Vesper sounds like he's having a real identity crisis, and will probably end up being a nuisance to Aurora/Lam just like her three apprentices.

This reminded me of the old SNL "Samurai Futaba" skits played by John Belushi (stupid but funny).

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Multiple argent knights would explain the story discrepancies.

?? The more i see Karina interact with Siesta the more i think wow Leona back in LDM would love this wouldnt she

@HarmlessDave
Maybe they'll pay a bit more attention to level 8s now.

It's strange to see them so friendly to Krai now after all their standoffishness.

Unrelatedly, I'm tickled that Tino is doing so well with the intelligent relics. She's my favorite ship with Krai and I giggle thinking of her bossing all the relics in their collection.

Pretty dark history with Joshua there, explains why he doesnt want to be called master by him and lets the others still call him master.

I have a feeling he will need to be dealt with soon, likely he will come and do something terrible.

Just caught up, everyone agrees we're in alternate Wales, right? Based on the words for the months, at the very least. And the Beavers are obviously Scots who have come down from the North given their use of Scottish Gaelic for runes.

I know there are at least two myths of sunken kingdoms there, such as Cantre'r Gwaelod. The "raising of the land" could also be raising Doggerland (which might include Britain and Ireland in this timeline), in which case we're in Wales-but-connected-to-mainland-Europe.

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Isn't Ado the one who shouted "this will be easy"? That set the flag if you ask me.

Just wait until he finds the chill rowdy events

@endoftheline yeah, building a labyrinth above ground was a little disappointing when you literally are friends with a dungeon master who would love to play with 5 thousand individuals worth of dungeon points.

@chibiacer actually, I was thinking the condition to awaken the hero might have been visiting the world tree...which just happens to be located in Altair, which Sora coincidentally just entered at the same time as the interlude.

@lovelight
I’m DONE with this story, I dislike Amur so much that I might as well talk a bit about the rest.
I enjoyed the first few volumes. The pace of the story was fine and enjoyable. I cried the first vol I thought man I found a good one this time…

I didnt like the multiple love interests thing. Mainly cuz the said love interests were all just them forcing themselves to be one, in a way it was very one sided. I do believe he cares for them however he doesn’t show much romantic affection towards any which I liked since it wouldn’t make any sense for him to have had been interested in multiple girls at the same time.
The types of personalities these female characters have are mostly annoying making it hard to finish reading.
I did enjoy all the adventures, accomplishments, and reactions those around him had.
However having annoying female characters pop in every now and then was not enjoyable. Had they had different personalities I probably would’ve enjoyed their shenanigans but no.
The 3 female cat siblings are extremely pushy and childish which is acceptable for their age but annoying cuz it’s 3 vs 1. Primera is honestly the most likable one but rarely seems to make an effort to be his love interest which isn’t bad but she’s like nowhere to be found. Princess Luna for some reason I can’t see her being romantic with him she’s like a younger sister, yet I enjoyed her the most out of all of them she was fun to read about. The two maid slaves are annoying in the way that their always hinting at the fact that their open to him specifically aura but like can’t you just not be a love interest and instead just be a good friend/slave/maid. When they were left behind at the capital while Tenma went back to conquer the dungeon(doesn’t seem like there’s not much dungeon stuff actually happening tho) I was ecstatic. Amur is the one I hated the most. I liked her in the tournament. When the kiss happen I was like nice move but then it went downhill. She went from mysteries to badass to clingy/pushy/annoying so fast that I can’t read any more of this.
Amur irritates the heck out of me, to the point that I was reminded she comes up in the upcoming volumes art cover so I decided to read the discussion for those said volumes turns out he heads to her hometown like nah she’s like a piece of gum that doesn’t wanna come off the bottom of your shoe. Why couldn’t she just not been involved. I don’t wanna read any more of her. I honestly would take the maids or the 3 cats over this tiger girl. It’s like the maid slaves and 3 cat girls are combined into one Amur. I was about to let it go when we found out the backstory to her armor but no cuz the backstory ain’t ever gonna change this characters personality. she’s irritating I can’t any more.
it seems the story over all is being prolonged. I was looking forward to an academy arc but the ml was like not doing that so as a reader I was like okay I can get behind whatever other interesting thing that’s bound to happen, but it seems it’s just the same side quest/plot repeating itself but with different opponents to fight against.
Nonetheless although I doubt this is ever going to be read and if it does I’m sure you whomever is reading isn’t going to care, yet thank you to whoever wrote this story although I dislike the repetitive female characteristics that some of the characters had, the story isn’t that bad. The first vol was good, I like the vol where he reunited with his gramps and the village people, would have loved to had seen more interactions with the royal family specially the king. I liked the 3 male characters whom gave him a tour of the academy they seemed like fun I hope for other readers they get to read more about their interactions with tenma. The crest scene and the koi guy being mad he wasn’t in it was fun. I enjoyed the gods convos with tenma along with other creations that tenma made like his carriage with a bathtub and the horse thingy that got damaged in this part 4 of vol 7. Aside from that I saw the covers for the recent vol hopefully he does marry primera and I had hoped to see more of her in the story. So I’m glad there’s gonna be more primers content cuz that’s definitely something that’s needed I also hope princess luna and tenma develop some feelings cuz her character is so funny I could only hope she becomes a second wife or something. But I doubt that’s gonna happen idk. Glad I read as much as I did and I’m also glad I won’t ever have to read about Amur again since I’m dropping this story. I would’ve enjoyed her more had she started developing feelings for one of the 3 male characters from the capital but oh well I ain’t gonna read about her no more so I’m relieved that I can just make this stuff up in my head and be happy with it.

