Grand Foreigner (Chapters 201+)

Ereshkigal's tale was intriguing, not so much from the standpoint of providing clarification necessary for Ainz to determine his next course of action, but at least as a source of valuable information on its own. It wasn't that Ainz particularly enjoyed chatting about life situations with people he was unfamiliar with, at least not unless they were his Servants for whom Ainz, within his capabilities, strove to be a good boss.

However, any information, especially under such complicated circumstances as the current Singularity, would never be useless for Ainz. Therefore, Ainz immersed himself carefully in Ereshkigal's story, a significant portion of which coincided with Merlin's previous account but shed light on certain information that the latter preferred not to disclose so readily.

For example, the initial emergence of the Singularity of Babylon was due to three goddesses, one of whom was Ereshkigal, another referred to as Quetzalcoatl, and the third being Tiamat. The Three Goddesses opposing the course of human history, which was supposed to erase them from the face of the Earth, which is, despite the resulting Singularity, was understandable. Being Goddesses, they really should have known better, but then the need of survival makes fools of all.

At the very least, Ereshkigal was not aiming for the whole destruction of Humanity, only their continued existence.

However, Tiamat, awakened earlier by Soma—or what was his name?—was a Beast, and Ainz could hear the capital letter, and therefore had a different idea entirely about Humanity as such, and so created a Singularity around her own actions. By effectively wiping out all human lives.

Since even Ainz's with his inability in social situations, having looked closely at Ereshkigal and her actions, was quite sure that she hardly really wanted to participate in such activities. Especially, the clear worry she displayed for the human souls in her realm was genuine.

As far as Ainz could understand, Ereshkigal was accidentally added to the Alliance of Three Goddesses and joined them exclusively with the aim of saving those people who were supposed to perish as a result of the other goddesses' actions. That is, by transporting their souls the moment their physical body was killed and absorbed.

Of course, regarding Quetzalcoatl, Ainz could not make such assumptions, especially given the fact that in the previous Singularity, a single Goddess was enough to create a Singularity, but the main problem of the Singularity was clearly in Tiamat... Excluding the fact that Tiamat was not in the Alliance of Three Goddesses.

To be more precise, Tiamat was sealed in the Abyss, a place without the concepts of time or space, and even the Seminar—or what was it called?—could not fully awaken her. However, what about that Seminar? Ainz really needs to ask for a clarification for that, as that is indeed a very strange name, but he was a bit too embarrassed to do so.

Well, whatever his name is, what the being had managed to do when he had failed to release Tiamat from her seal was to revive Kingu, Tiamat's child. And somehow, while unable to do so himself, plants the thought in him of how exactly he was to awaken Tiamat with the help of the Grail, while also finding a semblance of Tiamat in this world. Gorgon.

Medusa Gorgon.

However, as quickly as Ainz associated this name with one of his Servants in Chaldea, one of those with whom Ainz was in a relationship with, about to rise to her defense, just as quickly Ereshkigal dispelled his thoughts. With a raised eyebrow, informing him that despite the name's correlation, it was not quite the Medusa that Ainz was familiar with.

The Medusa he had summoned before was the Medusa Gorgon after she had just been given the curse and had hidden on the Shapeless Island with her sisters living there for some years.