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PrePub - Ascendance of a Bookworm

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Bookmyner to c/aobprepub
 

Last week's chapters began with Rozemyne and Matthias charging toward Grausam inside the giebe estate. After gaining the God of Darkness's blessing for their weapons and avoiding traps by flying over them in Lessy, they confront Grausam. Rozemyne enlarges Lessy to block Grausam's escape while Matthias and Grausam argue their own convictions. Grausam no longer considers Matthias his son and attacks him while physically enhanced. Rozemyne thinks about how she could best help and decides to bless Matthias. Rozemyne gradually grants Matthias the divine protections of nine gods. Grausam is angered as Matthias becomes even matched to himself and vows to kill Rozemyne. Rozemyne's mana is drained through Lessy by one of Grausam's attacks. Matthias's attacks reveals that much of Grausam's body has transformed into feystone. Grausam uses all his remaining mana to enhance his speed then charges Matthias, throwing him to the balcony. Grausam then drains the mana from the previous Giebe Gerlach's feystone. With Matthias safely out of range, Rozemyne uses her water gun to attack Grausam. As Grausam falls from the attack, he is able to touch Lessy with his prosthesis, draining Rozemyne's mana. Rozemyne panics and pours more mana into Lessy—enlarging it to ensure her safety. Rozemyne continues to flood Lessy with more mana than Grausam can drain causing his prosthetic hand to turn into gold dust. Meanwhile Ferdinand has taken over the foundation and is able to deactivate the estate's barrier. He then signals knights waiting outside and they break Grausam apart like a shattered feystone.

After the fight Rozemyne reunites with everyone and discovers Lessy has damaged the giebe's estate when growing large. She discusses what they should do next. She decides that a feast would be held in Bindewald for the Dunkelfelger knights while she, Ferdinand, Hannelore, and their retainers would go to Ehrenfest for a day to celebrate and inspect the city. Aub Ehrenfest arrives and teleports them to the city.

They arrive in Ehrenfest and are greeted by Charlotte and Florencia. Guest rooms and baths are prepared for them. Rozemyne lets Ferdinand stay in her library while she stays at the castle. Rozemyne meets with her retainers who stayed in Ehrenfest and they discuss what happened in the city. Both Grausam and Georgine were found to have body doubles. Sylvester confirmed that the real Georgine had been killed and the bible key was recovered. Rozemyne hears the tales of her knight's valor, Brigitte's assistance, the effectiveness of her shumil magic tools, and her Dad's contribution to the defense of the lower city.

What new developments do you predict will happen in this week's chapters?

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[–] the16bitgamer@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I have no guesses. I just want Han and Roz to spend time together. They both deserve a break

[–] Bookmyner 2 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure you'll get your wish. The victory feast should happen the next chapter. Then I'm guessing a tour of Ehrenfest while Rozemyne checks up on the temple and her personnel. Hoping there will be some kind of update about the Sovereignty. Also curious if Bonifatius stayed in the south or if he made it back to Ehrenfest during Georgine's invasion.

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