For twelve years, the virtual world of Yggdrasil has served as the playground and battlefield for the skeletal lord Momonga and his guild of fellow monsters, Ainz Ooal Gown. But the guild's glory days are over, and the game is shutting down permanently. When Momonga logs in one last time just to be there when the servers go dark, something happens-and suddenly, fantasy is reality. A rogues' gallery of fanatically devoted NPCs is ready to obey his every order, but the world Momonga...

After a bloody turn of events, Ainz has established the Nation of Darkness, aiming to create a utopia where people of all races can enjoy everlasting prosperity—as long they kneel before him. His first goal is to expand the Adventurers Guild to nurture new talent, a task that requires him to vacate his throne for a journey to the empire. At the same time, all of the neighboring rulers have started nervously discussing plans for resistance while watching everything unfold, because when the ...

Deep in the depths of the dungeon, a man spends his days scouring the treacherous floors for bodies of dead adventurers. His name is Iarumas, and he has no memory of the life he lived before he was resurrected from a corpse. The living keep their distance from the cold, sullen man—Iarumas consorts primarily with the dead. That is, until he meets Garbage, a feral young swordswoman who is the sole survivor of a massacred party. With Garbage by his side, Iarumas ventures farther, searching th...

War with the Nation of Darkness is inevitable—or so the Theocracy’s leaders believe with every part of their beings. With such an obvious threat on their borders, there’s no time to waste on lesser concerns, so they decide to eliminate the elf king who has been a thorn in their sides for too long! Meanwhile, Ainz sets out for the elf country on what he’s decided to call a paid vacation. His real goal is to create an opportunity for Aura and Mare to make some friends their age—even as the T...

Who knew making friends could be this hard? Ainz and Mare have donned disguises and joined Aura in the dark elf village, where things aren’t exactly going according to plan.The villagers have no idea how they should interact with these extraordinary visitors, and it looks like finding some friends for the twins is going to be a lot tougher than expected. Meanwhile, the Theocracy’s invasion finally knocks on the doors of the elf capital, prompting Ainz to make his move even as some ofthis w...

The Sacred Kingdom has enjoyed a great many years without war thanks to a colossal wall constructed after a historic tragedy. They understand best how fragile peace can be. When the terrible demon Jaldabaoth takes to the field at the head of a united army of monstrous tribes, the Sacred Kingdom’s leaders know their defenses are not enough. With the very existence of the country at stake, the pious have no choice but to seek help wherever they can get it, even if it means breaking taboo and...

The world is all yours.In search of lost rune technology, Ainz heads for the dwarf country with Aura and Shalltear in tow. On his arrival, instead of a welcoming party, he’s greeted by an army of creatures known as the kuagoa, poised to lay waste to a dwarven city. In his quest to obtain the secrets of the runes and even the rune crafters themselves, Ainz may find himself facing not only these strange subterranean creatures, but also the most powerful race that calls the Azerlisia Mountain...

An army forty thousand strong is clamoring at the gates for human blood, and there is little hope of reinforcements. The Sacred Kingdom’s strongest paladin, Remedios, leads the defense of the city, but even she cannot stem the tide on her own. Despite the dire circumstances, the unimaginably powerful King of Darkness has refused to lend a hand for fear of depleting his magical energy right when he needs it to defeat Jaldabaoth once and for all. Time is running out for the defenders if they...

Who rules over the dungeon? The adventurers who plunder its riches...or the fathomless foes that lurk in the gloom? When Crown Prince Festin visits Scale, he seeks to bring the adventurers to heel and assert the kingdom’s power over the dungeon. The prince soon meets Garbage, and though their statuses are polar opposites, the two bear a striking and uncanny physical resemblance. And then, the crown prince vanishes into the maw of the dungeon—signs point to him being kidnapped and dragged t...

As far as anyone in Scale knows, the dungeon is bottomless and unfathomable. Though Iarumas’s party delved deep to kill the jester demon Flack, their injuries required them to flee before they descended any farther. But what happens when the monstrosities that lurk below begin to rise? Strange parasitic beasts invade the upper levels of the dungeon, infesting the bodies of adventurers and then erupting from living tissue to claim more victims. This crisis is so great that even veterans lik...

A caravan flying the flag of the Nation of Darkness has been attacked by a noble who hails from the Re-Estize Kingdom. Coincidence...or conspiracy? Either way, Nazarick interprets this as an act of brazen hostility and readies for war! The people of the kingdom, still reeling from the disastrous battle at Katze Plain, reluctantly prepare themselves for another bloody day. When a ruthless campaign of extermination begins sweeping through the entire country, and near-certain doom looms over ...

What do you do when your favorite game shuts down? Momonga decided to stay logged in right up until the very end. But when the servers go dark, he finds himself transported into the game world--and he's been transformed into his skeletal avatar from the game, awesome magical powers included! But what if he's the villain of his own story?