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 elves envoy to the palace after they killed off more than 100 elites guards in the Imperial Garden. The casualties includes one of the Four Imperial Knights - Nazami Enec. Jircniv tried to extract information as well as prolonged the negotiation time but failed due to Aura's threat to destroy the country if he does not hurry and go apologize to Ainz Ooal Gown.

Jircniv with 20 elites guards, then came 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 spell make the revived objects loose vitality (meaning level drop), The Dragon Queen of Dragon Dukedom's wild magic can revive without loss of vitality. The talk stopped when Fluder said Wild Magic is from a completely different system so there is no way to confirm this.

Upon arriving, he is surprised at the beauty of the battle maids and the wealth of Nazarick. When they see five Death Knight suddenly appeared and formed a line, Fluder immediately screamed and 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 while Fluder laughing and facing the sky. He is even more surprised when how many races gathered in the throne room: dragons, demons, insects, demi-humans, etc with all of them possessing significant power. He is actually less surprised seeing Ainz as undead since a monster ruling monster is more normal. 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 as he wish. Leaving with heavy feeling, right in the carriage Jircniv calmly assessed the situation and suspect that Fluder had betrayed him. He silently seek to recruit potentially powerful magic casters in the event he had 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 insider spy in Nazarick due to seeing how many races in there, he thought there should be someone being discontent so he could use to gain more 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 suggest turning him into a vampire to obey orders. 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 would happen when anyone dares to oppose Nazarick.

// END OF CHAPTER 1 //

Chapters

 * Prologue
 * Chapter 1: War of Words

Trivia

 * Jircniv commented that Nazarick should be called "The Devil City" as many horrible monsters exist there.