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Jesus Christ what the fuck is wrong with you people. Why do people constantly bring up stakes in overlord? That is not and never has been the point.
Is this just willful ignorance or trolling? How do so many people have the exact same delusion? Is this that fabled "media literacy" I hear so much about?
Overlord is a comedy. It is not a battle series. It is established very early on that Ainz and Nazarick are the top dogs on the whole world and there's nothing that can challenge them. Whether or not Ainz can survive a battle with some new worlder is not the point. The whole fact that he over prepares is a running gag (see: comedy) because he never actually needs to, but he's so paranoid he thinks he does. Most of the humor from Overlord comes from dramatic irony where we as the audience know what the characters don't. That's why we constantly get the inner monologues of the characters, because seeing how everyone is constantly misinterpreting the situation is funny.
In fact you want stakes? There are some. Ainz doesn't want to get revealed to his colleagues. He is a salary man with impostor syndrome and doesn't know how to do any of this so he just fumbles his way through. He desperately doesn't want the floor guardians to find this out and just tries to keep larping to get through the day. Seeing him do this is funny.
How you miss the point is beyond me but if you honestly think overlord is about fighting or that it would be "better" if there were "stakes" you either need to go reread all the volumes or just kill yourself.