Overlord Volume 09

The Magic Caster of Destroy is the 9th light novel volume in Overlord series. It was released on June 29, 2015. It details about the war between the Kingdom and the Empire is at its end. Ainz Ooal Gown enters the war and became known as the Magic Caster who destroys an army.

Short Summary
Every year, the annual war between the Kingdom and the Empire seems to be nearing its end, but the ruler of the Empire, Jircniv, also known as the "Blood Emperor", visits the Great Tomb of Nazarick and allies with Ainz Ooal Gown, which leads him to enter the conflict between the two nations, changing it into a total war.

Full Summary
Notice: The beginning of Volume 9 is the continuation of where Volume 7 left off.

Emperor of the Baharuth Empire, Jircniv Rune Farlord el Nix invites the two dark elf envoys to the palace after they kill off more than 100 elite guards in the Imperial Garden. The casualties include one of the Four Imperial Knights - Nazami Enec. Jircniv tries to extract information as well as prolong the negotiation time but fails due to Aura's threat to destroy the country if he does not hurry and apologizes to Ainz Ooal Gown.

Jircniv, with 20 elites guards, then travels to the newly built tomb that Aura constructed with the original purpose of warehousing. On the way, he talks about resurrection magic with Fluder Paradyne and finds out that while 5th-tier resurrection magic makes the revived objects lose vitality (meaning level drop), The Dragon Queen of Dragon Dukedom's wild magic can revive without loss of vitality. The discussion ends when Fluder comments that Wild Magic is from a completely different system so there is no way to confirm the theory.

Upon arriving, he is surprised at the beauty of the battle maids and the wealth of Nazarick. When they see five Death Knight suddenly appear and form a line, Fluder immediately screams and the others become frantic. Even Jircniv's strongest guard, Leinas Rockbruise cannot stop trembling. Upon learning the Death Knight's strength and Yuri's confirmation that Ainz has absolute control over them, Jircniv now realized how powerful a magic caster he's meeting with, while Fluder laughs and faces the sky. He is even more surprised when so many races gathered in the throne room: dragons, demons, insects, demi-humans, etc while all of them seemingly possess significant power. He is actually less surprised seeing Ainz as undead since imagining a human ruling these monster would be odd. After apologizing and blaming everything on Count Femel whose head he brought along, Ainz turned the dead Femel into a Death Knight right at the spot causing the envoy to be more fearful as he created a legendary Undead on the spot and with apparent ease. Leaving with heavy feelings, right in the carriage Jircniv calmly assessed the situation and suspects that Fluder had betrayed him. He silently seeks to recruit potentially powerful magic casters in the event he will have to replace Fluder; at the same time seeking to form a grand coalition against Ainz with Re-Estize Kingdom and Slane Theocracy. He also wants to gain an insider spy in Nazarick after seeing so many races in there. Jircniv thinks there should be at least one creature discontent with his position who would trade some information.

Ainz and the Guardians on the other hand already saw through Jircniv's betrayal thanks to Demiurge and laugh at how shallow minded he is. Shalltear suggests turning him into a vampire. However Ainz - using Demiurge's idea, has better plan: if Jircniv's intention is to form an Alliance with other countries, then Ainz just needs to show each country what will happen if anyone dares to oppose Nazarick.

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After one month, King Lanposa, the royal members and the six great nobles gathered as they received an announcement from the Empire that they are forming an alliance with Sorcerer King Ainz Ooal Gown's country and declaring war for Re-Estize Kingdom's unrightful rule over the territory near Carne Village, that needs to be return to it's rightful ruler. Due this announcement, everyone was in a heated debate over this mad declaration. Afterwards, they just simply dismiss it as another excuse for the empire's annual war, laughing at Ainz as just some joke but feeling uneasy, Gazef warned the nobles not to underestimate Ainz but in the end, the Kingdom still decided to accept the declaration of war.

