Knight's and Magic [Light Novel]

[Silentwolfie]

In the book novel, the protagonist's age is bumped up by 2 years. He's 12 years old instead on 10.

[Kerfirou]

well, the characters actions does became more believable if they are older.

Originally Posted by amatsunagi

4 volumes has been released, the latest which telling the [Western Grand Storm] arc. As for the web novel itself, the western grand storm has ended, entering the new arc called [Great Aviation Age].

......Does Eru somehow managed to create Float System?

[Kyosuke_Nanbu]

Warning!!!

BT is terrible, just use GT!!!

[Brin A'sair]

Originally Posted by Kyosuke_Nanbu

Warning!!!

BT is terrible, just use GT!!!

Which is not much better, but using it may save you a few SAN points in the long run.

[LurkingShadow]

I think the "Barutosaru" might be Baltasar/Baltazar???

[Silentwolfie]

There's a lot of kansai dialect or just dialect/old polite in this series. It's very difficult to read because there's a great deal of descriptive text in it as well.

I will be surprised if translation tools work well on this.

[dragon1412]

Originally Posted by Brin A'sair

Which is not much better, but using it may save you a few SAN points in the long run.

agree with silent wolfe here, you can barely make out the fight scene and the general story, but when it come to the specific jargon even Atlas cannot help you.

[Archmagination2002]

dragon1412 is right.. I think I am at the end of my rope with using Google Translate to read it.

Spoiler for The first half of v04:

The Ginotori Knights division begins in the Cavalry School. Grand Knight Headmaster is Eru, 1st Captain is Edward, Vice Captain is Dietrich, David(aka Master) is the head blacksmith of the division and I am unsure what ranks the twins are. Eru immediately begins a radical new Silhouette Knight design shocking the people in the division.. the design is based on a centaur.(which apparently isn't known in this world)

Meanwhile at the National Production Laboratory, 4 damaged Teretsuare prototypes are being disassembled and inspected by the blacksmiths. Leading the inspection is a dwarf, the head blacksmith Gion.. a man in robes walks up to him and asks him if the new Knights were better than Karudatoa(the current production frame of Knights) Gion says yes and makes a special mention of the script creating the magic mouse and magic calculator(what controls the Knight) is something that he has never seen before. The man is Lord Norderstedt and is in charge Laboratory. He is not pleased about being upstaged by country hicks and is bound and determined to have his name live in history by creating the nations new Knight frame.(Apparently it traditional that the name of creator is used for the new frame)

It seems a new school year is beginning and students are joining in Ginotori Division(some wild rumors about the division though) without quite knowing what it is.. they are already shocked by seeing a blacksmith wearing a special upper version of SArmor that helps with blacksmithing. They are also shocked at seeing Edwards Knight being rebuilt into a Teretsurare frame.

Time passes and it becomes clear the the centaur is really huge and will need 2 Crystal Cores and won't be able to be piloted by one individual. Eru comes up with a dual cockpit design(one controls upper body/attack, other controls movement) and trains Kid and Adi on it. More time passes and Eru spends his time creating a magic jet engine, he creates hidden weapons that hide in the armor of the Knights. Dietrich's Knight(Teretsurare frame) has a crystal muscle whip hidden in its hand.. its imbued with lighting magic and is called Lighting Flail. Edwards Knight has a Backpack, but it one who's auto arms are shields instead of weapons.(Ultimate Tank)

The centaur Knight, Tsu~endorugu is tested. The body is 15 meters tall(Knights are only 10 meters), each of the 4 legs is as big as normal Knight. The ground trembles as it walks.. and in typical Adi fashion as soon as they walk outside the warehouse she makes it take off into a gallop. Tsu~endorugu is tested at night and becomes the rumored "Monster of the Road"

Time passes and its time for the King to choose the new Knight design to go into production. The National Knight Laboratory has created 10 new frames called the Karudatoa-Norderstedt. They combined the best of the Karudatoa and Teretsurare frames. Using Strand Crystal Muscles they improved the strength by 30%(anything more resulted in the rough movement the Teretsurare had) They refined and streamlined everything in the design to keep the vaunted speed of the Karudatoa, almost the same magic endurance of the Karudatoa and retain the strength of the Teretsurare. The result was a machine twice as powerful as the Karudatoa, the Karudatoa-Norderstedt. They weren't able to improve the magic mouse, magic calculator or Backpack which bothered Gio, the head blacksmith.

