Our story continued last week with Rozemyne and Ferdinand setting out to stop the Lanzenave ships and rescue the captured nobles. They first attack a ship that is still at the port and is under assault by Ahrensbach commoners. Rozemyne heals the injured commoners and provides the surrounding citizens the aub’s protection. Dunkelfelger knights then blind and sweep the Lanzenavians into the sea with magic tools and a large scale waschen. Hannelore and two squads of knights remain to rescue hostages and retrieve feystones while everyone else continues to the next ship.
The next ship they reach is subjugated by infiltrating Dunkelfelgerians. Two more squads are sent to assist with the hostages and feystones. The rest head toward the remaining two ships which are approaching the country gate. One ship prepares to teleport by changing its silver tiles to black. At that moment Rozemyne gives the aub’s protection to those onboard. Then Ahrensbach and Dunkelfelger knights unleash a coordinated mana attack and destroy the ship. The protected Ahrensbach citizens are then rescued. The remaining ship launches a volley attack and remains covered in silver. Unable to use mana against it, Rozemyne and Ferdinand discuss how to deal with it. It is decided that Ferdinand will modify the magic circle used for summoning spring to instead summon winter and Rozemyne’s retainers will use Ewigeliebe’s sword to freeze the ship.
Rozemyne uses five feystones to activate the magic circle summoning winter surrounding the ship. Cornelius, Matthias, Laurenz, and Hartmut wield Ewigeliebe’s sword—summoning at least seventy winter subordinates that freeze the ship and water surrounding it. Four Dunkelfelger knights summon Leidenschaft’s spear and attack the frozen ship. The heat of Leidenschaft’s spear causes the silver metal to contract causing a breach in the ship’s defenses. Rozemyne is then able to provide the aub’s protection to the captured nobles onboard. Eckhart makes an opening in the bow of the ship allowing Dunkelfelger’s knights to infiltrate. Letizia is rescued and Rozemyne decides to treat her with forgiveness and generosity.
Letizia is tasked with preparing somewhere for everyone to rest while Rozemyne and Ferdinand go to close the country gate. Ferdinand proposes four different options for Rozemyne’s future. Rozemyne decides she does not want a nightmarish marriage to Sigiswald or to rule Yurgenschmidt. Since Rozemyne feels she can not return to live in Ehrenfest, she determines it would be best to give the magic tool Grutrissheit to the royal family and remain as Aub Ahrensbach.
It’s been a long day for everyone and it’s not over yet. What do you predict will happen in this week’s chapters?
That would be a bit risky, depending on what exactly you mean. Presumably Georgine has a full invasion force ready, while the force Rozemyne took to the capital is a small infiltration force. So I think waiting for Georgine to launch her attack and only then attacking her open rear for a decapitation strike would be more sensible than a pre-emptive assault.
There’s also the fact that Georgine most likely expects their silver equipment to be a total surprise for Ehrenfest, but them being prepared for it, so there is a good chance Georgine’s army will be thrown into confusion, when their “surefire” tools don’t work after all, making it an even more perfect moment to hit them from an unexpected angle, since it’ll slow any response they could throw up, even more.