Carthus Watchtower, Ceris, Jenesia System
29th Poseidon (29th March), 1400 Hours (Ceris Time) 1503 AGW
The inner walls of the watchtower were sprayed with the blood of zombie-like ghouls who Ainz assumed were previously miners. The feral Cameloids kept charging at him from the top floors as Ainz climbed his way up the tower with Glenn providing some much needed backup from behind. The roaring sounds made by the rounds from his ion gun pierced the echo-filled rooms. The number of shots slowly decreased until a dead silence was heard again when Ainz reached the loft of the tower. There, they pushed aside the half-open door leading to a pitch black room. To the horrors of both of them, what they saw was burned into their minds - an utterly grotesque scene. A two meter tall man regurgitated black pus into the mouths and orifices of captured Cameloids and throwing them aside to die. Seconds later, the deceased Cameloid starts to move its limbs and foam erupts from its mouth... the dead camel was bloody moving again. In an instant, Ainz and Glenn shot those monstrosities with their hand cannons. Thunderous sounds shook the room as the tall man crawled on all fours and slithered across the floor towards the two Grandeans. Once near, the shadowed figure stood up straight with claws up, ready to kill. However, before the claws could reach its flesh, Ainz pulled the trigger and shot the beast straight at its head.
"What-! What the hell is that thing?" cried the horried Glenn. "I don't know myself. It scared the literal shit out of me though. Better shoot it again for good measure." said Ainz as he cocked another bullet in the thing's head.
"Hey, what's that?" Glenn knelt down and unhinged a palm-sized badge from the creatures vest. It was a silver-polished with the engravings 'The Maw' written on it. " This guy's from Exiyu's crew, Exiyu ain't here. Let's get out of this place before whatever it is that turned this guy comes after us." urged Glenn as he walks towards the exit. Ainz took a last glance at the blood-stained room before leaving.
"Let's get back to Yanu'Kai and report what we've seen here back to Ire and meet up with the rest." Ainz still had some part of him feeling uncomfortable from what he just witnessed, no one should ever see what he saw. Upon reaching the cottage, the two men lay their gear on the wooden table, exhausted from the journey back. As they sat, Ainz noticed something was off. He glanced into the room Yanu'Kai was in and she wasn't there. "Glenn, she's gone. She's been captured, we've got to go find her." Ainz panicked as he ran out of the hut, looking for the missing Duchess. "Calm down Ainz, she left us a note." Glenn picked up the wrinkled piece of parchment, it read:
Boys, i'm heading off for Ire in advance. Go meet up with the rest soon.
-Yanu'Kai
"Damn, she's a royal pain in the ass giving us unnecessary trouble like that. I guess we'll just have to meet her there" sighed Glenn. The two men packed up immediately and headed off back to Westfield.