Overlord Vol. 17 — Manga Raw / Buy Official

Standing before Ainz on his throne and the assembled Guardians, Jircniv is utterly broken. The man once feared as the "Bloody Emperor" is shown he is no better than livestock whose life is held in another's hand, and, trembling with humiliation, he chooses to submit. Meanwhile, on the Katze Plains, events tumble toward an all-out clash between the Sorcerer King's army and the Kingdom-Empire alliance. Ainz feigns mercy while moving everyone as pieces on a board, driving home to the reader that human resistance was meaningless from the very start. Despair spreads on a national scale.