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  1. First Battle of Carne Village

    カルネ村襲撃

    Vol. 1, Year 1 after the transfer (days 1–4): Slane Theocracy troops disguised as Imperial knights attacked Carne Village on the Kingdom's border; Momonga (Ainz) saw the attack in the Mirror of Remote Viewing, saved the village, and called himself "Ainz Ooal Gown" for the first time.

  2. Sunlight Scripture Confrontation

    陽光聖典との戦い

    Vol. 1, Year 1 after the transfer (within a few days of it): outside Carne Village, Ainz and Albedo crushed the Sunlight Scripture, the Slane Theocracy special unit lying in wait for Gazef, in a head-on fight and captured its captain, Nigun.

  3. Assassination Attempt on Gazef Stronoff

    ガゼフ・ストロノーフ殺害計画

    Vol. 1, Year 1 after the transfer (June–July), evening of day 4: the Slane Theocracy had troops disguised as Imperial soldiers massacre villages to lure out Warrior Captain Gazef, so that the Sunlight Scripture could surround and kill him outside Carne Village; the plan failed when Ainz intervened.

  4. E-Rantel Cemetery Incident

    エ・ランテル墓地事件

    Vol. 2, night of day 11 of Year 1 after the transfer: Khajiit and Clementine of Zurrernorn's Twelve Executives used the kidnapped Nfirea to summon masses of undead in E-Rantel's cemetery and were put down by the adventurers Momon and Nabe.

  5. Nfirea's Herb Quest

    ンフィーレアの薬草採取依頼

    Vol. 2, days 9–11 of Year 1 after the transfer: the copper-rank rookie adventurers Momon and Nabe, together with the silver-rank team "Swords of Darkness," escorted Nfirea to Carne Village and the Great Forest of Tob to gather herbs, and subjugated the Wise King of the Forest along the way.

  6. Shalltear Bloodfallen's Capture Mission

    シャルティアの武技使い捕獲任務（死を撒く剣団襲撃）

    Vol. 3, Year 1 after the transfer (about day 10): ordered by Ainz to capture humans who know martial arts or magic, Shalltear used a decoy operation by Sebas and Solution to raid the hideout of the mercenary band "Death Spreading Brigade"; Brain escaped.

  7. Bloody Valkyrie Incident

    シャルティアの叛逆事件

    Vol. 3, "The Bloody Valkyrie," June–July of Year 1 after the transfer (day 12): mind-controlled by a Slane Theocracy World Item, Shalltear became Nazarick's enemy; Ainz defeated her personally and then revived her with gold coins.

  8. Tsar's Skirmish with the Vampire

    シャルティア vs 白金の鎧（ツアー）

    Vol. 3, June–July of Year 1 after the transfer (early morning of day 11): the freshly mind-controlled Shalltear briefly fought the platinum armor remotely controlled by the Platinum Dragon Lord Tsa, who then withdrew.

  9. Black Scripture Skirmish

    漆黒聖典とシャルティアの遭遇戦

    Vol. 3, night of day 10 of Year 1 after the transfer: near E-Rantel, Shalltear stumbled upon the Black Scripture and was mind-controlled by Kaire's World Item "Ruinous Beauty"; the Scripture withdrew after taking casualties.

  10. Reconnaissance-In-Force Mission

    ブリタたちの野盗討伐偵察

    Vol. 3, night of day 10 of Year 1 after the transfer: while scouting the hideout of the mercenary band "Death Spreading Brigade," the team of iron-rank adventurer Brita ran into Shalltear, who had just massacred the band, and was nearly wiped out.

  11. Resource War

    リザードマンの部族間戦争（食糧戦争）

    Background to Vol. 4, about 2 years before the transfer: the seven lizardman tribes on the southern shore of the Great Lake in the Great Forest of Tob went to war over poor catches, and the war left five tribes where there had been seven.

