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PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm
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One weird question with the estate barrier. Couldn't the knight use the silver cloth to enter? I thought they stole some silver cloth.
Good point, the Dunkelfelger knights did steal some and used them to infiltrate the first ship. And the Lanzenavians that were cut down on land, would have left even more silver outfits behind, even if they might need some stiching.
Considering that it's incompatible with their regular battle doctrine, I can see why they wouldn't wear it by default, but they should have brought it along just in case anyway. Rozemyne would have had plenty of room for a couple of silver outfits, even in her single-person panda bus, if they didn't want bring small backpacks to put them into.
They did made a point of gathering the cloth so it seems like the perfect opportunity to use it. Maybe they couldn't use their highbeasts while holding it? It also seems like they could effectively use darkness based ranged attacks against Grausam. Or perhaps they could overwhelm Grausam's absorbing magic tools with massive amounts of mana like was used to break Dunkelfelger's shield or the darkness feystone Bezewanst used.
At first I wondered if the law only allowed a duchy attacked by black weapons to fight back with black weapons of their own, but not their allies... but then I remembered that Ferdinand and Eckhart are still officially Ehrenfest nobles, so any such contingency clause would apply to them...
Maybe the law against the use of black weapons against anything other than feybeasts and -plants doesn't have any exceptions, because the Zent at the time was naive enough to assume that no large group would dare defy the law so brazenly, that the defenders wouldn't have time to ask for permission from the royals. If that's the case, I can see why the allied forces would be reluctant to use black weapons out in the open, at least while they still had other options. Rozemyne and Matthias would attack from within the building, so their actions would be hidden from view far more than that of the knights attacking from the air, making them far easier to hide.
As for overloading the tool: With how Grausam has already drawn absorbed mana from his arm to shoot back at the attackers, overloading it would likely be a considerable effort and risk. So it's more of a last resort, if Rozemyne's sneak attack fails, rather than the first go-to thing to try, I would assume. They also have to make sure they don't completely exhaust themselves just to deal with the arm alone, or they'll be vulnerable to any other magic tools Grausam might be carrying. To assume he came only with his prosthetic arm and two packs of Lanzenave poison would be beyond naive, especially for someone so cautious it borders on paranoia, like Ferdinand.