After letting it slip that "they will all die" when questioned by one of the other Adventurers, Momon covers it up and ends up taking a later shift as he switches with Pandora's Actor in the guise of Momon, while he returns to Nazarick to watch the defenses slaughter these grave-robbers. Little do they know that Ainz is slowly making his way back. To them, this is a fun little dungeon run. The three Worker teams that enter the tomb are besieged by mere skeletons, and they laugh - Gringham easily bashes through the skeletons, and as they split up, Robberdick is able to use Turn Undead (Robber is gloriously hammy, by the way) to vaporize a bunch of skeletal mages. The old man, "Green Leaf" Parpatra, offers to search outside for a way to immediately enter the innermost chamber in exchange for a cut while simultaneously putting his team in a safer place. They quickly find a whole lot of wealth in the outer mausoleums outside the main tomb, and, well, it's hard to condemn them for wanting to get more. So, anyway, the four Worker groups show up and sort of lampshade how weird it is for a ruin to show up when no one else has seen it before, and we spend a bit more time with the other Worker guilds, especially Gringham the dwarf-looking dude. Neuronist is a character that only shows up for a scene in this episode, but god damn that's a horrifying scene. Man, the addition of a couple of extra details just makes this thing extra hilarious and extra disturbing, huh? Oh, and she apparently tortures people by first giving them kidney stones, presumably the hard way in, although we thankfully don't see them. And she has decorated her bulbous face with cute pretty makeup, eyelashes, face-blushes, and even has these cute painted nails on the tip of her long, tapering fingers. Neuronist Painkill is this obese mind flayer that looks like a bloated drowned corpse, with what appears to be dominatrix outfit that she barely fits into, which just adds to the sheer wrongness of it all. But Neuronist Painkill, a character with an awesome name and an utterly horrifying design, takes that balance between cool, whimsical and horror that mind flayers have, and ramps up the two latter qualities. See, the concept of D&D's Mind Flayers (or Illithid) is pretty scary - a race of octopus-headed beings from another realm whose diet is people's brains and minds, and they aren't bound by mortal morality. Oh, wow, and I thought mind flayers can't get any more disturbing.
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