  12. Lizardmen War

    リザードマン侵攻（蜥蜴人の勇者たち）

    Vol. 4, July–August of Year 1 after the transfer (about a month after the Shalltear incident): Nazarick sent Cocytus with an army of low-tier undead against the five lizardman tribes of the great lake in the Great Forest of Tob; after that first battle was lost, Ainz led a large army in person and made them submit, and they became Nazarick's first territory.

  13. Raid on Eight Fingers' Brothel

    八本指娼館襲撃

    Vol. 5, noon on the 3rd of Lower Fire Month (September), Year 1 after the transfer: Sebas, Climb, and Brain stormed the last brothel in the capital run by the Eight Fingers' slave-trading division, setting off the Eight Fingers' downfall.

  14. Eight Fingers Suppression Campaign

    八本指拠点襲撃作戦

    Vols. 5–6, September 2–4 of Year 1 after the transfer: Third Princess Renner planned simultaneous raids on the Eight Fingers' bases with Zanac, Marquis Raeven, and the Blue Roses, but the operation was cut short when Nazarick launched "Gehenna" that very night.

  15. Operation Gehenna

    ゲヘナ

    Vols. 5–6, 4th–5th of Lower Fire Month (September), Year 1 after the transfer: an operation planned and commanded by Demiurge, which plundered people and goods from the capital in the name of the Demon Emperor "Jaldabaoth" while making the adventurer "Momon" the hero who drove off the demons.

  16. Tsuare Rescue Mission

    ツアレ奪還（ゲヘナ第一段階）

    Vol. 6 (night of September 4, Year 1 after the transfer): to rescue Tuare, whom the Eight Fingers' Six Arms had abducted, Sebas teamed up with Climb, Brain, and others to raid an Eight Fingers base, and the Six Arms were nearly wiped out.

  17. Demonic Disturbance

    王都の悪魔騒動（ゲヘナ）

    Vol. 6 (September 4–5, Year 1 after the transfer): the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth led demons against the Kingdom's capital; the Kingdom and the adventurers joined forces to fight back, and Momon "repelled" Jaldabaoth. This was the public face of Nazarick's "Gehenna" operation.

  18. Takeover of Eight Fingers

    八本指の掌握

    Vols. 6–7 (September, Year 1 after the transfer): using the Gehenna operation, Nazarick abducted the Eight Fingers' leadership and broke them with a "baptism," controlling the Kingdom's underworld from then on.

  19. Raid on Eight Fingers

    八本指拠点襲撃

    Vol. 6, night of September 4, Year 1 after the transfer: on the same night the Blue Roses raided Eight Fingers bases chosen by Renner, Nazarick also raided a smuggling mansion as part of the "Gehenna" operation, and Entoma fought a fierce battle with the Blue Roses.

  20. Workers Invasion

    ワーカーのナザリック侵入

    Vol. 7, October of Year 1 after the transfer: following Demiurge's design, the Empire's Count Femel hired several worker teams to "investigate ruins"; they invaded the Great Tomb of Nazarick and were almost entirely wiped out.

  21. Second Battle of Carne Village

    カルネ村防衛戦（二度目）

    Vol. 8, July–August of Year 1 after the transfer: about five days after Enri became chieftain, trolls and other monsters from the Great Forest of Tob attacked Carne Village (their link to the "Giant of the East" is unverified) and were driven off by the villagers and goblins; Nfirea confessed his love to Enri during the battle.

  22. Third Battle of Carne Village

    カルネ村攻防戦（バルブロ軍の襲撃）

    Vol. 9, January–February of Year 2 after the transfer (during the Katze Plains campaign): First Prince Barbro led a 5,000-strong detachment against Carne Village, which owed Ainz a debt; Enri blew the second "Horn of the Goblin General" and summoned a goblin army of over 5,000 that crushed them.

  23. Beastman Invasion

    ビーストマンの竜王国侵攻

    A long-running war between the Dragon Kingdom and the neighboring beastman nation; it had clearly intensified by Vol. 9 and was still unresolved as of Vol. 15 (Years 3–5 after the transfer).

