MASSACRE!!! | Overlord S3 Episode 12 Reaction! 

Raeven : "We must retreat immediately!!!!" Also Raeven : *still not give any command to fkin retreat

Knight: That was incredible magic! Ainz: That was just the casting animation.

I know that we been hinting the splat for a while. The reason for it is that in the LN we received a wall of text that only said Splat! As the goats step on people.

alternate title - SPLAT

Fun little fact. That is not anizes most powerful spell. It is actually wish apon a star we saw in the first season. But demi didn't think the simple minded humans would understand such power. So he recommended ainz use this spell instead. An exceptionally flashy spell.

Hello friend, i had a mediocre day but that changes now. For anime only watchers it may have seemed that this chapter was not too bad, but for the readers of the novel and the manga it was quite disappointing because it should have been the best chapter of the entire season. Once again, some terrible CGI makes a chapter that should have been memorable barely passable. Of course, this was due to financial reasons or perhaps they didn't think the series would have a fourth season. But surely it is also due to an event. I will not go into details, but apparently a terrible incident occurred in Japan, where a man went mad and caused the death of many people. Now, we all know that when someone is crazy enough to murder, he doesn't care if he is watching movies, listening to rap or reading Shakespeare... Anything will become an excuse for him to murder! It turned out that the culprit watched a lot of anime of the GORE genre and since then there was a strong social pressure for all anime to be "Family Friendly". Luckily this silly trend of censoring art is already dying out, but at the time this season came out it was still going strong and ruined not only Overlor but entire franchises of Animes, like Sekai Saikyou's Arifureta Shokugyou, which was projected to be one of the best ever made, full of fast fighting, lots of violence, comedy and with quite graphic action, but it ended up becoming a terrible compendium of simplicity, poor CGI, a lousy soundtrack and too much pastel colors. Anyway, let's talk about the chapter: The first thing we see is Ainz casting his spell, as always waiting a bit to tempt any player who might be hiding to attack him. But he eventually gets tired and uses a Cash Item to shorten the waiting time. And this entire chapter is focused on Super Tier Magic, but due to the bad animation, there is a lot of terror that this terrible spell should have caused in the viewer. The novel represents it with the following text. [What on earth happened? Nobody could answer that question. Every living creature that comprised the left wing of the Kingdom’s army -horses, conscripts, knights, nobles, everything- suddenly keeled over and collapsed on the ground like puppets whose strings had been cut. The ones who realized the answer first were the Imperial troops, ranged against them. It took a while for the human mind to properly parse the events that had just transpired. So, after a short delay, as a terrible understanding dawned upon them, the Imperial army was gripped by shouts of panic. After watching Ainz Ooal Gown deploy his magic circle, they had assumed that he was casting some sort of spell. That much they could understand. However, ¿who could have possibly imagined it? Who could have imagined the horrific spell that had been cast here? The spell that was cast had slain 70.000 people (More than the entire Imperial army!) in an instant, utterly and completely snuffing their lives out. Unable to believe their eyes, the Imperial knights prayed to whatever gods they believed in. They prayed that the people of the Kingdom were not dead. They prayed that such terrible magic did not exist in this world.] Pretty shocking, isn't it? And it turns out that all that needs to be explained in this episode is the spell that Ainz used, a type of Super Tier Magic that allows you to summon creatures called "Dark Young" in exchange for the lives of several enemies, which in this case were 70.000 men of the kingdom. These are based on the mythology of the American horror author HP Lovecraft. Shub-Niggurath is a terrible female deity who sent her children, the "Dark Youngs", to collect the sacrifices that her devotees make to her. Incidently the best way to describe Overlord is a Lovecraft Parody imo. Under normal circumstances, each summoning of the Dark Youngs would only produce one entity, which was itself a cause for celebration for players. Although being able to summon two of them was considered a rarity, Ainz broke the record by managing to summon five Dark Youngs, which is the highest number known so far. However, the Dark Youngs will eventually disappear after a certain amount of time elapses. In the novel they are described as follows: [Suddenly, a vast tree grew from the black tar that covered the earth. No, that was nothing as pleasant as a tree. At first, there was only a single trunk, but then it multiplied. Two, three, five, ten… they waved in a wind that was not there. What was growing there... were tentacles. “MEEEEEEHHHH!!” Suddenly, they heard the adorable bleating of a goat. And it wasn’t just one goat. The sound of a herd of goats seemed to have come from nowhere. As though drawn by the sound, the asphalt writhed up, and it gave birth to something. It was something that was far too strange, too unnatural. It was ten meters in height. If you added the length of the tentacles, that figure became unclear. At a glance, it resembled some sort of turnip. In place of leaves, it had numberless black tentacles, and its body was a slab of meat covered in raised lumps. Below that were five legs, like those of a goat’s, tipped with black hooves. Fissures appeared on its body -that thick slab of meat covered in lumps- peeling and splitting with the sound of something shattering. These cracks were not limited to just one area. And then... “MEEEEEEHHHH!!” The adorable bleating of goats rang forth from those openings. They were savage maws that drooled without end. There were five of them. They revealed their spine-chilling forms to everyone on the Kattse Plains. The Dark Young of the Black Goat. And their level was over 90.] So yes, the spell Ainz used was quite OP and unnecessarily cruel. According to Princess Renner, the total number of casualties caused by the spell during the Katze Plains Massacre was over 180,000 deaths. You might have forgotten but Jircniv thought that a few thousand is way too OP ... I have to clarify that in medieval wars the number of deaths was quite low because there were no firearms and the armors were excellent, hence the usual thing would be that between 300 and 500 people died in each battle and, if one was unlucky, maybe 1,000. Everything changed with the World Wars, because the death toll was unthinkable and for the first time a new disease appeared: War Trauma. Something similar happened to the people of the Empire in this chapter: They were simply terrified by the sight of such devastation and even begged that their enemies could be saved, the more the merrier. That's why Nimble asks Ainz: "Are you a demon?" because he wishes to continue with such a massacre even though it's not necessary, because the Kingdom's army is escaping. But Ainz doesn't feel anything for his emotional suppression and gets confused, thinking that Nimble has made a mistake about his race and that's why he clarifies: "I'm undead". From the beginning, the emperor's plan was to ask Ainz to use a spell to demonstrate his power and make other nations take the threat seriously. He also wanted all the neighboring countries to somehow "understand" why the empire became a (forced) ally of Nazarick. But the degree of devastation of the spell completely exceeded Jircniv's and everyone's predictions, so instead of solidarity, what he will get is the hatred of the whole world, because everyone will find out that and think "the emperor asked Ainz to launch THAT spell." So we could say that the plan turned out so well, that in the end it will completely backfire on the Empire. Well, I hope you liked this comment and that the information was useful. The following is the last chapter of the season!

