Episodes: 12 | Source: Light Novel | Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy Synopsis The Kingdom of Clays faces a dire crisis: an assassination attempt has just been made on its own Princess Lynneburg, and its neighboring countries eye the aftermath like starving vultures, plotting the Kingdom's downfall. The ensuing conflict will shape the face of the continent for centuries to come...but Noor doesn't have a clue about any of that! Having freshly arrived at the royal capital after over a decade of rigorous, isolated training at his mountain home, he's dead set on achieving his childhood dream of becoming an adventurer, even if the only skills he possesses are useless ones. Sure, he can "Parry" thousands of swords in the span of a single breath, but everybody knows you need more than that if you want to be an adventurer! Our hero's road to making his dream come true will be long(?) and arduous(?)—but if there's one thing Noor's not afraid of, it's some good ol' fashioned hard work! (Source: J-Novel Club)
Episode 1 was good. Starts out with Noor doing some work and then hearing a cry for help from a woman. When he goes running to the location, he spots a Minotaur going to attack the woman. Things go back to Noor's childhood. He does a lot around the house such as cooking and procuring food for his sick mother, as well as taking care of her. Her final wish was for him to live the life he wanted to. After he returned home and finished cooking soup, she'd sadly passed away. At this point it seems that his father had already been dead for some time, as he buried her next to his father's grave, which was a little weathered by comparison. Noor did his best studying and going through various instructors affiliated with a guild. It seems that he lacked any real talent or skill for any of it, only developing extremely basic, rather low tier skills for anything. Due to this, he was unable to become an adventurer or join a guild like he dreamed. With his dreams seeming to come to an end, he left the city to continue training and living alone. He found one single skill he had some talent in: parry. Years later he returned to the guild to try and sign up to become an adventurer. Given that he only has the one good skill, they declined him again. Although he met the leader of the guild again. He tried to deny him, but did point out there was the F rank for adventurers. But they're forbidden from hunting/fighting monsters and basically just do manual labour jobs in the city. Even though it was supposed to discourage Noor, he jumped at the opportunity. When things went back to the start and the current time, Noor confronted the Minotaur and parried a few attacks. When it tried attacking the girl, he blocked a large attack which broke his sword. But with his parry skill, he was able to decapitate it. The girl wanted to know his name to properly thank him, but he insisted on being no one important so left. Some knights showed up after, so seems like the girl is important, probably a noble or princess.
Episode 2 was good. So the person that Noor saved was Lady Lynneburg, seems like she is a princess. So the minotaur was summoned by someone, intent of having Lynneburg eliminated. The summoning was done by a magic ring originating from the magic empire of Deridas. The intent was to bait them into war, to take their relics of the dungeon of the lost. Seems that a lot of people have been looking for Noor due to him saving the princess, but he's eluded them. The guild master is really sketched out by Noor, he's surprised he survived the ordeal, and doesn't know he directly ended it. Noor seems to think it was nothing special too. When Lynneburg shows up to thank Noor, the guild master is worried he got into trouble. Lynneburg took Noor away to give her gratitude and try to thank him and reward him, but he denied any further reward beyond thanks. She insisted on taking him to meet her father at the very least. Eventually, Noor relucted. When Noor and Lynneburg arrived at the castle, Ines and Gilbert two of the people on guard there seem very sceptical of him, but nonetheless follow Lynneburg's wishes for him to meet her father. With his upbringing Noor is rather lacking in etiquette but it seems the king doesn't really care for formalities and appreciates straight forth communication. He was extremely grateful for Noor saving Lynneburg. When offered multiple different rewards, Noor refused. So the king picked up some giant sword, reminiscent of the dragon slayer from Berserk, to give to him. Eventually, Noor relented and accepted it. It seems to weigh a lot, but even still, Noor can wield it with a single hand, which impressed the King. When leaving, Ines chews Noor out a bit for his bad manners/etiquette but thanks him and offers to help him with anything he needs and then right before Noor can leave, Gilbert challenges him.
Episode 3 was good. The spar between Gilbert and Noor was intense. Noor was able to pretty effortlessly evade Gilbert's attacks and insisted he stopped holding back. Gilbert was and obliged, which was good. Noor did acknowledge the increase, but he was still able to deal with attacks. Once again, he requested Gilbert go all out. Gilbert did go all out with his big attack, but Noor was able to evade it. This surprised Gilbert a lot, but Noor was quick to surrender to Gilbert. Gilbert was a bit shocked and even a little angry at that, but he's excited for the challenge. Going through a flashback, it seems Gilbert has always been extremely gifted and never really challenged, so this was big for him. So far, Noor has put the new sword to use cleaning things with it, like the muck out of gutters LMAO. Although the recent attack has left him with a lot of time on his hands. Lynneburg was quick to find him and beg his help with training her and becoming an assistant of sorts to him. Noor kept denying and insisting he had nothing to teach her, which is somewhat true. But he could still help train her generally speaking. Lynneburg showed off her skills a bit to try and impress Noor and get him to agree to help her, but all that did was reinforce Noor's on belief that she far outclassed him and he has nothing teach her. Noor decided to show off one of his skills, the tiny flame to try and get the point across. Except, it had the reverse effect. Lynne was shocked because his flame was the largest ever seen by her, even larger than the supposed best mage. But it is somewhat misleading given he can't use any other skills. Noor was vague indicating that he hoped that spoke for itself. Instead, she misunderstood that he was a complete master at all six aspects. She has asked again to have him train her, realising that she needs to be less confident and show off less, which I guess is a little true, even if she doesn't really come off that way.