Another two months later at winter, two hundred and fifty thousand soldiers were gathered at E-Rantel. The royals and top nobles gathered are discussing about their war preparation plans against the empire. Everyone was shocked at the report that the empire gathered sixty thousand soldiers which is three times more than the typical amount of the past wars, and they also received an announcement from Slane Theocracy declaring neutrality against Ainz, making the nobles suspect the countries for their overreaction over one magic caster. As the nobles are mostly ignorant about magic, thinks that magic casters are just performers who uses tricks such as fire ball and flight in a war battle. Believing that a single magic that can deal great destruction are just myths. Even after Gazef's constant warning and persuasion not to underestimate Ainz, they still in the end decided to put five thousand men to fight Ainz as an estimation of his power in the war but even that, Gazef still think that it is an underestimation. Afterwards, the King ordered Prince Barbro to travel to Carne Village with an army of five thousand and Marquis Raeven was given total command over the army in Katze Plains.

After the meeting, Gazef is still deep in thoughts about Ainz, thinking that it is a deep mistake to fight Ainz in the first place. He then meet up and ask Brain and Climb to have talk with him somewhere in private. After talking for a while like it may be their last time, Gazef warned Brain that he will never win against Ainz. That time, Brain also talks about knowing adventurer Momon's fight against a strong vampire, that may relate to Shalltear.

At the military fortress front of the empire, Nimble Arc Dill Anoch meets with the army commander. They talk about this war being a bloody battle to capture E-Rantel as a gift to honour the alliance between the empire and Ainz, while building a friendly relationship. The empire also request for Ainz to cast one of his strongest magic, for investigation. They then welcome the Sorcerer King's arrival with great hospitality, afterwards Ainz's army was teleported there, which their arrival made everyone realize that the small army of five hundred is not to be underestimated.

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While marching towards Carne Village, the first prince is angry at the king for not allowing him to join the war at Katze Plains, thinking that he was cast away with the throne being decided by the king already. He then wants to make a game changing achievement. So he thus decided to instead change the objective to capturing the village which is the reason for the empire and Ainz to start the war with the kingdom, and make the villagers there join his army, and to return to join the war at Katze Plains.

Enri Emmot was reported and realized that the kingdom's army is marching towards their village. The prince's army's messenger answers to Enri's questioning that the kingdom is now at war with Ainz and demanded them to open the fort gates for investigation. The villagers immediately accepts that if it is Ainz, then the kingdom must be the one at fault. Not wanting to betray Ainz and also not wanting to expose the goblins and ogres in the village, Enri still persist on not opening the gates. The prince was impatient and angered by Enri's persistence, ordered fire arrows to be released at the village as warning. The villagers still not wanting to rebel Ainz, wanting to repay Ainz's help and also angered by the fire arrows, did not hesitate to fight against the army, resolving to die.

With the goblins, ogres and male villagers staying as fighters, they planned to lure the enemy army into the village to attack the enemies groups flooding in first and then distract the ones outside afterwards by thinning their numbers, causing the enemy army to spread around the outside of the fort. During the fight, Enri would escape behind the fort to the forest with the rest of the villagers. But all this failed when Enri's group escaping to the forest was chased by the soldiers riding on horses. In desperation, Enri blows her second Horn of the Goblin General.

While the dying goblins and villagers made their last ditch effort to fight back, stopped upon seeing the appearance of the huge unified army of goblins cause them to retreat back into the ally goblin's army. While the prideful prince being angry about himself needing to fight some lowly goblins ordered his army to continue fighting instead of retreating. But the goblin army consisting of many groups of different classes and high level goblins very easily overwhelm the prince's army, forcing the prince to retreat. Managed to retreat to safety at the plains, Lupusregina Beta suddenly appear behind them, claiming to be observing the situation before and also to kill everyone here by Ainz's orders, summons thirty level 43 red hat goblins, killing everyone in despair and fear with (additional info) only the prince dying after half an hour of torture by Lupusregina.

End of Chapter 3. :P

Chapters

 * Prologue
 * Chapter 1: War of Words
 * Chapter 2: Preparations for The Battle
 * Intermission
 * Chapter 3: A Separate Battle
 * Chapter 4: Massacre
 * Epilogue
 * Brand New Chapter

Trivia

 * Jircniv commented that Nazarick should be called "The Devil City" as many horrible monsters exist there.
 * Ainz Ooal Gown named himself the Sorcerer King after Cocytus's suggestion.