Kouchuugun Shikan Boukensha ni Naru - Ch. 50.2

[Vengeance22]

The raws actually are released consistently again, most recent being 33. Lh have just fallen behind again on a bunch of projects.

What do you mean latest raw is 33? This chapter was 50,2, think you meant 53 no?

 

[Abricomas]

So Alan really became the spy's pawn. If she's more powerful and cunning, she should lead this empire instead and let Alan go back to engineering stuff

It may have more to do with things like taking the local culture into account, that a man would be taken more seriously as a ruler by the locals than a woman, and so she wants to keep him as the figurehead.
Or it could be that she outranks him without his emergency promotion, but because of his command over the ship's remains, he's still technically the commander in charge of the theater. Of course, it could also be some weird hierarchy thing where she's part of some intelligence group like Office of Naval Intelligence and so isn't in the same chain of command.

A really out-there idea is that maybe the woman is another clone, like Selena and Sharon, and isn't actually from the Empire, but created by the Goddess using a leftover cloning pod and the last bits of rare metals she had hoarded. Her knowledge of Imperial science, technology, and military structure are what the Goddess downloaded from Alan and uploaded into the woman, since Alan has a cybernetic implant that the Goddess uses as a backdoor into his consciousness, and the Empire does have flash memory training along with accelerated clone growth. And because the Goddess created her, she wouldn't be restricted by the oaths and regulations that Alan, Iris, Sharon, and Selena are bound.

 

[BladeGrip]

What do you mean latest raw is 33? This chapter was 50,2, think you meant 53 no?

Since someone else said that TL is behind by 5 chapters, my guess is that they wanted to type 55 but their finger slipped to number 3 when they intended to press the same number twice.

 

[Eliminateur]

I wish the uploads were more consistent on this one. ty for the translation though

yeah... 5 months for a fraction of a chapter where nothing happens is though

 

[Pyras]

Raw is at 53 right now.

 

[terranmcv]

Since someone else said that TL is behind by 5 chapters, my guess is that they wanted to type 55 but their finger slipped to number 3 when they intended to press the same number twice.

Chapters 51 and 52 are divided into two parts: 51.1, 51.2, 52.1, 52.2, and 53.
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Btw, starting from chapter 51.1, the content starts to get interesting for readers who are already depressed and screaming "I drop this!!".

 

[Jakeh24]

What do you mean latest raw is 33? This chapter was 50,2, think you meant 53

My bad, edited

 

[KaisarX]

The novel has ended? How did it end?

same moment when manga were stop for a while at the moment 2 old dude talk about MC "starveek"

 

[wilddeath]

Spoiler: WARNING, BIG SPOILER

Because this was all a trap. MC side lured the enemy into their defensive perimeter. Once the enemy reached the second gate, which was right in the middle of the monster forest, Iris turned off the monster repellent devices. Yes, the enemy had been moving around with the monster repellent devices active all this time. Next? Massacre. Iris didn't even need to fire the big guns she had installed on the gate.

Alan being captured was the mysterious girl's plan to have the enemy troops attack Alan's fortress (if Alan failed to be captured, the attack will be canceled). She had already calculated that enemy troops would not be able to penetrate Alan's fortress, and the fortress defense system will destroy them. In addition, Alan could capture Bertha's king, because he was held near the palace.

5 chapters.

kinda figured that was the case.

 

[wilddeath]

Haven't read this in a while so I'm going off memory.

But I think the problem with the new girl is that her existence doesn't make sense.

Alan's achievements in this world as a combatant alone was enough to bring a lot of attention to himself.

So when you bring up a character that could easily beat Alan that was never even mentioned before, it feels off.
As in this girl's abilities would be the talk of the country even if they tried to hide it.

If a score of 100(Alan) is the talk of the town, then why is the person who beat that score unheard of?

As it currently stands, she seems like she was just poofed into existence because the author needed a "Alan gets captured" on the spot without building up for it.