Last but not least Amur you’re so annoying it irritates me to the point I might get a headache, reading about you was a pain I kept checking how many more parts there was to the vol it felt never ending that I decided I had the free will to just end it ( part 4 volume 7 was my breaking point) and make up an ending for myself. I feel relieved and happy cuz Amur is a fictional character hahaha…ahhhhh! so annoying that I had to write about it. Glad I had the money to get the membership and write my thoughts thank you. Maybe someday I might come back and skip vol 7 & 8 & 9 and just start at 10 but not for now.

@Kurzaa said in To Another World... with Land Mines! Vol. 12 Discussion!:

@grobinson2k1 another reincarnator? That could still be interesting. Doubt the class is the first group brought over by our evil-god.

Well we have 6 completely unaccounted for classmates right now. I don't really want the author to get into even more...
https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/8168/land-mines-class-roster-spoilerific/1

All right, here's what we know so far:

We know that the Queen, Raph's mom, is sick enough that she died in the previous go-around. We know that the Portanians are attempting a hostile takeover, which requires Ork to be on the throne so they can bully him into being a pawn. We also know that the Portanian plan requires he have both a useless queen consort (Pia) and a useless court (i.e., only those sycophants who kidnapped Coco that one time). Saravia does not want her original country's plan to succeed, because she hates them and their sexist country. Luna wants to marry Ork for love. The Queen wants Luna to marry Raph for factional consolidation. Luna's shadow isn't stopping these incidents, and Luna herself seems unwilling to accept help. Pia is almost certainly Gob's pawn, and is trying to paint Coco in a horrible light.

So here's my thought. Luna is too scared of the Queen to overtly oppose her, since she has to rely on her father for protection — and her father is probably in Her Majesty's pocket. The Queen thinks Saravia is supporting the Portanian plan because she's from Portania, unaware that Saravia despises her homeland and would rather see them burn than succeed. Thus, she's leaning on her shadow that if Luna isn't going to withdraw her name from Orkhart's consideration, she's going to make her by making her life a living hell.

Pia is plotting all sorts of things, and Luna's Shadow is using some kind of Shadow Magic (as we know Shadow has access to some kind of magical powers, so we can assume that the one assigned to Luna probably has similar powers, if not greater ones from her being the one chosen by the Queen herself) to disguise what Pia's doing. The Queen doesn't recognize Pia as part of Gob's plot, because Pia is a born citizen of Cheriotte, and should therefore want to support her own country.

Gob knows that the Queen wants Luna to marry the Prince, and figures if he can get Luna killed, and take Coco for himself, he can get the Portanian plan to go off without a hitch.

In essence, Luna's being targeted by three different people with three different goals who all see her love of Ork as an impediment to their success (she's too close to the wrong prince for the Queen, she's too close to Ork for Pia, and she's too competent for Gob).

EDIT: Forgot Tear was Phiss's sister, not Luna. Edited to remove that detail.

A herd of angry sheep is coming, what can we do?

Use fire, make barbed wire, turn the ground into a cattle grid, use fire, turn the ground into a sticky swamp, use paralytic drugs, or, you know, use fire! Sheep are flammable and fire is self-spreading! You can use hit and run tactics to thin their numbers in relative safety, goddammit!

"Silence, Knight Commander."
"Sir, but..."
"She just said she can reach the entire capital with her unbeatable magic that is strong enough to kill wyverns as a side-effect. Please don't antagonize the Invited without a good reason."

@LightningLeaf said in Scooped Up by an S-Rank Adventurer! Vol. 1 Discussion!:

So Merlin deliberately destroyed Lloyd's self esteem. That's more of an explanation than we usually get. Not as useful as telling him about her prideful mistake and letting him deal with the world in a realistic fashion.

Like bumpkin swordmaster’s dad did to him by pretending to still be stronger, though that was out of toxic pride.

Yup. Poor guys got slapped around by the party leader's wife. But, they git a good meal out if it so it's not a total loss.

@kuali said in Even Exiled, She’s Still the Beloved Saint! St. Evelyn’s Weird and Wonderful Friends Vol. 1 Discussion!:

@Ingraman Checking bookwalker tells me that @zeji13 is correct - the author did, indeed, write two more books after the afterword that says they'd finished the story.

From what I've seen of this author's work, those next two books will have an iffy plot and a long list of absurdities. But on the plus side, it's unlikely that Cecily's mother will cross over to this series, so it might still be readable!

This author also wrote that series? I wanted more Evelyn... but this doesn't bode well.

Professional authors take 10 days to write a volume, ehh. Something you want to talk about author? :)