Muryoku Seijo to Munou Oujo ~Maryoku Zero de Shoukansareta Seijo no Isekai Kyuukokuki~ - Vol. 4 Ch. 18 - The Root of the Miasma

[MangaDex]

 

[susque16]

Thank you so much for sticking with this series and catching up! Appreciate the scanlation work 💞
Feels sorta like this is heading to wrap up in the next volume? Obvs would not mind it going on, but I already feel lucky it wasn't axed in 3 volumes

 

[MacinteuchPlus]

Nuclear grade lore drop

 

[irwen]

 

[UdenEmpati]

So I guess that outfit all but confirms that every saint back to the First, was an isekai'd individual? I wonder if she was summoned by the human kingdom currently ruled by Luliam's mother, or if she wound up there some other way, perhaps even by accident? Which would be interesting, as it would mean that inter-world summoning magic was then devised specifically to try and find more saints, all for the purpose of quelling the miasma (even not knowing the truth behind it). How that turned into Nana & Daichi's case of marrying into the human kingdom's royalty, is my follow-up question; I would have to go back and read earlier chapters, to see if Luliam & Eldora's mother also had a Saint Wife or not (I don't believe she did, or at least not presently, anyway).

The fact that every saint who showed up in that world went off and disappeared, is ominous, though, and it's heartbreaking how much it clearly *weighs on Astora, and that she carries blame within herself for sending so many to their death. I'm sure she knows she could never stop Luliam, and so making it clear to Nana that it's their decision, and not Astora's wish, makes sense. Not like it would stop them of course: Nana will do what Luliam wants, and Luliam wants her master's final bits of time left to be happy. And there's clearly a lot of pragmatic upside to liberating the most historically powerful magical nation from the clutches of such foul energies.
Which...makes me wonder if we'll see a team-up effort between both pairs of Princesses & Saints. Maybe it's a case of Saints failing before because it was just one at a time? Not enough info to guess at, and clearly they weren't going with royal partners since the kingdom we care about is still functioning with its monarchy intact. But if this becomes at all a political power play, Eldora wouldn't sit around and let her sister take the lead. And the potential power in Sol Oculus, to say nothing of the optics of being its savior, are kind of mind-boggling in scope.

Big movement forward in the larger plot, though. Still need to see how the demonic figure factors in (Astora mentioned people of "ill repute" taking advantage of things if they learned the truth of the miasma; so I'm sure she'll show up again sooner than later)--and we have the ongoing mystery of the corrupted staff that caused a bunch of the most recent kerfuffle, and the conspiracy behind that.
So a fair bit of the plot still needs to be resolved, which means I hope this is going for a while, yet.



Exciting stuff, though. Thanks for the TL as always.

 

[Tarkenfire]

I went back and reread the series til now, and getting back to the lake part, where the princess played Tamura like some kind of lesbian sex Bop-It.

That sorta made me think, that if light groping and biting like purified the demon lake or whatever, does that mean that the climax (pun semi-intended) of the series going to be "they have fuck to save the elves"?

 

[NilnisNilneef]

Page 2 gave me a Pavlovian urge to start an Elden Ring run.

The fantasy elements of this series are really well considered. The source of miasma being a corrupted dragon god corpse is compelling stuff. And, just as importantly, the (likely) endgame quest has personal stakes for the princess. I feel like a lot of fantasy glosses over the personal part, like saving the world is just what the MC does on Tuesdays, which is boring and characterless.

 

[Blackwar]

The dragon probably has been cursed by a vile witch. This two pairs need to work together now, one for cleaning miasma and the other focussing on the curse. Later the four working together to purify it's soul.

 

[cryum]

This is clearly a case of the dragon needing a wife

 

[Jybu]

Honestly, last chapter i was loowkeey worried that putting Tamura's power into a hyperbolic time chamber incubator (that also makes u a hundred-ish times stronger) would be a little overkill, Tamura seemed plenty strong with enough kisses!

But with how much of a stubborn nuisance this Miasma stuff is... This "curse" thats been placed on her might be the thing that saves this world on the lowks 👀 Tho, I doubt the dragon's corpse will be a puzzle that is brute force-able so who knows ¯\(ツ)/¯

Ty for the TL!!!~

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[momentofzenkowa]

Thank you for the translation

One typo i saw on page 11: it says "Properity" instead of "Prosperity"

 

[LuxuriaPlays]

Yes more lore

 

[GLFanatic]

Is this another doomed yuri in my feed?

 

[yaqwalker32]

🙂

 

[UdenEmpati]

So I guess that outfit all but confirms that every saint back to the First, was an isekai'd individual? I wonder if she was summoned by the human kingdom currently ruled by Luliam's mother, or if she wound up there some other way, perhaps even by accident? Which would be interesting, as it would mean that inter-world summoning magic was then devised specifically to try and find more saints, all for the purpose of quelling the miasma (even not knowing the truth behind it). How that turned into Nana & Daichi's case of marrying into the human kingdom's royalty, is my follow-up question; I would have to go back and read earlier chapters, to see if Luliam & Eldora's mother also had a Saint Wife or not (I don't believe she did, or at least not presently, anyway).

