(L) Log Horizon (novel)

[Estavali]

Originally Posted by aohige

Yes, ookami as in wolf.
He's talking about the Log Horizon anime OP sang by Man with a Mission (4 wolves).

Ahh, I thought he was talking about May'n "Ready Go!", the OP for Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakadachi

So the chapter

Spoiler:

Starts off with Isuzu rocking on the lute in live-house, in front of a crowd.
Looks like just as with cooking, those without the Bard main class or another music related sub-class (Diva for example), players ability to sing and play is hindered by skill cap. Just as with cooking, to sing or play instruments beyond a certain level requires you to have related classes.

It's been 3 month since Krusty went missing. Misa wasn't mentioned, so we don't know if she disappeared as well, or went searching for him. Roderick Firm studied the "cursed" flavortext items and gave out public warnings to say away from items in the list, so something like Krusty doesn't happen again.

And Shiroe is worried that he can't stop Eins from doing... something.
It has to do with his research of restoring Fairy Rings, but didn't say what yet.
Another worry is that with Krusty gone, how long D.D.D can stay organized as a guild. Many have left DDD already without the former leadership. If DDD dissolves, it would be devastating to the Round Table, as it was the single largest military might.

I hope he'll do a weekly chapter updates.

Thanks for the quick summary =3

Spoiler for Spoilers:

Mamare went quite a bit into Isuzu's lute, didn't he? Even to the point of giving it a name. I wonder if this would come into play in the events to come =3

[aohige]

^It's crafted by Marielle, btw. Her subclass is wood crafter.

[tsunade666]

^No mention of what happen to Minami yet?

[aohige]

Not yet... OH! Totally forgot to mention a very important plot point

Spoiler:

Shiroe asked Issac to train the Landers in Maihama.
Issac intends to both train for real as well as "power level" them, but Shiroe is only looking for him to raise their levels a little, like 2-3 levels. The reason why he wants Issac to go to Maihama is really to strengthen the bond between Akiba and the Landers.

Oh, and the chapter title is "Route 43"
It's talking about Interstate Highway 43 that connects Osaka to Kobe
Which is an odd choice, since if the scrubs are traveling from Akiba (Tokyo) to Minami (Osaka), they wouldn't cross or use I43, since that actually goes west from Osaka, not east to Tokyo.

Probably picked it because it's an iconic highway of Osaka.

[Estavali]

Originally Posted by aohige

^It's crafted by Marielle, btw. Her subclass is wood crafter.

Ahh, this part I know. It was mentioned back in volume three after all, on Isuzu's stat page =3

Spoiler for Spoiler:

What interests me is the re-modelling(?) it received from Roderick's mad scientists people. I think one of the materials used was a low level item that could be used for a low level summon, right?

Of course it could be just me thinking too much into it, and with Mamare's love for details, he could have just rambled off again as usual. But nonetheless my curiosity is piqued =3

Also..

Spoiler for Spoiler:

Minori's taking up a part-time job under Charasin, I think. If I'm not wrong, the latter has asked Shiroe if she could hop off to his guild, did he? =3

[aohige]

Originally Posted by Estavali

Ahh, this part I know. It was mentioned back in volume three after all, on Isuzu's stat page =3

Spoiler for Spoiler:

What interests me is the re-modelling(?) it received from Roderick's mad scientists people. I think one of the materials used was a low level item that could be used for a low level summon, right?

Of course it could be just me thinking too much into it, and with Mamare's love for details, he could have just rambled off again as usual. But nonetheless my curiosity is piqued =3

It's talking about the amp.
Basically Roderick Firm modified a low-level summoning item called Siren's Shell, presumably summons an elemental of sound. By modifying the shell it can be hooked up to the Lute, and serve as an amplifier for rock concert.

Also..

Spoiler for Spoiler:

Minori's taking up a part-time job under Charasin, I think. If I'm not wrong, the latter has asked Shiroe if she could hop off to his guild, did he? =3

.... and be picked on as a lolicon for it by Issac.

[Estavali]

Originally Posted by aohige

It's talking about the amp.
Basically Roderick Firm modified a low-level summoning item called Siren's Shell, presumably summons an elemental of sound. By modifying the shell it can be hooked up to the Lute, and serve as an amplifier for rock concert.

