Woah, that's a big surprise. Neither Lia nor Luke seemed to be strained from the large barrier that they generated.
I wonder why this difference emerged from creating the barriers directly as opposed to using the barrier boxes, when they're supposedly using the same mana conversion process. I would expect the rules of magic to be the same, so there's something else that is happening besides the conversion. Maybe barrier boxes don't have perfect copies of the conversion process due to manufacturing defects and so the barriers fail to resonate while Luke somehow managed to perfectly copy Lia's barrier conversion process which caused the resonance. I guess we'll know once Lia and Luke study different barrier boxes and maybe someone besides them replicates the personal barrier, to test if their barrier also resonates with Lia's or Luke's. Or maybe it's the opposite and this increase in the barrier's range is due to the barriers being different rather than similar. But I'd just find it strange that this phenomenon was never observed with barrier boxes and that somehow the mana conversion plate always does the exact same thing. Well, I guess it might be the case if it's just a property of the material rather than any specific manufacturing technique, but we were informed that there was a variance in the quality of these conversion plates and that the central kingdom kept the secrets to that manufacturing technique very closely so I don't think that's it.
Maybe Lia could generate a barrier and then generate a separate barrier (rather than use the whole body, maybe use the left hand and right hand as separate points of expulsion of mana) and overlay it to achieve this same effect of a hyper efficiently created barrier.
Well, I guess it'll take a couple of chapters before an investigation on this phenomenon begins, since they'll be spending the next few chapters denying what happened, enjoying the hospitality of the Wester family and then heading back home. Still, this event will likely lead to trouble down the line.
It's quite crazy that Luke managed to copy the personal barrier so quickly when it took weeks for Lia. I assume it's because he was formally trained for far longer to control his mana while having an example directly shown to him whereas Lia was self-taught, starting from scratch and learning through trial and error. If he had taken more time, they could have kept this ability hidden.
Oh and from the cover, it seems that Lia will be spending time with the young prince who is her age.
DDDDOOOOOOOOODDD, take your time, I'm just happy you are TLing this at all.
NOOOOOOOOO, DEW IT NAAAOOOO. GEEV US MOAR!!!!
Anyways, it's nice to see more of this, so hopefully NBCJScans keeps translating more chapters in a timely manner.
bruh that barrier was MASSIVE, gona be crazy when others in the future can also do the same, I'm still wondering what is the source of those spirit monsters....are they created randomly like monsters spawning via a dungeon or are they man made? wonder if a barrier big enough expanding the whole country could knock them all out into the sea wiping out all of those ghost like spirits, then there would be no more need for a barrier since the ghosts are gone hmmmmm
Yeah, we don't know where these hollows come from, nor if they'd be harmed by being in the sea. We just know that there are times when they are more active and that they copy the form of the people they kill, which happens by sucking their mana, which they gather into crystals. It'd be interesting to know what happens when they get caught between barriers but apparently it's possible for barriers overlapping to just merge and become exponentially bigger. With that said, IIRC hollows can be cut by swords injected with mana, so what if you made the barriers spiky?
I'm definitely curious about the lore.
