Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 5 Volume 8 [Parts 1 to 6] by Miya Kazuki

Author:Miya Kazuki
Language: eng
Format: epub

The Aub’s Protection

We flew out of the castle on our highbeasts. Ahrensbach was much warmer than Ehrenfest, so although it was only around the time of Spring Prayer, it felt humid enough to be the start of summer. The duchy had been shrouded in darkness when we’d arrived, but now the sky was turning from purple to faint yellow, casting light on the white port and the Noble’s Quarter. There were no walls or gates around the lower city as there were back in Ehrenfest.

Atop the ocean, which was one shade darker than the sky above, three slow-moving silver vessels made for the border gate. A fourth was still sitting at the port; its crew hadn’t yet finished preparing to leave, I gathered.

Ferdinand sent an ordonnanz to the Ahrensbach and Dunkelfelger knights keeping an eye on the Lanzenave Estate, instructing them to stay in position. Then he sent several more.

Word of our situation had reached the knights still in the castle, and those carrying out rescue operations all over the Noble’s Quarter were gathering back together. They couldn’t believe their eyes when they caught sight of my Pandabus. One of them shouted, “A grun!” and produced his schtappe, but the others quickly intervened. “No, that’s not a feybeast!” they cried. “That’s the new aub’s highbeast!”

L-Lessy’s not a grun...

“Eckhart, Heisshitze,” Ferdinand said, “form squads of ten knights each and assign them captains. Each squad is to receive its own orders. Captains, commanders, and their retainers are to land on the gatepost of the outer wall. Everyone else, remain airborne.”

“Sir!”

Eckhart and Heisshitze received their orders while flying their highbeasts and got straight to work organizing their squads.

“Rozemyne, over there is the gatepost I mentioned,” Ferdinand continued, nodding at the wall ahead of us. “Once we land, distribute magic tools to each squad.”

“Can do,” I replied. “Matthias, Laurenz, Leonore, Cornelius, do what you can to assist me. Angelica, remain on guard duty.”

“Understood!”

The captains and commanders slowed down as we neared the wall around the Noble’s Quarter. Then everyone who wasn’t using a drivable highbeast packed with luggage dismissed their mount. We distributed flash-bangs to Squads One and Six, area-enhancing tools to Squads Two and Seven, and so on, doing as Ferdinand instructed.

“Lady Hannelore,” he said, eyeing her drivable, shumil-shaped highbeast, “you are more than welcome to return to the castle and rest with your guard knights.”

Hannelore gave a troubled smile and shook her head. “I came here to restore my honor and wipe away the shame of my surrender during our previous ditter match. Running away again would not be acceptable. At the moment, I am contemplating whether the wolfaniels we acquired in the Noble’s Quarter could be brought into the Lanzenavian ships.”

She gestured to the back of her highbeast, where three wolfaniels were lying with their heads down. They looked very similar to dogs and were, like shumils, rather popular pets among the nobility.

She wants to send pets into the ship?

I wasn’t at all sure what Hannelore was planning, but Ferdinand realized straight away.

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