I can see their motto now...

"We make progress with SCIENCE!"

.... and be picked on as a lolicon for it by Issac.

Shiroe: *megane-glint* Aha, my diversion has arrived!

[aohige]

Already fan-art of the chapter. The chapter has been out for only a few hours too, fast as hell!


Original image: https://twitter.com/kurokokkou/statu...593408/photo/1

Issac is wearing the Round Table uniform instead of the usual armor, btw.
And Rezarick called him "Issac-kun", much to his annoyance.

[DQueenie13]

Originally Posted by aohige

Issac is wearing the Round Table uniform instead of the usual armor, btw.
And Rezarick called him "Issac-kun", much to his annoyance.

Is this real life?! Isaac took off his armor?!

And Rezarick hasn't been forgotten? Sweet fangirl tears have been shed.

[RDNexus]

Originally Posted by aohige

The physical published caught up to novels years ago budd.

He always releases online first, then shortly after all chapters are up the printed novel comes out. It's been like that since forever.
The first chapter is already up online.

Yeah, you're right, I totally forgot that the first 5 volumes (the equivalent of the Anime's Season1) were released all within the same year, 2011... That sure was publishing speed...
But then, the following two only came out during last year, in a regular novel series' release schedule.

[DQueenie13]

Originally Posted by xrick

Yeah, you're right, I totally forgot that the first 5 volumes (the equivalent of the Anime's Season1) were released all within the same year, 2011... That sure was publishing speed...
But then, the following two only came out during last year, in a regular novel series' release schedule.

He had probably written most of the first couple of volumes well beforehand before deciding to publish it online.

[Estavali]

Originally Posted by xrick

Yeah, you're right, I totally forgot that the first 5 volumes (the equivalent of the Anime's Season1) were released all within the same year, 2011... That sure was publishing speed...
But then, the following two only came out during last year, in a regular novel series' release schedule.

Up till now Mamare has always released his work first online, chapter by chapter, and the published novel would follow only after all the chapters are done. This pattern has not been disturbed even after Enterbrain started publishing LogHora.

Volume six was released online between 18 Dec 2011 (first chapter) and 8 Mar 2013 (last chapter) and the published novel came out at 30 Mar 2013.

Seven took less time than six; the first chapter was posted online on 22 Jun 2013 and it took Mamare around 4+ months to finish the last chapter (5 Nov 203). The published novel took a bit along to come out this time, due to the preparations for the special edition iirc (20 Dec 2013).

[RDNexus]

I know that, I've seen the page where the webnovel is, hence me having gotten surprised by how things have been going on his side...

[FRS]

Thanks for the summary aohige.

[mucen]

What happened to the seven falls goblin king raid? no mention how they end it?

[riversea]

Can anyone post a summary of volume 6 for me? I don't think I'd be able to finish it when my spring break ends.

[DQueenie13]

Originally Posted by mucen

What happened to the seven falls goblin king raid? no mention how they end it?

Krusty and Isaac go to finish it during vol 6/7.

Originally Posted by riversea

Can anyone post a summary of volume 6 for me? I don't think I'd be able to finish it when my spring break ends.

I'll get to it later.

[DQueenie13]

I hope I got all the details right.

Spoiler:

In Akiba, Akatsuki, Crescent Moon, and D.D.D. (among others) have been tasked to help protect Raynesia after the events of the Libra Festival. Rieze, the sorceress from DDD (blondie), teases Raynesia slightly while Akatsuki sits there awkwardly. Maryelle pulls a Henrietta on Raynesia, constantly dressing her up. Since Shiroe, Krusty, and several other important people would be gone on various tasks, they had to make sure nothing happened. While on the way back from Raynesia's, Henrietta and Rieze discuss Akatsuki (and it's revealed that Rieze has a crush on Krusty).

Later, Akatsuki is wandering around the city when she ends up going to Tatara's guild shop (she's a swordsmith that runs the guild Amenoma, which specializes in creating swords the traditional way). While looking among the inventory, Akatsuki realizes how incapable she really is when the blade she had been eyeing was already bought. As a solo player who didn't go on raids, it would be difficult to acquire the sufficient gold for purchasing it. Even with the best Production equipment, Akatsuki is only among the best of the second-tier players, those who were limited by their inexperience in Raids.

