Overlord Volume 09

The Magic Caster of Destroy is the 9th light novel volume in Overlord series. It was released on June 29, 2015. It details about the war between the Kingdom and the Empire is at its end. Ainz Ooal Gown enters the war and became known as the Magic Caster who destroys an army.

Short Summary
Every year, the annual war between the Kingdom and the Empire seems to be nearing its end, but the ruler of the Empire, Jircniv, also known as the "Blood Emperor", visits the Great Tomb of Nazarick and allies with Ainz Ooal Gown, which drags him between the conflict of the two nations, changing it into a total war.

Full Summary
Notice: The beginning of Volume 9 is the continuation of where Volume 7 left off.

Emperor of the Baharuth Empire, Jircniv Rune Farlord el Nix greets the two dark elf envoys to the palace after they kill off more than 100 elite guards in the Imperial Garden. The casualties include one of the Four Imperial Knights - Nazami Enec. Jircniv tries to extract information as well as prolong the negotiation time but fails due to Aura's threat to massacre his whole empire if he does not hurry and apologizes to Ainz Ooal Gown immediately.

Later, Jircniv along with Fluder Paradyne accompanied by 20 elites guards, then travels to the newly built tomb that Aura constructed with the original purpose of warehousing. On the way, he discuss about resurrection magic with Fluder and finds out that while 5th-tier resurrection magic makes the revived objects to lose a measure of vitality (meaning level drop), the Dragon Queen of Dragon Dukedom's wild magic is able to cast revival without the side effect of the loss of vitality. The discussion ends when Fluder stated that Wild Magic is a completely different branch of magic, so there is no way to confirm the theory.

Upon arrival, he is astonished at the beauty possessed by the battle maids and the wealth of Nazarick. When they suddenly saw five Death Knights suddenly appear and form a line, Fluder immediately screams and cause the others to become frantic. Even Jircniv's strongest guard, Leinas Rockbruise, cannot stop trembling. Upon learning the Death Knight's strength and Yuri's confirmation that Ainz has absolute control over them, Jircniv now realizes how powerful a magic caster he's meeting with, while Fluder on the other hand laughs and faces the sky. He is even more surprised when he bore witness to many different races gathered in the throne room: dragons, demons, insects, demi-humans, etc while each and all of them seemingly possess significant power. He is actually less surprised seeing Ainz as an undead, since imagining a human ruling over such a variety monster would be strange. After apologizing and blaming everything on Count Femel whose head he brought along, Ainz then turns Femel's corpse into a Death Knight right at the spot. This causes the envoys to feel terrified as he just created a Legendary Undead being right in front of their eyes and with apparent ease. Leaving with mixed feelings, Jircniv calmly assessed the situation in the carriage and suspects that Fluder had betrayed him. He silently seeks to recruit potentially powerful magic casters in the event that he will replace Fluder; at the same time seeking to form a grand coalition against Ainz with Re-Estize Kingdom and Slane Theocracy. He also wants to gain an insider spy in Nazarick after seeing so many races in there, as Jircniv thinks that there should be at least one creature discontent with his or her position whom would be willing to leak some information on Nazarick.

Meanwhile, Ainz and the Guardians already saw through Jircniv's plot of betrayal thanks to Demiurge's insight and laughs at how shallow minded the emporer is. Shalltear had suggested to turn him into a vampire. However, Ainz, favouring Demiurge's idea, had a better idea. If Jircniv's intention was to form an alliance with other countries to battle with Ainz Ooal Gown, then Ainz himself just needed to demonstrate all bearing witness of the consequences of any whom dares to oppose him and Nazarick itself.

A month later, King Lanposa III, along with the royal members and the six great nobles gathered for a meeting as they just received an declaration from the Empire that they are forming an alliance with Sorcerer King Ainz Ooal Gown's country and declaring war for Re-Estize Kingdom's unrightful rule over the territory near Carne Village, that should be return to it's rightful ruler. Due this news, everyone was in a heated debate over this mad declaration. Eventually, they simply dismiss it as another excuse for the empire's annual war, laughing at Ainz as just some foolish joke. However, feeling uneasy, Gazef Stronoff warned the nobles not to underestimate Ainz. In the end, the Kingdom still decided to accept the declaration of war, despite Gazef's warnings.

