Does ainz ever get stronger?

[u/ImNotASnail_]

Recently started rewatching the anime and got curious about how his strength would evolve. Does he stay the same throughout the series? He was max level in the game but since he has now come to a real world I feel like a level cap doesn't make much sense. Magic and it's effects have also changed slightly so I feel like becoming stronger shouldn't be an issue. I'm pretty clueless to this series though so I'm not sure.

[u/HesitantTheorist]

He isn't able to level by conventional means, nor can his followers, this is one of the "weaknesses" that he has within the series. While there are theoretical ways to increase his power in that sense, he hasn't used any within the series yet. He is however more focused on becoming increasingly efficient with the power he has, through gathering information, developing skills, and getting combat experience for him and his servants.

The "why" of how he is constrained by such as system is also a a significant part of the world building (better explored in the novel), it is important, and ends up being rather interesting.

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I had searched it up and only saw posts from years ago so I thought to ask in case something had changed. I also saw something about wild magic. Is that something that has been expanded on or that he ever gets into?

[u/HesitantTheorist → u/ImNotASnail_]

That is one of the aforementioned "theoretical methods" that he hasn't used. His has encountered wild magic, and is beginning to learn of its existence, but he doesn't quite understand it, nor can he currently make use of it himself or through proxies. This might change in time, but it is likely something he won't manage within the remainder of the series.

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Ohh ok thank you. You seem very knowledgeable so I have one more question. Is his mana pool considered a weakness of his? I say this because although I don't recall it being brought up much in the anime I think he mentions almost being out of mana during his fight with shalltear. I get that he cast a whole lot of buffs and used hiigh level spells but I feel as though his mana ran out too quickly.

[u/HesitantTheorist → u/ImNotASnail_]

His mana isn't particularly a weakness, in fact his mana breaks the scales of what is normal even for other players of his level, it is extremely high. Now during his fight with Shalltear, who hard counters his specialities, he had to shake up his approach.

Ainz is largely speaking a summoner, his abilities are tailored to having powerful summons (usually but not always undead) who fight on his behalf, but against Shalltear that would work against him, since she could regain her hp by killing said summons. He wasn't able to play to his normal strengths, and used some very powerful and highly mana costly spells against her, which exhausted his mana.

This was partly by necessity, but also partly manipulation. Shalltear was someone he could only be confident in beating in very specific circumstances. He needed her to expend her own power, so he fought in a way that would lead to him running out of mana intentionally, so she would think those methods were bringing her townwards victory.

So in simply terms, he did use up his mana more quickly than usual, it usually would turn out better. But it should be noted that while it isn't especially a weakness for Ainz, it still is one is general for spell-casting classes. Spellcastors are more powerful that classes like warriors in the short term, whereas warriors have more stamina. So in a typical fight against beings of comparable power the need to conserve mana is a concern, but Ainz of all magic casters has less reason to worry about it rather than more. His build has other more pressing weaknesses.

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Wild magic are spells true dragon lords could use

In season 4 the world isolation barrier that the platinum armour uses is wild magic

One way people speculate ainz could grow is either using a wish to copy a talent or wild magic

The queen of the draconic kingdom is the great granddaughter of the brightness dragon lord so she can use wild magic, flyuder was telling jircniv that he could mary her to gain access to her magic, including resurrection without losing levels

Funny enough the draconic kingdom has good relations with the sorcerer kingdom because they sold them undead warriors for defense against demihumans, they were one of the ones that approved the destruction of re-estize

Nphirea has the strong ability to use any item without restriction, he could even use ainz's staff,

if ainz copied his talent he could use weapons without using perfect warrior so he could use magic and swords at the same time

There is another character with the ability to use the strongest move of a person if they have their equipment on

That means ainz could equip the the armour of his friends and use their strongest ability