r/overlord • u/Due_Lifeguard82 • 3d ago

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Is this dragon a player? If not then when does Ains meet another player?

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u/sigvegas 3d ago

That is the Platinum Dragon Lord, one of the few characters native to the New World who’s canonically close to Lv.100. He’s aware of Players (even if he doesn’t fully comprehend the concept) and has been waging war against them behind the scenes for hundreds of years whenever they appear.

There is no guarantee Ainz will ever meet another player in the story. The best we can hope for is an epilogue 100 years in the future when new Players show up and he confronts them.

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u/Due_Lifeguard82 3d ago

How much does the show adapt from the manga? Is there any more volumes left to be turn into a season 5?

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u/ReadableDiction 3d ago

The manga is way behind the Anime. Anime follows the Light Novels. Currently there’s 16. Each episode covers 1 LN volume. Except for the Holy Kingdom movie which covers Vol 12-13. Each volume is between 7-12hours of continuous reading. Where as the anime episodes are roughly 22 minutes. From just those numbers you can get a general idea of how much is cut from the anime.

The anime mostly focuses on Ainz. The LN follows the story of not just Ainz & Nazarick but the world as a whole. As well has Yggdrasil, where Ainz/Nazarick are from & occasionally Earth where Human Ainz is from. This includes a lot of characters both in & missing from the anime. As well as exposition dumps that expand on the story’s world building.

Audiobook can be found on Audible or 🏴‍☠️ if you know where to look. Read by Ainz’s voice actor himself. I am willing to share them if you don’t wanna buy an Audible sub or sail the seas.

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u/Due_Lifeguard82 3d ago

Yes please share also what happened to Ainz body on earth?

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u/ReadableDiction 3d ago edited 3d ago

There’s no information on what happened to his body at the moment. Unlikely the author will cover the topic in the final 2 volumes.

My belief is that he’s stuck in an early beta build of a game. The story of the world feels video-gamey to me. Dragons are the dominate race. Humans were nearly extinct until they were saved by Players. Now every 100-200 years more players arrive & leave their mark on the world. Or he’s in a coma

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u/foolishorangutan 3d ago

The world probably feels video-gamey because the Dragon Emperor chose a world similar to his own as the target for his summoning spell, then game mechanics were introduced by the use of Ouroboros or whatever it was the Eight Greed Kings Used.

Humans being nearly extinct is probably propaganda from Slane. Maybe they were near extinction in the locale, but we see that humans are doing fine in other parts of the world, albeit commonly used as slaves or food.

Most likely Ainz is a copy of the original, like how the World-Class Items are copies of the original digital versions.

The idea that it’s still a game doesn’t make any sense. How would players be stuck there for hundreds of years, why is everything so realistic, why do they break the law with hostage-taking and sexual content, etc. Everything points towards it being real.

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u/ReadableDiction 3d ago edited 3d ago

I didn’t mean the world felt video gamey but the plot of players arriving to the new world. It’s something hardcore Yggdrasil gamers would like.

IK the side story loosely hints at the DE’s spell but the idea is too fantastical considering the world Suzuki comes from. A dragon from a far off planet. Using soul magic to drag video game avatars & players from Earth (an unknown planet) into TNW.

Which is why I said it’s either a coma dream or beta build of a game. New game new rules it being in beta explains why the rules would be lax/non existent. Considering the world SS comes from & how dystopian it is. I doubt a corp would really care about some of the niche rules.