Talk:Overlord Volume 14/@comment-46110064-20200616231453/@comment-25548511-20200617043944

It's basically a message to all potential enemy and insergent: "Hinding a tree in the forest won't work because we're willing to burn the entire forest." It doesn't matter if you cower yourself within 9 milion population. You WILL be punished, everyone around you WILL be punished, anyone who dare to tolerate you existance WILL be punished. In the end anyone who doesn't want to die with you will rat you out instead of simply ignoring you, no governments would dare to grant you asylum and no one will succeed your idea after your execution.

The massacre could also be useful for Sorceror Kingdom because there's a huge chance they'll have to do it again. For example, I can imagine 90% of population in Slane Theocracy, after being brainwashed by cardinals for hundreds of years, would rather die than changing their racist view on undead king. A potential SK - ST war would be a total war lasted until there's literally no one left (for ST) to fight. So its imperative for SK to gain valuable experience on a weak sandbox that is Re-Estize to give them more options when dealing with stubborn nations in the future.

I agree it will be a huge blow on SK's plan to create interspecies utopia. But then again, Slain Theocracy and Argland Council State already hated SK to the bone even before their massacre, and those who supported SK did prosper thanks to SK so they probably wouldn't think much on their savior wiping out a cancerous kingdom who contributed nothing but crime & corruption to the world.

I enjoyed this volume because this volume along with vol 9 are exactly what make Overlord unique: Viewing things from "villain's" perspective. There are countless isekai genre which demon lord destroyed a country, but how many times did the author actually give demon lord a reasonable motive to do so except "he's evil, that's all"? I especially love the part when Ainz quiet literally slapped anime cliché in the face when he beat up Climb.

Also, this volume wasn't just about "Ainz wiping out countries", they actually explain everything in detail on creative tactics and all the difficulties to make us understand that the whole thing isn't as simple as yelling "go kill everyone". There are also lots of other plot developments like revealing the approximate power of PDL and tying up loose ends on many major characters.