User blog comment:Zack Tan/Ainz's Possible Future Plans/@comment-26836039-20150927180308

I would love to see a development in Slane Theocracy. Out of all the known organization, Slane Theocracy is tthe most intriguing and interesting.

Tthe recent events in the Kingdom and the Empire are pretty much 'case closed' and the plot would not advance around them until later. So I'm thinking along the lines that a new area and possibly, new characters would be introduced.

From what I've learned by scraping around, the next country should be: Dwarven Kingdom or Draconic Kingdom. I haven't read Vol9 yet so I can't say for sure which it will be.

The deciding factor for the next country is simple - a line or passage explaining that Ainz received an information about the said country. The author never jumped to a country which Ainz have 0 information beforehand.

With that said, it's also possible that Vol10 would be about Slane Theocracy (I wish this would come true) since it's the closest country to Nazarick that is yet to be uncovered.