The sister didn't wet herself this time, she's making progress.
Rozbeth had to wait before experiencing the joy of being a woman but now she's going to make up for that with interests.
A new girl in the next volume...going by the reveal we git in thus one, I'm assuming it's going to be Lykos turn.

Kazuhiro could bypass his travel skill's weight restriction by bringing everyone to Japan, going back to the dream world, traveling alone to his destination, and then bringing them back.

@Terabyte Well, Wridra has a mate, but I don't know if he'd truly fall under the human definition of "husband". I mean, all we really know about him is that he knocked up Wridra and flew off to god knows where. I don't think you can really apply human social conventions to the relationship of ancient dragons. For all we know, they could have an open relationship, or have the viewpoint of "what happens in a humanoid body stays in a humanoid body."

@Brentoni The first one is a reference to the second Parodius game from 1990. Parodius was a series of shooters from Konami that were a parody of their own Gradius series. Some wacky things happen in it and I recommend the series if you are interested in classic horizontal shooters. Cover of Parodius for NES featuring said cat ship

The book is something else when read as an entire volume. I finished it in a couple of sittings. The map was a huge help. The light tone makes it not sound like a history lesson. The dose of humor is just right. A family tree with all the aliases (like Duke Raul == Chancellor, Duke Agnicarl == Minister of ceremonies == Regent faction (more or less)) would have been an additional help..I had to map it out in my head with the aid of the map as and when more information was fed.
As we are reading the vol.2, I realise a lot of this groundwork and history was essential to understand the moves made there.
Thanks a lot to the translation team and the editing team who did a fantastic job in bringing this wonderful LN to us. @JasonL

@TrinaBear the second volume has begun streaming. The discussion thread for it is here: https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/9028/they-don-t-know-i-m-too-young-for-the-adventurer-s-guild-vol-2-discussion

Honestly, what is the point in beating these idiots if they don't finish the job?

3 members of the Church of Dickbutt were lying on the floor and they just leave them there? On the other hand, another rando who just received some cheat abilities joined them again.

I can't even remember the names of the villains anymore, there are so many of them and they just keep coming.

Will this series resolve anything at all?

@karasutengu said in Frontier Lord Vol. 8 Discussion!:

@Kurzaa I think he is the guy who hired assassins in the first volume to kill Dias, but they failed. His hatred for Dias is an obsession due to a miss-conceived wrong the man holds against Dias. At one time he was captured (I think), but escaped and is more determined than ever to get his revenge against the lovable big ax guy.

Didn't feel like the same sort of villain, the guy from v1 had a smalltime potatoes vibe, as seen in these dialogue samples:

" Because our target is Dias. Yes, that Dias! Think you can beat him in broad daylight? I'm not sure we can kill him even while he sleeps, and with the cover of darkness on our side. But know that if he's cottoned on to our attempt, we're through."

"And I want you to kill Eldan too, if you see him," whispered the client. "You may as well if he's here. I heard he came here to meet with that damned bastard Dias anyway. The more thrones we have without lords to sit on them, the better."

"Shit! Shit! Shit! They claimed to be the finest mercenaries! Liars! Useless! Taken down like mere flies! I told them that it was all over if Dias caught wind of us!"

"Dias! My old wounds ache, and it's all because of you! Always getting in my way, you wrteched upstart orphan! You crazy mongrel! You monster! Why won't you just die?!"

Granted he was fairly irate throughout that entire encounter, but this final example came after "the man was finally done shouting" and "clarity seemed to return to the man's face."

"Damn it," he sighed. "I have failed. That was not cheap, but...there is nothing I can do but cut my losses. No more lingering on past failures. Next time will be different. Next time, next time, next tiiiiime. Know this, Dias: I will not give up until this grudge has been repaid."

The dude in this part seemed more detached from the world, ancient even, though perhaps I am overreading into this guy being in a lonely, dark, and quiet place where no other signs of life existed. Unless this is the man from before who came across some dark god or something and changed, I feel like they are different people.

@Phabiohost I can understand your frustration. I had the same problem reading the final two volumes of "Enough with This Slow Life! I Was Reincarnated as a High Elf and Now I’m Bored".
The author knew the end of the series was set at Vol 8 and starting skipping 50 year cycles (or more) in each release without any major explanation. Many readers (myself included) bemoaned this fact since it affected the story line so much.

What? Liam turned down an offer of "new magic"? Could he actually be maturing a little due to the serious situation the dragons are in. If so, I may rethink my opinion of him.

I agree harems are over done but I like how this one is written and he is of course clueless. I do like strategy and well written but not dawnout fighting scenes. I miss this series and I hope we can read more. The women might be his downfall and not all agree to be with him, maybe they have more confidence In themselves and fight to have him all for their self.

@GeorgeMTO Sweet!

