@myskaros Thank you so much! It's fixed now.

@yzh4rjdzob6 said in Adorable Dungeon Master Vol. 1 Discussion!:

so glad the jail scene ended the way it did. I just read through the comments and found out the "horror" tag was removed. I was getting nervous, JK Haru flashbacks, etc.

Ah, but the scene in JK Haru was so good! In that it was harrowing and deeply distressing in a way only good writing can evoke.

What's gonna happen next?
For one, see just how different the carnivorous kobolds are; that you wouldn't consider them the same species.
Which may not have much impact.

Kobolds grow fast, and have large litters.
It doesn't take that great a change in the quantity of fruits available to result in having no option but feed your youngest offspring meat.
That sets their food type.
And unless the meat sources dry up, the meat-eaters won't consider feeding their kids fruit.
...if meat becomes scarce, then you look for "meat that talks."
You go after the humans.
You go after the fruit eating kobolds as well.
Only once there really isn't enough meat do you feed your kids fruit.

Given kobold fertility, killing off all the kobolds in the area isn't a final solution; more will move into the area.
So Leen is on the right track.
Off the meat-eaters.
Adjust your practices so the fruiteaters don't end up in that situation again.
But that requires acknowledging that you share an ecosystem, that your actions lead to the current situation.

@Gamen it's a subversion that has now become common enough that it itself can be subverted.

Grimdark finally showed up.

@Geezer-Weasalopes Valtos did manage to get selected as a Hero.. eventually. Pretty sure there was absolutely no way Viteos could have.

Dead foes rarely cause more problems

Saints above! Now this is interesting. (Plus Krishna showed up after a long absence. Her directional inabilities are as keen as ever - lol. Hope we see more of her in this volume)

@Kurzaa said in Isekai Walking Vol. 4 Discussion!:

But was the demon eliminating loose ends or protecting Sora?

Given that Hikari correctly identified the man in black as being from the Kingdom, said man in black positively identified both Sora and Hikari, and was eliminated by the demon (Ignis?) as no longer being of any further use to him before he could report back to the Kingdom, I would say both, even if the later was an unintended result.

Oh more ancient promise people? Honestly makes me wonder how many more we will see since it did sound like there was aloooooot of different races back then and now that Dias has slowly established himself it seems they all now come together afain. Wonder if tvis Lizard the goblins saw is the one we met in the previous volume too

@LeavesCat I think that you nailed Touya's personality. Honest with his desires, but isn't overpowered by them.

Good thing Nell stopped them or the little girl gang might have come home to see Yuki and Lefi trying to make another new family member 😂

As usual Emillie you rly cant be stopped huh? At tvis point its impressive

Man the Mitsurugi clan is evil.

If the demonkin where actually connected to the demongod and posed an existential threat there would be no reason to keep that secret.

You know why you would keep their power secret? Because their control of anima is better than a humans. So if they knew, or were trained, they could be stronger than the Mitsurugi clan.

Hell, their entire existence seems to be motivated not by defending the world, but by claiming or destroying every potential rival to their supremacy.

Anyone that awakens their anima is recruited or hunted down, anyone that leaves with knowledge has their mouth sewn shut...

These guys are just plain evil. And even worse they are hypocritical to boot. They sell themselves out to the empire and send their shinsou users out for political maneuvers. Despite all their rules about not doing exactly that. I hope Sora gets the chance to kill his dad and cause some reform.

@Eternal-Wanderer I got the impression that Victoria somehow influenced where/when the Hourglass of Ancients sent El so she’d end up at the school. I suspect the plan is to frame El for something and use the existence of the Hourglass of the Ancients here to “prove” that the leader of the elder dragons sent her to do the thing she’s framed for, thus starting the war. Also, the plan doesn’t necessarily require actual knowledge of the future if part of the plan is to set things up later on so that the time travel happens (which would presumably make the greater vampires false allies of the elder dragons during the war).

I also got the feeling that Victoria is being coerced into helping with this plan. Interesting that she knows someone who’s “knowledgeable about time travel.” Is that someone involved with this plan, or someone else? In the latter case, could Victoria have her own plans involving time travel? We’ll have to see how serious she was about protecting students. I think Victoria could probably figure out a way to get the Hourglass of the Ancients back to El after it’s done being used for the plan she’s being coerced into helping with without arousing suspicion, since it’s supposedly one-use-only. (Though, I suppose that’s more a hope that the Hourglass of the Ancients isn’t actually single-use rather than an actual plan.)

On issue with the idea of this being a time loop is that this is from the first edition of the contest, where ongoing works didn’t have a separate category, so this volume needs to be able to stand on its own. That’s going be difficult to do if the time loop reveal happens this volume given the pacing so far. I would guess this volume will end with El befriending or dating the Blade Saint and thinking that means her clan will be safe.

@Lex Hot springs always are...especially if they are coed (heh, heh).

@George-Wang-a98vag7

You know, laying it out like that, her originally having four ears isn't that weird in comparison.
But I still don't like the extra pair of ears.

I really get tired of how much the attempted rape trope gets used..

So this was written first.

@ryandb That definitely would have been a better example of something that might be screwed up, the exact mix is for the clay is not commonly discussed and the process is not at all typical in European blacksmithing traditions, and likely not in others but I am less familiar. European blacksmiths would sometimes do differential tempering, but that is typically accomplished a bit differently, in axes by quenching just long enough to harden the edge but leaving some heat in the thicker area behind the edge, then pulling it out and letting heat travel from the thicker sections that cool slower travel down to the edge until it reaches the proper temper, then putting the whole thing back in the quench tank, and some early bladesmiths appear to have made differentially tempered swords by quenching the whole blade then placing hot pieces of metal along the center of the blade and letting the heat from them temper the center of the blade, if the hot metal is removed at just the right time the center will be soft and some of the heat will migrate from the center to the edges tempering them to a lesser degree, however this approach wasn't used often and uniform tempers were more common.