As two months passed in winter, two hundred and fifty thousand soldiers were gathered at E-Rantel. The royals and top nobles gathered are discussing about their war preparation plans against the empire's forces. Everyone was shocked at the report that the empire gathered sixty thousand soldiers which is three times more than the typical amount of the past wars, and they also received an announcement from Slane Theocracy declaring their neutrality against Ainz. These news caused the nobles to suspect the countries as they were all making such an overreaction, over a single magic caster. Due to the ignorant of the nobles of the power of magic, they have always believed that magic casters were just performers who used tricks such as fire balls and flight in a battlefield. They believed that a single magic spell that could invoke complete destruction is just a myth. Despite Gazef's constant warning and persuasion not to underestimate Ainz, they still decided to send five thousand men to fight Ainz to make an estimation of his power in the war. Even after that, Gazef still thinks that they are underestimating Ainz. Afterwards, the King ordered Prince Barbro to travel to Carne Village with an army of five thousand to collect information on Ainz while Marquis Raeven was given total command over the army in Katze Plains.

After the meeting, Gazef was still in deep thoughts about Ainz, his instincts warning him that it is a grave mistake to fight Ainz in the first place. He then meets up with Brain and Climb, he then asks them to have a chat with him somewhere in private. After chatting and enjoying the view of the plains over a period of time, as if it was going to be their last time, Gazef warns Brain that he will never be able to win against Ainz. Then, Brain also talks about finding out more of the mysterious Adventurer Momon, and Momon's fight against a strong vampire that appeared, that could be relate to Shalltear Bloodfallen, and wanted to investigate further.

At the military fortress in front of the empire, Nimble Arc Dill Anoch meets up with the army commander. They talk about this war being a bloody battle to capture E-Rantel as a gift to honour the alliance between the Empire and Ainz Ooal Gown, while building a friendly relationship. The empire also request for Ainz to cast one of his strongest magic, to determine his power. They then welcome the Sorcerer King's arrival with great hospitality, afterwards Ainz's army was teleported there, and their arrival made everyone realize, with just their appearance alone, that the small army of five hundred is not to be underestimated.

While marching towards Carne Village, the first prince is angry at the king for not allowing him to join the war at Katze Plains. Thinking of his siblings and fearing that he was cast away with the throne being decided by the king already, he then decides to make a outstanding achievement. Thus, he then decides instead to change the objective given to him and instead to capture Carne Village, which he deemed is the root that caused the Empire and Ainz to start the war with the kingdom. He concluded that he would make the villagers there join his army, and return to the war at Katze Plains.

Later, Enri Emmot was alerted and realized that the kingdom's army is marching towards their village. The prince's army's messenger answers to Enri's questions. They stated that the kingdom is now at war with Ainz and demanded the villagers to open the fort gates for further investigation. The villagers immediately accepts that if it is about their savior, then the kingdom must be the ones at fault. Due to their gratitude, loyalty to Ainz and also not wanting to expose the goblins and ogres in the village, Enri still persist on not opening the gates. The prince then became impatient and was angered by Enri's persistence. He then gave the order to launch fire arrows at the village as a warning. The villagers still not wanting to betray Ainz. Driven to repay Ainz's help while at the same time angered by the fire arrows, did not hesitate to fight against the army, resolving to die.

While the goblins, ogres and male villagers staying as fighters, they planned to lure the enemy army into the village to attack the enemies groups flooding in first and then distract the ones outside afterwards by thinning their numbers through causing the enemy army to spread around surrounding the outside of the fort. During the fight, Enri would escape behind the fort to the forest with the rest of the villagers. But all this failed when Enri's group escaping to the forest was chased by the enemy soldiers riding on horses. Out of desperation, at the same time desiring to protect the helpless villagers and Nfirea who was preparing to stall the soldiers, Enri blows her second Horn of the Goblin General.

While the dying goblins and villagers made their final effort to fight back, they stopped upon seeing the sudden appearance of the massive unidentified army of goblins, this cause them to retreat back into the ally goblin's army. While the prideful prince felt angry at himself being forced to fight some lowly goblins, while being at a disadvantage, ordered his army to continue fighting instead of retreating. But the goblin army consisting of many groups of different classes and high level goblins overwhelms the prince's army with easy, forcing the prince to retreat. After managing to escape to safety at the plains, Lupusregina Beta suddenly appears behind them, claiming to have observed the situation before and has also been send here to kill everyone under Ainz's orders. She then summons thirty level 43 red hat goblins, killing everyone in despair and fear with only the prince dying after half an hour of torture by Lupusregina.

