(;▔□▔)/ I wasn't late-I just overslept a little! You're the ones who started fighting too early!!

Maybe it was because a certain little girl had accidentally slept in?

(*?＼*)

↑ If I cover my eyes, I can't hear you talking bad about me~!

Or perhaps it was because a certain mean-spirited plush teddy bear was slacking off?

??????: What're you looking at? This bear's slacking off. So what're you gonna do about it?

Of course, it was also possible that the ignorant bigwigs of the Re-Estize Kingdom had badly underestimated their opponent. Or perhaps their magical strength was simply too weak, so no one had attacked or interrupted the Sorcerer King while he cast and channeled his anti-army Super-Tier Magic from beginning to end.

In any case, when the Sorcerer King of the Sorcerer Kingdom, Ainz Ooal Gown, successfully cast his Super-Tier Magic, "Iä Shub-Niggurath," and a wave of strange black magic swept across the battlefield, the noble faction of the Re-Estize Kingdom—the powerful Baron Lolop—along with the full seventy thousand elite vanguard troops under his command, hadn't even reached the enemy's formation before they fell like harvested wheat along their path of advance. Not one of them had a wound on their body. They had simply dropped dead, with no warning at all...

That's right!

The Sorcerer King of the Sorcerer Kingdom, Ainz Ooal Gown, had cast just one Super-Tier Magic spell. And then, of the Kingdom's two hundred and forty thousand soldiers, those seventy thousand vanguard troops—almost a third of the entire army—had inexplicably dropped dead, without the slightest warning or trace. The commanders and soldiers on both the Kingdom's and the Empire's sides were so shocked that for a long while, none of them could say a word.

After all, such a horrifying and unprecedented sight lay so far beyond the limits of anything they could imagine or had ever heard of that