Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 10 [Parts 1 to 3] by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

Rescuing Solange

My body trembled, and my breath caught in my throat. I couldn’t shake the thought of Solange sprawled out and on the verge of death, like Ferdinand in Ahrensbach’s Mana Replenishment hall.

“W-We must hurry to the library...” I said and turned to my knights. They nodded at once, having been listening to our entire conversation. It was heartening to see them all ready to go despite the suddenness of this revelation.

I stepped toward Cornelius, only to feel a hand grab my arm. “Hold on,” Ferdinand said. “There are decisions to be made first. To begin with, who will stay here, who will go with you, and who will go ahead of you?”

I turned around and glared at him. “There is no time for that. I must rescue Professor Solange.”

“I understand the urgency of our situation as well as you do, but that does not mean we can drop everything else. We must share the intelligence we have gained and decide what to do with the prisoners. Moreover, who has the key to this villa? There is a chance that Gervasio’s group will return while we are at the library.”

We had no idea where Gervasio was or what he was doing. He might have been at the library trying to get the Grutrissheit, but maybe he was still circling the shrines or fighting at the royal palace in an attempt to kill the royal family.

“If we can squeeze their objectives and current whereabouts from the prisoners, we might be able to plan ahead,” Ferdinand continued. “Furthermore, if we leave too few guards here, Gervasio’s group could manage to free their allies. We will be at an overwhelming disadvantage if they recover the tools we have confiscated and rearm themselves.”

Ferdinand regarded me with stern eyes as he went on to list all the potential dangers: “We conquered the villa so easily not just because our opponents overestimated the strength of Verbergen’s concealment but also because we attacked with overwhelming numbers in the deep of the night. We came up with a plan and successfully executed it. That does not mean our might is vastly superior to theirs. The outcome of a battle where they are armed and ready cannot be known to us.”

The Lanzenavians had great enough mana capacities to have escaped our knights’ restraints, silver equipment that blocked mana, various means of deploying instant-death poison, and other tools unique to their country. And now they had schtappes as well. We might have been able to capture them once, but Ferdinand was right—we could not risk being overoptimistic.

“On an even more important note,” Ferdinand said, “we no longer have the strongest part of our army. Dunkelfelger’s knights are busy fighting at the royal palace and might be for some time; we do not know how much of the Sovereign Knight’s Order has sided with Raublut. We will need to manage our prisoners with only the knights we brought from Ahrensbach, all while being wary of a counterattack from Gervasio’s group or the Sovereign Order.

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