As Ainz was trying to put on a mask and gloves in a hurry so that the person in front wouldn't see him. He had done so because there were a number of ways Perfect Unknowable could be breached and the ability of the man was unknown to him. Also, with the recent events he was being more paranoid than usual.

He immediately got out of the shock and started opening a gate with his right bony hand hiding in his cloak but remembered that Nigredo had informed Nazarick's location may have changed and the current location was unknown. He completely trusted her report and thought that if this was the work of an enemy there may be an ambush lying in wait at that location if his actions were predicted.

He hurriedly tried to remove the shield from his hand but as he did the thrown shield thrown would disapper and re-appear on his hand. He was seemingly running out of time thinking that his cover may get blown. He tried to repositioning the shield to his upper arm and this fortunately worked. He immediately put on the remaining glove. He repositioned the shield just above his glove so that his complete arm wasn't seen and tried to grab the attention of the person in the room after cancelling the cast. The person didn't even doubt once that there was someone else in the room.

"Ahemm!"

The person turned around in a furry to notice Ainz standing there. He was visibly very shocked seeing a very broad and tall person in the room with a strange mask. he might not have been able to notice but Ainz was completely on guard ready to cast any spell required in order of an emergency.

The person was visibly scared seeing such a person and fell back on his butt. He nervously ran his eyes throughout the bold figure of Ainz and as he saw the shield on his right arm, all the fear in his eyes ran out and was exchanged with relief and disappointment. He immediately stood up, clearly not completely recovered from the earlier shock.

"Ehhh, Please wait here for a moment while I get my superior."

The person turned around and started mildly running without any manners.

What is with him? And what is with these strange occurrings? In a bit, even my undead emotional suppression may start getting tired."

As he remained alone in the room, he immediately casted Anti-divination spells and when everything seemed safe he got to work.

He summoned 4 hanzos and 4 eight-edge assassins for his protection and information gathering. Both of these monsters were skilled in stealth.

He didn't want to summon these as they were YGGDRASIL summons and he would eventually not be able to summon any more of them one day. Another reason was that they used up YGGRASIL gold for summoning and as that was currently in a limited amount on himself and Nazarick itself. But these would have been the perfect summons for now, so he used his inventory gold to do so.

After giving the hanzos the order of searching the surroundings for all the information they could gather and report at midnight while the eight-edge assassins were to guard him from the shadows, he messaged Albedo and luckily enough it went through.

"Albedo!"

"Ainz-sama are you alright? What happened, where are you? Are you in any danger?"

"Calm down Albedo, I am fine. It appears I have been transported to another location. As the current location of Nazarick is unknown, you focus on guarding Nazarick. I already have some hanzos searching for potential threats, information and the location of Nazarick while I am being guarded by a number of Eight-edge assassins. As soon as the location is confirmed I will return to Nazarick. Also be sure to inform the others of my safety."

"But Ainz-sama, how could we leave you in such a place."

"Don't fret it Albedo. You may use some of the already summoned stealth type monsters for a search. Don't leave Nazarick at any cost."

"B-Bu-Understood, Ainz-sama."

He thought Albedo for sure would be drooping over at Nazarick over her inability to take action.

For now Ainz thought it would be better to disguise himsself in his armor."Create Create" He stopped midway thinking what is it about this shield. It was clearly an unknown equipment that he wasn't sure would be to his advantage or the opposite. He was clearly a bit stunned at the fact that he was not able to remove or unequip the item.

""Greater Appraise Item", huh, unidentified? and the power is clearly more than a divine-class item. not quite at the level of WCI. How could this be? Oh yeah what was that Shield Hero stats and all"

He was clearly shocked at this kind of equipment that he had never heard and he would be lying if he said he wasn't happy at least a bit for it at the possession of such an item. But at the same time he was confused too.

He was feeling a lot of things until his emotion suppression came and he was just left there wondering for a moment.

He decided to check his unknown kind-of stats after he cast "Greater Create Item" and a full-black armor with golden stripes and a red cape along with 2 great-swords. He was using the skill "Perfect-Warrior" that lets him use any equipment with his stats reduced. To his surprise again, the shield just disappeared for a moment and then reappeared on his armor the same place as before.