The Karudatoa-Norderstedt models are at the Arena being unveiled for the first time to the King and population. The king and rest of the group are waiting for the Ginotori Knights to arrive.. they start hearing a very loud galloping sound and the gates are opened to the arena signaling the Ginotori had arrived. The crowd shouts, screams and a riot is almost created as the giant centaur, Tsu~endorugu arrives. Towing underneath it, connected by crystal muscle grapples is a carriage and 3 Silhouette Knights. A White Knight carrying a large shield and sword, a Red Knight with what looks like the standard Teretsurare weapons and a Sky Blue Knight.

After the greetings are completed a duel between the 4 Ginotori Knights and the 10 Karudatoa-Norderstedt Knights begins. Tsu~endorugu is used more like a mobile base since it is restricted by the rules.(By the way it wields a giant halberd, has some sort of mobile armor that can be used to intercept attacks(Backpack tech I think) and has a giant lance hidden in its body that it can switch to when needed)

The Karudatoa-Norderstedt Knights go into attack formation and begin to move, but are startled when they start hearing a sound that builds into a shattering roar. The Sky Blue Knight's back plate armor slowly spreads out showing that it is a hollow armor and the magic jet ignites. The acceleration and speed builds up incredible fast at is takes off at the KN frames.(Tired of writing that long name) The leader of the KN Knights is startled, but there is some monsters that have abilities like that. The weakness is they can't turn so he orders an attack using the Backpack weapons, only to be startled when the Sky Blue Knight turns(adjusting the magic jet) and rockets into the middle of the formation taking out a KN Knight before he even knew he was there. The Sky Blue Knight turns to decelerate before rocketing through the formation again and scattering them. The Sky Blue Knight then comes to a rest under the protection of Tsu~endorugu after exhausting most of its crystal core.(Note: Crystal Cores gather Ether, the fuel for magic from the surrounding area and a common tactic is to have knights exhaust their magic, rest and recharge before attacking again.)

The disrupted formation is then attacked by the Red Knight(Dietrich) who uses Lightning Flail to take a KN Knight out of the fight, he then retreats under the protection of the White Knight(Edward) who blocks the KN Knights from following up. A melee begins with the KN leader being very impressed by the combination of Attack(Red Knight) and Defense(White Knight).

The fight continues on with Edward personally battling the KN leader. Tsu~endorugu gallops around the battlefield keeping the KN Knights away from the Sky Blue Knight and trying to prevent the KN Knights from regrouping. The twins managed to get one of their grapples onto a KN Knight and drag it around behind them like a toy.

The magic jet begins firing up again and the Sky Blue Knight takes out another KN Knight before dropping back to recharge again. The Red Knight manages to take out another KN Knight, but then its magic begins to be exhausted. Meanwhile Edward is still battling with the leader of the KN Knights and is desperately trying to think of a way to beat him before his Knights energy runs out.. the leader is impressed by Edwards skill and heart calling him a true knight.

Sensing weakness a KN Knight attacks Dietrich's Red Knight and his energy starts to run out fast.. just when Dietrich was going to be defeated the Sky Blue Knight shoots through on its jet, taking out the KN Knights face with its knee, shattering it. The Red and Blue knight fall down out of energy and the fight.

Soon after the White Knight runs out of energy. The victory goes to Karudatoa-Norderstedt. 7 KN Knights are defeated.. 3 by Sky Blue Knight, 2 by Red Knight, 1 by the White Knight and 1 by Tsu~endorugu.


Gio, the head blacksmith of the National Knight Laboratory feels like its a hollow victory and a fire is ignited making him vow to defeat the Ginotori Knights.

[bakato]

Originally Posted by Archmagination2002

dragon1412 is right.. I think I am at the end of my rope with using Google Translate to read it.

