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Ascendance of a Bookworm
Honzuki no Gekokujou
『本好きの下剋上』

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Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy: Volume 1 Part 1 (j-novel.club)

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[–] No_Nick_Needed 3 points 18 hours ago

What I wonder is, what'll happen to Ehrenfest's rank. They were locked in place for one year, when they would have gone up from their efforts, if Sylvester hadn't negotiated to avoid that. But now, there are two new places created above them. So does that mean they went down 2 spots, or that they held their spot, with the two ahead of them being put below them?

Even if you put all of Rozemyne's actions to Alexandria, Ehrenfest still lent support to the defense of the Royal Academy, so if they were allowed to keep their rank and have two other duchies pushed below them, nobody could really complain (too much), what with even Klassenberg falling lower and Dunkelfelger also being rewarded for what they did in the invasion... but would Sylvester want that?

Wait... Ehrenfest was #8 before... so if they held their place and Alexandria just inherited Ahrensbach's place, plus push down from the two new duchies, Alexandria would be one spot behind Ehrenfest...

Anyway, Alexandria has a lot of kudos to coast on for defeating the traitor duchy Alexandria, at the side of Dunkelfelger and Ehrenfest and the return to the country's religious roots, thanks to Rozemyne. Plus having a Grutrissheit (well, technically a full one and another one with 60ish %, but that's under wraps) would surely make a good justification for a higher rank too.

But on the downside, Ahrensbach coasted on the imports from Lanzenave for a long time now, which is a thing of the past with the country gate closed and never going to be reopened to Lanzenave. Maybe it'll be reconnected to a new area, but that would mean having to build relations with the locals, or forming farming/harvesting camps if it's uninhabited, which will take time to have any effect on Alexandria's economy.

But then again, Rozemyne revitalized both the land and ocean, meaning that their agriculture and fishing industry will soar to levels that haven't been seen since the civil war, or maybe even beyond that. And while the printing industry will take some time to fully take off, they'll surely be able to get at least one printing workshop up and running in pretty short order, which means that they are one of only two duchies with printing... though for a little while they'll be playing catch-up with Ehrenfest's numerous established workshops.

So many unknowns...