  24. Imperial Colosseum Incident

    帝国闘技場での武王戦

    Vol. 10 (Year 2 after the transfer, a few months after the Sorcerer Kingdom's founding): Ainz slipped into the Empire and defeated and killed the eighth Martial Lord, Go Gin, in the imperial arena; Jircniv's secret meeting with the Theocracy fell apart, and on the spot he begged to become a vassal state of the Sorcerer Kingdom.

  25. Quagoa Genocide

    クアゴアの間引き（フェオ・ベルカナ）

    Vol. 11, Year 2 after the transfer: to keep his promise to retake the old capital Feo Berkana for the dwarves, Ainz sent Shalltear and Aura to demand the submission of Pe Riyuro, king of the united clans; mistaking his reply for a refusal, they slaughtered the roughly 80,000 Quagoa until only about 10,000 remained.

  26. Shalltear's Quagoa Capture

    シャルティアによるクアゴア捕縛（フェオ・ライゾ）

    Vol. 11, Year 2 after the transfer: while Ainz's party was in the abandoned dwarven city of Feo Raidho, Shalltear was ordered to capture some intruding Quagoa alive, which revealed that the Quagoa army was attacking the dwarves' capital.

  27. Quagoa Invasion

    クアゴアのフェオ・ジュラ侵攻

    Vol. 11 (Year 2 after the transfer): the Quagoa army united by clan king Pe Riyuro attacked Feo Jera, the Dwarf Kingdom's last city, and withdrew when Ainz intervened.

  28. Recapture of Feo Berkana

    フェオ・ベルカナ奪還

    Vol. 11 (Year 2 after the transfer): at the Dwarf Kingdom's request, Ainz stormed the old capital Feo Berkana, killed Olasird'arc, the Frost Dragon Lord, instantly, and subjugated the frost dragons and the Quagoa.

  29. Battle of Kalinsha

    カリンシャ陥落

    Vol. 12, autumn of Year 2 after the transfer: after leading the demi-human coalition through the Roble Holy Kingdom's Great Wall, the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth appeared directly in the northern fortress city of Kalinsha and crippled Holy Queen Calca and the main forces; the northern Holy Kingdom fell.

  30. Liberation of Loyts

    小都市ロイツ奪還

    Vol. 12, winter of Year 2 after the transfer: with Sorcerer King Ainz's help, the Holy Kingdom's liberation army took the prison camp "Small City of Loyts," held by the clan of Grand King Buser; Ainz killed Buser, and Royal Brother Caspond was rescued.

  31. Battle of the Great Wall

    長城陥落（城壁中央部拠点への侵攻）

    Vol. 12, autumn of Year 2 after the transfer: the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth (Demiurge) led the demi-human coalition against the central fortress of the Roble Holy Kingdom's eastern Great Wall, wrecked the wall with a single [Meteor Fall], and opened the Holy Kingdom campaign.

  32. Long Rain

    長雨の中の侵攻（スラーシュの夜襲）

    A past disaster of the Roble Holy Kingdom (date unknown, mentioned at the start of Vol. 12): soon after the Great Wall was built, the demi-human Srasch crossed it in a night raid during a long rain and ravaged the Holy Kingdom.

  33. Battle at Prart

    プラートの戦い

    Vol. 13, spring of Year 3 after the transfer: about 95,000 troops of the Holy Kingdom's liberation army and southern army marched on the major city of Prart to meet the demi-human coalition; the Sorcerer King joined in with a demi-human army and defeated the Demon Emperor Jaldabaoth one-on-one. It was the last great battle of the Holy Kingdom campaign.

  34. Zern Prince Rescue Mission

    ゼルンの王子救出作戦

    Vol. 13, early Year 3 after the transfer: after the Sorcerer King's "defeat," Neia and Shizu infiltrated Kalinsha at the request of the demi-human Zern and rescued their imprisoned prince, Beebeezee; the Zern then switched sides and helped the liberation army retake Kalinsha.

