Workers Invasion

The Workers Invasion was part of a plan implemented by Ainz Ooal Gown to publicly announce the Great Tomb of Nazarick to the world.

Background
The plan was proposed by Demiurge who believed that tricking the Baharuth Empire into sending workers to invade Nazarick would be the best plan of action as the first step in Ainz Ooal Gown's conquest of the New World.

The plan itself had three initial goals. First was to force the surrounding nations to acknowledge the existence and power of Ainz Ooal Gown. Second, the cost both monetarily and in missed opportunities from being forced to hide in the shadows would be relieved due to Nazarick's public announcement. And finally, there was the issue of the actor who brainwashed Shalltear still roaming about. With the newly gained freedom of movement from no longer being forced into the shadows and the cooperation of the neighboring kingdoms, hunting them down would be much easier.

Incident
Momon and Nabe entered Arwintar and summoned Fluder Paradyne to a private meeting. Taking advantage of his lust for more magical knowledge, both Ainz and Narberal showed him their true magical power, upon which, Fluder begged to be made Ainz's student, offering everything he had in return. Ainz took this opportunity to set Demiurge's plan in action by having Fluder suggest sending workers to Emperor Jircniv Rune Farlord El Nix in order to find out more about the mysterious magic caster, Ainz Ooal Gown.

Under the guise of a noble who was losing favor with the emperor, Jircniv hired the worker groups: Foresight, Green Leaf, Heavy Masher, and Tenmu to loot a previously unknown tomb. They also hired the Adamantite adventurer team Darkness to protect the luggage of the workers.

Upon arriving at the tomb, the four teams spit up to search the surface buildings, where they found vast amounts of treasure. They subsequently met up at the entrance of the tomb, upon which Parpatra Ogrion, the leader of Green Leaf suggested that his team stay behind a look for a second entrance in exchange for 10% of all loot the other workers found and dibs on any major treasure on the lower levels; all parties agreed to this proposition and the other three members entered the tomb.

During this time, Momon left the nearby camp in order to oversee and participate in the defense of Nazarick, he had Pandora's Actor take his place.

The workers were immediately greeted by a group of low-level undead, which Gringham dispatched with one blow. This greatly boosted the confidence of the workers who subsequently split up to plunder the tomb, much to the chagrin of Ainz.

On the surface, the other members of Green Leaf were discontent with Parpatra's decision. He defended his actions by pointing out that they would be adequately compensated, and even if that weren't the case, it was dangerous to be on the front lines of an unknown tomb. To his surprise, however, they were greeted by the Pleiades led by Yuri Alpha, who complimented Parpatra's prudence. She proceeded to summon the Nazarick Old Guarder to engage Green Leaf stating their intention to abstain from fighting. Believing the Pleiades to be the most powerful monsters of the tomb, Parpatra commented that his plan had backfired, the Pleiades only grinned in response. Being no match for the tomb's defenses, the Old Guarder quickly overwhelmed Green Leaf. The Pleiades then healed those who were still breathing and sent them to the torture chamber.

Heavy Masher engaged with and quickly fled a number of magic-wielding undead who were using fire spells to pursue the intruders. After running for a time, they found a side room and took refuge in it, only to immediately realize that it was a magical trap that teleported them to different parts of the tomb to be tortured and eaten alive.

Tenmu ran into Hamsuke who was accompanied by a Death Knight and several lizardmen. Hamsuke claimed that the intruders were to be a test for her training to become a warrior; she commented, however, that the worker team was unlikely to be a challenge. Erya Uzruth alone fought the beast and lost after she used a newly learned martial art.

After stepping on a magic trap, Foresight found themselves in a large fighting ring similar to one in the Empire. Seeing, the night sky, they thought they had been teleported outside and commented that they could be using flying magic to get away, not realizing that they were on the 6th of Nazarick. But before they could do anything else, they were interrupted by Aura who acted as an announcer and introduced Ainz accompanied by Albedo as their opponents.

Realizing how dangerous their situation was, Hekkeran Termite decided that trying to talk their way out was their only choice. He started by apologizing to Ainz and requesting to leave unharmed, to which Ainz compared them to being worse than maggots in one's food, and pointing out that you don't simply let maggots go, rather you kill them. Desperate, Hekkeran asked if they could go if Foresight was invited by one of Ainz's friends, Ainz responded by saying he would let them go if such a story proved to be true and asked the leader of Foresight to describe this supposed friend of Ainz. Termite then proceeded to describe his appearance which was quite vague, the nail in the coffin was when he claimed this friend said to "Say hi to Ainz." At which point, Ainz knew this to be a lie since any of his friends would know him as Momonga, not Ainz.

Ainz then went into a fit of rage, cursing them for lying to his face, But he was quickly quelled by the emotion dampener and assured Hekkeran that he understood their situation and couldn't hold such antics against them. He then engaged with the team of workers with a sword and shield, of course, none of their attacks had any effect on him. After a bit of skirmishing, Ainz stated that while he enjoyed a good sword fight, he found himself at a disadvantage against such a well-coordinated team, so he got rid of his weapons and challenged them to come and attack.

This frightened the team as they believed him to be a most difficult opponent as a warrior, and couldn't imagine how powerful he was as a caster. However, after using detection magic, Arche Eeb Rile Furt claimed that Ainz must be bluffing as she couldn't detect any magic. Ainz then took off one of his rings and asked her to try again, upon which, she got sick and in panic, implored her fellow workers to flee immediately, claiming that Ainz's magic power was at an impossible level. However, Hekkeran checked, and there was no path for escape, so they engaged.

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