TL was indeed a Clown. Or a really bad AI.
Two nice examples of what passed as translation in this chapter (not a comprehensive list, but these were egregious):
"Even for a "child" who is had only just begun their path as a sorcerer are able to one-sidedly trample on experienced warriors"
"You could fight from both a long and short distance they can control your own magic power consumption rate and their effects by how much magic power you apply on the blade itself and you can always still fight with your sword should you run out of magic power I guess?" (No punctuation, except for the very end, so I'll treat this as one sentence)
If I encounter something like this in an in-game chat I am the guy to answer "Bro, please read over what you wrote again before posting", but in this instance someone has to have read this again before posting and actively decided that it was good.