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Chapter 20 - Helping Subaru doing a speedrun 2

A red portal opens on a corner of the village in the sanctuary. A skeleton, a human, a maid and a little girl gets out from it

"Just like that? in an instant?" Frederica asks while amazed at the teleport magic

"Now lets go to Emilia so she can pass the first trial" Subaru says while leading the party

...

Near the Trial temple

Emilia is sitting on the stairs when the party of 4 approach

"An unde-" Emilia is about to shout but

"Yeah yeah, an undead... can we skip this?" Subaru says while gettin annoyed at this whole friendly undead explanation... while Ainz find it amusing

...

An explanation later...

"Now Emilia, we are going to help you pass the trial! Dont worry, you are gonna pass alone, our skeletal friend here is just gonna cast a buff on you!" Subaru says and then makes an exagerated posture pointing to Ainz

"A... buff?" Emilia tilt her head while an almost real '?' sign appears on her head

Ainz opens his inventory an retrieves a magic staff and then

"{Calm mind}" Ainz cast a spell through the staff, and then a red hue appears on emilia

"eh? I feel... calm... like i can think better" Emilia says amazed

"Now little Emilia, you will very calm, and unless you see something very shocking or traumatizing, you will stay calm and collected" Ainz says

"Now Emilia, you can do the test! i believe in you!" Subaru says while cheering her

"Yes, i can do it!" Emilia makes a cute cheering and walks to the trial

As we watch Emilia entering the trial, Subaru turns around and gaze at Ainz

"Now we need to wait until she completes the first and second trial. After that we need to prepare for the rabbits..." While saying 'Rabbits', Subaru, still with the trauma, shivers a little

The group wait for some minutes and Emilia walks out of the temple with a weird face

"Emilia! Are you ok?" Subaru asks with concern

"Yes... It was easier than i thought?" Emilia says with a weird face, thinking of how easy was the test

"Ah... thats good!" Subaru says while thinking

'Could the spell casted by Ainz be that good?'

"Emilia tomorrow you need to take the second trial... if its not hard enough then its good, so that menas we have a chance!" Subaru says in anticipation of leaving this loop on the sanctuary

...

The next day

Emilia passed the second trial and subaru and his gang were happy... Although someone in a certain garden wasnt.

Echidna right now is angry because Emilia passed the first two tests easily, and while trying to see how that was possible, she saw that for some reason Emilia is very calm during the trial, like she is always thinking logically

She started to search what changed her so much, as she was always an emotional person

Thats when she saw the skeleton on the party of Subaru

'An undead? For some reason i feel that i dont know anything about it... Like he is a complete mistery tone' Echidna was thinking while watching Ainz. Just as she was seeing him, Ainz suddenly lifts his head to gaze directly at her through the image, like he knows someone is watching him.

"?!" Echidna is perplexed and cuts the spell instantly

'Did he sensed me? No... it cant be, it must be a coincidence... yeah... nobody can knows if a witch is watching them, not even the holders of our powers' Echidna thought and calms down

...

'Is this my new power? Before i couldnt feel anything if someone was spying on me... now i can feel it in an instant

While Ainz was thinking, Subaru and the gang goes to do their things, preparing for tomorrows trial

...

The next day

Subaru and the gang comes to the trials temple

Ainz casts a buff to Emilia and then she enters again

Just when everything was normal, the world around Ainz turns black and white. He gaze around and couldnt find Subaru... Knowing that he is speaking with that woman called Echidna, Ainz cast a {Gate}

...

Echidna's garden

Subaru cant understand why he is here again. The last 2 times was because he wanted knowledge very badly, he wanted to know something like crazy... but now everything was going okay. In fact, this life is the best so far... But here he is, in a place he comes only when desperate.

"Hello Subaru, i summoned you here because... you are cheating" Echinda says with a deadpan face

"Cheating? How so?" Subaru is very confused at the moment. Cheating? If coming back in time is considered cheating then he was cheating all the time...

"Emilia wasnt supposed to pass the first trial and right now she is very advanced on the second... Tell me Subaru, why is that so? What did you do to her?" Echidna asks while trying to not show her greed for new knowledge

"Eh? thats-" Before subaru can finish

"Stop! Thats cheating Echidna!" A wild Minerva, the witch of wrath appears, doing a dinamic entrance from the sky

"Yes~ You cant do this~" Another witch who teleports and appears to be sleeping appears

More and more witches appears, until everyone except Satella is here

While they where doing their entrances, Subaru is shocked to find them again

"Um... hello everyone... again?" He asks while trying to act calm

"And you!" Minerva points at Subaru

"You too got the help of some undead monster! Thats also Cheating!"

"Are you talking about Ainz? But he is a normal undead... i guess. I know he is a little powerful but its not to the point of cheating!" Subaru tries to argument

"Also, why having his help is cheating? I mean you all never said anything about a fair match or any-" Before he can finish... like always something happens between his sentences

A giant red portal appears beside Subaru

Then an imposing Ainz can be seen, walking slowly from the portal

Echidna makes an astounded face, as someone she is not inviting is entering her place

The other 5 witches gets on guard for a possible fight... Even the sloth witch, who is always on the floor trying to sleep, gets up and tries to put a fighting stance... yes, tries, as she is wobbling like a drunk person while on her feets

"Hello everyone, i came here because someone kidnapped Subaru out of nowhere... Now can we talk about why he is here? I mean, i got a little info about his last 2 visits... thats why being here right now is not a normal thing" Ainz says with a calm voice... It needs to be said, that before Ainz entered the Gate, he casted like 30 buffs on him. He is always cautious

"How dare you enter my sacred place without invitation!" Echidna says angry and also cautious, as she knows only Satella, the witch of envy can enter without her invite... nobody in the world except for her can

Just when Ainz wanted to answer, Minerva charges at him, trying to enter in melee range.

