He didn't raise his sword, simply took a step in the ln saying that I don't disagree, just felt the need to point out it wasn't quite as much as he got in the anime. (Though tbh the whole thing is kinda pointless to speculate on, gazef was never going to reach/harm ainz) In a lot of ways letting gazef use the sword was cruel.
Someone pulled something from the LN that showed he lifted his sword before he got frozen.
Not really, it was level eighty to eighty-five (so in the range of lord wrath) and could supposedly have endangered the entire country/world if it wasn't stopped. It's noted for having a massive health pool far exceeding its level, ainz considered it may have been a raid boss, saying that again cocytus was going to cut in half before albedo shoulder checked it to ensure they didn't disappoint ainz (Ainz wanted to see them work together to beat it, even though they all noted they could beat it by themselves. Cocytus figured he could bring glory by one shotting it/cutting it in half so albedo stopped him)
Just like in DBZ till we got more shit from it, destroying the Country/World doesn't mean shit alone considering it could destroy it just by basically bulldozing everything around it and the rest of that still means nothing.
It's a hundred meters tall and made of wood, with three-hundred-meter-long tendrils (Coctyus destroys two of them with the swing of his sword as well) Like even assuming it was normal wood that is a shit load of material, and we know that level thirty monsters have hides comparable to steel. Making it rather doubtful the level eighty monster is only as tough as normal wood.
I don't know the math but obliterating two three-hundred-meter-long wooden tentacles in a single strike seems liable to give some noteworthy results.
I won't lie getting solid numbers out of it is probably borderline impossible as it's not a fight thats liable to be adapted but it's also likely to be the bets results we have in the realm of physicallity.
I mean all of that makes it worse, not better because again, being comparable to steel is not that much and there's nothing at all there showing it's anything more than Building Tier.