Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force (魔法戦記リリカルなのはForce) or Magical War Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha Force is a Japanese manga series written by Masaki Tsuzuki and illustrated by Yukari Higa. It is part of the fourth Nanoha series along with ViVid, and was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Nyantype magazine, first appearing in that magazine's inaugural issue in April 2009, until going into indefinite hiatus in 2013. Six volumes of the series have been released. The story is set six years after the events of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, and focuses on the investigation into the "Eclipse Virus," a magical disease that turns those infected with it into superhumans with violent impulses. A four-panel comic based on the series, titled Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force Dimension, began serialization in Nyantype on March 30, 2010, before being transferred to Kadokawa's4koma Nano Ace magazine from March 9, 2011.

Plot

The story appears to be centered on the investigation of the Book of the Silver Cross, an ancient Belkan magical tome, and that tome's accompanying Dividers, magical weapons with currently unknown powers. Thoma Avenir, while travelling, discovers a girl named Lily Strosek trapped inside a strange research facility. When Thoma rescues Lily from her confinement, she grants him a new magical device that refers to itself as one of these Dividers. However, unbeknownst to them, a group of people known as the Huckebein family are also using these weapons to cause large amounts of chaos and destruction, leading to an investigation by the Time-Space Administration Bureau. Before long, Thoma and Lily find themselves caught up in the ambitions of the Huckebein family and the investigation of the Bureau.

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