User blog comment:Zack Tan/Ainz's Possible Future Plans/@comment-26932361-20150913043354/@comment-26932361-20150914165656

Well yes that's true, for now they would use the Empire as a scapegoat for the future; so conquering them quickly won't happen, but even then I still think that they should at least try to have influence or a grip on power inside the Empire from behind the scenes to direct the country to the way they want to.

As for being covert? lol aren't they way past that by now? by doing something that nobody could do such as easily destroying an army with a single spell, that alone will alert everybody in the new world on top of that he is a necromancer who could control and create an entire army of powerful (by NW standards) undead and death knights; when somebody like Fluder who is one of the strongest human mages couldn't even manage to control or even influence a single death knight let alone create one, so I don't think they really care about being covert anymore which is the reason why they wanted to display and show off their power in battle in order to gain attention to basically tell the whole world that they are not to be messed with.

So with all that said I still can't see why they wouldn't just take over the Kingdom (and the Empire later on in the future) since this is the perfect chance to do so.

What do you mean the WN is not too far? doesn't the WN have like about 5 volumes or so worth of content in Overlord II? that to me is way much further than compared with the LN.