As he was about to check his stats, he sensed a few men coming closer. He made sure everything was in order and became ready to recieve them. He was still on guard with both of his swords in his hand. As he predicted a few men, robed just like the man before. They all appeared to be surprised and that was again normal given the build and expensive looking armor of his. They all worked hard to preserve their dignity and the man in center said in a hoarse yet kind voice,

"Oh, Shield Hero, it seems as if your summoning was delayed and we truly apologize for that. And for the next matter, Please, save the World along with the other 3 cardinal heroes."

The man blurted out in an almost forced manner and bowed along with the others. But the Shield Hero had already stopped listening to those words after

"What do you mean by summoning?"

"As we speak our World is teetering on the edge of destruction. The legend says that during that time the 4 cardinal along with the 4 legendary weapons will be summoned here from their worlds to save us from extinction."

Ainz was, emotionless. The people in the robes should be thankful that they were saved by his suppression of emotions. If not for that all of them would have probably been captured and tortured for eternity. Death would have been too easy an punishment for them. They who have disrupted the peace of Nazarick and quite possibly placed its denizens in danger. But after his head cooled down, he decided that he needed information and following the facade of a hero could be beneficial.

But still what kind of a weapon is a shield.

He was led to the throne room to meet the king he too he had kept all the questions for the king.

Upon reaching the throne room he saw an old man sitting on the throne with an uninterested yet appraising gaze. He saw many people sitting on the sidelines and many people in front some distance from the throne within 3 uneven lines. In front of each line stood one young man. Each of the 3 held one weapon each namely the sword, the bow and arrow and the spear. He immediately recognized from the tales told by the robed people that they were the other 3 cardinal heroes Their weapons seemed fit for them whereas for him it seemed like a very small shield had been placed on his arm and it looked very unproportionate.

Almost everyone was again surprised for the same reason the others were. He ignored the gazes and walked to the side of the Spear Hero.

"My name is Aultcray Melromarc XXXII, and I rule these lands. Raise you head, Shield hero.", Then he turned towards the other heroes and said.

"Heroes, please be so kind as to tell him your names."

"My name is Ren Amaki. I am 16 years old, and a high school student." He gave off a cool impression.

"All right, I'll go next. My name is Motoyasu Kitamura. I'm 21, and a college student." He came off as light-hearted and kind,

"Ok, my turn. I'm Itsuki Kawasumi. I'm 17, and still in high school." He gave off the vibe of a calm person.

Despite having different personalities all of them had one thing in common. They all were extremely cocky and overconfident.

"My name is"

They all seem to have Japanese names. Are they from my old world. If so I need to know more about them. Oh man, what's with this cliche 'isekai to save a world' situation. Should I also give my old name. What if there are other players from YGGRASIL here. But I just have a feeling that its not the case.

'"Momon", it was indeed an odd name.

He chose to ignore the king's previous words and spoke in a deep voice befitting his seeming build.

"Why was I summoned?"

"I guess an explanation is pending."

The king along with the ministers then explained to him everything about the situation.

According to them there was a prophecy that stated that the waves of destruction would appear, and they would wash over the world, until nothing remained. Unless the waves were repelled the world was as good as doomed. The prophecy was from long ago, though the time it spoke of was now, this very moment. There was also a large and ancient hourglass that would signal the times. The hourglass predicted the arrival of the waves, and its sands began to fall a few days ago. According to legend, the waves would come in one-month intervals with the first one occurring 3 months after the first falling of the sands.

He kept extremely quiet listening and hanging to their every word and ignoring the exasperated and tired glances. After they had finished, he spoke a single line that disregarded everything that was explained.

"Why was 'I' summoned?"

Surprisingly enough it was the guy with the spear that responded to his question.

"Come on man. This world is in danger. You could at least do something to help . These people even said that they are planning on compensating you all for your efforts."

"I don't remember asking you so it would be in your best intrest to stay quiet. And what good would rewards and compensation do you dead. Also I have no care for rewards. "

Clear rejection. His face turned into a frown upon hearing the words. Ainz was so composed it shocked even him. Guess when the matter was of the security of Nazarick and its residents he always was dead serious.

"Truly despicable behavior. You have been summoned to this world for protecting it. And you better do the same."

"And who are you to decide what i do and i do not. You have summoned me without my permission, now i guess you should tell me how do I return back to my home."

"You cannot return until you fend off all the waves. So it would be better if you keep yourself under control. Also you are in front of a king, so you better mind your manners." A minister from behind the king spouted. He reminded him of Nigun Grid, the person he killed in Carne village. Both seemed to be experts at spouting bullshit.

