[TWS] Chapter 178 - At the Edge of Greatness [HIDDEN]

MadRat

Thx for the chapter 👍👏👏

Saileri

Just a jab at the genre, where it's so common to be almost the defining aspect. There can't be a generic isekai without a circular town cut in the middle by the river :v

hawkshe .

Why Isekai?

Darth Mole

Finished book 4 with enough time to read the contents of book 5 before they go poof on Patreon. Yay me! ;)

Brian Newcomer

I totally missed that. Thanks for the reminder.

Saileri

Then yeah, it was already mentioned that she would most likely be moving in for a little "vacation" from the academy.

Brian Newcomer

Grea of course! :) I'm sure you have a plan..you always have a plan.

Saileri

Who? I think pretty much everyone important has been mentioned.

Brian Newcomer

Hmmm, I wonder if there will be room for a certain Demon's new workshop in their new castle home. She seems to be the only one left out in the move, other than the obvious Princess, which I'm sure will come in time.

Greg Szarko

Agreed.

Illiterate Scholar

On Earth it would definitely have to be man-made. In the timescale of rivers, when two meet, they would end up absolutely destroying the point of land on the downstream side, and eventually would either create a lake, or the water would choose the tributary that is deeper/lower. With a lake as a buffer, two downstream tributaries would be possible. It would be interesting if the castle had been built on a mad-made island in the middle of a natural lake to serve as a deep, wide moat, though it would be odd for a town to fully surround a lake.

Excellent chapter! I can’t wait for them to start their town building!

Ralph

It’s a perfect island home for a dragon and his family!

Saileri

I'll try to give some more insight into it when we are near the castle then. They aren't perfectly "straight". It's something like two heavily bent brackets )( but at a sharper angle. They initially almost touched but someone made an island in the middle with a moat. They still don't flow into a single one and the pick their exits like on a car roundabout but they can't see it from afar, unless Asterios zoomed in with his sight. The moat is split into two halves, pretty much.

Jon Torres

I think I came up with a reasonable example, there are a pair of rivers (Bassac & Mekong) running mostly parallel near the border of Cambodia and Vietnam that have a couple of natural tributaries and several man-made canals connecting them together at multiple points. None of them are quite like the idea laid out in the chapter, but it's not unreasonable (in this fantasy world) to think there could have been two rivers that came close to converging so someone built a castle in between them and then used magic to create channels connecting them together and finish the encirclement.

John Duncan

I wish you could do 1 chappy a day, but I understand. Great build up at the end. And to answer the question about the river it split before the town and then came back together, and then split again. Not hard to figure out.

Kestril

They don't, on Earth...but then, neither does magic. ;-)

Matthew Frasier

I really enjoyed this chapter not every chapter needs to be fighting I really like getting some day by day things showing us that the gang isn't always just fighting

Michael McLeod

If I'm reading the end right the rivers meet in the middle of town form a moat around the castle and then split again

Andrew Poe-Bowdren

I’m having trouble visualizing it. How are two rivers dividing the town into four? If it’s an intersection then I don’t think rivers really do that without a lake. Usually they just merge.

Ralph

Please sir can I have more!