Summary
Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance is a light novel series written by Yuu Shimizu and illustrated by Sakura Hanpen until Volume 13, and later by Yuuji Nimura from Volume 14 and onwards. The setting takes place in a fantasy world, where young "pure maidens" are able to make contracts with spirits to use as companions in life and combat; this leads them to use magic related to their spirit, thus becoming elementalists/blade dancers. As they start getting into adulthood, they gradually lose their powers as their purity is reduced with age.
Plot
The story follows Kamito Kazehaya, a 16-year old orphan boy who is somehow capable of contracting with spirits, despite being a power normally only attainable by girls of noble class and with a truly pure heart. The only other time a male used spirits was the Demon King Solomon, almost 1000 years prior. Several years after the youth he spent in the Instructional School, a facility established by some nobles to create assassins, he is forced to enrol at Areishia Spirit Academy by his acquaintance and director of the academy, Greyworth Ciel Mais, after 3 years of inactivity as an elementalist. The "strongest blade dancer", Ren Ashbell, has returned after disappearing for 3 years following her astrounding performance at the previous Blade Dance Tournament. But something is not right: Ren Ashbell is the alias Kamito used, disguised as a girl, to participate in that tournament, so how is she "back" if Kamito stopped blade dancing?
After meeting numerous female students, who eventually become his friends and teammates, Kamito strives to enter the next Blade Dance Tournament to uncover the identity behind the new Ren Ashbell. Along the way, many challenges will come his way... and the truth behind the day he won as Ren Ashbell 3 years ago, the Elemental Lords, and his past contracted spirit Restia will come to light.
Power of the Verse
The verse generally sits between Large Building level and City Block level (3.19 to 12.74 Tons), varying between the characters and their keys.
- The 3.19 tons value matches the base keys of the Team Scarlet girls and Milla Bassett.
- The 6.37 tons value matches the other keys of the Team Scarlet girls, Jio Inzagi, base-Kamito Kazehaya, full-power Milla Bassett, Velsaria Eva Fahrengart, Lily Flame, base-Muir Alenstarl and base-Sjora Kahn.
- The 9.56 tons value matches Kamito's Ren Ashbell and Post-Tournament keys, Restia Ashdoll, Terminus Est, Possessed-Sjora, Leonora Lancaster, Luminaris Saint Leisched and Muir's Tiamat.
- The 12.74 tons value matches Rubia Elstein and Kamito's strongest forms.
- Only three instances of higher ratings exist: Muir's Valaraukar, Rubia's Laevateinn and full-power Terminus Est.
Burning parts of forests to the ground and obliterating castle-strong barriers are common feats in the series. Characters can react to cloud-to-ground lightning, pushing their combat/reaction speed to Massively Hypersonic. The verse is rather haxless, with a few exceptions like Sjora Kahn, Rubia Elstein and Restia Ashdoll.
Supporters/Opponents/Neutral
Supporters
Opponents
Neutral
Characters
Team Scarlet
Spirits
League of Inferno
Others
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