on an aggregator website i saw this chapter as ch18, with translations existing up to ch57. pretty confused why this is so mixed up in here.this chapter properly follows up the last one uploaded however there are missing chapters and this wouldn't be chapter12 when those are correctly put back in.
@kyukuji
People who are great at one thing sometimes get promoted into doing things they're not great at. He's exceptional at fighting monsters which is desirable for someone on the border organizing the defenses against threats but the other two nearby baronies failed so he's now become the head of the southern economic hub. And, history is full of exceptional warriors and generals who became mediocre rulers.It always surprises me the lengths authors go to make their nobles so unrealistically incompetent. So morally corrupt they kill servants for even minor mistakes, so terminally out of touch they dress the entire family in clothing so out of date even their grand ancestors would be ashamed to wear them, or economically illiterate that they are capable of selling everything including their own home, yet can't see the highly expensive hand crafted products that they are producing as a throwaway gift...
Even a mediocre ruler would do better then this... let's be real here, how is one man, his son, and a handful of hunters going to manage a border that big, let alone their little town... add in how economically incompetent he is and the complete lack of support and this just feels like a bad joke. Either the king is even more incompetent then the Count, or they're intentionally hamstringing their borders with malicious intent.People who are great at one thing sometimes get promoted into doing things they're not great at. He's exceptional at fighting monsters which is desirable for someone on the border organizing the defenses against threats but the other two nearby baronies failed so he's now become the head of the southern economic hub. And, history is full of exceptional warriors and generals who became mediocre rulers.
Even a mediocre ruler would do better then this... let's be real here, how is one man, his son, and a handful of hunters going to manage a border that big, let alone their little town... add in how economically incompetent he is and the complete lack of support and this just feels like a bad joke. Either the king is even more incompetent then the Count, or they're intentionally hamstringing their borders with malicious intent.
Or the author a basement dweller with little to no education.
O . oOr you’re unable to comprehend whats written in the story and so have to launch personal attacks at someone far more talented then yourself to make your miserable life less insufferable
That area of the world building is questionable, yes.Even a mediocre ruler would do better then this... let's be real here, how is one man, his son, and a handful of hunters going to manage a border that big, let alone their little town... add in how economically incompetent he is and the complete lack of support and this just feels like a bad joke. Either the king is even more incompetent then the Count, or they're intentionally hamstringing their borders with malicious intent.
Or the author a basement dweller with little to no education.
Don't really see much of a difference. I agree they should never need a diplomat, but that still leaves a large area for a single family of five to patrol and clear of monsters.That area of the world building is questionable, yes.
That said: they're called borders, but what's on the other side is monster land, not another country. So being a lord there is about dealing with monsters, not foreign relations.
Which I don't really have a problem with. Correct tool for the right job and all that. However that doesn't excuse the lack of management skills. That's not to say the Stewart family should handle everything, only that either they or the king should have assigned a capable governor to manage the estate so that the meatheads could focus on clubbing monsters.The Stewarts are a family of meatheads. Even the scholar uncle, Orven, is a meatheat. He just happens to also be good at academic subjects. They're very good at hunting monsters, but completely helpless at administration.
Which is truely short sighted and would mean the kingdom wouldn't last for more then a generation. Two of their three defenders were taken out in short order, hiding in the central area only means that the monsters get free run of the unguarded areas and that the capital is a target rich environment.The central nobles, who are nearer to power, consider the borders' problems to be somebody else's problems, and want to keep it that way.
yeah, the last group to translate this series thats not on mangadex had weird numbering going on for the first batch of chapters. likely due to whoever they got their RAWs from. they at least had all the chapters in order and present but the numbering was quite off. (chapter 9 was listed as 13 there and now we are missing the conclusion to the slimes being dealt with. chapters 1-11 here are correct but now we have a new numbering and content mixup)on an aggregator website i saw this chapter as ch18, with translations existing up to ch57. pretty confused why this is so mixed up in here.
They don't patrol everything by themselves. They lead monster hunters. (And there are other Stewarts - cousins and uncles.)Don't really see much of a difference. I agree they should never need a diplomat, but that still leaves a large area for a single family of five to patrol and clear of monsters.
Which I don't really have a problem with. Correct tool for the right job and all that. However that doesn't excuse the lack of management skills. That's not to say the Stewart family should handle everything, only that either they or the king should have assigned a capable governor to manage the estate so that the meatheads could focus on clubbing monsters.
Which is truely short sighted and would mean the kingdom wouldn't last for more then a generation. Two of their three defenders were taken out in short order, hiding in the central area only means that the monsters get free run of the unguarded areas and that the capital is a target rich environment.