Chapter 164 - Volume 2
TL: Some important stuff that I want to talk about after the intro notes.
TL: As you know, I tl TSTBGAM along with TAS regularly. The reason why I tl TSTBGAM is mainly because I wanted something to distract myself from TAS ‘serious’ plotline. In the past TAS took just slightly more than 3 hours, because I didn’t really need to worry about the format of the skill names or search for continuity checks.
However, like I have explained a while ago, the time to TL has gone up. Not only do I have to make the sure the action scenes are making sense, I have to check the skill names in the past and (future) to make sure there’s no TL errors, squash redundancy lines and format stats descriptions. Now one chapter takes 4-5 hours.
As for TSTBGAM, the recent chapters are killing me. It used to be around 1k words per chapter, but it suddenly ramped up to 3.5k to 4.5k words. What used to be 2 hours per chapter, turned to 7-8 hours. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still fun to watch Sue making life miserable for a bunch of people, but I’m pretty much sitting on the chair without a break for that 7-8 hours.
For those of you who always wanted more TAS chapters, well, you’re probably going to get slightly more for the near foreseeable future. Note on PROBABLY, so don’t get excited.
In the mean time, I want to TL a R18 JP series (the series is probably targeted towards the female audience? Haven’t really read it…) that’s going to replace TSTBGAM. If I’m going to spend 7-8 hours to TL then I’ll want to do to improve my kanji dictionary instead.
How long will the hiatus be? Probably 1-2 months, with a freeze on donations too. Right now it’s at a pretty good point for me to stop because the plot won’t move till a few chapters later.
Finally, this chapter is brought to you by donators. Thanks for your constant support. Next regular update will be on next wednesday.
They first looked at where Brendel was looking at, hesitated for a while, before putting their eyes on the older Elementalist sister. She looked at the people around her before pointing at herself: “Me?”
“Yeah, didn’t I ask you before to do this task?” Brendel pointed at the Dark Bishop: “Loot the body…. No, I mean, tidy up the victory items.”
The girl’s pretty looking brows frowned as she bit her lower lips, while she glared at Brendel: “My lord, my name is Felaern, and not l-lucky babe!” Her heavily accented tongue caused her to nearly bite her tongue. She was looking coldly at him as she thought he was trying to cause trouble for her.
“Ah, no, you see, Felaern, lucky babe is something we say to praise someone in my hometown.”
But he immediately saw her looking back at him with suspicion.
“My lord, I have also been to Karsuk, but the locals have never said something like that before…..” Sanford reminded him from the side.
“No, this talk is between us wizards.” Brendel’s recovery was very quick.
“What does it mean?”
“It means that the person’s luck is very good, very moe, and a totally hot girl.”
Even though the Elementalist sister did not know what moe meant, she understood there were some ill intentions somewhere. She glared at her lord as she confirmed in her heart that all human males were certainly lustful beasts. However, she was a subordinate to him, so she did not make any disrespectful actions, nodded and did what she was ordered to.
Suddenly there was a series of soft bangs in the east hills. At first the sounds continued with low rumbles, before clear cracking sounds mixed with thunder-like booms could be heard. The ground where they were standing trembled.
Brendel looked at the pebbles at his feet which moved like they were dancing.
[Why are these sounds so familiar. They sound like Exploding Crystals used in the second Madara War. Come to think of it, I haven’t heard these sounds in the game for decades. How nostalgic…… Wait, what?!]
Brendel’s expression changed and immediately looked up. Indeed, the cliffs in the east were being destroyed in a pile of rising dust clouds.
Everyone stared with gaping mouths as they watched the rocks fly everywhere —