This really drives home how insanely powerful the Theocracy was before Nazarick showed up. Someone like Zeshi (Theocracy girl with black and white hair) is comparable to these Goats. She would probably be able to kill the Goats one on one, possibly even all of them with her full gear. Theoretically, she has the necessary skills to kill a floor guardian, even if as Shaltear demonstrated, killing them once isn’t enough. Likewise had she been here she would’ve probably ended up fighting Mare specifically, who is easily her worst matchup among them. Without any spoilers, that wouldn’t go well.

For the record, the goats are over lvl 90. So every single goat is much stronger than one of the battle maids, and there are five of them, summoned with a single spell from Ainz.

Fun fact. If you watch when Raven retreats, one of his men who dies is the thief that helps sebas, brain, and climb with 8 fingers.

I would've loved to see the battlefield like it was described in the source material. Just a field of blood, guts and minced meat. The DarkYoung (the goats) did not fuck around.

Finally you got to see the true GOAT of the show 🤣

that "goats" is super duper tanky creature in yggdrasil even for level 100 player

Dude casually use spell that calling a Lovecraftian Deity to a war. 💀 Nope massacre.

It’s all fun and games until a someone calls in a favor from The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young.

Shub-Niggurath is an HP lovercraft God

Hail ainz-sama

Shub-Niggurath is a deity created by H. P. Lovecraft. She is often associated with the phrase "The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young". Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath is a death sentence in Call of Cthulhu Table-Top RPG. Here the overlord summons a couple of them.

The sheep that slaughter

I get where Gazef is coming from, but I have a couple of things to say about the end of this episode... First, it doesn't feel right for the Head Warrior to decide the fate of so many civilians. That's for the King to decide whether Gazef is worth sacrificing so many or not (it's a monarchy, not a democracy, so no referendum). Secondly, let's assume Gazef would accept Ainz's offer and change sides. Would it really be a good thing, to recruit somebody who'd betray his allegiance behind his leader's back? I feel like Ainz has some trust in Gazef, he could have sent him back to his King and expected Gazef to return with the King's answer. And I mean, if Gazef wouldn't return, Ainz could raze E-rantel with his newly acquired goats anyway.

Bro literally summon eldritch god

4:18 Oh look at all those Death Flags he's throwing up. May as well be saying "Well, I'm gunna die here."

Yeahhh!!

Just so you're clear on who the 4 not to be killed are: King, Gazef, Clim, Marquis Raeven. Also, the spell he used is definitely not his most powerful. The spell also killed far more than 70K. It started at 70K then the beasts proceeded to annihilate the army. It's safe to say the one spell killed more than 170K. Just wait until you here how the aftermath is talked about next episode AND next season. The human race (in real life and this anime) are their own worst enemies. Just think, if only the nobles respected Gazef enough to listen to him and just not fight... Also, good job applauding, he did earn it.

Yep, once again Overlord will rip out your heart and stomp on it. Who are the 4 that Ains didn't want killed, Gazef for one, the King, Climb, but the fourth isn't Brain no one knows Brain, Shalltear doesn't even remember him.

We ArE tHe GoOd GuYs!?!?!? Lollllll

Splat!

Petition to change this episode's name to Ainz the GOAT!