The Exiled Heavy Knight Knows How to Game the System - Vol. 12 Ch. 105

[noname120]

woot +5!

 

[ironhant]

man he really wanted to rest after that kind of journey

 

[Tonytakanawa]

Respect for taking himself out instead of letting not his student fight them.

Seriously, I'm reading Ch 49 and it really drives home how much he wanted to be a role model and protect her from following his path. Dude sucked, but respect for that.

 

[StormSen]

Kalos was an asshole, but he wasn't a total asshole.

In the end, he protected two things: 1) the person who elevated him from being powerless to being powerful; and 2) Hilde whose life he did not want to damage. He is not turning over a new leave and becoming a good guy -- he's still being who he was before -- a less than total asshole.

 

[JACGohu]

Right now, I'm more concerned about that little bundle of misplaced chaos who calls herself his apprentice. I hope she doesn't wind up being a royal pain in the posterior, especially long-term. She just doesn't seem bright enough to comprehend that her "master" was the bad guy here. Granted she wasn't there for most of the discussion or fight, but she feels like the kind who won't even believe the official report, or even the findings of a Guild-led investigation.

 

[StormSen]

Kind of bad for the plot, a rich guy would just buy criminals to kill and put his kid in his party to have the kid high level quick

Chapter 24, "Life Shifting" < That's what it is. But it has substantial limits:

• The exp you get is based on the level of the killed person. The party only gets exp here because Kalos is so high level.
• Exp also depends on how much of a "battle" it was. (WN) So, accidental killing may well give no exp.
• Because of these various limitations, leveling by killing others is pretty limited.
• Generally, it's more cost efficient to kill mobs rather than humans.
• This is used for Maris, but it's basically just a "jump start" to get an initial level raise. (It's expensive: requires high level prisoners who have been sentenced to death.)
• Also, "Life Shifting" is only used (in secret) by a few high level noble families.

Still... It's hard to avoid the logical implications. Adventurers do get into duels, and those duels can be fatal (as noted in the Hilde vs Elma duel). So it would be well known that adventurers can gain levels by killing other adventurers. Author probably needs to explain limits a bit more.

 

[Intrigbagarn]

Dang, the panel where he self immolated was a cool shot.

The art (the creature design is so fcking baller) and page layout of this series is way to good for this otherwise kinda mid standard isekai story.

 

[chendu]

tanks for the food

 

[Al_Azif]

I expected him to self destruct and try to take out the others with him but I guess Hilde being there made a lot of difference.

 

[deezenautz]

Kind of bad for the plot, a rich guy would just buy criminals to kill and put his kid in his party to have the kid high level quick

Isn't that similar to what Elma's sister did?

 

[Nick86]

Obligatory evil dude past to make is less evil, nope, kill him asap and do not dare to save him from suicide, stop this damn clichè, take example from last boss novel.

Btw, both this and last boss have anime in the making.

 

[Carloseror]

Kind of bad for the plot, a rich guy would just buy criminals to kill and put his kid in his party to have the kid high level quick

They kinda did that for elmas sister, so it's established to be an actual thing in the story.

 

[Guolker]

Dmnnn!
I must re-read previous chapters to know why are we here.

 

[booterror]

My man out here more prideful than fucking Escanor.

 

[Menovurscent]

Dude went out like a baller. He had the villainous upper hand of playing the sympathy card against the MC party but chose to stay true to his role 'til the end.

He did say that he had a high level of pride, so it's only fitting that he'd rather just pull a fancy death than do something "pathetic" like that.

 

[Arcara]

Uh what fireball has gravity now?

 

[Aoitenshi]

I wonder why they still received exp even though he killed himself.

 

[Angelnickl]

5 levels from a kill steal...I suppose he was worth that much at least.

 

[thycondrius]

That dude was CRA-ZY!

 

[nuttyknight89]

While the exp at the end was a hard hitting bit, dude went out like a bitch. Scum till the end.