Episode 4 was good. Lynne's brother Rein isn't much of a fan of their father giving Gilbert that sword. It was obtained by the king back when he was an adventurer and going through the dungeon of the lost. That sword is made of an unknown material, harder than anything known, and is seemingly unable to be scratched or broken by anything they know of. In the end, he's taking it as faith being put in Noor. The guild master was a bit confused and concerned about Lynne following Noor around. In the end, he decided it wasn't his business. With Lynne being a silver b-rank adventurer, the guild master agreed to let them take on a goblin slaying quest. Although he warned Noor about being a liability. Noor was extremely excited to finally go on such a quest, but also felt like he was using Lynne for that reason. Lynne was very happy to be of use to Noor. They're asked to bring the right ear back to confirm their successful and if they don't find any goblins, to bring back some medicinal herbs. When they get to the location they see the half eaten corpse of a goblin seemingly floating in the air. Lynne used uncover which revealed a massive goblin emperor. They are apparently man-made. Because Lynne called it a goblin, Noor thinks it's a normal goblin. LMAO They did well fighting it, and with some team work, Noor was able to remove the mana stone from its head, then left Lynne to finish it off. The ordeal was reported to Rein, and they suspect that other kingdom is involved again. Back at the guild, based on Noor's description the guild master is alarmed, but Lynne just goes with what Noor said, by just calling it a normal goblin. LMAO. Due to not cutting off the ear and bringing it, they get no pay.
Episode 5 was good. Episode started out with telling us about imminent danger to the kingdom. Rein requested that Noor go with Lynne on a trip urgently. Indicating it was almost like a vacation. They would be travelling by carriage with Ines also accompanying them. Turns out this was a cover and the princess isn't away, the capital is in danger of being attacked/invaded, so they've sent Lynne to safety. With the attack they've suffering quite a bit of damage and some losses too. Seems that the other kingdom is using demi humans (part demon/human) to control monsters into attacking. Their hands a full responding to all of the scattered attacks. We got some background to Ines, she's a bit envious/jealous of Noor, as he seems to have the respect and envious of her father, which is rough. Ines also hurt another girl when she was young, well she didn't, but the girl poked her ability which cut her. This caused her to keep her distances from people. She was still well trained in the use of her ability as a shield. Apparently nothing can get through her shield, which is impressive. On their travel, the group came across something moving in a field. Lynne used uncover which revealed a black death dragon. It was being led by a younger boy. Noor leapt into action before Ines could stop him. She refused to help due to the danger of it, specifically it's poison. It blasted Noor with poison, and Ines used her ability to shield herself and the princess. Even still, Noor continues to fight, but he's in rough shape due to the poison.
Episode 6 was good. Started out with some backstory to Rolo. The demon folk are called cursed children, due to their ability to control the cursed beasts. They're basically slaves treated like trash, beaten, starved, etc so they're broken and their ability is exploited. Allegedly with Rolo taking the black death dragon to the city, he'd be treated well upon his return. If he refused, he'd be punished. Noor used his healing ability to heal Rolo. Turns out Noor has a large natural immunity to poison due to having accidentally poisoned himself when he was younger and living alone. He kept eating poisoned foods (plants and meat) to further increase his immunity. Seems to have massively paid off. With his continued relentless onslaught, Noor was able to finally defeat the dragon. Bot Lynne and Ines were sceptical and wary of Rolo, but eventually have relented to take him with them for now. Although their destination views his people as enemies, so it's not certain what they will do with him. Likely leave him at a nearby city.
Episode 7 was good. At first Noor thought the new arrival saying he was going to take Rolo was with him for good reasons, but when he attacked it through that out the window. Zadu is/was a prodigal adventurer at an extremely young age, being s-rank when young. At 13 he was a dragon slayer. He became a target due to taking jobs from whoever paid well. Even killing people. Adventurers that kept going after him would just die, so they covered him up labelling him as dead. The fight started out fine with Noor just parrying everything, which broke Zadu's weapons. Zadu switched up for his own skill, which was summoning a massive amount of blades. With Noor only being able to parry so many, he used his body to shield Rolo. Eventually, Ines stepped in to shield Noor and Rolo to help in the battle. Noor used the claws from the black death dragon to throw at the summoned swords of Zadu which took them out. The battle was kind of a stalemate so Zadu pulled out. He let slip about a big party at the capital, then Rolo revealed they intended to attack it with a dragon. Rein spotted something in the sky at the capital after the people were evacuated and between attacks. When he revealed it, it turned out to be a dragon of calamity, so things are dire.
