Moto Tansakusha no Ojii-chan ~Mago ni Segamarete Dungeon Haishin o Hajimetanja Ga, Naze ka Bazuri Otta Wai~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 4

[MangaDex]

 

[MostlyHumanTLs]

...did he go bald due to old sages having to be bald and bearded?

Everything makes sense now.

 

[Guroga]

Go sword & shield archmage oji-san!

 

[booterror]

...did he go bald due to old sages having to be bald and bearded?

Everything makes sense now.

Not to mention the whole being rather spry for being three decades outta the game and just casually running the pockets of three C-class explorers who weren't even a spunk bubble in their dad's sack when he was last out here stacking bodies in the dungeon as a day job.

In before he was unconsciously using magic the whole time. Just because they think Archmages fight long-range doesn't make it so. Our boy is a Man-at-Charms. The Ol' Punchcaster.

 

[GipoScribantino]

Muscle Wizard, which spell are you going to cast next?

 

[Mandobard]

Well that’s a fun setup

Also yeah why do folks forget strengthening magic, physical enhancement magic and all other sorts of melee magic exist

 

[Miserys_End]

Archmage casts decapitation with his bladed wand.

 

[GipoScribantino]

You know, after writing a funny comment this time I actually want to vent, mostly because the old man is actually in the right.
The whole shtick about mages having bad compatibility with melee makes sense in video games: magic is overpowered as heck and to balance it out enemies get artificial resistences and mages get bottom-tier physical prowess.
But, this is real life (in-universe). Mages don't have to be balanced, heck mages don't even have to use magic at all. This old man is effectively the definition of overcoming bad compatibility with pure effort: he fought close quarters against two guys who actually used compatible equipment and skills and won by a landslide. The job deal means nothing in the face of this fact, doubly so when it was all described by a dubious tablet of unknown origin overseen by a single officer, who used krav maga out of every possible martial art.
My hope is to see the old man breaking apart this preconception, it would be the only saving grace of this inane setup.

 

[ninjasaiyan777]

So he's C rank while fighting with weapons his class give him disadvantage in, and was able to knock out two other C ranks unarmed?


Im guessing the ranking system kind of leans on the cautious side

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Now he just need some basic magic to blast dungeon mobs easily.

 

[DarkenerPlays]

Muscle Wizard, which spell are you going to cast next?

FIREBALL!!! drinks fireball

 

[DarkenerPlays]

So he's C rank while fighting with weapons his class give him disadvantage in, and was able to knock out two other C ranks unarmed?


Im guessing the ranking system kind of leans on the cautious side

being able to do close combat as an archmage is definitely better than being vulnerable to cqc

 

[Yuyu_yusha]

I must admit i didn't expect that lol. I thought it's gonna be your typical cliche overpowered reveal. And damn knowing your 20 years old effort just wasted and in the late age too, that just as hurt as Mike Tyson jab on the stomach. Personally, it just hits too close to home

 

[welcome2atlantis]

Welp. A close combat archmage it is then.
lol 20 years, it's not a waste, he has lots of adventuring experience now.

 

[Milanin]

Not quite level 99 progenitor, but let's see him learn some tricks to impress the granddaughter and defeating a flame dragon with a fireball

 

[NateVG]

Muscle Wizard, which spell are you going to cast next?

"I'm bouta cast Fist"

 

[NateVG]

Thanks for chapter!

Being an Archmage he can also use sword and shield imo, a job/class in this kinda setting shouldn't deter you of using what you want, he can enchant, engraving runes into them and have them act like wand/staff if he want, sword-shaped staff and shield that have various spell installed like Reflect, Counterspell or even just Barrier would do, there're ways to make it works!

 

[Miserys_End]

You know, after writing a funny comment this time I actually want to vent, mostly because the old man is actually in the right.
The whole shtick about mages having bad compatibility with melee makes sense in video games: magic is overpowered as heck and to balance it out enemies get artificial resistences and mages get bottom-tier physical prowess.
But, this is real life (in-universe). Mages don't have to be balanced, heck mages don't even have to use magic at all. This old man is effectively the definition of overcoming bad compatibility with pure effort: he fought close quarters against two guys who actually used compatible equipment and skills and won by a landslide. The job deal means nothing in the face of this fact, doubly so when it was all described by a dubious tablet of unknown origin overseen by a single officer, who used krav maga out of every possible martial art.
My hope is to see the old man breaking apart this preconception, it would be the only saving grace of this inane setup.

NGL, I was disappointed as well. Not just in how dismissive officer StickinAss was about Gramp's combat skills, but in assuming that just because he drew an acrchmage his 60 some odd years as a melee fighter was a waste.

 

[Miserys_End]

So he's C rank while fighting with weapons his class give him disadvantage in, and was able to knock out two other C ranks unarmed?


Im guessing the ranking system kind of leans on the cautious side

Nah, the ranking was fully determined by the proctor. So Officer Dipshit just arbitrarily pronounced Gramp's rank after his brief evaluation. The only thing the tablet did was display his Archmage class.

Just a WAG, but I would assume there are other requirements for him to advance beyond Rank C. So the evaluation didn't determine his true competency as a combatant, only what his initial guild rank would be.

 

[PechWild]

New nickname: Sword-and-Shield Archmage.