Exploring Ancient Egypt with Magic Tree House 9: A Book Review

In the ninth book of the Magic Tree House series, titled "Dolphins at Daybreak," written by Mary Pope Osborne, readers embark on another thrilling adventure with Jack and Annie as they continue their quest to save four ancient stories. In this installment, Jack and Annie find themselves traveling back in time to an island during an ancient time period. They arrive at the island after using their magical tree house, which has the ability to transport them to different places and time periods. However, upon arriving, they quickly realize that something is not right. They soon discover that the island is in trouble and must find a way to save it. With the guidance of a friendly dolphin, Jack and Annie embark on a mission to recover a lost treasure and restore harmony to the island.

Nanaya while extremely injured (was damaged as Tohno before his Nanaya personality came out) fodderized Nrvnqsr Chaos, who is Servant level:

Quite frankly if we do I d rank Richard above pretty much anyone of the Tsukihime humans brought to the table given his absurd power And skills so Sigma has the potential to be insanely strong. Though it did seem as though Tohno was semi-tapping into his Nanaya personality, but not fully; as I don t think normal Tohno is True Ancestor level at all.

With the guidance of a friendly dolphin, Jack and Annie embark on a mission to recover a lost treasure and restore harmony to the island. Along the way, they encounter various challenges and meet interesting characters that help them on their quest. During their adventure, Jack and Annie learn about the importance of working together, as well as the significance of preserving the environment.

Archetype Arcueid Brunestud Takes On Composite Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Kiara Sessyoin, BB, Amaterasu, Saver, Mara, and Tiamat

Arcueid awakens from her slumber and sees that all of these beings are causing too much harm to the Earth, and decides to wipe them all out in one fell swoop. Can the combined might of the strongest beings in existence repel the strongest being in all of TYPE MOON?

Gets blinked by feats.

Wins by implication and hierarchy.

Arcueid stomps horribly. The only one who is even capable of damaging her is Gilgamesh, and he is still fodder to her and would die extremely quickly. His only way to damage her is with Ea and Slash Emperor; but he's going to die immediately before he can even hope to pull them out. And let's not even get started with him actually hitting her with those two weapons. (Newsflash, it isn't happening.) The god-tiers of CCC were repeatedly compared to base Arcueid. Gilgamesh can't even instill the concept of death in her because she is immune to such things after surviving Black Barrels. Nasu himself even stated that Arcueid is the strongest. This is how the fight will go:

Arcueid immediately rushes Gilgamesh because not only is he the only one who can damage her, but she hates him. She proceeds to smack him around with mana blast while casually strolling through everyone else's attacks. She then proceeds to kill him.

Enkidu gets enraged at Gilgamesh's death and tries to bind Arcueid; but Arcueid casually dodges and obliterates him beyond regeneration.

The fight is literally over at this point. The two strongest contenders are dead.

Afterwards, Arcueid demonstrates her power as a TYPE to the remaining measly Divine Spirits and Beasts. She wipes them from existence casually.

And in the end, she plays pinball with BB before killing her due to BB being a fake wannabe Type.

@zgtfreak : @devoidruby : Would adding Ado Edem help?

@kanesada_kuji: Not really. Ado Edem’s prowess comes from being able to deal with giant monsters, not smaller and much faster targets.

Tagging people I have seen in Nasuverse threads. @johnsmjs36@coolguy18@ovy7.

@kanesada_kuji : Ado Edem has no business fighting Arcueid.

@devoidruby : Ah damn. Good point.

@wanderez : What do you mean?

@zgtfreak : Wasnt Arcueid stated to be more powerful than the whole list here?

Damn, some of those designs are very ecchi ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Anyway, I barely know any of the characters, sorry.

@wanderez : Pretty much. In more ways than one actually. Amaterasu, CCC Gilgamesh, and Moon Cell BB where all compared to base Arcueid that was restricted via being a servant. Nasu also specifically stated that she was the strongest in the verse (ignoring Akasha/Void Shiki).