Just finished a re-read of the series in order to catch up on this volume, extremely disappointed to learn that this is also me catching up to JP. /sigh

@Windsagio said in Seventh Vol. 10 Discussion!:

To me it was clear. Basil. Basil Walt, the founder beat Agrissa.

he was the one who absolutely insisted the child of calamity is real

Unfortunately, the timelines don't really add up for this. The fall of the pan-continental empire is supposed to be ~300+ years ago. Assuming an average generational length about 30 years (which is on the longer side of estimates), that'd be 10+ generations ago, but even including Lyle, we're only at 9 maximum.

Also, having just finished the reread, I was able to roughly remember when Basil talked in detail about the Heretical God's Child, and the quote supports my generational math:

"The way my gramps told it, it almost sounded like they were locked in a dream. When asked what their motivations were—why they split into loyalists and traditionalists and fought each other—he said they had no idea. Why do you think that is?” the founder asked solemnly.
“Uh, maybe because their passion for freedom had cooled—”

“Wrong! It’s because of the Heretical God’s Child!”

So we’re going down this road again, huh? But I decided to keep my silence and listen to what he had to say.

“Have you heard of the Courtesan Beauty, Agrissa?

(Vol 1, Ch 5) (emphasis mine).

Novem’s memory is specifically about Basil, in comparison to Lyle.

I'm not sure this counts for much -- Novem seems to know things about all the feudal Walt heads and their (mis)deeds. She's seemingly knowledgable about the 5th's relationship with a Qilin, the 6th's bastard child in a village in the middle of nowhere (which is supported, I think, by the idea that the village was getting financial support while his kid was alive despite no Walt head knowing about it -- gotta be the Fuchs, right?), and the 7th's predilection for snapping to open up his Box space (as well as the arguably more-damning fact that the snapping is not actually necessary to open the holes). She also seems to be familiar with the 3rd's tendency to say "let's have fun with this" or something similar when jumping into things, since she's initially surprised that Lyle has picked that up.

it explains why the Walt family has Septem’s Jewel.

This one's already explained:

“Yes,” Novem affirmed. “The yellow Jewel Ceres holds is the same yellow Jewel that Lady Zenoah brought into House Walt.”

The seventh powerlessly agreed. “That’s right. Zenoah was looking after it. If everything went without incident, she was supposed to pass it down to Clare or Ceres, but...”

(Vol 7, "Ch 86" [9th chapter of that volume])

They didn't always have it, it was a late/recent addition.

Hope it doesn't feel like I'm ripping into you or anything, but once I noticed, I felt I had to point all this out.

I just caught onto this while writing this, but "Septem" and "Novem" are quite similar names. "Septem" derives (at least, in our world -- who know if it's the same diegetically) from the Latin "sept", meaning literally the number 7... which tracks, since that's apparently the name of the 7th Goddess.

If "Novem" is supposed to have the same kind of etymology (i.e. a Latin root modified with "-em"), "Nov" would either be the number 9 or relating to "new" (Latin "novus", from which modern English derives words like "novice" and "nova"). If I had to bet which of the two it is, I'd bet on the former, but really neither would surprise me.

As for whether it's supposed to have the same kind of etymology... I'd say it's almost certain if you consider this line we heard way back before we could parse its significance:

With the staff in hand, Gerald offered it to Novem. “Take this with you. It’s only one single staff. Even if the Walts do complain, we can easily make excuses. Besides, it’s only fitting that you have this. You have inherited the name Novem, after all...”

(Vol 1, Prologue) (emphasis mine)

(EDIT: added/fixed volume and chapter references)

Was just rereading the end of this...

I can just imagine after class is over and people flock to Makina's desk to ask questions and she straight up tells everyone "I owe my career to Yotsuba." and declines to elaborate.

Can't wait for volume 4, seeing how Yuna and Rinka handle this will be the highlight.

@seelang2 said in Cave King Vol. 2 Discussion!:

So I saw that Amazon has the LN to volume 5 in French, but there are still only 2 volumes available in English. Did JNC drop this series?

It's probably the manga? JNC manga 5 was released last Spring.

https://j-novel.club/series/a-cave-king-s-road-to-paradise-climbing-to-the-top-with-my-almighty-mining-skills-manga

@HarmlessDave Also do vaccines work properly on her? They didn't test them on elves.

@LeavesCat Thanks for jogging my poor ole' memory.

I've started to read the epub of Volume 2, and the Cat Speak is much better! Thank you for listening to the feedback.

The Afterword for Vol 12 was spot on! It would’ve spoilt the gimmick if read first.
The self-conscious monologue was funny too, in the sense that the author was aware of how steamy it went in this volume.

@wandering-dreamer said in The Trials and Tribulations of My Next Life as a Noblewoman Vol 2 Part 1 Discussion!:

Unrelated to the current discussion, I feel like the imperial princess must be Six’s “true” master, they both seem to have that same disdain for other people/being kind (but Six is better at hiding it).

They do have similarities. However, I wonder if it is the other way around. Six doesn't seem like he would like taking orders. What if Six is a mentor to the princess?