(L) Wortenia Senki

[mickbis]

anyone can spoiled pass beyond volume 1?
I want to know the direction they're going to take once escape to other countries with the threat of empire still around

[Kyureki]

Spoiler for WN vol 2 spoilers/light summary:

The MC's party gets forced into taking a job by a guild master to be scapegoats, and as a result, get involved in a civil war with the only way to prove their innocence being to take part in the war and have princess support their opinion in the matter. Long story short, MC becomes known and feared for being a ruthless and demonic strategist, bringing the faction he supported from the verge of annihilation to winning the whole war. In the background, the whole civil war was a plot by the country that had summoned the MC (with the guy who planned it being that mage he killed in the beginning) to weaken the countries in that region so that they could easily conquer them afterward. The MC unknowing almost ruining that plan for them has their secret agent suggest to the princess the MC helped into granting him peerage and territory (the territory being one that's part of the country in name only as no citizens live there, only the indigenous tribes, and swarming with powerful monsters, not to mention it's almost entirely bare wilderness) to bind him in place, which the princess jumps on because she was frightened of the MC due to the abilities he had displayed during the civil war and was sure that she would definitely lose if he were to turn against her. The MC's response to this is that since she went back on her initial promise to let him go after everything is over, he plays things up so that his territory is practically completely independent from the princess' country.

Side note, this is where the reason behind the name of this series comes from. The territory he gains is the Wortenia Penninsula.

[mickbis]

Originally Posted by Kyureki

Spoiler for WN vol 2 spoilers/light summary:

The MC's party gets forced into taking a job by a guild master to be scapegoats, and as a result, get involved in a civil war with the only way to prove their innocence being to take part in the war and have princess support their opinion in the matter. Long story short, MC becomes known and feared for being a ruthless and demonic strategist, bringing the faction he supported from the verge of annihilation to winning the whole war. In the background, the whole civil war was a plot by the country that had summoned the MC (with the guy who planned it being that mage he killed in the beginning) to weaken the countries in that region so that they could easily conquer them afterward. The MC unknowing almost ruining that plan for them has their secret agent suggest to the princess the MC helped into granting him peerage and territory (the territory being one that's part of the country in name only as no citizens live there, only the indigenous tribes, and swarming with powerful monsters, not to mention it's almost entirely bare wilderness) to bind him in place, which the princess jumps on because she was frightened of the MC due to the abilities he had displayed during the civil war and was sure that she would definitely lose if he were to turn against her. The MC's response to this is that since she went back on her initial promise to let him go after everything is over, he plays things up so that his territory is practically completely independent from the princess' country.

Side note, this is where the reason behind the name of this series comes from. The territory he gains is the Wortenia Penninsula.

Thank you for summary ><
damn this really a good stuff MC never fail to bring a ruthless badass
and the empire deserve everything that will happen to them follow by the awaken of this monster....

[Kyureki]

For a few examples of the "ruthless" strategies the MC employs which lead to him being called a demon/devil...

Spoiler:

In a defensive siege-like battle, he had a giant empty moat around a built-in-a-few-hours fort (used that world's magic to build it so quickly, which in a world where magic is used solely for combat, baffled the enemy out of their wits and there was a side note about this bringing about new innovation) beside a giant river, and once the enemy had filled up the moat to a certain point, he had the breakwater on the upstream part of the moat taken down to flash flood the moat, and since very few people in this world know how to swim, thus drowned a very large portion of the enemy army to death and any survivors/prisoners were all killed.

That started the MC's fame as a demon/devil in the surroundings (which he purposely spread rumours about to reduce the number of civilians that would be drafted to fight). The MC then makes use of his infamy later for the final battle where he spreads rumours that his faction sent people to burn the opposing nobles' territories to the ground. This was of course fake since that would weaken the country too much post-war, but due to his infamy for being so ruthless, all the nobles that had gathered together for the final battle ran back to their territories to protect them.

[mickbis]

Now that what we call a demon strategist...
this guy is damn merciless

[Lhklan]

Originally Posted by Kyureki

For a few examples of the "ruthless" strategies the MC employs which lead to him being called a demon/devil...