Fate has no business challenging Tsukihime. It is a stronger series.

@zgtfreak: I wouldn’t say Fate has no business challenging it. Outside of Arcueid and I suppose Prime Zelretch (which is iffy) and the Crimson Moon, Tsukihime is in general vastly weaker than Fate is.

And depending how Nasu decides to spin the Alien God in FGO, we could end up with some TYPE tier characters originating from Fate.

@devoidruby : I wouldn’t say Fate has no business challenging it. Outside of Arcueid and I suppose Prime Zelretch (which is iffy) and the Crimson Moon, Tsukihime is in general vastly weaker than Fate is.

Can't agree. Dead Apostles like Roa and Nero are stated to be Servant level, but with far better hax. Ciel (presumably without the Seventh Holy Scripture) is stated to be able to fight defensively against Servants. Aoko was stated to be able to fight Servants, then rectonned later to be able to fight Arcueid (not Archetype Earth Arcueid though). Kishima Touma is stated to be able to fight Servants. Shiki Tohno's power level was rectonned openly by Nasu (he even admits this) in Melty Blood to where he bodies Ciel once his limiters were raised:

This was Shiki not even using his Mystic Eyed of Depth Perception, which would've one shotted Ciel.

Also, the Tsukihime manga supports Tohno's power recton since he is comparable to Roa, who is easily Servant level. And Shiki was half dead when he defeated Roa:

And Tohno is complete fodder to his Nanaya personality (who Nasu never stated wasn't Servant level by the way). Nanaya without his Mystic Eyes stalemated Kishima with his raw physical ability:

Nanaya while extremely injured (was damaged as Tohno before his Nanaya personality came out) fodderized Nrvnqsr Chaos, who is Servant level:

Akiha also fought Ciel (who is Servant level) and was stated to be able to kill Ciel if she actually wanted to:

So everyone mentioned here is Servant level or higher. And of course we have Arcueid herself, Zelretch, and TYPE-MOON himself.

So yeah, Tsukihime is out if Fate's league in my opinion.

@zgtfreak : assuming we ignore the servants themselves of course. I still think it’s fair enough to point out Fate’s numerous servant level fighters.

It’s questionable if Roa for example is Servant level given an Alive, inexperienced Edmond Dantes was capable of permenantely Killing him in his CD drama. Though I suppose one could attribute that to the Human Order weakening Roa perhaps?

Prime Zouken was stated to be capable of defeating a servant on his own, Nasu doesn’t even hint at things outside of good conditions unlike Kerry and Kirei who need incredibly Specific Conditions to do so.

Prime Kirei is also stated as being able to pull wins against Ciel, which should inturn raise Avalon Kiritsugu to that level aswell or Atleast to a comparable league. Bazett should also be Atleast comparable to prime Kirei as per Nasu stating shes FSN Kirei’s superior in strength but infe to Prime Kirei.

Nasu: Ciel is overwhelmingly strong, due to her circuits, constitution and immortality. The strength of Kotomine at the time of Zero was due to his abnormally large number of Command Spells and his tenacity towards Kiritsugu. It was truly the brightest moment of his life. The Kotomine at that time could even win against Ciel.

So while they aren’t servant level outright they’re Still capable of putting up decent fights and even winning against Ciel level opponents.

According to Watcher in Strange Fake aswell, Sigma is supposedly capable of defeating Richard the Lionheart in a 1 vs 1 duel, though that may be due to Sigma becoming True Lancer. So it’s up to you if you want to count him in the pool.

Quite frankly if we do I’d rank Richard above pretty much anyone of the Tsukihime ‘humans‘ brought to the table given his absurd power And skills so Sigma has the potential to be insanely strong.

You also have a Dead Apostle like Jester with multiple hearts and the priest who’s able to hold his own against him who have some insane feats like kicking sofas three stories up and other stuff which is addressed quite well in this respect thread.

