@anony-mouse99

Yes, I prefer reading this series in the ebooks rather than the updates each week. I think it is a better experience.

@alahue We're taking a scheduled streaming break this week. I Surrendered My Sword for a New Life as a Mage: Volume 6 returns with part 8 on Tuesday, February 27th!

So just looking at the stat data over time in book 1, deciding if I wanted to make something like @Geezer-Weasalopes was talking about and I noticed that when Keigo reduced his STR after hitting 100, his HP did not go down. So HP is calculated on assigned points, not just active points. The same applies for the MP after reducing stats that affect that.

now on book 4, when Keigo steps on the SMD-PRO before Cathy does, his HP and MP show correct values based on the coefficients that Keigo discovered back in book 1. Since the original scanner only picked up 6 points, we can assume that the SMD models only pick up the 6 stats and the software calculates the HP and MP based on those 6 stats.

Wonder how much better this can get after the NYC meetup and Miyoshi gets ALL.THE.DATA.

Speaking of all the data... here is every stat block in the books so far. ChatGPT can build something for this pretty quick. I guess I'll look at putting something together. The last 4 should say evening. I already fixed it, but after my screenshot.
id_types: 1- Making, 2- Appraisal, 3- SMD
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@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter Vol. 11 Discussion!:

@Windsagio
It does seem awful convenient that his wife came down with a mysterious ailment that keeps her effectively catatonic and the Church of the Holy Spirit could convince him they could heal her...for a price.
And he's willing to die in the process of paying it.

Bets they caused it? Bets they don't bother with a cure if he's already dead?

I'm not in the habit of taking suckers' bets unless I'm on the winning side. That being said...

these Apostles are getting more and more tiresome. Their devotion to the Ain't is growing equally tiresome. Methinks they need a stiletto shoved through her spinal cord — but not through their trachea, they still need to be able to ask "why" in the few seconds of consciousness before they collapse.

And this "Io" is hardly any better. Methinks he needs to meet the Duchess Emerita and get a stern talking-to... as does her former ally, Crescent "I'll Become A Vampire And Side With My Master's Greatest Enemy" Moon.

@kuali said in The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 10 Discussion!:

Can't remember what the in-universe expected marriage age is, but even so, there's got to be some kind of middle age between teenager and ancient...

What, in a light novel? No way. You go from highschooler straight to spinster.

@LeavesCat said in The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 10 Discussion!:

or he's a chaos serpent

Crossover alert! :D

I think I will go mad if i read i am just an old man one more time

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in Private Tutor Vol. 5 Discussion!:

@afdsfafa said in Private Tutor Vol. 5 Discussion!:

@Gamen said in Private Tutor Vol. 5 Discussion!:

So there's a few possibilities.
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3. Everyone in the story is an alien. ...

My pet theory is that Allen is an "Alien", and he has some bizarre auto-charm field he isn't aware of.

I'll go along with his not being Human.
Or no more 'human' than the Personages of Mass Destruction he's tutoring.
An orphan of unknown parentage; what is his birth family background anyway?!

He's the Dragon Reborn. Works on many levels both literal and figurative. Not human(dragon!!!). World Savior. Master of magic. Someone important in a previous life(maybe) and possibly more. Heck, even the harem with a clear girlfriend(;Min/Lydia best girls).

@Crimson-Wise

spoiler

Edit; Taking my own advice about spoiler tags, since my answer is kind of a give away.

One thing I like about this series is that reading it gives me similar vibes to Misfit of demon king academy. It's not as good as the latter, but still makes for a nice read. I hope it will reach a proper ending and it won't be abandoned by the author.

@Lex said in The Misfit of Demon King Academy Vol. 6 Discussion!:

Arcana was actually the Goddess of Absurdity, and her being Anos' little sister was not her past but her wish, that now has been granted. That still leaves Militia's and Abernyu's role unclear...material for the next volume, I guess.

The Goddess of Absurdity combines creation and destruction, and Arcana still has lost her memory at least once.

I still think that Sasha and Misha are also parts of the Goddesses, a side effect of the massive number of sheningans that got said goddesses freed.

(Note it's still left implied that Anos didn't really beat Abernyu but rather convinced her)

Some thoughts I had on reading this volume:

I guess Shuugo was not cute enough to put on the cover? Even though the synopsis seems to feature both him and Yanagi?

The author really went all in on the HH names for the organisation, Hearts.

Toki Shuugo’s chapter
- Was he really compared to a mercenary? His attitude seems more like that of a soldier, particularly one of the low-ranking ones. At least, that’s what the description made me think of. A mercenary would have more initiative in my opinion. After all, a mercenary fights for his own benefit and profit.
- Reading further along in the novel, I can see the mercenary analogy but I'll leave the thought here to generate discussion (or not?).

Happa’s power: how far can she exhale? Or is it that as long as the air went through her lungs, she can control it no matter how far away from her it is? Does rain mess with her powers because she can no longer see her ‘breath stream’?

@saidahgilbert Oooh—if you came for the supernatural powers, then look forward to the next volume! I think it'll satisfy that desire quite nicely

Ok, by the end of the volume, I can sorta see why some people like Snow. She's kinda went from "annoyingly pathetic" to "adorably pathetic" to me by the end, especially with that end-of-volume illustration (in the full volume, not in the part releases).

Lastiara is still my favorite though. As @Windsagio said, Reaper might actually be the most 'normal' of the group. But, as crazy as Lastiara is, I think she's actually the most mentally stable one, including Kanami. From how she had to step up to take care of Dia after Sieg lost his memories to how she continues to troll the other characters no matter the situation they're in—she's kind of unflappable at this point.

She's stable in the sense that she doesn't change. Her baseline of craziness and love of theatrics remains constant. Or perhaps it sounds better to say she's the most resilient? I kinda get the feeling that if (or rather, given this series, when) something traumatic happens to the team, she'll be the one keeping it together.

We'll see. I'm not reading the part releases, so for all I know I've already been proven wrong in the first 4 parts of Volume 7 that have been released by now.

@Rahul-Balaggan all good thanks yeah I knew the most recent book was released in December so I was hoping it wasn’t too far off for us.

Thank you for the prompt reply though.

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