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.
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His prosthetic seems really powerful. More powerful than Dunkie's black shield it seems, since it absorbs and reflects.
I expect that Lestilaut would have been able to use the mana absorbed by the shield too, if it hadn't crumbled into golden dust. The whole point of black feystones is to capture mana, not to disipate it after all. Lestilaut would probably have even been able to safe the shield from being destroyed by taking out the mana Rozemyne was pouring into and casting some spells with it.
Welp I can defiantly feel the stretch from 8 parts to 10 here, I didn't get my usual bookworm fill and I am looking for more.... I don't have a problem you have a problem. AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
On that note, man does Grausam spell it out, how much they didn't understand their previous plans failures.
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Bible Stealing and Poisoning, solved by Roz (with help from Fredi), credited to Ferdi
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Finding the bible and raiding Gloria's Estate, solved by Roz, credited to Ferdi
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Georgine's winter plans failing, solved by Roz who brought the dormitory together, credited to Sylvester
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Heck even Ferdi being alive, it's not that he was saved, that's preposterous (even though the Gremlin and Dunk are in tow), Det must've lied.
OK, that last one and the needed chain of events is hard to believe, but even still. They completely underestimated her and from the sounds of it, it's because like the Falarm, they think she's "just a commoner" and that commoners are wastes of space, or just tools. They can't disrupt a Nobles plans.
And with Roz and Metais storing the estate he's going to get a firsthand (only hand in his case) lesson, in why you should never underestimate Roz.
I don't have a problem you have a problem. AND YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
Nono, we do have a problem. Not enough bookworm. It's terminal I'm afraid.
What I really love is that despite their plan so far being absolutely derailed (Ferdinand is not dead) and DUNKELFELGER of all duchies showing up on Ehrenfests side Grausam still believes that all will go accoeding to plan on Georgine's end. It does not even cross his mind that they are walking into a trap. Love the overconfidence.
I think my only resolution to fix it is start bookworm again from p1v1, see you in a week
If you are going anyway, mind gathering cool one-liners to put up at the top of the website?
I think you need to provide me a stuffed shumil so I can record ithe lines into 😉 /s
I think half of it is underestimating Rozemyne, but the other half is definitely that he’s got a job to do. He’s isolated without a way to communicate with his allies. It’s down to endure or die, because Cornelius will tear Grausam in half if Angelica doesn’t get there first.
Guess we have it hard confirmed now, what we essentially already knew before, but didn't have spelled out: People in silver cloth can neither use magic, nor be targeted by Ordonnanzes.
I wonder if Giebe Gerlach was also healed by Rozemyne's healing... and if he was, hopefully Grausam was already out on the balcony, so he didn't notice, or he'd sure have "re-applied" those wounds.
Nice of Kazuki-sensei to close off a "plot hole" that wasn't even one. I don't think anyone would ever have complained about Rozemyne not recognizing the voice of the masked attacker as Grausam's, after hearing only one or two sentences from him at her first spring prayer tour. And yet, even if some nitpicker were to bring it up, the body double neatly closes it off anyway. ^^
Though I am a bit confused by the barrier around the estate: Is blocks people from entering, but does not ward off attacks? So enemies can not enter, but are free to blast fireballs into it and burn it down? That seems like something of a design flaw to me. Or is the barrier designed to not encompass the balcony?
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?
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.
In Bezewanst's prologue chapter, where he meets with Grausam, Bindewald and Gloria, they talk about having received a letter in which Georgine heavily hinted at having discovered, how to get into the Foundation, so it could check out, that their first attempts were made, or at least planned, before the adoption, and likely frustrated by Ferdinand's presence. Though with how little time there was between that meeting and the kidnapping attempt, I can see why they might just not have had an opportunity, before the adoption.
Or they might have prioritized getting rid of Myne, believing that this would also get rid of, or at least weaken, Ferdinand and thus make it easier to make a move on the temple in the future, once Georgine was ready to invade.
It could even be, that Bindewald was going to the temple primarily to facilitate Georgine's taking of the Foundation, and kidnapping Myne was only the secondary objective and we just didn't learn of it, because they didn't take Bezewanst into their confidence. Though while I can see it being possible, I think that last option is rather unlikely. With Bindewald being interrogated with a mind-reading magic tool, chances are, Sylvester would have learned of this, had it been the case... then again, the tools aren't infallible, especially not if Trug was involved.
One weird question with the estate barrier. Couldn't the knight use the silver cloth to enter? I thought they stole some silver cloth.
Good point, the Dunkelfelger knights did steal some and used them to infiltrate the first ship. And the Lanzenavians that were cut down on land, would have left even more silver outfits behind, even if they might need some stiching.
Considering that it's incompatible with their regular battle doctrine, I can see why they wouldn't wear it by default, but they should have brought it along just in case anyway. Rozemyne would have had plenty of room for a couple of silver outfits, even in her single-person panda bus, if they didn't want bring small backpacks to put them into.