Dejected, she watches the Black Sword Knights train (she's done the same for D.D.D) while practicing her Tracker's hiding abilities, listening into some members' discussion of Overskills. Her growing jealousy towards Minori, and her recognition thereof, prevents her from returning to the guild hall at night. With Shiroe gone, on a trip up to Susukino (which I believe is not mentioned in Vol6 but is revealed in Vol7), she just wanders around the city at night and stays at inns.

Meanwhile, Nyanta finds Roderick, bearing a letter to him from Shiroe about the changes to the world, including the realization of flavor text on items and the growing distance of the world. After Nyanta reminds Roderick that he had already skipped lunch, the two go out for ramen together. Rieze spends time with Raynesia, who learns more about the Adventurers' world and is shocked by it. Rieze also takes the time to purposely teach Raynesia the wrong definition of words.

West Wind Brigade's Kyouko is traveling back to the guild hall when she notices a strange figure in an alleyway. It immediately attacks her, running her through the stomach. In spite of that, she attempts to fight back, but fails and bleeds to her death; during this time, she noted that despite the fact that she had engaged in a battle against someone, the guards hadn't appeared. She revives at the cathedral by morning, but that alone was enough to send Souji into his psychopathic mode. As news of a mysterious murder spreads around Akiba, the Round Table members present decide to place a curfew, as the murderer was doing his business at nighttime. At the same time, Souji prepares to track down and kill the murderer in revenge, much to Nazuna's worry.

During all this, Raynesia hears from the Kunie clan, which is in charge of banking and the Guards, that the perpetrator is actually a Royal Guard, which is why they haven't detected anything: their systems did not safeguard against one of their own. Because of that, there was little that they could do. The only alternative they had was shutting off the magic circle that allowed the Guards to actually move their armor within the city walls, but shutting off that magic circle would also mean the shut-down of the barrier that kept monsters out of the city. Furthermore, after turning off the barrier, it could not be restarted for another 10 years. While Raynesia is brooding over this fact, it turns out that Akatsuki, who was sitting in the parlor, overheard all of it and decides to pursue him. With the intel that she had gathered, she had deducted where the murderer might be. Running through the city, she ends up encountering not only the murderer, but also Souji's group. His group is in a bad situation; most of the members aside from Souji are injured (specifically, Kawara is more or less KO'ed but not dead, Nazuna and another member are injured as well). A quick assessment by Akatsuki reveals that Souji's survived this much thanks to Nazuna's powerful barriers, which themselves break after a couple of hits.

She joins the battle, even though the opponent can easily dodge their attacks. The two buy time for Nazuna and the others to escape before dying; and since Akatsuki was Shiroe's friend, Souji teaches her the secret to Overskills: repetitive training and perfectionism before they are killed. After dying, Akatsuki ends up meeting Shiroe on the moon, where all Adventurers go after dying. They share a tender moment (including hand-holding) before cutting off a piece of hair as a symbolic offering for revival (the hair representing a piece of their memories). They are separated as they are revived at their respective cathedrals; Akatsuki, for her part, manages to retain the memory of holding Shiroe's hand.

Soon afterwards, though, she and Raynesia are rebuked by Rieze and Henrietta for being so reckless (Nazuna herself doesn't really care). After some interrogation and questioning of her capabilities and goals, Akatsuki vows to become stronger to help everyone else. Rieze receives permission to train Akatsuki and get her to acquire her own Overskill, while Henrietta does some scheming in Shiroe's stead. Raynesia visits the Kunie clan member and decides to shut off the magic circle in order to take away the rogue guard's advantage (teleportation, healing, boosted stats, higher level than Adventurers among them).

As the band of girls are preparing to fight this now-Raid Boss-like Guard, he is resting underground. He seeks revenge on Adventurers for treating the Guards like dogs. Combined with the vengeance of a cursed sword he came in possession of (the sword was possessed by the spirit of a former Izumo Knight that was treacherously killed at Susukino), he is capable of manipulating freezing storms. On Roderick's side, three important discoveries have been made: first, the distance of the world is growing (perhaps to normal size); second, the flavor text on items is becoming real; third, people are beginning to be able to perform certain Production-class abilities even without the subclass (i.e. preparing a salad without being a chef), albeit only low-key.

