Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan o Erandeiraremasen—Dai 4-bu: Kizokuin no Toshokan o Sukuitai! - Vol. 3 Ch. 10 - Magic Compress…

[Mitsu13]

It's not just the number of steps, it's also that her method is very simple, so easy to visualize and incorporate for other people.
As the lesson from the teachers show, there is no real teaching of compression in the Academy, so each person try to compress based on their own ideas. Most only use a very basic idea, like Rauffen just pushing back the mana (which is pretty much only the step 1 of Rozemyne's method)
If someone manage to create a great method, he's more likely to keep it hidden as a heirloom technique taught only to his descendants, in order to get more influence down the line.

It all comes to imagination. And in lesson teachers give their own examples how they do it. It show that the are many way you can approach mana compression but at same time it too confusing for new students

Most important thing is that the more mana you have the more advantages you have as noble so if you cane up with something good yourself as compression method you will not be sharing that knowledge. Usually not even with your siblings as they are potentially your rivals for inheritance etc.

Powerful houses like royals have their own compression methods which they passdown and that helps them be in top in terms of mana capacity

Thank you for the explanations. I want to ask more, but I am afraid it will be annoying. Thank you for the detailed explanation.

 

[daedalron]

Thank you for the explanations. I want to ask more, but I am afraid it will be annoying. Thank you for the detailed explanation.

Feel free to ask more if you want ^^ The main issue is that sometimes, answers are hard to give without spoiling anything

 

[CruiserEgg97]

I didn’t read the novel so I didn't read the part where Myne create the compression method. Why is her compression method so special if they actually learn about compression in school?

Cos it's compressed like a cube of hydrogel...

I believe none of the nobles in Ehrenfest has the mana capacity of rozemyne, other than Ferdinand. (The Aub might just have more by virtue of his position. But then family politics might have involved in the choice, plus the entry to the temple by Ferdinand (there's a few more spoiler point related) )

 

[Kathartes]

I believe none of the nobles in Ehrenfest has the mana capacity of rozemyne, other than Ferdinand. (The Aub might just have more by virtue of his position. But then family politics might have involved in the choice, plus the entry to the temple by Ferdinand (there's a few more spoiler point related) )

Myne already has more mana than Sylvester, and she still loses to Ferdinand. Back then the only person who could match him was Veronica (thanks to her lineage from a greater duchy), but now that he learned Myne's method it's no longer the case.

I didn’t read the novel so I didn't read the part where Myne create the compression method. Why is her compression method so special if they actually learn about compression in school?

Beside what others said, there's a common knowledge that mana capacity will stop growing once people reach adulthood. Because compressing mana too early stunts physical growth (such as Myne's case), nobles only have a few precious years to improve as much as they can -- like a magical puberty. But her method is revolutionary that it allows even an adult like Damuel to grow more, pretty much doubling their allotted time.

 

[WhimsiCat]

Spoiler

Incorrect. It is actually the one.

(spoiler for the music teachers invitation)

Spoiler

You're right. I thought this is too early in the arc since Rozemyne hasn't even seen Eglantine dance yet.

Turns out it take a while for that particular tea party to get scheduled and the whirling class (as well as the library incident) happen in between then.

 

[Grikath]

Knight Attendants actually impressing "professor mcGonagall".... Got to admit.. that's a feat in and of itself, as young as they are..

"Tea Party.. ok.. guess we'll do that one... BOOKS!! LIBRARY!!!!" Myne in Action....

( to be fair... i'd be sort of the same... slightly more aware, age and experience having their effect, but.... yes.. BOOKS!!! LIBRARY!!!"

 

[NotSoNinja]

Ferdinand: I locked in.

Maine: I let go.

 

[thelakeman]

There was an illustration of him in RAS 1st year.

Yeah I didn't read the spinoffs.

 

[thelakeman]

I didn’t read the novel so I didn't read the part where Myne create the compression method. Why is her compression method so special if they actually learn about compression in school?

Aside from what the other LN readers have already said, I would like to also add that Myne's method is special because of her being a frail devouring kid who has been teetering on the brink of her own mana killing her ever since she got reincarnated. She basically had to learn to compress her mana as much as possible using her own intuition and imagination, to prevent damage to herself and those around her. Not to mention her mentor and doctor being Ferdinand, probably the guy with the best compression method around aside from her. Meanwhile normal noble kids get to have mana tools and are never in a 'compress/control mana or die' situation nor do most of them undergo devouring (its true nature is not just commoner born with mana), and only learn to do it much later on in their life in the academy as a way to increase their mana.