At the Katze Plains, the Kingdom's huge dominating army is stationed on one side and Empire's confident army on the other. Many of the nobles still think that their lost would be minimal even after Ainz had joined the war, but this time the empire's army did not move. In waiting, this caused both armies to simply stay deadlock on each sides with anxiety and tension rising among the kingdom's ranks. Thinking that the empire's army was waiting for something, Raeven then started a talk with Gazef with his fully equipped kingdom's treasures still think that he can't win against Ainz, and feeling anxious about the situation. This time, the empire's army started to separate into two flanks opening a path for an army of unknown flag, consisting of two hundred Death Knight, with the other rest of the three hundred armed troops being abnormal making the army five hundred in total. Raeven's adventurer bodyguards identify that the five hundred mounts that they're riding on are indeed the legendary soul eaters that killed more than hundred thousands of people in the past with just three. Simply after just seeing the terrifying small army, Raeven immediately ordered the army's retreat. But before that, Ainz Ooal Gown at the front of the army with Mare and Anoch standing at his sides, started casting a single spell that shone brightly white.

Ainz cast his over rank magic La Shub-Niggurath, with dark vortex flowing towards them, instantly taking the lives of seventy thousand people from the kingdom army's left flanks. With confusion rising, all of the empire's army in safety realize the horror of reality, started trembling and was terrified even more at Ainz's calmness of the situation, and were asking god how can a caster of such magic even exist in this world. Ainz then told the pale Anoch that his magic had not ended yet.

Like watching a horror movie, the empire's army saw yet another horrible scene in front of them. A giant black blob fall from the void of the sky covering the dead soldiers in darkness. The despair starts when five Dark Young, with level higher than 90, started growing and forming from the darkness like trees, while Ainz is laughing happily at this situation as he just broke the world record for summoning so many of such monsters. Mare and a crying Anoch congratulated Ainz, while everyone else were shaking loudly at Ainz's excited tone due to him thinking that they are just touched of his power. Ainz then orders the Dark Young to attack, while sparing four specific people. The Dark Young then started rushing towards the army, like a nightmare. The monsters bulldoze through the retreating army's flank and screams could be heard everywhere, nobles included. One of the Dark Young then started to chase the escaping Raeven and the adventurers, killing all his adventurer guards in just two seconds and stopping just in front of Raeven like a statue.

The terrified imperial soldiers started praying for the safety of the kingdom's army. Ainz taking off his mask then called empire army to cheer for his power while they are desperately cheering loudly, one of the Dark Young is returning to Ainz and them, causing every single panicking soldiers to break lose and retreat, trampling and killing their own allies like domino. Abandoning the horses, Gazef's warriors carry the king to retreat back to E-Rantel. Gazef himself was trying to stop the dark young but was instead ignored. This time, another dark young with Ainz sitting on top of it came to greet Gazef with Climb and Brain arriving there too, Ainz then ask Gazef to join him in exchange for stopping this war. However, Gazef declined, thinking that it is ungrateful to do so, instead he asked for a duel with him. Ainz accepted his challenge asking the other two people to be the witness, and thus the battle started at Climb's signal. Immediately after Climb's signal, Ainz stopped the time around them and kills Gazef instantly using Delay Magic True Death, without him being able to even react nor everyone else knows what is going on. After telling Climb and Brain that he will stop the attack but demands them to give away the territory around E-Rantel in a few days or he will release the dark young in their capital, Ainz then return back to the Empire fortress with all his monsters. Afterwards, Brain then declared to Climb back in E-Rantel that he is going to continue Gazef's legacy.

At spring, rumours are spreading about the horrifying new ruler in E-Rantel. When (Pandora's Actor) Ainz, Albedo and his army of death knights and cursed warriors enters E-Rantel, Albedo decided to kill a young boy who is disturbing the arrival's march but was stopped by Momon. Ainz stopped both of them before a battle breaks out and then Momon was threatened and asked to serve Ainz as the city's enforcer. After Ainz's army left, Momon then asked the residents not to start a rebellion and be careful of instigators for his sake. Which then, E-Rantel continued to be ruled in peace throughout history.

Chapters

 * Prologue
 * Chapter 1: Verbal Warfare
 * Chapter 2: Preparations for The Battle
 * Intermission
 * Chapter 3: Another Battle
 * Chapter 4: Massacre
 * Epilogue
 * Brand New Chapter

Trivia

 * Jircniv commented that Nazarick should be called "The Devil City" as many horrible monsters exist there.
 * Ainz Ooal Gown named himself the Sorcerer King after Cocytus's suggestion.