Drawing: Saikyou Mangaka wa Oekaki Skill de Isekai Musou Suru! - Vol. 10 Ch. 97 - The Cost of Victory

[MangaDex]

 

[Kaarme]

I can't claim I'd fully understand the last pages. Akira fell unconscious and had a dream about things that are yet to come? Or that happened in the past? Or maybe it was purely symbolic.

I still think it's silly the author had to come up with a nonsense excuse for Akira not being able to summon elixir, just so that severely wounded people can't be automatically saved, no problem.

 

[Renan_Walheim]

Just draw a couple of elixirs bro.

 

[Bloddrake]

I can't claim I'd fully understand the last pages. Akira fell unconscious and had a dream about things that are yet to come? Or that happened in the past? Or maybe it was purely symbolic.

I still think it's silly the author had to come up with a nonsense excuse for Akira not being able to summon elixir, just so that severely wounded people can't be automatically saved, no problem.

The "forbidden line" he almost died, but the voice pulled him back from the brink.

 

[ciera]

Thank you for the scanlation

 

[ShiitakeCat]

Thanks for the TL!

 

[FANNYMAN231]

I can't claim I'd fully understand the last pages. Akira fell unconscious and had a dream about things that are yet to come? Or that happened in the past? Or maybe it was purely symbolic.

I still think it's silly the author had to come up with a nonsense excuse for Akira not being able to summon elixir, just so that severely wounded people can't be automatically saved, no problem.

I don't get why people are still harping on why he can't use elixirs anymore and calling it a silly excuse.
If he was still able to use elixirs people will just comment on how broken Elixirs are. It's so broken that any sense of urgency will just be thrown out the window.

The reason for why he isn't able to use elixirs anymore is because of how his magic isn't really the same ever since he first overwhelmed himself in his childhood and his maid needed to seal his magic. The way he unsealed it wasn't really undone by his maid and was just forcefully undone.

Drawing up summons does not equal Item summoning. One is just done anywhere, and the other requires a magic paper which burns whenever he draws on one.

 

[aMystery]

Can someone remind me where they explained why he can't summon elixirs anymore?

 

[FANNYMAN231]

Can someone remind me where they explained why he can't summon elixirs anymore?

Not really explained, in chapter 24 page 16, he tries to draw one but the scroll ends up burning before it's fully summoned.

Also, in the next chapter Akira thinks it might be caused by the change in his mana.

 

[Axelord]

badonka flashbang

 

[Kaarme]

I don't get why people are still harping on why he can't use elixirs anymore and calling it a silly excuse.
If he was still able to use elixirs people will just comment on how broken Elixirs are. It's so broken that any sense of urgency will just be thrown out the window.

Haa... The problem is that the author first gave him the ability to make him get stronger quickly, but then at some point realised it's too broken as an ability and took it away. That sort of lousy writing happens in manga all the time, so it's not anything new. Apparently the universe in this story doesn't bend to the kind of continuous power scales that allows many an author to get away with giving the MC all kinds of powers, as the inflation will soon render them nothing extraordinary. But here the elixir Akira started with would still be 100 chapters later overpowered. In another series it might already be insufficient and thus not a problem writing wise.

The reason for why he isn't able to use elixirs anymore is because of how his magic isn't really the same ever since he first overwhelmed himself in his childhood and his maid needed to seal his magic. The way he unsealed it wasn't really undone by his maid and was just forcefully undone.

Drawing up summons does not equal Item summoning. One is just done anywhere, and the other requires a magic paper which burns whenever he draws on one.

Can you actually imagine that if you had such an über convenient power, you'd just shrug your shoulders and forget all about it if you encountered a rather mundane looking problem in using it? Ever since Akira lost it, he has made exactly and precisely zero effort to look into it and try to figure out how to be able to continue summoning elixirs. Why? Because it is a silly excuse from the author to get rid of the power and thus it's naturally unthinkable Akira would try to get around it. The main character can't exactly go against the authors wishes.

