Here’s Chapter 247,

The rescue mission starts to take shape.

Here’s Chapter 246,

Here’s the first chapter of Axe of the Thunder God.

Things are mostly sorted after this, so the rescue mission can start to take shape.

Although with two madmen taking part in it, it is probably not a rescue mission of the discrete kind.

Here’s Chapter 245,

Considering how much was foreshadowed, a lot of you guessed what was going on with Elk.

The real question is, how does Rei match up to an A rank adventurer?

This is the first chapter of a new arc, Axe of the Thunder God.

Here’s Chapter 244,

Rei cooks up a dastardly plan and Elk falls to the dark side, or has he?

This marks the end of the Merchant Escort arc, and we move onto the Axe of the Thunder God Arc, the last short arc before spring arrives.
And with the arrival of spring, the War with the Bestir Empire arc begins. Something to look forward to.

I’ve added the chapter labels to the illustrations that have appeared in the this arc to the Volume 7 Gallery page.
Note that the is one illustration that was LN events only.

I’ve also added the volume cover for volume 14, that came out last October.
Some of you having been asking about illustrations past volume 12 and I’ll see what I can do about it since I don’t have any of them as of right now.

Here’s Chapter 243,

Elena is having her fair share of troubles and Elk will have his soon.