There’s also Requiem to consider which has Anti-Servant hunters like Erice. Along with her Grandmother who has been noted to have been trained by her Servant, Longinus. So I think it’s fair enough to put the two of them in the ‘Can hold their own against servants and even take wins’ category.

There’s also 3 other character who deserve a mention as well. Those being Rin, Shirou and Sakura of course.

Rin of course with her mana filled super gems is capable of killing Heracles. Something I don’t think any character apart from the obvious 3 from the Tsukihime side outside of perhaps Aoko could do.

Granted this is something Rin obviously can’t perform anytime. But if we assumed prime versions it’s atleast worth mentioning.

Sakura as the Dark Grail I think we can both agree is a good bit beyond a good chunk of Tsukihime‘s paygrade. Given her shadows are to quote Nasu ‘impervious to conventional attacks’ along with her regeneration abilites and consumption.

Shirou is also an odd one. He can obviously trace Servant weapons to boost up to those levels and depending on the version can go from being fodder to stomping pretty much anyone you named.

Grante the latter version of from Prisma Illya so Once again it simply comes down to if you want to count him or not as a thing.

We know otherwise that Shirou is Atleast able to draw with Tohno Shiki (even if I disagree with Tohno being able to take Shirou) and the versatility he gets from Tracing is something to be afraid of.

I do agree that Tsukihime‘s low tiers? I suppose? Are superior to Fate’s lower tiers and the same is true with its higher tier being superior to Fates (for now Atleast) but Fate has the advantage of Servants and Gods buffing their middle ground massively.

So while it’s fair to say Tsukihime has quality, I would say Fate has quantity.

Now I just wish Nasu would finish that Tsukihime remake so we could see what sort of buffs he’d give to everyone.

@devoidruby : I'll reply to this when I wake up. I like this though. It's rare for me to run into a real fellow Nasuverse expert. So this should be fun.

@zgtfreak : Alright dude! I’ll be looking forward too it!

@devoidruby : It’s questionable if Roa for example is Servant level given an Alive, inexperienced Edmond Dantes was capable of permenantely Killing him in his CD drama. Though I suppose one could attribute that to the Human Order weakening Roa perhaps?

That and the fact that Roa's vessel in Tsukihime is an extremely powerful demon child that he took almost 2 decades hollow out and control, which automatically makes him far superior in Tsukihime due to his vessel alone. It's more of a true vessel for him. Hell, Roa in the past defeated Altrouge Brunestud, who is a hybrid between a Dead Apostle and a True Ancestor. If we assume that Roa is still at this level when he fought Shiki Tohno, then both are far far above Servants. And Nanaya would be beyond even those 2 by an extremely high amount. Roa logically should be just as powerful as his prime, as he completed his vessel's transformation to the point it became Roa's original body. So Tohno was honestly fighting a True Ancestor level being and won while half dead. Though it did seem as though Tohno was semi-tapping into his Nanaya personality, but not fully; as I don't think normal Tohno is True Ancestor level at all. But Nanaya when fully emerged should still be quit significantly above a semi-tapped into Nanaya instincts Tohno. The Roa you are speaking of is a random human vessel that he didn't even have time to even remotely convert into his real body. So Tsukihime Roa, Shiki Tohno while semi-tapping into his Nanaya side, and Shiki Nanaya himself are all True Ancestor level to some degree. Nanaya physically is not True Ancestor Level, but he is via MEoDP ignoring him needing to be physically strong. This is backed up by both Nanaya and semi-tapped into Nanaya Tohno effortlessly dispatching normal Dead Apostles and Dead Apostle level beings.

Here we have Vampire Sion taking on the high level Dead Apostle (Servant level), Wallachia:

Here is Tohno stomping Vampire Sion in just 2 panels after semi-tapping into his Nanaya personality for a brief moment:

Prime Zouken was stated to be capable of defeating a servant on his own, Nasu doesn’t even hint at things outside of good conditions unlike Kerry and Kirei who need incredibly Specific Conditions to do so.

