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 f

Volume 9 began last week with a prologue following Grausam. After being delayed with dismantling traps set by Bonifatius, Grausam retrieved some traps and magic tools and made his way to Gerlach's estate. Using a magic tool that changes color, he and Georgine are able to communicate their status without sending an ordonnanz. Grausam and a devouring soldier easily dispatch the guards at the back of the estate. Grausam uses silver cloth to pass through the estate's barrier and proceeds to take the foundation. He then strengthens the barrier preventing any but him, his relatives, and the archducal family from entering the estate. He spies on the previous Giebe Gerlach, overhearing defensive plans. After the giebe is thought to be left alone, Grausam captures him and uses a potion to make him mute—allowing ordonnanzes to still reach him, but is unable to reply. Grausam dispatches all others that see him and reflects on how well his and Georgine's plans are progressing.

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The volume concluded last week beginning with a chapter from Effa's point of view. Kamil relays a message from Benno to evacuate along with Rozemyne's other personnel. After packing luggage, they take a carriage to the Noble's Quarter. Here Effa gets to see for the first time where Myne and the other nobles live. She is perplexed by the notion of a library being a house for books. Her expectations of being able to meet with her daughter are dashed when she finds out Myne is leading a platoon of knights on the front lines. Concerned for Gunther's safety, Effa, Tuuli, and Kamil give their protection charms to Damuel to be given to Gunther who is defending the west gate. Effa gladly accepts Corrina's request to help in finishing Rozemyne's clothes.

The next chapter was from Gunther's perspective. We find out that he has been demoted to a captain in preparation for his departure. He is tasked with preparing barrels of excrement to be dropped on the invading nobles. He and his fellow guard

The first side story from last week was from Brigitte's perspective. We saw how Illgner received message of an impending invasion and how they increased their defenses. Upon inspecting an anomaly in the mountainous terrain, Brigitte and the knights of Illgner discover people dressed in Ahrensbach capes using black weapons and chalices to drain the land of mana. They decide to retreat and send ordonnanzes requesting aid from the Ehrenfest knight's order. Bonifatius replies that they will teleport reinforcements to Illgner and then they arrive shortly after. They share intelligence and plan to retrieve the chalices containing their province's mana. Bonifatius topples trees onto enemy forces in a landslide preventing their retreat. The remaining enemy forces scatter and Bonifatius is forced to assist to Griebel the next day. Brigitte receives report of suspicious individuals boarding a vessel to Ehrenfest. She attempts to contact Rozemyne, Cornelius, and Angelica only to have her ordonnan

The story continued last week with Ferdinand tempting Rozemyne with promises of fish, her dream of a library city, and time with her lower-city family. This would be in exchange for Rozemyne remaining Aub Ahrensbach and building Ferdinand his dream research paradise where he would publish material for new books. Ferdinand then closes the country gate using a magic circle combined from both his and Rozemyne's Book of Mestionora. Rozemyne then closes the border gate and they return to the castle. Ferdinand prescribes a double dose of potion for Rozemyne who rests inside Lessy.

Rozemyne wakes up to find that two days have passed and Ferdinand has left with Dunkelfelger's impatient knights to join the battle against Georgine. Rozemyne is attended to by Fairseele and after being dressed she joins Hannelore and Letizia for a meal. They discuss what Rozemyne missed while she slept and Hannelore says that she will follow Rozemyne into battle. After receiving direction via ordonnanz from Ferdi

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

Last week continued with Rozemyne's rescue efforts. She used potions to heal Ferdinand, but Ferdinand assumed he was being poisoned by his signature ultra-nasty rejuvenation potion and attacked Rozemyne on reflex. A confounded Ferdinand questions the joyous Rozemyne's decision to rescue him. Rozemyne reminds Ferdinand of her vow that she would defy even greater duchies, the Sovereignty, the royal family, and the gods to save him.

Rozemyne finds out that her tablet form of the Book of Mestionora is perhaps less convenient than the traditional form. She does however astound Ferdinand with her copy-and-paste ability which she uses to remove Ferdinand's schtappe sealing bracelets. They discuss Ehrenfest's preparations against Georgine, what Rozemyne's Geduldh is, as well as her future plans to join the royal family and marry Prince Sigiswald. Rozemyne then returns Ferdinand's name stone.

Rozemyne attempts to quell the rage of the awakened Lord of Evil's desire for revenge against Ahrensb

Last week began with Rozemyne departing for her rescue mission after waking from a nap. Using rediscovered knowledge from the book of Mestionora, Rozemyne, her retainers, Justus, and Eckhart were able to teleport from the Knight's Order training grounds to Kirnberger with Sylvester's assistance. She then forms her Grutrissheit—much to the surprise of those present—and activates the teleportation room within the country gate. Rozemyne receives a necklace charm given to Sylvester from Prince Sigiswald—proof that Rozemyne is acting with the royal family's permission. She then activates the teleportation circle. Destination: Dunkelfelger's country gate.