" Okay. I understand. Tell me how do I return to my World." Ainz said without moving an inch.

Throughout the conversation he wasn't able to get much information about this world but he was pretty easily able to find out that The King and many other people and ministers in there hated him, even before he arrived. Because the way they were talking was obviously not the way one would take with the saviors of the world. Although everything about this seemed pretty false, he still decided to go with the flow. He was a tactician to the bone.

"To return to your former world, you would have to fend off al the waves successfully and save this world."

If I let this world get destroyed, Nazarick will perish too, so that's out of the way. What if they are lying in saying that I could return to my world. What really matters is Nazarick's safety even if we have to stay here... Then again, what connections did I have with that world. But the people who brainwashed Shalltear are still left unpunished. well I can't do anything except coping up with them for now anyway.

The king continued

"As all the other heroes already know you all are level 1 and we would like you to go on a journey to strengthen yourself and your weapons.", The king said while scoffing.

"The parties for the heroes were formed yesterday but because your summoning was delayed there are no high-class adventurers left. As you can see all the parties have been formed." the king said pointing towards the three other heroes along with their parties. He had a faint smirk on his face while saying that, but the answer that he got wasn't something he expected.

"No need for that, I just need someone to give me information about this world. It won't even take one whole day."

"Does the Shield Hero not know about this world?"

"Is that a problem?" Do they expect me to know everything before even coming to this world. Are they right in the head!

"The legends say that the four summoned Heroes will have an understanding of our land. I wonder if you will truly be able to fulfill the conditions set out in the legends."

HUH

"Let me make one thing clear, I do not care about your legends or prophecies. All i care about is my and... Anyways as I said I would still be requiring information and are you denying even that."

That was dangerous, I almost blurted out Nazarick. After I told everyone back there earlier to not even reveal their names.

He shot a look towards Ren, Itsuki and Motoyasu. They all turned their heads away.

Everybody stood in silence for at least a minute until a girl from the Spear hero's line raised her hand.

"Sir, if it please you, I could provide information to the Shield Hero." One of the women with Motoyasu raised her hand to volunteer while talking to the king.

She was cute, and had shoulder-length red hair. He would have considered her a beauty if he didn't know Albedo, Shalltear or any of the pleiades or the homunculus maids. In fact, she would pale in comparison to almost anyone with a human appearance in Nazarick.

The Spear Hero himself was quite disappointed an this progression. It seemed to Ainz that he was quite the womanizer.

"Are you sure?", The king seemed unexpectedly worried

"Yes"

"Very well. As there is nobody in the Shield Hero's party, he would have to scout out allies by himself. As compensation he would receive 800 silver coins whereas the other heroes will get the earlier decided 600 coins."

As Ainz turned around, the king's voice called out"Ah, before that, show me your face."

Ainz didn't mind as any normal person would do that. Ainz turned around slowly as if in slow-motion. He then casted illusion magic to hide his skeleton face. He took off his helmet to show everyone present an illusionary human face. He immediately put his helmet back and continued without saying a word. He could hear quite a few whispers behind him.

He heard the voice of jogging footsteps of the girl who was to provide him with information.

Outside the throne room, the girl approached him.

"Um, so it's nice to meet you, Mr. Shield Hero. My name is Myne Sophia.", the girl moved really close while saying this. If Albedo was here, she would surely not be standing there. Or more accurately won't be able to.

"Yeah, nice to meet you. Then shall we get going. Ah before that"

Ainz almost forgot to address the other heroes. The fact that they too were summoned from another world and their names seemed Japanese piqued his intrest. He wondered if they were from his world.

"Ren-dono, Itsuki-dono, Motoyasu-dono, may I have a word.", Ainz said the most respectfully he could.

"Hmm. Go ahead." Ren replied

"Are you three from Japan."

"Yes, we are all from Japan but not the same one. Its like we are from different versions of Japan."

"Hmm so even different versions of Japan exist" So they weren't YGGDRASIL players after all.

"Yeah but are you too from Japan, your name and armor seems a bit, you know"

"Yes, I am from Japan and I was an adventurer there."

"There were adventurers in your world! Wow!", The guy with the spear asked in glimmering excitement.

"Yes, I was just a begginer though."

With some more idle chat the talk ended and Ainz turned to Myne and urged her to continue.

She nodded as Ainz followed her out of the castle.