  35. Siege of Loyts

    小都市ロイツ籠城戦

    Vol. 13 (the winter spanning Years 2–3 after the transfer): about a week after the Holy Kingdom's liberation army retook the small city of Loyts, Jaldabaoth's demi-human coalition counterattacked and besieged it; Neia was killed and revived by Ainz, and the Sorcerer King ultimately annihilated the demi-human army.

  36. Duel at Loyts

    ロイツでの魔導王対ヤルダバオト

    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.

  37. Liberation of Kalinsha

    カリンシャ奪還戦

    Vol. 13, early spring of Year 3 after the transfer: after the Sorcerer King's "death in battle," the Holy Kingdom's liberation army, working with the Zern who had switched sides, retook the northern fortress city of Kalinsha.

  38. Attack on the Sorcerer Kingdom's Transport

    魔導国の食糧支援部隊襲撃

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer (estimated): Baron Philip of the Kingdom's New Faction attacked the Sorcerer Kingdom's food convoy bound for the Holy Kingdom, which gave the Sorcerer Kingdom its pretext to declare war on the Kingdom and destroy it.

  39. Black Scripture's Covert Evacuation Plan

    漆黒聖典による王国冒険者スカウト

    Vol. 14, after war broke out between the Sorcerer Kingdom and the Kingdom: the Slane Theocracy sent Quaiesse, the 5th Seat of the Black Scripture, and others into the Kingdom to persuade skilled adventurers to move to the Theocracy; the Blue Roses and the Red Drop both refused.

  40. Ainz Ooal Gown vs Riku Aganeia

    アインズ（パンドラズ・アクター）vs リク・アガネイア

    Vol. 14, during the war that destroyed the Kingdom: near the capital, the "Sorcerer King," played by Pandora's Actor, fought the platinum armor remotely controlled by the Council State's Platinum Dragon Lord Tsaindorcus (alias "Riku Aganeia"); when Albedo intervened, the armor withdrew.

  41. Duel at Ro-Lente Castle

    ロ・レンテ城玉座の間の寸劇（クライム戦死）

    Vol. 14, the day the capital fell: in the throne room of the royal castle Ro-Lente, Ainz staged a "skit" with Renner and fought and killed Climb when he returned; Climb was later revived in Nazarick.

  42. Connelier

    コネリエ

    Vol. 14 interlude (background setting): "Connelier," a melee on a mock battlefield, is the most popular event at the tournament the Karsanas City-State Alliance holds every 5 years; 40 years ago a riot broke out at the Oakneis tournament.

  43. Albedo vs Azuth Aindra

    アルベド vs アズス（パワードスーツ）

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer, just before the Sorcerer Kingdom's attack on the Re-Estize capital: the adamantite-rank adventurer Azuth used his powered suit to hold off Chancellor Albedo, a diversion coordinated with the Platinum Dragon Lord to separate the Sorcerer King from his aides.

  44. Assassination of King Zanac

    ザナック暗殺（王都前の決戦）

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer: as the Sorcerer Kingdom's army closed in on the capital, Prince Zanac, who held real power, met Ainz in front of the lines and, on returning to his own camp, was killed by rebel nobles who wanted to surrender.

  45. Eight Fingers' Evacuation Plan

    八本指関係者の避難

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer, during the Sorcerer Kingdom's destruction of the Kingdom: at his subordinates' petition, Ainz agreed to deliberately let some people escape, and before the assault on the capital, Shalltear evacuated about 1,000 Eight Fingers associates.

  46. Raid on the Re-Estize Magician's Guild

    王都魔術師組合への襲撃（アウラ vs ヴェスチャー）

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer, as the Sorcerer Kingdom took the Re-Estize capital: Aura led magical beasts into the capital (the claim that the Magician's Guild was her target is unverified); former adamantite-rank adventurer Vesture and five of his top pupils tried to stop her, and all of them died.