Rozemyne meets with the Dunkelfelger archducal family, including Hannelore who will join the fight to clear her disgrace from the bride-taking ditter match. After discussing their invasion plan, Rozemyne joins Dunkelfeger in performing their prefight ritual. They then teleport to Ahrensbach's country gate.

Despite anticipating resistance

We started part 5 volume 8 with a prologue following Justus. We saw his perspective as Letizia returned his name swearing stone and was told to go. We saw how Justus and Eckhart were able to escape Ahrensbach and make it to Ehrenfest's tea party room at the Royal Academy. There we witnessed Eckhart and Justus's loss of hope and their conviction to follow their lord in death after exacting revenge on the Ahrensbach archducal family. However after meeting with Sylvester and learning of Rozemyne's plan to rescue Ferdinand, their hope is restored. They promise to save Ferdinand no matter what.

In the following chapter we see Rozemyne gathering her retainers to inform them of her impending invasion of Ahrensbach to steal their foundation. She directs various tasks for her retainers to complete and decides who will join her and who will stay in support of Ehrenfest. Rozemyne's own preparations include copying and pasting maps and magic circles from her Grutrissheit. A reunion with Justus an

Last week's conclusion of part 5 volume 7 began with a side story following Charlotte when she learns of Rozemyne's disappearance after the Dedication Ritual. We see how Charlotte deals with an excitable Hartmut, an impatient Hirschur, Prince Sigiswald, the Ehrenfest dormitory, and the eventual return of Rozemyne.

The concluding short story is from Leonzio's point of view after the epilogue takes place. We learn of his future plans for Letizia, his relative inexperience with magic, his desire to end the farcical relationship with Detlinde, his desire for power, plans to hunt the nobles siding with Letizia, the three main houses of Lanzenave and their princesses, future plans for Alstede, Blasius, and their daughter, the teleporter between the Lanzenave Estate and the old Adalgisa villa—now remodeled as Rozemyne's future villa, and the relationship between Lanzenave's King Gervasio and Raublut.

This week begins a new volume and a return to the main story. Who do you predict we will fo

Last week began with the epilogue from Letizia's point of view. We learn that Lanzenave has arrived a season earlier than usual in Ahrensbach and Ferdinand has been busy with Spring Prayer. After Letizia's retainer Roswitha mysteriously disappears, she seeks Ferdinand's help to find her. On her way to meet Ferdinand, Letizia is given strange tasting sweets and a silver tube—which Leonzio suggests she use when consulting with Ferdinand. Ferdinand tells Letizia that Roswitha is missing as part of a an obvious trap and to give up on finding her. Letizia has blurred thoughts of using the silver tube to convince Ferdinand to save her. The silver tube burst with a cloud of white powder that poisons Ferdinand. Ferdinand gives Letizia name-swearing stones to give to Justus and tells them to go. Leonzio and Detlinde later show up to falsely accuse Letizia of murder. Leonzio uses another silver tube to eliminate the guards protecting Letizia. Detlinde details her plans to send Letizia to Lanzen

Last week began with Rozemyne performing the spring baptism ceremony for the lower city's new seven year olds, including her brother Kamil. Rozemyne has a chance to see her lower city family and Lutz after the ceremony has completed.

Rozemyne is summoned to an archducal family meeting to discuss Ehrenfest's defenses. She is not assigned a particular defensive duty due to the necessity of her leaving for the Sovereignty in the near future.

During the meeting Rozemyne has a vision of Ferdinand being poisoned and paralyzed at Ahrensbach's Mana Replenishment hall in a plot of Georgine's design. The rainbow feystone charm that Rozemyne gave Ferdinand is helping to protect him, but Detlinde puts schtappe sealing bracelets on him and forces his mana to drain into the foundation.

Rozemyne is adamant about saving Ferdinand before all his mana is drained and convinces Sylvester to provide his support. They use the magic tool given to Aubs to have an emergency meeting with Aub Dunkelfelger. R

Last week began with Rozemyne being measured for new clothes. The seamstresses present who knew her—Tuuli included—were shocked to see how much she had changed. She pledges to protect Tuuli no matter what happens.

Rozemyne meets with Sylvester and explains that their bible key was swapped for Ahrensbach's. They consider their options for protecting Ehrenfest and formulate strategies to that end.

At Hartmut's suggestion, Rozemyne decides to involve the archducal retainers for preparation of rejuvenation potions and magic tools. While in her hidden room, Rozemyne discovers the name stone of Quinta. With the assistance of Hartmut, Clarissa, and Lieseleta, Rozemyne creates three new combat ready shumils using Adrett—a library shumil created by Hirschur and Ferdinand during the last term—as a reference.

What new developments do you predict will occur this week?

Last week began with Rozemyne arranging for her retainers to come get her from the Farthest Hall. She postponed discussing her absence with the royal family until the Archduke Conference. Rozemyne discovered that she had missed the rest of the school year and the feast celebrating spring had just taken place.