From the edge of the bridge leading to the exit, the whole castle town was visible. The town somehow resembled a downgraded version of E-Rantel yet on a bigger scale.

They had talked what they wanted to do, and had decided that they would visit various places at day then have a talk about this world during their meal at night.

Myne's POV

They had been walking away from the castle for a fair amount of time. They stopped before a shop. There was a large sign in the shape of a sword hanging over the wooden door.

"This is the shop I was talking about."

"I see, it certainly seems to be the largest one around here."

They had arrived in front of a quite known 'Weapon shop'.though they also had armor and other accessories necessary for adventuring.

Hehe, it's all going according to plan. Even the Three Heroes Church is backing me up. Now all I've gotta do is make sure the rest of the plan goes well.

When she had received the news yesterday that the summoning for the Shield Hero had failed, she was quite disappointed to say the least. She was worried that she would lose the backing of the church and that would quite hinder her advances for getting the throne.

But then she got to know that the Shield Hero had indeed been summoned but had arrived late. She immediately met the representative of the church in order of the continuation of the previously discussed plan. She was quite thankful to the 'devil of the shield' for becoming a stepping stone for her in obtaining the designation of queen.

"Shall we head inside?", her voice was kind unlike what she was thinking.

"Yes"

"Welcome," the owner called out to us. "Is this your first time here?"

"My companion here informed me of this store here", the Momon guy said.

Ugh, even being called a companion by him feels disgusting.

Myne waved her hand as he said that.

"Why, thank you very much… Miss… Hey, haven't we met somewhere?"

"I have been here before. After all this is quite a known shop."

"I, see. Anyways who might you be?"

"He is the Shield Hero." I replied in his stead.

"You mean… he's one of the… the Heroes? Wow!" The man began looking over Momon carefully. He continued

"Well anyways, if you are ever in a need of equipment, you are always welcome."

"I am the Shield Hero, Momon. Lets hope for good business relations." Momon stated in a confident way.

"Mr. Momon was it… Well then, here's to hoping you become a regular of sorts around here. Though right now you don't seem to be in requirement of new equipment."

Now that he mentions it, this Momon does have some quality equipment. It seems expensive. Should I target that too. But justifying for it would be different. Well, I will think about it later.

"We should get going"

After that, they exited the castle town, through the castle. As they exited the castle fields of grass spread in all directions. It extended for at least the area of the town before.

"Now then, Hero. This land is filled with rather weak monsters, and

battling them should make for very good practice."

" I see. It is true that we should start with the weakest monsters. I too would like to grasp an idea of their capabilities."

After travelling through the field for while, an orange balloon like creature hopped out of the shadows of grass.

"There's one hero. They are called 'Orange balloons.'"

As Myne said that the monster hopped at Momon attempting to bite a part of his head off. He could the monster mid-air, and then ripped it in two with both his hands.

Huh! Did he just rip it in half, with his hands. True, they are the weakest but still he should not have this kind of muscle strength at level-1. Ah! He did say he was an adventurer before being summoned. But still.

"These monsters are weak just as you say."

"Aa, ah yes these are the weakest out there."

The jewel in the Shield Hero's shield started glowing and make a beeping sound. Momon moved the loot to near the jewel and the balloon remains got enveloped in a faint light. It then disappeared as if consumed by the jewel.

Momon seemed surprised but not for all.

"It seems this is how the legendary weapons work." Myne asked with a little curiosity welling up.

"Yes, it seems to power up, certain items are absorbed. By the way do these remnants of the balloon monster worth anything."

"Mhmm, maybe a piece of bronze. That would be a hundredth of a piece of silver."

"I see"

They stayed in the fields until sunset. In addition to Orange Balloons they also discovered a few yellow ones.

They headed to a famous inn. It cost 30 bronze for one room per night.

"We would like two rooms."

Stole the words out of my mouth, hehe.

"Very well then, if you will."

The innkeeper showed us to our rooms, wringing her hands the whole time. They decided to

have some rest then meet up for dinner in 30 minutes.

After half an hour, they met up for dinner. Momon respectfully declined the offer for dinner saying he wasn't hungry.

They exchanged information for some time and after Momon had sufficient knowledge he thanked her and started back to his room.

As he was about to leave, Myne put her hand around his arm, intentionally pressing her breasts on him. He didn't even flinch as he calmly stated,

"Would you please leave my arm. You are too close."

Cheh, why isn't he flattered even if a bit. Does he have no sex drive? Is he gay?

