Lore
Eight-Edge Assassin
八肢刀の暗殺蟲（エイトエッジ・アサシン）
Races & CreaturesNotable Monsters & Summons
A spider-like assassin monster of level 49 (Web setting); blades sprout from its eight legs, it can attack 8 times, and it beheads its victims while invisible.
- It is human-sized and looks like a black spider in ninja garb.
- Sharp blades grow from its eight legs, allowing 8 consecutive attacks.
- It can turn invisible, excels at stealth, and can kill in one blow by beheading.
- In the Web novel, Nazarick has 15 of them under Cocytus, 7 of which have served as Ainz's personal guards since the transfer; the total in the light novels is undisclosed
- They are often dispatched as Ainz's guards and to conduct surveillance and gather intelligence in various places.
- In a Web novel comment reply the author said it is a thief-type monster
- Source: appearance and abilities, Vol. 1 p. 282
- Other high-level stealth servants include Lv80+ ninja-type human-shaped monsters: Hanzo (good at detecting stealth), Fuma (unarmed combat and special techniques), Tobi Kato (armed combat), and Kashin Koji (illusions) (Vol. 10 pp. 324–325)
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