Even so, the guild had only ever reached ninth place at most. Momonga did not remember ever having the title of one of the Five Great Guilds, nor did he remember ever topping the guild rankings.
"Wait... wasn't Ainz Ooal Gown ranked ninth?" Momonga asked weakly.
"Ninth... yes. After the other Supreme Beings were no longer around, it became ninth," Lilith said indifferently.
In other words, this Nazarick had only fallen to the highest rank it had previously achieved—ninth place—after everyone except Momonga had left...?
??????
"That really is... a very high ranking..." Momonga's voice was a little shaky.
"Because we Nazarick have a lot of World Items. We have twenty-one World Items," Lilith said. "What's wrong, Lord Momonga? Is your stomach bothering you?"
"I'm fine..." Momonga said, but his nonexistent stomach really did feel as though it were twisting in pain.
Twenty-one... ten more than Momonga knew of.
"Wait, the current Nazarick is the Nazarick Aya left behind..."
In other words, Aya remaining in Nazarick had caused such an enormous difference?
The original ninth-place ranking had become "one of the Five Great Guilds," and it had even once topped the rankings. The original eleven World Items had increased by ten, becoming twenty-one.
As for NPCs, there were at least three additional level-one-hundred Guardians—Camellia, Preya, and Lilith. That meant the guild base's total level cap had increased by at least three hundred levels.
Right. As long as a guild had topped the rankings once, it could receive a two-hundred-level guild base reward. Each guild could only claim that reward once.
But even with those two hundred levels, it still wasn't enough!
What on earth had happened to create such a huge difference?!
"There are forty-two members in our guild, right?" Momonga asked cautiously.
The Ainz Ooal Gown guild had forty-one