Talk:Great Tomb of Nazarick/@comment-81.175.250.186-20180816081358/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180816225208

I would have.

There are three major benefits to revealing the true Nazarick to the Empire.

First, it's really impressive. A big rock thrown into the middle of a frozen lake was good enough for the Lizardmen, and probably more effective than a stroll through the tomb to the throne room would have been...they have the context to understand seeing their lake frozen and a giant boulder tossed into it for an army of magically equipped undead to make a staircase to the top, they don't have the context to appreciate Nazarick itself. But for the Empire, anything Ainz could make in their world would be, to some significant degree, far less impressive than Nazarick itself.

Second, they really did need to test what would happen if they were invaded. This is not merely a question of available combat power, but rather of how the internal systems of the Guild base (significantly the Ariadne system and teleportation management) would function in the presence of confirmed hostiles.

Third, with establishment of the Sorcerous Kingdom as a territorially defined entity they needed to establish the perimeter of the exclusion zone around the entrance to Nazarick. That is to say, at a bare minimum they needed to mark out where exactly nobody would be allowed to go, unless they wanted to simply forbid all commerce traffic anywhere to the east of E-Rantel (i.e. from or to the Empire and Carne Village).

The downside of this is that they had to give up on trying to keep the location completely secret. However, this would have to be considered a miniscule loss. First off, if they were really going to keep that up in the face of the possibility of high-level Players patiently observing the movements of Nazarick entities, it would be a foregone conclusion that eventually they'd find it unless Nazarick completely abandoned all traffic with the outside world. The establishment of a dummy Nazarick and routing all traffic through it was predicated on the assumption that enemy Players might be willing to launch an attack without carefully investigating the dummy, there was zero possibility of making it good enough to be indistinguishable to prolonged high-level examination, and once it was known to be a dummy tracing the traffic going through it back to the real Nazarick would be simple. Second, the longer they were depending on the dummy, the higher the chance that a patient investigation would have seen through it and launched an attack on the real Nazarick, catching them by surprise. Enough time had elapsed that this was becoming a significant danger.

So, given that Nazarick was beginning to move openly in the New World, continuing to attempt to hide Nazarick rather than focus on improving the actual defenses would have been pointless.