Talk:Gazef Stronoff/@comment-179.182.140.197-20180112030737/@comment-30468100-20180305034338

Gazef didn't believe that he could. Theoretically, there was an infinitely tiny chance he could, however, it would require nigh on astronomical odds to succeed.

He did so anyway, because it was more that this is the moment where the greatest opportunity to kill him lies, even if it isn't truly possible. There would never be another chance like this one for him or for anyone henceforth, so he had to try now while the odds were at the best he was ever going to get. He could not betray his Kingdom and pass up the Kingdom's best opportunity to beat him, even if that best opportunity was still 0. It wasn't fatalism or naievety, it was almost a kind of patriotism instead. He would not betray his King, and he would not pass up the greatest situation within which he may save his country.

It's also theorized later by Climb and Brain that he may have wanted to pass on the knowledge of what Ainz could do to them. This was the only time they could learn how he fought, so he guarenteed them as witnesses so Ainz wouldn't kill them. That way, in some way, they may learn exactly how Ainz would deal with a direct foe, and perhaps discover something that could be used in any future attempts to fight him. He was entrusting the knowledge of how Ainz would repel a swordsman to them, so they could remember it and perhaps find the way to beat him.