So a single throwaway bit where there's multiple Leaf Eagles has brought into focus a concept that is successfully glossed over in MMOs but is an existentially terrifying concept in a "real world": inconsistency of world state between players.

The Keeper stops you as you pass by to tell you there is a Leaf Eagle (singular) threatening the harvest. You defeat the Leaf Eagle (singular) and come back to the Keeper, who knows of your exploits and thanks you for solving their Leaf Eagle problem forever.

...and then someone else passes by and the Keeper tells them there is a Leaf Eagle threatening the harvest.

Yeah having a evasion tank does sound rly handy in a vrmmo tbh but i mean its not easy to do..

Krsi started a Civil War over a bottle of strawberry milk.

So Rose is in love with Female!Felix, that'll be fun. :-)

And we now officially have a war in progress.

And we've apparently figured out that Beatrix is an inheritor like Sieglinde and not an original master, which puts Mercedes at an advantage. Mercedes had already cloned two of Beatrix's monsters. Time to acquire the rest.

I would laugh if they went ahead with their bone in meat grill and somehow it ends up making the bones more valuable afterwards.

Should make a leviathan stew, it could potentially be made in mass quantities.

@heimdal7
They (Sarasa and Iris) don't seem to be boinking yet. Heavy emphasis upon the "yet."
The final size of the polycule is still up in the air, but signs are that Kate and Lorea-chan will be part of it for sure, and Misty as well if she gets her way.

Air pollution...

Look, in a high class establishment this is a legit complaint.
And from what we've been given worldbuilding-wise Alchemist's shops are high class establishments.

There's also that contrary to "common knowledge" they really were concerned about personal hygiene in the past, they took measures to not be stinky.
While the public baths of the Roman era fell by the wayside following the collapse of the Empire, there was a continued concern.
And a surprising number of those baths survived a long time post Rome.
Some to the present day.

Keep the letter, Sarasa.
It may prove useful when practicing Regime Change on the Hudson Company.
Even if Misty doesn't want to be in charge, it's legit to have a preference concerning who does succeed to the headship, and it helps to have evidence of nefarious intent when sticking an oar in.

@Makine lol the author has more or less said "I know what I said but it turns out I cannot write Academy arcs so I'm not going to bother" I'm paraphrasing but not by much.

I won't blink at the over the top nonsense in this story but will take issue with the proton spinning in a collider. The smallest circular collider has circumference of 500 feet, the largest currently has 27km. Then there are linear colliders. Didn't the esteemed author mean to say something closer to "like a frog in a blender" perhaps?

@Travis-Butler

I think you're a lot more right than wrong, but Maomao also has some kind of mild addiction to Jinshi's presence. She has been shown to reach for him when tired or stressed. For herself, not for him. But calling it romantic love would be an overstatement.

@Makine It's military-grade.

Finally having read everything this is easily my favorite of the batch. It's quality through and through.

I totally understand Martha's reaction to seeing a yard full of meter-long versions of these: (youtube vid of tailless) - https://youtu.be/VQ1m3jfcLYU?si=qMwQ2e6IPCjmJTg9

@GeorgeMTO thanks a lot. I remember the tournaments and so on. but I had no recollection of the war.

That might be getting too caught up in the minutiae and Carmine's intent was "provide their expected standard of living".

Dang Regina, let the man rest after a day of hunting XD