Talk:Overlord Volume 9/@comment-49.149.164.83-20151022065109/@comment-49.149.164.83-20151023122735

All of those could have been achieved though even if they followed the champions of demihuman route or any other half-decent plan. In the end it would all end up with a war and a battle, or more precisely a massacre. Only, if they had planned better then Nazarick the country would have had a better standing in the NW. It would still be a show of force, their name would still spread(if even wider because they wouldn't just be monsters, they'd be heroes), and they would have had a better footing to start world conquest.

I think 1-2 more chapters of spying and hiding in the dark is fine if it means a better in-character rise for Nazarick that doesn't feel rushed. And delaying Nazarick's rise to the world stage doesn't necessarily mean that it would be bad for the story. We haven't even had a chance to take a peak at the Theocrassy yet. The way it is now, Nazarick is just using its brute force rather than its wisdom(they ARE supposed to be wise). No matter how much Demiurge wanted for Ainz to take over the world, it still doesn't erase the fact that he planned this thing poorly, which is out-of-character for him.