The other 5 Witches also starts to cast, shoot, etc. Everyone trying to fight Ainz with their powers

Not knowing their powers and just knowing that their realm is like gods in this world, Ainz is very cautious about this fight

"{Triple Maximise Magic} {Hold Mass Species}"

The 6 Witches stops in place. Like they suddendly got freezed

"Now then, i would love to fight with you all but my friend Subaru here would be in danger, so goodbye for now"

"{Gate} {Telekinesis}" Ainz casts another gate and then throw Subaru inside with a common Telekinesis spell

"Goodbye, Witches of this world {Fly}" Then Ainz flies very fast and enters the portal

The Witches couldnt do anything to stop him, and 30 seconds later, the paralisis is lifted

"Damn him, im going to punch that undead" An angry Minerva says while making a fist

'I cant understand the spells he casted... its like their are a new type of magic... Also his Mana is so high that eclipses even the most powerful person i know...' Echdna thougts

"I need to investigate him... There is nothing in this world i dont know! I just need some time to find his identity in my memories... yes... its not like i dont know him... huhuhu..." Echidna says to herself and laughs a little, making a creppy scene that nobody can see right now

...

Subaru and Ainz appears in the middle of the sanctuary village, they exits the portal and gaze around...

'The world has colors again... so its seems everything went fine' Ainz thought

"Now subaru, we need to finish this thing quickly... i would hate to fight these witches in their own place" Ainz says and walks toward the temple while being followed by Subaru

While they were walking, some time pass and they reached the temple... Emilia was waiting outside with a panicked face

"There you are! I couldnt find you and thought something bad happened" Emilia says and then calms down

Subaru and Emilia starts to talk, Subaru asks her about the second trial and if she is prepared for the final one

While they were talking, Ainz thinks about the fight with the Witches... Fight could be a understatement, it was more like a grab and run...

After that, Subaru and Emilia goes around the village, talking, its seems Emilia is happy about overcoming her past

They make a trip to a lake nearby and have a little romantic scene...

...

The next day, this is the final day where Emilia is going to take the final trial and the rabbits horde comes to the village

Subaru tries to speak to the people in the village, making them stay together outside the temple, so they are safe from the rabbits horde

Emilia casts a ice wall around the villagers and then walks to the temple

As Emilia enters the temple, the third and final trial starts

Subaru and Ainz starts to make preparations... which is simply making Ainz stand in the center of the village, grabbing the aggro of the rabbits while Subaru watchs from far away

Ainz is waiting... and waiting... until finally, the first snowflake falls

Subaru is shivering while watching the snow, remembering his past deaths

Some minutes later the first rabbit appears... and the second...

Just a few minutes and the whole village is surrounded by hundreds of rabbits

Ainz gaze around and concentrates to emmit his mana, making a very tasty prey for the rabbits

The rabbits starts to run madly at Ainz... they are in a frenzy trying to reach that tasty mana

As Ainz waits for the right moment... the rabbits nears...

100 meters...

50

10

The the first rabbit finally bites him... and nothing happens... its like they are bitting steel

When Ainz finally feels that every rabbit is in range...

"{Negative Burst}"

A black wave spreads out from Ainz, killing every rabbit it touchs

A few seconds later... all the rabbits are dead on the cold snow

Subaru is dumbfounded at how easy it was for Ainz...

He literally one shotted every rabbit around him

Subaru starts to approach Ainz while cautiously walking around the rabbit corpses who has no external wounds... its like they are just sleeping...

"That... was easier than expected..." Subaru says after reaching Ainz

"Well, i thought this was going to happen when you said they are weak individually" Ainz says while gazing at the dead rabbits

As the two of them are talking about the rabbits, a great shine appears on the temple, disabling the barrier around the sanctuary.

"It seems Emilia passed the trial... its time to get out of this damn place" Subaru says while running to the temple

Ainz gaze at him and simply teleports to Rob, who was watching everything from the sky

"Hi Ainz, good work helping him" I said to Ainz while seeing a running Subaru in a screen

As the two of you watch the screen, in a random house a wounded Roswaal is going very crazy, as this is not what was supposed to happen

"Why?! How could he complete this that fast?! Was the assasins not powerful enough?!" Roswal is screaming alone in his room

"The book didnt said this was going to happen!" Roswaal screams as he take the book under his pillow

He starts to read and gaze at... a blank book

"How could this be..." Roswaal cant see what is going to happen next...

High in the sky, i was watching this and remembers the real "plot"

"Well... lets fix this as this is going to change very much if Roswaal is like that..." I clap my hands and change the events of the past.

Before Ainz and Subaru kills he rabbits, Roswaal and Ram fights for some reason. She burns his book and Roswaal starts to accept reality. He ends meeting Echidna's body at the end of the trial temple. He finally overcomes his obsession and is full on Subaru's side

"Now the plot can continue without much changes... except for Ainz" I said while gazing at the now normal events

'What is going to happend next...? I cant remember much' I thought while trying to remember the story

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