Lore

Duel at Loyts

ロイツでの魔導王対ヤルダバオト

World & HistoryBattles & Events

Vol. 13, late winter to early spring of Year 3 after the transfer: about three weeks after the Siege of Loyts, the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth (Demiurge) reappeared, fought a "decisive battle" with the Sorcerer King, and claimed to have defeated him; in reality, Ainz was staging his own death.

Loyts is a small city of under 20,000, less than five days' travel east-northeast of Kalinsha; it was used as a prison camp during Jaldabaoth's occupation and became the liberation army's base after they retook it
About three weeks later (just after Neia had become captain of the archers), Jaldabaoth appeared at Loyts, swinging Calca's corpse as a blunt weapon
The "demon maids" who fought alongside Jaldabaoth were fakes; the fake Shizu was Shizu's own doppelgänger
The Sorcerer King was "defeated" and fell into the Abelion Hills; the same day, the liberation army organized a search party and began searching the area as far as the fortress line
Three days later, the Zern offered to betray Jaldabaoth in exchange for the rescue of their prince; Shizu joined the liberation army with the cover story that "the Sorcerer King had seized control of her during the battle"
News of the Sorcerer King's "death" spread to every nation; Jircniv scoffed at it during a meeting with Pe Riyuro
Ainz had discussed it with Albedo and Demiurge beforehand, framing the fake death as a Nazarick "disaster drill" in case its master ever died