“By your command.” Ainz had already recovered Milla.

He put the baby girl in Brinja’s arms and lifted his wife in his own.

“You’re not going anywhere unless I say so!” Orpal jumped out of the wall and lunged at Milla, knowing the baby girl was the weakest link of the chain.

Sylpha put herself in the way, just as he expected. The clone put all of his weight in the blow, charging his body with another bolt of Life Maelstrom and flapping his wings to kick things up another notch.

What he didn’t expect was the Queen deflecting Thorn and dispelling the strength of his charge with an unsettling ease.

“Motion denied!” Sylpha kicked Orpal in the solar plexus, breaking his breathing again and sending him to crash in the same spot as before. “Damn, if I’m getting cocky with age. I said get out, Marquis!”

Her arms and blade trembled from the aftershock, and she needed to flex her fingers to shrug off the numbness.