Spoiler for The first half of v04:

The Ginotori Knights division begins in the Cavalry School. Grand Knight Headmaster is Eru, 1st Captain is Edward, Vice Captain is Dietrich, David(aka Master) is the head blacksmith of the division and I am unsure what ranks the twins are. Eru immediately begins a radical new Silhouette Knight design shocking the people in the division.. the design is based on a centaur.(which apparently isn't known in this world)

Meanwhile at the National Production Laboratory, 4 damaged Teretsuare prototypes are being disassembled and inspected by the blacksmiths. Leading the inspection is a dwarf, the head blacksmith Gion.. a man in robes walks up to him and asks him if the new Knights were better than Karudatoa(the current production frame of Knights) Gion says yes and makes a special mention of the script creating the magic mouse and magic calculator(what controls the Knight) is something that he has never seen before. The man is Lord Norderstedt and is in charge Laboratory. He is not pleased about being upstaged by country hicks and is bound and determined to have his name live in history by creating the nations new Knight frame.(Apparently it traditional that the name of creator is used for the new frame)

It seems a new school year is beginning and students are joining in Ginotori Division(some wild rumors about the division though) without quite knowing what it is.. they are already shocked by seeing a blacksmith wearing a special upper version of SArmor that helps with blacksmithing. They are also shocked at seeing Edwards Knight being rebuilt into a Teretsurare frame.

Time passes and it becomes clear the the centaur is really huge and will need 2 Crystal Cores and won't be able to be piloted by one individual. Eru comes up with a dual cockpit design(one controls upper body/attack, other controls movement) and trains Kid and Adi on it. More time passes and Eru spends his time creating a magic jet engine, he creates hidden weapons that hide in the armor of the Knights. Dietrich's Knight(Teretsurare frame) has a crystal muscle whip hidden in its hand.. its imbued with lighting magic and is called Lighting Flail. Edwards Knight has a Backpack, but it one who's auto arms are shields instead of weapons.(Ultimate Tank)

The centaur Knight, Tsu~endorugu is tested. The body is 15 meters tall(Knights are only 10 meters), each of the 4 legs is as big as normal Knight. The ground trembles as it walks.. and in typical Adi fashion as soon as they walk outside the warehouse she makes it take off into a gallop. Tsu~endorugu is tested at night and becomes the rumored "Monster of the Road"

Time passes and its time for the King to choose the new Knight design to go into production. The National Knight Laboratory has created 10 new frames called the Karudatoa-Norderstedt. They combined the best of the Karudatoa and Teretsurare frames. Using Strand Crystal Muscles they improved the strength by 30%(anything more resulted in the rough movement the Teretsurare had) They refined and streamlined everything in the design to keep the vaunted speed of the Karudatoa, almost the same magic endurance of the Karudatoa and retain the strength of the Teretsurare. The result was a machine twice as powerful as the Karudatoa, the Karudatoa-Norderstedt. They weren't able to improve the magic mouse, magic calculator or Backpack which bothered Gio, the head blacksmith.

The Karudatoa-Norderstedt models are at the Arena being unveiled for the first time to the King and population. The king and rest of the group are waiting for the Ginotori Knights to arrive.. they start hearing a very loud galloping sound and the gates are opened to the arena signaling the Ginotori had arrived. The crowd shouts, screams and a riot is almost created as the giant centaur, Tsu~endorugu arrives. Towing underneath it, connected by crystal muscle grapples is a carriage and 3 Silhouette Knights. A White Knight carrying a large shield and sword, a Red Knight with what looks like the standard Teretsurare weapons and a Sky Blue Knight.

After the greetings are completed a duel between the 4 Ginotori Knights and the 10 Karudatoa-Norderstedt Knights begins. Tsu~endorugu is used more like a mobile base since it is restricted by the rules.(By the way it wields a giant halberd, has some sort of mobile armor that can be used to intercept attacks(Backpack tech I think) and has a giant lance hidden in its body that it can switch to when needed)

The Karudatoa-Norderstedt Knights go into attack formation and begin to move, but are startled when they start hearing a sound that builds into a shattering roar. The Sky Blue Knight's back plate armor slowly spreads out showing that it is a hollow armor and the magic jet ignites. The acceleration and speed builds up incredible fast at is takes off at the KN frames.(Tired of writing that long name) The leader of the KN Knights is startled, but there is some monsters that have abilities like that. The weakness is they can't turn so he orders an attack using the Backpack weapons, only to be startled when the Sky Blue Knight turns(adjusting the magic jet) and rockets into the middle of the formation taking out a KN Knight before he even knew he was there. The Sky Blue Knight turns to decelerate before rocketing through the formation again and scattering them. The Sky Blue Knight then comes to a rest under the protection of Tsu~endorugu after exhausting most of its crystal core.(Note: Crystal Cores gather Ether, the fuel for magic from the surrounding area and a common tactic is to have knights exhaust their magic, rest and recharge before attacking again.)

