mind, though no less confusing. It was a huge shield, large enough even to cover most of the Assassin's massive body. What was confusing however were the decorations on the shield. In front, right, and center was a huge skull embossment with one glowing blue eye – and on top, is another set of spikes.

It was very eye-catching – which is supposed to be anathema to an Assassin!

'An Assassin is supposed to be the master of hit-and-run tactics, remaining mostly in stealth until the best chance to strike their enemies. What kind of Assassin wields a huge sword and a tower shield!?'

Is this supposed to be the 'legendary assassin' that Semiramis seemed to be very afraid of?

Is he some kind of subspecies of an Assassin? Maybe more like a stealth warrior or even an 'invisible tank'? There are some bosses or mobs with that kind of unique build in the past – but never actually from other Players – the limitation of Level Caps preventing them from being an effective build.

A limit that the Developers lack – they prefer less the 'effectiveness' school of thinking in their MOB creation, preferring to make very 'impressive' builds instead. As in, something that would kill the Players in very 'impressive' manners.

Ainz still remembered the 'gray mouse' debacle, when the Developers decided to 'give' a usually level 1 MOB, the stats, and skills of a level 100 Raid Boss, and with Virtual Intelligence to boot. Intelligence that allowed it to adapt to the Players' tactics, making it exponentially harder to kill.

There were many salts and blood spewed by the Players when the reward for killing it was the paltry rewards that a level 1 Mob would give, the cherry to the shit cake.