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Wortenia Senki (LN) - Volume 8 - Chapter Aft




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Afterword 

I doubt there are many such readers left, but I welcome any new readers who picked up the series with this volume. And to those of you who have kept up with the series since volume 1, it’s been four months since the last volume. This is Ryota Hori, the author. 

By the time I write this afterword, only two months remain in the year. True to my objective, I’ve kept up a pace of three volumes per year, which is a relief. But as seems to be the fate for an author writing as a side job, my main job becomes that much busier, making this volume something of a difficult stunt to pull. 

My schedule was quite packed, but I believed all I had to do was stick to it and I’d be okay. But it’s said one’s schedule is never fixed, and sadly enough, things never go quite as planned. 

Like, events in smartphone games... And foreign TV shows... I’ve gotten quite hooked on one show called Major Crimes as of late. It’s easy to just attribute it to the attractive actors, but the drama and plot are quite surprising for a detective story, so as an author, I have to give it a firm recommendation. I make excuses, saying I rent out new series for writing inspiration, but this show is good enough to even immerse another author, so do check it out if it piques your interest. 

The biggest problem is, as always, coming up with the drive to write. The author’s ever-present issue of standing before the page with pen in hand, and not being able to write. 

But putting my whining aside, allow me to summarize the plot of this book for those readers who start reading from the afterword, as is customary with this series. Volume 8’s biggest trait is that I’ve started zooming in more on the Church of Meneos and the western continent’s western regions. 


The Church of Meneos in particular is a key term in this story, so it greatly pleases me to have reached this point in the story. I’ve even managed to finally circle back to Asuka and her grandfather, Kouichirou. I’d first written about their development in volume 4, but there was sadly something of a lull in their appearances since. Doing this is very much a load off my shoulders. 

That said, despite zooming in on Asuka and those around her, this volume only slightly touches on the unfortunate police officer who was caught up in her summoning and her mysterious grandfather, Kouichirou. And Kusuda, the other office who was summoned along with her, hasn’t been touched upon since he got lost in the forest. I doubt this pair of unfortunate cops have any fans, but if there are any such people out there, I apologize for neglecting those two. But don’t worry, they have their own subplots, so they should appear in the future. 

Probably. 

Going back to Ryoma’s side, this volume’s biggest moment for him was his talk with Helnesgoula’s queen. As the author, I feel like the protagonist’s side should have more action scenes, but the story’s structure necessitates that he stay behind the scenes. I’d have loved to draw this volume out with descriptions of the war itself, but my page limit didn’t allow it, so I had to end it with the negotiations. But they’re critical for future developments, so I couldn’t omit it. 

But Lione and the others got their time to shine, so the content shouldn’t be boring. Also, this volume introduces Grindiana Helnecharles, whom bob drew in a way that perfectly aligned with the image I wanted to give off. I wanted her to be not a beauty, but a cute girl. To that end she needed to be reminiscent of Shardina, but at the same time different from her. 

Honestly, I didn’t quite know what I was asking for, but bob went along with my absurd demand and got exactly what I wanted. I can’t thank bob enough, really. I can’t draw at all, so I wouldn’t be able to pull off something like that no matter what. If I tried to do it, it’d probably come off as some surrealistic mess full of stick figures... 

War record stories always have a lot of characters, which only means more people to illustrate. Drawing so many distinguishable characters must be hell... Though that applies to Yukari Yagi, who draws the manga, just as much. 

Speaking of, volume 2 of the manga is scheduled for release parallel to this volume. It’s serialized monthly at Comic Fire, so anyone who wants to stay up to date with the release, do check them out. 

Lastly, I would like to extend my thanks to the editors who helped in the publishing of volume 7, as well as everyone who was involved in working on it. But in the end, this series can only continue thanks to warm support from readers such as yourselves. 

Volume 9 is set to come out in the second half of March, and so I hope you will continue to support Record of Wortenia War in the future. 



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