Iken Senki Völundio - Vol. 9 Ch. 69 - Light

[MangaDex]

 

[jlazarillo]

Break next week. The conversation on page 15 between Creo and his tutor makes me wonder if Nanao borrowed from a conversation with his editor.
Also, volume 9 also comes out today, and covers through today's chapter! Redrawn chapters are likely coming, but support the series if you can!

 

[Midoriha]

Time for people to get butthurt because Cleo is a special snowflake and not le hard working real human bean like muh Rock Lee.

Still, those are some dumb ass researchers. Let's teach him how to magic but not test what he can do or test to see his element first. Like, really?

 

[Zthulu]

Thanks for the translation!
Love that our boy is getting some recognition, it would’ve been a slog to see him constantly harassed or sabotaged by temple personnel.

 

[LordofLeechers]

Man, I love nobledark stories. Make it grim, make it dark, but let there always be that real sense of hope.

 

[Alx-Jeager115]

So this is the calm before the storm

 

[jlazarillo]

Still, those are some dumb ass researchers. Let's teach him how to magic but not test what he can do or test to see his element first. Like, really?

In fairness, it seems like they did at least some basic testing because, well, they said so, and they'd also determined his wind attribute (something long speculated on but only now confirmed). The only thing they didn't test was his healing magic, and the excuse is definitely glasses dude just not wanting to because "He's Volundio, fuck that", but it's not an entirely unreasonable one.

 

[Alcion]

I dont know why I thought of the comparison, but if Cleo was in Fire Emblem 4, he'd be major blood Forseti and minor Naga.
+50% Hp, +60% Spd, +0% Str, +20% Mag, +0% Ski, +0% Def, +20% Res, +0% Luk. Hmm...

 

[zanonyn]

Such a wonderful manga, thanks so much for the translation! Lots of interesting threads that the author has painstakingly laid out starting to come together in interesting ways, great to see.

One thing I've been thinking about though since last chapter is that the Priestess might possibly be lacking a little in imagination when it comes to magic. I don't know if the time travel efforts by Ida will come to anything, but even 30 years later one game I'll always remember called Chrono Trigger had (among many other great bits) a really fascinating take on this. There is an optional quest you can do to revive the dead, but what really struck me about it is that it's not merely some powerful magic or technology, but a simple magic trick using powerful magic/tech. Like, say someone can make a mindless clone of a person given a DNA sample, and use magic (or even tools/makeup) to replicate scars or tattoos or the like they get. Well, that doesn't accomplish anything to recover the dead, who we are is about our minds and (in these settings certainly) souls, a body clone husk isn't a person. Now imagine you see someone killed, shot through the head or struck down with a sword. Their body hits the ground, their life and self extinguished, you can even test the body and it's clearly theirs genetically and everything... but was it them you actually saw die? We'd never question that, we knew it was them up to that moment, we assume causality as a smooth unbroken continuum. And as the priestess says here the past is the past and creates the present. If causality can be violated either it'll mess up the world or if it's the Everett many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct it'll create a new timeline but the old one will continue as before and become inaccessible.

But now take someone who can control time. They jump back to the past and just before the death would happen, they swap in that mindless clone husk, which then gets "killed". Everyone sees it happen just as before, even them, the timeline is apparently unaltered. Except they've played a prank on the universe, a simple sleight of hand to accomplish the otherwise impossible. They've <revived the dead> in outcome, but they haven't actually revived the dead so much as <the death everyone thought they saw never happened in the first place>. They're playing with the gray space between "what we think we observe as reality" with "what is actually reality". I always thought that was a neat approach to an age old idea.

So perhaps the story will be that of moving on to the future too, but the truest magic also often seems to hinge on the truest dreams and imagination/creative thinking, so perhaps there will be options yet that experts haven't imagined.

 

[larcek]

normally not a fan of convenient powers appearing, but it totally makes sense this time around and i'm still hooked to this.

 

[Cloy552]

I'm sorry did I just read them saying "He must be from the same family line" Because of a scar over his eye?
Like... one of the few physical features that is in no way related to genetics?
Granted he is from the line but like... that seems like the weirdest possible thing to associate with a lineage

 

[cocosusprime]

I'm sorry did I just read them saying "He must be from the same family line" Because of a scar over his eye?
Like... one of the few physical features that is in no way related to genetics?
Granted he is from the line but like... that seems like the weirdest possible thing to associate with a lineage

Maybe it is not pure genetics, maybe it is a curse brand.

 

[jlazarillo]

I'm sorry did I just read them saying "He must be from the same family line" Because of a scar over his eye?
Like... one of the few physical features that is in no way related to genetics?
Granted he is from the line but like... that seems like the weirdest possible thing to associate with a lineage

I'm not saying it's not kinda out there, but we've seen at least three Volundios and they've all had the same scar. So there's something that goes beyond just the normal source of scarring going on there.

 

[Potipecan]

I'm sorry did I just read them saying "He must be from the same family line" Because of a scar over his eye?
Like... one of the few physical features that is in no way related to genetics?
Granted he is from the line but like... that seems like the weirdest possible thing to associate with a lineage

It's been established it's not a scar, but something they're born with.

 

[Meijin]

Aw yeah! We're fully back to that Suikoden 2 vibe the manga is chock full of!

 

[Zael]

It's been established it's not a scar, but something they're born with.

I think the point is, that casual judgemental observers can't easily decipher that, and thus are discriminating jerks against those with similar looking scars.

 

[NutzYaboku77]

Sorry I haven't read this manga yet but where's Kohaku?

 

[ASuperMangaWeeb]

Sorry I haven't read this manga yet but where's Kohaku?

She's in that sack that Cleo kept carrying.