Climbing the tower most high; Welcome to Tower of Leires; Legend of Mana Teardrop of Crystal episode 5 Impression

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e almost halfway through this anime and now we started the synopsis of Teardrop Crystal episode 5. The scene started with the two small magicians; who took care of Shiloh house; wondering why their master has not came home yet. There was a knock in the door and when they opened it, they found Serafina carrying Shiloh in her back. She asked them to help her bring the injured person to bed. After asking for water and towel, Serafina and the two little magicians tried to reduce Shiloh fever. Moved forward for few days, finally Shiloh fever had gone and Serafina told Bud and Lisa she would be heading out. At the third days, Shiloh regained his consciousness. He remembered that he just lost to Sandra and noticed that someone else had nursed him back to health. When he went downstairs, he met with Bud and Lisa and they told him how Serafina had stayed for a few days to nurse him back to health and to cook them some delicious foods.

Serafina sighted "why did he kept losing. Should I take the lead?"

Shiloh went outside and found a mail for him. Inspector Boyd wrote that he was sorry for involving him to the Jewel theft case. From that day onward, the Inspector asked him to not join him in another Sandra case and asked Shiloh to tell the people at Domina city that he might be out for a while.Shiloh went to Domina to repair his broken sword. He met with Rachel’s father and told him about his sword. Mark told Shiloh that his sword was a good sword (unless it’s broken otherwise (and) if he wanted a better one, he should look for the Blacksmith named Watts. In a moment, Shiloh took a visit to the cavern and met with his acquaintance; Pokhiel, one of the continent seven wonders.  He shouted and called Watts about his costumer.  In short, Shiloh gave his broken sword to Watts and he agreed to fix it. Nevertheless, he lack one material called mythril and if Shiloh need to upgrade his broken sword into a fully and better upgraded sword, he should look for a monster named iron centaur in the Leires tower and get a material called mythril from it. Afterward, Watts gave Shiloh a sword; which is imbued with the light essence. He told Shiloh that the other sword Mark gave to him back in Domina might not be strong enough to crush the iron centaur. In addition, he gave Shilow an artifact that opened the tower of leires.

You should've retired and write in Wattpad instead Lmao

In front of Leires tower, Shinju hime was wandering alone and by the looks of it, she got separated again with her knight; Ruri. She also heard a voice calling her from inside the tower; so she decided to enter it. Not long after, Shiloh who happened to get inside, noticed Shinju hime entering the tower. He shouted her name and got closer. The first thing Shinju-hime do was getting startled; got afraid and covered both of her ears. Shiloh instantly reintroduced himself and tried to calm her. Shiloh asked her if she got separated once again from Ruri…and then she just realized about it. During their journey searching for Ruri, Shinju kept hearing a voice calling for her. And before long, she wandered alone again not noticing that she got separated from Shiloh until the later managed to track her again.  Inside the tower, the two of them had to encounter some monsters and Shiloh tried to defend Shinju on any occasion. Inside one of the tower room, Shinju found a white crystal and she accidentally touched it. Suddenly the door closed and the room moved upward. The door opened and in front of the elevator, there was a huge hall with a big decorated door on the other side of the room. Shinju-hime said that the one who called her was just behind that big door. Just as they got closer to the door, one of the centaur statues that stand in the front of the door turned into a living being. Shiloh brandished his sword as the statue talked about whether they were worthy to enter the room or not. The giant statue just whooped his giant axe down and Shiloh parried it with his sword. Unfortunately, his sword instantly broke due to the excessive force from the guardian’ power. Shiloh took the other sword that Watts gave to him to replace his broken sword and it started to glow in a light.. Using his new sword, Shiloh could make an energy wave and it hit the centaur. In retaliation the guardian stormed both Shinju and Shiloh with a thunder spell. Fortunately, despite her clumsiness, Shinju-hime was fast enough to avoid the lighting.  With only one swing, Shiloh defeated the guardian and before the iron centaur turned into ashes he said that they passed his test.

And whose fault it is? xD

As they entered the room, they found the image of lady Blackpearl inside tit. Shiloh was very confused because she looks just like Shinju-hime. The image of Lady blackpearl just told Shinju-hime not to forget about her role. Afterward, they heard Ruri shouting for Shinju hime name nearby. They met with Ruri and told him that they had been looking for him. Shiloh told both of Shinju-hime and Ruri that their life might be in trouble because the Jewel hunter; Sandra, was targeting every Jumi that she met. Later, Shiloh told them about his previous adventure and how he was unable to save the other Jumi let alone defeating Sandra during their previous encounter. Shiloh said that despite knowing Ruri had a decent swordsmanship, it might not be enough to protect him and Shinju Hime from Sandra. Therefore, he asked them to let him join on their adventure. After telling Shiloh that he could not guarantee his safety for tagging along, Ruri let Shiloh to enter their party and he also told him that they would go to city of Geo next. Ruri said that in that town there was another Jumi living and they hoped to find the other Jumi tribe as soon as possible.

 

Review

Yay my first ever boss win 

A pretty straight forward episode from teardrop of crystal. Like usual the pacing was slow at the beginning with half of the episode focused on Shiloh’s recovery and his focus on getting a new sword. Then, the pacing suddenly moved fast with him entering the tower of Leires and they had to defeat the guardian of the towers. The battle scene was even more lacking than the last episode. I don’t know why they made the battle scene this boring for an action themed Role Playing game. In this episode, I can count that there were only two scene when Shiloh fighting the enemy. The first one was when he tried to defend Shinju-hime from the living weapon like sword and spear. And the second one was when he fought against the iron centaur. And despite of how good the game was, the anime could not do justice to the anime’s battle scene. The Iron centaur itself fell right after Shiloh used Watts sword and it happened just so fast. I am a lost at words trying to find the good sides of this episode lol.  Shinju was still acting like clueless and sloppy hime like usual and she got constantly lost and walked on her own. Other character like Pokhiel and Watts was there to slow the tempo and to give Shiloh some knowledge about what he should do next.  Lady Blackpearl only appeared just for a few second and I kinda forget if she did playable in the event of Leires Tower. However, there was no clue about what and why she made an appearance lol. With this mediocre episode, I don’t have a big expectation for the next episode. I hope the Geo city episode had something that at least makes me interested more to this anime. I hope