Alan is trying to build a country, that was probably not this girls goal. I mean hell, there is every possibility she didn't exist until recently. Remember how the twins were spawned? She could be a case like them.

 

[terranmcv]

Alan is trying to build a country, that was probably not this girls goal. I mean hell, there is every possibility she didn't exist until recently. Remember how the twins were spawned? She could be a case like them.

Her origins are still a mystery, but based on the raw chapter 51.1, she has some sort of connection to the goddess. Well... at least we know she's on MC's side, even though the way she helps is a bit odd, lol.

 

[wilddeath]

Her origins are still a mystery, but based on the raw chapter 51.1, she has some sort of connection to the goddess. Well... at least we know she's on MC's side, even though the way she helps is a bit odd, lol.

any signs in the raws that the goddess is another AI like i theorized when she first hacked his nanoms?

 

[Grikath]

What I find really interesting is how the plot "demands" that suddenly the main gate, shown with some impressive artillery earlier, simply takes a helpless pounding.

That's not even considering the presence of those drones, or the fact that there's an actual fully automated space warship in orbit capable of orbital bombardment.

Yet they're being pummelled by some cobbled-together steampunk toys without being able to do anything but "close the gates"?
Now that's ....sloppy writing...

 

[Imryse]

Haven't read this in a while so I'm going off memory.

But I think the problem with the new girl is that her existence doesn't make sense.

Alan's achievements in this world as a combatant alone was enough to bring a lot of attention to himself.

So when you bring up a character that could easily beat Alan that was never even mentioned before, it feels off.
As in this girl's abilities would be the talk of the country even if they tried to hide it.

If a score of 100(Alan) is the talk of the town, then why is the person who beat that score unheard of?

As it currently stands, she seems like she was just poofed into existence because the author needed a "Alan gets captured" on the spot without building up for it.

I am guessing time travel shenanigans, it would explain some of the things. she's just showing up now because she has to.

 

[terranmcv]

any signs in the raws that the goddess is another AI like i theorized when she first hacked his nanoms?

There isn't one yet, but the introduction of a new character (the spy girl) might lead to the explanation we're looking for. It seems like she knows something about the goddess that even the locals don't. I also suspect that the goddess is an AI, because the way she communicates with MC is very scientific, by "hacking", a way that is not usually done by supernatural beings.

What I find really interesting is how the plot "demands" that suddenly the main gate, shown with some impressive artillery earlier, simply takes a helpless pounding.

That's not even considering the presence of those drones, or the fact that there's an actual fully automated space warship in orbit capable of orbital bombardment.

Yet they're being pummelled by some cobbled-together steampunk toys without being able to do anything but "close the gates"?
Now that's ....sloppy writing...

Alan's territory is surrounded by 3 layers of walls. Only the second and third walls are equipped with big guns. In this chapter, what was destroyed was the gate of the first wall which was built only for appearance. Regarding why there was no resistance from MC's side, it will be answered in the next chapter (chap 51.1). But if you want a spoiler, I have made it on comment page two, here : https://forums.mangadex.org/threads...ukensha-ni-naru-ch-50-2.2118126/post-24914469

What makes me wonder is how the smoke from the attack on the 1st wall can be seen clearly from the city? I don't know how far the 1st wall is from the 2nd wall, because it was never mentioned. But in chapter 46 it was mentioned that the distance from the 2nd wall (which separates the agricultural zone from the demon forest) to the 3rd wall (which is the city boundary) is 30 km. So the distance from the 1st wall to the city wall is more than 30 km.

 

[Abricomas]

What makes me wonder is how the smoke from the attack on the 1st wall can be seen clearly from the city? I don't know how far the 1st wall is from the 2nd wall, because it was never mentioned. But in chapter 46 it was mentioned that the distance from the 2nd wall (which separates the agricultural zone from the demon forest) to the 3rd wall (which is the city boundary) is 30 km. So the distance from the 1st wall to the city wall is more than 30 km.

