Imperial Colosseum Incident

The Imperial Colosseum Incident was a duel between Sorcerer King Ainz Ooal Gown and Martial Lord Go Gin at the Grand Arena. While only meant to be a public spectacle, it became an incident with major political ramifications.

Background
After finally securing E-Rantel from the Re-Estize Kingdom, Ainz Ooal Gown and the Sorcerer Kingdom moved into the city to establish a strong foothold in the New World. Ainz used his supernatural abilities to benefit the citizens of E-Rantel, intending to change their perceptions about him. However, despite ruling the city with benevolence, Ainz felt something was amiss. During a stroll across the city, he came upon the Adventurer's Guild. Once inside, he saw much of the building has become empty. It was there he learned that his good intentions has left many people deprived of jobs, particularly the Adventurers.

This did not sit well for Ainz who had great respect towards the Adventurers who reminded him of the treasured times he had playing YGGDRASIL with his guild members. After a discussion with Moknach, the Sorcerer King decided to rectify the matter by changing the systems of the Adventurers, from hired mercenaries that kill monsters to explorers of the unknown. It was public knowledge that the Empire have established an alliance with the Sorcerer Kingdom and help play a role in setting up the foundation for their newly-founded nation. Meanwhile, at some point in time before all this unfolded, Ainz was often observing and studying Jircniv from a distance using surveillance magic of how to truly become a proper ruler undetected by the latter.

Conspiracy
For Jircniv, the first problem concerned the casualties among the Imperial Army from the Massacre at Katze Plains. There were only 143 deaths; a trivial number, for a direct clash with the enemy. However, the losses at the Katze Plains had been entirely self-inflicted. In addition, 3,788 people had expressed their desire to leave the army upon their return to the Imperial Capital. In other words, over 6% of the 60,000 men of the Imperial Knight Corps had lost their courage. Also, there were thousands of people who complained of uneasiness and night terrors. According to the reports, there were at least 200 mentally unstable people as well. Because of the bad turn of events plaguing their nation, the Empire would need to spend a great deal to fill the shortfall in the number of knights. The problem lies in the fact that Jircniv don't know how to secure the funds for those expenditures.

At this critical moment in time, he acknowledges that it was too risky to purge the nobles and seize their assets to make up the required amount. The reason for that was because of the second problem namely, the recent petitions which the Imperial Knights themselves had submitted to Jircniv. From reading the various letters sent in to him, Jircniv realized his decision of allowing the Sorcerer King to cast his strongest magic spell was met with harsh criticisms and negative feedback. The reason why the Imperial Army had tendered such a petition was because they had lost their faith in Jircniv. They laid the blame for that massacre solely on Jircniv alone as a scapegoat to shoulder responsibility for. When Jircniv learned this, he was both furious and frustrated in the extreme. These petitions, from the upper echelons of the army's command structure, expressed their desire to avoid warfare with the Sorcerer Kingdom from now on.

In the end, according to Jircniv, if he had known that such magic existed, he would never have decided to let the Sorcerer King cast it from the start. The reason why Jircniv had asked the Sorcerer King to use his strongest spell in the first place was to verify how powerful his magic really was. Originally, it should have been the other way around. "Thank you for drawing out part of the Sorcerer King's power. Now we know better than to act recklessly around him," they should have said while expressing their gratitude. However, the Imperial Army did not see things that way. It was because they felt that Jircniv was a splendid Emperor that they believed he had asked for the use of that magic, knowing full well what it did. Thus, many suspicious gazes now fell upon Jircniv. This was the first time Jircniv had been so disgusted by his own reputation. He reasons with himself that perhaps everything which had transpired until now including the negative state of the Empire was a conspiracy orchestrated by the Sorcerer King to weaken and break their nation.

Incident
Due to Jircniv's paranoia of being secretly observe by the Sorcerer King or his minions, he orders many people to do an investigation over it, but found no observers. Despite the result and setting up anti-spying countermeasures, he could not get rid of the sense of foreboding that came from being watched. Knowing this, he is utterly restless and antsy to the point that it was badly affecting his health and well-being mentally. Jircniv's stomach ached and strands of his fallen hair adorned his pillow every morning he woke up. He believes the culprit, the main perpetrator responsible for all of the bad things happening to him lately was none other than the Sorcerer King, Ainz Ooal Gown himself. He tries his best to take medicines and drink potions occasionally as a way to ward off stomach-pain creeping up on him from inside.

Jircniv operate under the assumption that spies from the Sorcerer Kingdom had already infiltrated the Imperial Capital. Therefore, all policies concerning important matters for the Empire needed their own codewords to avoid exposing the secret alliance being planned against the Sorcerer King, Ainz Ooal Gown. At some point in time, Jircniv had sent undisclosed messages to emissaries from the Slane Theocracy in order to arrange private talks of negotiations with them which they accepted. Aiming to improve his chances of defeating the Sorcerer King behind close doors, one of the measures he had taken was to forge the secret alliance with the Theocracy as a basis. Not only that but seek guidance from them by finding a way to deal with the powerful undead. The Empire's alliance with the Sorcerer Kingdom was only a mask served to conceal this aim from being discovered by their enemy nation. The political meeting between the two human nations was scheduled to take place in Arwintar, Grand Arena of the Empire.