After three days, the girls put their plan into action. Akatsuki, with Maryelle as her healer, attracts the murderer's attention (note that for both of them, it's their first raid battle). They then lure the murderer towards designated points in the city, where other Adventurers would provide Akatsuki with momentary support. The plan was drawn up by Rieze, who was accompanied by Kyouko. Near the end of the battle, Akatsuki's blade breaks and she is nearly killed, but is saved at the last moment and Tatara swoops in with the blade that Akatsuki wanted, as a reward for working so hard. With that, Rieze freezes the guard's cursed blade, and Akatsuki breaks it, defeating the guard and destroying the Raid Boss weapon.

With their mission successful, the girls have a sleepover at Raynesia's.

[EDIT:]
See Estavali's post, two below this one.

[riversea]

This saves me the trouble. Thank you so much!

[Estavali]

Originally Posted by DQueenie13

I hope I got all the details right.

Spoiler:

In Akiba, Akatsuki, Crescent Moon, and D.D.D. (among others) have been tasked to help protect Raynesia after the events of the Libra Festival. Rieze, the sorceress from DDD (blondie), teases Raynesia slightly while Akatsuki sits there awkwardly. Maryelle pulls a Henrietta on Raynesia, constantly dressing her up. Since Shiroe, Krusty, and several other important people would be gone on various tasks, they had to make sure nothing happened. While on the way back from Raynesia's, Henrietta and Rieze discuss Akatsuki (and it's revealed that Rieze has a crush on Krusty).

Later, Akatsuki is wandering around the city when she ends up going to Tatara's guild shop (she's a swordsmith that runs the guild Amenoma, which specializes in creating swords the traditional way). While looking among the inventory, Akatsuki realizes how incapable she really is when the blade she had been eyeing was already bought. As a solo player who didn't go on raids, it would be difficult to acquire the sufficient gold for purchasing it. Even with the best Production equipment, Akatsuki is only among the best of the second-tier players, those who were limited by their inexperience in Raids.

Dejected, she watches the Black Sword Knights train (she's done the same for D.D.D) while practicing her Tracker's hiding abilities, listening into some members' discussion of Overskills. Her growing jealousy towards Minori, and her recognition thereof, prevents her from returning to the guild hall at night. With Shiroe gone, on a trip up to Susukino (which I believe is not mentioned in Vol6 but is revealed in Vol7), she just wanders around the city at night and stays at inns.

Meanwhile, Nyanta finds Roderick, bearing a letter to him from Shiroe about the changes to the world, including the realization of flavor text on items and the growing distance of the world. After Nyanta reminds Roderick that he had already skipped lunch, the two go out for ramen together. Rieze spends time with Raynesia, who learns more about the Adventurers' world and is shocked by it. Rieze also takes the time to purposely teach Raynesia the wrong definition of words.

West Wind Brigade's Kyouko is traveling back to the guild hall when she notices a strange figure in an alleyway. It immediately attacks her, running her through the stomach. In spite of that, she attempts to fight back, but fails and bleeds to her death; during this time, she noted that despite the fact that she had engaged in a battle against someone, the guards hadn't appeared. She revives at the cathedral by morning, but that alone was enough to send Souji into his psychopathic mode. As news of a mysterious murder spreads around Akiba, the Round Table members present decide to place a curfew, as the murderer was doing his business at nighttime. At the same time, Souji prepares to track down and kill the murderer in revenge, much to Nazuna's worry.

During all this, Raynesia hears from the Kunie clan, which is in charge of banking and the Guards, that the perpetrator is actually a Royal Guard, which is why they haven't detected anything: their systems did not safeguard against one of their own. Because of that, there was little that they could do. The only alternative they had was shutting off the magic circle that allowed the Guards to actually move their armor within the city walls, but shutting off that magic circle would also mean the shut-down of the barrier that kept monsters out of the city. Furthermore, after turning off the barrier, it could not be restarted for another 10 years. While Raynesia is brooding over this fact, it turns out that Akatsuki, who was sitting in the parlor, overheard all of it and decides to pursue him. With the intel that she had gathered, she had deducted where the murderer might be. Running through the city, she ends up encountering not only the murderer, but also Souji's group. His group is in a bad situation; most of the members aside from Souji are injured (specifically, Kawara is more or less KO'ed but not dead, Nazuna and another member are injured as well). A quick assessment by Akatsuki reveals that Souji's survived this much thanks to Nazuna's powerful barriers, which themselves break after a couple of hits.

