Read Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore’s Fifth Year at the Royal Academy: Volume 1 Part 8
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Half a year after Yurgenschmidt inaugurated its first underage aub, Hannelore finds herself pressed to choose from a growing list of marriage candidates. Unsure how best to proceed, she turns to her dear friend Rozemyne for guidance.
  • No_Nick_NeededEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I kind of expected Wilfried to essentially become the next Bonifatius, i.e. remain in the noble’s quarter as both the next Knight’s Commander, and a backup archduke candidate, should someone need to fill in for the aub, while one of his siblings becomes the Aub and the other the High Bishop, and Henriette as the fourth child and young enough for the royal decree that forbids marrying out of Ehrenfest to run out, by the time she can marry, most likely going to be married into another duchy.

    I suppose I can see the arguments for becoming Giebe Gerlach, but with their numbers and especially their combined mana pool having diminished by Rozemyne and Ferdinand departing the duchy, can they really afford to turn Wilfried into an archnoble, and thus lock him out of supporting the foundation and all else that comes with being an archduke candidate?

    This seems especially odd, with them just having had a front-row seat and getting caught up in the whole mess of Ahrensbach - a greater duchy - falling apart in no small part due to their archducal family shrinking to a dangerously small size.

    This feels like Sylvester is being a bit naive and idealistic, prioritizing faction politics and emotions over partical issues again, like his refusal to take a second wife did for a far too long time. If Florencia’s latest daughter and one or two children from Brunhilde were already baptized, I’d fully understand it, but in this situation it’s rather iffy to me.

  • ludrolMAEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Hannalore pinning down Wilfred in a gazebo

    What a cliff hanger at the end. A big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff will happen.

    Is this the stuff that made Ferdinand go into Erhenfest?

    My guess that that it would be precognition type of magic as time travel seems very unlikely.

    • DeemoEnglish
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      14 hours ago

      Dumb question what is the star on Wilfred in the picture?

    • No_Nick_NeededEnglish
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      6 days ago

      If I had to make a guess, I’d say it’s more alike to someone being summoned to Erwaermen, either via the statue of Mestionora in the library or from between the statues of the gods in the chapel.

      It certainly doesn’t appear to have the invisibility and time-distortion effect of the large shrines, that left those outside unaware the zent candidate was gone for even a millisecond, which would have been the only other instance, where we’ve seen something roughly alike happen.

      Either way, since a prayer to a goddess caused this, I strongly suspect that a deity received the call and summoned her… but the question is, whether the god or goddess did it out of the kindness of their heart, or if they have a task for a mortal and Hannelore just happened to be the first one to stumble into qualifying.