Overlord

A beloved game was supposed to reach its end-of-service that day. But the shutdown time passes and the game does not end—NPCs begin to act with their own will, and the guild and its tomb appear to have been transported to another world entirely. The skeletal overlord Momonga's true legend begins here.

A week has passed since Momonga found himself stranded in the game world. Now leading his guild as the Ainz Ooal Gown overlord, he travels disguised as an adventurer to the walled city of E-Rantel, with Narberal the battle maid at his side. A mission to retrieve medicinal herbs leads them toward a sinister cult—and the armor-clad Ainz will face both a ruthless warrior and a legion of the undead.

Ainz has made great progress moonlighting as the hero Momon, but news of rebellion shatters the moment of triumph. He vows to find out what has happened and to defend the honor of his guild and home—Ainz Ooal Gown.

A peaceful lizardman village faces a merciless army of the undead sent as an "experiment" by Ainz. The village's defenders rise to protect their kin—while the Fifth Floor Guardian Cocytus leads the assault. A brutal portrait of the world's might-makes-right reality.

In the kingdom of Re-Estize, a sinister organization known as the Eight Fingers holds sway over the criminal underworld. Ainz orders Sebas to infiltrate the capital to gather intel, while a young soldier named Climb struggles to hone his skills to better serve the Golden Princess, and the once-great warrior Brian returns home a broken man. Three men will challenge the vicious Eight Fingers.

Having suffered several setbacks, the Eight Fingers retaliate by dispatching their infamous enforcers, the Six Arms. Rising to meet them are the adamantite-rank adventurers the Blue Roses, led by Lakyus herself.

Ainz turns his attention toward the empire—and a group of intruders is drawn, as if ensnared, into Nazarick's depths. Escape is impossible in this nightmarish tomb. Can any of them find a way out alive?

Enri Emmot and the pharmacist Nfirea live peacefully in the goblin-guarded village of Carne—until a new threat emerges from the imbalance in the forest caused by the absence of the Wise King of the Forest.

The annual standoff between the kingdom and the empire takes a dramatic turn when the empire's ruler visits Nazarick and Ainz personally enters the battle. What was expected to be another stalemate becomes something far more devastating.

Now a king, Ainz resolves to make the Sorcerous Kingdom an ideal realm—eternal, prosperous, and one where many races kneel before him. His first step is strengthening the Adventurers' Guild in the empire, while the rulers of surrounding nations scramble to formulate countermeasures against the new power on their borders.

Ainz ventures to the dwarven kingdom in search of lost runic techniques, accompanied by Aura and Shalltear. But the dwarven realm faces an invasion by the subhuman Quagoa—and lurking beyond them are the Frost Dragons, the most powerful race in the Azerlisia Mountains.

The Holy Kingdom, long protected by its great walls, is suddenly assaulted by a coalition of demi-human armies led by the demon emperor Jaldabaoth. With the nation on the brink of collapse, its liberation army turns to an unlikely source of aid: the undead-ruled Sorcerous Kingdom.

Surrounded by forty thousand demi-human troops, the Holy Kingdom's forces fight on. To fulfill his promise as king, Ainz faces the demon emperor Jaldabaoth and his devil maids alone. Will the Holy Kingdom be saved—and at what cost?

The Sorcerous Kingdom's carriage is attacked by kingdom nobles—deliberate provocation or conspiracy? Nazarick judges that the kingdom has chosen war and issues a declaration. With the kingdom in chaos from the earlier Katze Plains massacre, Prince Zanac, the Blue Roses, and Brain make a desperate last stand as the annihilation campaign begins in earnest.

The Theocracy believes war with the Nation of Darkness is inevitable and moves to finally eliminate the elf king who has long been a thorn in their side. Meanwhile, Ainz sets out for the elf country—officially on a paid vacation, but really hoping to help Aura and Mare make friends their own age, even as Theocracy armies march on the capital.

Ainz and Mare have donned disguises and joined Aura in the dark elf village, but finding friends for the twins proves far harder than expected—the villagers don't know how to interact with such extraordinary visitors. Meanwhile, the Theocracy's invasion reaches the elf capital, and some of the world's most powerful figures pursue their own interests in the besieged city.