A Wizards Misadventures

~~Level Twenty Three~~

At least he wasn't willing to use all that power he had to any large degree. He was no brute, for better or worse. That didn't make him any less scary, though. If anything it made him more so since Momonga was actually starting to like him. And Nazerick was too. If the guild was compromised… no. It couldn't be.

Maybe sucking up to him would work? But that would ruin the respect of his guild. So many problems to deal with.

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"I've never had group bathing before," Abyss said casually as Momonga lowered himself into the water. The man himself was already reclining against the bath's walls.

"It's something I'm fond of. Bathing on your own is perfectly serviceable for getting clean yet group activities build community." In reality Nazerick was mostly populated by Japanese players. It seemed normal to have private hot springs.

"Do you have a mixed bathing section too?"

"Yes, though it's mostly used by the genderless beings of Nazerick."

"Ah, like the slimes." He nodded knowingly. Yes, the slimes did tend to melt into the water a little bit. It wasn't that they were exiled from the gender divided sections for doing so but nobody wanted to bathe in tainted waters. "It makes sense. I love the setting. It reminds me of a culture from my home, the Mistralians. At any rate, care to get straight to business?"

"We may as well." Momonga really didn't want to. "I've wondered whether you'd be interested in a small alteration in our arrangement."

"The one where you don't do acts of evil or where we adventure together?"

"More the first than the second. The more chaotic residents of Nazerick have had issues acclimating to your deman-"

"Compromise, Ainz. You don't go slaughtering the innocent and I'm happy to be friends. If you do terrible things for a good reason I have room for leniency."

"Compromise," he nodded agreeably and reminded himself to hold back with Abyss. He had to word his phrases properly. A less kind boss could have taken the word 'demand' as an accusation that he was forcing the issue with Ainz. He was, of course, but stating it blatantly would only make him angry.

"We are wondering whether it is harm to innocents that you're warding us from or general crimes. I'd prefer to clarify this before a member of Nazerick does something out of hand. Is it fine to commit euthanasea on the old and obsolete? What of the good people who would attack my members on sight? We are monsters, after all, and many would be happy to genocide our whole species with nothing but good intentions. And what of cruelties on the evil, such as bandits and criminals?"

"I appreciate that you're asking this. You're right, this does need a clarification. I had assumed that it was obvious but with you being more evil you've got a different perspective. Hm… think of it this way, if you can avoid killing someone who's probably good, do so. If it's bandits who kill and rape, loot and steal, even if it's with some claim to goodness, kill them. I'm willing to be lenient. Just try to kill more evil people than good. I'm not a saint, Ainz, and I'm not trying to be. You've got a good head on your shoulders. I doubt that you'll mess this up."

'You've got a good head on your shoulders', when used as an assertion of an employee's capabilities, meant that it was up to him to make this work since he was supposedly able to. Still, he had clarified a bit.