Pretty sure you’ll get your wish. The victory feast should happen the next chapter. Then I’m guessing a tour of Ehrenfest while Rozemyne checks up on the temple and her personnel. Hoping there will be some kind of update about the Sovereignty. Also curious if Bonifatius stayed in the south or if he made it back to Ehrenfest during Georgine’s invasion.

I’m not predicting this, but I think it would be funny if there’s a big showdown between Matthias and Grausam only for Grausam to suddenly fall over dead because Georgine had died.

Thinking about it more I’d say there was probably a word omitted. I’m thinking it was supposed to be:

On countless occasions since Georgine had discovered that Ehrenfest’s foundation was hidden within its temple, Grausam and his accomplices had attempted to sneak inside—but by then Rozemyne had been adopted by the archduke and assigned to serve as the High Bishop.

Yeah that barrier doesn’t seem to block attacks, only people. I’ve been under the assumption the giebe estates are white stone buildings which wouldn’t burn down, but I’m not positive.

Not really a plot hole, but an inconsistency I noticed in the prologue: On countless occasions since Georgine had discovered that Ehrenfest’s foundation was hidden within its temple, Grausam and his accomplices had attempted to sneak inside—but then Rozemyne had been adopted by the archduke and assigned to serve as the High Bishop.

That seems to imply that Georgine discovered the temple foundation entrance before Rozemyne was adopted and made the High Bishop. Georgine didn’t visit Ehrenfest and obtain Bezewanst’s letters until almost a year after Rozemyne was adopted. That either means that Georgine knew about the temple entrance long before obtaining those letters or maybe it’s a mistranslation?

Have to admit that Grausam’s prosthetic arm is pretty cool. I feel bad for Rozemyne having to fly through severed arms, wounded knights, and feystones. That would be pretty traumatizing. A lot more nobles were killed than I expected too, but that shows that Grausam is a worthy opponent. Looking forward to see what Rozemyne and Matthias can do against him.

It was interesting to see Effa’s perspective on the noble’s quarter. She never really knew how much money Myne had even back in her commoner days either. Poor Gunther has a crappy job, but all to defend his home. Seems that Ferdinand was a lot angrier with Letizia than I suspected as well.

Anyway, really looking forward to continuing the main story next week!

I wouldn’t mind having an update of what’s going on in the Sovereignty. What’s going on with the royal family? Have they invited Dunkelfelger to help out? What’s Detlinde’s group up to? Have they figured out what’s been going on in Ahrensbach at all?

A lower city perspective would be nice too. What do the Gutenbergs think about staying in the noble’s quarter at Rozemyne’s library? How have the lower city guards dealt with the Georgine threat?

Maybe. I kind of got the impression that Damuel would be guarding not only Myne’s lower city family, but all the commoners Rozemyne gave a crested feystone which would make it less suspicious.

I don’t understand the purpose of the barrier magic tool in the Philine chapter. Wouldn’t silver cloth just negate it?

Most duchies students or aubs have witnessed dedication, starbinding, or gather spot renewing rituals performed by Rozemyne. Pretty sure they know she’s the real deal.

I find it ironic that Rozemyne wasn’t considered a bigger threat to Georgine’s plans than Ferdinand or Bonifatius. It’s possible that they believed Fraularm’s rants about her being dead or at least too ill to be of consequence. They must not have found out that Rozemyne was the responsible for ruining Viscountess Dahldolf’s plans either. Georgine is a cold calculator like Ferdinand and can guess what moves he’ll make, but she’ll never be able to foresee the actions of the chaos gremlin!

Guess we’re getting lots of side stories in this volume.

Rozemyne gets to see first hand how the inability to redraw duchy borders has made Werkestock’s giebes incredibly desperate. Their excuses aren’t likely to save them from prison though.

The epilogue was some interesting backstory for Georgine’s character. Can’t help but feel a bit of sympathy for what her parents made her endure and her motivation was just trying to earn their approval instead of actually serving the duchy. When Sylvester entered the picture and Georgine decided to adopt Veronica’s methods is when she really started going off the deep end. Veronica really is the cause of so many issues for so many people in this story. Also didn’t expect Georgine to use the sewers to bypass security.

I like Giebe Kirnberger. He seems like a guy that really thinks things through and has interesting insights. I imagine a lot more Ehrenfest nobles will soon share his concerns about the future of the duchy.

I used to participate on the honzuki subreddit, but closed my account when they decided to kill 3rd party API access. I haven’t been on the discord channel at all, but I’ve occasionally participated on the j-novel club forums. Lately I’ve been here almost exclusively.

It was back in P2V3 (Ambush). It wasn’t explained very much:

Sylvester swung his shining wand over the forest and sent a large red bird flying away from him. I watched on, thinking it looked a lot like a phoenix, and saw it spread its wings wide before seemingly melting into thin air. A transparent red wall seemed to appear from where the bird had spread its wings. Then, a yellow, equally large bird shot out of his wand as well, spinning in the air while crumbling and sending shining powder raining down beneath it.

I did say that Ahrensbach should be reduced to nothing. It would serve as an ideal playground for you. - Ferdinand

Does Ferdinand assume that Rozemyne will literally destroy Ahrensbach with her chaotic ways? Or is this a figurative way of saying Ahrensbach will no longer exist as it currently does after Rozemyne changes how the duchy is run? Perhaps a little bit of both?

I think it’ll be interesting to see what these ships are like. Rozemyne mentioned before that they looked like submarines. It’s possible they may not have sails at all and if they actually can submerge then battle would get a whole lot trickier. Although like you said, after the gate is closed they shouldn’t have many options and will hopefully just surrender.

I’m definitely not disputing that Ferdinand is acting foolish. I just imagine the conversation to go something like this:

“Fool! You foolish fool! Why are you here?! Did you not get my message?” demanded Ferdinand.

“You are the fool Ferdinand.” I countered “Did I not say I would fight to save you with every fiber of my being?”

“Only a fool would attempt the impossible of breaking into another duchy’s mana replenishment hall.” scoffed Ferdinand “Your foolhardy assault has ruined my plans!”

“Well this fool actually saved your foolish butt.” I retorted “Even Erwaermen agrees that you’re a fool.”

There is one thing that bothers me. Ferdinand’s message said that doing nothing would save Ehrenfest and Yurgenschmidt. I’m not sure what plans he had in progress to make that happen. He’s witnessed Detlinde’s collusion with Lanzenave and knew Georgine was plotting something so I assume his plans took their plots into account. I think the maximal quality feypaper was integral to his scheme. Did Ferdinand set something in motion that could cause problems now that he is being saved?

One thing I will predict is that the word “Fool” will probably be mentioned in the next chapter more times than any previous one.

“Late” can mean deceased or former. So you were correct to say late count as he is the former count—although he is not deceased, but rather imprisoned.