Lore
Death Knight
死の騎士（デス・ナイト）
Races & CreaturesNotable Monsters & Summons
A Lv35 defensive undead that can survive any single attack with 1 HP and draws enemy aggro; it is Ainz's go-to tank summon.
- 2.3 m tall, with a 1.3 m flamberge in its right hand, a tower shield covering three-quarters of its body in its left, black spiked full plate, and a rotting human face.
- Its attack is equivalent to level 25 and its defense to level 40; in the New World its difficulty is presumed to be 100+, but it is so legendary that few know of it.
- Special abilities: it draws all enemy attacks (taking aggro for its summoner); it survives any one attack with 1 HP; and those it kills become "Squire Zombies" (limited number), while those the Squire Zombies kill become zombies too (no limit).
- Unlike ordinary undead it has no weakness to fire, but it has no way to attack flying enemies.
- Ainz makes them with "Create Middle Tier Undead"; those summoned with a corpse do not vanish, so they are mass-produced in the Sorcerer Kingdom for security and land clearing.
- About 5 years ago, one spawned naturally on the Katze Plains; Fluder and his top pupils captured it by bombarding it with [Fireball] while using [Fly], and it is now sealed in the Ministry of Magic.
Notes
The bonus novel The Emissary of the King is told from a Death Knight's viewpoint; it and Hamsuke are training "friends," and the spikes on its armor have been worn round from being hugged.
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