Volume 11 is largely a Vacation Episode that has the Sword Roses visiting Chela's family home over winter break. It comes after a four-volume Tournament Arc and intervening mayhem caused by Cyrus Rivermoore, and the assassination of Demitrio Aristides, which features our first look at a fight between two Spellblade wielders. Pete Reston begins suffering painful mana disruptions upon becoming a Sex Shifter. According to main character Oliver, this is a fairly common side effect of changes in the body among mages: in addition to normal puberty and illness sometimes causing it, he recalls helping a woman through mana disruptions caused by a pregnancy. It was his cousin Shannon.

Chloe Halford: Oliver's mother. Oliver had a good and loving relationship with his mom, she taught him valuable life lessons and skills, and played with him a lot in his childhood. Her murder sent him on the path of vengeance. Jumping on a Grenade: Pete makes a mistake in the first practical alchemy class and his potion starts a chain reaction. Oliver flips the cauldron upside-down and dives on top of it right before it explodes to keep anyone in the class from getting injured, coming away with some minor burns. Constructed World: The world is fairly transparently a Historical Fantasy version of the Eurasian supercontinent, taking place in an equivalent to the European Union. Azia is Asia and Yamatsukini is Japan circa the Sengoku Period, Yelgland seems to be Britain, and Farnland is probably Finland given Katie's surname Aalto. Other locations mentioned include Ytallia (Italy) and Indus (India).When the faculty of Kimberly Magic Academy discuss the disappearance of Professor Darius Grenville in volume 2, the possibility that a student may have killed him is suggested, and then immediately discarded as impossible: as Headmistress Esmeralda puts it, "If, by some chance, a student did kill him, that would mean Darius was never fit to be a Kimberly instructor." This means that the prime suspects are the other instructors. This was exactly what the killer, first-year student Oliver Horn, wants them to think—and in their defense it indeed wouldn't have been possible if he didn't have access to his mother's Ghost Memory. However, after a second professor is confirmed to have been murdered in volume 6, the idea that one or more students might have been responsible starts to gain more traction: in volume 7, the senior-year combat leagues are intentionally arranged so that Esmeralda can determine if any of their students might have been strong enough to do it after all. Rossi takes a dislike to Oliver for hogging all the gossip after the events of volume 1, and starts the Tournament Arc in volume 2 basically as an excuse to duel him. Oliver soundly thrashes him and then starts tutoring him in the sword, and Rossi teams up with Andrews in volume 7, likewise hoping for a rematch. Superpowerful Genetics: While we don't know exactly what mechanism leads to the ability to use magic, it is known that magic can either be inherited or appear spontaneously in non-magic families, but either way it's something you have to be born with. Mages are even known to use selective breeding to try to produce more powerful mage children. Durability: Can defeat trolls who can pulverize a warg with a single fist. Could keep with the Demonic Indus Bird - Garuda who is stronger than a troll but would eventually lose to it.

Adaptation Distillation: The manga adaptation of the first volume's story skips a few scenes in the Sword Roses' investigation of the incident at the entrance ceremony to speed things along, among them the group interrogating the student who made Katie run towards the parade of magical creatures, and trying to trade for information with the talking plants by the entrance by making them laugh. It also cuts most of the first alchemy class with Darius Grenville.

a b "Reign of the Seven Spellblades Light Novels Get TV Anime". Anime News Network. December 11, 2021 . Retrieved December 11, 2021. A manga adaptation, illustrated by Sakae Esuno, was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Monthly Shōnen Ace magazine from May 25, 2019, [31] to November 25, 2023. [32] As of June 2023, seven tankōbon volumes have been released. [33] The manga series is also licensed in North America by Yen Press. [34] Volumes [ edit ] No.