Just because someone is fighting with all their strength and conviction doesn’t mean the methods used are good, or should be looked at positively. Belavierr has used hostages to try and stop people from attacking her. She caused someone to turn traitor and kill his allies, and then kill himself. She is using summoned creations, undead, and spirits that – while not directly targeting them – are still attacking residents of the town if they get in the way. She’s utilizing needles and thread from residents that have probably caused a number of incidental injuries.

Should Belavierr fight against her enemies? Yes, absolutely, and I agree that she should do so in whatever ways she has at her disposal. That doesn’t mean anyone else should like the methods she uses.

He still has his flames that can even burn away Belavierr’s immortal protections. The coven could maybe stop him, but probably not before he could kill Wiskeria. If he’s anything like A normal Knight, he probably has at least one challenge-type taunt skill, and while such might not work on Belavierr, Wiskeria is much, much lower level. He could force her to fight, and burn her to a crisp.

And yes, the coven would then kill him. But Belavierr’s daughter would be dead, so he would have struck the only blow against her that was possible.

Az’Kerash had a couple advantages I his fight against Zel, beyond just being prepared for him: Zel had already been fighting against Reiss’ army for a while, and likely used many of his skills; Zel was also not expecting Az’Kerash to be able to possess Reiss and teleport in his minions for a surprise attack. Given how well Zel did even in that situation, he likely would have won a straight-up fight against the Necromancer, or at least made it a draw (since Bea only needed a touch to nearly ensure Zel would lose/have to retreat).

As far as Teriarch vs Az’Kerash goes, I don’t think Teriarch would have won when attacking remotely like he did. Az’Kerash would likely have been able to ward him off, even if the cost would have been massive. Considering that there have been at least a couple mentions of magic being much, much harder to perform at a distance away from your body, a non-remote fight would almost certainly end with Teriarch winning. None of the Necromancer’s minions could do anything to help, and even Az’Kerash was pretty much relegated to a full defensive.?

Tidebreaker General is verifiably a defensive class, and has been stated so a few times; Zel himself is just stupid strong on his own. Necromancer and Stitch Witch are probably neither offensive nor defensive. Rather, both Az’Kerash and Belevierr are strong due to their vast lifespan. The Necromancer is over a century old, with all of the levels, skills, and time to build his armies/minions that that brings. I am guessing he has some sort of “phylactery” type skill, which is what allowed him to survive his first encounter with Zel; less straight up “defensive” and more of a specialized “you have to kill me twice in succession” skill, or something like that.

Belevierr is hinted at being much, much older than that. Her offensive capabilities are, like Az’Kerash, a product of building up over that entire duration. Her defensive abilities, on the other hand, are a product of both a huge number of wards built up over time, as well as just the simply massive amount of lifespan she siphons off of people when she practices her craft. Raim used up thirty years of his life to burn away decades, or possibly hundreds or thousands of years worth of wards/lifespan before she became vulnerable. Other classes could have likely done the same eventually, but even if you imagine as one fatal attack being able to remove 20-50 years of her effective lifespan, she would probably need to be subjected to dozens of fatal hits to do what he did. She essentially power-gamed her class to become almost immortal.

This is not quite correct.

Rhir has two (maybe 3? Don’t remember Tom’s level) who are at “gold rank” level, but they are almost certainly inferior to actual gold rank adventurers. For all that they are fighting against demons, they have very little actual experience. Level also doesn’t account for everything: Pisces is above level 30, and has been shown multiple times to not really be quite up at gold rank. Considering how much time it tends to take to learn spells, the hydromancer in the Rhir group likely also has only a couple spells she has learned herself, outside of whatever she has gotten directly by leveling. Tom is the only one that is anything special, and only when he turns on the crazy. Everyone else in the group besides those three are weak and useless.

Laken might be an Emperor, and he certainly has some strong skills, but he is almost useless outside of his domain. Even inside it, besides organizing River farm better than it was, his only notable “accomplishment” is his trebuchets, which turned out to be a pretty bad idea: still have no idea why Ryoka gave him plans for those, when she is so against providing much of any technology from Earth, even if they already had trebuchets there. He could definitely be a powerhouse in the future, if he survives, but overall he is about as effective as a wet noodle right now.

I don’t know if Geneva has had her level stated in a while, so she could be decently high. Regardless, while she is certainly useful in some situations, I wouldn’t really call her “strong” in most senses. Heck, if it weren’t for Okasa she’d already be dead. The ties she will likely make with the Titan will help out for her – and her group of Earthers as a whole – but even then, she’s very limited until she has access to more tech from Earth: namely, various types of actual medicines.

The whole of the UN company is also fairly weak. Ken will likely make them some good connections in the future which will help, and Luan is definitely getting up to the point of where he would be considered “strong” for a runner. The Bush rangers are all solidly silver rank at best, though, and are heavily reliant on Paige for equipment. No one else in that group are notable at all.

Trey and Teres are both weak and basically useless, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon, outside of massive plot shenanigans. Blackmage is also probably fairly low in power, for all that he is at Wistram, though that could change with whatever deal he made with the archmage. Him somehow finding out some huge secret room for no reason is already shenanigans, and I could see more being thrown his way.

Ryoka has the bright idea of not conforming to the system, and thus massively gimped herself. Her new wind powers are cool and all, but so far aren’t really sustainable. Even with her nearly killing herself, she barely met courier standards for speed. Until she improves, her only “strong” point is her knowledge from Earth.

Erin is probably the “strongest” Earth human, but a lot of her “strength” isn’t actually hers, it’s mostly borrowed power. She’s reasonably strong while in/around her inn, but otherwise is fairly weak. Yes, if she surprises someone and gets a punch in, she can deal a decent bit of damage, but she has almost zero defenses when not at the inn. Borrowed power still is, technically, a type of power, so in that respect she is likely the “strongest” Earther, but that also depends on who exactly she can call upon at any given time.

There are certainly some Earth humans who have the potential to be strong. And for how long they’ve been in Innworld, they definitely grow quite quickly. But in comparison to actual strong people in the world? No, they are still definitely on the weak side of things. Pretty much any non-Earth character that has been introduced as being gold rank or above could easily wipe the floor with all of them.

“They followed their nations, like Belavierr.”

“nations” should probably be “natures”. Unless we are hearing about dragon politics.

I can’t stand this anymore especially Durene. I thought she has improved, but still a brainless troll who think shining armor bunch brings justice to evil without thinking they dragging innocent village into their conflict. Rather than helping your friend and your citizen, you chose to help a foreign army and throw your village into danger. If they let Raim dead, the battle will end faster and Riverfarm will be untouched by Belavierr.

Only thanks for the betrayal, it wasn’t an all-out confrontation that can bring Riverfarm to ruin because of helping and sheltering foreign invaders.

The Griffin Nation was introduced as Kaliv, but the chapter has later two mentions of “Kilav”.

There are two mentions of a [Mage Hunter], is that possibly a confusion with [Witch Hunter]?
Or are both classes the same, like [Ice Mage] and [Cryomancer] or [Smith] and [Blacksmith] are used interchangeably?