Holy fuck this comment section.

Saiga is asking why doesn't the kingdom retaliate, read the whole sentence. It's not just "duh, I war good!"

Pg 16 also explains why Arcana doesn't just take the land; they need soldiers to occupy huge areas and they need a supply line to those soldiers, AND THEN they'd need soldiers to guard the supply lines. Simply put, Arcana's royal family doesn't have the manpower, and the author doesn't go into it, but i'm not sure the costs of raising an armed forced to occupy and feed the occupation forces will be covered by whatever resources they can get out of that land.

To adorn oneself with borrowed plumes.

Both sister and brother, honestly he should just take Rain and Brauer and live his own life, it's not like the siblings are grateful.

ok, good thing i dropped it since ch16 i guess its still bad as i read the coments

@GrimGriefer These "web-novelists" are basically armchair authors that don't really bother to understand anything more than the most surface aesthetic of what a feudal society means.
The nobles are benevolent and charitable when the plot demands it, and corrupt and greedy when it demands otherwise. There's no nuance or reason to it.

The other country is too poor to plunder? BS. unless the land is a wasteland, taking fertile land for further development would be extremely beneficial. Let's not forget any other natural resources to exploit or the relic they used to power up their army (which countries would go to war over)!

Thanks for the chapter!
Seems like the noble families, despite selfish outbursts, really do care for their citizens and responsibilities. Although seems like still have issues with poverty and people resorting to banditry for various reasons. Wonder if Dewey is like one of those really intelligent tactician types who has multiple plans and never does anything for one reason. Like taking carriage without escorts through bandit territory was partially to alieve boredom, partially deal with bandits to prevent further attacks on her citizens, and partially to use MC to capture most of bandits alive while minimizing allied casualties. After all, most training and swordsmanship is aimed at quickly killing the opponent so to save time and energy for next opponent so don't get mobbed with numbers or too exhausted to defend oneself. Thus, trying to take someone alive who is more than willing to kill is very difficult and like fighting with hands tied together or one leg tied to a post hampering movements and actions.
In any case, will just have to see how things play out. Would be nice if could find out why Domino went for conquest rather than trade for needed goods as they'd have same problem of needing troops and officials to hold and defend any territory they took in addition to their home territory.

@Psychronia: this is only responsible in an unrealistic, utopian world. It really doesn't help the manga, I'd rather prefer for the characters to at least have some developed thoughts when it comes to intrigue and geopolitics...

Huh. Kinda refreshing to see nobles act more or less responsibly, the bitch heiress aside.

pace of this manga

"Even if the Sword Saint is the Strongest, he is still the most boring, the story too"

Why haven't I dropped this?? I knew it was bad 10-12 chapters ago.

This manga is so bland. None of the characters are likeable or has any personality to begin with. Even the art is as generic as a McDonald's hamburger. Nothing is happening, no character is flashed out.. what a pile of dung.

@midnight2630 You almost made it, but here's the spoiler for you,
"Even if the MC is Boring He's Still the Strongest"... Spoiler

the other country is so poor they can´t even plunder them?

@m4ng4
"Even if the MC is Boring He's Still the Strongest"

At this point the MC doesn't even matter to me into this story. and suddenly. let's say, they decide to remove him, and switch to another character, I would think, that is perfectly plausible. coz I think, other character have far more substance and impact than the MC.

Spoiler

They treat marriage like a newly cooked hot pizza...

hey you are strong want to get married and make a country?

@Yadokari, plus his attitude before he kill people really piss one of like all cheerful like this is a game to him he should be all grim then after that he ask is this right thing. Such hypocrisy.

Usually I hate NTR except the one where the MC is a wimp with small dick but I'm all in for this seiga or whatever his name is to get NTR'd hahaha😂😂😂

Saiga makes every page he's on worse...

Thanks for translation '-'7