 

[LiAuN]

I think this is my first time seeing an illustration of Rauffen (or maybe I forgot/overlooked it in the LN), ngl I had a bit of a different image of him, but he looks like what I'd expect from his personality.

he's on the color ilustration (and another picture) in the "royal academy stories" side volume

 

[LiAuN]

I didn’t read the novel so I didn't read the part where Myne create the compression method. Why is her compression method so special if they actually learn about compression in school?

if you haven't read it yet it's no wonder you don't know as it's part of part 3 content that hasn't yet been adapted to the manga. but in essence

Spoiler: compression methods

different compression methods are differently effective. that's why teachers tell how they compress it each person has a different way of doing it. RM just happened to find a really really effective one. and noticed something that most ppl didn't. that is that compression is a lot easier to achieve if you have a visual representation of your mana and what you want it to achieve. for an example of why hers is so effective. most nobles have to work rediculously hard for multiple generations to be able to rise in rank 1 of the conditions that we know is that you have to have children that achieve the next rank in mana requirement for at least 3 generations. your mana organ also mostly stops growing when you come of age. RMs compression method was so effective that Damuel (who was on the lower end of a laynoble was able to match Brigitte (who was a middling mednoble in mana) after only 1 year of compression with her method

 

[LiAuN]

Thank you for the explanations. I want to ask more, but I am afraid it will be annoying. Thank you for the detailed explanation.

1 thing that wasn't mentioned is that the circumstances of the world because just like you behave "above your station" and new intentions coming in the form of a trickle down system from the top. so if you found a way to compress your mana 2 much without proper backing you could have easily just been cut down before your family achieve anything. that very heavily limits true innovation and imagination which is also why there aren't really that many different leisure activities that we see

 

[LiAuN]

Myne already has more mana than Sylvester, and she still loses to Ferdinand. Back then the only person who could match him was Veronica (thanks to her lineage from a greater duchy), but now that he learned Myne's method it's no longer the case.

we don't actually know if that's true. (at least i don't remember it ever being confirmed)

 

[daedalron]

Yeah I didn't read the spinoffs.

HERESY!!!

Joke aside, you really should read them, there are plenty of great stories, giving some intel as to what was happening behind the scenes.

 

[daedalron]

we don't actually know if that's true. (at least i don't remember it ever being confirmed)

Not sure which part you say is still uncertain.
Myne had more mana than Sylvester in P2V2 (the trombe incident). That was confirmed directly by Ferdinand. In early Part 4, Sylvester had more (since he used the Rozemyne method for 2 years while she slept), but she quickly overtook him again as she created her 4th step (plus her growing up).
As for the single person who's a match for Ferdinand, it is not confirmed in the LN, but it is answered by Kazuki-sensei in a fanbook Q&A session.

 

[LiAuN]

Not sure which part you say is still uncertain.
Myne had more mana than Sylvester in P2V2 (the trombe incident). That was confirmed directly by Ferdinand. In early Part 4, Sylvester had more (since he used the Rozemyne method for 2 years while she slept), but she quickly overtook him again as she created her 4th step (plus her growing up).
As for the single person who's a match for Ferdinand, it is not confirmed in the LN, but it is answered by Kazuki-sensei in a fanbook Q&A session.

yes but that's later on pure mana capacety currently even with the 4th step we don't know if she overtook him YET.

 

[Justking14]

Aside from what the other LN readers have already said, I would like to also add that Myne's method is special because of her being a frail devouring kid who has been teetering on the brink of her own mana killing her ever since she got reincarnated. She basically had to learn to compress her mana as much as possible using her own intuition and imagination, to prevent damage to herself and those around her. Not to mention her mentor and doctor being Ferdinand, probably the guy with the best compression method around aside from her. Meanwhile normal noble kids get to have mana tools and are never in a 'compress/control mana or die' situation nor do most of them undergo devouring (its true nature is not just commoner born with mana), and only learn to do it much later on in their life in the academy as a way to increase their mana.

Her being a reincarnated person also helped here both because he gave her a wider list of experiences to take inspiration from but also because her being mentally allowed her to compress more efficiently than a child could. Ferdinand and Karstedt were absolutely gobsmacked That she managed to compress that far without dying

1 thing that wasn't mentioned is that the circumstances of the world because just like you behave "above your station" and new intentions coming in the form of a trickle down system from the top. so if you found a way to compress your mana 2 much without proper backing you could have easily just been cut down before your family achieve anything. that very heavily limits true innovation and imagination which is also why there aren't really that many different leisure activities that we see

Even without actively being cut down. There’s a good chance that your family will never go anywhere because who the freak will you marry? Those at your current station would be incompatible with you (unless they also manage to compress) and those above you would be hesitant to marry someone beneath them unless they already have a pretty awful reputation and no one else will marry them

 

[mahtan]

It is always nice to see our small idiot getting reality checks.