Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord (Novel) Vol. 03

Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City (Novel) Vol. 03

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Van’s carefree days of construction are numbered now that the neighboring kingdom has come to conquer. Once considered useless, his production magic arms his country’s troops against the invasion! Meanwhile, one of Van’s companions is horrified to discover that the enemy has set their sights on her hometown. Does his fellow magical misfit stand a chance against wyverns and explosives with the puppetry skills she so detests?

Series Overview: Van, fourth son of a marquis, is just a toddler when he realizes he’s been reincarnated. Thanks to his literal lifetime of knowledge, he’s raised as a child prodigy—until his production magic manifests, and it’s the last thing his snooty mage family wants to see! His disappointed father banishes him to a podunk town on the verge of collapse, yet Van can only see the place’s potential. Can our hero’s bastion of battlements build a better life than battle magic ever could?!

Biographical Notes:

Sou Akaike is an author of Japanese-language books, best known for fantasy novels like Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City.

Kururi is an artist best known for illustrating Japanese-language novels like Reborn as a Polar Bear, Otherworldly Izakaya Nobu, and Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord: Production Magic Turns a Nameless Village into the Strongest Fortified City.

Title Notes:

SIMULTANEOUS, MULTIMEDIA PUBLISHING: Seven Seas is publishing both the light novel and manga verion of this series.

POPULAR GENRES: Anyone who loves Mushoku Tensei, Arifureta, Reincarnated as a Slime, etc. will feel right at home with this new tale in the hot isekai (transported to another world) fantasy genre.

LIGHT NOVEL: Color inserts and roughly a dozen black-and-white manga-style illustrations complement 250-350 pages of prose.

AGE RANGE: This Adult title has crossover appeal with YA audiences (rated Teen 13+).

More details on Sou Akaike, Kururi:

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Sou Akaike’s Official page

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