[Gerard07]

The events of vol 16 I think are the following;

Spoiler:

-Aura and Mare seem to get along with the other dark elves.
-The Theocracy started their large-scale attack on the elven country, but Ainz doesn't care as long as those who get along with Mare and Aura are fine, he still decides to go to the elven capital for whatever treasures they can be there
-The Elf King mistakes Aura and Mare as his familiars and wants to take them with him, but obviously Ainz doesn't let that happen and beats up the Elf King.
-The elven king flees but meets Zesshi who kills him. Shortly after Zesshi meets Mare (Ainz had ordered her to capture the elf king to get information from her), Mare gets angry that she won't be able to fulfill her master's order and they start fighting.
-Zesshi manages to land some superficial hits on Mare, but the latter is superior and Zesshi decided to use his trump card; "The goal of all life is death" (which he can use thanks to his talent). Mare is surprised and uses a revival spell at the right moment, which comes off well.
-They fight some more and Mare decides to end the fight and uses "Small Catastrophe" and defeats Zesshi. Mare decides to take her to Ainz, who uses magic mind and discovers that Shalltear's brainwashing incident was caused by the black writing.
-Ainz angrily calls Albedo and tells her that he left everything except the defenses of Nazarick, since he is going to declare war on the Theocracy and wants all the guardians to participate. At the end of the volume it seems that the author says that the Theocracy will end in ruins to say the least.

Other data;
-The elf king seems like he is the son of one of the 8 Kings of Greed and it seems like he is level 70-80.
- The corpse of the Elf King was taken to Nazarick for experiment (hopefully revive it to get information)
- Zesshi was taken to Neounist (but Mare says that Zesshi is too strong for Neounist, so Aura is watching her)
-The treasures of the elf kingdom were taken by Actor Pandora.

That would be for now.