Anime Episode 19

Strike While the Iron Is Hot is the 19th episode of the "Genjitsu Shugi Yuusha no Oukoku Saikenki" Anime adaptation.

''Royal Guard Captain Ludwin's childhood friend, Genia, was a rare bread of mad scientist. Her inventions leave even Souma, who comes from a world of science and technology, in astonishment... In addition to being utterly dumbfounded.''

Summary
Ludwin reports a childhood friend has done something terrible and takes Kazuya and Liscia to an abandoned dungeon to meet her, Genia Maxwell, the Forbidden Army’s Mad Scientist. As the dungeon no longer spawns monsters the Maxwell family turned the dungeon into one giant research laboratory. She reveals she is a self-named Over-Scientist researching a power other than magic, such as the broadcast gemstones which are actually the dead hearts of dungeons. Without them dungeons cannot spawn monsters and become abandoned like her laboratory. It is her dream to examine a gemstone while it is alive and functioning. She also reveals she has discovered a method of storing magic in the formerly useless and dangerous mineral Curse Ore, which the Elfrieden kingdom has vast amounts of. Kazuya realises she has essentially created a rechargeable magical battery, strong enough to propel warships, that could lead to Industrial Revolution but also war with their jealous neighbouring kingdoms. To keep Genia tied to Elfrieden Kazuya and Liscia ask if Genia would mind marrying Ludwin, which after some embarrassment, they both agree to having been childhood friends and liking each other. Now engaged, Ludwin returns to the problem that Genia has caused a scandal by stealing dragon bones.

Characters in Order of Appearance
Characters in italics debuted here.


 * Kazuya Souma
 * Liscia Elfrieden
 * Hakuya Kwonmin
 * Ludwin Arcs
 * Genia Maxwell

Trivia

 * This Episode adapts Light Novel Volume 04 Chapter 1.
 * The Japanese title is adapted from official Chinese history Records of the Grand Historian Volume 85: Biographies 25 Lü Buwei. Note that the meaning of English translation is different form Japanese. The original story says that a merchant named Lü Buwei found a noble in exile and deemed him to be important, leaving the idiom "collecting goods that is rare and valuable".