So when he comes into the world, it seems like the people that's had any interaction with pre-possessed Zil comes down to 3 people. And from them it seems each had a total of 5 minutes with the man. "Hey, I recruit you, here's a power, bye" Cause they are all surprised when he calls them to him and again when asked to see their abilities. So one of the "main issues" he has of needing to act like Zil seems to be a lot less of an issue than he makes it out to be. Like I feel they've had so little that they haven't had time to make strong impressions of him and his personality.

Second, I really tire of all the stripping and his letting the fanatic run wild. Like he thinks you're God, if you say, "hey, I actually don't want stripping" he'll come up with all the explanations for you and follow your rules. Letting him run wild seems like such an odd choice and the excuse that he needs to do so else he fears it'll destroy their faith and he'll turn and kill him for betraying his faith or something is also laughably ridiculous. And maybe I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't seem to take up a forth of the story. SOOOooo much seems to be about Kieran and Zil being annoyed by his actions or him spreading his religion. Like the funny one off has made itself a permanent and prominent feature and overstayed it's welcome.

These last few parts have been full of the sort of fantasy stuff I love. I'm still hoping he'll get a power up from the dew he drank, another S to his crafting tier preferably. The fairies were cute.

The wedding were nice and so the fact that Shutola and Rion were able to have their first time.
The tag team battle was cool, although I hope the author isn't going to abuse the win by ring out, I'm especially worried for the battles against the guest characters since the author probably doesn't want to make them look bad.
The second battle was definitely less interesting, Rion was basically fighting a dummy and Dorothy herself is one of my least favorite characters.

That's such a perfect way to end the volume. Yep, three dragons. Not a problem worth mentioning, come and join the celebration of all these fancy new dragon materials that walked into our laps. How'd things go on your end?

This is getting out of hand! Now, there is two of them!

I think Sora's life is about to get complicated with this war between the forest and dark elves. Plus don't be surprised if the Cardinal doesn't make a special request to him and his team.

Well the encounter between Laviange and her Mother in the official release is a bit more sensible to read. Though it does still have the wild perspective shifts. But it doesnt feel like Lavi's actions are completely unprompted and random now.

So it does appear that some of the confusion was from the first draft translation needing better work to express the point of views.

edit Then again as I read more and we go to the second half with Miranda's perspective, its still very fractured. I suspect that she is just so broken that her point of views are worse to understand then Lavianges are. Her perspectives are also still full of BL fantasies that annoyed a bunch of people.

Got a lot of questions answered, but plenty more to ask. The origins of the demon lord remain unanswered (probably one of the next few volumes), but the bigger question is why the Hero is always a girl, and why Amyu (and possibly previous heroes) look like his disciple? I wonder if she reincarnated earlier and wrote herself into the cycle.

Also I think we can be reasonably confident that Haruyoshi would not have lost if he was willing to kill his disciple, she may have had higher base stats and raw talent, but he had decades of experience and picked up so many uniquely lethal spells trying to bring back his wife.

@ca-lima Is it volume 12 or 13?

@karasutengu - I drifted away after volume 6 I think, but it's nice to hear that the author is letting relationships progress instead of just power levels and fame.

@Kotenmaru said in The Boy Who Ruled the Monsters Vol. 6 Discussion!:

This part dragged on. The author really should of figured out a way to better break up this massive info dump instead of just slamming us with it all at once. Even as someone who has enjoyed the world building of this series, getting all of this at once felt like too much.

It's probably my biggest criticism of the author in general- their verbosity and frequent author tracts on the nature of humanity really bog down the pacing. It's the kind of thing that makes me suspect the original language editor didn't push back enough on the author to trim the fat.

The apocalypse scenario was pretty interesting at least, if a smidge contrived.

@HarmlessDave honestly a pretty perfect example.

"The villains make their escape! Find out how our intrepid hero saves the day, NEXT VOLUME!!!"

But other than that one fight being exceedingly contrived the rest of the book was fun.

@Almond-Magnum possibly, but it's a silly story about giant cats batting cannonballs out of the sky so perhaps the author didn't think of it.

@infinitycrazee said in Water Magician Arc 1 Vol. 1 Discussion!:

Am i right to assume there are some parts missing in volume 5 especially on page 537?

spoiler

I don't know whether it's the source's or the publisher's mistake.

You should email support@j-novel.club for errors found in published books, they aren't going to find it if you post it here. For what it's worth, something similar to what you described happened during prepublication but they fixed it, so I'd be surprised if that fix wasn't carried over to the full version.

The lack of detailed fight scenes did not bother me much.

I like that the story has progressed into more world building.

I dislike that the power levels used to tell the story.

I've read through v10. Have not cracked v11 yet.

Well, Reina is right there helping the dark elves, so there is one less thing to worry about. That statue... Sheesh. Alucard is number 5. Gai and Chris are the top two, probably constantly swapping their positions. So who on earth are 3 and 4?

The curiosity is killing me.

And is it just me, or has our lovely songstress Amelia gone missing in this volume?

I kinda wish to see the original battle against the true demon king. Anyway, I love these old guys.

Yeah Pendragon you were never going to break someone’s morale who’s obsessed with the thrill of battle

Your plans were crazy but Yuri is straight up insane