The fact that every saint who showed up in that world went off and disappeared, is ominous, though, and it's heartbreaking how much it clearly *weighs on Astora, and that she carries blame within herself for sending so many to their death. I'm sure she knows she could never stop Luliam, and so making it clear to Nana that it's their decision, and not Astora's wish, makes sense. Not like it would stop them of course: Nana will do what Luliam wants, and Luliam wants her master's final bits of time left to be happy. And there's clearly a lot of pragmatic upside to liberating the most historically powerful magical nation from the clutches of such foul energies.
Which...makes me wonder if we'll see a team-up effort between both pairs of Princesses & Saints. Maybe it's a case of Saints failing before because it was just one at a time? Not enough info to guess at, and clearly they weren't going with royal partners since the kingdom we care about is still functioning with its monarchy intact. But if this becomes at all a political power play, Eldora wouldn't sit around and let her sister take the lead. And the potential power in Sol Oculus, to say nothing of the optics of being its savior, are kind of mind-boggling in scope.

Big movement forward in the larger plot, though. Still need to see how the demonic figure factors in (Astora mentioned people of "ill repute" taking advantage of things if they learned the truth of the miasma; so I'm sure she'll show up again sooner than later)--and we have the ongoing mystery of the corrupted staff that caused a bunch of the most recent kerfuffle, and the conspiracy behind that.
So a fair bit of the plot still needs to be resolved, which means I hope this is going for a while, yet.



Exciting stuff, though. Thanks for the TL as always.

Most interestingly - upon a bit of re-reading:
The incubating "Buff" spell on Nana was originally thought to be that two-fold curse afflicted upon her during the wedding magic ceremony rehearsal. The one wherein Babulus had cursed the staff Nana would be using, in an effort to screw her over--and more importantly Luliam--in the running for the Crown against Eldora & Tsubasa. Babulus maintained she only cursed the staff to affect Nana, and render her unable to use magic at all. The 'rebound' that targeted Luliam (and ultimately hit Eldora) was allegedly not part of her plan.
And it was Shiela, the elven court mage, who brought up the idea of a two-fold curse, when Nana had recovered but then was completely unable to use magic. So the question becomes: where did that "Second-Curse-But-Not-Curse" come from, and who planted it under Babulus' meddling? Shiela described it as absolutely ancient, even by elven standards--which is why she didn't even consider such a thing in the first place (and that's when they thought it was still a Second Curse, as well). It wasn't until the 1000-year-old elven master mage came along in Astora to actually shed light on anything.

But the most important question of whodunnit remains, and more importantly, why. I had thought way back when we thought it was just two curses--one super old--that it was that Miasma Woman from when they went to cleanse the underground spring feeding into the lake by that town. Now...not so sure. But we know the staff was already leaking miasma enough that Alice clocked it prior to the ceremony when Babulus was doing her shitty stuff leading up to things kicking off. She was cagey AF at that point already, so chances are she'd already done her meddling.
I absolutely refuse to believe that she is also responsible for the Buff Incubation Layer, so I really look forward to finding out what forces or entities are working even further back behind the scenes, to infiltrate the kingdom's palace and royal family, all unseen and unknown to an entire castle full of mages.

 

[Yuri_Enjoyer_Deluxe]

No worries, if they get frisky enough, it might scare the miasma enough to perma-seal it 🔥

 

[flowsthead]

Kind of light on the explanation. Like yes we got some miasma lore, but the specifics of what happened and why she thinks these two have a better chance than most, we were kind of told very little. Where the miasma came from seems not that important right now.

 

[Prismatic-chan]

the things she does for love ..

 

[Siklaws]

The lore was pretty cool. I wonder as she says "not long after that" in page 6, did the first saind die of old age and for a long lived elf it was but a moment or did she die shortly after sealing the elder dragon body because doing so had an heavy toll on the saint?

They do have two saints this time, maybe this time they can fix the problem for good.

Thanks for the translations!

 

[Dust_pile]

Thanks for the chapter!

I feel like it might be better if Luliam doesn't become the queen, as I doubt the queen will be allowed to venture into the miasma to try and cleanse the dragon.

Kind of light on the explanation. Like yes we got some miasma lore, but the specifics of what happened and why she thinks these two have a better chance than most, we were kind of told very little. Where the miasma came from seems not that important right now.

Nana has that "curse" on her that is reworking her so that she is able to use more powerful magic. That, combined with the living magic powerplant that is Luliam, and I can see why they might have a chance together.