Overlord S01E09 Review: Khajit is Innocent of this Crime

Overlord, Season 1, Episode 9: Dark Warrior

Okay, that heavily-shaded CGI dragon was cool. It looks obviously out of place, but in a good way -- I wouldn't have pegged "obviously CGI" visual effects to ever look anything but out of place, but Overlord actually manages to make great use by restricting the heavily-shaded CGI for monsters, and especially undead monsters.

The fight between Nabe and Khajit ends up with Khajit summoning a giant magic-resistant undead dragon, while healing any damage done by Nabe's physical attacks from behind. It's kinda cool, with loads of magic buffs, Khajit shooting an acid spell and eventually summoning a second dragon, while Nabe genuinely looks non-plussed at the whole deal.

Meanwhile, Ainz just basically wants to test out about this whole 'martial arts' thing, and his clear unfamiliarity with combat causes Clementine to comment "eh? What kind of shit warrior are you?" Which... yeah, not too far off the mark there. Clementine uses a bunch of marital arts spells that Gazef used earlier in the season, moving very quickly and dodging attacks, while Ainz is genuinely just trying to learn how to do battle with a melee class... while Clementine just brushes off her ineffectiveness as being caused by Ainz's thick armour.

But then about halfway through the battle, Ainz shouts out "Narberal Gamma! Show them the true power of Nazarick!" which is delivered in a pretty badass line with loads of ominous Latin chanting in the soundtrack. Narberal then unleashes a whole ton of skills like teleportation and flight, and straight-up stabs Khajit from behind with a teleportation spell... and then teleports away again, telling her that she could've killed him instantly then and there, but she was ordered to 'show off' a little, and also notes that the skeletal dragons' magic resistance only applies to sixth-tier magic and lower... and she can use seventh-tier magic, unleashing Dragon's Lightning, one of the spells that Ainz used back in the Carne Village battle, absolutely wiping out Khajiit and both his dragons.

Also, Narberal is merely a maid bodyguard, and not even one of the actually powerful guardians. Yep, Ainz and his troops truly outclass everyone in this new world, huh?


Meanwhile, Ainz drops both his swords in a clear "bring it on" moment, and then Clementine swoops in, unleashing a crapton of buffs, and stabbing both her blades into Ainz's helmet, causing them to explode with lightning and flame...  which, of course, has no effect. Ainz's helmet falls off, revealing that he's actually a very high-level "Elder Lich". And also the blades stick into his eyeholes, which I thought was hilarious.

Ainz then gives Clementine a pretty damn awesome "you suck" speech, noting that nothing she did even mattered towards him, and that she was defeated by a magician who didn't even deign to use magic and dicked around with swords instead. Ainz also goes into a pretty cold-blooded talk about how he could kill her in so many ways, and he could even indulge in using the dead adventurers' black dagger to kill her just for irony's sake, but there's not much difference because in the end, Clementine's going to die. And Ainz picks a pretty slow, torturous way of killing her, in a pretty badass undead hug, with Ainz slowly hugging her to death while she struggles, whacks her hands and face against Ainz's head in a pretty horrifying-while-also-badass moment before she finally gets squished to death.

God damn that's hardcore.

Ainz then dispatches Narberal and Hamsuke to loot every single magical item in the location (including the undead-controlling sphere Khajit was using, it seems), while he goes to recover Nfirea. It's a happy ending for him, at least, although apparently he was blinded by the cult while forced to stand naked and used as a conduit for the Crown of Wisdom. Ainz notes that the blindness will be easy to cure for him, and he uses a Break Item spell to destroy the Crown of Wisdom, noting that the Crown is a powerful artifact that didn't exist on Yggdrasil.

And thus, Ainz/Momon has triumphed against a minor villain and saved a friend. This seems to mark the end of a second arc of Ainz and Narberal playing at being adventurers, with the final scene showing Ainz's promotion, as well as a sequel hook towards something else -- Shalltear has apparently betrayed them? The arc was pretty well told and pretty fun, actually. I'm not sure if the remainder of this season is going to follow up on the fallout of the whole undead cult thing, or if they truly are just some random loser starter villains. Anyway, good stuff, a lot of badass scenes from Ainz, and I'm just a sucker for D&D-style combat.