Talk:Overlord Volume 12/@comment-159.220.77.3-20171005144300/@comment-112.198.118.102-20171005175751

I pre-ordered vol. 12 and finished reading it (I'm Japanese btw). At face value Ainz is proclaimed as "dead" but we don't know what really happened. Speculations by readers are as follows:

1. A plan to root out secret destabilizers within Nazarick

2. Make it appear SK leader is already dead and have other kingdoms attack it being leaderless. This makes it easy for Ainz to act.

3. Strengthen his grip over his subjects by acting as a risen one over death or something

4. Want to remake the SK by having Ainz "dead" and Momon taking over.

5. He really died, but resurrected automatically (just like the 8GKs)

6. Found a way to return to Earth, faked his death and went back LOL haha