The Dark Warrior

Ainz looked around the room and was disappointed. He didn't expect a tavern

from the countryside to have the facilities and cleanliness of Nazarick, but he

was stil put off by this.

"How dare they assign such quarters to Momon-sama."

"Don't say that Nabel. Our objective in this city is to become adventurers and get famous. Before that, it will be a good experience to live in a way that befits our

current status."

He didn't mention the displeasure in his heart as he consoled Naberal while

closing the blinds. The sunlight leaking through the gaps of the blinds wasn’t

enough to il uminate the whole room. Ainz and Narberal were fine since the both

of them had night vision, but for normal people this room was too dark.

"Being an adventurer... this job isn’t as fantastic as I imagined."

Adventurers.

Ainz had some fantasies about them.

People who sought out the unknown, venturing around the world. Ainz had

certain expectations of this career that embodied the right way of playing the

game YGGDRASIL. But after listening to the explanation of the counter lady, he

learned that adventuring was a practical and dull career.

In short, adventurers were 'mercenaries who deal with monsters'.

Some parts were similar to Ainz's idealized version of adventurers. They do

explore the ruins of countries destroyed by demon gods, and do seek unknown

treasures in secret realms; but they are basically monster hunters.

Al monsters had unique abilities, so there was a need for people with a wide

variety of skil s to handle them.

Thinking about it from this angle, there really might be heroes that were needed

by the people, who showed up as if they were clichés in a game.

But reality was different.

The governing organizations disliked the existence of armed groups outside

their control. Even setting financial concerns aside, the social status of

adventurers was stil low.

There were other reasons why countries didn't take in adventurers en masse.

Instead of hiring permanent staff with high salaries, it was better to outsource

the work to local adventurer guilds, which made more sense as a business. For

companies that can operate without the adventurers guild or a nation that can

clear monsters with their military, the status of adventurers were even lower.

According to the complaints of the counter lady, there were no adventurers in

the Silian Theocracy. The status of adventurers in the Baharuth Empire became

even worse after the current emperor ascended the throne.

Ainz purged the slight feelings of disappointment from his heart. Getting the job

you wanted and realizing reality was different from your imagination was a

common occurrence.

As Ainz waved his hand gently, his dark full body armor and the 2 giant swords

on his back disappeared without a trace, revealing his skeletal body under the

magic equipment.

A red reticule flickered on top of his gray goggles. His headpiece was covered in

thorns and decorated with amethysts.

He was wearing a silky, black, long-sleeved shirt and baggy pants. The belt

around the pants waist was a simple, black band.

After removing his plain steel gauntlets, a ring could be seen on every single

bony finger, except for the ring fingers on both hand.

His brown leather boots with rough exterior were adorned with gold embroidery

Hanging on his neck was a silver disc with a drawing of a lion. A red cape was

draped over his shoulders.

The equipment of YGGDRASIL was normally installed using an external crystal

drive, so it was hard to standardize the looks of equipment. But since a lot of

players hated wearing mixed pieces of equipment, it was resolved in one of the

version updates.

It added the option to standardize the appearance of equipment without affecting

its stats.

The black armor that covered Ainz’s whole body had several requirements and

possessing the ability [High-Level Item Creation] was one of them.

Right now, Ainz was equipped with [Sure Hit Glasses], [Crown of mental

Barriers], [Clothes of the Black Widow], [Black Belt], [Metallic Gauntlets],

[Nemean Lion] and [Boots of Speed].

Item trading in YGGDRASIL was usually done via computer crystal data

transfer, but for the sake of creating more powerful equipment, there were

people who bought second hand items. A problem might arise if an item was

created by another person─── and the name of the item included words that

were banned on a server or insulted specific persons. The mods might request

the name to be amended, but the items were usually named as the creator

pleased.

A weird name wouldn’t be popular when you attempt to sell it. The fee for

renaming wasn't expensive, but few people would want to purchase an item and

rename it later.

So every player gave their all in naming their equipment. The name might

originate from mythology or the English language.

And of course, there were exceptions too.

It was a hassle to name rings, so calling them [ring1], [ring2], [ring3] wasn't too

bad. Ainz even saw people naming [thumb ring], [index finger ring] and [middle

finger ring].