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Assault on the Elven Capital

エルフの王都攻略戦

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Vol. 16, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer (shortly after the Kingdom's fall): after a long siege of the outskirts of the elven capital on the shore of Crescent Lake, the Slane Theocracy's army launched an all-out assault and broke into the capital; at the same time, Ainz's party slipped into the royal castle and seized its treasury.

The Theocracy army, commanded by Valerian Ein Obinie, was camped on the outskirts of the capital; after repeated elven night raids, at a meeting at dawn a few hours later, Valerian ordered a switch to the offensive, since reinforcements from home had arrived
The elves' outer defenses collapsed, and Theocracy soldiers stormed the city; the Theocracy army was ordered not to enter the royal castle but only to surround it and watch from a distance
Before this, Ainz had stayed in the dark elf village disguised as the dark elf "Ain Bell Fior"; when an elf envoy came demanding troops, Ainz's proposal won the whole village's approval
About a week later, Ainz grew suspicious of the Theocracy army's tactics; he then slipped into the royal castle with Aura and Mare, timing it with the Theocracy's offensive, and made for the treasury
Ainz fought Elf King Decem on the floor below the treasury, and Decem fled; the Extra Seat Antilene slipped into the castle and killed Decem twice, then fought the pursuing Mare and was captured
The treasury's contents were dumped onto Nazarick's surface through [Gate]; Antilene was imprisoned in the Frozen Prison, and Pandora's Actor was ordered to recover the items Decem had carried
From Antilene's memories, Ainz learned that Shalltear's brainwashing was the Theocracy's doing; he summoned Albedo and resolved to destroy the Slane Theocracy
The Theocracy's Supreme Executive Council wanted to take the elven capital intact as a refuge for its people in a future conflict with the Sorcerer Kingdom, and so it banned fire attacks and siege engines (unverified)

Notes

A note in the Japanese sources' timeline: the Theocracy army was ordered not to enter the royal castle but to surround it and watch from afar (Vol. 16 p. 202, 253, 256).

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