

Are Ainz and his servants still leveling up the same way they were when they
were killing monster to get exp in Yggdrasil?


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Are Ainz and his servants still leveling in the New World?


Hmmm... To my understanding, Ainz and the high-tier minions (read those that
are level 100) don't level up any further, as they are maximum level already.
It's never mentioned that they 'get stronger' while others like the lizardmen
and that weird hamster indeed do (the narrative comments several times that
they are training to get stronger). Now, it is possible the New World has a
higher level cap but insofar it hasn't been mentioned at all in the nine LN,
the WNs nor the anime and manga. So Ainz ain't levelling nor are the floor
guardians, but some of his minions do.


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Lvl 100 was maxed level in the game, but the New world has different laws and
something from the game manifest differently. This is because the new world
isn't a game, but instead, an actual world that is trying to make sense of the
game mechanics.

In the game, the minimum amount of experience a monster could give is 1 and
also Ainz had 100% experience to level if the game allowed him to become level
101.

Ainz should have leveled already if he was gaining experience points, the only
caveat is that what if the New world is giving humans or other monsters less
experience. For example, if the new world gives humans 0.001 experience then
it could still be possible, but there isn't anything that suggests that Ainz
can level.

**Last note, the author himself said Ainz is maxed level and he won't be able
to level.**

Reference to the translation, which has a reference to the original.

<https://www.reddit.com/r/overlord/comments/6fcxi6/kugane_maruyama_interview_kono_light_novel_ga/>


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I was reading the books and Ainz is clearly saying he should have leveled up
but didn't feel anything different so he concludes he can't level up. But I
think he is wrong. He is a better fighter and he is doing things no spell
caster would be able to do. Meaning he has obtained some fighter levels.

At smaller "levels" it is easy to see an increase in power but when you have
100 "levels" getting 1 more is not so evident. Also I think that in the new
world there is no fix levels. In games you only get skills when you level up
but now I think you learn the skill step by step for example at the middle of
you leveling from lv2 to lv3 you can do the skill that you gain at lv3 but not
as good.

There is an example that goes against this when Neia Baraja uses divine power
for her archery it seems like an instant gain unlike Hamsuke constant training
and step by step level up.

Of course a reason he would be able to be better at fighting but not level up
could be because he is getting used to his powers and learning how the world
works. Also gaining power from flavor text with no mechanical gain in game but
true now. If that is true then it would look like leveling but only
discovering his powers.


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With regards to the Denizens of Nazerick leveling it's hard to tell. Obviously
as the author has said, the level 100 characters have reached their level cap
and are subsequently unable to level.

The more interesting question is wether the sub-lvl.100 characters are able to
level (i.e. the Pleiades and the area-guardians). It is difficult to be sure
wether or not these characters are able to level since we don't often see
through their perspective and they (with the exception of Narberal) haven't
had a lot of combat experience yet.

We know that _Players_ from Yggdrasil can level as evidenced by the strongest
of the "13 Heros," who came to the New World between lvl.10-20, started out as
the weakest of the heros, and ended as the strongest of them. We can also be
fairly confident that the New World Natives can level (albeit, likely with a
racial/personal level cap, as evidenced by the fact that the Godkin are
technically a different race and are much stronger than normal humans), due to
the existence of Adventurers, humans who, through combat, have become stronger
than the average human. Also the Nazerick trainees, (i.e. the Lizardmen and
Hamusuke, since it's been stated that they're getting stronger)

The real question is wether or not the _NPCs_ can level. There isn't a lot of
info on it, but I'm fairly certain that NPCs were not able to level naturally
in Yggdrasil, if that carried over into the New World then whatever level they
were when they transitioned from Yggdrasil is effectively their level cap.
It's difficult to say wether or not this is the case even if they _could_ grow
to lvl.100. As I mentioned earlier the Denizens of Nazerick haven't really had
any challenging battles so far and they haven't been doing any
leveling/grinding, which at their levels and considering the relative weakness
of the New World, they would need to do quite a bit of in order to see any
real results.

Personally I don't think that any of the original Denizens of Nazerick can
level in the New World. However, that does leave one avenue for them to still
get stronger, that being Martial Arts and new Spells.

Though leveling up does provide a stat boost, it appears that one of the
primary ways it increased players strength back in Yggdrasil, especially at
higher levels, was through the gaining and improving of skills/magic. If Ainz
and the Denizens of Nazerick are able to learn new Spells and/or Martial Arts
it could provide a lot of room for growth, especially at their levels,
considering that most of these abilities seem to scale with the user's
strength. Though frustratingly there hasn't been any development on that front
because none of them are actually _attempting_ to learn anything new (mostly
because they're all already strong enough to whup just about anybody's ass in
the New World) The closest they get is the Death Knight training with
Hamusuke, who is a created undead, so who knows if he even counts?

The closest we get to a confirmation or denial is shortly after Nazerick
arrives in the New World. Ainz tries to get one of the maids (a homunculus
maid, not one of the Pleiades) to cook a steak, like, three times and the maid
fails in the same way each time. If I remember correctly, because of this Ainz
assumes that the NPCs can't learn new skills. However this was still while
New-Nazerick was in its infancy and the NPCs were just getting used to the New
World and its freedoms. It could be that the issue with the maid was one of
mindset. I don't belive the LN provides any details on how the steak was
cooked, but there's a chance that the maid, being used to Yggdrasil where
without a skill in something one could not do that thing, and being entirely
new to cooking, didn't know what was going wrong and just did the exact same
thing all three times. If she had been instructed on how to cook and had had
some more practice, maybe she could have learned.

Though this is all just a bunch of speculation. Even if the Denizens of
Nazerick _can_ learn new skills, there likely won't be any effort/development
put forward in that department until/if they encounter an enemy who is
stronger than they are, (maybe another guild will transfer over from Yggdrasil
or something) which definitelywon't be happening in the story for some time
yet.


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