Favourite moment was Relaire joining in with the Princes doing their Rei impression.
This, absolutely. :D
Relaire has had a lot of funny little background gags in the manga that never would have been possible in the LN
Definitely. I already declared Relaire one of the best parts of the previous chapter as well. :D
I loved the part where she made the tungsten carbine walls. In the novel she also makes bullets to take out the fire balls is I remember. She could revolutionize the whole kingdom right there with making that stuff. Make furnaces out t and walls that no monster or enemy could break through, Tools, weapons and just so many more.
I was actually kinda bothered by that moment. Because as long as they just stick to the Aristotelian four elements as the base of their magic system, I am fine with not looking too deeply into it, but once Rei starts pulling composite alloys out of her ass, I am starting to have questions. For instance, tungsten is a rare metal on Earth, but Rei is able to haul at least a ton of it out of the floor of the arena -- does this mean the arena is composed of chunks of rare metals (and if so, which ones?), does a geode of a tungsten-rich ore just happen to run under it, or is tungsten just naturally abundant in this universe? Or, the most heretical thought: do Rei's earth-based powers just let her nucleosynthesize tons of precious metals on a whim? If so, can she also synthesize gold, like a living Philosophers Stone? If so, is this capacity unique to her? If not, what does the society use as the monetary standard instead of precious metals?
Circling back to the alloy, how did she actually carbide all that tungsten? AFAIK that substance does not occur in (our) nature, so does it mean that it is naturally abundant in this world's soil? Or does she pull the carbon out of the earth or air (less likely, given how she is not an air mage) and let it react with elemental tungsten? If so, how does she achieve the necessary temperatures of 1000+ degrees without having an affinity for the fire element?
One would assume that, as usual, mages simply summon/create their respective elements. Less noticeable with air users or earth users who create walls like that, possible even to explain away with water and fire to an extent, but certainly noticeable at the very least with earth type projectiles. Well, never a good idea to think too much about most magic systems in any case.
