Shikkakumon Anime Episode 05

"The Strongest Sage Makes Allies." is the 5th episode of the "Shikkakumon no Saikyokenja" Anime adaptation.

Summary
In the dungeon where the students of the Second Royal Academy excavate the place. Matty gets an update of the current situation from Edwart. As it turns out, the most efficient crest for the task is the Crest of Glory is scarce due to the First Royal Academy having a monopoly over them. Matty then asks if it's possible to ask the First Royal Academy to enlist some of its students to help their cause. Although Edwart is conscious of the relationship with said academy, he says that he'll honor it for the sake of the mission and will have the king intervene. Eventually, Feikus, the head of the First Royal Academy abruptly enters Edwart's room and chastises him for summoning him. When Edwart reminds him that there is no hierarchy between the academys, Feikus again chastises the Second Royal Academy as inferior, giving Matty a flashback of how his older brother Byfgur behaved. However, Edwart skips the "hogwash" and requests Feikus' help to erect a barrier around the kingdom to protect it from the oncoming demon invaders. Of course, Feikus refuses still holding onto the hierarchy. Hence, Matty proposes a competition to settle the matter and Feikus agrees to it on the condition that Matty and his party don't participate in it, calling him a "monster". Despite Edwart's hesitance, Matty agrees to it and Feikus sets the competition to be in two days' time.

On the day of the competition, the large number of First Royal Academy faces off against the Second Royal Academy's mere five students. The students' Crests were comprised of ones with the second, third, and fourth Crests. At the start of the Make-Up Interm Battle, the First Academy all start the incantation for Fire Arrow, only for the Second Academy students to surprise them with wordless casting, easily winning the match by overwhelming their opponents with their chant-less magic. Refusing to accept the end result of the battle, Feikus claims that all five of the Second Academy students were "monsters", and that he specifically demanded "no monsters". Edwart then states that none of the Second Academy students' ability are signifigantly greater than any other. When Feikus demands for proof, he then demands that Iris take part in the battle. After she says she didn't bring a weapon, Matty gives her Edwart's sword. Right when she unsheathes it, she bends the blade like a limp noodle. This causes Feikus to lose his composure and call Iris a monster, much to her chagrin. Edwart then questions Feikus on why the Fist Academy students are still using incanted magic, despite the King's orders to switch to wordless casting, whereas Feikus argues that it follows the educational principles of the Kingdom, and that he must protect it from the other "inferior" Crests, even if it goes against the King's order. The King then appears, asking if Feikus has decided to disobey orders. Having been exposed as a traitor, Feikus tries to defend himself, only for the King to have his guards seize him. As he is dragged away kicking and screaming, Feikus curses the Second Academy, swearing that they will pay. From there, the king orders the First Academy students to work with the Second Royal Academy and receive chant-less magic lessons.

Eventually, Matty is accompanied by Iris, Alma and Lurie, while exploring the deeper caverns of the dungeon. Their goal in the dungeons is to get a magistone that's 60 centimeters in size; how they'll get a stone of that size is by summoning a monster. The girls then face off against some dungeon monsters as Matty evaluates them and notes how poor Iris' control over her strength is. With an adequate-sized magistone, Matty has Lurie cast a casting circle around it and receives some help from Matty. Once completed, Matty has Iris infuse it with some magic, but she infuses too much into it causing a giant dragon to be summoned. Following Matty's orders, Iris disparages the dragon and keeps it distracted long enough for Lurie to enchant an arrow have Alma shoot it at the dragon. This proves futile as the dragon continues to go on a rampage, but Matty insists that they continue as he sets up more casting circles. In a pinch, Iris rescues Alma and Lurie the moment the dragon tries to attack them by punching the dragon away from them. The end result of the battle is that, Iris provokes the dragon to cast a breath spell and Matty captures it so he can reflect it back at it. It nearly fails due to Iris falling into a body-shaped pitfall she created and Matty uses a barrier to protect her, leaving him exposed to the spell's explosion. However, Matty makes it out unscathed and after Iris fetches the Magistone, Matty offers her to officially join the party.

Even though it's official that Iris is now part of Matty's party, he has Iris train in the ruined training ground to get used to her new human body. Because she's bad at watching her footing, Matty ruined the training ground to help train herself to develop some muscle memory. The first challenge imposed onto Iris is protecting a shell on top of her head while using as little movement as possible to dodge the oncoming arrows shot by Alma. Lurie in the meantime, was assigned to create armor and weapons by Matty so she can level up her enchantment skills. He also asks for a sword created just for him, the sword itself will be a layered one so it can handle eight different kinds of enchantments. Following Matty's instructions, Alma manages to create the sword and Iris manages to get used to dodging Alma's arrows all while protecting the shell atop her head.

Matty then has the party try out their new weapons that Lurie created for them. Lurie creates a new sword for herself, Alma a new bow, and Iris a new spear. With everything going smoothly with Matty's plans, he notes that he'll be leaving the Second Royal Academy soon enough.

Characters in Order of Appearance
Characters in italics debuted here.


 * Matthias Hildesheimer
 * Alma Lepucius
 * Lurie Abendroth
 * Iris
 * Edwart
 * Feikus