Talk:Overlord Volume 13/@comment-65.49.68.163-20180516100523/@comment-35387297-20180517085729

I can understand how you feel, at first I was also a little bit disappointed, because I didn’t get the goals for the whole war in the HK. But then I thought about it and in some part its quite genius.

We can assume the goals for Nazarick’s were:

1. To flush out any powerful player faction which was hiding in the HK. Even better if they had taken part in the war, a lot of opportunities to get more infos on them.

2.To weaken the HK, a country of paladins and priests who all see undead as the arch enemy of mankind and were quite opposed of the SK.

3. To weaken the demihuman faction and also gain new subjects (Orks, Zern…)

4. To promote runcraft. Yeah I know that was very weak…

5. To boost again the image of Ainz as a powerful being, “savior” and king among kings

I know, a lot of people say SK is so strong and can defeat anyone, so why all the trouble?

But as Ainz has said himself, it’s better to be cautions, there might be a faction which is more powerful than Nazarick. Why risk it, when you can make others bleed for you?

SK is super powerful military but they are few in numbers and cannot be everywhere, so I think they would be vulnerable for guerilla warfare and sabotage. Also some kind of trade and know-how embargo could also hurt them. One reason more to fly “under the radar” for the moment and prohibit all the other countries unite against Nazarick.