Master Magic Efficiently - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - The King of Death

[MangaDex]

 

[SSS26032002]

Conspiracies happen you know mate and this is a magical world with a government system as i can deduct from this... so that can definetely happen... and that girl needs to learn things...

 

[firosahoge]

where's my comfort waifu hug? cmon zeff

 

[Drinkfist]

So he is trying to retcon showing "Scout Scope" by accident in the second chapter by saying it was a unique magic passed down from her father. But that still shows that the magic existed to see the stats and the Council of Mages had access to it for 60 years and didn't use it until our MC was capped on a bad magic affinity. So now so terrible garbage conspiracy with the rando girl is what is driving the story. There is writing and then there is literally holding down the story and forcing it to work for you. Thats what this feels like. Forced.

Why write the establishing scenario that way when it would have been a better idea to not do the damn floating RPG screen garbage at all.

I also thought the translator would clean up the chat boxes of the Japanese before writing the English over them by now because it looks like a hot mess.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

Ragging on the story again, but doesn't creating a god damn time-slip spell that reverts you to your childhood kind of undermine him being a failure?

 

[GrimThoughts]

Looks like the author messed up with the scope. At least he’s trying to cover for his mistake lol

 

[IronicWeeabo]

wish they would fix the text, but its pretty enjoyable so far.

 

[MyriadDestiny]

This makes me wonder what the original WN said about Soul Scope. If the original also had the plot hole then retcon, then whoever worked on adapting it fucked up in not fixing it.

 

[CalamityCallout]

bruh you're not familar with being entrusted shit, you ARE the one who did the "entrusting", to yourself! Unless she's her own father, It's nothing like her father entrusting a spell to her

 

[tripodligma]

hmm the speech bubbles being transparent is a bit annoying

 

[dskilly]

It was already expected that the writing was going to be really lazy and loose but it's still quite hard to read... things that don't work are just forced onto you and things that should be shown are just avoided at all cost, for good reason since it would destroy the entire plot. Then there's the forced "shounen protag" moments where nothing has been done for it to happen or rewarded for, like low hanging fruit but the fruit isn't even hanging, it's just on the floor. It feels like the writing is some times fighting itself... at one point it's time travel to do things more efficiently, in another it's "Idk what is right for me to achieve my goals", then next it's "I want to adventure!" and know for sure that's the path over whatever-it-was-in-the-beginning, and last is to proceed to adventure learning that "this is inefficient", proceeds to not mentioning that they need to change/improve and cue in the artificial romance that has not even been built up. What IS this?? 😩😩😩 Also, how is this happening now and it doesn't seem like the MC knows about the girl at all?? It's time reversal, isn't things as it was?? If the girl was going to transfer in then it should have been in his memories with any particularities about her in mind... the entire story is playing out as if he has no clue about what's to happen at all!!

 

[Axccel]

Sounds like her father either was an asshat who wanted others to experience the pain he did and so didn't share his spell, or he saw his daughter's potential and wanted others to be stepping stones for her.

 

[Axccel]

It was already expected that the writing was going to be really lazy and loose but it's still quite hard to read... things that don't work are just forced onto you and things that should be shown are just avoided at all cost, for good reason since it would destroy the entire plot. Then there's the forced "shounen protag" moments where nothing has been done for it to happen or rewarded for, like low hanging fruit but the fruit isn't even hanging, it's just on the floor. It feels like the writing is some times fighting itself... at one point it's time travel to do things more efficiently, in another it's "Idk what is right for me to achieve my goals", then next it's "I want to adventure!" and know for sure that's the path over whatever-it-was-in-the-beginning, and last is to proceed to adventure learning that "this is inefficient", proceeds to not mentioning that they need to change/improve and cue in the artificial romance that has not even been built up. What IS this?? 😩😩😩 Also, how is this happening now and it doesn't seem like the MC knows about the girl at all?? It's time reversal, isn't things as it was?? If the girl was going to transfer in then it should have been in his memories with any particularities about her in mind... the entire story is playing out as if he has no clue about what's to happen at all!!

...Did you forget he's a master magician? He just can't use his magic to its greatest potential due to his weaker body as a child, but being able to use his magic is not an unearned power jump in any sense. None of your

at one point it's time travel to do things more efficiently, in another it's "Idk what is right for me to achieve my goals", then next it's "I want to adventure!

Complaints are reasonable as those are not mutually exclusive and, more importantly, he is trying to do things in a different way than he did before. In this case, he had wanted to adventure but had instead chosen to isolate himself and focus on studying the first time.

As for the girl, there was no indication that he didn't know she'd be in his class (to say nothing of the fact he was an old man when he returned, even after a couple decades you'd have forgotten a lot of people from your childhood). He didn't interact with her, they weren't a thing the first time. Simple as that.

The romance thing? Hasn't even been hinted at and she's a child acting like a child. Simple as that.

I don't get what's hard for you to understand about this story. It seems like your complaints are that he's doing things, according to him, differently than his first life.

Granted, doing things differently is clearly being used as an excuse to make an adventure story, but hey that's what it says and so it's still different.