 

[Salfaro]

The main thing about elixirs to me is that Medisfina made sure to flash back about them at the start of the arc, so it's just super surprising to me that they ended up not showing up at all. It almost feels like a case of chekhov's gun not getting fired, although there's obviously points for it later on in the series, bringing it up at the start of an arc and then doing nothing with it just seems a bit odd.

 

[Goldni]

they know whats up the only color paged is the booba page lol

 

[feha]

I am more and more half convincing me that the chapters are released in some kind of waveform-like behavior. Since I was almost certain the gap to catch up to was somewhere in the 90's and then we could read the whole big backlog, but now it is in the 100's instead... And I remember before that I thought it was in the 80's. And several times it feels like the 1-digit has moved...

I get that it obviously is not the case (for common sense reasons), but somehow my mind really is making me lowkey feel like I am being gaslit.

 

[feha]

Haa... The problem is that the author first gave him the ability to make him get stronger quickly, but then at some point realised it's too broken as an ability and took it away. That sort of lousy writing happens in manga all the time, so it's not anything new. Apparently the universe in this story doesn't bend to the kind of continuous power scales that allows many an author to get away with giving the MC all kinds of powers, as the inflation will soon render them nothing extraordinary. But here the elixir Akira started with would still be 100 chapters later overpowered. In another series it might already be insufficient and thus not a problem writing wise.




Can you actually imagine that if you had such an über convenient power, you'd just shrug your shoulders and forget all about it if you encountered a rather mundane looking problem in using it? Ever since Akira lost it, he has made exactly and precisely zero effort to look into it and try to figure out how to be able to continue summoning elixirs. Why? Because it is a silly excuse from the author to get rid of the power and thus it's naturally unthinkable Akira would try to get around it. The main character can't exactly go against the authors wishes.

This, particularly the second half, is pretty much exactly why I often like berating this story for how he doesn't solve stuff with elixirs.
Except I would also want to add that it makes no sense for someone with the power to draw elixirs cheaply like that, to not make a hidden stash or five or four hundred and seven (even if it at that point in time would only be something like "I can't be certain I will always have access to this special paper").

 

[feha]

I don't get why people are still harping on why he can't use elixirs anymore and calling it a silly excuse.
If he was still able to use elixirs people will just comment on how broken Elixirs are. It's so broken that any sense of urgency will just be thrown out the window.

The reason for why he isn't able to use elixirs anymore is because of how his magic isn't really the same ever since he first overwhelmed himself in his childhood and his maid needed to seal his magic. The way he unsealed it wasn't really undone by his maid and was just forcefully undone.

Drawing up summons does not equal Item summoning. One is just done anywhere, and the other requires a magic paper which burns whenever he draws on one.

in addition to what others have said, there also is really no indication for why item summoning would in any way be different from android summoning (or whatever one would call it when they are clearly created from nothing and doesn't stick around and is not truly alive, but can at least move (exactly as the user envisioned), unlike items - who are all of that but can't move).

Like, to my eyes they truly do seem like the exact same thing. He envisions something, draws it, and it appears - created from nothing but pure mana. It is not summoned (teleported) there, and it is not in any way a permanent creation. In both cases it does exactly what he imagined, and in both casesi t turned out that what he imagined existed for real in the world, somewhere (and that he can't summon stuff that has no real life instance).

And absolutely nowhere have they tried to explain how (fundamentally speaking) the 2 actions/magics is supposed to actually differ, in any way shape or form.

 

[Salfaro]

I am more and more half convincing me that the chapters are released in some kind of waveform-like behavior. Since I was almost certain the gap to catch up to was somewhere in the 90's and then we could read the whole big backlog, but now it is in the 100's instead... And I remember before that I thought it was in the 80's. And several times it feels like the 1-digit has moved...

I get that it obviously is not the case (for common sense reasons), but somehow my mind really is making me lowkey feel like I am being gaslit.

You're probably gaslighting yourself because of chapter 98.5. 98.5's been translated for a while (despite being in the middle of the gap), so if you kept seeing that 98 you probably started thinking the gap was done at 98 subconsciously, it happened to me a few times.

 

[LecherousLeech]

Lmao, the breast exposure was completely unnecessary in the end. It was amazingly gratuitous.