Talk:Overlord Volume 14/@comment-175.176.23.15-20200303084038/@comment-190.98.95.153-20200303150248

I do agree that another splat is unlikely to happen. Because the kingdom itself is already on the brink of collapse from within and doing another splat would damage it so greatly that it isn't really worth the effort the annex the kingdom and would just cause too much unnecessary hate and fear among the peasants.

Personally i never think Nazarick even want Phillip factions nor ever intend to keep them after annexing it. Is more likely Nazarick want to have most the nobles be painted as the villains while Ainz nation appeared as the savior to liberate the people from all this tyranny and injustice. Also sending relief aid and supplies to help the people with the famine. Phillip faction is more a tool to create more hatred and chaos in the kingdom itself. The more stupid things they do, the more the people will suffer and comes to hate the nobles. Making it impossible for nobles to unite. The kingdom nobles are the cancer and Nazarick will need to purge them to annex the territories. Allowing a single central government where all taxes and laws are administrated by Nazarick itself.

And is very possible Blue Rose(included Regrit and PDL armor) and Red Drop would be the main resistance of Ainz invasion. The leaders are not only nobles themselves but also are hero's to the people and the strongest among the adventurers ranks. But Nazarick manage to hold on to one of their biggest weaknesses. That is to prevent them from including adventurers into the fight. Normally adventurers don't take sides nor like politics but there are exceptions when they are called upon into aiding the nation army. Like against other races that see humans as food and slaves or undead plagues. The adventurers exist to defend the people.

But Ainz manage to cut off Blue Rose and Red Drop path to seek out more allies. The reason is that Ainz never did harm the adventurer guild and even fully support them by building a even more grander organization. And most important of all he has Momon the great hero and the Empire behind him and is now a ally with the Holy Kingdom.

Adventurers are never meant to go to war and fight their fellow humans and kill each other. It might be alright for them to hunt monsters but killing a human is a whole different thing. If Nazarick decide to have the Empire involve too, Blue Rose and Red Drop would have a very difficult time to seek the aid of adventurers guilds and even the churches. The Empire has prepared to annex the kingdom for several decades now. Previous emperors and Jircniv would have made more than enough preparations for these kind of situations. Just by allowing the Empire to participate in the invasion along with the help of the 8 fingers from within, the kingdom would be very easily absorb. And with Renner as the remaning royal blood surrendering, Nazarick would have just cause to legally take the nation as one of their vassal territories. And with the Empire human army backing Nazarick, the churches and adventurer guild can't really get involved. So the war might be pretty bloodless. The most casuelties would probably be from the nobles. It is possible Nazarick would try to keep some of the more important nobles who can aid Renner in his rule. Like Reaven. If he submit to Ainz nation,then using the influence and power, the kingdom would fall very easily.

Actually Brain is kinda unimportant to anything and might not even get involve. He is not a noble nor a adventurer. He is sworn to Renner and is now busy seeking a apprentice to teach the way of the sword. Unless the king decide to arm him up with their powerful royal treasures and send him to battle, i am not even sure Brain would fight Nazarick. Unless he no longer want to live and give up trying to find a student. Is more likely Brain and Climb might stay behind to protect the princess and her orphanage while the rest are off to war.

If he dies in war, i kinda want to see him die in the hands of Go Gin the mightiest of all the warriors. Would be funny if Ainz had put Go Gin thorugh tough training and give him strong items to test out his skills in a war. Whether Brain find the truth about Shalltear, Momon, Sebas etc is unimportant. Author never like to make that kind of story anyway. He likes it when characters dies unexpectedly and in unexepected ways. Even being killed by Hamsuke would be funny.

But what i am certain of is that Blue Rose will defnitely dies by Entoma hands. That i am confident of. Ainz defnitely want the maids to improve in the combat abilites and learn how to cope with strong enemies. He would equip Entoma this time with proper items to counter Evileye and set up a rematch. Lakyus might be captured alive together with her sword, since Ainz would be pretty interested in both. And she was not invloved during Entoma fight. But her fate is probably worse since Ainz has a tendency to test out his weird experiments on priests as we have seen before.

Nazarick isn't gonna excute the royal bloods so openly. It would not sit well with other nations or even the kingdom people. And Renner would be seen as cruel person by selling out her own family if she take the throne thit way. Is possible that Zanack dies in the war and cause much grief to her father that he finally lay sick in bed and abdicate the throne and crowned Renner. The old man eithers dies from grief or retired as a old broken person. This way the people would accept Renner rule more.