The disrupted formation is then attacked by the Red Knight(Dietrich) who uses Lightning Flail to take a KN Knight out of the fight, he then retreats under the protection of the White Knight(Edward) who blocks the KN Knights from following up. A melee begins with the KN leader being very impressed by the combination of Attack(Red Knight) and Defense(White Knight).

The fight continues on with Edward personally battling the KN leader. Tsu~endorugu gallops around the battlefield keeping the KN Knights away from the Sky Blue Knight and trying to prevent the KN Knights from regrouping. The twins managed to get one of their grapples onto a KN Knight and drag it around behind them like a toy.

The magic jet begins firing up again and the Sky Blue Knight takes out another KN Knight before dropping back to recharge again. The Red Knight manages to take out another KN Knight, but then its magic begins to be exhausted. Meanwhile Edward is still battling with the leader of the KN Knights and is desperately trying to think of a way to beat him before his Knights energy runs out.. the leader is impressed by Edwards skill and heart calling him a true knight.

Sensing weakness a KN Knight attacks Dietrich's Red Knight and his energy starts to run out fast.. just when Dietrich was going to be defeated the Sky Blue Knight shoots through on its jet, taking out the KN Knights face with its knee, shattering it. The Red and Blue knight fall down out of energy and the fight.

Soon after the White Knight runs out of energy. The victory goes to Karudatoa-Norderstedt. 7 KN Knights are defeated.. 3 by Sky Blue Knight, 2 by Red Knight, 1 by the White Knight and 1 by Tsu~endorugu.


Gio, the head blacksmith of the National Knight Laboratory feels like its a hollow victory and a fire is ignited making him vow to defeat the Ginotori Knights.

So the prototypes were stolen by some asshole noble in the same country? I can't believe Eru lost.

[Kerfirou]

No, the stolen prototype is stolen by unknown entity, the rest of it was taken care by the country R&D.

[bakato]

Originally Posted by Kerfirou

No, the stolen prototype is stolen by unknown entity, the rest of it was taken care by the country R&D.

Oh, thanks for the correction.

[Kioras]

Makes sense he lost, he was out numbered 10 x 4 and the rules restricted the huge centaur knight.

The Karudatoa-Norderstedt knights made by the National Production Laboratory were finished products, with improved endurance while keeping most of the other advantages over the first prototype.

From the summary the Karudatoa-Norderstedt knight is the one that should go in production, as it could easily be adopted and used without any retraining by current troops. Eru's stuff was more advanced however the tech was not quite there for it to go to the front lines, especially since endurance is important.

Eru's series of knights sound like they require higher training levels to use and would do well as an elite force, after more extensive prototyping and testing.

They should eventually produce both sets of knights with the KN knights being from appearances a finished product, ready to be mass produced.

Besides, regardless of what happens the King got what he wanted, which was to light a fire under the National Production Laboratories.

[bludvein]

Originally Posted by bakato

So the prototypes were stolen by some asshole noble in the same country? I can't believe Eru lost.

Spoiler for reply:

No, the prototype ideas were already shared within the country. All the blacksmith guy did was incorporate those ideas to make a new standard frame. Meanwhile, Eru has already moved on to newer and better prototypes.

The "fight" didn't even matter. It was 4 vs 10, with the pilots on their side being teenagers vs. an elite guard. The result was obvious as to which mechs were better, which was the real point.

[bakato]

Originally Posted by Kioras

Makes sense he lost, he was out numbered 10 x 4 and the rules restricted the huge centaur knight.

The Karudatoa-Norderstedt knights made by the National Production Laboratory were finished products, with improved endurance while keeping most of the other advantages over the first prototype.

From the summary the Karudatoa-Norderstedt knight is the one that should go in production, as it could easily be adopted and used without any retraining by current troops. Eru's stuff was more advanced however the tech was not quite there for it to go to the front lines, especially since endurance is important.

Eru's series of knights sound like they require higher training levels to use and would do well as an elite force, after more extensive prototyping and testing.

They should eventually produce both sets of knights with the KN knights being from appearances a finished product, ready to be mass produced.

Besides, regardless of what happens the King got what he wanted, which was to light a fire under the National Production Laboratories.

Yes. This little fight proved that Eru's still a child and lost sight of the point of making weapons, which is making them so anyone can use them.

