Death Knight
A level-35 defensive undead that can survive any single attack at 1 HP and draws enemy aggro; Ainz's go-to tank summon.
- 2.3 m tall, with a 1.3 m flamberge in the right hand, a tower shield covering three-quarters of its body in the left, black spiked full plate, and a rotting human face.
- Attack equivalent to level 25, defense equivalent to level 40; in the New World presumed difficulty 100+, but so legendary that it is little known.
- Special abilities: fully draws enemy attacks (taking aggro for its summoner); survives any one attack at 1 HP; those it kills become "Squire Zombies" (limited number), and those Squire Zombies kill become zombies too (no limit).
- Unlike ordinary undead it has no fire weakness, but lacks anti-air options.
- Ainz makes them with "Create Middle Undead"; summoned via a corpse they 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 bombing it with [Fly] + [Fireball], and it is sealed in the Imperial Ministry of Magic.
Notes
The bonus novel The King's Messenger is told from a Death Knight's viewpoint; it and Hamsuke are training "friends", and the spikes of its armor have been rubbed round from being hugged.
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