No one in Tsukihime aside from non-Seventh Holy Scripture Ciel have been stated to be able to defensively fight a Servant. Everyone else was just stated to be able to take them on period, without having to be defensive. Also I honestly would say Zero Kirei can take on Servants in general since he was stated to be above Ciel. It seems like it rectons him only being able to take on Assassin's. He was keeping pace and deflecting blows from True Assassin while out of his prime in HF; and True Assassin had high stats for an Assassin. Since Zero Kirei is significantly above FSN Kirei if we count his highest prime in the Kerry fight with command seal amps, I honestly would say prime Zero Kirei can indeed fight Servants; and Kerry scales to him.

Seventh Holy Scripture Ciel should be beyond defensive Servant level though, as she defeated Tatari Nrvnqsr in Melty Blood:

So in the end we have:

Base Ciel: Defensive Servant Level.

Nrvnqsr: Servant Level.

Melty Blood Shiki Tohno: Servant Level.

Seventh Holy Scripture Ciel: Servant Level.

Sion Eltnam Atlasia: Servant Level.

Vampire Sion Eltnam Atlasia: Servant Level.

Wallachia: Servant Level.

Akiha Tohno: Servant Level.

Kishima Touma: Servant Level.

Altrouge Brunestud: True Ancestor Level.

Michael Roa Valdamjong: True Ancestor Level.

Shiki Tohno while semi-tapping in to his Nanaya instincts: True Ancestor Level.

Aoko Aozaki: True Ancestor Level.

Shiki Nanaya: True Ancestor Level.

Base Tsukihime Arcueid Brunestud: True Ancestor Level.

Base Fate/Extra Arcueid Brunestud: Beyond Moon Cell Level/CCC Gilgamesh and Amaterasu level.

Archetype Earth Arcueid Brunestud: Ultimate One Level/beyond all of the Nasuverse, aside from Akasha.

This is a pretty stacked list Fate has no business messing with.

@devoidruby : I wouldn’t say Fate has no business challenging it. Outside of Arcueid and I suppose Prime Zelretch (which is iffy) and the Crimson Moon, Tsukihime is in general vastly weaker than Fate is.

They witness the beauty and power of dolphins, gaining a newfound appreciation for these remarkable creatures. Overall, "Dolphins at Daybreak" is an exciting and educational read that transports readers to a different time and place. Through Jack and Annie's journey, readers not only learn about dolphins but also discover the importance of protecting the environment and working together to overcome obstacles. This book is sure to captivate young readers and ignite their imaginations..

Reviews for "Magic Tree House 9: Ancient Egypt - A Journey into History"

1. Emma - 2 stars - I had high hopes for "Magic Tree House 9", but I was ultimately disappointed. The plot felt repetitive and predictable, lacking the excitement and adventure that drew me to the series in the first place. The characters seemed flat and one-dimensional, making it difficult to connect with them or invest in their journey. I also found the writing style to be overly simplistic, making the story feel more suited for younger readers. Overall, this installment of the series did not live up to my expectations.

2. John - 3 stars - While I am a fan of the "Magic Tree House" series, I found "Magic Tree House 9" to be a bit underwhelming. The storyline felt rushed and lacking in depth, leaving me wanting more. Additionally, the dialogue between the characters felt forced and unnatural, making it difficult to immerse myself in the story. Despite these shortcomings, there were still some enjoyable aspects, such as the vivid descriptions of the historical time period the characters visit. However, I would not consider this installment to be one of the strongest in the series.

3. Sarah - 2 stars - As a long-time reader of the "Magic Tree House" series, I was excited to dive into "Magic Tree House 9". However, I found this particular installment to be lackluster. The pacing of the story felt off, with certain events being rushed through, while others dragged on unnecessarily. This disrupted the overall flow of the plot and left me feeling unsatisfied. Additionally, I felt that the author relied too heavily on clichés and stereotypes, which detracted from the originality and charm of the series. Overall, I was disappointed with this book and would not recommend it to fans of the series.

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