It looks like they're looking at the smoke from inside of a building, maybe the second or third floor? That would increase the range at which they could see the smoke.
I did some quick googling, and I've seen people saying 20 or 30 miles, depending on weather conditions, the size of the smoke cloud, and what's being burned, but take that with a grain of salt.

What I find really interesting is how the plot "demands" that suddenly the main gate, shown with some impressive artillery earlier, simply takes a helpless pounding.

That's not even considering the presence of those drones, or the fact that there's an actual fully automated space warship in orbit capable of orbital bombardment.

Yet they're being pummelled by some cobbled-together steampunk toys without being able to do anything but "close the gates"?
Now that's ....sloppy writing...

Chapter 46, Page 8. The gate of the first wall that's shown has no defensive guns. It's just a brick wall with a gate that can drop down.
And on the next page, it shows the pylons which are sonic anti-monster repellant devices, so that explains why there are no monsters attacking the enemy army. The characters mentioned how, even though they're passing through the infamous Great Demon Forest with a caravan of civilians, they haven't detected the presence of any monsters.
So there do appear to be explanations for why the enemy army wasn't attacked by monsters, and why they had such an easy time setting up siege weapons to destroy the outermost wall.

The weapon emplacements you asked about are on the second and third walls, which are shown on Pages 10 and 16.
Page 10 also shows that the second gate is the first one that Alan had to be scanned at for entry.

Edit: As for the drones, they were keeping an eye on the army, so they probably had some reason not to intercept them too early. And the ship may be automated and in orbit, but it's heavily damaged. I don't have the chapter and page, but I do remember that it was said that the hangar was destroyed, and that the rest of the ship was still heavily damaged. While it can repair itself to be able to fight a Bug fleet (Chapter 20, Page 17: perhaps a scout fleet, since Iris said BG-I Type cruisers could be handled, but a single BG-X Type cruiser would be unbeatable), the assumption was that the repairs would take 500 year.
So any weapons the ship has remaining might still be too damaged to operate.

 

[Carn109]

Time for a battle

 

[Abricomas]

I also suspect that the goddess is an AI, because the way she communicates with MC is very scientific, by "hacking", a way that is not usually done by supernatural beings.

I checked back, and it was in Chapter 48.1 where Iris confirmed that there is some kind of nanotech interface used by the Goddess that was created in Alan's body from an interaction between his nanites and the poison that the Prime Minister used to try to kill him. Magically, it's a "curse", but scientifically, it's an "interface", and the magic circuit is similar to what Cleria produces when praying to the Goddess.

 

[WhiskeyWolf]

What I find really interesting is how the plot "demands" that suddenly the main gate, shown with some impressive artillery earlier, simply takes a helpless pounding.

That's not even considering the presence of those drones, or the fact that there's an actual fully automated space warship in orbit capable of orbital bombardment.

Yet they're being pummelled by some cobbled-together steampunk toys without being able to do anything but "close the gates"?
Now that's ....sloppy writing...

I mean, imagine them wheeling that 'gun' anywhere near the Ukrainian no-man's land. That thing would get hit by artillery before it got anywhere near visual range of the trench line, with drones showing up soon after to finish off the survivors.

 

[Dreadkiwi]

So, it has been revealed that somewhere on the planet, high-tier technology exists and the Goddess is likely an advanced AI.

This technology and the Goddess have likely been on the planet for a long time, significantly before Alan arrived.

My big question is this:"What about the bugs?"

Alan's first thought after seeing the planet's general level of technological advancement was that the bugs would immediately destroy the whole population as soon as they discover it. He decided to begin his grand quest to unify the planet in order to prepare for a bug invasion.

Are the local high-tech forces and the Goddess aware of the bug threat? Have they already made plans to deal with it?

This is currently the biggest plot point I want to see addressed.