Upon returning to Ehrenfest, Rozemyne meets with Sylvester to inform him how Georgine could take Ehrenfest's foundation using the temple's bible key. Sylvester believes that Georgine will make her move during Spring Prayer.

Rozemyne returns to the temple to investigate her bible's key. While there she sends Damuel and Angelica to gather information and inform the lower city guard. Matthias and Bonifatius are also sent to check for signs of activity in Gerlach. Rozemyne determines that the key to her bible is in fact Ahrensbach's bible key and was swapped when Viscountess Dahldolf invaded the temple. Rozemyne plans to immediately report her findings to Sylvester.

Will Rozemyne's

Last week started with the dedication ritual for archnobles and archduke candidates. Gentiane and Rozemyne decided the joint research would focus on revival of old religious ceremonies. During the ritual light arose from the statues of the gods. Rozemyne received permission from the Zent to use some of the gatered mana for the library. On the way to the library she notices the magic circle in the sky is now shining. After providing mana to the library's foundation, Schwartz and Weiss urge Rozemyne to provide mana to the statue of Mestionora. While supplying mana to the statue, a magic circle appears in her mind after which she finds herself in darkness.

Upon lighting the room with her mana, Rozemyne finds herself in an illusion of her greatest desire: being surrounded by books. She meets a golden shumil who leads her to the Garden of Beginnings where she meets 'Gramps'. Gramps mistakes her for someone else and believes her to be cursed due to her small vessel size. Anwachs—the God of

Last week started with the advancement ceremony and the fellowship gatherings. Hildebrand is once again overseeing the academy this year. We are introduced to Lady Gentiane, a new first year archduke candidate from Klassenberg. Murrenreue of Immerdink confronts Rozemyne on rumors of her joining the Sovereign Temple, but is rebuffed. The Dedication Ritual is decided to take place on Earthdays starting with the archnobles and archduke candidates.

Classes begin at the Royal Academy and once again Ehrenfest does well with their written lessons. The first year students are registered at the library where it is learned that Hortensia is ill and will not be returning anytime soon. Rozemyne is concerned when a music professor requires her to give a blessing during her recital. In professor Hirshur's class, Rozemyne is embarrassed to learn the primary use of synchronization potions not previously explained by Ferdinand. She commits a social faux pas in regards to her previous experience with m

Last week was the start of Part 5 Volume 7. The prologue was from Ferdinand's perspective. Many details of Ahrensbach's current situation were revealed. Ferdinand had lunch with Letizia serving meals and sweets sent by Rozemyne. In their discussion Ferdinand learns more of the ongoings of the Lanzenave Estate and that Lanzenave has a non magical explosive similar to gunpowder.

Following the prologue is a chapter about the baptism and debut of Dirk and Bertram. We witness a side of Gretia's character previously unseen. It is also revealed that the Royal Academy's dedication ritual will be held at the start of the term. An anomaly occurs during Dirk's mana registration where his mana colors were faint with Wind being the most prominent. Bertram gives Aub Ehrenfest the greatest display of gratitude possible while receiving his noble ring.

We then get an update on the status of the winter playroom. Charlotte receives her crest engraved pendant from Rozemyne after which Melchior and

Last week began with a chapter from Lieseleta's point of view. We learn how Lord Thorston is attempting to exploit Lieseleta using their engagement and his higher status to obtain leniency for his captured family. Lieseleta and Elvira discuss a way for Lieseleta to join Rozemyne in the Sovereignty while canceling her undesired engagement to Lord Thorston and making sure her house has a successor to replace her. Lieseleta accepts Rozemyne's request and will become her head attendant.

The book concludes with a chapter from Sylvester's point of view after the Ahrensbach funeral. We learn that the Sovereign knights subdued during the funeral were all originally from Ehrenfest and sent to the Sovereignty before Sylvester's time as Aub. The knights were executed by Detlinde's request before they could be interrogated. Sylvester suspects Georgine's involvement and postulates her desire to keep Sylvester from meeting the knights during winter socializing and that a confrontation between he an

Last week started off with the epilogue following Lutz's perspective after meeting with Rozemyne in the temple. We learn that Lutz and Tuuli are now engaged. Lutz also obtains permission from his parents to move away from Ehrenfest.

The other chapter was from Detlinde's point of view and takes place before Aub Ahrensbach's funeral. We are introduced to the king of Lanzenave's grandson, Leonzio, whom pleads with Detlinde over the Zent's refusal to accept a Lanzenave princess. Detlinde is swayed by his words and vows to aid him. She is unable to convince Ferdinand to join in her plight to persuade the Zent and considers Ferdinand to be heartless. Detlinde returns to Leonzio where he expresses his desire to have Detlinde take the throne and for them to be wed.

This week will conclude Part 5 Volume 6. Who else would you like to see a point of view chapter for?