  47. Royal Coup

    ザナックによるランポッサⅢ世の監禁

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer, during the Sorcerer Kingdom's invasion: on learning that the Sorcerer Kingdom had already seized much of the country, Second Prince Zanac judged negotiation hopeless, confined his father, King Ramposa III, and took over the government.

  48. Battle at the Re-Estize Plains

    王都近郊の平野での決戦

    Vol. 14 (Years 3–5 after the transfer): as the Sorcerer Kingdom's army approached the capital, Prince Zanac, who held real power, deployed about 400,000 Kingdom troops on a plain half a day from the capital; after traitors killed Zanac, Cocytus and Mare annihilated the Kingdom's army in about an hour.

  49. Blue Roses Infighting

    蒼の薔薇のラキュース制圧

    Vol. 14 (Years 3–5 after the transfer): as the Sorcerer Kingdom's army reached the capital, Lakyus, who insisted on fighting to the death, was ambushed with poison by her comrades at her last meeting with Renner and then charmed; the Blue Roses then teleported out of the Kingdom.

  50. Fall of Ro-Lente Castle

    ロ・レンテ城陥落

    Vol. 14 (Years 3–5 after the transfer), the final stage of the battle for the capital: the royal castle Ro-Lente fell, Ramposa III died in the throne room, and Renner, offering this as proof of her allegiance, formally joined Nazarick.

  51. Battle of E-Naeurl

    エ・ナイウル攻略戦

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer: about a month into the war, the Sorcerer Kingdom attacked E-Naeurl, the Kingdom's northernmost port city; Azuth of the Red Drop arrived and destroyed a Death Knight and Death Warriors, and the Sorcerer Kingdom abandoned the siege and struck at the capital instead.

  52. Fall of the Royal Capital

    王都陥落

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer: with Cocytus as supreme commander, the Sorcerer Kingdom stormed the Re-Estize capital and killed nearly all of its residents; everything but the royal palace was burned to the ground, and the Kingdom fell.

  53. Massacre at Domain Montserrat

    モチャラス男爵領の殲滅

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer: after the capital fell, Albedo went in person to the domain of Philip, who had started the war, to settle accounts; she executed his people and the two barons who were his accomplices and took Philip away.

  54. Sorcerer Kingdom's Covert Invasion

    魔導国による王国侵攻（情報封鎖下の進軍）

    Vol. 14, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer: the Sorcerer Kingdom formally opened hostilities a month after declaring war and, following Cocytus's strategy, advanced counterclockwise from the southeast to cut the Kingdom off from the Council State, using Marquis Raeven to block information, so that for a long time the Kingdom did not realize it had been invaded.

  55. Mission: Red Ogre Cried

    れっど・おーが・くらいどミッション（泣いた赤鬼）

    Vol. 15, after the Kingdom's fall (estimated Years 3–5 after the transfer): to help Aura and Mare make friends of their own race, Ainz staged a "monster attacks the village, Aura saves it" play in a dark elf village in the Great Forest of Evasha (the Great Sea of Trees).

  56. Corpus of the Abyss Rebellion

    深淵なる軀の謀反計画

    Vol. 15 interlude (sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer; exact time unknown): inner-circle members of the "Corpus of the Abyss," a society of undead magic casters dominated by a mysterious powerhouse called "That One," met in secret to plot a rebellion.

  57. Archery Tournament

    弓術大会

    A traditional event of the dark elf village in the Great Forest of Evasha, held once every three years when the Becoa flowers bloom; Vol. 15 (Years 3–5 after the transfer) mentions that the dark elf Blueberry Egnia once did very well in it.

  58. Assassination of Rugi

    火滅聖典によるルーギ討伐

    During the Theocracy–Elf war in Vol. 15 (Years 3–5 after the transfer), an elf girl single-handedly held back the Slane Theocracy's 40,000-strong invasion force until a team led by Schoen, vice-captain of the Holocaust Scripture, killed her with a volley of magic arrows.

