Kamitachi ni Hirowareta Otoko - Vol. 2 Ch. 6 - Construction work

[Ringz]

LOL It's funny how the MC reacts where meeting the gods = he died. ?

 

[kaminomikan]

damn... he died in the light explosion. (lol)

 

[Pokari]

@Clad95150:

I'm with you on that. Or rather, more generally, this whole thing suffers from that particular isekai flaw where suspension of disbelief really gets stretched with the protagonist introducing reasonably obvious things, to the amazement of everyone. The slime evolution path stuff is the most glaring in this regard, once you stare hard enough at the details of the setting...

But... honestly, I don't give a darn. So long as this stays all warm and comfy.

Even if my suspension of disbelief has to give up and tactfully leave the room sometimes, I'm happy with how this series is turning out.

 

[Clad95150]

@Leo80221 : While it's true that people doesn't clear rock-slide everyday, in a world of magic, combining two lesser magic to make one more efficient and less tiring must be well known.
And when more than 15 peoples do a boring task for hours, it's very surprising that none of them though of it.

@Pokari : yeah, the slime evolution was obvious too x_x But it's a little more of a niche knowledge (only tamers would research that and most of them specialize in other monsters than small slimes) so I can somewhat accept it.

@azerez : I prefer isekai where the only the MC can use new techniques than isekai where the MC surprise everyone by obvious knowledge. I can accept it more easily.

 

[Leo80221]

@Clad95150 Ah, I thought I said more than just the blocks thing, but even that requires a person to imagine two steps at once. Yes, it sounds easy once someone points it out but I feel like most people don't think about doing 2 or 3 steps at the same time, so they wouldn't think of it naturally. It is possible to think of several steps in a multi-step process but I feel like people wouldn't go from doing it one step at a time to doing every step at once, or even two since they could easily screw up. Also you are usually taught to do things 1 step at a time, such as the steps to build a birdhouse or something with Legos or a baby toy.
I'm sorry if I come off as rude from this as I didn't mean to, but there are reasons why it isn't completely impossible that no one has try this before, or maybe someone did and they couldn't get it to work because of some, as of yet, unknown reason.

 

[jhadred]

It may also be something that just wasn't commonly used or thought of.

Even in our world, lets use the concept of hauling bricks. Some people will just carry a few of them and then turn off their brain and just keep doing that. Then someone comes by to point out something, lets say a wife, stating that the neighbor has a wheelbarrow that can be asked to be borrowed. Or someone else, a kid, might get the idea of using some cardboard to slide the bricks instead of carrying.

I do have to assume that the people in this manga world do have the concept of creating blocks which would be easier to make buildings. However soldiers who aren't in the building industry might not have the concept if they're not doing the moves of breaking rock and creating blocks constantly.

Also, if we consider physically moving blocks (even by slime)... why blocks? Why not spheres to roll them out of the way and block them later if so wished.

Worlds progress with the "Why not try it this way" as well. There's plenty of instances in our world where it can happen.
Take the assembly line concept for example. It existed, but the concept was then applied to cars.

And then there is the situation Leo mentioned. Any of my programming is going to be very step by step, non-optimized / non-efficient because I'm at the create variable, do something with variable, do something else with variable stage, where I *know* others can create something more efficient and combined steps.
...Now I recall using a lot of nested if/then statements and then learning about case statements, and even with that, I'd gravitate towards if then until I realized it would be more efficient to use case.

 

[Clad95150]

@Leo80221 : You didn't come as rude and no offense taken
I understand your thinking and I would have accepted it too if they didn't though of multi-step magic like was an incredible new spell.

But I think the main culprit is me who's bored by all the isekai where the MC is seen as a genius where he discover things that should be mundane.

 

[LVLBeginner]

It's a fair question.

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

Personally, I doubt that it's plausible for MC to be the first person to discover compound magic. If all it really takes is experience and thinking outside of the box, pretty sure anyone with enough skill can accidentally discover it. And it looks like plenty have enough skill.

Or maybe this is like that trick you use in math when multiplying/dividing by ten, you just move the decimal point right/left. Perhaps it's so simple that no one bothered teaching it (although if it really is that efficient they should be teaching it).

 

[Bluedudu]

Did...i die? Yes you did... but dont worry we will reincarnate you again ☺️

 

[Glomoro]

Appropriate reaction to being face to face with them again I guess.

 

[GroundDead]

@DANDAN_THE_DANDAN some time ago on facebook, some random page posted some "trick" for calculating % of some number. Shitton of comments, shitton of "I wish they taught me this at school", "I'm a math teacher/major/whatever and never thought of this", "It makes calculating % so easy, why is our educational system so bad", etc., etc. So I took a look, since I am a math nerd anyway and more tricks, the better. Look and behold, it's a simple "divide and conquer". Breaking to smaller and easier to calculate parts and then combining results at the end. Suuuuch a high level logical athletics /s.

Did no one really thought when looking for 9% of an 80 to divide 80 with 10 and 100 and, pay close attention to this high level magics, subtract 80/100 from 80/10, i.e. 8-0,8. Which is 7,2 for lazy ones here. :] Read the post to the end thinking that there'll be something actually complicated with "the trick" being a base for it but nope. Sure, some % of some numbers are harder to calculate because of the nature of those number but still, this is some basic stuff. Ended up talking about it to some people at work next day and I mostly got "just use calculator on your phone" from smartasses and "just round it up". Some were "well, yeah, how else would you do it" which saved my day.

What I wanted to say is that regular people suck at thinking up "new" ways of doing things and "breakthroughs" are made by rare few that this way or another make it popular and eventually so common that it is normal way of doing it.

 

[CheerTheDead]

I don't understand how the create block is faster than break rock and rock. Help!

Furthermore, ain't pulverise the boulders into sand and weep them away faster?

 

[kuro0102]

I hope he finds a party so we can get to some adventuring already, the worldbuilding has been pretty slow so far

 

[GravityTaxes]

"Did I die?" 🤣

 

[MiniTaurus]

He's too precious I can't XD

 

[Mathiason]

Thanks for the chapter!
It was such a nice yet too short series. Poor lad, just reincarnated for a few years and just after getting to a mining town is killed by an exploding crystal due to it overloading from his OP stats. Oh well, was bound to happen sometime. Was nice while it lasted. 🙂
Just kidding. More likely the gods took an opportunity while he was touching the crystal and inside a church to call his spirit for a brief chat and his body is fine, just asleep while touching the crystal. Betcha dollars to doughnuts that wife is going to insist on offering to adopt him before long. Looking forward to the tamer guild's response to all the things he's discovered about slimes. 😄

 

[JWChibi]

I cant get over that small god looking like tiny Caesar

 

[Winchan]

oh my, hnggg, I wanna keep him and feed him everything he desires >.<

I know why the gods are doting on him so much :>
he's so pure >,>

 

[syamcode]

lol