Arafoo Kenja no Isekai Seikatsu Nikki - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - Ossan Solves the Maiden's Worries

[Phelix]

In other words, that book is a tool that naturally weeds out people until all we're left with are talented individuals that can brute force magic with their large amounts of mana or are clever enough to make a faulty spell work...good, get rid of the weaklings.

I'd do the same thing and just give the folks who passed the Revised Version.

 

[FeviBevi]

huh how does that challenge/bet work? Is the MC trying to encourage her to be weaker and run out of mana faster?

 

[GrimGriefer]

The difference between this and the other scan group is massive. it can be someone different talking in the chat bubbles to an entirely different conversation. How is one to know which is correct?

 

[VooXoo]

Re-reading this chapter after several years, I didn't really think about it at the start as it was a infodump after another but I must say is very badly done how the young girl couldn't do magic.
Her granpa is introduced later as a master magician of the country, and he tried to help her, how is possible that he didn't try to teach her a simple spell he himself knew?
I can understand a old man trusting the book from the school made for new mages and that it would have simple magic for beginners, and even lacking the skill to understand if a magic circle is good or bad, so he would start to think that the niece is inept, but not trying once to teach her something he knew?
The magic was made to make people with low mana unable to cast, onyl who had a lot could and it would waste it, feels unnatural the magician never tried to cast it himself and notice how bad it is.

 

[DTJames]

Re-reading this chapter after several years, I didn't really think about it at the start as it was a infodump after another but I must say is very badly done how the young girl couldn't do magic.
Her granpa is introduced later as a master magician of the country, and he tried to help her, how is possible that he didn't try to teach her a simple spell he himself knew?
I can understand a old man trusting the book from the school made for new mages and that it would have simple magic for beginners, and even lacking the skill to understand if a magic circle is good or bad, so he would start to think that the niece is inept, but not trying once to teach her something he knew?
The magic was made to make people with low mana unable to cast, onyl who had a lot could and it would waste it, feels unnatural the magician never tried to cast it himself and notice how bad it is.

It's likely that bloated magic circle been in the system for so long that everyone forgot about it and got used to it. And anyone who can't use it due to small mana pool will get bullied. But seeing they don't know about small mana pool?

 

[VooXoo]

It's likely that bloated magic circle been in the system for so long that everyone forgot about it and got used to it. And anyone who can't use it due to small mana pool will get bullied. But seeing they don't know about small mana pool?

Levelling up helps with the lack of mana.
The book being useless can be explained as explicit saboutage towards them or a scholar wanted to make money from selling magic books, only touched up some existing ones to not be 1:1 copies of the ones he used and proclaimed them as the future of magic, then as is a medieval setting it would be easy for the scammer to monopolize a publisher to replicate his books and spread them around, the money would come from future sales.
The problem is we have limited information on the cause of everything, but I still think the author simply created a setting that conflictedwith itself after a few cahpters, as the granpa is recognized around the country as a very powerful mage, it feels weird to me the guy is ignorant of the basics and wanted the best for his niece but never checked th ebooks or didn't try the spells.