Iken Senki Völundio - Vol. 10 Ch. 73 - Siege of the holy city (1)

[MangaDex]

 

[jlazarillo]

Sorry for delays, but we come bearing bonus chapters, too. The first of these actually ran over a year ago, with chapter II.12 (66) and the other's more recent, having come between the first and second part of chapter II.18 (71).

Looking forward to seeing O...Okay!! Girl kick some serious tail.

 

[RC1138Boss]

Time to bring the fight to the lesser horror.

Also cute bonus chapter.

 

[arashikitsu]

kemonomimi saikyou~

 

[Alcion]

She can't resist the fluff.

 

[ltdome]

Thanks for the treat.

 

[alacaelum]

So even then, Saphia was our favorite little sweet roll XD.

O... kay... this is it then... this castle isn't even close to being the final boss, but in this situation... might as well be.

The plan is solid, all things considered, they got out of the first attack really well, so the respawn time for attack troops kicks in, and they have a window of opportunity... then things stop being easy.

As far as I understand... these castles are less a "building" and more of an extension of the body of the boss monster, so even if they won't have to deal with a full force, it certainly gives a big environment buff for whatever is inside there.

I am not really worried about Shrike's team... but if they lose all these sword wielders they still have, future fights will only get worse.

 

[634]

Having second team for trap checking or sudden reinforcement is really good.

 

[NoTofu]

she's a furry

 

[Midoriha]

Now I wonder, do demi-humans have human ears too? Or are they like Umas? I don't remember if they've ever been shown.

Sorry for delays, but we come bearing bonus chapters, too. The first of these actually ran over a year ago, with chapter II.12 (66) and the other's more recent, having come between the first and second part of chapter II.18 (71).

Looking forward to seeing O...Okay!! Girl kick some serious tail.

Seeing the bonuses translated is wonderful.
One of the most regretful things here is that Comikey for whatever reason never bothered with them.

 

[jlazarillo]

Now I wonder, do demi-humans have human ears too? Or are they like Umas? I don't remember if they've ever been shown.

Just an amusing aside, as someone who was into Undead Unluck, but not so much gacha games, I always have to stop and think for a minute when I see the word "Uma" in English-speaking fandoms.

Anyhoo, I'd assume they don't have human ears. Nanao didn't ever draw that particular race without hair covering where human ears would be in Helck, either, so far as I can recall.

 

[flashmozzg]

I find the way Saphia fetishizes demi-humans kind of problematic. Imagine instead of demi-humans it was "Asians" and it was narrow eyes (or dunno, "westerners" with big noses or something) coupled with treating them as a pet.

 

[SatansBestBuddy]

seeing all these meticulous plans going well are sending all kinds of damage signals

the more you explain the plan to the audience, the more ways you can completely fuck things up

also the sharp contrast between the battle and the bonus pages is very funny

 

[AAA1]

I find the way Saphia fetishizes demi-humans kind of problematic. Imagine instead of demi-humans it was "Asians" and it was narrow eyes (or dunno, "westerners" with big noses or something) coupled with treating them as a pet.

There is a lot of kind of people who treat 'pet' differently. The one who treat them as lower being, the one who treat them as friend, the one who treat them as children, etc.

Without intending to further raise the debate, i am against any kind of things that can support distribution of pets even if it's actually only their processed healthy food. Raising them is fine though. Anything to save all beings is a good act and people need to aware that these have risk and opportunities. Human is limited so it would be arrogancy if people wished human can save them all. Unnecessary meddling and dependant attachment in treating a pet can make a dangerous after effect

 

[1234muse]

I wonder if the empire considers people who don't look like baseline humans to be demi-humans
was the human kingdom not the only place where true baseline humans were left?
I always assumed that everyone outside of the human kingdom was a "demon" including everyone here
so many questions.
are these creatures a new manifestation of the will of the world?
is this what the emperor is always fighting?

 

[dowiet]

the ears are cute also the soldiers are a force to be reckoned with

 

[jlazarillo]

the ears are cute also the soldiers are a force to be reckoned with

the soldiers are cute also the ears are a force to be reckoned with

 

[jlazarillo]

I wonder if the empire considers people who don't look like baseline humans to be demi-humans
was the human kingdom not the only place where true baseline humans were left?
I always assumed that everyone outside of the human kingdom was a "demon" including everyone here
so many questions.
are these creatures a new manifestation of the will of the world?
is this what the emperor is always fighting?

Oh, and on the "demi-human" note, it's kind of a translation convention. "Humans" from the kingdom in Helck were referred to with the Japanese term, 人間 ("ningen"), specifically. That word is never used in Volundio. Even the race that look like "humans" are actually referred to as "Stoltessian". The term that gets translated as "demi-human" is 亜人 ("ajin"), which literally could refer to a sub-species of person but also has a distinct bent of being "inferior" to normal "people".
Because "human" is such a loaded term, I probably wouldn't actually use that, if it were up to me, probably something like "werekin" or something, instead, but we generally try to stick being consistent with the terms used in the official translation (except for "Falca" over "Varka", because it honestly doesn't matter much but I'm really persnickety about that one).

As for the Will of the World's involvement, that's harder to guess at this point, but I lean towards the suspicion that these invaders are unrelated. Heck, they might've even been created to fight the Will of the World, based on certain earlier scenes, and then went out of control. But I suspect the Will of the World might actually end up on the good guys side in this series, in a sort of enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend way.

 

[1234muse]

Oh, and on the "demi-human" note, it's kind of a translation convention. "Humans" from the kingdom in Helck were referred to with the Japanese term, 人間 ("ningen"), specifically. That word is never used in Volundio. Even the race that look like "humans" are actually referred to as "Stoltessian". The term that gets translated as "demi-human" is 亜人 ("ajin"), which literally could refer to a sub-species of person but also has a distinct bent of being "inferior" to normal "people".
Because "human" is such a loaded term, I probably wouldn't actually use that, if it were up to me, probably something like "werekin" or something, instead, but we generally try to stick being consistent with the terms used in the official translation (except for "Falca" over "Varka", because it honestly doesn't matter much but I'm really persnickety about that one).

As for the Will of the World's involvement, that's harder to guess at this point, but I lean towards the suspicion that these invaders are unrelated. Heck, they might've even been created to fight the Will of the World, based on certain earlier scenes, and then went out of control. But I suspect the Will of the World might actually end up on the good guys side in this series, in a sort of enemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend way.

oh that makes it so much clearer. I fucking HATE localization.
I can't imagine the will of the world helping beyond furthering it's own goals though- it still wants to burn everything down, but maybe drawing power from hyperspace is what makes the swords stronger? the author does really like to pull those inversions.