  59. Theocracy - Elf War

    法国とエルフの王国の戦争（終盤）

    Vols. 15–16, sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer: the Slane Theocracy, long at war with the Elf Country, committed the Holocaust Scripture and launched an all-out assault that took the elven capital; Elf King Decem was killed by the Extra Seat, but the Sorcerer Kingdom, which had secretly intervened, seized the spoils.

  60. Assassination of Elf King Decem

    エルフ王デケム・ホウガンの死

    Vol. 16, during the Theocracy army's attack on the elven capital: Elf King Decem first fought Ainz in the royal castle, lost, and fled, and was then killed by the Black Scripture's Extra Seat (Antilene), who had slipped into the castle.

  61. Duel at the Elven Royal Castle

    エルフの王城での戦い（マーレ vs 絶死絶命）

    Vol. 16, after the Kingdom's fall (sometime in Years 3–5 after the transfer): while pursuing the Elf King in the elven royal castle, Mare encountered the Black Scripture's Extra Seat, "Zesshi Zetsumei," who had just killed the Elf King, and defeated and captured her, which led the Sorcerer Kingdom to war with the Slane Theocracy.

  62. Duel of Kings

    アインズとデケム・ホウガンの戦い

    Vol. 16 (Years 3–5 after the transfer): after slipping into the Elf Country's royal castle with the twins, Ainz encountered Elf King Decem Hougan, fought him and his Behemot, and won; the Elf King fled and was then killed by the Extra Seat.

  63. Assault on the Elven Capital

    エルフの王都攻略戦

    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.

  64. Great Migration

    大移動

    Over three hundred years ago (before the story begins), the dark elves who had ruled the Great Forest of Tob moved south to the Great Forest of Evasha (the Great Sea of Trees) because of the demonic tree Zy'tl Q'ae; the dark elves call this the "Great Migration."

  65. Suzuki Satoru vs Cure Elim Los Malvar

    鈴木悟 vs キュアイーリム＝ロスマルヴァー

    A parallel timeline in the bonus novel The Vampire Princess of the Lost Country (a bonus with the anime season 3 DVD/BD): Suzuki Satoru, transferred into a different era, slew the undead "Elder Coffin Dragon Lord" Cure Elim Los Malvar on Mount Keitenias. (bonus)

  66. Royal Tournament

    御前試合

    A martial tournament held before the king in the Re-Estize Kingdom several years before the main story (exact year unknown; 4 years earlier in the Web novel); Gazef Stronoff won it, and Brain Unglaus suffered his first defeat.

  67. Nazarick Revitalization Plan -Holy War-

    ナザリック再生計画-聖戦-

    An original event in the mobile game MASS FOR THE DEAD (February 28–March 16, 2020): a few days after Nazarick's collapse, Momonga personally led an investigation team through the Abelion Hills into the Roble Holy Kingdom, which Chaos Beasts had ravaged. (mobile game)

  68. Nazarick Revitalization Plan -Mock Battle-

    ナザリック再生計画-擬戦-

    An original event story in the mobile game MASS FOR THE DEAD (first run September 25, 2019; rerun October 2020 and February 2023), not part of the novels: Momonga held a defense drill in a mock Nazarick, personally playing the invader. (mobile game)

  69. Blue Roses Subjugation Plan

    蒼の薔薇討伐計画

    An original event story in the mobile game MASS FOR THE DEAD (MftD; first run April 26–May 6, 2019, rerun February 2023, unverified): Demiurge turned a mine into a "demon's lair"-style dungeon to drive off the Blue Roses, who came to investigate.

  70. Undead Disaster

    インベリア等のゾンビ化

    In the bonus novel The Vampire Princess of the Lost Country (an IF parallel timeline set about 200 years before the light novels), the Elder Coffin Dragon Lord Cure Elim caused a mass zombification that destroyed four nations, including Keno's homeland Inveria.