Episode 8 was good. Man, Noor really was pure chad this episode. As a kid, Noor was really enamoured with the story of the hero that slayed a dragon, and wanted to become a dragon slayer. With the appearance of the elder dragon, the city is naturally in panic. The soldiers are trying to evacuate the citizens with urgency as quickly and safely as possibly. To make matters worse, other monsters are still in the city attacking. Gilbert tries to get the king to evacuate, but he insists on having the citizens the priority while he stays to fight. He feels that his place is on the battlefield and wasn't ever really cut out to be king. Noor confirms with Lynne that her brother and father are likely in the city. They feel a bit hopeless being so far away after spotting the dragon, but Noor has the idea of the wind magic to make him go faster. They set up a lot of buffs and a tunnel from Ines' ability to make him go real fast. Just as the king was reading a sacrificial final attack while the dragon prepares its own attack. Noor arrives at the best time, to stop his momentum by parrying the dragon's beam, saving the king and the city. The dragon continues trying to squash Noor, but he is able to pretty effortlessly parry everything. The dragon tries it's big attack that has never failed it; a beam launched from above, which Noor parries. After breaking some claws, the dragon submits, due to being completely outmatched. Ines, Rolo and Lynne also took out a group of goblin emperors when they arrived too.
Episode 9 was good. Noor thought that Rolo commanded the dragon to stop. LMAO. The dragon actually acknowledged Noor as its master, so when Noor asked Rolo to ask it to leave and never harm humans again, it agreed. Noor took this as Rolo being its master, not him. When the dragon left, it was shot down by a weapon of the invading forces. Derrida III had an army of his forces on the hill ready to continue the siege. When he spotted the princess, he ordered the an attack on their location. Noor parried the first big attack with Ines blocking subsequent ones. They were going to flee, but Lynne misunderstood Noor agreeing with leaving as him saying they'd fight. Noor ended up being rocketed over to them, to buy time to allow Lynne, Rolo and Ines time to escape. Noor was able to basically take out all of the forces by himself. This had Derrida III piss himself and flee.
Episode 10 was good. So from Noor's point of view, Derrida III was a random lost old man and he was concerned he'd get hurt. That's why he made no move on him. After all of his work, Noor was exhausted and collapsed. The legendary 6 warriors of the kingdom tied up the loose ends of the battle and helped him out. They were surprised to realise that it was Noor. They wanted to chase after Derrida III with him having fled, with some quick thinking from Noor, it was decided to chase him on the back of the dragon. They did spot him nearing his own kingdom, so started attacking the defences to take them out.
Episode 11 was good. Derrida III made it back to his palace and started ordering his subjects around like shit, which seems to be the usual. He was desperate for one of the demon race that was meant to be there, but he ordered them to give the person special treatment, so they let him go free. Naturally, that isn't his fault so he's angry at them for that. He also ordered his Randeus to find a solution to their problem of the enemies invading with the dragon. Derrida III then ordered their strongest weapon to be fired, which the scientists really didn't want to do, but couldn't disobey. When it fired, Noor parried it, then fell into the castle. At this moment, Randeus had basically formed a coup with some of the other soldiers to kill the king to resolve the mess as he had been a terrible leader. Noor put a stop to this, but they misunderstood this as Noor being Derrida III's bodyguard. Luckily, the group made it to clear up the misunderstanding. Rein and the others seem to have tortured Derrida III a bit, while healing him so he wouldn't die, this was in part to pay back the blood shed in their kingdom from the attack. With that, the alliance has been somewhat repaired between the two kingdoms. Derrida III's 10 year old grandson will take the thrown, although with a guardian. When they returned to the kingdom, King Clays wanted to reward Noor again, even though he was refusing. In the end, he requested citizenship, living arrangements and money for Rolo so he could start a new life. Rolo is staying with Ines to start with, and enjoyed a meal with her.
Episode 12 was good. So in the past the instructors didn't really communicate with each other and assumed Noor would and up fine in one of the other's specializations. They all saw incredible potential in Noor, but just not being the right fit for them, based on his lack of skills being unlocked. So when he ended up leaving, they had a meeting and agreed to train him together, but looks like it was a missed opportunity and they were too late. Noor continued helping with the clean up efforts in the current period. It also seems like that other kingdom, Mithra was helping Deridas.