Spoiler:

In a defensive siege-like battle, he had a giant empty moat around a built-in-a-few-hours fort (used that world's magic to build it so quickly, which in a world where magic is used solely for combat, baffled the enemy out of their wits and there was a side note about this bringing about new innovation) beside a giant river, and once the enemy had filled up the moat to a certain point, he had the breakwater on the upstream part of the moat taken down to flash flood the moat, and since very few people in this world know how to swim, thus drowned a very large portion of the enemy army to death and any survivors/prisoners were all killed.

That started the MC's fame as a demon/devil in the surroundings (which he purposely spread rumours about to reduce the number of civilians that would be drafted to fight). The MC then makes use of his infamy later for the final battle where he spreads rumours that his faction sent people to burn the opposing nobles' territories to the ground. This was of course fake since that would weaken the country too much post-war, but due to his infamy for being so ruthless, all the nobles that had gathered together for the final battle ran back to their territories to protect them.

Huh. Maybe it's just because I read RoTK already, but that strategy doesn't seem demonic to me. IN fact, I can remember 2-3 cases where that strategy wins a decisive battle. (Xia Pi and Jing Province comes to mind)

[teddychan]

damn the novel truly is so slow Y_Y,

one day if I have enough Money i'll hire translator just to translate all the light novels I want nyahahaha

[rantaid]

@Lhklan

lol. lower your power-level a bit. this is isekai about 16 year old dude. it is already good la.... don't go Ravages at once. he is no Eight Genius of Water Mirror.

[Lhklan]

Originally Posted by rantaid

@Lhklan

lol. lower your power-level a bit. this is isekai about 16 year old dude. it is already good la.... don't go Ravages at once. he is no Eight Genius of Water Mirror.

You don't need 8 Genius. I mean, the one that pulled the water trick at Jing wasn't anybody known in story as a super genius.

Though like I said, maybe it's because I read RoTK already.

[mickbis]

I can agree that the strategy itself might not all that great from the RoTK expert POV
trap/lure and burn, drown or ambush is indeed pretty common in brutal warring era like RoTK
heck it one of my most use strategies in those RoTK game when facing a massive armies

but for a 16 yr old to pull something like that
while "mercilessly killed every survival and prisoner" for the sake of his another goal
did qualified him as demon in someway
this world citizen tho seem to relied purely on magic and brute force more than strategy

[Kyureki]

It should be noted that in this world, not everyone can use magic, which along with the fact that one magic user = several regular people in terms of combat strength, plays a part in the class/noble system. It's mentioned multiple times in WN vol 2 that it's because of this that knights (which are essentially armoured magic soldiers in this world) are powerful (they wear full plate armour yet still move around like they're wearing leather armour for example), but at the same time, causes knights in this world to not be as used to working together in combat (which I find strange seeing as that should not be the case since they serve the country and all, but suspension of disbelief I suppose).

This is not to say that knights can't work together at all or are terrible commanders/strategists, because they definitely can do so if need be. But in terms of combat, they're treated something more like the heavy artillery I suppose rather than like the knights of our world.

[personal]

^ In addition they have too high pride and some even blindly believe in loyalty, which make them bad strategists and really hard to work together.

[Ramero]

Originally Posted by personal

^ In addition they have too high pride and some even blindly believe in loyalty, which make them bad strategists and really hard to work together.

Well, that can easily toppled by some strategies. Things like just scatter them is not going to affect MC much for this case.

[Prongs]

any syosetu link?... I'll wreck my brain trough Google translate..

[NAJ P. Jackson]

Originally Posted by Prongs

any syosetu link?... I'll wreck my brain trough Google translate..

Here you go. Link

I'm still at chapter 20 in the first arc. Badassery of the mc doesn't translate well in mtl

[Prongs]

Mc couldn't go back to the former world. Because he need permissions from god that govern his former world to repatriate. If he forced it he will stranded in space between worlds and die. Kinda like US immigrations easy to get out but Almost impossible to get in.

[NAJ P. Jackson]

Originally Posted by Prongs

Mc couldn't go back to the former world. Because he need permissions from god that govern his former world to repatriate. If he forced it he will stranded in space between worlds and die. Kinda like US immigrations easy to get out but Almost impossible to get in.

So God = Trump? That sucks.

[mickbis]

Start reading using google translate...
so the land received from the Kingdom is "Wortenia" peninsula...
I can somehow see the direction now..
so he will probably end up create a kingdom strong enough to face off Empire

[NAJ P. Jackson]

I heard the LN has surpassed the WN story-wise. Is that true?

[Okashira]

Read the thread, LN is sort in the halfway