Shalltear's Quagoa Capture

Shalltear's Quagoa Capture was a mission assigned to Shalltear Bloodfallen by her master, Ainz Ooal Gown to capture the Quagoa unharmed.
== Background ==
While on duty of guarding the entrance of the hidden tunnel, she discovers that someone else entered the cave they were in, through the hidden tunnel in the building to which Aura guided Ainz. As a result, she had already dispersed some of the Hanzos and Aura’s beasts into the vicinity to investigate the perimeter before reporting back to her master after he returns with Gondo Firebeard who then decided to officially leave this operation in her hands to fulfill.
== Rules and Conditions ==
When given the order to capture the Quagoas while accompanied by Aura, Shalltear already understood Ainz's intention as her master was looking to question them and prevent word about their expedition from leaking out.
Aura was order to keep a close eye on Shalltear’s movements throughout her entire combat operation silently. Under Ainz's order, if Shalltear looks like she's about to begin massacring the Quagoas, it was Aura's duty to stop her by any means necessary, even if she had to hit her. Apart from that, Aura was told to not interfere with Shalltear’s battle plans. On the other hand, Shalltear had even been told that Aura would merely observe from behind, and the latter was not to be used in any combat operations. In other words, the entire operation, from planning to execution, was solely Shalltear’s responsibility.
In particular, Shalltear has to manage her battle plans using only the Hanzos and her undead familiars given to her for this operation strategically and tactically.
== Battle Plan ==
While her actions are silently observed by Aura, Shalltear her underlings headed towards the location of the Quagoa while being followed from behind by the latter. They leapt from roof to roof at breakneck speeds. To make sure that none of the Quagoas escape, Shalltear had the Hanzos verify that there were no outsiders except the Quagoa in the tunnel.
With the enemies having no more means of retreat now, the next thing she had to worry about was if the enemy was
scattered throughout the city. Shalltear considers taking some time to hunt down and root them all out, but she wanted to avoid wasting time for her master's sake. Although Ainz had not given her a time limit on this operation, she thinks that wasting too much time was proof of her own incompetence. In the end, Shalltear relayed the details of the plan she had thought up on the way to the rooftop. She would surround the enemy, and then disable everyone within the perimeter. In other words, she would use the Hanzos to cut off their retreat, then compact them into a mass before taking them all out in one blow. After dispatching the Hanzos, Shalltear counted out three minutes. Shalltear had to do so because she had no means of communicating with the Hanzos.
Seeing that the Quagoa seemed to have circled their wagons around the building, with no intentions of dispersing, Shalltear immediately orders the undead she brought along to keep them from escaping into the surrounding area. After giving orders to the undead, Shalltear ran along the rooftops, and then leapt in front of the Quagoa. At the same time, her undead landed around them. They had taken control of all the major thoroughfares around the building. The Quagoas’ routes of retreat were almost completely cut off. While the Quagoas are confused by what was unfolding before their eyes, Shalltear used the opportunity to cast a spell [Mass Hold Species] long before they could recover.
Now that they were all frozen in one place by her spell, Shalltear was able to tell that they were not high-level opponents. Those Quagoa who had not entered the spell’s area of effect managed to recover from their confusion, but none of them attempted to attack Shalltear. From observing their movement, Shalltear reach the conclusion, that the reason why the ones outside the range of [Mass Hold Species]] did not choose to fight or flee was because she happen to have center the spell on an outstanding-looking Quagoa that they cannot easily abandoned. She cast the same spell again, and now even the fleeing Quagoa were neutralized shortly thereafter.
As the Quagoas all rendered immobile, Shalltear gave the order to her undead to close in on them. In response to Shalltear’s shouted orders, the surrounding undead shrank their perimeter. The Quagoa within the building heard Shalltear shout and sensed the abnormality in their comrades, but it was far too late for them to respond. Before long, she storm the building after the undead pursue them. Although breaking through a window would have given her the element of surprise, she instead concentrated her effort of breaking through and decided on going straight through the door instead, using herself as bait. After both sides came into contact with each other, the waiting Quagoa swiped their claws at Shalltear over and over again. Shalltear did not bother to avoid their blows, but bore the brunt of the Quagoa offensive, choosing to think in the meantime what their numbers are and in the hopes of verifying their attack strength.
While she remains unhurt, the Quagoa were taken aback. As though unable to believe what they were seeing, the surrounding Quagoa clawed at her, but to no avail still. Shalltear then cast [Mass Hold Species] once more on all the Quagoa present and as a result, had them stopped moving. She looked around and saw the fearful Quagoa in the next room not in the range of her spell running through the remains of a broken door. As Shalltear’s stride brought her forward, the Quagoa clambered over themselves to flee. When Shalltear got close, that Quagoa trying to run was easily caught in the range of her spell this time around after it was cast again by the former. Now that all the Quagoa within the building had been captured, she entered the tunnel and found the six Quagoa that tried to flee captured by the Hanzos.
== Aftermath ==
Although she have perfectly accomplished her mission, she made a precautionary order to the Hanzos that they need to go and make sure there’s nobody else lying in wait within the building. When that is done, she encourages the Hanzos to have the undead who are bringing them in carry these Quagoa out. She suggests the Hanzos that they can order the undead to bind the Quagoa with ropes. While they are doing all that, Shalltear will stay where she is at until they finish searching the interior and see if anyone else is trying to make a run for it. Upon receiving Shalltear’s orders, the Hanzos picked up the Quagoas on the ground and returned to the building. They returned to Shalltear after two minutes had passed.
Upon capturing the Quagoas nonviolently, Shalltear was able to successfully accomplish this entire combat operation without trouble. Having flawlessly completed her operation, Shalltear emerged from the building, where she saw many bound Quagoa and the forms of Ainz, Aura, the Hanzos, Gondo Firebeard and Zenberu who were waiting for her return.Overlord Volume 11 Chapter 2: In Pursuit of the Land of the Dwarves
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