Record of Wortenia War

Record of Wortenia War (ウォルテニア戦記, Wortenia Senki) is a Japanese light novel series written by Ryota Hori and illustrated by bob. It began serialization online in 2009 on the user-generated novel publishing website Shōsetsuka ni Narō. It was acquired by Hobby Japan, who published the first light novel volume in October 2015 under their HJ Novels imprint. A manga adaptation with art by Yukari Yagi has been serialized online via Hobby Japan's Comic Fire website since 2016. Both the light novel and manga have been licensed in North America by J-Novel Club.

It has also been made into a book, and was originally published from Feather Bunko, but was discontinued in the middle, and later repartitioned in Hobby Japan's new book size. The web version is posted from Chapter 1, Episode 1, without digests. The difference from the book version is that illustrations are included, and additional episodes and corrections are included. Wortenia Senki has been published digitally in English as Record of Wortenia War by J-Novel Club since July 13, 2019.

Wortenia Senki has been published digitally in English as Record of Wortenia War by J-Novel Club since December 2, 2020.

Synopsis
Ryoma Mikoshiba, an ordinary high-schooler adept at martial arts, one day finds himself summoned to another world. The ones who summoned him, the O’ltormea Empire, cite the fact that 'when those summoned kill another living being, they can absorb a fraction of their strength and make it their own' as their reason.

But upon learning the empire uses those they summon to strengthen themselves by foul means, Ryoma is consumed by hatred and slays an important member of the O’ltormean court. Attempting to escape the Empire's borders while keeping his identity a secret, he is accosted by two twin sisters—one golden-haired, the other silver-haired—in a meeting that sets the gears of fate in motion. The curtain rises on a record of the wars of a young supreme ruler in this other world fantasy!

(Source: J-Novel Club)

Light Novels
Hobby Japan published the first light novel volume in print with illustrations by bob in September 2015. As of July 2022, twenty-two volumes have been published. The light novel is licensed in North America by J-Novel Club.


 * 1) Released date September 19, 2015 - ISBN 978-4798610764
 * 2) Released date December 22, 2015 - ISBN 978-4798611488
 * 3) Released date March 24, 2016 - ISBN 978-4798611990
 * 4) Released date July 22, 2016 - ISBN 978-4798612454
 * 5) Released date November 24, 2016 - ISBN 978-4798613307
 * 6) Released date March 23, 2017 - ISBN 978-4798614144
 * 7) Released date July 22, 2017 - ISBN 978-4798614908
 * 8) Released date November 22, 2017 - ISBN 978-4798615684
 * 9) Released date March 22, 2018 - ISBN 978-4798616544
 * 10) Released date July 21, 2018 - ISBN 978-4798617299
 * 11) Released date November 22, 2018 - ISBN 978-4798618067
 * 12) Released date March 22, 2019 - ISBN 978-4798618869
 * 13) Released date July 23, 2019 - ISBN 978-4798619644
 * 14) Released date November 22, 2019 - ISBN 978-4798620503
 * 15) Released date March 21, 2020 - ISBN 978-4798621517
 * 16) Released date July 22, 2020 - ISBN 978-4798622491
 * 17) Released date November 21, 2020 - ISBN 978-4798623504
 * 18) Released date March 19, 2021 - ISBN 978-4798624419
 * 19) Released date July 19, 2021 - ISBN 978-4798625515
 * 20) Released date November 19, 2021 - ISBN 978-4798626710
 * 21) Released date March 19, 2022 - ISBN 978-4798627649
 * 22) Released date July 19, 2022 - ISBN 978-4798628721
 * 23) Released date November 18, 2022 - ISBN 978-4798629988

Manga
The light novel series was adapted into a manga series by Yukari Yagi and published by Hobby Japan. As of December 2021, the individual chapters have been collected into eight tankōbon volumes. The manga is also licensed by J-Novel Club.


 * 1) Released date April 27, 2017 - ISBN 978-4798614427
 * 2) Released date November 27, 2017 - ISBN 978-4798615721
 * 3) Released date April 27, 2018 - ISBN 978-4798616872
 * 4) Released date December 27, 2018 - ISBN 978-4798618104
 * 5) Released date September 27, 2019 - ISBN 978-4798620060
 * 6) Released date June 27, 2020 - ISBN 978-4798622392
 * 7) Released date March 1, 2021 - ISBN 978-4798624280
 * 8) Released date December 28, 2021 - ISBN 978-4798626543
 * 9) Released date September 29, 2022 - ISBN 978-4798629612

Character
"Then let me ask you something. Since when have I lost my right to protect myself from the people who were trying to kill me? or are you saying should i have just stood still when someone hits you, paying them back obviously right? That's why I'll never hit someone first. But I won't back down when someone hits me. I only choose to fight when I'm determined to kill."

- Ryouma Mikoshiba talk about life philosophy. High-schooler Ryouma Mikoshiba finds himself summoned to another world by the warmongering O’ltormea Empire. But Ryouma is no ordinary school boy—he has both talent and training in martial arts. Using his skills in martial arts to escape captivity and swearing revenge on the country that summoned him, Ryouma finds himself in a world where he can become stronger by absorbing the life force of whomever he slays—a world that fits his talents to a bloody T. Pursued by the O’ltormean court for killing an important official, Ryouma attempts to flee the border while keeping his identity hidden. But as he does, he encounters two twin sisters - Sara and Laura - an encounter that will change his fate.

When he was a high school student on Earth, he had a gentle personality and was good with people, but when he was summoned to Earth, a world where the fittest eats the toughest, his hidden true nature has come to the fore. Using the old martial arts that his grandfather taught him, he survives his crisis. His hobbies are reading and playing games, and he tries to escape from the empire in order to return to his original world.

Abilities
Even before being summoned to another world was trained in various deadly martial arts (Karate & Judo) and taught to have no mercy, Ryouma was capable of easily killing armored foot soldiers. Because of his martial arts knowledge he conduct and strengthen his body with Prana Energy or other called “life force energy,” “vital energy,” “breath of life,” “spirit-energy,” or “vital principle. This term is used in Yogic and Expert martial artist teachings as a general reference to the manifest energy of the entire universe.

In the new world, when a person can absorb a portion of someone or something's strength (Prana) by killing them, if the user kill a dragon it equivalent the strength of 100 men. After coming to this new world Ryouma killed dozens of people and absorbing their strength. Ryouma's have great knowledge on leading men into war, because of the teaching of his grandfather knowing the history and strategy of Zhuge Liang Kongming. Even though he is a modern high school student, he has a sense of ethics that allows him to calmly kill anyone he deems to be his enemy.

External Link

 * Record of Wortenia War ─ Web novel at Shōsetsuka ni Narō (in Japanese)
 * Record of Wortenia War ─ Light novel official website (in Japanese)
 * Record of Wortenia War ─ J-Novel (Light Novel) Website
 * Record of Wortenia War ─ Manga official website (in Japanese)
 * Record of Wortenia War ─ Wikipedia (in English)

Trivia

 * After retirement from Black Mesa, Gordon freeman decided that it was time to do something new and started to write about anime girls and his desire to get his hands on a true japanese, a race already in extinction after the great "skeleton-otaku war".
 * After successfully getting inside a school only made for japanese, Gordon Freeman and Freddy Mercury had started to write the delusions of his best friend there, Ryota Hori
 * He let Ryota publish the manga since que was already the most richman of earth at the time, and still is 2035

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