She joins the battle, even though the opponent can easily dodge their attacks. The two buy time for Nazuna and the others to escape before dying; and since Akatsuki was Shiroe's friend, Souji teaches her the secret to Overskills: repetitive training and perfectionism before they are killed. After dying, Akatsuki ends up meeting Shiroe on the moon, where all Adventurers go after dying. They share a tender moment (including hand-holding) before cutting off a piece of hair as a symbolic offering for revival (the hair representing a piece of their memories). They are separated as they are revived at their respective cathedrals; Akatsuki, for her part, manages to retain the memory of holding Shiroe's hand.

Soon afterwards, though, she and Raynesia are rebuked by Rieze and Henrietta for being so reckless (Nazuna herself doesn't really care). After some interrogation and questioning of her capabilities and goals, Akatsuki vows to become stronger to help everyone else. Rieze receives permission to train Akatsuki and get her to acquire her own Overskill, while Henrietta does some scheming in Shiroe's stead. Raynesia visits the Kunie clan member and decides to shut off the magic circle in order to take away the rogue guard's advantage (teleportation, healing, boosted stats, higher level than Adventurers among them).

As the band of girls are preparing to fight this now-Raid Boss-like Guard, he is resting underground. He seeks revenge on Adventurers for treating the Guards like dogs. Combined with the vengeance of a cursed sword he came in possession of (the sword was possessed by the spirit of a former Izumo Knight that was treacherously killed at Susukino), he is capable of manipulating freezing storms. On Roderick's side, three important discoveries have been made: first, the distance of the world is growing (perhaps to normal size); second, the flavor text on items is becoming real; third, people are beginning to be able to perform certain Production-class abilities even without the subclass (i.e. preparing a salad without being a chef), albeit only low-key.

After three days, the girls put their plan into action. Akatsuki, with Maryelle as her healer, attracts the murderer's attention (note that for both of them, it's their first raid battle). They then lure the murderer towards designated points in the city, where other Adventurers would provide Akatsuki with momentary support. The plan was drawn up by Rieze, who was accompanied by Kyouko. Near the end of the battle, Akatsuki's blade breaks and she is nearly killed, but is saved at the last moment and Tatara swoops in with the blade that Akatsuki wanted, as a reward for working so hard. With that, Rieze freezes the guard's cursed blade, and Akatsuki breaks it, defeating the guard and destroying the Raid Boss weapon.

With their mission successful, the girls have a sleepover at Raynesia's.

Spoiler for Spoiler tag for the sake of spoiler-tagging =3:

Largely correct except that you got the flow of events wrong. Akatsuki's visit to Amenoma, her peeking at the Black Sword's training, Nyanta's visit to Roderick and finally the assault on Kyouko (in this order) comes first. The last event is especially important since it's the start of the serial murderer's rampage in Akiba and the reason why Shiroe had arranged the lady Adventurers to protect Rayneshia: against a serial murderer that could wipe out small teams of Adventurers, her Lander guards would be of no use. Reize's private moment with Rayneshia also comes after Akatsuki's first encounter with the murderer; another important point as it is from hereon that Rayneshia, who had previously drawn a line between her and the Adventurers, began truly accept them (or at least the girls in her tea party) as friends.

Second, you missed out Roderick's fourth important discovery: that Adventurers trapped in the opposite gender are starting to conform to their new bodies (example, voices changing from male to female or vice versa). This is also important in a way as it explains what had happened to one unique character appearing in volume seven. Also, Shiroe's request to Roderick only involved researching the effects of flavor text. The discovery of the world expanding is something that the Film had found out on its own effort.

Finally, minor correction, though of no fault of yours I think: Shiroe's respawn point is not a cathedral.

A job well-done =3