Originally Posted by bludvein

Spoiler for reply:

No, the prototype ideas were already shared within the country. All the blacksmith guy did was incorporate those ideas to make a new standard frame. Meanwhile, Eru has already moved on to newer and better prototypes.

The "fight" didn't even matter. It was 4 vs 10, with the pilots on their side being teenagers vs. an elite guard. The result was obvious as to which mechs were better, which was the real point.

Yeah, but won't this asshole's model be the one to get mass produced since he technically won? I can't stomach the notion of him getting his name in the history books off ideas he's stole from our cute trap.

[bludvein]

Originally Posted by bakato

Yes. This little fight proved that Eru's still a child and lost sight of the point of making weapons, which is making them so anyone can use them.



Yeah, but won't this asshole's model be the one to get mass produced since he technically won? I can't stomach the notion of him getting his name in the history books off ideas he's stole from our cute trap.

Eru doesn't really care about the whole standardized line frame. He is an idea man, and he is very good at designing specialized frames and piloting them. Once he gets access to the Ether engine/converter, he'll be able to take care of his group's energy problems and improve his designs by a couple generations.

The head blacksmith dude's frame is better, at least for a standard. So it's perfectly reasonable that it will be used. Doesn't matter, because everybody knows who the source of that generation is, and it isn't him. He will be a footnote who made them practical.

[Archmagination2002]

Remember that one of Eru's goals is to create his own personalized Silhouette Knight, just for himself. Since he was an otaku in his previous life and assumedly watched/owned a lot of mobile suit apparel he will have some idealized Knight he wants to produce. That is the reason why he actually doesn't care and is continuing to push the generations forward without actually refining them into the standardized line frame.

Spoiler for Tidbits from 4:

Eru is now 12 years old and the new students competition to join the Ginotori Knight Division is incredible fierce. To stave off problems Eru has now taken to using Tsu~endorugu in the introduction of the new students. To gain familiarity with the SArmor(which is slowly spreading throughout the nation) Eru now forces the new recruits to build fortresses/buildings with them. Its killing 2 birds with one stone approach.. the SArmor is incredible useful in construction projects and it trains the students in the basics of using a Knight.

[Kioras]

Originally Posted by bludvein

Eru doesn't really care about the whole standardized line frame. He is an idea man, and he is very good at designing specialized frames and piloting them. Once he gets access to the Ether engine/converter, he'll be able to take care of his group's energy problems and improve his designs by a couple generations.

The head blacksmith dude's frame is better, at least for a standard. So it's perfectly reasonable that it will be used. Doesn't matter, because everybody knows who the source of that generation is, and it isn't him. He will be a footnote who made them practical.

Originally Posted by Archmagination2002

Remember that one of Eru's goals is to create his own personalized Silhouette Knight, just for himself. Since he was an otaku in his previous life and assumedly watched/owned a lot of mobile suit apparel he will have some idealized Knight he wants to produce. That is the reason why he actually doesn't care and is continuing to push the generations forward without actually refining them into the standardized line frame.

From the sounds of it he is running 100% off his mecha otaku habits wanting to create his own perfect knight.

I doubt the head blacksmith and the team there will be a footnote. Eru may create the foundation for the new Knights to come out, but it will be up to the other teams to refine his latest ideas into designs that can be used and mass produced.

[Xanadu]

The thing is he is actually well known and at the end of the day not even the ones they brought with them were the ones who stayed at the end, it was a model based in the one from the new model eru presented, pushing the generation once more, he is actually in the mouth of everyone, in this case the lead researcher gives due credit to eru, but the reason the leader of the R&D was worried about eru and the silver knights was another thing altogether.

[amatsunagi]

So in short, At the end of the fight, the Silver Bird and R&D worked together, Silver Bird invent the new Silhouette Knight, R&D are tasked with refining it to standardized line ready to be mass-produced.

@Kerfirou:

Spoiler:

A researcher from the invader side "which-I-forgot-what-his-name-is" found the Ether Levitation and used it to create Levitation Ship, which became his country valuable power, along with the (pfft) new Silhouette Knight, "Tyrant". A~nd as expected, the originator proved to be too strong for them, they get forced, repelled each time and in the end lost in vain.

[Kerfirou]

The originator, as in, the country Eru resides in right?

does Eru actually managed to make a copy of the Levitation Device after that?

Like, the Ship get shot down and Eru Co managed to salvaged the tech.

As a Mecha Fanatics, a Flying Mecha is a must, after all.