"Uhh, why don't you stay for a bit and drink some wine?"

"No, thank you but alcohol is not to my liking."

Who does he think he is, huh!"

"Is that so? You could just have one glass?"

"No, thank you."

"But.."

"No"

Cheh ,"Oh, all right then."

With that he left for his room.

After 4 hours

It was around 3 am. Myne got out of her room without making a single noise.

She went to the front of a room and tried opening it.

"Its locked. Well that's expected." She took a key out of her pocket and inserted it into the keyhole. The key fit nicely and turnedas if specially made for that keyhole. She slid open the door slowly.

"Huh, there's no one in here."

She started searching the room regardless. She checked all the cupboards, the drawers, the bed and even under it.

"Shit, I had expected him to take the armor with him if he wasn't present. But there's not even a piece of bronze left. Shit, shit, shit"

The room she had come in to was none other than the Shield Hero's room. She had expected to rob him of his money and armor and then falsely

Well even if its like this I will have to continue the plan. I can't afford losing their backing now.

She continued making preparations for what was to come the following day.

She removed pieces of her armor, tearing up clothes at places and removing her underwear and scattered them around the room.

She then carefully walked out of the room, locked it again and ran towards the another room.

As she approached the room she began beating the door of the room as if in a hurry. A person came out of the room half-sleepily yet quickly.

Myne leapt into the chest of the person crying fake tears.

"Motoyasu-sama, help me, sob-huff, the Shield hero is, the Shield Hero is, huff, is trying to rape me."

The Morning

Myne was waiting in the throne room in a new set of clothes. The Sword, Bow and Spear hero along with their whole parties were present. Myne waas hiding behind the Spear hero visibly shaking.

The king and his retainers had grave expressions on their faces.

Then the door to the throne room was shot open. The Shield 'hero', Momon was walking in with six soldiers and his tail. The soldiers seemed to be scared of something but that was ignored by everyone.

" ! Might I ask what is happening?"

Hahahahaha, Oh i wanna laugh out so bad.

Myne cowered behind Motoyasu, the Spear Hero and glared angrily at Momon. Everyone was glaring at The Shield Hero like someone would look at a criminal.

"You mean you really don't remember?"

Motoyasu stepped forward and interrogated him.

"What do you mean by don't remember?"

"You are such a scoundrel. I can't believe you would do something like that."

"Something like what? Please make things more clear."

Hahaha, he is completely clueless.

"We will now hear the charges against the Shield Hero."

"Charges? And what would they be?"

"Sob… sob… The Shield Hero drank too much, and he came bursting

into my room. Then he… He forcefully took me to his room and held me down, and…"

"What?"

"He held me down and said, 'The night is still young, Baby.' Then he

started to rip my clothes off…"

Myne was sniveling behind Motoyasu, and she pointed a shaky finger in

Momon's direction as she spoke. "I screamed as loud as I could and ran from the

room. That's when I found Motoyasu-sama's room, and he saved me."

"Those charges you speak of would be false. Yesterday night, I wasn't available in my room as I had gone out to gain some experience and raise levels."

"Liar! If that was true, would Myne be crying like that."

Heh, heh, men are fools. They are so easy to fool…

Then unexpectedly, the shield hero burst into laughter.

"Hahahahahahaha, cheh", and then suddenly stopped and made a disappointed voice.

"Your highness, it seems that I am being accused of false charges. So I think justice should be properly given."

"Silence, Scoundrel. Any act of sexual aggression committed against the people of my kingdom would be punished immediately by death. It doesn't matter if you are a hero or a barbarian. I had an inkling the first time I saw you. I don't know where you lived or come from but we don't do things that way here."

The king shouted ignoring his previous words. The other heroes and their parties were looking at him with disgust. Even more so, the spear hero could not control his anger.

"It was clear that you were different from us, but still I didn't think you would stoop this low, you wrench."

Motoyasu lost it and took a stance with his spear. On this cue the six soldiers behind the Shield hero hesitantly reached towards their weapons too.

Everyone in the room felt a chill run down their spine.

"Stop!" said the firm voice of the Shield Hero.

Upon hearing that the king retained his composure and started shouting again.

"This crime of yours could not be forgiven. Your punishment will not stop. As you are the only line of defence against the waves you would not be given death but you will still be branded as a criminal.."

Unbeknownst to them, the word said by Momon was not intended for them.