One of my favorite parts of this series is the attention to detail on the swordsmanship. The anime really nails it, but I've been trained on the techniques Beryl uses. Solid work on that aspect.

@JoeCrystal It's actually possible that since Japanese doesn't use gendered pronouns the way English does her gender might not even have been mentioned all the way back in volume 2.

Through no effort, the heroine gets a super genius spy as her henchman, and then every opponent super vulnerable to spying. This makes her victories feel not earned, but just handed to her by the author.

@kuali said in Housekeeping Mage Vol. 10 Discussion!:

Looks like Shiori and Alec inadvertently managed to convince the Snow Wolves that the solution to unwanted puppies was to just dump them on the nearest humans...

The Fenrir Distribution System.....

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for both timelines to reach their ending but we'll see. Anyway, now I'm tempted to stop reading the parts and wait until the volume is complete.

@arghc Yeah and iirc it was mentioned a few volumes back that "embroidering your name on someone else's undershirt" is seen as explicitly romantic in this kingdom, the interest seems to be genuine!

@Phabiohost my guess is, from experience with other novels: spells tend tobe eficiente by practice and contusión, hne wh enough the spell was more eficient than patching it up. Patching it up is nonstandard, but it is still the same result. Morphing the spell is more expensive because you no longer can rely on training and rqefinement, which means you rely on energy to pull you through.

I believe the usual triangle is: efficiency, speed, freeform. Spell praticd are quick and efficient. Rituals are slow, but free form and effiicient. Whatever Lera did was quick, and freeform, so not efficient.

Monsters tend to break the rules because "instincts" and "natural magical pathways", which is to say because they are monsters.

I do wish the novel had at explained explained this, if I am right, though. I have no memory if it ever did.

Grr, work was such a blur I wasn't able to read this until now. And, uh oh at that ending. Looking forward to the next volume indeed.

"As a villian, I wanted to win against them by making [monsters] edible."
Earlier... "It's so tasty, and every time I eat [monster meat], I feel like I have complete dominance over the creature! How evil!"

I'm pretty sure the win against monsters isn't your real motivations there.

The doctor held up his finger and started monologuing. [But I'm far more interested in the doctor's long and pale finger.]

...I wonder if there's a relevant euphemism for that. Given humanity, I wouldn't be surprised, but do I really want to know...

It shouldn't be surprising, but I'm still somehow surprised that the doctor is dedicated to Mistress Lettie just like the rest of her territory's citizens.

I'd love some land about half the size of the whole country.

Honestly, I'm not sure how Weiss would expand her land as king. By expanding into the wildlands or marrying her. Probably both. In any case, she'll have more territory to govern and she'll want to take back everything she said just now.

Even his punches explodes?!

A baseball can too! If it's traveling a significant fraction of c...

@Mark-Logue I remember 2 of your suggestions from the wn MTL. Author has just started updating again

Yeah, I kinda saw the whole griffon rider thing coming from a mile away.

So one main couple wasn't enough and now we got also Sage Raid and the demon lord.
I wasn't ready to say goodbye to Raid and Eluria and apparently neither the author since we are getting a new arc and a new villain.

Tory is a real one for taking the fall to save lives. She truly embodies the spirit of a medic.

Hopefully our runaway gets to see the error in her ways and subjects herself to endurance training anyways because it's 100% an essential skill in their line of work.

It was a good volume but I'm worried about all the ominous things the author is bringing out. First the corpse king gains power when his friends are killed and now his companions sap away his lifespan...I really hope this won't end in tragedy.

Looks like the young chefs of The Forest's Edge have another big event to present. Asuta sure is keeping them busy. But no one is complaining, so it seems that is indeed a good thing.

I wonder how Akira will react to Miasma now that Black's power/protection has left him. Maybe we will get to see Red's power or the rejuvenation water's power.
I expect this fight to be spectacular either way.
Isn't Rindo house's son that immature idiot? He is supposed to be stationed at a critical point? I wonder if his baby sitter friend will accompany him.
Sorry I am finding it difficult to keep track of the names in this weekly pre-pub setting.

The terrifying power of the swaying commoner, a terrifying setup that even the lesser nobles dare not tread.

Wonder what Leonard wants

Heroine? Saint? No, I'm an All-Works Maid (and Proud of It)!

Wait, that's a different light novel that already exists

@Arcene I think they will start streaming volume 7 soon because they likely licensed both together. Volume 7 is the conclusion of this arc and was released ages ago.

Author is still working on volume 8 and he's on hiatus for more than one month with the WN to focus on it. Soon we will get more news.

This week's part is too short. Maybe the boy will hear Misha's whistles and help find her.
I guess this was a good stopping point. We can't stop in the middle of info exchange between Gary and Ryne.

Interesting that Ren has "enhanced" intelligence with some help from Ryne.