Talk:Overlord III Episode 06/@comment-33310913-20180814181923/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180815020450

Well, money IS the real reason, after all.

Sure, there are good and bad reasons they want money. The same is true of everyone that does things for money. The point is that they are doing a bad thing for the money.

Maybe he'd let them off the hook if they'd been conscripted to do it...but maybe not. After all, this is now a national level matter. If they were doing it out of loyalty to the Empire and all that he'd still have to kill them horribly to make the point that the Emperor shouldn't be picking a fight with Nazarick.

The Web Novel does this from the opposite direction, showing what would happen if Ainz let the nobles of Re-Estize think of him as a sucker. Ainz in the LN is too cautious of that at the outset to allow it to happen. Also Renner is playing with different motives (and at a different level).