Adopted Daughter of an Archduke Volume 3 by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki [Kazuki, Miya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Light Novel
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2021-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

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Thus began Angelica’s first study group run by my guard knights. She would need to return to the Royal Academy for classes once the feast celebrating spring was over, so she had been engaging in fervent games of karuta in the knight dorms with the other apprentices while she still had the chance. Cornelius taught her how to move her hands to grab the cards she recognized as quickly as possible.

As for studying the fundamentals of warfare, we focused on a book that Lamprecht had brought me back when I passed out after my baptism ceremony. I hadn’t really understood it at the time, since it focused on the use of mana, but with Damuel moving the gewinnen pieces as he explained the passages, I started to feel like I was really grasping it. Gewinnen, incidentally, was a chess-like game where moving the pieces took mana.

“Okay, Damuel. In this case, should I move this piece here?” I asked.

“Correct, Lady Rozemyne. Another established tactic is to move this other piece here.”

Having the strategies explained with visual demonstration appeared to help Angelica a lot, and she even seemed moved by the fact that she was actually understanding things. “So that’s what the text meant there. If only they’d use gewinnen pieces during class...” she murmured.

Both she and Cornelius were now more interested in battle tactics than ever before, since during class, they only ever moved as their teachers instructed, without ever thinking more deeply about what they were doing. Now they were playing with the gewinnen pieces while carefully cross-referencing with their books.

Brigitte glanced toward Damuel. “Is this how you learned about tactics?” she asked.

“My older brother taught me himself, so most of my knowledge on strategy comes from gewinnen.”

Gewinnen was played quite frequently in the Knight’s Order, but since it required mana to play, it was mostly mednobles and archnobles who participated. It seemed that Brigitte had found it somewhat strange that a laynoble like Damuel both owned a set and was using the pieces so casually.

“There was a huge gewinnen boom in the Royal Academy dorms back when my older brother lived there. I have heard that Lord Ferdinand used the pieces to craft strategic theories for the Interduchy Championship’s feybeast hunts and ditter games, which he then explained to others. It ended up being the case that everyone understood the strategies without even needing to attend the lectures,” Damuel explained, making me realize that he probably admired and respected Ferdinand so much in part due to how much his older brother must have spoken about him.

...But seriously, the more I learn about Ferdinand, the more confident I become that he really can do anything.

“I imagine that, by the time Lady Rozemyne goes to the Royal Academy, everyone will already be using karuta and picture books. They are simply that effective,” Brigitte said. “If you ask me, you should raise the price even higher when selling them to other duchies. Establishing such large-scale trends will strengthen Ehrenfest’s position in the country.

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