Overlord Volume 08

The Two Leaders is the 8th light novel volume in Overlord series, released on December 26, 2014. It details about the side stories of Carne Village and the Great Tomb of Nazarick.

Full Summary
Notice: Volume 8 deals with events before Overlord Volume 5, as it is described that Sebas and Solution are still in Re-Estize to gather information.

(Quick summary off the top of my head. The sequence might get a bit messed up because it's been a while since I last read volume 8.)

Story 2: It starts off in the 9th floor of Nazarick. the story first focus on the daily lives of the 41 homunculus maids. After the transfer to the new world, Ainz created a new system where the maids are split everyday into two groups of 20, one for day shift, one for night shift, and the other maid that is left out gets to take the day off. Initially the maids refused the one day break, however, Ainz managed to convince them in the end by promising that if they accept the break, the maid that took the break gets to service Ainz for the entire day the next day.

The story then moves to Mare, the Guardian of the 6th floor. He was delivered a secret message from a servant of Demiurge. Apparently, Demiurge specifically instructed his servant to only give the message to Mare, not Aura. Becoming curious, Mare opened up the message, and saw that it was an invitation from Ainz to all the male Guardians to join him for a bath. The recipients of the message were Demiurge, Mare, and Cocytus. Seeing this, Mare understood that he needed to pass it onto Cocytus. To keep the content secret, he lied to his sister about the reason why he needed to go to level 5, and headed out to search for Cocytus, only to find that he isn't in Nazarick but at the Lizardmen's village.

Due to the incident with Shalltear, Floor Guardians were forbidden to independently leave Nazarick without Ainz's permission, unless they take more than 5 level 75 servants along with them. If Mare mobilized his high level servants, Aura will definitely notice. As such, Mare ended up heading to the Great Library of Nazarick in order to try to borrow high level body guards from the Master of the Library. After reaching the Lizardmen's village, Mare saw that huge constructions are currently taking place, and that modified versions of Zaryusu's fish farm are also being built. However, Cocytus wasn't in the village, but was currently subjugating the Toadman (frog people) from the north of the lake.

In the meantime, Ainz was practicing various different poses and speaking phrases inside his bedroom. After one hour of practice, Ainz left his room and headed to his office. Albedo, a maid, as well as Mare were waiting for him on the inside. Curious as to why Mare was here, Ainz asked and Mare responded by handing back the invitation that Ainz wrote. A few more verbal exchanges took place, and Ainz ended up expressing his love for the NPCs and that all of them are his treasure. Hearing what Ainz said, Albedo ended up unable to control her emotions and attempted to rape Ainz. After requiring the effort of Mare and several of Ainz's hidden body guards in order to get Albedo off, Ainz punished her to 3 days of solitary confinement.

Later that day, Ainz rode Hamsuke to the Adventurer's Guild's headquarters in E-Ranteru. It was initially supposed to be a quick meeting, but along the way he chanced upon seeing Enri coming to the headquarters too for a request. Curious to the reasons, Ainz asked the Guild leader for the content of Enri's request, and found that it was relating to the lords of the forest, the Troll of the East and the Naga of the West.

Chapters

 * Story 1: Enri's upheaval and hectic days
 * Story 2: A day of Nazarick