Grand Foreigner (Chapters 201+)

Chapter 221

The accommodation of Ainz's newly summoned Servants had gone relatively smoothly – primarily due to the fact that Ainz's last summon had been King Arthur, the one from YGGDRASIL that is. And fitting to this strange world, however, he was transformed into a woman, and Ainz wasn't sure exactly what name he was supposed to use for him... her.

Faced with the most powerful paladin in all of YGGDRASIL, at least the ones who specialized in dealing with beings with negative karma and were not World Enemies, Ainz could no longer afford to bicker with the lesser Servants. Not that he said that last part out loud, he doesn't think that the royals would react well to his sentiment there.

He had sent them away to deal with their own affairs, as he had more important things to do.

Establishing the chain of command among the Servants was a matter of the utmost importance, one that had to be done as soon as possible after they were summoned... Normally that is. Servants being an eccentric lot, making them work together is a lot of work. But even so urgent a matter was secondary to meeting the newly summoned King Arthur.

Well, the meeting with this King Arthur was also about establishing the chain of command regarding Ainz's newly summoned Servants, King Arthur was simply someone Ainz needed to deal with as soon as possible.

YGGDRASIL's strongest paladin, by general account and specifically in his archetype of destroying creatures with negative karma, was unrivaled in the entire game. One of the strongest Bosses in YGGDRASIL, King of Camelot, the man who embodied heroic archetypes, who was a Teacher to a whole raft of classes. And, something that a lot of Good-Aligned Bosses shared – a man whom Ainz had once killed.

What was unusual enough, though, was one of several bosses that Ainz had killed on his own, rather than as part of Ainz Ooal Gown.

For most YGGDRASIL Players, who preferred the Human races, the ruler of Camelot was a teacher, a valuable ally, and even a very influential quest giver, even if his quests were usually fairly short chains or even single errands. For many, he was the reason for them picking up the paladin, magic knight, priest classes, or derivatives of those. Which made it pretty obvious why a guild like Ainz Ooal Gown, that role-played as the 'Enemy of the World', would find King Arthur to be an important target.

In fact, Ainz's guild were the first to take on the alternate quest lines related to killing King Arthur and destroying Camelot.

The King Arthur storyline itself was simple enough, the story had King Arthur constantly on the move, leading the twelve Knights of the Round Table, occasionally appearing in Camelot in search of the World Class Item, the Holy Grail. Many of Arthur's quests involved finding that, most often fairly simple quests to explore a particular area, which often involved traps, monsters, or both at the same time. And each time, Players would return to King Arthur with nothing.

Many suspected that at some point in time another of these quests would lead to the true World Class Item, but as far as Ainz himself knew, that was it, just a rumor.

Then again, even if there is indeed some path to completing the storyline that would result in a World Class Item, Ainz doubts that such information would be widespread. So, there was a non-zero chance that the Holy Grail does exist, but no information about such an item exists, so it was a theoretical discretion, nothing more... Ainz couldn't help but be curious, though, since he now possesses multiple Holy Grails, even if not ones from YGGDRASIL.

The Knights of the Round Table and King Arthur himself, in their search for the Holy Grail, become like travelling Bosses, appearing like a bat out of hell in random places to ruin Evil-aligned Players' days. It is in that understanding that, quite by chance, the guild Ainz Ooal Gown, become intimately acquainted with the Knights of the Round Table and King Arthur. That is, by running away, abandoning whatever it is they're doing.